Yeah, I know. My poor attempt at a joke.

I've heard about the 182 and carb ice so one of the first things I did was to install a carb temp gauge and I'm always looking out for it, but nothing yet. As you pointed out a little carb heat does improve the fuel distribution and the gauge is good for that.

I owned a 1963 182 for 20 years, it was a great airplane. Flight plan 135kts at 7-9,000 burning 10-11 GPS. A/c would go to 16,000 if it had to, but really liked 11,000 or under. I moved my office 500 miles in it in 1992. Put everything I could fit in it and it was still in c.g.. Two doors, easy access, great visibility as long as you weren't looking up and relatively easy maintenance. Fill it up with gas and people and bags and go. Plan on putting a cylinder on it every year if you are flying 100 hrs/ yr and you won't be frustrated at every annual. I did get by four or five times without a cylinder issue until we did an overhaul with new cylinders. Then only had one cylinder issue in five years.
Now have a sweet 1966 D95 TravelAir. Two lyc IO360s. Four years and almost 500 hours with no cylinder replacements. I burn 16-18 GPS and get 165 kts tas. Fill it up with four people some bags and fly over the Sierras with the extra security of a long coast down to the closest airfield if I lose an engine. The airplane easily goes to 17000. we fly it all the time at 10-12,000. I liked the 182. I love the TravelAir. The visibility is great, as long as I'm not looking down. Choices, choices

TravelAir......now there's something I hadn't thought of....

And we are back to Beechcraft.....which is where I thought this was going