Honda Car Forum

"unix-freak" <mandrakemaniac@yahoo.com> wrote
> SoCalMike <mikein562athotmail@hotmail.com> wrote
> > CaptainKrunch wrote:
> >
> > > I think after pulling the car's head I would pull off the daughter's head
> > > for driving the car home while overheated.
> >
> > id stick a foot right up her ass. then id make her get a job to pay for
> > the repair. then id make her keep the job and buy her own POS to wreck.
> > insurance, too.
>
> sticking foot us a** was concidered, but that would be abuse...
> As far as the other, she paid her own insurance and as the car
> sits...she knows that if she wants it back, she has to pay the repairs
> plus the cost of the car.

So what's the problem?

The point is she's paying for her own mistakes.

You raised a good kid.

> She was actually thinking that she could get it back for free (only
> pay for the repairs). Where do these teenagers get this stuff from?

Indeed. No one here ever lost money to a mistake before, especially while being
a teenager, I bet...

My personal vote is to make the girl change the oil, air filter, plugs,
distributor cap, and rotate tires, the next three times each is due. Include
homework on the cost of DIY vs. having the shop do it. Follow this with a
written test on the car's engine's operation. Minimum passing grade: 100%.
(Screw grade inflation.)

Soon she'll be taking care of your cars when you're in the nursing home and too
stooped to bend over, much less check the oil dipstick. ;-)

On 12 Aug 2004 09:40:54 -0700, mandrakemaniac@yahoo.com (unix-freak)
wrote:

>gRmEcMgOrVeEw@mindspring.com (Gordon McGrew) wrote in message news:<2qrih0tgiabgcehbck5ckdlo3ip6dh09e3@4ax.com>. ..
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:56:54 -0400, unix-freak
>> <eat_your_spam@nice_try.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Yeah the sad part about it is, I taught the daughter to pay attention to
>> >guages (not put pics of boyfriend in front of guage cluster)...and to shut
>> >the car off immediately if overheating, knocking....etc.
>> >
>> >When she pulled into the gas station to add coolant to the overheated
>> >engine, had she called me then I would still have a running vtec. She's the
>> >one without a car now...so I guess she'll learn.
>>
>>
>> Dare we ask, is this a *teenage* daughter by any chance?
>>
>> In a GS-R?
>
>She is and it is.

(cringes) Blond?

Gordon McGrew wrote:

> On 12 Aug 2004 09:40:54 -0700, mandrakemaniac@yahoo.com (unix-freak)
> wrote:
>
>>gRmEcMgOrVeEw@mindspring.com (Gordon McGrew) wrote in message
>>news:<2qrih0tgiabgcehbck5ckdlo3ip6dh09e3@4ax.com >...
>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:56:54 -0400, unix-freak
>>> <eat_your_spam@nice_try.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Yeah the sad part about it is, I taught the daughter to pay attention
>>> >to guages (not put pics of boyfriend in front of guage cluster)...and
>>> >to shut the car off immediately if overheating, knocking....etc.
>>> >
>>> >When she pulled into the gas station to add coolant to the overheated
>>> >engine, had she called me then I would still have a running vtec. She's
>>> >the one without a car now...so I guess she'll learn.
>>>
>>>
>>> Dare we ask, is this a *teenage* daughter by any chance?
>>>
>>> In a GS-R?
>>
>>She is and it is.
>
> (cringes) Blond?

How did you know? (LOL)...actually not naturally...but in this case applies.

Anyhow...I just did a compression check and I'm getting 120 to 150 lbs on 3
cylinders ...but unfortunately only 60 on the 4th. Time to pull the head.

--
Give me Linux or give me ...uh..not Windoze.

"Caroline" <caroline10027remove@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:zvNSc.19074$cK.7909@newsread2.news.pas.earthl ink.net...
> "unix-freak" <mandrakemaniac@yahoo.com> wrote
> > SoCalMike <mikein562athotmail@hotmail.com> wrote
> > > CaptainKrunch wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think after pulling the car's head I would pull off the daughter's
head
> > > > for driving the car home while overheated.
> > >
> > > id stick a foot right up her ass. then id make her get a job to pay
for
> > > the repair. then id make her keep the job and buy her own POS to
wreck.
> > > insurance, too.
> >
> > sticking foot us a** was concidered, but that would be abuse...
> > As far as the other, she paid her own insurance and as the car
> > sits...she knows that if she wants it back, she has to pay the repairs
> > plus the cost of the car.
>
> So what's the problem?
>
> The point is she's paying for her own mistakes.
>
> You raised a good kid.
>
> > She was actually thinking that she could get it back for free (only
> > pay for the repairs). Where do these teenagers get this stuff from?
>
> Indeed. No one here ever lost money to a mistake before, especially while
being
> a teenager, I bet...
>
> My personal vote is to make the girl change the oil, air filter, plugs,
> distributor cap, and rotate tires, the next three times each is due.
Include
> homework on the cost of DIY vs. having the shop do it. Follow this with a
> written test on the car's engine's operation. Minimum passing grade: 100%.
> (Screw grade inflation.)
>
> Soon she'll be taking care of your cars when you're in the nursing home
and too
> stooped to bend over, much less check the oil dipstick. ;-)
>
>
Just remember.......it is your daughter that chooses your nursing home!!!!
YIKES!!!