Leaving the engine running when away from your car...?
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New member, long-time lurker! For my sins, I'm working a few nightshifts at a petrol station at the arse end of Nedsville, Scotland....some very strange sights to be seen but one recent phenomenon's got me mildly bemused!
Pretty much at least once or twice a shift someone'll leave the engine running, and usually driver's door open, stereo blaring and lights on, while ambling in for overpriced cigarettes and nasty energy drinks...usually while there's other cars on the forecourt and other chavs and chavettes milling around. Anything from boy racer-mobiles to mumwagons to expensive BMWs. They're doing it deliberately, and out of line-of-sight most of the time they're in the shop...I've even had to argue for ten minutes with a PBCD-type that he had to turn the engine off while filling up – you'd think I'd asked him to defenestrate a kitten!
Any wiser PH-ers able to shed some light? Is this now a fashionable 'thing' like hand on the wheel at 11'o'clock, or alternating foglights?
Pretty much at least once or twice a shift someone'll leave the engine running, and usually driver's door open, stereo blaring and lights on, while ambling in for overpriced cigarettes and nasty energy drinks...usually while there's other cars on the forecourt and other chavs and chavettes milling around. Anything from boy racer-mobiles to mumwagons to expensive BMWs. They're doing it deliberately, and out of line-of-sight most of the time they're in the shop...I've even had to argue for ten minutes with a PBCD-type that he had to turn the engine off while filling up – you'd think I'd asked him to defenestrate a kitten!
Any wiser PH-ers able to shed some light? Is this now a fashionable 'thing' like hand on the wheel at 11'o'clock, or alternating foglights?
KTF said:
What is this fad that has passed me buy?
Wiring your front foglights so that they only come on when you turn - left one on when you turn left, etc. First few times I told them their lights were faulty in case they didn't know...turns out it's intentional! Might just be confined to Fife hillbillies...RobinBanks said:
Yeah, a lot of cars have it. It's quite useful in the countryside where there's no lighting and you're searching for openings etc in hedges.
I wouldn't imagine many 1999 Clios or whatever came from the factory with it though
First day as a PH poster and I learn something new! I wouldn't imagine many 1999 Clios or whatever came from the factory with it though
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