The smart camry owner.

[Ka24eaus]

Just an extract from www.epinions.com on a ladies camry V6
which is probably at the wreckers now..

I have heard nothing but positive comments about this car. I have only had the car for 4 years now and I have not had to change my oil yet. The gas mileage is also good.

. My only complaint with the Camry is with the windows. The tend to fog up easily, especially in humid and rainy weather.

[thewholefnshow]

I used to work at canadian tire in the garage, there was a lady who came in three weeks in a row with a blown clutch and stripped gears. We finally just said take us for a drive and show us how you drive the car normally... she did, she never clutched once, she didn't know what the extra pedal was for and wondered why it was so much harder to move the shifter than in her automatic.... some people just don't deserve cars.

[mrmephistopheles]

sounds like a story i know of..
Girl (insert snide comment here) brings in her honda civic with 60k miles on it for 60k tuneup..  She drops the car off and takes off. The mechanics tune everything up, but when they go to do the oil change, they unscrew the drain plug, and oil SLOWLY drips out like molasses. Eventually after about 2 hours, enough has dripped out, so they replace the filter and refill it with oil and await the customer's return.
She comes back, and they ask her when the last time the oil was changed.
She said 'Oh, Never. They're a ripoff..  I don't believe in getting them. I only had it done this time because my dad made me.'

Holy crap dude..  I'm wondering how long that motor lasted after that oil change..

[twofortysx]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (mrmephistopheles @ April 10 2002,12:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">sounds like a story i know of..
Girl (insert snide comment here) brings in her honda civic with 60k miles on it for 60k tuneup.. She drops the car off and takes off. The mechanics tune everything up, but when they go to do the oil change, they unscrew the drain plug, and oil SLOWLY drips out like molasses. Eventually after about 2 hours, enough has dripped out, so they replace the filter and refill it with oil and await the customer's return.
She comes back, and they ask her when the last time the oil was changed.
She said 'Oh, Never. They're a ripoff.. I don't believe in getting them. I only had it done this time because my dad made me.'

Holy crap dude.. I'm wondering how long that motor lasted after that oil change..</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
What a moron! &nbsp;I hate when people who don't know a damn thing about cars try to tell you how getting certain services done is stupid.

Yeah, oil changes are only for idiots. &nbsp;That and putting fluids in your radiator..

[96SEChick]

This reminds me of something my sister said a few years ago. &nbsp;She has a Sapphire Blue 1994 Prelude. &nbsp;She was going to California for a job interview and left her car at my parents' house while she was gone. &nbsp;I waxed it for her and she got upset because she swore up and down the body shop told her that she shouldn't wax her car for 3 years because the paint needed to cure and harden completely (she had her hood replaced and repainted after a friend fell on her hood trying to catch a basketball--stupid dumbass), and it had only been 2 years. &nbsp;My dad laughed his ass off right in front of her. &nbsp;She was afraid that I had destroyed her "new" paint by waxing it.

[rancid240]

how did the lady put the car in first after a stop?

[roast]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (rancid240 @ April 10 2002,3:37)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">how did the lady put the car in first after a stop?</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Ha, it probably went something like this...

GRRRRRrrRRRRRiIINNND!

[DrDubbleB]

I think what he's really asking is, how is it possible that she didn't stall it out?

[rancid240]

my friends dad can do it, but he drove diesels for +10 years....lady must got some serious skills not to stall it tho

[Broadwayblues]

nah nothing that standing on the gas while shifting won't fix....OUCH. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cry.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':cry:'>

[SR20Fastback]

.......and to think I could have ever thought myself to be the dumbest person alive

[Tuck&Poke]

oh boy...thats bad but how can you stip the gears on a manual...the gears are always in contact its the thing that selects them with the pins that scrapes. &nbsp;how the crap do these people get their drivers liscence? &nbsp;god damn stupid people

[S13 Passion]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (roast @ April 10 2002,4:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (rancid240 @ April 10 2002,3:37)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">how did the lady put the car in first after a stop?</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Ha, it probably went something like this...

GRRRRRrrRRRRRiIINNND!</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
my big question is, how the hell did she turn on her car if she supposedly didnt know what the clutch was for??

(thats if she keeps it on 1st when turning off the car)

[Natty]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (thewholefnshow @ April 09 2002,09:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I used to work at canadian tire in the garage, there was a lady who came in three weeks in a row with a blown clutch and stripped gears. We finally just said take us for a drive and show us how you drive the car normally... she did, she never clutched once, she didn't know what the extra pedal was for and wondered why it was so much harder to move the shifter than in her automatic.... some people just don't deserve cars.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Oh my god! That is sad but funny. What is even worse is that I do use my clutch, but it still starts to slip every 200 miles or so. &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>
Reminds of a "joke" I heard on Bob and Tom in the morning on the radio.
"So I borrow my firends car and I give it back. Now see says I owe her a new clutch. I never even used it!"
<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hehe.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hehe:'>
Jeff <--- Should have chosen the convienence of an automatic

[Una]

Well, for 1st and reverse, I suppose you could just use the starter and pretend you have one of those hybrid electic/gas cars, just run the starter to get going, and let it stall at every light. &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>

Now on the other hand, shifting between gears while in motion, is entirely plausable without clutching, it just takes mad skill. I have a friend who's on his 1st original clutch and tranny, who never clutches between gears (aside from a stop, or in and out of reverse) and he's got 180k miles on his car.

Now I have entirely the oposite problem.. its getting going from a stop that I have problems with....
damn this auto for making me a lazy bastard.. damn it all to hell!

--Una