Scary lack of knowledge and responsibility !
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Rovinghawk said:
Sensors have been known to fail. I like to occasionally check for myself.
Neither car even has a dipstick, there's an oil level gauge hidden the menus somewhere! Also it's handy that the warning lights distinguish between yellow for "do something" and red for imminent disaster. This kind of thing isn't just limited to women and the youth of today.
My whole family haven't got a clue about how their cars work 'Gary will fix it' is usually their response.
I've an older brother who has never once opened his own bonnet or inflated tyres, he just about manages to refuel it.
I must have saved them literally £1000's worth of maintenance costs over the years, only time their cars ever see a professional garage is for an MOT.
The worst part is, they all own Fiats, so I'm usually a fairly busy DIY mechanic.
My whole family haven't got a clue about how their cars work 'Gary will fix it' is usually their response.
I've an older brother who has never once opened his own bonnet or inflated tyres, he just about manages to refuel it.
I must have saved them literally £1000's worth of maintenance costs over the years, only time their cars ever see a professional garage is for an MOT.
The worst part is, they all own Fiats, so I'm usually a fairly busy DIY mechanic.
My brother is a practical guy, quantity surveyor, just re-decorated his house etc- but he didn’t even open the bonnet of his car for 20k miles. This wasn’t some brand new warrantied long-life service schedule car either, it was a 9 year old small hatch which unfortunately for him happened to be long overdue a cambelt.
Of course when the inevitable happened my brother and his equally oblivious fiancé talked about this as if it was ‘the car’s fault’.
My Dad had a second hand engine put in it and £500 lighter they were motoring again. I encouragingly remarked that the car should be good for another 12k miles or so. They were flabbergasted- why would a car they’ve just spent £500 quid on need attention after only 12k miles?
They’ve both been motoring for over a decade apparently completely unaware that cars need maintenance.
When my brother was leaving the country and needed to sell the car, and a friend of mine was looking for a cheap car, I matched them up. Yes, the car had been horribly neglected in its recent past, but it did drive okay and if it were cheap enough…
My brother wanted £2k for it. “It was £3k two years ago”… The fact he had raped it into the ground apparently didn’t enter into it.
Of course when the inevitable happened my brother and his equally oblivious fiancé talked about this as if it was ‘the car’s fault’.
My Dad had a second hand engine put in it and £500 lighter they were motoring again. I encouragingly remarked that the car should be good for another 12k miles or so. They were flabbergasted- why would a car they’ve just spent £500 quid on need attention after only 12k miles?
They’ve both been motoring for over a decade apparently completely unaware that cars need maintenance.
When my brother was leaving the country and needed to sell the car, and a friend of mine was looking for a cheap car, I matched them up. Yes, the car had been horribly neglected in its recent past, but it did drive okay and if it were cheap enough…
My brother wanted £2k for it. “It was £3k two years ago”… The fact he had raped it into the ground apparently didn’t enter into it.
Rovinghawk said:
duckers26 said:
I don't think that much physical checking is really needed now as there is a warning light for all the important things including low tyre and oil that come on way before an actual problem has occurred.
Sensors have been known to fail. I like to occasionally check for myself.You can't blame some people though, I mean, BMW & Audi binning dipsticks!! Smacks of how dare you check your own car, trust our infallible warning system.
SturdyHSV said:
J4CKO said:
I am all for equality, but it is a two way street.
That's hilarious, do you have any upcoming gigs where I could pay to see more of this humour?
I know it should be a two way street, and it just perpetuates the problem to joke otherwise, but come now, men are the chimpish oafs at the butt of marketing jokes, that is our place. To be the simple minded moron who tries so hard but always gets it wrong, because we're just men, like Homer Simpson.
Now back to your lager and football, you childish oaf, and don't forget to carry all the shopping in at once and treat that as a huge victory because you're a blithering simpleton, whilst your good lady diversifies her investment portfolio on her iPad and rolls her eyes at you
Chris Hemsworth in the new Ghostbusters is a case in point, I am not going to be a male Germaine Greer or anything and can deal with a bit of stick but its going too far the other way now.
ladies are just as capable as men apart from the whole standing up to pee thing and no we cant produce a baby as a party piece but aside from that and an average difference in ultimate physical strength/height, the rest of it is pretty much evens for capability.
My Mrs once phoned me up to ask what one of the warning lights on my car was as it had come on while she was driving it. After a few attempts at her describing it I realised she meant the tyre pressure light...the one that looks like the carcass of a tyre with a bloody great exclamation mark in the middle.
The handbook was in the glovebox but she hadn't thought to look for that.
It was only some time later that I discovered she'd driven home before calling me, on the assumption that it probably wasn't that important
The handbook was in the glovebox but she hadn't thought to look for that.
