Wife's Car Won't Start

[JimGinPA]

[NYETNYET]

1. I sell auto parts

That is priceless... Thanks!

[Control-Z]

2. Lol. K&R

[libdem4life]

3. Now that takes a warped mind...LOL...took me a couple of times to get it...LOL!!!

[JimGinPA]

4. Congrats On 13,000

[libdem4life]

6. Oh wow...didn't even notice...thank you ! n/t

[Historic NY]

5. Tell her to check the 710.

[JimGinPA]

8. LOL!

[red dog 1]

7. That's what it looks like to me too!

[2naSalit]

9. LOL!!!

A couple things:


A. That made me laugh so hard!
B. I realize that I am certainly driving an old vehicle 'cause I've never seen that before (Yes, I know what it really means).
C. Reminds me of a funny ~

One nice, sunny day I decided to go for a pleasure drive in YNP which was right next to town, and I got my old 4runner all checked out for fluids and such, added a couple kinds including oil. As I was, supposedly, systematically putting things back to right I went to throw away an empty oil jug, came back and closed the hood, got in and off I went. About four miles into the park I started smelling oil, hot oil. I pulled over, up with the hood and there it was, I had failed to put the oil cap back on the fill. I found a paper cup in the back seat and fashioned it over the fill and fastened it with something in the tool pack, drove back to town tracing my route looking for my oil cap.

After tracing my path and not finding the part, I went to the parts store where I knew the owner well. I walked in, he greeted me before I was all the way in asking what he could do for me. I asked loudly in a self deprecating way, "Duh... you got a 710 cap? He laughed for a long time then sold me one.

I figured it was lost to the wilderness and never thought much of it until I was having the oil changed and the mechanic asked me if I lost my oil cap at some point. I told him the story, he laughed and handed me my original oil cap! Apparently when I left it on top of the air chamber for the fuel injection it fell down between the engine and whatever else. I had suspected as much and looked all over the ground for it too when I lost it. It seems it had got lodged in the skid plate and that's where he found it months later. So I got my 710 cap back after a few thousand miles.

[erronis]

12. I did the same thing, but the engine compartment caught on fire.

I was racing to deliver an RFP bid to National Airport in DC (not Reagan) and stopped for gas and some add'l oil for my first-year vintage Rabbit. When I saw smoke billowing out behind me on the GW Parkway I pulled off to the shoulder and opened the hood. Bad mistake. Adding air to the hot oil was all that was needed. Fortunately a cabbie pulled up behind me and helped me throw dirt on the engine. That did the trick.

Ever since I've checked my caps carefully before closing the hood. Now, about the nut behind the wheel....

[2naSalit]

15. Or the cap for the tire valve...nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. Hahahaha!

[BigmanPigman]

11. I am an illustrator and could NOT figure out what

the symbol on one of my dummy lights was at all. I looked it up in the car manual and it turned out to be "low air in tire" symbol. Even knowing that it was still difficult for me to see that it was supposed to be a tire standing upright, rim view but flat at the bottom.

[Honeycombe8]

13. LOL! nt

[Lokilooney]

14. HA

I read the text and then only saw a person sitting on the toilet it took a moment to realize what it was, talk about the power of suggestion.

[a kennedy]

16. OMGOSH.......hysterical....