i bought a new car about 3 weeks ago but have still got my old car. my friends decided to buy my old car as one as they are about to take their test and wanted an older car to practise in.
anyway, im taking to their house later today, which is about 2 hours away. this morning idecided to clean the car and top up its oil and water etc...
now i wouldnt say i was blonde but ive ended up putting brake fluid in instead of oil
im sure it was oil. as i type the car is in the garage to get all the break fluid out thanks to the lovely aa man that can to my rescue! the only problem is i got to face the people at the garage when i go pick it up....apparently they found it halarious!
dont worry about it.
at least you didnt put the wrong gas in it.
" my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never, never leave you during your times of trials and suffering. When you see only one set of footprints it was then that I carried you" you were carried out of are lifes into the next and when its my time to leave this life I know i will be carried into the next life with you.
I wish i had my world complete again.
'Can we protend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars, i could really use a wish right now' BoB
Good old haynes manuals. It's literally a case of taking out a nut, draining the oil, putting the nut back in, and filling up the oil again.
Make sure you recite that to the garage people.
Don't worry about it, no damage done really.
We all have those 'moments' at one point or another. Last week i was reversing out of a space and someone was walking behind so i obviously stopped, yet took my foot of the brake for some unknown reason, only to not realise that my car was moving forward and went into the barriers at the front. Unlucky much.I've only had this new car 2 weeks.
You are not alone. Harley and I had a car on trial about a year ago and I stopped at a filling station and said "stick a tenner's worth in' and he put in petrol rather than diesel. Luckily we realised in time, before I restarted it, so no damage was done - but our faces were red having to ring the showroom and tell them we wouldn't now have a 24 hour trial and would they like to send out breakdown to pick up their demonstrator!
Meanwhile, will the bloody Government explain their attitude towards diesel. It used to be cheaper than petrol on the grounds, as I understood it, that diesel was more environmentally friendly than petrol. It still is cheaper on almost the whole of the Continent (hence the anger of our hauliers who can't compete with trucks coming over full of "cheap" diesel.} But some later Government about-turn seemed to decide that, no, diesel was worse than petrol and must therefore be taxed more heavily, which it now is to a significant extent. So, if like me, you're looking for an economical runabout, you end up trying to calculate the economics of a third-hand diesel (probably more expensive to buy than an equivalent petrol car) against a similar small petrol and trying to work out the balance of purchase cost against running costs. And will they move the goalposts yet again?
Tony.
PS. There was the probably apocryphal story of the woman VW Beetle owner who opened the front bonnet of her car for the first time and said "Oh God, my engine must have fallen out." But another woman friend of hers who also had a Beetle opened up the back of hers and said "don't worry, I've got a spare one in here!"
the car made it all the way to chesire after the garage drained it, flushed the engine, put a new filter in and top it with oil. :)
i think i must have been having a ditzy weekend, when catching the train back hom after delivering the car i went to check the train trains and miss read them so had to wait 4 hours before i could start the first leg of my journy!
I grew up in a garage (basically) as my Dad's a mechanic - my first job was driving cars around the parking bay and getting them ready for MOTs, when I was like 14. Hehe.
