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I am glad that I am not the only person to have had conversations with a truck.
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I used to get in arguments with my Prostar.
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I have a Chevy Silverado, 250,000 on it. We talk all the time. Recently it decided to shed its skin. White paint job, poor primer. It's sort of like a slow motion strip tease. Oh well I'm gonna drive it until it just can't go another inch.
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Funny. All but one of my cars had standard transmissions and I thought they were cheap. None of them ever presumed to tell me when to shift -- you just knew, from speed, grade, and engine sound. My '05 PT Cruiser has a stick, too, but it's the first car with a tach -- not that I need a tach for shifting guidance, but it's handy to confirm that I'm really in 5th.
A light or tone telling me to shift would become so irritating so quickly that I'd remove the bulb or even snip the wire.
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I'm with you Yale, I would "disable" that very quickly! Just thinking though with most cars in the US being auto the manufacturer was covering their butt for when the, erm, not so bright driver blew the engine due to sitting in first the whole drive?
I used to drive a 1981 Toyota Corolla, you could drive it through a brick wall and only scratch the paint we used to chat regularly about the vacuum assist on the carb
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King kia
I have a KIA Sedona Minivan .Minivan ? It holds a whole lot more than people . When I tell it to shut up it does .
When I tell it to behave itself on a rainy day it does . What it doesn't do is keep me cool in these TEXAS summers . Readout always says replace compressor ! Um,let's see , that would be number four ! I still reach for a shifter even though I've owned it for six years .My last truck ( a four wheel drive , diesel pickup , had a standard ) It liked to let little bells ring when it didn't like what I was doing . I still hate bells ! Best of all it likes to surprise my when the windows close automatically .( You didn't really want that open now did you ?) |
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Female imperative
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A while back now I used to run an XJ6 (XJ40) Jaguar, which had a wee computer in it that did a component check on first start up. I was rather glad that it would allow me to ignore it and drive on though. From day one it would report "Bulb Blown", but unhelpfully it didn't say which one.
I drove it for a year or two, and never did find the blown bulb, but as the fault display screen was only 3" x 4", guess where I used to park my fag packet? PS: I talk to all my cars. Not only to criticize them though. I find praise and gentle words of encouragement are often returned with surprising reliability. Did I mention that most of my cars are at least 20 years old. Often over 50. I also have some very interesting discussions with Joanna Lumley ... the voice of my Sat Nav.
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In the same line, a very macabre true story:
A workmate of mine was a nurse before she changed to working with handicapped children. One late evening she incidentally happened to come across the site of a horrid road accident: A little Peugeot had turned over at high speed, too many young people in there, some had no seat belts and probably broken their neck with very dire consequences. O.K., so she rang up the emergency doctors with her cellular phone and did the best she could until more help arrived. Suddenly she realized what song was playing on the radio which miraculously still was working: "Knocking on heavenīs door" by Guns and Roses. ...!
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