Stupid things non petrolheads say... Vol 2
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My parents live abroad but have a house in the UK and a few years back they got a car to use when back over here.The next door neighbour is a bit of a dick and the sort that will have a negative comment about any car. if it's powerful it's a waste of money and petrol. If it's a frugal city car it's gutless and a deathtrap in a crash. He will find a fault with anything that isn't his own vehicle/property and every performance car I had when I lived at home was 'slower than his 2.0 8v Astra GTE' that he had decades ago. Bearing in mind I've had Subaru's,mr2 turbos ,and a shed load of turbo hot hatches i just gave up even bothering to tell him he was talking out of his poop chute.
I popped down to my folks place the other week to turn their car over and he comes outside like a bad smell and stands looking and informs me that he recons the car isn't worth anything no more as its old and no one would want it.The car is an 09 tt roadster with 15,000 miles on the clock and it's spotless.He is saying this while stood next to his 1.4 53 reg Ibiza with moon distance mileage that he recons will 'cruise all day at 90'. Some people just wake up one day bitter and twisted and hell bent on trying to piss on someone's parade to make their sad life tolerable.
I popped down to my folks place the other week to turn their car over and he comes outside like a bad smell and stands looking and informs me that he recons the car isn't worth anything no more as its old and no one would want it.The car is an 09 tt roadster with 15,000 miles on the clock and it's spotless.He is saying this while stood next to his 1.4 53 reg Ibiza with moon distance mileage that he recons will 'cruise all day at 90'. Some people just wake up one day bitter and twisted and hell bent on trying to piss on someone's parade to make their sad life tolerable.
Couple of guys in our office who profess to be petrolheads said that if they won the lottery, the first car they would buy would be an over finch. Had to explain that they first had to buy the range rover then send it to overfinch for them to modify/bling/improve/ruin to their tastes. I can't take any automotive conversation seriously with them any more!
steve51800 said:
Couple of guys in our office who profess to be petrolheads said that if they won the lottery, the first car they would buy would be an over finch. Had to explain that they first had to buy the range rover then send it to overfinch for them to modify/bling/improve/ruin to their tastes. I can't take any automotive conversation seriously with them any more!
Except Overfinch keep some cars in stock...http://stock.overfinch.com/used-cars/?COGModel=RAN...
giblet said:
Even if that weren't the case, I can't see the stupidity in itI'm not saying I'm some sort of car knowledge god that knows everything about cars but jeesus it's difficult to have a conversation about cars and anything car related with the average person. Some of the bulls
t that get's spoken about at work (construction site), I just sit there chuckling to myself at some of the guys that think they know stuff. For instance the guy with the 2005 X3 2.0 diesel. Apparently he put a new exhaust on it and he gained 40 horsepower. Then there's another guy that has put this contraption on his car to make it sound like it has a dump valve even though it's just a N/A Mondeo.
Makes me want to bang my head on the wall.
t that get's spoken about at work (construction site), I just sit there chuckling to myself at some of the guys that think they know stuff. For instance the guy with the 2005 X3 2.0 diesel. Apparently he put a new exhaust on it and he gained 40 horsepower. Then there's another guy that has put this contraption on his car to make it sound like it has a dump valve even though it's just a N/A Mondeo.Makes me want to bang my head on the wall.
Section 8 said:
My parents live abroad but have a house in the UK and a few years back they got a car to use when back over here.The next door neighbour is a bit of a dick and the sort that will have a negative comment about any car. if it's powerful it's a waste of money and petrol. If it's a frugal city car it's gutless and a deathtrap in a crash. He will find a fault with anything that isn't his own vehicle/property and every performance car I had when I lived at home was 'slower than his 2.0 8v Astra GTE' that he had decades ago. Bearing in mind I've had Subaru's,mr2 turbos ,and a shed load of turbo hot hatches i just gave up even bothering to tell him he was talking out of his poop chute.
