What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I'm having a hard time getting my head around what that must sound like in a smallish truck. Wow.

 

Today I finally thawed my wiper blades by parking facing the sun. Exciting I know. Lots of cold and snow pictures from this past weekend's storm so a bunch of us may have done the same.

More seriously: I wonder if some of those in Canada or Alaska might have some advice. I'm no stranger to cold weather but this weekend I could not clear the ice off the wipers. They had clear ice beads most of the length, distorting the rubber. Rubbing it between my fingers didn't work. Smacking it on the windshield didn't work. Running the defrost on high just made more water on the windshield run down to freeze on the wipers (and I had to open the windows it was so toasty in the truck). I don't think winter blades would have helped (those work well for snow buildup).
For reference I was driving in -18 F temps with snowfall (doesn't the snow know to stay inside when it's that cold?).

 

Can’t believe you remembered the tailgate it’s because of the tailgate that I started thinking more about security! The tailgate incident happened at work actually and the ditch lights were at home— my area didn’t seem like the type but I guess it’s just starting to get bad. My wife and I plan to move out of Cali anyway by the time our girl goes to school so that should fix that

 

If you ever so briefly push the wiper stalk up, you can get the wipers to rest higher on the windshield, in the heat from the defrost. It’s difficult to time, just a very brief press of the stalk, but something I learned to do in my first gen because it was much easier. This will help, very very slightly, in keeping the edge of the rubber in contact with the glass thawed, but won’t fix fully frozen wipers.
When the wipers are iced as you describe, I pull them and put them in the foot wells before I go into work. As long as it’s above 10f they will be thawed when you get back

 

Try using Isopropyl Alcohol and half & half with just plain water. Use a spray bottle.
Let us know if it works.

 

Good call.
You are faster on the keyboard than I am. I was going to tell @MrMobile to bump the wiper switch so as to park the blades halfway through their arc. The defrost heat will have more effect on them.
Good thinking about bringing the blades inside the warm cab... as long as the plastic mounting hardware can handle being manipulated while frozen. ??

 

Is it true you got to pay tax's to leave Cali?
Heard something the other day that it is hard to find U Haul trucks and trailers.

 

Anchor to the right will only be shown when paired with one to the left. A single EGA will always be the anchor-left version.

(I'm sure this isn't news to you if you sport such a tat. Just posting for clarification to others.)

 

I’ve been delivering in this crap…
Was literally holding a kettle of boiling water with my bare hands yesterday to thaw them out. I put a S ton of wax on my windshield, that helps keep the snow off almost to the point of not needing the wipers unless I get on the freeway and there’s a bunch of semis. I try to get the grime build up off before venturing out as well. Just before winter I also put a couple of coats of silicone spray on all the door jam rubber gaskets. It helps keep the doors from freezing shut. I see so many people with broken driver side windows, you just know that they poured hot water on them. ALSO, the master techs recommended running your ac occasionally/briefly during cold months, but It automatically comes on with defrost.. to keep the system cycled.

 

Lol. Bet there are literal piles of trucks and trailers at the uhauls somewhere else.
Yup there is someone standing at the gates leading into Cali. If you are headed East, then they take all the money you have in your pockets, all the color out of the spectrum, and the warmth out of the sunshine.

 

Colorado.

Damn it!! All the Commiefornians have ruined a great state.

 

Would love to see more on how you have that shift knob setup.

 

Or Shampoo.

 

I have read news articles stating that California was working on a plan to tax "high net worth" individuals who had left the state due to the high taxes imposed on them. That would make for an interesting court case. A person would owe taxes for the part of the year they lived in California but beginning January 1 of the following year after departure, I don't see how California, or any other state could lay claim to income taxes once you are no longer a resident of the state.

But this is California being discussed, so anything most people would consider to be bat-shit crazy is right up California's alley. I lived there for over 20 years and it's a wonderful place with great people and even better weather and geography that I love to visit but I'll never no back as a resident.

 

I’ll know soon enough.

 

I can’t decided. Black or bronze wheels. Buy scs again or try something different.

 

Do white.

 

Was into the mid minus 40s in central Alberta over the weekend. That’s before windchill.
Block heaters highly recommended.
We were only around minus 30-25 Celsius here in the Kootenays, so the Tacos were fine; I had already made sure both had been filled with the minus 49 windshield wiper fluid, and full tanks of fuel.

 

Man I thought about that hard. But brake dust lol. My 240 has white -_-

 

We keep a spray bottle full of -49 windshield fluid inside the front door so it’s at room temperature. Spraying it on the windshield and wipers while the truck warms up really helps.