I was contemplating, while giving the disco it's monthly blast with the pressure washer, one of those mutliple-choice tests to establish whether you are, by nature, a LR owner...
some sample questions follow, feel free to add ones. If we get it sorted, we can put it on the web somewhere.
1: Your vehicle has one or more oil leaks. do you: a) Take it to the dealer to repair it. b) Attempt to repair it yourself. c) Decide that it's useful protection for the chassis and simply top up the oil levels. d) As above but put a pan under where you park, to catch the oil so you can use it to paint the fence.2: Your vehicle *doesn't* leak any oil at all. do you: a) Check the oil in case it's low. b) Panic - the oil must have run out. c) Feel smug that your repair has worked. d) Regard it as normal and proper behaviour.
3: How often do you wash your vehicle? a) Once a week whether it's dirty or not. b) More than once a week. c) Don't understand the question / never. d) When the weight of accumulated mud starts to affect the performance. e) When it's looking especially dirty.4: You're driving along and your vehicle starts to make an odd noise. Do you: a) Stop immediately and phone the AA or RAC or equivalent. b) Start to accelerate, decelerate, swerve etc. in order to find try to see what conditions make the noise. c) Not notice, 'cos you have the 500W stereo belting out thumpy-thumpy music at 120dB. d) Stop, crawl underneath the vehicle and have someone rock it to see if you can spot what's loose. e) Ignore it, if something's about to fall off, then you'll find out what it is when it does so. f) b, d, and e in turn.
I suggest the following scoring:
1: a)1 b)2 c)3 d)4 2: a)3 b)4 c)2 d)1 3: a)2 b)1 c)5 d)4 e)3 4: a)2 b)3 c)1 d)4 e)4 f)5more suggestions welcome, along with scoring, or comments.
ideally, we could get it to decide which LR product you should be driving as well :-)
I scored 14 from those 4 - scores will go from 4 to 18.