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Can you change a car wheel?

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not only can I - I have to do 12 twice a year because we have a set of Winter Tyres for each car and I tend to do my car and the gfs cars. So twice a year I pick a saturday or sunday and change 12 tyres in a row. Fun it is not.


  • #33
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    Seriously - its about a 4 step process. The 2/3 tools involved practically describe what they are for themselves by their shapes.

    There are harder challenges on the Sun's sports and games page.....emm I've been told.
    You better have a good reason if you're male and can't change a wheel, or you're handing in your man card.


  • #34
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Not only can I - I have to do 12 twice a year because we have a set of Winter Tyres for each car and I tend to do my car and the gfs cars. So twice a year I pick a saturday or sunday and change 12 tyres in a row. Fun it is not.

    12? ....You both drive six wheel half tracks?


  • #35
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    No, not a clue:D. Don't have a clue as to what goes on under the bonnet either. I just drive the car, and hope nothing ever goes wrong. . .


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
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    Rigol wrote: »
    12? ....You both drive six wheel half tracks?

    4 wheels per car. 3 Cars. My maths is bad but not THAT bad. 4x3=12 right? I am even doubting myself now.


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  • #37
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,861 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Deleted User wrote: »
    4 wheels per car. 3 Cars. My maths is bad but not THAT bad. 4x3=12 right? I am even doubting myself now.

    You're fine. I thought the same until I realised you said your car and your gf's cars (3 cars), rather than you and your girlfriends cars (2 cars)


  • #38
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    Penn wrote: »
    You're fine. I thought the same until I realised you said your car and your gf's cars (3 cars), rather than you and your girlfriends cars (2 cars)

    Whats a woman doing with 2 cars let alone one.
    She'll only hurt herself.


  • #39
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    In theory I do but tbh I don't really want to. I'd ruin my manicure!


  • #40
    Naid23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭Naid23


    My dad made me change a tyre when I got my first car - I could barely lift the wheel let alone put it on the car.

    I swiftly signed up to AA after that ha :D


  • #41
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Deleted User wrote: »
    4 wheels per car. 3 Cars. My maths is bad but not THAT bad. 4x3=12 right? I am even doubting myself now.

    I count 18 wheels


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Penn wrote: »
    You're fine. I thought the same until I realised you said your car and your gf's cars (3 cars), rather than you and your girlfriends cars (2 cars)
    Rigol wrote: »
    Whats a woman doing with 2 cars let alone one.
    She'll only hurt herself.

    Amazing the difference an apostophy can make to the understanding of a sentence. I think in this case it should be "girlfriends' cars"? I am not actually 100% sure how you mix the plural and the possessive. It is two girls - each with a car. I trust it will not break the grammar nazi rule if someone informs me how to correctly write this at my request? Feel free to PM me the answer if you feel the mods might call GN rule on it if you answer me here.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
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    who the fug wrote: »
    I count 18 wheels

    Ok...... go on......


  • #44
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,848 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    2 girlfriends?

    And a pet wolf?


  • #45
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ok...... go on......


    See what you missed by paying attention at school to apostophy and ****, when you could have been figuring that one out


  • #46
    miamee
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    who the fug wrote: »
    I count 18 wheels
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ok...... go on......
    who the fug wrote: »
    See what you missed by paying attention at school to apostophy and ****, when you could have been figuring that one out

    12 tyres plus 3 steering wheels plus 3 spares...but he's only changing 12 of them.


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    knucklehead6 wrote: »
    2 girlfriends?

    And a pet wolf?

    ....And a vegetable garden....
    who the fug wrote: »
    See what you missed by paying attention at school to apostophy and ****, when you could have been figuring that one out

    Seems I did not pay attention to the apostrophy thing either. I wonder what else I have missed out on that would have improved my life as imeasurably as being able to pluralise the possesive and count 18 wheels on 3 cars :)
    miamee wrote: »
    12 tyres plus 3 steering wheels plus 3 spares...but he's only changing 12 of them.

    No spares actually. We got those weird wheels that temporary fix themselves if they puncture with foam or some such. I actually do not know the details having not actually HAD a puncture yet but I am sure I will see it myself how it works soon enough.


  • #48
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Scortho


    First time i get a flat i had to get help from one of the lads in work. The wrench that volkswagen give is as useful as tits on a bull!
    Having got a proper wrench its actually a fairly easy thing to do now.


  • #49
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I changed the tyre on my landlady's car a few months ago. I don't have a licence and have never owned a car - yet I can do that because the actual job is mechanical, and the skills required aren't specific to cars. One such skill is the ability to read and follow printed instructions. :cool:

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #50
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I voted no to give the poll more balance.


  • #51
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Where To wrote: »
    I voted no to give the poll more balance.

    Should have checked that tracking whilst you were at it


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  • #52
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    The amount of people (read women) who I've changed wheels for whilst parked on the side of the road is unreal.

    The one that I remember the most was the poor old pensioner in sandyford who was standing helpless beside his old ford escort watching everyone drive past. I pulled in and asked him if he was ok? Flat wheel and hadn't the strength to change it. 5 mins later and he's trying to pay me...you're grand I says, consider it a good turn done. Piss*d me off to hear him tell me he was there 30 mins and not a single person stopped to see if he was ok.


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