Driving to work this morning, and just as I was part way around a roundabout, I heard a loud warning 'bing' followed by the multifunction indicator displaying in half inch high red letters the message "STOP", followed by a break warning indicator, followed by the message "Break Fault".
My first thought was "how do I stop if the breaks have gone"?
My second thought was "have the breaks gone?"
Fortunately the breaks were working, and as there was no traffic infront of me on the long straight road I could have stopped using the gears. The break fluid was low and the movement on the roundabout had obviously caused the sensor to trigger the warning.
But what a sense of humour the Germans have eh, "STOP, break failure"
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Are you sure something wasn't broken..? :-)
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JBJ,
Come on, give him a brake!
Matt35.
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Sounds like he needs one...
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Die dulci fruere!
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Back in the distant past of Top Gear, when Austin produced the talking Maestro, one of their presenters went to the launch in Spain. He misjudged a corner in the mountains and went over the side, rolling down the hill. The car turned over several times before finally coming to a halt upside down. Every panel was bashed. No glass was left intact. Most of the mechanicals were strewn liberally along the path to the car's resting place. The dashboard was utterly trashed, with bits hanging off in front of the driver.
Fortunately the driver was ok. As he hung there in the straps, an ethereal voice came from the dashboard:
"Oil level low"
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OK, OK, give me a break. I can speak German, can remember a little bit of Latin, know a small amount of Spanish, and have totally forgotten my French, so please cut me some slack, as it was early when I posted and the brain wasn't in gear.
100 lines to me
it's brake not break
it's brake not break
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:0)
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i'll be jumping on the next person to misuse there, they're, there, two, to and too as revenge!!
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Rather write out 100 times:
"I MUST check my fluid levels at least onece a week..."
Could have been an expensive mistake, but I'm glad you have learned from the experience.
They're you go!
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I do check oil, coolant, wash fluid and tyres, but have never ever thought about brake fluid.
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I would be getting it down the garage quick smart and finding out where the brake fluid has gone. In normal use (ie brake pad wear) I wouldn't expect the level to drop that low - and even if this is the only reason, then it almost certainly needs new pads and / or shoes.
You have been, as they say, well warned!
Interesting choice of words by the manufacturer though.....!!
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RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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If the pads are worn, don't top up the fluid before replacing them (I still remember, from my student days, the horror of seeing a jet of fluid spraying, whale like, out of the master cylinder as my friend pushed the pistons back in to fit the new (thicker) pads...)
John
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..there, they're, their...
(ducks)
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look we've got to make fuels of ourselves somehow......
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