All the gears, no idea....

[Gary Prentice]

I will admit to driving my L200 for twelve months before learning what the R/D switch on the dashboard was for:blushing:

[Mountain man]

god, this remnds me of the time I had to walk for miles over plough / stubble fields to fetch my old man because i got his Suzuki stuck (I must have been around 13-14) he raged for the whole walk back to the vehicle then simply slipped it into 4wd and pulled away leaving me in the field to walk back to where we were working, lesson learned and plenty of time to think about it.

 

Brilliant! That'll learn ya!

[ballibeg]

Loving the 'how we learnt' stories. I didn't have chance to offer any tips to the driver. Too keen to get my broken collar bone off duty!

[Climbingmagnus]

The other day a mate of mine had to explain to someone who has a PhD in Physics why driving up Brassknocker Hill in Bath (1:10 with 100m vertical ascent) at 4mph in second gear slipping the clutch the whole way would "make the car smell like hot brakes"

 

[TGB]

I go to local agri shows when I can. I remember going to a particular one for the first time and found it odd that all the swanky 4x4s were being directed to park close to the entrance/exit gate. While the majority of cars, (me included) were directed up the grass bank above the show ground.

 

I decided to leave early, as it began to rain and not wanting to get caught in what I assumed would be a rutted jam. Only to be jammed behind half a dozen cars. We were all waiting for a swanky 4x4, which had been parked on level ground not 50yds. from the gate, to be extracted. The driver of which had no idea how to use his vehicle.

 

I had a chuckle or three, when after being got out of the parking space by the brute force of a few burly guys. The troubled driver and his now muddy vehicle, were easily towed out to the road, by a steward in a white Jag.

 

On the way out of the gate, I had a word with the guy on the gate and asked whether that was a one off. He replied, that the reason all the posh 4x4s were near the gate, was that none of their owners knew how to drive on anything other than tarmac or pavements. And that hadn't been a one off but the first of all too many. He too found it particularly amusing that a once bright red Range Rover, had been towed by a white sports car, who's driver evidently knew how to drive on what had become slippery ground.