Suggestions for long highway cruising mods

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

YIKES! ....... between the looks of your car and a "vision" of @Packofcrows 's car with "dislike is the smell the extra garbage produces"............I'm thinking my car isn't all that dirty.......

(so, @Packofcrows a "little" garbage is OK ....... but the smell of the extra garbage is overcoming ...... ??)




humfrz

I was going to leave the "extra" garbage thing alone but am not disappointed that you went there.


That isn't even a picture of when it gets really dirty since there are still shiny spots.
The really dirty pictures are on my work computer. Wait... ahhh screw it.

[Packofcrows]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

You would be reduced to a blithering fool here about 4 months of the year then!


45 minutes after a full wash.

LOL If I lived there, i'd drive a WRX or 4x4 truck.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Packofcrows

LOL If I lived there, i'd drive a WRX or 4x4 truck.

Wuss

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by humfrz

YIKES! ....... between the looks of your car and a "vision" of @Packofcrows 's car with "dislike is the smell the extra garbage produces"............I'm thinking my car isn't all that dirty.......

(so, @Packofcrows a "little" garbage is OK ....... but the smell of the extra garbage is overcoming ...... ??)

I don't know what his excuse is, but when you live in your car as much as I do, you end up eating in the car more often than you would like. For example, if I have a six hour drive and five hours of work to do plus packing before I can even get on the road, the McDonald's drive thru becomes a potential solution for today's fat, carb and protein problem without having to add another half hour to my work day. So maybe all the packaging ends up in the trash can a couple of hours later when I stop for gas, but that's a couple of hours for the smell of oil and ketchup and strange meat and even stranger reconstituted onions to permeate every porous surface. Then add the odor of a single drop of a milky latte that dripped down into the pen slot in the cupholder without my realizing it. And also mix in the wrapper from that tiny cheese and sausage snack I picked up yesterday from one of the many Czech gas stations around Texas which couldn't possibly be making a smell that big from inside my cereal bin. And maybe it rained really hard, hard enough to soak half the inside of the car when I opened the door at the rest stop.

Yet when you glance inside, it doesn't look odorous, because some of the trash is gone and the rest is neatly stored in the cereal bin. It'll need a half hour at speed with the windows down before it's reduced to a tolerable concentration.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

I don't know what his excuse is, but when you live in your car as much as I do, you end up eating in the car more often than you would like.......... .

WOW! ........ now, THAT paints a picture!

Back in the day, when I had a job that required a lot of driving, I ate nothing in the car except nuts (unsalted), dried fruit, fresh fruit, celery, lettuce, raw carrots, apples and drank nothing but distilled water.

Now, that is ........





humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

I don't know what his excuse is, but when you live in your car as much as I do, you end up eating in the car more often than you would like. For example, if I have a six hour drive and five hours of work to do plus packing before I can even get on the road, the McDonald's drive thru becomes a potential solution for today's fat, carb and protein problem without having to add another half hour to my work day. So maybe all the packaging ends up in the trash can a couple of hours later when I stop for gas, but that's a couple of hours for the smell of oil and ketchup and strange meat and even stranger reconstituted onions to permeate every porous surface. Then add the odor of a single drop of a milky latte that dripped down into the pen slot in the cupholder without my realizing it. And also mix in the wrapper from that tiny cheese and sausage snack I picked up yesterday from one of the many Czech gas stations around Texas which couldn't possibly be making a smell that big from inside my cereal bin. And maybe it rained really hard, hard enough to soak half the inside of the car when I opened the door at the rest stop.

Yet when you glance inside, it doesn't look odorous, because some of the trash is gone and the rest is neatly stored in the cereal bin. It'll need a half hour at speed with the windows down before it's reduced to a tolerable concentration.

You missed the joke there Extra!
Hum was implying that (due to Pack's wording) there was a set level of garbage there should be and it isn't an issue until you have some spare stuff to spread around.


I am in the same boat as you, albeit I don't have 6 hour drives. Most of my two hour drives are done over meal times or at least coffee consumption periods. It is not unusual for me to have three or even four 90% empty coffee cups in the car at one time in addition to a shopping bag of food wrappers. At least I drink it black!
The OCD crowd here would be reduced to fits of horror.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

WOW! ........ now, THAT paints a picture!

Back in the day, when I had a job that required a lot of driving, I ate nothing in the car except nuts (unsalted), dried fruit, fresh fruit, celery, lettuce, raw carrots, apples and drank nothing but distilled water.

