My jeep has 150000 miles of hard driving behind it, and has developed a bit of 'personality' all its own...
There are several small malfunctions (such as the on-board computer going crazy) that will be completely solved if I just take it off-road for a little while. (Until my truck decides its time to go again).
I know that there's surely purely logical reasons for it (such as the bouncing around making parts fall back into place), but it surely seems that my truck likes to go off-road...
Anybody else have a car with personality?
Yes! I have a twenty years old renault 18 with a strong personality. I think that when a problem becomes so complex as a multiple variable old car (MVOC), we can not talk anymore of logical reasons, just because it is imposible fo a human mind to understand its complexity. These MVOC's become very very personal, my R18 MVOC likes, for example, making funny sounds with one of its wheels every time I turn left on windy days. Another funny sound it likes making is a ronroneo sound with the ventilation system, before driving for about 200 meters. After this it likes to calm down.
We used to have a '92 Dodge Shadow that would never die. In 315,000 miles, nothing major ever went wrong. Sure we replaced the muffler from time to time, but there were never any costly repairs.
One time, the air conditioning wouldn't turn off, and my dad couldn't figure out why, so he started removing the parts that powered the AC one by one, to see which one would make it stopped. Somehow, the air conditioner never shut off, even after we got rid of all the power sources. Ghost car...
Also, it would predict the weather. Well, a lot of cars can do that... the belt squeaks when the humidity gets higher, but it gave the car a unique sound and we all knew when it was coming, so that's sort of like personality.
A few years ago, my brother rear-ended a Mercedes with it. The hood and bumper were messed up, the frame was a bit bent, and the lights were all misaligned, but no parts broke... the car still ran just as good as it always had. But my father junked it because he didn't trust it... figured something was finally gonna go wrong soon.
The other thing that gave it personality were its looks. Even though it was the base model, it had "Shadow GT" striping all over it. I have no idea where that came from.
wow any excuse to go off roading ocalhoun. Is it a jeep wrangler?
And thats a pretty funny story. Will have to tell that to my off roading buddies.
