E30 Zone

I dont whether you guys get this but my fingers get freezing cold working on the car in this weather do any you use those mechanics gloves. Seen them in Total and performance BMW magazine.

Doe anyone here use them?

Or do you suffer the cold and go commando?

iv got a pair and there really good, mine are the mac tools ones which are a little cheaper than the mechanix ones

I would normally use thin cotton gloves "borrowed" from work. They keep your hands warm but they're thin enough to use when fiddling about with mechanicals.

Quite often than not I don't use anything. We're kinda used to the cold up here !!

the ones I saw were all different colours red yelooe , green etc.

I think the designer thought colour code them with peoples cars

Never had a need myself, I make the tea and stand around with my hands in my pockets watching other people work on my car

If I need to sorte out my car here in Sweden and its -20 I use glowes for skiing and winter sports, they are hopeless to use, but keeps my fingers warm! You can get some new fassion winter sport glowes who is thin and more comfy to use and I do think they can work out to work on a car as well. But they arent cheap, think around £25 for a pair....

've got a pair of the mac tools ones but they are a pain in the arse to use you can't really grip in them as the material is pretty thick so i just use some disposable latex ones

I use them all the time at home and at work and i think they re the dogs!
They let you do things but keep you hands clean aswell.
A deffo must.

Snap on ones are excellent for £25...

i used latex gloves once there messed up in the bin they go, But i do all my work in my garage

double up the gloves. 2x the insulation, no loss of grip!

Mechanics gloves? . Never use them myself....... then again i,m no mechanic, and looking at the results below maybe i should start

Mechanics gloves are for tarts.

Latex gloves are all I use, saves scrubbing up afterwards.

Cheers,

Iain T

I use barrier cream, can't handle the latex.

I would use mechanics gloves in cold weather though, that is if I wasn't such a southern pansy that I'm a fair weather mechanic only.

I've been considering this myself. I prefer to be able to feel what I am doing, but breaking a car up on a hill in january kinda changed my mind on that one, cracked skin aplenty! I am a bit of a gyppo though and wouldnt shell out more than a tenner!

Latex gloves wont keep your hands warm, the opposite in fact as they make your hands sweat, wet hands in cold weather aint good

I nicked a few pairs of showa gloves from work, these, they are really good, thin enough not to hinder but they are breathable so your hands dont sweat.

After a few hours of oil and crud though they soak it up and your hands get dirty anyway

Just get some swarfega with added gravel

Dont stop this happening though

Be a man suffer the cold and go commando!!! id rather feel with my finger tips when working if you close your eyes and work with your hands with gloves you have no direction, BUT do the same thin with no gloves your sence of feel using your fingers/tips or course gives you sence of direction so itsimportant to feel...

like having a girl in the dark, you aint gonna put on gloves when you work are ya ?? what she thinking!!!

just a figure of speech....

we use them at work got spare sets in the garage any one need some could chuck some in the post for the cost of a stamp if any one wonts to .

GASZMAN if you could that would be great will pm you

BSS325i doesn't go anywhere without a pair

will get some from work tuesday that post a pic if anyone wonts a pair 5 quid inc postage ok

I got some of these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... =p3907.m29

workes out at £1 a pair.

gooner1 wrote:Mechanics gloves? . Never use them myself....... then again i,m no mechanic, and looking at the results below maybe i should start

Is that from when we did the fannyfold...???

ok guys sorry it took so long but here we have them the pics i mean

front cotton

read foam ( as used in bmw so i was told hummm)
any good to yoy have 20 pairs

i've got loads of them £2 a pair posted

march109 wrote:I use barrier cream

I use this, find things much easier.

The latex gloves are horrible!

at bmw we use latex gloves there horrible though!! now i went down to my local discount shop lol and they had some really good hardwearing tight gloves that are perfect for me at a quid each!!!

you cant beat the taste of a bacon buttie with oily hands (thats oily not olay for you fairy's)

i never ware protection me

guys, if you don't like latex gloves, try some nitrile ones, they are much stronger, and get caught up and snagged alot less often than the latex ones do even thought they are the same thickness.......they are a million times better

B7 wrote:BSS325i doesn't go anywhere without a pair

Latex ones only as i dont like ingrained dirt in my hands and neither does my mrs if you know what i mean!

mattG wrote:Never had a need myself, I make the tea and stand around with my hands in my pockets watching other people work on my car

I can vouch for this.