Do you know your own car? (memory test)

Take the test now, then check your answers against your car.
If you were way wrong come back here and confess, and we will laugh and laugh.

  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel?
  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes)
  3. Hi Opal!
  4. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights?
  5. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb?
  6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
  7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ?
  8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits?
  9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?
  10. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors?
  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel?
    Um…four, I think.

  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes)
    Four?

  3. Hi Opal!
    I like sheep.

  4. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights?
    Yes, below, one bulb.

  5. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb?
    I…have no idea.

  6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
    Frame with dealer name, but no city. I think it has a phone number.

  7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model?

  8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits?
    Crimeny…I haven’t got a clue. No parking permits, though.

  9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?
    We swore we’d leave this car bumper-sticker free, and in 4.5 years, we’ve succeeded.

  10. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors?
    Not that I’m aware of.

I guess this makes me realize how little I think about the details of my car.

I want to see if I can predict some of Johnny L.A.'s answers:

  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel? Yes. 1.

  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes) 60.

1)no/yes/yes…5/4/5
2) no spokes: chrome reverse & baby moons/10-holes/5-way interlocking snowflake pattern
3) Hi Opal! baby, you can drive my car…
4) no/no/yes NA/NA/at the bottom NA/NA/one bulb
5) red/red/yellow
6) six plates…no frames
7) DESOTO, Firedome, V 8, Powerflite/none/none
8) none/2 MO inspection stickers (1 safety, 1 emissions), 2 old PA inspection stickers, a Marine reserve sticker/2 MO inspection stickers (1 safety, 1 emissions)
9) six bumpers…no bumper stickers
10) this one’s two colors (brown and cream), plus remnants of the different, original two colors (pink and salmon), plus beige primer/this one’s black with flat black mirrors, window trim, door handles and headlight surrounds, and red pinstriping/this one’s white

just checked my results:
the second car, the Marine sticker is a unit association group, not reserve unit
the third car has a sticker I forgot about: on the left rear door window is a sticker indicating the car has a child protection lock

  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel? Yes. Four.
  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes) Six
  3. Hi Opal!
  4. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights? Yes, set into base of rear window, behind plastic so can’t tell
  5. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb? Clear, yellow bulb. FTR, I hate the ones that are red. Should be illegal.
  6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
    Yes, but it’s a fraternity plate
  7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model?
    Yanked it all off shortly after purchase, except for the manufacturer logo in the top center
  8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits? Five
  9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?
    Nope
  10. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors?
    Nope, car’s black, everything that isn’t chrome or plastic is body colored.

Perfect 10 for the win!

'Course, I’ve had the car since May of 2002 and I’ve owned it from new.

1 & 2 - alloy wheels with five large (i.e. easy to clean) spokes, locking wheel nuts, never removed the covers to reveal them.

4 - line of lights above the rear window, I see it reflected (or probably refracted?) on misty nights

5 - Yellow, couldn’t be anything else :wink: , but clear plastic

6 - Frames don’t exist for ours, and mine has no branding of any kind, nor an EU flag thingy

7 - ‘Fiesta’ on the left, ‘Flame’ on the right, nothing else.

8 - Front: tax disc bottom left, reminder of next service top right. Rear: dealer sticker along the bottom. That’s it.

9 & 10 - No.

I forgot the sillouette of a skinny broad with a cowboy hat on the back window. Probably on purpose, but there you go.

  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel? None. I have mag wheels.
  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes) See above.
  3. Hi Opal!
  4. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights? Yes. One bulb, above the rear cab window.
  5. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb? Red plastic.
  6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city? Yes. No. Mine says "Get a grip. It was only a lane change."
  7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model? No chrome. Painted “Frontier” and "Nissan"
  8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits? 3
  9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking? Yes. One “Buddha” fish and a decal that says "WWBD? What would Buffy do?"
  10. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors? Nope. Silver all over. Except as noted in #7
  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel? Hub caps cover the lugs

  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes) 10-spoke mag wheels.

  3. Hi Opal! Hi yourself!

  4. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights? ** Yes - In the rear window, above the package shelf - one bulb**

  5. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb? yellow plastic

  6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city? Plain black frame with no writing

  7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ? Car logo and model

  8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits? 5 (I think. 2 for security system, two school stickers and a state park season pass)

  9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?** Just one, from a local pub**

  10. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors? nope, all silver paint - black rubber bumper trip and belt line trim

Got all 9 - the one about window stickers was the one I wasn’t sure of, but there are in fact 5.

