Reverse Gear
While having tea with some colleagues, we received a call from a colleague that she couldn't start her car. According to her, there was no sound when she turned the ignition. We immediately came to the conclusion that her battery was dead. Finishing our drinks, we rushed over to the parking lot, and another colleague went to drive his car over and get his jumper cables. Upon arrival, we connected the jumper cables and asked her to start her car...
"Errr, I had my gear in reverse..."
Being a manual person, I know nuts about automatic transmission, but I did learn something that day. Automatic cars won't start if the gear is not in P or D. Never in our wildest dreams would we have expected the problem to be that. She had a great tongue-lashing from us.
"Eh, how come my Windows can't start one... oh... never turn on the power yet..."
Nak kena tempeleng...
"Errr, I had my gear in reverse..."
Being a manual person, I know nuts about automatic transmission, but I did learn something that day. Automatic cars won't start if the gear is not in P or D. Never in our wildest dreams would we have expected the problem to be that. She had a great tongue-lashing from us.
"Eh, how come my Windows can't start one... oh... never turn on the power yet..."
Nak kena tempeleng...
Comments
well there's once i drove a bmw. and was the first auto i drove... was just 18 ma... i couldn't get the keys out. and i couldn't get a phone signal (cuz in basement parking ma) to ask me parents how to get it out... i just PULL and PULL it... and oh. i figured it out eventually... it has to be P or N to get it out... dang!
i now drive a normal manual... LOLs...
if it's a manual car hor, she would have started the engine and reversed into someone else. mati ler.
I noticed you're always the first on quite a number of blogs... Is this some kiasu-ness I'm detecting? :P. BMW? Posh. I've never driven anything outside of Proton or Perodua or Mazda.
@Cibetronic:
Driving school all manual ma...
And I took the "special package".
@NyonyaP:
That's what. Manual drivers always check the free gear.