I popped down to my folks place the other week to turn their car over and he comes outside like a bad smell and stands looking and informs me that he recons the car isn't worth anything no more as its old and no one would want it.The car is an 09 tt roadster with 15,000 miles on the clock and it's spotless.He is saying this while stood next to his 1.4 53 reg Ibiza with moon distance mileage that he recons will 'cruise all day at 90'. Some people just wake up one day bitter and twisted and hell bent on trying to piss on someone's parade to make their sad life tolerable.
Just tell him to fI popped down to my folks place the other week to turn their car over and he comes outside like a bad smell and stands looking and informs me that he recons the car isn't worth anything no more as its old and no one would want it.The car is an 09 tt roadster with 15,000 miles on the clock and it's spotless.He is saying this while stood next to his 1.4 53 reg Ibiza with moon distance mileage that he recons will 'cruise all day at 90'. Some people just wake up one day bitter and twisted and hell bent on trying to piss on someone's parade to make their sad life tolerable.
k off before he gets the first word in. He'll soon get the message and won't bother anymore.. One for the thread.
A few month back when I first placed an order for a Fiesta ST and I was talking about it to a few other blokes in the office and one of the women asks how much was it. She nearly fell off her chair when I told her it was £17k "£17k?! You could get an Audi for that!". No amount of telling her that her £17k Audi will likely be the lowest trim level, smallest engined piece of s
t that Audi sells would convince her that I had made anything except the wrong decision. She is one of the faux middle class people that likes to show everyone how middle class she is by shopping in M&S so I suppose it's not completely her fault...Recently in work;
customer "you know all engines are the same?"
me "what?"
customer "yeah I thought you`d know being a mechanic"
me "know what?"
customer "all engines are the same, there`s no difference between a 1.4 and 1.6 engine"
me "eh is there not?"
customer "no they`re all the same, the only difference is the computer, it tells the car how much power to give, the fella i bought it off told me"
me "oh yeah that, anyway I better get back to work"
sometimes it`s easier to agree than argue with an idiot
customer "you know all engines are the same?"
me "what?"
customer "yeah I thought you`d know being a mechanic"
me "know what?"
customer "all engines are the same, there`s no difference between a 1.4 and 1.6 engine"
me "eh is there not?"
customer "no they`re all the same, the only difference is the computer, it tells the car how much power to give, the fella i bought it off told me"
me "oh yeah that, anyway I better get back to work"
sometimes it`s easier to agree than argue with an idiot
Double.D said:
Recently in work;
customer "you know all engines are the same?"
me "what?"
customer "yeah I thought you`d know being a mechanic"
me "know what?"
customer "all engines are the same, there`s no difference between a 1.4 and 1.6 engine"
me "eh is there not?"
customer "no they`re all the same, the only difference is the computer, it tells the car how much power to give, the fella i bought it off told me"
me "oh yeah that, anyway I better get back to work"
sometimes it`s easier to agree than argue with an idiot
Blame BMW for this, the policy they have of using the same engine with different badges for power outputs.customer "you know all engines are the same?"
me "what?"
customer "yeah I thought you`d know being a mechanic"
me "know what?"
customer "all engines are the same, there`s no difference between a 1.4 and 1.6 engine"
me "eh is there not?"
customer "no they`re all the same, the only difference is the computer, it tells the car how much power to give, the fella i bought it off told me"
me "oh yeah that, anyway I better get back to work"
sometimes it`s easier to agree than argue with an idiot
116i,118i,120i.
I don't know if all those have the same engine size but you get the point.....maybe.
Slightly dim colleague (DC) wanders into a meeting room where a colleague and I are waiting for a meeting to start. He's on the phone to a garage, it sounds like they've just answered:
DC - "One of my bulbs has blown. Can you replace it?"
...
DC - "So I just being it and you replace it?"
...
DC - "Good. Its a Passat."
...
DC - "Its a Y reg"
[at this point, colleague and I are nodding at each other, both quietly impressed that dim colleague is running a really old Passat]
DC - "Yeah. Its YB 15 JLK" (or something like that)
Cue facepalm and barely contained sniggering.
DC - "One of my bulbs has blown. Can you replace it?"
...
DC - "So I just being it and you replace it?"
...
DC - "Good. Its a Passat."
...
