Getting Into a Car

[Abax]

I am driving a Toyota 4Runner right now. (Well not at this exact moment!) I climb in and raise my hips, reach down and sweep the pleats. It seems to work fairly well, though I don't know how it would work out for a long drive.

All kilted guys in Alaska drive 4Runners (but I'm not driving mine right now either). The 4Runner is a lot harder to get into than my sports cars - I usually end up with a big hank of pleats hanging off the outside edge of the cloth-covered seat. On the plus side, the pleats don't wrinkle there though.

Abax

[threebanger]

I usually end up with a big hank of pleats hanging off the outside edge of the cloth-covered seat.

That's how mine usually end up, too, after I climb up into my truck.
Fortunately, I don't usually have to drive all that far to get where I'm going.

[SteveB]

Like Andrew, I tend to stand on the subway. I usually don't have much choice during the major commuting time. The rest of the time, I try to sit near one of the doorways. On the new low rider buses I try to avoid the back "deck", as the stairs up are narrow and the kilt tends to get caught on the pull rail. I have no problem with the Green Line trolleys, or the Purple line heavy rail trains. Also tried out the new Blue line cars - they are very kilt friendly -(wider seats) The Orange Line (the one that comes down my part of town) just plain ( equation with vacuum cleaner).
Steve in Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts.

For the motorcar- its in, raise, sweep, sit, buckle.
For the truck - its stand on fuel tank, move seat back, climb up to jamb, turn facing out, sweep and sit, slide, swivel and sweep again, close door, move seat forward, reach battery switch, start engine, raise up re-sweep, sit and drive.
I think I'll take the subway....
Steve

[Jack Daw]

We all need our own popemobile to stand in.

[McNulty]

When I first started wearing kilts, cold mornings and leather seats were the real eye openers on the way to school. My arms aren't long enough (or is it that my backside is a tad toooo large) to do a proper job on the pleats and would get this blob of material on one side and the other would start to freeze until the butt warmers kicked in. So I got a hold of a waist tie from an old bathrobe and after starting to sit, slide the tie down the backside of the kilt to smooth the pleats out and slowly pulled it towards my knees. Repeat the process if not satisfied and the store the little devil in the console between the seats until needed again. It has done the trick for some time now and I even found another one to put in my wife's car when I'm riding shotgun. Something about "The Mother of invention".
Nulty

[Jack Daw]

Very clever.

[Cerebite]

Whatever you do don't let your doors get frozen shut so that you have to climb in the window or across the transmission tunnel or up through the hatchback

I had to do all of the above today after first the driver door and then the passenger door froze shut in our ice storm today.

Doing the "Dukes of Hazzard" thing in a kilt is the antithesis of decorum and poise

[Erisianmonkey]

<temporary thread hijack> That reminds me of the time that I had left my keys at home, and my cell phone battery ran out as I was headed toward the gate of our gated apartment complex. No way to call the wife as I was out of pocket money, and no way to get in the gate as it was locked. I had to go back out by the very busy corner and slide under the fence at a spot with just enough of a gap to slide my enormous butt through. It's a good show I was wearing a great kilt, I was able to use the top half to cover up any exposé.
<we now return to your regularly scheduled thread>
I've never really had that much of a problem with getting in and out of regular passenger cars. Now, getting into my friend's blazer last winter when his seats were about 20 degrees....My butt is too big to do a proper sweep in the first place and the little crouch and back up trick doesn't work when you have to go upwards to get in the vehicle. The seat marks on my thighs (and the soprano yelp I never thought could possibly come from my throat) made me decide then and there that the seats in any vehicle I own in the future will either be cloth or have a butt warmer/cooler.

[Zardoz]

I have a smallish sportscar with grippy cloth seats. I don't have too much trouble with my PV kilts, but the wool ones don't slide on the seats as easy, and I just don't have room in there to do much adjusting. I developed this idea by accident, but it's been working OK.
Take a piece of stiff paper, like brown butcher's wrap etc, don't use newsprint!, and cut a piece the size of you seat. Place it in the seat and do your sweep and sit in the car sideways, and then rotate to the front, paper and all.

[Robertson]

It's a real B---h in my Land Rover! If I have to drive far I put it on when I get there!