Only one EV charger at home?!

And dangerous things can happen in parked cars.

Depends on the suspension setup and tyre combination. I have set up many cars where the *factory* toe setting was zero +/- tolerance factor.

Had the same thing happen when a throttle return spring on the carb broke.

Lots of items break without prior warning and a lot of warnings go unrecognised.

It *has* to be having an effect but the driver won't notice it on most roads. It will have an effect on potholed roads.

All exits have to operate as designed.

Car servicing these days involves mostly *checking* things so they

And cooking up the trans fluid! Well done fool!

You knew your car was defective, you didn't get it fixed. Fool!

Lots of marriages, for one.

Don't drink and park, accidents cause people.

Never had that happen to me, not a dangerous one anyway. Failures in a car usually result in it not going, or wobbling, or making a noise or smell.

I did once have the front tyre explode on a front wheel drive car. Many friends and colleagues told me that should have made me crash. Bollocks, it just pulled to one side, so I pulled it the other way, then parked on the hard shoulder of the motorway and changed the wheel. I could of predicted it, there was burning rubber.

On which you won't be going fast enough to cause a big accident.

If you have OCD. Any brains and you'd realise a person who isn't there doesn't need to exit.

All seatbelts are not tested if the rear seats (with belts attached) are removed, so why the doors? Their reasoning when I complained to the DVLA was "you mikght put the seats back in, so the door must work". He just got confused when I mentioned the untested seatbelts I might put back in. Apparently letting someone out is more important than keeping them in.

It's a waste of money. The thing you pay to replace may of never broken. Even if it does, you've taken it out before it ran out of life. Do you throw away half full containers of food because they might run out in the next day or two?

It's designed to do so. That's how torque convertors work.

Why? It got me to work and back perfectly fine, and was more fun in the process.

Are you one of those people who pays the garage extra to check tracking? One born every minute.

But you should have preventative maintainanced it! Pot calling kettle black.

Aggression makes life more fun, especially when the other guy is a sissy like you.

Why don't you do it yourself?

Don't believe everything you read, that simply doesn't happen. I've been told off probably 6 times in my life for tyres. No fine, no points, just a friendly warning or a pink slip. There's no way they can expect the average driver to know when their tyres are under the limit.

For some reason we call it a "parking brake" - maybe because most of our cars are manuals. But I don't use it, ever. I thought they were for learner drivers who can't do hill starts with a footbrake.

Having one in an automatic is even stupider, just use P.

Calling it an emergency brake is daft, have you ever tried using it at any decent speed? Excellent way to spin the car, it only brakes the rear wheels.

Why the f*ck would you downgrade your car like that?

Why would changing the transmission change the brake?!

A frog pig confiscated my radar detector. I was told I could have it back if I went to the French court in the south of France, after I'd returned home. It wasn't worth the fuel.

All of your comments assume that the failure is gradual, with prior warning. Some failures are sudden, without warning. You hope that the imminent failure will be picked up on an inspection, either on an MOT or at a service.

Consider a corroded brake pipe (assuming that the primary circuit has already failed and this is a failure in the backup circuit). The pipe will withstand the hydraulic pressure for applying the brakes until one day the corrosion becomes too great, or you press the pedal a bit harder

- maybe in an emergency - and you suddenly have no brakes.

I've never had a brake failure, or even (as far as I can remember) corrosion of brake pipes. I know the theory is to use the handbrake, but I've yet to drive a car where the handbrake, firmly yanked on, is enough to slow the car much: the handbrake is enough to hold the car when it is already stationary but not to slow the car very much if it is moving.

I was surprised that a broken spring didn't affect the handling of the car.

Confirmation that it's not likely to fail and start slipping, and incredulity that a clutch can last that long, when those of all the previous cars I've owned had got to the top of the auto-adjustment range and/or started to slip at around 70-100,000 miles.

I had this happen to me with a new (to me, but second-hand) VW Golf - the first car I'd had with an automatic choke. As with a manual choke, when the choke is "out", the idling speed of the engine is also raised.

I was driving on the M25, not long after it opened, and came to a traffic jam (maybe an accident). As I came to a halt, I noticed that the engine was racing a bit. It continued to do this every time I started the engine to move forward a bit (and then turned off the engine during the times when we were going nowhere). It was embarrassing because people thought I was impatient. I couldn't do anything about it because of course being automatic choke it didn't have a manual override.

It turned out to be a failed choke mechanism (I think the garage talked about a wax sensor which melted when the engine got warm, "pushing in" the choke, but was sold when cold, "pulling it out". Covered by the garage's initial warranty on the car that they had sold to me only a few weeks earlier.

What _should_ happen is that the dual circuit comes in to play, and most of your brakes work with reduced efficiency - enough to make you wonder WTF happened.

I imagine if you ignore it the reservoir will empty after a couple of uses.

Andy

You worry about the unlikely.

Mine tend to not work at all. Because I never use them? Can they need use to remain strong?

I was surprised my burst front tyre wasn't noticeable (at about 20-40mph). I guess the power steering corrected it? Unfortunately it meant by the time I realised, the tyre was irrepairable.

Then you ride the clutch, learn to drive properly. I've only replaced a clutch once, when I bought a car at 37,000 miles with one previous woman owner. It was so bad I could only start off in 2nd.

If they all fail, you just get a heavier brake pedal, no big deal.

Unless you actually need to stop quickly.

I can tell you from personal experience that, at least in some cars, it works fine.

I had the brakes on my beloved Honda Insight (the first and original model, accept no remakes/redos/imitations) replaced on a routine maintenance repair.

I then got on the highway and drove about an hour.

When I slowed down at the exit, I notced a very ugly shudder on a front wheel.

I pulled into a parking lot, slowly went back and forth and braked here and there, and figured out "something" was loose on the front tire brake assembly.

Now... in the normal course of events I'd have pulled over, called the shop, and MADE THEM arrange a tow and immediate repair, but...

... but ... it was Saturday evening and 75 miles away, and I was picking up my wife at the train station.

So... I waited for her at the Amtrak stop, picked her up, and then drove back onto the highway. I yes, used the hand brake to slow down and stop at the couple of red lights / stop signs before the highway, then used it again to slow down at the exit, stop at the intersction, rinse/lather/repeat until we got home, and then the same Monday morning enroute to the shop.

Fortunately it was the front brake and not the rear, so yes, the direct link hand brake trick worked.

You can't even show a female nipple in public in California, what the f*ck are you guys doing?!

But if I have the vaccine, I 100% have the vaccine. If I don't have the vaccine, I most likely don't have the covid, which is just a bad cold.

They even give flu vaccines, my aunt just had one, she felt like she had a very bad flu for a day or so. Not sure what the point of that was.

No, it's the idiots injuring themselves through their own stupidity who whine.