How the Hell do they do it

**DirtyDawg** · 13th July 2006, 05:26 AM

I gave the Disco to the wife as the new family car as she loves to drive it.
It has a lift kit, king springs, Tough dog shocks etc etc and a TJM dual battery system.
5pm saturday receive a call from the wife shopping " I can't get the car started"
I thought it must have been the alarm battery in her key chain dead but in the background I could hear it disarming. I said call the RAC as I was at home with our 7mth old and no car seat.

The story is in a dual battery car she had flattened them both with a 5 hour shopping visit and the headlights on hi beam? I said what of the audible alarm when you leave the lights on and turn the ign off she said "I didn't hear it there was no alarm"

I dragged her kicking and screaming in the dead cold of night to do a keep the wax out of your ears experiment. "oh its working now"

If divorce wasn't so goddamn expensive and murder wasn't a crime How many single guys would there be.
Marriage the ultimate masochistic act.

**Redback** · 13th July 2006, 06:35 AM

Well i'm speachless, 2 batteries in 5 hours, and aspecially the Disco battery being 110AH, and didn't hear the lights on alarm

Baz.

**x-box** · 13th July 2006, 06:36 AM

And you only figured out now that they have selective hearing, selective thinking, selective saving, constant spending, selective sense of humor, etc etc etc<_<

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 13th July 2006, 06:47 AM

We went into town yesterday to show the new baby off to work. She was guiding me into the park that I was backing into, and showing me a metre... and they yells STOP. She said she forgot about the tyre.

Then, she drives over my foot with the pram THREE times in the space of an hour and wonders why I was getting a bit agitated... LOL

She's pretty good overall though

**Farnarkle** · 13th July 2006, 08:37 AM

Is she blonde?

**stevo68** · 13th July 2006, 09:17 AM

We went into town yesterday to show the new baby off to work

Off topic a smidge, but congrats, when did you have the new bub and what did you have? Umm did you put up a post and I missed it?? Might have with all the crap going on. Oh and yes agree with all sentiments above, though my missus will say I suffer from the same sometimes

regards

Stevo

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 13th July 2006, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by stevo68

Off topic a smidge, but congrats, when did you have the new bub and what did you have? Umm did you put up a post and I missed it?? Might have with all the crap going on. Oh and yes agree with all sentiments above, though my missus will say I suffer from the same sometimes

regards

Stevo

Hi Steve... yes we did

Here is the thread if you want to have a look at it. He is doing quite well now

**gruntfuttock** · 13th July 2006, 02:53 PM

Note:
You should change the alarm beep to a voice that says "Your make-up is smudged, and also your headlights are on"

**BigJon** · 13th July 2006, 03:23 PM

A mate had a talking alarm years ago, complete with proximity sensors which, when activated, would trigger a spoken warning. That was pretty cool, but switching the language to Spanish was hilarious

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**Quiggers** · 13th July 2006, 03:24 PM

What's the chance of rewiring the headlight switch so it they get turned off when the ign key is turned off and / or removed? Just a thought.... Come to thinkof it I wouldn't mind a mod like that in my 93 D1. I often miss turning off the lights, given there is no alarm and the light switch is a tiny roller on the left stalk.... But I've not flattened the battery...yet...

Cheers, GQ

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