Garage airline. Words fail me.

[Hard-Drive]

This happened to me last night...

Two women (one middlish age and her mum I'm guessing) doing their tyre pressures at one of those combined air/water units on a forecourt. Older one standing by the digital display on the unit, one at the nozzle end.

I pull up alongside. Open bonnet, try to fill washer bottle. Give up in disgust at the tiny dribble of water coming out. Make polite "that's not much use is it?" comment to the older one, pointing at feeble dribble coming out of water hose.

Get "No dear. But that 32psi reading on the screen at the moment, is that your hose or ours?"

[zollburgers]

I would be impressed that they were actually doing their tyres. There are plenty of men that don't.

[king arthur]

You should have asked her to try adding a few more psi and see if the water comes out any better.

[jjones]

zollburgers said:

I would be impressed that they were actually doing their tyres. There are plenty of men that don't.

this

[McSam]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

..with a fourwheel drive turbo nutter homogolation Max Power wet dream machine..

[EDLT]

I've picked up the water hose instead of the air hose before

[matt 2LT]

a lad i went to college with, was adament that the water nozzle is there so that you could fill your tyres up with water.


NO ITS THERE TO FILL UP YOUR fkING WASHER BOTTLE, YOU USE THE AIR NOZZLE FOR YOUR TYRES

he drove a saxo by the way.

Edited by matt 2LT on Thursday 16th December 23:01

[finlo]

matt 2LT said:

a lad i went to college with, was adament that the water nozzle is there so that you could fill your tyres up with water.


NO ITS THERE TO FILL UP YOUR fkING WASHER BOTTLE, YOU USE THE AIR NOZZLE FOR YOUR TYRES

he drove a saxo by the way.

Edited by matt 2LT on Thursday 16th December 23:01

My local petrol station used to have an "airline" that dispensed water for the tractor fraternity.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Hard-Drive said:

water units on a forecourt

Open bonnet, try to fill washer bottle.

weather forecast said:

High of 0degrees, lows of -5, dropping to -10 in places overnight

erm.....

[pbirkett]

Half the time proper screen wash freezes anyway.

[dingg]

I know of 2 halfwits who have topped their engines up with oil 'till it came out of the dipstick hole


feckin muppets

one was my ex brother in law

[ROB_GTR]

dingg said:

I know of 2 halfwits who have topped their engines up with oil 'till it came out of the dipstick hole


feckin muppets

one was my ex brother in law

Think you mean "dipsticks"

[John D.]

I was expecting this to be about planes.

[MDT]

My sister spent well over an hour trying to put the oil into the engine via the dipstick hole on her Clio, you should have seen the mess of the engine and the driveway.

BUT she did now understand why garages are so expensive for a service. “well if it takes them that long just to do the oil”

[zakelwe]

matt 2LT said:

NO ITS THERE TO FILL UP YOUR fkING WASHER BOTTLE, YOU USE THE AIR NOZZLE FOR YOUR TYRES

No it's to wash your car on the cheap if you are from Yorkshire.

Andy

[fatboy b]

John D. said:

I was expecting this to be about planes.

What's the betting one on the mods moves this to BT&P?

[lance1a]

When I was working in the Special Vehicle operation department of a large german manufacturer we had a lot of supposed 'experts' join us during various build phases. As part of the prep for press cars one of the things was checking the tyre pressures during a PDI. We used a normal tyre gauge/pump that you get at any garage forecourt, just not connected to the airline as most tyres came overinflated from the suppliers anyway. One day my mate was doing this check and releasing some excess pressure when one of the experts came up and said....' That's awesome man'. My mate looked at him confused for a moment. ' so like how does that gadget blow the tyres up then hey?'
My mate cottoned on....' Yeah it's cool hey...this device stores air inside and all you do is connect it to the tyre and it will transfer the air pressure.' Still holding the completely normal but unconnected tyre pump.
We had a laugh as this guy went around showing everyone how the device worked in the Showbay, and had loads of guys come up and ask..'What the hell did you guys tell him?'