My wife was out diddey-boppin' around in one of our Chevys and had the heat
cranked way up- it was one of our colder days and the kids were way in the
back. Anyway, it was about as hot as she could make it in there (this was
about 6:30 in the evening) and the temp was dropping fast. It got down to
about 25f within a few hours. When I got in the van the next morning the
formally pristine dash had long looping cracks running all through the
surface vinyl.
The lack of humidity around here tends to dry out vinyls and plastics pretty
bad and guess that combined with the sudden change in temp was enough to
bust it up. So it isn't just you guys in the frozen zone. We also had our
first substantial snow in about ten years recently- 3 inches, wahoo! The
kids had a blast. : )
Of course, these week it's been getting up into the seventies. We've had the
swamp cooler on in the afternoon every day this week. Go figger.

Cya,
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Vickey" <vickrail@VELOCITY.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: Beware- plastic is like glass in these subzero temps...

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:28:46 EST, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
>
>>here in SE PA its 8 degrees and snowing hard... i got in my audi and
> start it
>>up to move it for the snow plows...and CRACK!!  the dash cracked, right
>>before my eyes because of the subzero temps...  i was very bummed...
>>
>>chris
>
>
> Now you know what we put up with for 3 to 4 months of the year here in NW
> Pennsylvania along Lake Erie.
>
> Michael