Stupid things PETROL HEADS say

[PHmember]

Calling your other half 'Mrs' or 'Mr' followed by your own username. Not really a petrolhead rant, but it's very common here & immediately makes myself & Mrs PHmember cringe.

[GC8]

kambites said:

GC8 said:

Rims.

Used correctly "rims" is a useful, descriptive term. It does not, however, mean the same thing as "wheels".

Rims are rims, of course. Its as a more in term for a fking wheel that it antagonises me.

I blame Americans, feeble minded British people trying to emulate them and the gobste knobhead journalists that write for car comics.

[Actus Reus]

Passing judgment upon a car as though their word is law, having never even seen the car in question, let alone having driven one.

[GC8]

Theyre forum petrol heads!

[Negative Creep]

GC8 said:

Thankyou4calling said:

Stupid things PETROL HEADS say.

About Subaru Imprezas or Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions: its tough because it was built as a rally car.

Utter, utter bks which makes me cringe with embarrassment whenever I hear it being knowledgeably pronounced.

I remember meeting one at a show who was telling me how he had a 170db exhaust fitted

[Mr E]

kambites said:

Oh another one: "modern turbocharged engines don't have lag".

And confusion of lag and boost threshold.

[unrepentant]

PHmember said:

Calling your other half 'Mrs' or 'Mr' followed by your own username. Not really a petrolhead rant, but it's very common here & immediately makes myself & Mrs PHmember cringe.

MrsU hates that.

[Matt UK]

What do mean browsing the classified isn't classed as a hobby?

[Magic919]

PHmember said:

Calling your other half 'Mrs' or 'Mr' followed by your own username. Not really a petrolhead rant, but it's very common here & immediately makes myself & Mrs PHmember cringe.

I'm like that with reflexive pronoun abuse.

[Escort3500]

Matt UK said:

Lefty said:

Lots of petrolheads apparently get there and their confused.

Along with your and you're. Must be the fumes.

And "of" and "have"

[fourwheelsteer]

unrepentant said:

PHmember said:

Calling your other half 'Mrs' or 'Mr' followed by your own username. Not really a petrolhead rant, but it's very common here & immediately makes myself & Mrs PHmember cringe.

MrsU hates that.

Mrs fourwheelsteer hates it when people use "myself" when "me" would do

(and there isn't actually a Mrs fourwheelsteer but if there were this is the sort of thing that would make her cringe)

[B17NNS]

Track work.

[PHmember]

Bugger.

[MarvGTI]

A Passat is just an A4 without the bling

[750turbo]

Repost...

[Al U]

You're lucky you didn't blow the welds on the intake!

[sars]

Anything not a 911 isn't a real Porsche......muppets

and M snobbery

[bozzy101]

People who keep using the term "it's a hoot" to describe something fun. Pisses me right off!

[PHmember]

'You only bought a 'Boxter' because your life didn't work out quite as well as you hoped'.

Yes yes, that's EXACTLY why people buy Boxsters instead of a multitude of 911s they could also afford.

[jamieduff1981]

coppice said:

Detailing (or waxing the car as I call it)

Do you have a catchy description of what you'd want someone to do if you wanted to pay them to wash the car, strip all the tar off it, polish it, seal and wax it, then clean all contaminants off the wheels and reseal the finish, and make sure any brightwork, plastics, glass and rubbers were properly cleaned and treated?


Having said that, people who think detailing is just slapping some Turtlewax on grates on me a little