Would you be able to jump start a car or change a tyre?

[Brizzles]

I once pumped up a tyre using my pen0r.

I had to google 'pen0r' *

Christ i'm getting old

( *About 30,800 results (0.28 seconds) )

 

[Bickaxe]

Can never remember the connection order for the battery and only seen it done once.
Change a wheel no problem.

 

[Brizzles]

I was talking to someone last week who had no idea how to change a plug socket which I thought was the very bottom rung of technical knowledge for being an adult.

Whilst it is quite straight forward if you research it, i would hardly call messing with mains electricity ' the very bottom rung of technical knowledge' far from it.

Let me guess, you also built a nuclear reactor in your shed last Tuesday aswell.

 

[sigma]

I had to google 'pen0r' *

Christ i'm getting old

( *About 30,800 results (0.28 seconds) )

LOL

That term is nearly as old as the interwebs.

 

[Maccapacca]

Have you ever used two spanners to find a battery with any juice in it?

 

[Brizzles]

LOL

That term is nearly as old as the interwebs.

I'm over 50, so older than most of the interwebs

 

[stockhausen]

Why would someone have jump leads but no idea how to use them?

 

[sigma]

I'm over 50, so older than most of the interwebs

You should be well aware then, oh wise one still chuckling at the thoguht of you googling and the subsequent reaction

 

[div0]

I don't even know how or when I learned to do either of these things, but I've had to do both more than once. Always put it down as one of those things you just know how to do.

Amazed at most of the replies.

 

[Feek]

Yes, easily and have done both many times. In the last month, I've jump started both my wife and my daughters cars and then fitted replacement batteries.

 

[sigma]

To be honest even any 'modern day' type person should be able to search the Internet to learn how to fix basic issues. I often tell people to 'Google it' when they ask for advice, if appropriate.

 

[bainbridge]

Yes, because I'm a real man.

 

[FTM]

pfft jump leads

bump start a car...now you are talking

 

[Delvis]

Change tyre yes, done it far too many times

I've put Juno leads on my car before a few times, but I'd have to look it up in all honesty

 

[sigma]

Change tyre yes, done it far too many times

I've put Juno leads on my car before a few times, but I'd have to look it up in all honesty

Do you have tyre fitting machine?

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Yes to both. I can also adjust a set of points and use a strobe gun.

 

[Rimsy]

On a car 10+ years old yes fine. Modern cars... I'd have no idea how to jump my current car and have no idea where the jack point is underneath the car so probably no to the wheel either.

 

[Frozennova]

Yes to both, changing a flat I'd call RAC/AA.

yes to both, wonder how many could set the gap and dwell on a set of points though


used to spend my weekends ripping rotten hot hatches apart as a teenager and built many a 16v nova back in the days

Setting up points no, but I can at least use a timing light to set a distributor. I also have a pretty deep understanding of a lot of the control strategies used in modern ECUs thiugh

 

[Devrij]

Yes to both, as my battery always dies when it gets cold. Last time I tried fitting a spare wheel I couldn't get the bloody bolt loose though. Some retarded angled tyre iron so I couldn't get any leverage. So maybe knowing how and actually be able to depend on the tools at hand for me!

 

[Delvis]

Do you have tyre fitting machine?

Hah no, they're rather large