Women, don't you just love them!

[Alex225]

Yeah I must admit my other half is a decent driver and of anyone I'd rather be a passenger in her car than most others.

That said there is sometimes a total lack of logic that makes me laugh.

I do recall a conversation we had when I first bought my CLS63 whereby she asked why it was ok for me to drive her diesel Focus but why I wasn't so comfortable with her driving the CLS. This was during a journey where she mounted a kerb parking, dropped off said kerb and went, "oh I didn't notice I was on the kerb". At this point I told her that's why!! Haha

 

[Petrol Pete]

<My Wife is not blonde on the outside

How's this one then. Many years ago my wife (girlfriend at that time) had a new Vauxhaull Nova as her pride and joy. We lived in the same house and she worked at the same place (less than 3 miles away) for almost 10 years.

She once complained that there must be something going gradually wrong with the car as it would normally get her to work and back on £10 unleaded per week.

It took me a while to convince her that the fuel consumption was consistent but she was gradually getting less fuel for her £10 as the years wore on and fuel prices went up.

Needless to say I handle the household finances, she does the rest.

 

[Dinnie]

My wife has done that and also knocked the tiptronic into 1st (so it wouldn't change up) and again thought the car was 'broken'.

 

[Lotiman]

Starting this thread last week has since reminded me of what the wifes mother was like with regard to cars, so maybe it's in the genes!

About 40 years ago, my mother in law owned a nice little Mk 1 Escort. Nothing fancy, but a good little run around for her and I used to look after and service it for her. As we lived around 70 miles or so from her, I only worked on it once a year, although we obviously saw her in between times.

Anyhow, I received a phone call from her one evening to say she was worried about the car as it was making a terrible noise, so she thought the exhaust must have gone. Not an unreasonable diagnosis, I thought, given the car was a few years old and as some of you may remember, exhaust systems in those days didn't last very long. We were due to go up shortly after anyway so I could carry out the annual service for her, so said don't worry, we'll come up this weekend and I'll run the car round to the local exhaust shop to get a new one fitted.

Weekend came and armed with fresh oil, filter and tools etc, we drove up there and I took the keys so I could start the engine to see where the exhaust had gone. I started up and the exhaust was perfectly quiet, the engine also sounded fine after revving it a bit, so I was rather foxed by what this 'terrible noise' might be. I decided the best thing to do would be to go for a short run and see if I could reproduce this noise the MIL spoke of.

As soon as I put the car in gear to reverse off the drive and lifted my clutch foot, I immediately twigged the problem. The clutch didn't bite until the very top of the pedal travel and even then, it only just bit. Well, the MIL lived on a very steep hill at that time, so it was obvious she must have been approaching home up the hill with the clutch slipping badly and the poor little engine at maximum revs, hence the 'terrible noise.'

I switched off and went in to ask if that is, indeed, what she was doing and she confirmed that "yes, as soon as I started up the hill, the exhaust pipe must have gone as it was making such an awful noise"!