OT-ish: why oh why?

It's called catching a box full of neutrals, it can (and does) happen to the best of us!

It's also a fairly good theft deterrent.

It sure does! After coming home from holiday i did exactly the same. I shat my pants thinking the RR was fecked for about a minute!!

Nige

-- Subaru WRX Range Rover LSE (Bob)

'"gimme the f*ckin' money"

Mother"

I'm sure it does happen occasionally, we all get tripped up with the simple things now and again, but he didn't even know what the lever did, let alone how to operate it! Hate to think how long he would have been sat there if he hadn't asked me to help. I just told him to always make sure it was in the "H" position!

Matt.

I guess it's just a case of what interests you - i know there's a washing machine in my house somewhere but i'd have to think where it was, and i have no idea what the buttons and levers do!

Dave

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That'll all have to change, by Jove yes. :-)

No, no, it's fine honestly, we've got an agreement, she operates the washing machine, hoover, and dishwasher, and i get spiders out of the bath and the stuff off the high shelves in Tescos.............

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Typical male/female 50/50 split, then :-)

at the moment, but that ratio may change when the garage is built...............

You should have put it in Low range, and sat there while he pootled along. Im sure he would work it out soon enough!

Mark.

On 14 Jan 2006 11:43:58 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com scribbled the following nonsense:

h'mm you should see it when I rebuild an axle in the kitchen, then SWMBO wanted her engine rebuilding in her SJ, so i stripped it apart and told her to clean it. Where did she clean it....... And she put all the bits in the two meat trays that we have..... at least i only put bits in old chinese take away trays and the such like....

I take the same approach with electricity. I know there are switches on the wall - I press them and lights come on and other gadgets begin to work. However I have no idea how electricity works nor have I ever been curious!

At least you know the switch on the wall turns the light on!

I have no idea how my transfer box works, but I know what it does and how to use it!

Matt.

An even better one if the truck also has an overdrive lever that will go into neutral. :)

Sadly, it is not always enough.

Witchcraft. They'll tell you otherwise, but *I* know.

Whatever you do there will probably be someone somewhere who can get past it :( Its enough to confuse me when i first get in it sometimes so can't be totally pointless!

I reckon that the fact that even after 4 years or so of practise, everytime i manage to get my landy to start it feels like a minor miracle when it kicks in should deter most thieves. Every so often even i can't start it.