Oh, I thought you were talking about awkward moments in car groups in service lol
boy, do I have a ton of THOSE...but that's a whole other thread...
Awkward car situations.
by greendawn 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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My last car was a Volvo POS. The last owner drove it like he hated it, and I'm no mechanic, so it had lots of problems. It started stalling out on me while driving down the road, quite frequently. At first, I'd pull onto the shoulder, restart it, and continue on. Then I realized that I could just keep coasting, drop it into neutral, and restart while still rolling. It became second nature, and I used to do it all the time at 65 MPH.
The car before that (a '79 Volvo) had no heater or defroster. I live in Maine, where it's a bit chilly at times, and I had to drive 40 minutes into work at night. I steered with one hand, scraped frost off the windshield with the other. By the time I got to work, my butt was frozen solid and I could barely speak, my lips were so numb.
That same car leaked exhaust fumes into the interior and almost killed my boo and I after a nice date.
The car before that, some chick crashed into and destroyed. I was in it at the time, but obviously I survived! Scary experience, though.
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greendawn
I'll give one minor car problem: once as I was travelling in the night on vacation in Southern France, the head (major) lights stopped working. The coastal road was narrow and twisted and the small lights weren't much use but because the hotel was only about ten miles away I decided to carry on.
Fortunately no police saw us, in France they can be quite harsh for such safety violations and we reached the hotel just fine. Next day a car electrician changed some worn out wires.