Unless you have some expensive luxury car, the brake light won't come on to tell you if your pads are worn.
I think she's rockin' a Beemer.
Who was the real power? The Captain? or Tenille?
Xander ,'Showtime'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Jul 10, 2009 12:45:44 pm PDT #28491 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Sheryl - Jul 10, 2009 1:02:26 pm PDT #28492 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Sox!
Tomorrow we're daytripping Shore Leave(a local, fan-run media con). Otherwise, not much.
Lee - Jul 10, 2009 1:19:08 pm PDT #28493 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Unless you have some expensive luxury car, the brake light won't come on to tell you if your pads are worn.
Yeah, what Trudy said about the Beemer. I had never seen that warning light before, so I looked it up in the owners manual--it's a brake pad light.
tommyrot - Jul 10, 2009 1:24:23 pm PDT #28494 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ooh - fancy!
I'm just used to the old days, when a brake light possibly meant something serious....
Lee - Jul 10, 2009 1:30:43 pm PDT #28495 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Yeah, I think that's the part I can't get past.
I like having working brakes.
Kristen - Jul 10, 2009 1:32:50 pm PDT #28496 of 30000
I remember when one of the lights on my dashboard came on and I called the dealership to make an appointment. The earliest one they could give me was 2 weeks away. I took it and then asked the guy, "But, like, my car isn't going to blow up or anything in the next two weeks, right?" He laughed at me.
On the positive side, my car did not blow up or anything on those two weeks.
Lee - Jul 10, 2009 1:33:42 pm PDT #28497 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
On the positive side, my car did not blow or anything on those two weeks.
VERY good to hear.
Kristen - Jul 10, 2009 1:35:21 pm PDT #28498 of 30000
I was told that most of the warning lights come on very early so that you have the time to make it in to be serviced. The exceptions to that rule, I think, would be the battery light and the omigodyourcarisoverheatingrightNOW light.
Lee - Jul 10, 2009 1:38:16 pm PDT #28499 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I was told that most of the warning lights come on very early so that you have the time to make it in to service.
I've been told that too. Plus, there's no little ! sign, which BMW likes to use for the big stuff.
StuntHusband - Jul 10, 2009 1:41:01 pm PDT #28500 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
My GTI has a screen that actually has words on it. "Please Refuel", or "Oil Change Soon", or whathaveyou.
In 2005, I high-centered on some poorly-maintained streets, and badly damaged the underside of the car. I just thought I'd hit a bump hard - "Bang!" and the car shook - but no big deal. (Made a passing pedestrian jump, though - that should have been my first clue.)
I was looking for parking about a block away, and had to turn around - and that's when I noticed the big line of moisture down the street where I...had just been...driving...
...oh. I thought, "Is that my car?"
And the screen in the dash lit up all flashing and blinking with huge red letters: "STOP!"
I did.
I'd ripped the oilpan off. All the oil was rushing out of my car - when I turned the engine off, I could hear the liquid sound underneath. The repair dude said if I'd driven another 10 or 15 feet, the engine would have seized - new car time.
I was *so* fortunate. And I'll never forget "STOP!"