Stupid things non petrolheads say....
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karma mechanic said:
Our drive is shared with the people next door, the wide part of it has enough room for two or three cars outside each of the two houses. Unfortunately next door often has visitors who end up doing 39-point turns on their side, sometimes involving tangles with gate posts and/or hedges. Eventually I was told that their visitors always got flustered when leaving because 'they are scared of hitting one of your expensive cars'.
One was a 6-year-old Mito, the other was a 9-year-old Subaru, neither of them being at all shiny due to unforgivable laziness.
Next door have a newish Honda Jazz.
shared driveway? Sounds like fuel for perpetual british-style akwardness!One was a 6-year-old Mito, the other was a 9-year-old Subaru, neither of them being at all shiny due to unforgivable laziness.
Next door have a newish Honda Jazz.
I'm forever having idiots say
'You've got some money' or 'they must be paying you too much'
Simply for driving some of the fairly old cars I've had over the last few years, the most recent being a 7 year old alfa Romeo.
Get it all the time from the neighbours or people at work - especially as i recently bought a second car ready for when my mrs passes her test. Both of them combined are worth significantly less than most of these peoples brand new fords, VW's, Nissan Puke's etc.
Nothing annoys me more!
I also get critisism for changing cars too often.... Who cares, I like cars! I could spend all my money down the pub like most of these people, but cars and holidays are what I enjoy. Still, this makes me rich apparently
'You've got some money' or 'they must be paying you too much'
Simply for driving some of the fairly old cars I've had over the last few years, the most recent being a 7 year old alfa Romeo.
Get it all the time from the neighbours or people at work - especially as i recently bought a second car ready for when my mrs passes her test. Both of them combined are worth significantly less than most of these peoples brand new fords, VW's, Nissan Puke's etc.
Nothing annoys me more!
I also get critisism for changing cars too often.... Who cares, I like cars! I could spend all my money down the pub like most of these people, but cars and holidays are what I enjoy. Still, this makes me rich apparently
karma mechanic said:
Our drive is shared with the people next door, the wide part of it has enough room for two or three cars outside each of the two houses. Unfortunately next door often has visitors who end up doing 39-point turns on their side, sometimes involving tangles with gate posts and/or hedges. Eventually I was told that their visitors always got flustered when leaving because 'they are scared of hitting one of your expensive cars'.
One was a 6-year-old Mito, the other was a 9-year-old Subaru, neither of them being at all shiny due to unforgivable laziness.
Next door have a newish Honda Jazz.
On the flipside, at least your neighbours and their visitors care about your cars!One was a 6-year-old Mito, the other was a 9-year-old Subaru, neither of them being at all shiny due to unforgivable laziness.
Next door have a newish Honda Jazz.
xRIEx said:
XJ8s too, if switched off before the engine has started to get warm.
Mine did this recently. After going off to a dodgy garage, they managed to run the battery down and the car cut out as I tried to start it. Fuel had been injected but the spark cut out and left it flooded. It's a well known fact of life in XJ8 ownership, that you don't switch it on for less than a minute at a time! Easily cured though, by restarting and getting a few revs on.Ghost91 said:
I'm forever having idiots say
'You've got some money' or 'they must be paying you too much'
Simply for driving some of the fairly old cars I've had over the last few years, the most recent being a 7 year old alfa Romeo.
Get it all the time from the neighbours or people at work - especially as i recently bought a second car ready for when my mrs passes her test. Both of them combined are worth significantly less than most of these peoples brand new fords, VW's, Nissan Puke's etc.
Nothing annoys me more!
I also get critisism for changing cars too often.... Who cares, I like cars! I could spend all my money down the pub like most of these people, but cars and holidays are what I enjoy. Still, this makes me rich apparently
Yep I currently have 3 cars and a motorbike on the road (plus 1 for sale and a project) grand purchase total is around £10k but as one is a Range Rover and another is an MX-5 I have apparently got loadsa money.'You've got some money' or 'they must be paying you too much'
Simply for driving some of the fairly old cars I've had over the last few years, the most recent being a 7 year old alfa Romeo.
Get it all the time from the neighbours or people at work - especially as i recently bought a second car ready for when my mrs passes her test. Both of them combined are worth significantly less than most of these peoples brand new fords, VW's, Nissan Puke's etc.
Nothing annoys me more!
I also get critisism for changing cars too often.... Who cares, I like cars! I could spend all my money down the pub like most of these people, but cars and holidays are what I enjoy. Still, this makes me rich apparently
Stupid things non petrolheads do
My mum's car was low on oil (engine management light had come on the night before so she checked it), she told me this at 630am when I had only got to bed at 4am. I dutifully go to the shed and get a bottle of fresh oil for her to top it up with... She still took my MX-5 to work as it apparently also needed coolant (I had gone back to bed as soon as I handed her the oil)
Later on I went out to top up the coolant and checked the oil again... She had used ALL of the oil in the bottle and the oil was 6" above the full mark because "She panicked"
. I ended up having to drop the lot out and start again. Which led to me find the oil was not right... Put some of the oil back in and fired it up. I think I worked out why it was losing fluid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x__igkG3rx8jogger1976 said:
My neighbour's son is modding up a Supra twin turbo, circa 350bhp and about 14psi on boost.
