My 13yo cousin locked herself in the car and broke all the door handles trying to get out, after breaking one you would think she may have noticed the window winder, or the lock button.
i had a alarm put in my vl, drove it to a mates house, and went to start it, it wouldnt start, couldnt figure it out, called racq, took him 3 seconds to press the button to turn the alarm off, some silly idiot, (me) forgot all about the imobaliser lesson learnt that day for sure.
Too right mate, so many bloke try and big note their driving skills to prove something, while the chicks just get the job done. I let my missus drive my car with no issues. For every day driving she is every bit as capable of getting from A to B as I am. Only place she lacks a bit is windy mountain roads and driving a manual, but she wasn't taught this properly as an L plater many years ago whereas I was
in a vr that we wrecked,we had just taken the motor and gearbox out. i then told my mum to put the gearstick in reverse so we could then push the car back from where the motor and gearbox was removed. she did it and when we had finished moving it,she then proceeded to put it back in park...
My gf has a forklift ticket and a dump truck license but said driving my supra would be hard plus she giggled at the bov first time I drive her in it. Told me it was cute -.-
The day I picked up my VE the little lady & I were driving it home. She was in the front passenger seat, took her shoes off and put her feet up on the dash above the glove box (as women tend to do). I said "I'm not going to tell you what you're doing wrong, but if you don't rectify the situation within 3 seconds you'll be walking from Bankstown to Petersham". Feet down, shoes straight back on... --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-33.850551,151.155161
My mate heard a crash outside his house (This is going back a few years when we were still in school) and he went outside to see a woman in her car, blood all over her face, screaming & smashed head on into a tree. After helping/ringing the ambulance & all that Jazz, witnesses reported her driving up the road, dog running infront of the car, so she puts her hands up to her face, eyes closed, and the car runs into the tree. Wouldn't you think to just brake? It was up hill & she still managed to crash that hard into a tree. Whether she was ok in the end of not, I have no idea, my mate never heard anything back, neither did his neighbours etc.
Oil Pressure Warning Light! I once taught my wife to keep an eye on warning lights, and stop the car if any came on. The only rider was the oil pressure warning light, which I said might come on occasionally at idle RPM, but it would be OK if it went out when the engine was rev'ed. I went OS for a number of weeks to return to the following scenario: She told me that the oil pressure light came on, but if she kept high RPM it went out. Imagine the situation. Here was a long stroke engine (for low down torque in those distant days) that needed ever increasing RPM to keep the oil warning light off. When that no longer worked, turning the engine off for a while gave another few miles before even redline couldn't keep the oil light out. Imagine driving the car to the shops at 5,000 RPM in first when cold. Well she did this for a number of weeks. It was no surpise that the engine had started to use oil. Problem ended up being a small hole in the oil pressure switch diaphram. Increasing RPM and thus oil pressure would turn the light out, but the pressure would slowly equalise and the light would come back on. New pressure switch fixed the indication problem, but that poor old engine was never the same.
Really? I do it all the time when my ex is driving and he hates it and gets up me for it... even in my own car :/
