11-27-2012, 01:52 AM | #1 | ||
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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Does anybody else here own a mid size family sedan/appliance car and belong to an owner's forum for it? Since buying my Chrysler 200 Touring, I have found owners forums for that as well as it's platform mate, the Dodge Avenger. Every once in a while we'll get posts that are either irate owners or interwebz trolls (sometimes I'm not sure which) that either tale an existing topic and start ranting about what is likely a non issue or an easily corrected one. There was just a new thread started that has almost left me dumbfounded and I have to ask, are most appliance car owners really this stupid?! Quote:
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11-27-2012, 02:04 AM | #2 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: a box
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i am a admin on a car forum for 80's and 90's turbo dodge's and trust me its people, they seem to find new and more stupid things to ask, the other day there was a guy that asked if he changed the types of power steering pumps if the hoses would interchange when they were differnt shapes and size! O_O
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11-27-2012, 02:20 AM | #3 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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I was hoping that those were deep enough into enthusiast territory by now that dumb questions wouldn't be as prevelent on those. I'll never forget getting asked by a UTI student working at a local Pep Boys if the turbo system on my Lebaron would fit his riced, base model, OHV 2.2l Cavalier. Also had somebody return a Tyco slot car set to the Toy's "R" Us I worked at because the cars would come off the track in the corners.......then got pissed at me when I suggested that from personal experiance, I found that slowing down for the corner tended to help.......to which he replied "They should have fixed that problem by now!".......ever since then I have used the phrase, "The laws of physics still apply!" when selling slot car sets and get asked about the cars road holding capabilities.
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11-27-2012, 06:03 AM | #4 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit
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It's a 200, expect owners to be typical mindsets of "its just a car to get me to point A to B". When you talk about ordinary commuter cars you often find their owners are lacking in the mechanical ability to even understand tire pressures.
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11-27-2012, 06:31 AM | #5 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Crawlifornia Uber Alles
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I had to google 'appliance car'. Hilarious!
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11-27-2012, 07:51 AM | #6 |
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11-27-2012, 08:16 AM | #7 |
Scale Detail Engineering Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Turtle Island
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In the late 80's I bought a perfectly good Sunbird (well, as good as a Sunbird can get) from a guy that said the turbo was blown... I arrived, opened the hood to see the car was not a turbo model. I bought it for $700 and drove the heck outa that little car then sold it for $2000. |
11-27-2012, 10:08 AM | #8 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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| Re: Appliance Car Forums Now that I read your post, I had to Google it too..............UrbanDictionary was dead on, especially on that damned, stupid, ugly golden beige metallic color Last edited by BJoe; 11-27-2012 at 10:11 AM. |
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