What vehicle do you drive?

Cad

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Burren said:
I don't have room in my garage. There are other cars in there. Daily has to sit outside.
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I consider coming out to a room-temperature car that has sat inside all day to be an important luxury, especially in Texas.

I really do not understand parking outside, for me. I'd sell cars or get a bigger garage.
 
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Cad said:
I consider coming out to a room-temperature car that has sat inside all day to be an important luxury, especially in Texas.

I really do not understand parking outside, for me. I'd sell cars or get a bigger garage.
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I’d like more garage, but my wife likes our house and doesn’t want to move until we stop working.
 
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Burns

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Haus said:
I might have to give that a shot. I've been through a few cleaning products for it. One thing i have thought about but it would be a beating would be to deep clean and condition it like I used to do my hockey pads (I goaltended, so those huge leg biscuits). And that was traditional saddle soap followed up with a rub down in mink oil.
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Zaino has a leather conditioner that has that pleasant leather scent (link). You can probably find similar products on AutoGeek as well.

One of the problems is that GM/Caddy leather is plastic covered leather, so it doesn't soak in much of whatever you use and therefore wont hold or give off the leather smell for more than a week or two on a daily driver. You could try keeping the "rag" you use just for applying the leather conditioner somewhere in the car though.
 
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Cad said:
I consider coming out to a room-temperature car that has sat inside all day to be an important luxury, especially in Texas.

I really do not understand parking outside, for me. I'd sell cars or get a bigger garage.
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Texans have some genetic disposition to parking outside instead of in the garage. It's probably been a tough fight and he had to keep buying cars until he "had no choice!"
 
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Cad said:
I consider coming out to a room-temperature car that has sat inside all day to be an important luxury, especially in Texas.

I really do not understand parking outside, for me. I'd sell cars or get a bigger garage.
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Bigger yet of a luxury in places where it snows, avoid the cold and needing to brush off.
 
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Axiel said:
Bigger yet of a luxury in places where it snows, avoid the cold and needing to brush off.
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Unfortunately we get a lot of this too, and if you come out to a car in the summer that has been sitting in the sun, the door handles alone can actually burn you, never mind the seat belts or any metal in the interior.
 
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BrutulTM said:
I can't park in my garage because I have 7 projects in there that I'm going to finish up any day now.
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Jag gets barn + haybales, other 3 cars stuck outside. Who knew a 60x100 or whatever it is shop would be so small.
 
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Cad said:
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Unfortunately we get a lot of this too, and if you come out to a car in the summer that has been sitting in the sun, the door handles alone can actually burn you, never mind the seat belts or any metal in the interior.
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Yeah, there's a whole subtle survival skill in Texas oriented around finding where you can park that is either in a structure (covered), or knowing "I'm going to be in this place for 4 hours, the sun will travel so far, how do I park on the right side of a tree so that it shades the car"
 
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Cad said:
I consider coming out to a room-temperature car that has sat inside all day to be an important luxury, especially in Texas.

I really do not understand parking outside, for me. I'd sell cars or get a bigger garage.
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And where do you park it when you leave your house? Air conditioned garage at work? Most cars are only home at night.
 
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Bald Brah said:
And where do you park it when you leave your house? Air conditioned garage at work? Most cars are only home at night.
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My work (when I went to work) has an underground parking garage, my gym has a parking garage. Those are the primary places I go.

My car is home all day generally since I've worked at home for a long time.
 
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