steve_earwig wrote:Go buy an Italian car, then you'll know what poor electrics is all about
Confirmed - I had a driving experience day on Sunday, and was sitting in a Lamborghini Murcielago. It was showing a "low windscreen washer fluid level" message on its display (the bottle is full, duff sensor).
And ... in the Ferrari 360 (which they kept the engine running on from one driver to the next), we were warned not to touch the pedals as we were getting into or out of the car - apparently if you stand on the accelerator while the car is not in gear and the engine is running ... you'll blow up the engine. Stone dead.
As for the experience - the Ferrari tried to kill me (my foot kept getting stuck under the brake pedal - i.e. my foot on the accelerator pedal, unable to take my foot off the accelerator). I have broad feet.
The Lamborghini was the better car - though the gear shift is terrible - the gear lever is enclosed in a kind of metal "gate":
and shifting the lever from one gear to the next involves moving the stick into the ruts on this "gate" precisely, with no spring helping you as you get on normal stick-shift cars. Net result? I kept fluffing the gear changes, as all I heard was the gear lever smacking into the metal bits.
Point is, all cars have niggles, electrical or otherwise, regardless of cost or point of origin (remember all those madly-accelerating Toyotae that were recalled recently?) I'll post a proper message about my driving experience in the General Chat section when I get a spare 5 mins.
Welcome along, BTW
