Contribute material for The Compendium of Car Truths

Contribute material for The Compendium of Car Truths

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davamer23

1,127 posts

154 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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3 things in life are inevitable: Death, Taxes and K-Series HGF.

Tannedbaldhead

2,952 posts

132 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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DJP said:
If you fit budget tyres you will immediately lose control of your vehicle and mow down a bus queue of primary school children.
Isn't it "you will find yourself in a ditch"? After all, they don't they call Linglongs et all "ditchfinders".

Tannedbaldhead

2,952 posts

132 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Leave an old Corvette Stingray in a supermarket car park, go in and shop and when you return the car is so tail happy it'll be facing the other way spin

ArmaghMan

2,413 posts

180 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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There is never a " little princess on board"

mickyveloce

1,035 posts

236 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Driving a Ferrari Mondial makes you look very very small.


shake n bake

2,221 posts

207 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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The car isn't actually 'Powered by fairy dust'

Cliftonite

8,410 posts

138 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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judas said:
If your car is worth X and you spend Y on mods and upgrades, your car is not worth X + Y nono
But, just possibly, X - Y.




Fun Bus

17,911 posts

218 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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DJP said:
If you fit budget tyres you will immediately lose control of your vehicle and mow down a bus queue of primary school children.
And then everything will burst into flames killing everyone to death in an instant.

0a

23,901 posts

194 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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The Mercedes w124 was the best built car in history.

Scousefella

2,243 posts

181 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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If a headlight bulb expires on a ford Focus you can guarantee it is the nearside one behind the battery and not the easy access drivers side one. rolleyes

Negative Creep

24,983 posts

227 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Fun Bus said:
DJP said:
If you fit budget tyres you will immediately lose control of your vehicle and mow down a bus queue of primary school children.
And then everything will burst into flames killing everyone to death in an instant.
And if they're part worns you will then spin into a group of Nuns waiting at the opposite side of the road

aka_kerrly

12,419 posts

210 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Ari said:
Any 'car enthusiast' that uses the terms 'rep mobile', footballers car' 'hairdressers car' 'girls car' isn't actually a car enthusiast, just a Top a Gear fan.
Yes, plus anyone who quotes Top Gear or specifically Jeremy Clarkson's opinion as FACT

Cliftonite

8,410 posts

138 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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aka_kerrly said:
Ari said:
Any 'car enthusiast' that uses the terms 'rep mobile', footballers car' 'hairdressers car' 'girls car' isn't actually a car enthusiast, just a Top a Gear fan.
Yes, plus anyone who quotes Top Gear or specifically Jeremy Clarkson's opinion as FACT
But Jeremy Clarkson does get some things right!

(I suppose).

smile


Depthhoar

675 posts

128 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Anyone wearing a hat or head covering of any sort will be either driving far too fast and recklessly, or too slowly and without due care & attention.

Tell me I'm wrong.


(Gloves...there's another one...Hat and gloves = accident about to happen)

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

163 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Exceptions being in a convertible,roof down ,in the middle of winter.......wavey

Depthhoar

675 posts

128 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Depthhoar said:
Anyone wearing a hat or head covering of any sort will be either driving their saloon/hatchback/estate far too fast and recklessly, or too slowly and without due care & attention.

Tell me I'm wrong.


(Gloves...there's another one...Hat and gloves = accident about to happen)
There, fixed it!

(4x4 drivers with hat & gloves excepted but only in rural areas)

surveyor

17,828 posts

184 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Once a money pit always a money pit.

scdan4

1,299 posts

160 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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If it's going to break down it will do it in the rain, in the dark, somewhere remote when you are in a hurry.


With these feet

5,728 posts

215 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Our feathered friends always wait till the car is polished and waxed before stting all over it.

The one parking space left available outside the shop is always a foot too small to get into.

Theres always 1 parent that thinks the Keep Clear hatching outside the school is their own personal drop-off point for young Tarquin.

Zebra crossings are classed as parking areas if there is a cash machine directly next to it.

Supermarket parking spaces were designed for everyone to drive Nissan Micra's.

Parent and Child spaces are fair game if you think your car is "worth a bit".

There's always someone willing to go faster than you on the motorway.

Mobile camera vans always see you on that 1 occasion where you "go a little bit quick".

Truck drivers are fuelled by coffee and are unable to leave the service station after refuelling without buying one.

Contrary to belief, American Police officers are not sponsored by Dunkin Donuts.

How drivers are surprised and feel the need to post their findings online, when they swap their barely legal, premium brand tyres for new Woosung ditchfinders that there is less grip than before.

People will buy tyres on the recommendation of a total stranger, even when its a different car, because they said they were "good".

There will always be crisps, crumbs, 1 glove and a seat belt buckle under every child seat.

Women see their partners cars footwells as storage/ rubbish bins.

Like emptying the dishwasher, checking the oil is "a mans job".

Tyre pressures are only checked when one looks a bit flat.

The majority of Off-roaders rarely go there. Many on the school run think off-road means 2 wheels on the kerb.

Its quicker to go into a fast food restaurant than use the drive thru.




siovey

1,644 posts

138 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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If you're travelling at 40mph in a national speed limit area , and this is especially important for those of you holding several other drivers up, you absolutely must not slow down when you hit the next 30mph area