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busta
4,456 posts
102 months
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"If you use easy start, your car becomes addicted to it."
It doesn't, but you are obviously using it for a reason and if you stop using it, unless you've fixed whatever caused you to use it in the first place, it's unlikely to have remedied itself!
How can a car gain an addiction anyway?
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doogz
18,721 posts
56 months
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busta said: "If you use easy start, your car becomes addicted to it."
It doesn't, but you are obviously using it for a reason and if you stop using it, unless you've fixed whatever caused you to use it in the first place, it's unlikely to have remedied itself!
How can a car gain an addiction anyway?  I've never heard that one before!
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Baryonyx
6,880 posts
28 months
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doogz said: Ah, i see. This is the article i was referring to, oddly enough, a mate posted it on FB the other day, so it was easy to find just now:  This one's nonsense. Such a load of rubbish I'm surprised it ever made it to print.
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catman
841 posts
44 months
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I first read this story several years ago in a car magazine. The writer claimed that he had been told this story directly by the Police Officers involved in the incident.
Tim
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CommanderJameson
20,708 posts
95 months
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catman said: I first read this story several years ago in a car magazine. The writer claimed that he had been told this story directly by the Police Officers involved in the incident.
Tim He was lying. Hey, Dennis: how's the traffic light video coming along?
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AdvanceRoadcraft
247 posts
80 months
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Baryonyx said: Such a load of rubbish I'm surprised it ever made it to print. You don't read the papers much, do you?
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Morningside
16,792 posts
98 months
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CommanderJameson said: Hey, Dennis: how's the traffic light video coming along? Also worth a bump. Driving at 100 mph with the windows down will pop out the rear window in a Sierra. Pushing all the windows down at the same time will blow a fuse on an old Saab.
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R11ysf
1,306 posts
51 months
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Morningside said: Also worth a bump.
Driving at 100 mph with the windows down will pop out the rear window in a Sierra. It might be a myth in a Sierra but it's 100% fact in a TVR!!!
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TheEnd
12,116 posts
57 months
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R11ysf said: Morningside said: Also worth a bump.
Driving at 100 mph with the windows down will pop out the rear window in a Sierra. It might be a myth in a Sierra but it's 100% fact in a TVR!!! Some E36 BMW coupes would do that in reverse, and you'd get an unknown bang as a pop out vent window slams closed. doogz said: busta said: "If you use easy start, your car becomes addicted to it."
It doesn't, but you are obviously using it for a reason and if you stop using it, unless you've fixed whatever caused you to use it in the first place, it's unlikely to have remedied itself!
How can a car gain an addiction anyway? I've never heard that one before! It's kinda true in a way, it you keep on using easy start without fixing the problem, you could find you need to use it more and more often until even that isn't enough! WD40 and door locks are the same, as the thinner oils will disovle and clean any remaining grease, so the problem will come back worse when the WD wears off.
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doogz
18,721 posts
56 months
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TheEnd said: It's kinda true in a way, it you keep on using easy start without fixing the problem, you could find you need to use it more and more often until even that isn't enough!
WD40 and door locks are the same, as the thinner oils will disovle and clean any remaining grease, so the problem will come back worse when the WD wears off. Well yeah, the car's not addicted to easy-start. It's broken.
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PanzerCommander
2,703 posts
87 months
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Baryonyx said: doogz said: Ah, i see. This is the article i was referring to, oddly enough, a mate posted it on FB the other day, so it was easy to find just now: This one's nonsense. Such a load of rubbish I'm surprised it ever made it to print. Indeed, the only missile I know of that we use that operates like that is the ALARM anti-radar missile ( ALARM Missile Wiki). The sidewinder is an infra-red guided short range air to air missile, I'm sure you could use it against a ground target that was hot enough but it would not fire on a police laser/radar speed gun, neither would an ALARM missile.
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pulliptears
605 posts
35 months
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Oh come on!!!
15 Pages, 6 Months and still no video!!! :P
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VidalBaboon
8,863 posts
84 months
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I had heard of a couple of guys borrowing NVGs and doing a highspeed run in a black Porsche without lights on. How true this is I have no idea as surely oncoming headlights would give a 'white out'.
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Alfa numeric
2,414 posts
48 months
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inman999
910 posts
42 months
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Alfa numeric said: Depends. The binocular versions are obviously much better than monoculars when it comes to depth perception. You can drive armoured vehicles off road using them so I'm sure you could drive on the road, in theory!
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Morningside
16,792 posts
98 months
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Still no video  Anyhow...is it true about if you hit a pheasant you cannot pick it up but the car behind can. Myth?
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matthias73
1,673 posts
19 months
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VidalBaboon said: I had heard of a couple of guys borrowing NVGs and doing a highspeed run in a black Porsche without lights on. How true this is I have no idea as surely oncoming headlights would give a 'white out'. Driving a vehicle at 10mph is dificult with NVG gear. Especially as its not really that well detailed, you can't tell if something is a bump or a dip, it offers limited depth perception and generally a lot of movement makes you (me at least) feel rather sick. I'm sure they tried it. But high speed is a word they probably thought of in the pub a while afterwards whilst embelleshing the story.
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Pints
14,717 posts
63 months
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Morningside said: Still no video Anyhow...is it true about if you hit a pheasant you cannot pick it up but the car behind can. Myth? I've heard this one too. Although I thought it was the case for any roadkill.
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s m
8,110 posts
72 months
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Morningside said: Also worth a bump.
Driving at 100 mph with the windows down will pop out the rear window in a Sierra. Never heard that Sure you're not getting it mixed up with the old Anglia? Where the back windows got sucked out by pressure at high speed when they first opened the M1 motorway?
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Drclarke
617 posts
42 months
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There are some great tales on here, and some that I have always assumed to be true!
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