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15-05-2009, 05:51 PM
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15-05-2009, 07:25 PM
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And as for the idiot remark, I'll stand by that, as I'm yet to come across a Skyline owner that would be regarded as being even remotely 'intelligent'. Unless I've just had a repeatedly bad run of meeting said owners up until now. I doubt the owner involved is any different from any of the others, despite not knowing the driver personally. How's that all still a little unfair if I feel for the kid involved? At least this incident might teach the driver to be more observational about faults on their car. If the driver does learn from this, then good on him/her.
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15-05-2009, 07:41 PM
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As for the unfair bit I was referring to your comment "Hope the idiot driving the s*****e learns from this experience (even though he probably won't...)" This is like saying that all xxxx (insert car of your choice) drivers are dorks. Not forgetting that this is a newspaper report and what they dont know they make up
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15-05-2009, 07:48 PM
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Fixing Ford's **** ups
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Saying this means if I see an idiot driving a Ford, they must be all like that. Or every Ford I come across that has something wrong with it that the owner wasn't aware of. In all fairness, wait for the outcome of the investigation before sprouting off about a particular brand of vehicle driver. |
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15-05-2009, 09:14 PM
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so what happened to this any update
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15-05-2009, 10:20 PM
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15-05-2009, 10:22 PM
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15-05-2009, 10:46 PM
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No probs Dezza. In my mates case he said it was his fault, I make no assumptions about the story the thread is based on.
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15-05-2009, 11:48 PM
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A lot of people out there wouldn’t know the first thing about cars. Many years ago, my sister had her car parked at a night club and told me the next morning that her car felt strange on the way home. I had a look at it and there were quite a few wheel nuts missing and most that were left were only hand tight. Perhaps someone wanted to pinch the wheels and were disturbed, who knows? But it can happen. I don’t check the wheel nuts on my car every time I get in it. More importantly, let’s just hope the little bloke pulls through.
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15-05-2009, 11:55 PM
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You would know way before the wheel nuts totally come loose that there is something wrong... Ignorance may have played a roll with the driver thinking "She'll be right" when it realy was not..
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16-05-2009, 12:00 AM
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Not necessarily. Some modern wheels are that tight on the hubs, the wheel nuts could be all gone and you wouldn't know until the wheel dropped off. A good example is BA Falcon with alloys. Sometimes you need a rubber mallet and half a dozen good hits just to move it. So, never assume these sorts of things, as it can come back and bite |
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