What did you do to your MINI today?

I don’t remember if I diddled with that setting my first weekend of ownership, but I doubt it’d have an effect on range. If it’s not on recirc, it’s on fresh air, just a flapper.

 

It didn’t come with the bracket? Huh. I guess mine was in that brief window to get the 120V, the Flex, and the bracket & holster.

 

Oh yeah? Cool, I’ll grab a couple for the coldest cold snaps, and save the concentrate for when I can dilute at 1:8 or something.

 

Yeah I had to order it on Amazon and I picked it up yesterday just across from Hemmingford (I had other stuff to pick up). Around $5 a pint, which is expensive at winter mix rates, but dirt cheap for any >0°C mix.

 

I used to believe that when I was hypermiling with the fortwo cdi, but all it did was lead to misted up interior windows and more aircon use, so I stopped using it. Again, if it makes any difference at all, it’s so insignificant as to fall within the margin of error. You’ll get more efficiency variation from changing road conditions than from the ΔT of the climatized air.

 

After an environment Canada forecast of 3 to 6 cm of snow overnight, changing to mixed precipitation at rush-hour this morning followed by straight up rain for a couple of hours, we ended up getting almost 10 inches of fluffy snow overnight that changed over to rain very quickly this morning. I took advantage of the above freezing conditions and wet driveway.

 

FWIW, the CarPro Hydro₂ is holding up well after almost 2 months, including a month of winter weather. The thick layer of salty dirt just melted off with the pressure washer. Over the New Year’s weekend I will try to get around to do any proper decontamination wash followed by a correction and coating, though I will have to coat again in the spring after the car’s trip to the body shop.

 

That’s a great pic!