DC - "Its a Y reg"
[at this point, colleague and I are nodding at each other, both quietly impressed that dim colleague is running a really old Passat]
DC - "Yeah. Its YB 15 JLK" (or something like that)
Cue facepalm and barely contained sniggering.
giblet said:
steve51800 said:
Couple of guys in our office who profess to be petrolheads said that if they won the lottery, the first car they would buy would be an over finch. Had to explain that they first had to buy the range rover then send it to overfinch for them to modify/bling/improve/ruin to their tastes. I can't take any automotive conversation seriously with them any more!
Except Overfinch keep some cars in stock...http://stock.overfinch.com/used-cars/?COGModel=RAN...
steve51800 said:
To me, the whole point of an overfinch is that you are getting a bespoke service of your discerning choices tastefully applied to the vehicle of your choice, if they have the vehicles "in stock" then its always going to be a compromise...
Even so I think most people would say "I'm buying an Overfinch", not "I'm buying a Range Rover and taking it to Overfinch". And anyway, I'm reasonable sure you go to them and they sort out the details like buying the base car.99dndd said:
Mum: My Hyundai i10's really good on petrol, a tank only costs £25.
Me:
I have noticed this with newer small cars having really tiny tanks. A mate has a fiesta and it takes about the same amount of fuel and can do barely 200 miles on a tank. I wonder how many drive cars like this but are worried about 'range anxiety' if they got an electric car?Me:
Daston said:
Heard a good one the other day.
One of the women in the office has just got an MX5 (last shape one). She handed in her travel claim and I over heard her manager saying "Oh look at you with your fancy car" despite the fact said manager has a band new Golf Bluemotion that probably cost 3x the price of the MX5
That's just friendly chat. She was hardly going to say "ooh look at you in your affordable second hand car".One of the women in the office has just got an MX5 (last shape one). She handed in her travel claim and I over heard her manager saying "Oh look at you with your fancy car" despite the fact said manager has a band new Golf Bluemotion that probably cost 3x the price of the MX5
Nanook said:
WaferThinHam said:
I've always taken "nippy" to mean; "Has no sound deadening so makes a racket when you boot it" and "Feels out of control during spirited cornering due to skinny Ling Longs being standard fit".
Nippy means slow.It's the word people use when they know saying 'quick' or 'fast' would be a lie, so they say nippy, to try convince themselves it's not slow.
My wife's Audi is 'nippy'
SteveSteveson said:
Even so I think most people would say "I'm buying an Overfinch", not "I'm buying a Range Rover and taking it to Overfinch". And anyway, I'm reasonable sure you go to them and they sort out the details like buying the base car.
A little bit (admittedly not exactly) the same as the guy on here with the Smart ForFour thing that can only be referred to as a BRABUS as it smothered with BRABUS stickers and has BRABUS wheels.BRABUS I tell you!!
steve51800 said:
Couple of guys in our office who profess to be petrolheads said that if they won the lottery, the first car they would buy would be an over finch. Had to explain that they first had to buy the range rover then send it to overfinch for them to modify/bling/improve/ruin to their tastes. I can't take any automotive conversation seriously with them any more!
about 30 year ago yes, that was true. Now they are just chavved up wker-buses.steve51800 said:
To me, the whole point of an overfinch is that you are getting a bespoke service of your discerning choices tastefully applied to the vehicle of your choice, if they have the vehicles "in stock" then its always going to be a compromise...
A woman I work with used to have Cheryl Cole's old Overfinch. It wasn't all that different to a normal Range Rover of the period other than that it was pretty quick for a big old bus. Surprisingly, it was pretty tasteful as far as these custom jobs go.Rostfritt said:
I have noticed this with newer small cars having really tiny tanks. A mate has a fiesta and it takes about the same amount of fuel and can do barely 200 miles on a tank. I wonder how many drive cars like this but are worried about 'range anxiety' if they got an electric car?
O/T, but "range anxiety" isn't about the range itself, it's about what happens when you get to the end of the range... Which for a petrol car remains a 5 minute fill up versus a multi-hour stop for an electric car or, if you're lucky a small extension to the range from a 30 minute power charge.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff