Watchdog - Minis

[Sancho]

Today's big story - the power steering pump on minis can fail, making it hard to steer. Big deal. It whines like an 8 year old that wants a puppy even when it works. I hate watchdog, what a load of scaremongering nonsense.

[RodLeach]

Im sick to the back teeth of bl**dy watchdog an all other programs like that..

Problem is it just develops the mentality of you have to be an a$$hole to anyone to get anything out of them!

[da SLUG man]

anything like the clio that's bonnet opens if you don't close it properly, or the vauxhall handbrake that doesn't hold the brakes on if you don't pull it hard enough??

[BUSHWHACKER]

I think most of the complaints came from drivers who were texting at the same time the steering pump failed.

[Sancho]

They had this stupid film of the guy driving round some cones with the pump working at 30, then at 20 with the pump off, then at 30 with the pump off. Easy, hard and impossible respectively. So, if your power steering pump fails, you won't be able to drive around cones anymore. Personally, I would slow down and pull over, not try to drive around cones.

[da SLUG man]

i've had power steering hydraulic hoses burst on trucks before... i'd say they were a tad harder than a mini to steer, but aprt from ather cars being covered in high pressure fluid, there wasn't really a problem!!

isn't power steering variable, so the faster you go, the less it needs to assist??

[Gaspode]

Pfft. power steering used to be on top of the range cars only, the last four cars I've owned have had it but the previous 30 odd didnt, you just develop some flippin muscles, bunch of pussies..





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[BUSHWHACKER]

Pfft. power steering used to be on top of the range cars only, the last four cars I've owned have had it but the previous 30 odd didnt, you just develop some flippin muscles, bunch of pussies..





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.....and stop texting and holding a packet of crisps between your knees while driving.

[Gaspode]

.....and stop texting and holding a packet of crisps between your knees while driving.

I agree about the texting, but c'mon, you got to have crisps!!





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[MattF]

I agree about the texting, but c'mon, you got to have crisps!!

Not between the knees.





They should be by the crotch.

[Gaspode]

Not between the knees.





They should be by the crotch.

Part of the driving test should be eating a pie while parking.





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[BUSHWHACKER]

I agree about the texting, but c'mon, you got to have crisps!!





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Wotsits are easier.

[BUSHWHACKER]

Not between the knees.





They should be by the crotch.

Stop that!

[MattF]

Stop that!

[BioHazard]

Not between the knees.





They should be by the crotch.

French fries ............or a frankfurter