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Ka24eaus · 04-10-2002, 06:51 AM

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 · 04-10-2002, 07:23 AM

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** · 04-10-2002, 01:40 PM

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 · 04-10-2002, 01:43 PM

</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!  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.  That and putting fluids in your radiator..

96SEChick · 04-10-2002, 02:01 PM

This reminds me of something my sister said a few years ago.  She has a Sapphire Blue 1994 Prelude.  She was going to California for a job interview and left her car at my parents' house while she was gone.  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.  My dad laughed his ass off right in front of her.  She was afraid that I had destroyed her "new" paint by waxing it.

rancid240 · 04-10-2002, 02:37 PM

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

roast · 04-10-2002, 03:51 PM

</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 · 04-10-2002, 04:03 PM

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

rancid240 · 04-10-2002, 07:45 PM

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 · 04-10-2002, 07:53 PM

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='

'>

SR20Fastback · 04-10-2002, 08:08 PM

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

Tuck&Poke · 04-10-2002, 08:13 PM

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.  how the crap do these people get their drivers liscence?  god damn stupid people

S13 Passion · 04-10-2002, 09:19 PM

</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 · 04-10-2002, 10:04 PM

</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.  <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 · 04-11-2002, 02:35 AM

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.  <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

04-10-2002, 01:43 PM	#4
twofortysx Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 491 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</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!  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.  That and putting fluids in your radiator.. __________________ "Now I'm in 3rd and you think that's quick? Wait till I hit 5th." - 98 s14 -

04-10-2002, 02:01 PM	#5
96SEChick Nissanaholic! Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Broken Arrow, OK Age: 44 Posts: 1,814 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	This reminds me of something my sister said a few years ago.  She has a Sapphire Blue 1994 Prelude.  She was going to California for a job interview and left her car at my parents' house while she was gone.  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.  My dad laughed his ass off right in front of her.  She was afraid that I had destroyed her "new" paint by waxing it. __________________ Lauren '91 300ZX TT Ultra Red 5-speed - JWT POPCharger, JUN flywheel, ACT clutch, Energy Suspension Bushings, Tokico Blues - dyno'ed 295hp/306tq '94 300ZX TT Black Emerald Pearl 5-speed - JWT POPCharger, JWT ECU w/ Stillen chip, Stillen exhaust, Tokico Blues, Eibach ProKits, 18" Enkei RP-01 wheels - dyno'ed 333hp/385tq '00 WS6 Trans Am Bright Red 6-speedFOR SALE - only 29k miles, stock, fully loaded, only $23,999 (NADA $26300) Green Country Motorsports Northeastern Oklahoma SCCA

04-10-2002, 03:51 PM	#7
roast Leaky Injector Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 104 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</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! __________________ Richard Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

04-10-2002, 07:53 PM	#10
Broadwayblues Zilvia Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 193 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	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=''> __________________ "stop lights timed to 55 mph are also timed to 110 mph!" http://www.geocities.com/broadwayblues34/240sx.html 92 240SX Coupe! MB clear side markers Clear bumper lights 3 inch universal muffler w/ removable tip. Strut tower bar- Front OBX SS version 2

04-10-2002, 08:08 PM	#11
SR20Fastback Nissanaholic! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Bay Age: 36 Posts: 1,637 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	.......and to think I could have ever thought myself to be the dumbest person alive __________________ Fodive STILL blows goats, I have proof.

04-10-2002, 06:51 AM	#1
Ka24eaus Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 7 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	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.

04-10-2002, 07:23 AM	#2
thewholefnshow Zilvia Addict Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 672 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	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.

04-10-2002, 01:40 PM	#3
mrmephistopheles Inactive Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: BFE Age: 19 Posts: 14,334 Trader Rating: (9) Rides Gallery: mrmephistopheles Feedback Score: 9 reviews	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..

04-10-2002, 02:37 PM	#6
rancid240 Post Whore! Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Irvine CA Posts: 2,770 Trader Rating: (72) Feedback Score: 72 reviews	how did the lady put the car in first after a stop?

04-10-2002, 04:03 PM	#8
DrDubbleB Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,119 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I think what he's really asking is, how is it possible that she didn't stall it out?

04-10-2002, 07:45 PM	#9
rancid240 Post Whore! Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Irvine CA Posts: 2,770 Trader Rating: (72) Feedback Score: 72 reviews	my friends dad can do it, but he drove diesels for +10 years....lady must got some serious skills not to stall it tho

04-10-2002, 08:13 PM	#12
Tuck&Poke Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: MIA Age: 35 Posts: 1,046 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	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.  how the crap do these people get their drivers liscence?  god damn stupid people

04-10-2002, 09:19 PM	#13
S13 Passion Zilvia Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 267 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</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)

04-10-2002, 10:04 PM	#14
Natty Zilvia Addict Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 944 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</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.  <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 __________________ 1991 White 240sx Fastback LE, rusty spoiler, weak driveshaft, exhaust rattle.... Rattles are just your cars way of saying 'I love you.'

04-11-2002, 02:35 AM	#15
Una Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 3 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	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.  <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

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