Ice possible
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Ice possible
I was visiting family over the holidays and my mom told me about the "ICE POSSIBLE" warning that pops up on the DIC when it gets cold. I hadn't seen it until I was coming back home. I'm glad she told me because I would have freaked out had I seen the ominous message "ICE POSSIBLE" without knowing what it was. Does this just come on when you first start the car or does it flash after you have been driving a certain amount of time? Does the sensor calculate humidity and temperature or does it just come on under a certain temperature? Where are the sensors? It has only gotten below freezing in the last week here so I haven't done much winter driving in it yet.
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It comes on at 34 degrees , the sensor is the outside temp sensor behind the front bumper below the right front headlamp.
Nothing wierd or rocket science, just ambient temperature around the freezing point.
Nothing wierd or rocket science, just ambient temperature around the freezing point.
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Yup, that's your HHR's way of saying that next overpass could be a real surprise if it's raining and below 34° Fahrenheit.
Some of use use it as the first sign of Winter, especially in the South.
Now if there was a "The Steering Wheel Will Be Bleeping Hot!" message for Southern HHR's, that'd be cool.
(That photo is from the summer of 2011, we haven't had a 100° day in North Carolina since 2012, so much for Global Warming. It's 29° here in Kannapolis, and they're having snow showers in the mountains.
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Some of use use it as the first sign of Winter, especially in the South.
Now if there was a "The Steering Wheel Will Be Bleeping Hot!" message for Southern HHR's, that'd be cool.
(That photo is from the summer of 2011, we haven't had a 100° day in North Carolina since 2012, so much for Global Warming. It's 29° here in Kannapolis, and they're having snow showers in the mountains.
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Yup, that's your HHR's way of saying that next overpass could be a real surprise if it's raining and below 34° Fahrenheit.
Some of use use it as the first sign of Winter, especially in the South.
Now if there was a "The Steering Wheel Will Be Bleeping Hot!" message for Southern HHR's, that'd be cool.
(That photo is from the summer of 2011, we haven't had a 100° day in North Carolina since 2012, so much for Global Warming. It's 29° here in Kannapolis, and they're having snow showers in the mountains.)
Some of use use it as the first sign of Winter, especially in the South.
Now if there was a "The Steering Wheel Will Be Bleeping Hot!" message for Southern HHR's, that'd be cool.
(That photo is from the summer of 2011, we haven't had a 100° day in North Carolina since 2012, so much for Global Warming. It's 29° here in Kannapolis, and they're having snow showers in the mountains.
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114° indicated at Daytona Beach one year, that's as high as its ever gotten.
Before we stopped having "typical" Summers in Carolina, 102°-108° wasn't an uncommon thing, 28° this morning and my Sweetie was bundled up like a mummy when I dropped her off for Chemo.
The chill even made it through Grandpa's WWII issue "Jacket, Flight, Leather, Model A-2", and those B-17's weren't pressurized or heated when they flew high level runs over Germany.
My teeth were chattering by the time I made the walk from "Outer Lower Siberia" where I park the HHR's on infusion days.
Before we stopped having "typical" Summers in Carolina, 102°-108° wasn't an uncommon thing, 28° this morning and my Sweetie was bundled up like a mummy when I dropped her off for Chemo.
The chill even made it through Grandpa's WWII issue "Jacket, Flight, Leather, Model A-2", and those B-17's weren't pressurized or heated when they flew high level runs over Germany.
My teeth were chattering by the time I made the walk from "Outer Lower Siberia" where I park the HHR's on infusion days.
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I've got a repo A2, I had always believed they were worn by fighter pilots...I also have (finally got one last winter) a B3, which is super warm and was used by bomber crews, not only pilots...they are the ones with the wool shearling inside...I've never seen a warmer jacket...the repros now sell for about $1200.00
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I've seen everything from 40 below freezing to well over 100 degrees on my thermometer in the HHR. I was already used to a work vehicle that had a DIC in it that would warn about "Ice possible" so I wasn't really to shocked to see that.
When I was young {about 1967 or so} I had a B-17 jacket. I got it at the Army/Navy surplus shop in Ladysmith Wisconsin, the owner of the store told me it had been worn in the Korean war.
The cuffs were rotted and tattered but the coat itself was in pretty good shape. After wearing it for some time, with the nasty looking cuffs, the zipper broke and I it had some other problems. One of the lady's on my paper route said she could mend it for me {for a price} if I wanted.
I dug out my heavy jean jacket and left the leather with her. She had the jacket for a little over a week and when she got it done she only charged me less than $20.00.
She had taken the leather completely apart and replaced the lining on the sleeves and somehow washed the sheep skin inside lining of the main shell. All the pockets had new heavy duty linings too. Then she had hand stitched it back together using the original style nylon thread.
She also refurbished it to the original oxblood color. The original fake fur collar was either fixed or repaired using some manner magic because it was actually soft when I got it back.
I tried to give her more money for all that work and she wouldn't hear of it. So I delivered her news paper for the next year for free. It turned out that she had worked in a factory making the jackets when she was young so she really knew what she was doing with them.
I ended up giving the jacket to my younger {skinnier} brother around 30 years ago, he still wears it.
When I was young {about 1967 or so} I had a B-17 jacket. I got it at the Army/Navy surplus shop in Ladysmith Wisconsin, the owner of the store told me it had been worn in the Korean war.
The cuffs were rotted and tattered but the coat itself was in pretty good shape. After wearing it for some time, with the nasty looking cuffs, the zipper broke and I it had some other problems. One of the lady's on my paper route said she could mend it for me {for a price} if I wanted.
I dug out my heavy jean jacket and left the leather with her. She had the jacket for a little over a week and when she got it done she only charged me less than $20.00.
She had taken the leather completely apart and replaced the lining on the sleeves and somehow washed the sheep skin inside lining of the main shell. All the pockets had new heavy duty linings too. Then she had hand stitched it back together using the original style nylon thread.
She also refurbished it to the original oxblood color. The original fake fur collar was either fixed or repaired using some manner magic because it was actually soft when I got it back.
I tried to give her more money for all that work and she wouldn't hear of it. So I delivered her news paper for the next year for free. It turned out that she had worked in a factory making the jackets when she was young so she really knew what she was doing with them.
I ended up giving the jacket to my younger {skinnier} brother around 30 years ago, he still wears it.
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I've got a repo A2, I had always believed they were worn by fighter pilots...I also have (finally got one last winter) a B3, which is super warm and was used by bomber crews, not only pilots...they are the ones with the wool shearling inside...I've never seen a warmer jacket...the repros now sell for about $1200.00
Both the A-2 & B-3 were first issued in 1931, with the B-3 designed for open c*ckpit fighters and bombers, which were the mainstay of the Army Air Corps and Naval/Marine Corps Aviators until 1939-40.
I have Grandpa Joe's B-3 too, but like him, I prefer the A-2 for comfort and freedom of movement. On his B-17 missions he'd wear his A-2 over a Type F-1 Suit, Heated, Flight. And under that he'd wear two sets of long johns, temperatures in his B-17 did hit -30° to -60°F during a mission.
The men and women who served in WWII were truly the Greatest Generation.
(I know the repros go for startling prices, and I've been offered obscene amounts of cash by fellow pilots for my genuine articles, they will go to Dusty when I go to the "Flight Line in The Sky")
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