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[BazaJT]

A spokesperson for Green Flag was on TV yesterday giving out their advice on how to avoid breaking down in the hot weather.She began by saying you should check coolant level,oil level and tyre pressures before starting your journey[shouldn't you do that anyway regardless of weather conditions?]and then she said you should open the car windows to maintain airflow through the car and turn off the aircon to save the strain on the engine operating in the heat

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I wouldn't want to pay for cover to a company stupid enough to allow someone that thick to be their frontline media spokesperson. 

[2boxerdogs]

What happened to plain old commonsense ? Some of the advice being offered must make the average Briton look a complete moron.

[TheBoy]

must make the average Briton look a complete moron.

I'm afraid the average Briton is a complete moron.

Look how every local rag is full of stories about dogs being left in the car, look at the number of fuel assist type breakdown vans in most petrol forecourts, the list is endless.

[TheBoy]

A spokesperson for Green Flag was on TV yesterday giving out their advice on how to avoid breaking down in the hot weather.She began by saying you should check coolant level,oil level and tyre pressures before starting your journey[shouldn't you do that anyway regardless of weather conditions?]and then she said you should open the car windows to maintain airflow through the car and turn off the aircon to save the strain on the engine operating in the heat

If I saw the engine temp rising, I would turn off A/C and turn the heater up full, and open windows and sunroof.

So there is some truth in what was being said, but I suspect the silly bint had heard it 3rd hand without understanding.....

[Andy B]

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If I saw the engine temp rising, ......

You'd be lucky to see the engine temp these days .... an engine temp gauge is getting to be a rarity 

[TheBoy]

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If I saw the engine temp rising, ......

You'd be lucky to see the engine temp these days .... an engine temp gauge is getting to be a rarity 

Again, because Joe Public is too stupid to understand them.

Fortunately, all my cars do have one.  I suspect they are heavily damped, but at least there is something

[STEMO]

Temp gauges will stay in the middle as long as the engine temperature is 'within a range'. That's why, if they do start moving upwards, you should pay attention to them.

[Kevin Wood]

Temp gauges will stay in the middle as long as the engine temperature is 'within a range'. That's why, if they do start moving upwards, you should pay attention to them.

Yep, they've been dumbed down to do this these days, otherwise, the aforementioned morons get hysterical every time it moves a mm from the central position.

[Andy B]

Temp gauges will stay in the middle as long as the engine temperature is 'within a range'. That's why, if they do start moving upwards, you should pay attention to them.

Yep, they've been dumbed down to do this these days, otherwise, the aforementioned morons get hysterical every time it moves a mm from the central position.

It's been dumbed down to a blue or red thermometer icon in SWMBO's Citroen

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Temp gauges will stay in the middle as long as the engine temperature is 'within a range'. That's why, if they do start moving upwards, you should pay attention to them.

Don't have one......or a dipstick.

No idea how dirty the oil is or even if it has been changed.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

......and as for the oil level readout. I can get it to read just about anything from "add one litre' to " too much oil"

[2boxerdogs]

must make the average Briton look a complete moron.

I'm afraid the average Briton is a complete moron.

Look how every local rag is full of stories about dogs being left in the car, look at the number of fuel assist type breakdown vans in most petrol forecourts, the list is endless.

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I'm so thankful for being above average, just old & sensible.😎

[Nick W]

What happened to plain old commonsense ? Some of the advice being offered must make the average Briton look a complete moron.

Common sense is just short hand for stuff that I learnt so along ago that I've forgotten that I didn't know it.
And let's not forget that ignorance is common: that advice is for people who don't know how their car - a complex, but everyday consumer item - works. That describes all of us in someway, not only do I not know how the TV converts a radio signal from the aerial into moving pictures on the screen but I don't care!

[Bigron]

Wow, at last I know something that you don't, Nick = I DO know how that telly thing works!

Ron.