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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Waspy on 12 March 2015, 18:17
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And I don't even mean the complicated stuff. I am constantly staggered by how little most people know about their cars. And I'm far from an expert. Sat in my office listening to someone explain how:
1) If your car judders when performing an emergency stop, it means you DONT have ABS/it's turned off/broken
2) If you pull the handbrake when driving it might snap (snap what!? Are you the hulk?)
3) The reason you skid when pulling the handbrake is because your rear wheels want to overtake the front, because the front brakes jam on when you pull the handbrake and the rear wheels keep going.
4) One of them then asked if you pull the handbrake to perform an emergency stop (did you do a test?!?!)
5) It was then concluded that emergency stops are stupid, and nobody should ever do one, not even in an emergency.....
I didn't want to say anything because the woman doing the talking terrifies me. It feels like most of this should have been ironed out on the first lesson or two, but apparently not.
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And I don't even mean the complicated stuff. I am constantly staggered by how little most people know about their cars. And I'm far from an expert. Sat in my office listening to someone explain how:
2) If you pull the handbrake when driving it might snap (snap what!? Are you the hulk?)
the cables can snap even when your not driving if you pull the handbrake so she has a valid point
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Indeed, I'm sure she will advise me not to ever use my hand brake for fear of snapping it.
I'm gunna go get some caravan chocks, be right back. :grin:
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I think my tracking is out...
Why?
Because one of my tyres is wearing on the edge!
Thom
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One of my FB friends recently blew up an engine because she skipped the major service and the timing belt snapped, and is now wondering why her 70k miles car needs a £1,200 engine.
Come on, man!
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Its the ones that "think" they know about cars that are the worst. You end up just switching off and and nodding a little, whilst trying to find a reason to leave for fear of calling them an utter moron and be deemed a cock.
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One of my FB friends recently blew up an engine because she skipped the major service and the timing belt snapped, and is now wondering why her 70k miles car needs a £1,200 engine.
Come on, man!
some cars don't need a belt change till over a 100k :whistle:
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One of my FB friends recently blew up an engine because she skipped the major service and the timing belt snapped, and is now wondering why her 70k miles car needs a £1,200 engine.
Come on, man!
some cars don't need a belt change till over a 100k :whistle:
Yeah, well I'm not inviting you to my birthday party, so there!
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One of my FB friends recently blew up an engine because she skipped the major service and the timing belt snapped, and is now wondering why her 70k miles car needs a £1,200 engine.
Come on, man!
some cars don't need a belt change till over a 100k :whistle:
Yeah, well I'm not inviting you to my birthday party, so there!
its not a party if your there alone :grin:
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One of my FB friends recently blew up an engine because she skipped the major service and the timing belt snapped, and is now wondering why her 70k miles car needs a £1,200 engine.
Come on, man!
some cars don't need a belt change till over a 100k :whistle:
Yeah, well I'm not inviting you to my birthday party, so there!
its not a party if your there alone :grin:
Clearly you haven't seen my 1 man parties!
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One of my FB friends recently blew up an engine because she skipped the major service and the timing belt snapped, and is now wondering why her 70k miles car needs a £1,200 engine.
Come on, man!
some cars don't need a belt change till over a 100k :whistle:
Yeah, well I'm not inviting you to my birthday party, so there!
its not a party if your there alone :grin:
Clearly you haven't seen my 1 man parties!
is that due to every1 breaking down on route :whistle:
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Mainly because they all killed themselves randomly pulling the handbrake in an attempt to avoid a crash :\
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Mainly because they all killed themselves randomly pulling the handbrake in an attempt to avoid a crash :\
they would probably prefer that than spending another minute with a know it all :grin:
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Mainly because they all killed themselves randomly pulling the handbrake in an attempt to avoid a crash :\
they would probably prefer that than spending another minute with a know it all :grin:
And one less danger driver on the road, I guess that's what they call a win win ayy
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friend told me "my fiesta's quite nippy, zetec kicks in around 3500 revs"
just nodded and gave him a "thats nice pal"
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friend told me "my fiesta's quite nippy, zetec kicks in around 3500 revs"
just nodded and gave him a "thats nice pal"
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friend told me "my fiesta's quite nippy, zetec kicks in around 3500 revs"
just nodded and gave him a "thats nice pal"
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Holy crap thats dumb
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Fiesta..nippy...same sentence?