  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel?
    I have chrome spoke wheels on my pickup, no wheel covers. Each wheel is held on with 5 lugnuts.

  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes)

  1. That is why they are called 8 spoke wheels.
  1. Hi Opal!
    'lo.

  2. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights?
    None, not required in 1993 for pickups.

  3. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb?
    Red plastic.

  4. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
    None. It broke about 8 years ago so I took it off.

  5. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ?
    Just big white letters that spell TOYOTA on the tailgate. I took the rear bumper off a few months ago, the only thing that is chrome that is left is the tailgate latch handle.

  6. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits?
    None. I detest stickers and such.

  7. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?
    Same as above.

  8. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors?
    Nope, all original.

  1. No, there’s a plastic cover over them.
  2. Too many to remember, a dozen?
  3. We had a Vauxhall once :wink:
  4. IIRC third brake light up on the rear parcel shelf.
  5. Red and yellow plastic.
  6. Chrome frame, as below. Dealer name on the plate.
  7. Chrome around the license plate, Rover name and 45 model badge, with the Rover Viking logo in the centre.
  8. I think there is a small engraving for the security system.
  9. None.
  10. No, all body colour AFAIK.
  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel?
    5
  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes)
    6?
  3. Hi Opal!
    Hi!
  4. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights?
    Yes. Above. One.
  5. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb?
    Clear with yellow bulb.
  6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
    Yes. No.
  7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ?
    Logo.
  8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits?
    2, including maintenance tickler
  9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?
    No.
  10. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors?
    Grey ABS bumpers.
  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel?
    Yes, 5.

  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes)
    Five holes

  3. Hi Opal!
    Waves!!!

  4. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights?
    Yes, it’s on an “arm” above the spare tire.

  5. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb?
    Yellow plastic over a clear bulb

  6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
    Yes, Land Rover of Rocklin

  7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ?
    No actual chrome, some silver plastic for the Logo and plate frame.

  8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits? 6, 2 security ones, 2 for child locks, one for school parking and one Tinkerbell

  9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?
    No bumper stickers

  10. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors?
    Black bumpers

Yes, 4.

It has alloy wheels with seven “spokes.”

One third brake light with a single bulb above the rear window.

Yellow plastic.

No frame.

There is no chrome trim, just a plastic car model name.

Two stickers on the front windscreen. One registration sticker and one service sticker.

No bumper stickers.

There is no paint of a different colour but there is a strip of black trim running along the middle of the doors.

1- yes, four per wheel.
2- 4 holes, no spokes.
4- yes, bottom of window, single bulb
5- red plastic
6- no frame
7- six individual chrome letters spelling “SEPHIA” on the trunk
8- four-- two Kia stickers claiming the car will last a long time, one oil-change reminder sticker, and a Suicide Girls sticker in rear window, top/center
9- one dealer
10- the assembly that holds my side mirrors is painted matte black

Man, I don’t even know my license plate numbers! With three teens driving, I’m at the point where I’m asking, "Was that scrape/dent there last time I drove?"

Just about the only questions I was able to answer for sure are that there are no dealer names/advertising or bumper stickers on either of my cars. But basically, all I want from a car is something that starts when I turn the ket and reliably gets me where I want to go.

  1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel?
    Alloys - 5 lugs per

  2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes)
    16 I think - 8 main spokes split into two thinner spokes each

  3. Hi Opal!
    Back atchya. . .

  4. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights?
    Yes, above the rear hatch.

  5. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb?
    I think the turn signals are yellow plastic (ftr, IhateIhateIhate the clear plastic “tuner” signal lenses).

  6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
    Yes - Damerow Ford (no city name, I think)

  7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ?
    Only chrome is on the Ford oval and the Focus logo.

  8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits?
    Three - antitheft (shhh, don’t tell anyone - my antitheft system just the sticker, a blinky red light on my dash, and an igition disabler that a copr friend tells me never works anyway); active restraint warning; and I think an oil change sticker.

  9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?
    No!

Aside:
I lived in Eugene OR for 7 years (world capital of egregious bumper stickerage) and while I hold some fervent political convictions, I just can’t bring myself to plaster them all over my car. Although I’ve been thinking lately about making my own bumper sticker that says “GENERIC POLITICAL STATEMENT!” just for s&g.

  1. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors?
    Some black plastic trim running along the sides and centered on the rear hatch.