Winter & C1's

[Trotsky]

Got the car in March and wondering how they cope with winter.

e.g window steaming problems & how quickly they clear;

battery coping with drain from constant lights, wipers, de-mister fan;

locks freezing up ?

 

Any problems that could be common to the petrol version.

[ColinC1]

Just like most cars you have to demist, either with a cloth, or set the blower to window and turn up the fan speed for a while.

 

The back windows demister works a treat. In fact there is more problem with dirt all year, as the vertical tailgate sucks dirt in.

 

The heater takes a while to heat up, but that is standard with most cars.

 

No problems at all with the engine, but if you leave the car unused for a while, you do get noises from the front brake pads, till the surface rust on the discs get scraped off with movement. (quite common now on all cars, due to non-asbestos linnings)

 

In fact my sister has a smart car (Forwo) and the brakes get totally stuck with this surface rust if you leave the car for three days unused. The other day I had to high rev it and throw it in gear till it broke free :angry:

 

At least we do not get that.

[Guest CE05LDB]

The Brakes are like that on my C3 when not used for a few days so thats nothing to worry about.