He's pretty clued up, but his mates are muppets. Overheard one of them today saying " Na mate you don't need an intercooler, just uprate the fan"
Get him on here then, he'll love it He's pretty clued up, but his mates are muppets. Overheard one of them today saying " Na mate you don't need an intercooler, just uprate the fan"
My gf said to me yesterday, I quite like Astra's now, I asked why and she said well they've become a family car so I again asked her what she meant and apparently they used to be sports cars and now they are family cars. I then said that they have always been family cars but she responded by telling me that young lads used to always drive them so they must've been sports cars before.
She then didn't like the fact I was pointing out that she was completely wrong but they do a sporty hot hatch version of it.
She then didn't like the fact I was pointing out that she was completely wrong but they do a sporty hot hatch version of it.
98elise said:
marshalla said:
john2443 said:
you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.
As long as everything is working properly...I didn't believe it and simply forgot it....until the first time I caused it by running the car for a few seconds. I had to leave the car for a while before it would start again, and when it did it gradually caught rather than just firing up like normal.
Mercury00 said:
98elise said:
marshalla said:
john2443 said:
you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.
As long as everything is working properly...I didn't believe it and simply forgot it....until the first time I caused it by running the car for a few seconds. I had to leave the car for a while before it would start again, and when it did it gradually caught rather than just firing up like normal.
This 'flooding' effect on injected engines seems quite common; the old man had a Merc C180 W202 which did the same, if you started the engine from cold and stopped it before the warm up/choke cycle had completed and the idle revs dropped it needed to either be left for an hour or cranked repeatedly with your foot down until it coughed and spluttered into life.
Last night a Facebook friend posted a picture onto her wall of her instrument panel (ooh-er!). A yellow warning light was on, a picture of a deflated tyre and an exclamation mark "Anyone know what the hell this light means?". One commenter suggested it's a low fuel warning light, despite clearly being a picture of a tyre and the trip computer is also visible in the shot, showing 119 miles range. Eventually, after 70+ comments she was enlightened. The icing on the cake was the last comment "check your front tyres hon, very rare it's the rears" errrr, what?
Edited by Track Rod on Wednesday 23 September 14:44
Track Rod said:
Last night a Facebook friend posted a picture onto her wall of her instrument panel (ooh-er!). A yellow warning light was on, a picture of a deflated tyre and an exclamation mark "Anyone know what the hell this light means?". One commenter suggested it's a low fuel warning light, despite clearly being a picture of a tyre and the trip computer is also visible in the shot, showing 119 miles range. Eventually, after 70+ comments she was enlightened. The icing on the cake was the last comment "check your front tyres hon, very rare it's the rears" errrr, what?
Funnily enough some time ago I reasoned that front tyres were more likely to get punctures as 90% of the time the rears just 'follow the fronts around' thus meaning that any issue would present itself to the fronts first and they would be the casualty. By the same rationale I reasoned that the NSF tyre was most at risk as that was the one the would encounter any debris from the gutter etc.Edited by Track Rod on Wednesday 23 September 14:44
That was 20 years ago and long since dispelled.
Just last week I found yet another puncture in one of my tyres. Like the other two (in 24 months) before it - a rear tyre....
That said I'm betting its because of countless trips to the tip where you reverse into the tyre death zone that is the unloading bays - so maybe I wasn't all wrong...
paolow said:
Just last week I found yet another puncture in one of my tyres. Like the other two (in 24 months) before it - a rear tyre....
That said I'm betting its because of countless trips to the tip where you reverse into the tyre death zone that is the unloading bays - so maybe I wasn't all wrong...
One interesting theory I heard was that when the front tyre goes over a nail the nail is generally lying flat, but the tyre levers the nail up so the rear tyre hits the spike.That said I'm betting its because of countless trips to the tip where you reverse into the tyre death zone that is the unloading bays - so maybe I wasn't all wrong...
Cliftonite said:
Dr Jekyll said:
One interesting theory I heard was that when the front tyre goes over a nail the nail is generally lying flat, but the tyre levers the nail up so the rear tyre hits the spike.
I am aware of this theory, too. I have not had many punctures but all have been rear tyres.It could be argued that I have a bit more control over my front wheel so can avoid obstacles better but the rear wheel is trailing over debris and/or the tracks don't overlap when going anything but in a straight line but meh!
The last car puncture I had was on my 4x4 on the front OS tyre.
I think it's luck.
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