Now, that is ........





humfrz

All that fiber in a job that requires driving a lot? You sir were a brave man!

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Hum was implying that (due to Pack's wording) there was a set level of garbage there should be and it isn't an issue until you have some spare stuff to spread around.

In a way, that's true. If you use a bin of some kind, like my cereal container, the acceptable level is what fits in the bin. Everything else is spare garbage to be distributed on the passenger side seat and floorboard.

If you don't have a bin, it's a little more tricky. There's a level of trash where you don't notice it yet. Then there's a level where you come out to the car one day and think, "Dear God, how did THAT happen?" That's the threshold between normal garbage and extra garbage.

[gravitylover]

Extra garbage is what ends up in the cup holder in the passenger door. If it's in the drivers door I remove it nearly every time I get out of the car and get rid of it and at the worst it waits until I get gas and reach down to pop the cover open then I grab it.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by humfrz

WOW! ........ now, THAT paints a picture!

Back in the day, when I had a job that required a lot of driving, I ate nothing in the car except nuts (unsalted), dried fruit, fresh fruit, celery, lettuce, raw carrots, apples and drank nothing but distilled water.

Now, that is ........





humfrz

Interesting on the road diet.. would suit a Prius driver.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

In a way, that's true. If you use a bin of some kind, like my cereal container, the acceptable level is what fits in the bin. Everything else is spare garbage to be distributed on the passenger side seat and floorboard.

If you don't have a bin, it's a little more tricky. There's a level of trash where you don't notice it yet. Then there's a level where you come out to the car one day and think, "Dear God, how did THAT happen?" That's the threshold between normal garbage and extra garbage.

Trash? That's what the big hole in the center console is for.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Trash? That's what the big hole in the center console is for.

If you're talking about the area for the cupholders, that's filled up with my emergency knife (with a seat belt cutter and window smasher), the original antenna for my car, my original flasher relay, a stash of antacids, a stash of Ibuprofen, spare toll change (in the useless rear cup holder), pens, a telescoping back scratcher (road warrior tool) and a bottle of capsaicin nose spray that works equally well for clearing sinuses and waking me the fuck up when I start to doze because HOLY SHIT THAT BURNS.

No room for trash there. If it fits there, I laugh at your tiny trash accumulation and know that you are no road warrior.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

All that fiber in a job that requires driving a lot? You sir were a brave man!

......but not so smart ........

Reminds me of a back-in-the-day story.

I was driving my company car one afternoon, when I stopped in to visit my younger, hippie brother, who was living in this commune (a grouping of old migrant shacks) in West Covina, CA.

After an evening of drinking rot gut whisky and smoking his weird cigarettes, I fell asleep in a sleeping bag on the floor of his kitchen. About 2 AM, I woke up and decided I couldn't sleep on the floor anymore.

So, I had one for the road, and headed for Riverside, where I had motel reservations. Somewhere along the Pomona Freeway, the "urge" overcame me and I quickly pulled off the side of the freeway and headed down over an embankment.

Well, I didn't quite make it .......what a smelly mess ........ So, I walked back up to the car to get my suitcase and a clean pair of pants when .......... you guessed it ......... a CHP pulled up ...... showcasing my "mess" in his headlights.

He was downwind when he got out of his cruiser, so he didn't get very close ..... I reckon the smell overpowered his curiosity to see if I had been drinking. He asked me if I was OK, and sent me on my way.


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

......but not so smart ........

Reminds me of a back-in-the-day story.

I was driving my company car one afternoon, when I stopped in to visit my younger, hippie brother, who was living in this commune (a grouping of old migrant shacks) in West Covina, CA.

After an evening of drinking rot gut whisky and smoking his weird cigarettes, I fell asleep in a sleeping bag on the floor of his kitchen. About 2 AM, I woke up and decided I couldn't sleep on the floor anymore.

So, I had one for the road, and headed for Riverside, where I had motel reservations. Somewhere along the Pomona Freeway, the "urge" overcame me and I quickly pulled off the side of the freeway and headed down over an embankment.

Well, I didn't quite make it .......what a smelly mess ........ So, I walked back up to the car to get my suitcase and a clean pair of pants when .......... you guessed it ......... a CHP pulled up ...... showcasing my "mess" in his headlights.

He was downwind when he got out of his cruiser, so he didn't get very close ..... I reckon the smell overpowered his curiosity to see if I had been drinking. He asked me if I was OK, and sent me on my way.


humfrz

I remember one time back in 74... Oh hell, we have sunk to poop story levels.