One Christmas my cousin and I had another cousin believing her turn signal fluid was low because her signals were flashing all wierd, they'd go fast, then slow, then fast again. It turned out to be a bad blinker doodad. We had her going for a good 20-30 minutes before we couldn't keep straight faces anymore. This woman would be a hoot to mess with.
"it turned out to be a bad blinker dodad" My price book lists a blinker dodad at $3,486.00. Boy was she lucky, imagine what would have happened if you hadn't found it. Pay attention girls, "a bad blinker dodad", don't let this happen to you. It's a good thing men have a technical grasp of mechanical things. Frank
I remember this clip from a while ago, the girls dad set it up to teach her a leason about knowing about her car and maintenence, said he could barley keep from busting a gut in the background and ruining the whole gig.
I had a friend that almost bought a new carb for her fuel injected Ford once... I saved her. Now I always have to go with her when she has work done.
When my wife, who is not stupid by the way, takes any of our vehicles for service I tell her what needs done and if they ask her about anything else, she just simply says, "here is my husbands number, call him". You would be amazed how many times that call is never made and the work I specified gets done without anymore "suggestions".
[ QUOTE ] Now that's a*****ing intelligent post. [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] The REAL intelligent post is yet another OCC bashing...
The funny thing is I know guys that could be taken in by this sort of thing. I also have a friend who when she said she wanted a Stang, her daad went out and bought her a '71 Mach 1, not in the nicest of shape and pointed her to the toolbox, she damned near rebuilt the whole thing solo, she's funny in a parts store she knows more about Fords than most all the guys I know...
Women aren't the only idiots, the teenager at Autozone sold me a set of invisible mudflaps last week. He also coerced me into buying some floormat retainers, it turns out they were plain old concrete blocks I coulda gotten free from the dump, I paid $14.99 for a pair. I feel really stupid.
This is pretty funny too (On Topic) http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=V8-Chainsaw evel
thats awsome i want her number so i can make some money.... by the way has anyone seen my******* i lost it at the mall
A few years ago I was out of town and got a very upset call from my wife--Now keep in mind, when we were dating she called me up and said "My car won't shut off--and the key is out of the ignition." I told her that she'd need to pull the fuse, and that it was located in..."Yeah, I know--I tried that already." Wow. Okay. Guess you'll have to choke it out. To do that, you'll need to..."Yeah, pull off the air cleaner box--I went to do that, and the screw holding it together has a thing in it for a socket wrench, and I don't have one small enough." (It was a recess for a 3/8-inch ratchet). Wow. Okay, I'll be right over." The one thing she did wrong was left it in front of the garage door, so it overheated. When I pulled in, she could smell it was hot and said "Oh no, I didn't think to keep driving it--I hope it didn't blow a head gasket!" How the hell do you know about head gaskets?! "My first car was a '73 Camaro--I had to change head gaskets on it once." So, you know, I did the only smart thing and married her. Anyway, she calls real upset and said she had to have her car towed because it wouldn't start, and the shop said it was going to be $847 to get it running. The problem? Plugs, wires, distributor cap, rotor and module for her '87 or whatever year small-block powered Firebird. Naturally, I went through the roof. When I got home, I went to the shop, and spoke with the manager. He blows me off, and says "we know what we're doing. We weren't trying to take advantage of her." Said it's mostly labor, because it's real difficult to get to those parts and replace them. I explained to him that there's NO Way in hell those parts and the labor to install them is damn near a grand. Then he gets*****y and asks if I know anything about cars. "well, I don't want to sound like a know-it-all****, but I'm a technical editor for a car magazine, so yeah, I know about cars." I usually don't like to puff my chest up about my job, but this guy was asking for it. Then he looks at me and asks what kind of magazine. Pulled out a business card (Mopars), and said "And I've got a '56 and '57 Chevy at home." And the*****er looked me right in the eye and said "How much do YOU actually work on them?" Give me her car NOW, and get your general manager on the phone right now. And HIS boss, too. And I'm not leaving here until I have her car keys, the written estimate, your name and the name of the mechanic working on the car. Two years later, with a new manager there (I don't pretend I had anything to do with that) her mom has the trans fluid changed in her car, gets home and it's puking everywhere. I took it to another shop to cover my tracks, and they said the trans had been filled with MORE THAN TWICE the proper amount of fluid. I went to the Firestone shop and raised holey hell. That manager looks at me and says "well, it's probably a broken line--the car is pretty old." I cut to the chase, told him I know my way around a car, took it to another shop and got a written document with their opinion of what was wrong, and said I suspected they were trying to*****er an old lady into having to replace a transmission by ruining her old one (the car was a '74). He said his shop certainly wouldn't do that, but after looking into it, it did appear the fluid was too full. He said, I***** you not, "Did she maybe add more fluid to it?" Buddy, she's 63 years old and wouldn't know where to add transmission fluid if her life depended on it. And why the hell would she think she needed to add fluid to it after YOU just changed it?! Well, does she have a gentleman friend who could have added fluid to it? Give me your manager's name, and his boss's name... Repair shops definately take advantage of women. And here's a fact, too--with the amount of single moms today, their boys are getting put in sports and scouts and such because that's what a boy should be in (thinks the mom), but the kids today aren't getting ANY education on things like home repair, car maintainance, etc. Year One runs a program with the local highschool, and they're stunned by how many boys have no idea about how to check oil, change the oil, check belts, plugs or even change a tire. My younger brother (27) says most of his friends have no idea how to do stuff like that. Or even run stereo wires in the house, etc. So at least it's going to be equal opportunity screwing. Sad. -Brad
Way to many people over look the Halogen headlite fluid, especially women. That can be very dangerous.
I've made it a point to train my wife in basic car stuff as I go along. Not any kind of in-depth stuff like how to pull an engine or anything. Just how to recognize what might be going wrong with a car -- what burning oil smells like versus burning friction material, what different colors of smoke mean, what a car feels like when a tire is quickly losing air etc. etc. She's learned a lot, and has a pretty good sense of what's going on with a car. Granted, not all girls are as eager to learn stuff as my wife is. And a lot of guys don't blab like I do. Worth a shot though. Maybe the lesson is that our women are only as dumb as we "experts" let them be. Dave
You ought to feel stupid. I mean, DUH, he sold you a cruise control and you thought it was a floor mat retainer???
Alright smartass, it's the round cylindrical multipronged electronic device that fits into the corresponding plugs at or near the fusebox, which when plugged in properly causes the turn signals to go "blinky blinky flashy flashy." And yes, that's the technical term, I learnt it from my mechanic friend. So nyah!
This is cool, but don't try to download unless you have a fast computer! (it's a large file) http://www.badchickens.com/movies/WomenDrivers.mpg -slacker
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned how dangerous it can be to mix the halogen lighting fluid with the regular lighting fluid. Even if it doesn't explode or catch fire it can seriously damage the lighting system! You have been warned.
My beater 88 Acura had a problem stalling, I suspected a new set of wires, but I needed to go back to school so I left the car home for the week. Good ol mom thought it would be nice to take it to the shop and have it fixed for me since she knows how much I hate working on that car. It was a bad set of wires, and the guy charged her 320 dollars to put them in. She's not allowed to take a car to the shop anymore unless I can't fix it. The shop is B&W Auto in Metuchen, NJ. I hope karma get's his****
That's awesome Brad. My wife doesn't even know what her own car looks like. She's constantly trying to get into the wrong cars in parking lots. She doesn't even check to see that it has the right number of doors first.
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