Stupid things non petrolheads say....

[LOW4LYFE]

People who refer to the main crease/belt line of a car as the "swage line".

I'm a pedant, I know.

[Cyder]

How embarrassing, I only work in the industry designing the damned things and 'swage line' is what I've always known it as.
Please enlighten me what it should be? Or is one of us due a massive parrot in the post?

[LOW4LYFE]

Originally a swage line was a term from way back when, when cars had a wooden frame and the main cabin was made from two large pieces- the top and the bottom. The resulting line where the two met is a swage line- it was not a styling feature, it was a feature of how the car was built.

You are welcome.

[marshalla]

LOW4LYFE said:

Originally a swage line was a term from way back when, when cars had a wooden frame and the main cabin was made from two large pieces- the top and the bottom. The resulting line where the two met is a swage line- it was not a styling feature, it was a feature of how the car was built.

You are welcome.

Are we allowed to use the term when talking about Lotus Elite, Eclat, Excel and Esprit ?

[Cyder]

LOW4LYFE said:

Originally a swage line was a term from way back when, when cars had a wooden frame and the main cabin was made from two large pieces- the top and the bottom. The resulting line where the two met is a swage line- it was not a styling feature, it was a feature of how the car was built.

You are welcome.

Thanks, information noted, I'll inform my colleagues in the rest of the industry to stop using it immediately.

[But 2jz]

Im duly wating for idiots to say how they bought a Chevrolet Aveo because they wanted something "American".

[Mound Dawg]

But 2jz said:

Im duly wating for idiots to say how they bought a Chevrolet Aveo because they wanted something "American".

Used to get people wandering into the dealership I worked in trying to book a Tacuma in for service.

No mate you want the Daewoo place down the road.

No I don't it's a CHEVROLET.

(Pointing at huge sign above my head) And we're a CHRYSLER dealer.

[LOW4LYFE]

marshalla said:

Are we allowed to use the term when talking about Lotus Elite, Eclat, Excel and Esprit ?

I suspect you already know the answer to that.

Cyder said:

Thanks, information noted, I'll inform my colleagues in the rest of the industry to stop using it immediately.

This is what I get for trying to educate the unwashed masses.

[But 2jz]

Mound Dawg said:

But 2jz said:

Im duly wating for idiots to say how they bought a Chevrolet Aveo because they wanted something "American".

Used to get people wandering into the dealership I worked in trying to book a Tacuma in for service.

No mate you want the Daewoo place down the road.

No I don't it's a CHEVROLET.

(Pointing at huge sign above my head) And we're a CHRYSLER dealer.

Oh god those Tacumas were a pile of dog st.
Dumbasses.

[Cyder]

LOW4LYFE said:

Cyder said:

Thanks, information noted, I'll inform my colleagues in the rest of the industry to stop using it immediately.

This is what I get for trying to educate the unwashed masses.

Quite right, you know more than the entire motor industry and are the correct one.
The term may have originated in that way but is now common parlance for that particular feature of the car so it's hardly 'non petrol heads' who use the term is it?

[marshalla]

LOW4LYFE said:

marshalla said:

Are we allowed to use the term when talking about Lotus Elite, Eclat, Excel and Esprit ?

I suspect you already know the answer to that.

I have an opinion, but I'd like to hear yours.

[smithyithy]

"My car''s noticeably quicker since filling up with Shell high octane.."

[a7x88]

Mine is..... Probably as its been mapped to run on it and it knocks on standard fuel though...

[smithyithy]

I felt the difference in my old imported Glanza as that was mapped for higher octane in Japan.

But a 1.6 petrol Hyundai - probably not so much

[FIREBIRDC9]

Person - So , What car do you drive?

Me - A Toyota MR2 MkII

Person - Ah cool , People turn those into Ferraris , you should do the same

Me - Why would i do that?

Person - Because then you would have a Ferrari..... DUH

Me - ...........

[Zombie]

"you must spend all your time money fixing your Alfa"

[mikal83]

Zombie said:

"you must spend all your time money fixing your Alfa"

Well maybe not all your time.....

[smithyithy]

More nonsense from my work as people are discussing their company / hire cars..

Regarding a nearly new Golf 1.6tdi - 'it's literally screaming at 60 .. just not made for motorway driving..'

Regarding a new Vauxhall Mokka - 'about 30mpg on a run .. no chance of anything near 40 to the gallon ... have to pull away in 2nd and get into 5th as quickly as possible ... had 95 (mph) out of it..'

[john2443]

Difficult to know if this should be posted here or in the Classic from the Mrs thread, but we were talking about topping up the radiator and she said 'Do you have to put water in somewhere else, I thought it was just in the washer bottle*'

She's been driving since 1980 and has never owned a Beetle. I despair, even our 20 yr old daughter who's been driving a couple of years looked at me and shook her head.

• She thinks her car has a magic washer bottle that never runs out, she doesn't notice that when I fill mine up, I do hers as well.

[colonel c]

At the filling station today. While refuelling the RX8.

Guy walks over: That's a rotary engine in there is it?
Me: (slightly warming to the subject) Yes it is.
Guy: They drink a lot of petrol don't they.
Me (slightly cooling to the subject) yes they do tend to use a quite a bit.
Guy: A chap up the road from me had one.

I looked away to put the nozzle back on the pump. Turned back and he had walked off again.

What the fk is this obsession non petrolheads have with fuel consumption.