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I don't let my wife drive my cars anymore. Climate control is auto, and I don't listen to music too loud anymore. Tinnitus from loud music and working in the shop without earplugs taught me a lesson or two. | |||
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In the 50's, I shut everything down, otherwise I think the radio stayed on & drained the battery. Modern era, I just shut the car off, leaving all as is. | |||
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Radio stays on, but I shut off the A/C. Been doing that as long as I’ve been driving. Guess I’m weird as well, according to some of your standards.  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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I shut the A/C off in my car before I turn off the engine, because I don't know if I'll need it the next time I'm in the car. I am careful to shut off the wipers, as having them come on at startup can bat the little parking-ball clear off of it's chain. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
That is what I was told. Current computer controls handle all of that. These isn't your dads' '57 Bel Aire. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
I shut everything down before turning the car off. I figure that the battery has enough strain on it with trying to start the car at 120 degrees air temp, probably 150 degrees under the hood. I used to shut everything down 2 minutes out, to let the alternator put some extra juice in the battery without a load on it but it's just too damned hot, right now! Everyone else is weird. We are the only sane ones  Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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| Conservative Behind Enemy Lines  |
All it took was ONE time for me. I had only been driving for a few months when I got into my car one morning and turned the key to "on" and everything came on - loud. Ever since then, I always shut everything off before I turn off the motor. Of all the enemies the American citizen faces, the Democrat Party is the very worst. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
Aren't you the guy who gets upset when cupboard doors are left open or lights left on in the house? This sounds like more of that. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
I was under the impression that power is removed from AC, radio, etc. while the starter is engaged. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| A Strangely Persuasive Monster  |
My Fiesta ST does that too. Drives me shit nuts. I do the same thing you do. "Arguing with a fool is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, shit on the board, and strut around like it's victorious." ~Anonymous | |||
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Old Air Cavalryman |
Pretty much same here. I think of it sorta like pre-take off and post landing checks/shut down. "Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying who shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me." | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Hmmm, I guess I’m in the minority here which I didn’t realize. I thought most people turned things off when they parked their car prior to shutting the ignition off? Maybe I’m more OCD/anal retentive than I realized. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. |
I don't. But, FWIW, nobody else drives my car. | |||
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| Ammoholic |
I’ll turn the A/C off a couple of minutes before shutdown and just run the fan to avoid that mildew smell, but I leave the radio where I want it. | |||
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Do you chock the wheels when parking and drain a fuel sample during your walk around too? | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
I almost always shut off the ac compressor, but usually leave the fan on whatever setting I had it last. I also turn down the volume of the radio before turning the engine off, just because I want it quiet when I get back in. I almost never turn off the radio, just use the volume knob all the way down if I don't want to hear anything. | |||
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| Just Hanging Around |
I'll shut the wipers off, cause I don't like them swiping a dry windshield, and I turn the radio down, cause sometimes it gets a little loud, but I don't worry about anything else. If disconnecting the battery, putting it on jack stands, and loosening the lug nuts isn't good enough, I'm gettin rid of it. | |||
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| "The deals you miss don’t hurt you”-B.D. Raney Sr. |
Guess what, I don’t use the kill switch on my motorcycles either, I just turn off the key. A member has the signature line: all part of my diabolical plan to slightly inconvenience you.... | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
I turn up the AC in the summer before I get out, and the heat in the winter. That way when I start it the next morning both are blowing at capacity, so it is cooled off or warmed up before I take off. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Everything's automatic, set it, forget it. A/C - heater is climate control. What I notice is when it's 80 outside, I set the temp to 75 which is comfortable and doesn't put me to sleep. When I go in the morning and outside may be 68 and I feel it warm. I then remember to check the temperature and the car is trying to heat the inside air to 75. Radio is on and it has automatic volume control. Headlights are auto on. Windhield wiper is auto on. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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