New Car: What are the first things you do
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I'll second the Welcome.
- Drive it gingerly home (I've had the same car for the past eleven years so new-to-me cars need a great deal of getting used to and they're a damn sight bigger now).
- Get my seating position just right.
- Find out what the tyre pressure is supposed to be and inflate accordingly (I've always found them to be under-inflated, the Alfa was a good five+ PSI under the right pressure on the rears and damn near ten on the fronts).
- If needed flick through the menu to see if I can turn the DRL's off (the Merc could and the Alfa doesn't seem to have them thankfully).
- Read the manual for those switches and menu options that I have no idea about (finding out that the Alfa has four different speeds for the intermediate wipers was nice).
- Wash it? depending, if it's dry when I drive it home nope, if it's wet then it gets a wash and blow dry when it turns nice.
- Drive it gingerly home (I've had the same car for the past eleven years so new-to-me cars need a great deal of getting used to and they're a damn sight bigger now).
- Get my seating position just right.
- Find out what the tyre pressure is supposed to be and inflate accordingly (I've always found them to be under-inflated, the Alfa was a good five+ PSI under the right pressure on the rears and damn near ten on the fronts).
- If needed flick through the menu to see if I can turn the DRL's off (the Merc could and the Alfa doesn't seem to have them thankfully).
- Read the manual for those switches and menu options that I have no idea about (finding out that the Alfa has four different speeds for the intermediate wipers was nice).
- Wash it? depending, if it's dry when I drive it home nope, if it's wet then it gets a wash and blow dry when it turns nice.
1. Moan at the delivery company for delivering it dirty.
2. Tell the OH to get in and we go for a drive just for the sake of it
3. Listen to OH say it's not as <insert car related adjsective here> as she thought it would be.
4. Realise it's 5pm, get stuck in traffic, end up at a takeaway, drive home very carefully.
5. Eat takeaway
6. Run bath and peruse Manual in bath, for a bit of peace and quiet.
2. Tell the OH to get in and we go for a drive just for the sake of it
3. Listen to OH say it's not as <insert car related adjsective here> as she thought it would be.
4. Realise it's 5pm, get stuck in traffic, end up at a takeaway, drive home very carefully.
5. Eat takeaway
6. Run bath and peruse Manual in bath, for a bit of peace and quiet.
anarki said:
Wait until 2AM, head out to M5 J18 drive to M5 J20 with foot to the floor.
Used to be one of my favourite stretches too ![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
Now with any new car its fill with fuel, check everything works and is safe, then just use it.
1. Fill the CD changer.
2. Put my rubber Wile E Coyote mats in it (Had them 20 years, not changing them now.)
3. Fill the tank/ tyre pressures if it's been sitting a while.
4. See how fast it goes.
None of this weird OCD stuff, if the car needs a wheel alignment, a wash (!) etc then chances are I wouldn't have bought it in the first place.
2. Put my rubber Wile E Coyote mats in it (Had them 20 years, not changing them now.)
3. Fill the tank/ tyre pressures if it's been sitting a while.
4. See how fast it goes.
None of this weird OCD stuff, if the car needs a wheel alignment, a wash (!) etc then chances are I wouldn't have bought it in the first place.
Captain Muppet said:
ETA: car dealers - please stop drenching the inside of cars with shiny slime. It takes forever to clean off and is horrible to touch.
I bought a Passat once that was fine when I viewed it, interior was clean ish but would just require a vacuum. It also smelt nice and typically German. When I collected it, I found they had slimed the horrible slimy polish stuff everywhere, including the steering wheel! When I released the handbrake, my hand caught the slime that had pooled in the handbrake recess! eughhh!!!Edited by Captain Muppet on Thursday 23 July 16:40
Monty Python said:
Riley Blue said:
Put fuel in, drive car.
This![yes](/inc/images/yes.gif)
I'll generally do the alignment, thoroughly check over the suspension and give it a service at some point in the first few months if I have time.
Edited by kambites on Friday 24th July 08:31
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