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re: Can your SO work on her own car?
Posted on 1/20/22 at 4:11 pm to deltaland
Posted on 1/20/22 at 4:11 pm to deltaland
I discovered she learned how to put air in her tire when she had a slow leak in one... I also discovered she was driving with only one headlight for MONTHS. Oh, and one time I was in her car and it was raining and only one windshield wiper was working... it was just a loose bolt on the second arm but she never bothered to tell me or get it fixed. I stopped buying her new cars with the quickness about 15 years ago.
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Posted on 1/20/22 at 4:21 pm to deltaland
My SO once said that her car was making a weird noise. I went out to check and a slightly opened sunroof was the culprit. So there's that.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 4:47 pm to El Segundo Guy
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tinker around
Posted on 1/20/22 at 5:07 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Mine backed my new truck into a tree and then fussed at me for turning the beepy thing off
Mine can't back up for shite.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 11:28 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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She managed to put air in her tire once
Dated a girl in college that said “my car is riding rough”. Go through all sorts of questions, had she hit a curb, etc, nothing. Kept asking and she finally said “well, I put some air in the tires”. How much? Blank stare. First one I checked had 75 psi.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 7:25 am to deltaland
Mine attempted to add blinker fluid. Didn't go well.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 7:59 am to AlxTgr
Thats a hard pass - can put gas in but that took a long time for her to figure out ....
I have given my daughter some basics but that is a struggle too - when I go do some routine things on my vehicles I drag my daughter out so she can do the same - would be easier for me to do it but no lessons learned w/ that strategy
I have given my daughter some basics but that is a struggle too - when I go do some routine things on my vehicles I drag my daughter out so she can do the same - would be easier for me to do it but no lessons learned w/ that strategy
Posted on 1/21/22 at 8:11 am to speckledawg
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Mine is REALLY good at timing it to where it's always on E when I get behind the wheel. It's actually pretty damn impressive.
They teach them that at wife school
Posted on 1/21/22 at 8:20 am to deltaland
Mine actually knows a lot of the terminology associated with cars and trying to figure out what may be wrong, but that is as far as it goes.
She's not breaking nuts and bolts to remove stuff and put new parts back on.
She's not breaking nuts and bolts to remove stuff and put new parts back on.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 8:47 am to gumbo2176
5 years before she could back back up the boat trailer. And she still has to turn off the radio and the air conditioner to accomplish that. I tried to teach my daughter how to change oil and put on a spare tire but may as well had been teaching a rock. Her comment "I'm just going to get married and my husband will do it". Oh well
Posted on 1/21/22 at 9:33 am to deltaland
no.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 9:57 am to deltaland
Dude my wife is tractor and truck mechanic...... Her dad was a master mechanic back in the day and she learned from him as a teen. She is getting older now and doesn't want to it do so much anymore..... But she is one hell of a mechanic...... There has been alot of days I had my feet kicked up drinking a cold beer while she was replacing an entire fuel rail.... Good times
Posted on 1/21/22 at 9:59 am to speckledawg
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Mine is REALLY good at timing it to where it's always on E when I get behind the wheel.
I'm pretty sure that's a universal thing with women. It's happened to me often enough with all 3 of my wives over the years.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 10:33 am to speckledawg
It's not that they cant they just don't want to
Posted on 1/21/22 at 10:39 am to deltaland
While dating this girl she did a front brake job on her car, she even borrowed a torque wrench from her work because the manual said to torque. Budget was tight for her, of course I offered to do it but she said she wanted to learn. She is now my wife (no pic)
Posted on 1/21/22 at 11:17 am to Astrosfan
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Dude my wife is tractor and truck mechanic...... Her dad was a master mechanic back in the day
But, can she tell you the correct ignition timing on a 1955 Chevy Bell-Aire with a 327 engine and a 4 barrel carburetor?
Posted on 1/21/22 at 12:37 pm to gumbo2176
Posted on 1/21/22 at 2:11 pm to TheBoo
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My SO can barely drive her own car.
Same. Driving in reverse is like a foreign language to her. We live on a short dead-end street, and to leave one needs to back out of our straight-as-an-arrow 10 ft. wide driveway into the neighbor's straight driveway DIRECTLY across the street (same width and location). She ALWAYS winds up on the neighbor's grass when doing so.
Parallel park? You might as well ask her to fly a helicopter.
But, she's a doctor and makes twice as much as me, so I let it slide.
Our daughters are a different story. They both drive much better than their mother, can parallel park, and have driven my SUV while pulling our boat. Walked both of them through how to change a tire, how to change air filters (engine and cabin), how to change wipers, how to replace a battery, other basic repairs, etc. Even had one of them get up under her car and walked her through re-attaching the plastic undercarriage cover with some hanger wire.
This post was edited on 1/21/22 at 4:11 pm
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