Originally Posted by abaddonxi
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You're S.O. who isnt mechanicaly inclined can name by sight most primary components of an engine from whats been learned from conversations that started with "can you come and move this landrover bit so I can clean the laundry/bathroom/kitchen"
Youve had OPEC companies survey your land before and your getting sick of everytime they hire a new executive you have to tell them its just where your park your car.
you can lip read but your not deaf.
you watch documentries on the panama canal and scoff "Thats more clearance than I get when parking at woolies and they have spotters and tugs to help" when the comment about the manouvering room in the locks.
none of your pants have a right hand side belt loop.
the EPA turn up with spill control booms every time it rains.
Arab nations send you a thank you card every xmas (if you own a V8)
its raining, your wearing gumboots but you take them off once you get out of the car to go into the shops.
you're not worried about leaving pets in the car with the windows wound up, theres still plenty of ventilation.
your toyota owning mates consistently bag you on your choice of 4x4 but when you get hold of one of their phones you find your number listed under "recovery"
you slow down to a near stop and listen intently every time you go under a minimum height boom.
you know to the nearest 5cms the actual height of your vehicle and have a mark on the roo bar mounted antennae that reflects this.
you get sick of having to pull over in convoy for toyotas with supposed long range tanks whining on the 2way about the low fuel light coming on, again.
youve ever wondered why when you get in a new toyota it seems like theres less space on the inside than the outside shape would have you believe.
when some one asks for a 9/16th you ask them imperial or witworth.
you're aware that aside from metric and imperial thread gauges there is also SAE, BSP and witworth, you dont mind that all of them turn up on the same component occasionally. especially if your vehicle predates the metric thread gauge
somewhere you have or know where a copy resides of the landrover antiFAQ. you know some of the items it contains by heart.
given the following
"its not an oil leak its......."
you can come up with at least 3 ways of completing that line.
you wonder why people look at you weird when you finish washing the outside of the car and start on the inside without putting the hose down.
youve considered repainting the tongue of the reece hitch but decide not to bother cause somones just going to run into it again.
you're not sure if you should park on the flat incase the handbrake fails or on the slope in case the starter fails.
you firmly believe, thanks to lucas, that landrover invented the intermittant wiper, the dimming dash lights and the blackout light.
you know both the 2 man made objects joke AND the cat joke.
The real star of the gods must be crazy was the car.
behind closed doors youve actually had an ARB/TJM salesman admit that the reason they dont stock as much landy stuff as mitsoytasan parts is because the mitsoytasan owners are just trying to keep up with the landies in the first place. doing the same mods on a landie is tantamout to rubbing salt in the wounds.
from personal experience you know hand cranking an engine isnt as hard as it sounds.
your idea of really cranking the aircon is removing the door tops.
you understand the difference between a command driving position and elevated seat height
youve fully deflated the ego of a heavily modded mitsoytasan driver whos just spent an hour and a half shredding his tyres and bending panels scrabbling up a track to where your having a lunch break by responding to his question of "did you have an easy time on the chicken track?" by replying "I thought that was the chicken track."
you happily upset creationist/intelligent design supporters wrong by saying "if it was all created it would have been made properly the first time. The landrover was created 60 years ago and hasnt changed, mankind however has evolved from where it started so therefore was not created or designed but follows the rules of evolution."
you understand at least half of the points/digs in this thread.
you've posted some.
you think that theres some we've missed.
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