It was only some time later that I discovered she'd driven home before calling me, on the assumption that it probably wasn't that important
RizzoTheRat said:
My Mrs once phoned me up to ask what one of the warning lights on my car was as it had come on while she was driving it. After a few attempts at her describing it I realised she meant the tyre pressure light...the one that looks like the carcass of a tyre with a bloody great exclamation mark in the middle.
The handbook was in the glovebox but she hadn't thought to look for that.
It was only some time later that I discovered she'd driven home before calling me, on the assumption that it probably wasn't that important
I think people always assume on Road Wars, Police Camera Action or similar that a car running on its rims with sparks flying off is some kind of absconding criminal trying to escape the long arm of the law, but it may just be the same scenario as you describe The handbook was in the glovebox but she hadn't thought to look for that.
It was only some time later that I discovered she'd driven home before calling me, on the assumption that it probably wasn't that important
Rovinghawk said:
SturdyHSV said:
Washing machine comparison
Most of us know where the powder & laundry go in & whether we should add fabric conditioner. Most of us can deal with a burst hose. Most of us can check whether it's plugged in. Most of us can figure where a fault is & have a decent go at rectifying the straightforward problems. Not even sure where ours is. I know we've got one because I remember buying it.
RizzoTheRat said:
My Mrs once phoned me up to ask what one of the warning lights on my car was as it had come on while she was driving it. After a few attempts at her describing it I realised she meant the tyre pressure light...the one that looks like the carcass of a tyre with a bloody great exclamation mark in the middle.
Well, going by an earlier description of the oil light, I'd have said that could easily be mistaken for a warning that she'd dropped her spoon in the casserole.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
motco said:
... still thinks, despite my pointing out the error of his ways, that the oil warning light coming on means top-up needed.
Isn't that exactly what it means? J4CKO said:
Jesus, I see Feminism is selective and doesn't cover mundane jobs to keep your car roadworthy, she did have a bad accident the other week where she ended up with the car on its roof,
Regarding the accident, she said
"The road was extremely wet when it happened and the police said that it was solely down to the weather conditions"
The absolving of responsibility is what concerns me the most. She rolled a car onto its roof and genuinely doesn't believe she's at all at fault Regarding the accident, she said
"The road was extremely wet when it happened and the police said that it was solely down to the weather conditions"
In person, I've upset quite a few people over the years by telling them that something is their fault while they figuratively poke their fingers in their ears and shout la la la.
silverfoxcc said:
Oh FFS they walk and more worrying, drive among us.
I hope you were joking when you posted that s you left off the winky smiley face!
If not. get a bus pass, you sir are a danger on the road
Don't be a sanctimonious prick. I hope you were joking when you posted that s you left off the winky smiley face!
If not. get a bus pass, you sir are a danger on the road
As others have observed, it clearly doesn't mean crack on as normal, but it does mean you've got to put some oil in the bloody thing.
eldar said:
AH33 said:
The actual act of driving is about 5th or 6th in the list of priorities of the average woman driver. They don't care about it, why should they pay attention?
Not restricted to women drivers. Some men are equally deficient.StottyEvo said:
J4CKO said:
Jesus, I see Feminism is selective and doesn't cover mundane jobs to keep your car roadworthy, she did have a bad accident the other week where she ended up with the car on its roof,
Regarding the accident, she said
"The road was extremely wet when it happened and the police said that it was solely down to the weather conditions"
The absolving of responsibility is what concerns me the most. She rolled a car onto its roof and genuinely doesn't believe she's at all at fault Regarding the accident, she said
"The road was extremely wet when it happened and the police said that it was solely down to the weather conditions"
In person, I've upset quite a few people over the years by telling them that something is their fault while they figuratively poke their fingers in their ears and shout la la la.
she is now a Police Officer herself !I reversed into the neighbours car some years ago, it was my fault, I wanst looking properly, mitigated by privacy glass, a black car parked against a dark green hedge but at the end of the day my fault entirely for not looking properly.
If you leave the road, with no other cars involved and no extreme circumstances (mechanical failure, sheep etc) its your driving.
RizzoTheRat said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Not even sure where ours is. I know we've got one because I remember buying it.
I remember when I was at school being round a mates house when his mother was ill, and it turned out his father didn't even know where to find a knife and fork in the kitchen So, in the interests of self-learning and all of that, how does one go about learning how to do bits and pieces around the car?
I'm a big fan of driving and cars, but outside of topping up of various fluids, checking tyre depth, the real basic-of-the-basics, I couldnt tell you how or what to do to sort brakes, or diagnose a fault or ...
How does a beginner (mechanically speaking if not shown in age!) start to learn how to do more without f*cking it all up?
Don't shoot me!!
I'm a big fan of driving and cars, but outside of topping up of various fluids, checking tyre depth, the real basic-of-the-basics, I couldnt tell you how or what to do to sort brakes, or diagnose a fault or ...
How does a beginner (mechanically speaking if not shown in age!) start to learn how to do more without f*cking it all up?
Don't shoot me!!
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