RE: Colour Coded Cars
Tuesday 29th October 2002
Colour Coded Cars
Will it influence your purchasing?
Discussion
dennisthemenace said: Speaking of colour coding i remember my dads granada , everything washer oil cap etc was yellow to help numpties find the various caps dipstick etc so they could do basic maintenance , still didnt stop my old dear from filling the washer bottle with oil
Could have been worse - without the colour coding you could spend hours trying to unscrew an engine-mount to top up the oil.
What about blobby-headlight stickers, or wardrobe aerodynamics stickers, or stickers warning that the car is actually taller than it is wide, or even a 'danger- catastrophic depreciation' sticker. Or then again, why dont the anti-car gestapo let people who know what they're on about make their own fcuking minds up?
Consumers are already familiar with the EU energy label used for domestic white goods
are we ?
Well having just bought a fridge freezer, I am actually
Did I pay the slightest bit of attention to it?
Did I bollox!
(In the end I bought a cat. 'C' one)
The only thing the sticker did was create more rubbish (stickers hardley recyclable - can't even spell the word
)
FunkyNige said:
Both labels will be based on the carbon dioxide emission bands that form the basis of the new graduated Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) bands.
What about diesels? Are there no labels for the amount of carsonogenic particulates?
Or labels on the petrol fuel pumps for carsonogenic fumes?
I've noticed that excess coffee can cause bad breath so that's another forest load of labels required.
Oh god. The government have succeeded in turning the car from something we love and cherish into disposable white goods -'box that goes from a to b' (as described by numpties + soaps) Maybe Corollas, Astras etc will now break down just after their warranties expire and everyone will refuse to fix them. I've had similar problems with Hi-Fi equipment.What they don't seem to realise is that it actually consumes more energy producing and recycling a car than the car will ever use in it's normal operational lifetime.
Design life for most cars is ten years/100000miles. with more engineering effort this could be seriously extended (look at the quality of some of the German/Japanese products).
Why recycle when you can repair? I went to an IMechE lecture on the Elise a few years back. One of the questions that can up was how long the aluminium chassis would last and he answered that he didn't know - they'd put it through the accelerated ten year durability test and it hadn't aged at all. This is the sort of thing we need - functional parts that last forever and bodywork that can be changed to follow fashion so people don't mind driving a "non-new" car.
Comedy moment was when a hippy in the audience started asking why there was only space for two people and why luggae capacity was so bad, to which the guy from Lotus kept replying "because it's a toy".
Why recycle when you can repair? I went to an IMechE lecture on the Elise a few years back. One of the questions that can up was how long the aluminium chassis would last and he answered that he didn't know - they'd put it through the accelerated ten year durability test and it hadn't aged at all. This is the sort of thing we need - functional parts that last forever and bodywork that can be changed to follow fashion so people don't mind driving a "non-new" car.
Comedy moment was when a hippy in the audience started asking why there was only space for two people and why luggae capacity was so bad, to which the guy from Lotus kept replying "because it's a toy".
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