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Your First CAR !!??

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james_s:
Funny that they sold it under the Vauxhaull brand but retained the Chevette name. I remember seeing those around here still in the 80s where they were the Chevrolet Chevette. Crappy little cars, but they came from the era of trying to get the best fuel economy possible using the technology available at the time during the oil crisis.

ZeTeX:
I still don't have my own car. I am almost 19 year old. I use my dad car which is a mitubishi outlander with a manual transmission 2.0l.

Doom-the-Squirrel:
It's good you've learned to use a manual. Gives you an edge.

basinstreetdesign:
I bought my first CAR, a 1982 Toyota Tercel, brand new with 4 on the floor.  It was great.  I drove it for about 4 years, enough to pay it off when the company I was working for gave me a "company car" to use  ::).  It was a rusting boat that had weird problems.  The idle was adjusted so high that if you took your foot off the brake it would eventually get itself into 2nd gear rolling forward.  It was a distaster, electrically.  The radio would abruptly and randomly change stations, when signaling a turn the dome light on the roof would flash  :o.  The battery was so weak you couldn't start the car twice in succession without driving enough to recharge the battery.  But enough about it.  I parked my Tercel with a sticker on it that declared "THIS CAR IS NOT ABANDONED!"  In the meantime I met my wife and began driving her car, a Ford.  After about 6 mo the Tercel just disappeared.  I never found out what happened to it.

GlennSprigg:

--- Quote from: basinstreetdesign on November 25, 2019, 07:31:45 am ---I bought my first CAR, a 1982 Toyota Tercel, brand new with 4 on the floor.  It was great.  I drove it for about 4 years, enough to pay it off when the company I was working for gave me a "company car" to use  ::).  It was a rusting boat that had weird problems.  The idle was adjusted so high that if you took your foot off the brake it would eventually get itself into 2nd gear rolling forward.  It was a distaster, electrically.  The radio would abruptly and randomly change stations, when signaling a turn the dome light on the roof would flash  :o.  The battery was so weak you couldn't start the car twice in succession without driving enough to recharge the battery.  But enough about it.  I parked my Tercel with a sticker on it that declared "THIS CAR IS NOT ABANDONED!"  In the meantime I met my wife and began driving her car, a Ford.  After about 6 mo the Tercel just disappeared.  I never found out what happened to it.

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The vast majority of times, such weird electrical symptoms in cars are due to Earthing problems!!
Resulting in many strange faults, as the current back-feeds elsewhere to earth...   :phew:

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