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The 20 Dumbest Things Said By Non-Petrolheads, As Heard Past CT Readers

Nosotros asked you guys what ridiculous things you've heard non-car lovers say. Later on a huge response, we've called our favourites and posted them hither!

1. Y'all keep using the term 'JDM', I don't think y'all know what it means... - SkylineBoy

My classmate: "JDM cars suck, I'd rather accept a Japanese car."

ii. Of course I put oil in it - FinnishCapriFan2904

A friend of mine who is a mechanic told me this story: lady comes into his shop and asks him if he can check her auto because it started making weird noises and didn't run. She tells him she but put some oil in it. He checks the oil and asks her: what kind of oil did you put in it? She responds: just some olive oil!

3. Rotary confusion - Ryan Kennedy

I went to a auto testify. Me: "Oh how nice is that RX-7 Bathurst R over there?" Friend: "Why? What'southward so practiced well-nigh it? Information technology'south simply a four-cylinder." We aren't friends any more.

4. What is that stick for? - Gabz

My first girlfriend asked me what the shifter was and why I was "footling" with information technology all the time.

5. Machine spotting lvl: expert - Zac Campbell

"Wow dude, look at that Lambo!" Information technology was a Mitsubishi Eclipse.

half dozen. Then that's what it's for! - Caleb

My friend who has been driving for ii years only recently plant out cars run on petrol. All this time he thought a motorcar'south ability came from the battery and the crap he was putting in at the gas station was just an essential lubricant for the car.

seven. How does VTEC kick in? - Eduardo Silva

"Where's the push for the turbo?!" "Where practise yous turn VTEC on?!" Those actually happened, I retrieve laughing so hard.

viii. At least they tried - Stephen Blaze

"Is that the new Toyota EVO??" - while looking at a Nissan GT-R.

9. The cognition is potent with this one - Daym u str8 babygurl

"Every auto in the world has four spark plugs"

10. More than rotary defoliation - Gregory Griffo Griffiths

I had i from a car guy! We had only watched Tokyo Drift at the cinema and at the terminate he came out with "Man I'd love that RX-7! Would be amazing with a gear up of forged pistons!" It took me a couple minutes to really become my words out…

eleven. Cylinders? You lot mad bro?? - Rahul Dias

My friend most killed me when I told her that her motorcar had iv cylinders. She said "This is not one of those lame f—king CNG cars, it runs on gasoline. Why would there be cylinders in a gasoline automobile?"

12. Hubcaps: you're doing it wrong - Trevor Campbell

A good friend of mine (who is now a corporate lawyer) looked at my Volvo hubcaps and told me I'd installed them upside downwards.

xiii. Exhausting levels of ignorance - Dylan John Benjamin

"But V8s have dual exhaust tips"

14. Wrong supercar - That ford guy

My friend one time said "Look at that Ferrari." It was an NSX.

15. Tesla tuning tips - Adam Aleem

I overheard some guy proverb "The best fashion to make a Model S go faster is with a twin-turbo setup."

16. Have I been ripped off? - Leah Colk

A friend idea the mechanics in her garage were ripping her off; she needed 2 new tyres and it price her £280. I explained that it'southward a perfectly reasonable price depending on which tyres she got. When I asked her this she replied "black ones."

17. A conversation worth a screen shot - Illuminati

I asked my friend what the RB26DETT is.

eighteen. This thing's four-cycle drive, right? Alex Savva

Talking almost four-wheel drive with my friend, and he says "This is four wheel drive, isn't it?" He happens to bulldoze a diesel Ford Focus MK2. His reasoning for this thinking was that "all four wheels turn when the motorcar moves".

A few months down the line, I brought it up once again, and he changes his reason. At present he thinks that iv wheel drive means "all four wheels turned, as in they all steer the car."

19. A car knowledge and history fail combined - Shelby Birdwell

I in one case had a guy in my class make fun of me for my BMW E30. He said that it was a "Chinese piece of junk." Then I showed him where information technology said "fabricated in West Germany" and he said "yes, it'due south Chinese, West Germany doesn't be!"

20. The worst thing to say to a petrolhead - stealthed

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