Mom comes home this evening a bit weary since she had her first engine light.

I take a look and it was a red cel w/"boot open" in the message display (I know some of you are already chuckling!).

My first reaction was "wtf is a boot?" I check all the doors, and nada. I then open the engine compartment and inspect everything. My intial reaction was the battery tray being loose. Nope not that. Perhaps, the gas cap...nope!

At this point I'm totally confused. I glanced through the manual, and there's no indication of what a "boot" refers to. So I go about checking the tire pressure valve caps !

Well, I'm sure you guys are aware of this but "boot" refers to trunk. Man, you'd think they'd either one, indicate it in the manual or two, change the lingo on the display indicator from brit english!!!

Well, that sure was an interesting experience. 20 minutes to figure out the trunk wasn't closed!!! Hah!

 

Now you know what its like with words we have to decipher like fender,hood,trunk,chips,fries etc
Say them like they are (in order of above)
wing,bonnet,boot,crisps,chips etc

 

OMG...........Ancient, you musta been laughing soo hard, at yourself I mean!!!
Seriously though........I'm chucklin about it here as I write this...........there's some real crackers in the "translation" from English UK to English US.
On my A6 you can shoose if you want one or the other........quite handy I guess.
lol

Jim

 

f***ing english!

try reading their service literature. their orientationfor the car, of left and right, is different than ours. especially when your testing oxygen sensor harnesses.

 

LMAO! When you put "(I know some of you are already chuckling)"....I was already chuckling! Glad to see nothings wrong though!

 

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The left and right hand side of the car dont swap just cos youre in the US.Whenever we get parts at our bodyshop a lot of them have LH or RH even for US cars like Chrysler for example.Or G(auche) for left and D(roit) for right on French cars.Whether the steering wheel is on the left or right doesnt affect the viewpoint.Orientation is always viewedas if you aresitting inside the car.

 

The other night my wife and I got a new fax machine. We decided to use the French instructions. We both felt very Continental.

Buck, wait until you find out the "hood" is over year head and the "bonnet" covers the engine!

 

You both felt continental ? LOL, may be next time you will feel Town Car ?