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EdW
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| I ALWAYS open the garage door before I start driving it. |
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TeamSpatula
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I always check the gearshift to make sure it's in neutral...
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marklaken
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i check for oil leak spots to make sure he won't have to "go" when we're rolling...
i also turn down the radio and talk to him when we hit tougher sections of roadway (stop and go, big hills, rain etc.)
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vdubyah73
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I always give em a pat on the dash and mumble sweet nothings when they done me good, like a 4hr highway ride without missing a beat, or in my filthy beast ( 82 f250 ) when it pulls that stump out of the yard 
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Cobey
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Gave the girls all names, talk to them while working on them or driving them. praise them when they start up, and thank them again when I get to where I am going.
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UFVW
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Funny, I never turn on my lights while driving unless I can see there are no other cars on the road. If it's dusk, I will pull over and stop to turn my headlights on. Strange but true.
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Gomer_Pyle
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| EdW wrote: |
| I ALWAYS open the garage door before I start driving it. |
ya.....my dad did that once but he opened the wrong door now my infiniti has a nice scrape from the door.
back on subject
72 baja i reconnect the battery and then do a wasp check if theres any they get sprayed with break cleaner (so that works the best  )
75 baja i turn on the air conditioning (open the glovebox door) and tap the gas once and fire her up
60' none ive driven it once
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Andrew
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red line evey shift! It keeps the carbon from building up in the engine!  |
Hey, that's how DeathBus drives, too!
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Meyer
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josh
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I always give em a pat on the dash and mumble sweet nothings when they done me good, like a 4hr highway ride without missing a beat, or in my filthy beast ( 82 f250 ) when it pulls that stump out of the yard
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I feel better knowing that other people pat the dash while talking to the car. Sometimes on long trips if something with the car ain't quite right I'll pat the dash and offer words of encouragedment like,"Come on baby you can do it. Your doing a fine job". It's always been busses and type3s for me. Don't know what I'd pat if I had a bug.
When working on the car I ussually try to sweet talk it. If that doesn't work I berate it with obscenities and otherwise verbally abuse it until it submits to my will. If I ever revert back to sweet talking from swaring it is a sure sign the car has broken my will and I'm letting it know I'll be its submissive little bitch if it will work with me.
The weird and truly superstitious thing about this is I'm not just talking to myself. I'm talking to the car and I believe it is listening to me and that I must communicate with it or it won't cooperate with me.
In an automotive class I was working on a car and talking to it. I heard another student say to the instructor,"He's loosing it".
The instructor replied,"Naw, he knows what he's doing. He'll get it".
I just had to laugh. Of course I got it. |
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Morganwerk
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For some reason when I release the E brake I always push the button with my thumb a few extra times after the handle is down. Like how some people play with a ballpoint pen.
Don't know why, the handle isn't going to go down any farther.
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Karnage
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| I realized I always muttered "c'mon baby, c'mon baby" when the engine was trying to catch on cold days. but outside of that, I cant think of anything. |
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HUAman
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| Morganwerk wrote: |
For some reason when I release the E brake I always push the button with my thumb a few extra times after the handle is down. Like how some people play with a ballpoint pen.
Don't know why, the handle isn't going to go down any farther. |
I do the same thing..Im not sure why but I cant seem to stop.
I also start any car Im driving with the clutch in..even if the cars in neutral...I think that started with an old Hyundai I had that you HAD to have the clutch engaged to start the car. |
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pyrOman
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More of a myth than superstition, the somewhat common thought that VWs are maintenace free vehicles, "you can drive 'em forever without worries!" 
I do more praising it when talking to other people about how good it's been to me than actually talking to it. The few times I actually talk to it is when trying to make it do some extraordinary things, "c'mon baby, you can do it!" When re-installing the motor, which starts with the bucking motion while pushing it in and ends up with a climatic feeling of it engaging the tranny "all the way!" 
Other than that could be the occasional cussing when it lets me down... quickly followed by the realization that had I paid more attention to its needs maintenance wise, I would not be in that situation to begin with. 
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