Do you know your own car? (memory test)

[Crown_Prince_of_Irony]

Just checked, and I’m wrong on # 1 - 4 lugs, not 5 - and on #5 - clear plastic with a yellow bulb.

You think you know a car. . .

[Little_Plastic_Ninja]

Hmm! I regret to announce my car is visible from the window.

I’ll be a good girl, though…

1. Yes, four.
2. Seven?
3. Yes, I think it’s a single bulb.
4. Yellow and red plastic.
5. Ooh, no. My old card did.
6. None, I think.
7. One bumper sticker and one of those vinyl college stickers, none of which are mine (I’m lazy, what can I say). No other stickers except for inspection and registration and the little one for my oil.
8. Above bumper sticker.
9. Nope.

[Santo_Rugger]

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?
   Five lugnuts. Alloy rims, so no covers.

2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes)
   5 sets of two “spokes” on each rim.

3. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights?
   Required by law after about 1985 or so.

4. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb?
   Black (smoked out red, they look black when they’re not on)

5. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
   Carmax. They got me an awesome car from across the country at a fair price, so I don’t mind giving them some free publicity

6. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ?
   Charger, Dodge Ram emblem, and red retro “R/T” logo.

7. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits?
   “Dodge Charger Daytona” decal on the front windshield, written in the “Dodger” and “Daytona” fonts, respectively. Oil change sticker.

8. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?
   “TorRed” decal

9. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors?
   [/QUOTE]

Lots of “black out” decals. “Hemi” written on hood, “Daytona R/T” on rear quarter- panels, blacked out trunk lip. Going to get black ground effects soon.

I don’t need to go check, they’re all right. What do I win?

ETA: I forgot the chrome “Hemi” on the front quarter-panels. Although, technically, I don’t think I was asked.

[micro-dust]

Wheel covers? I can’t even recall which side the gas door is on

[RealityChuck]

1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel?
   No. There are four, with a wheel cover.

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

3. Do you have a “third” brake light? Above the rear window or below it? One bulb or a whole grid of little lights?
   A line of lights below the window.

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

5. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
   Yes. Yes. Yes.

6. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ?
   No chrome. The name of the car company is in the trunk like. No model.

7. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits?
   NYS inspection and registration stickers, one old parking sticker on the right rear window.

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

9. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors?
   Bumpers are black, but unpainted plastic. All painted parts are the same color.

[freckafree]

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

Sort of. The wheel covers have fake lug nut covers, so you don’t actually have to remove the lug nuts to take off the wheel cover. Five per wheel, I think.

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

3. Hi Opal! A friend of mine once owned an Opel Cadet.

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

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

The lenses are red and yellow.

6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?

Yes, yes, yes. And I hate the damned thing.

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

Model name, name of make in the chromed hatch handle

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

I think just one – the sticker reminding me when my next oil change is due
9) Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?

None

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

The paint is all the same color, although the bumpers are black (but not painted – they’re made of that black composite stuff.)

[AHunter3]

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

I don’t have wheel covers. Eight.
2) How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes)

No wheel covers, therefore no spokes.

3) Hi Opal!

I think so too.

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

Hadn’t been invented yet.
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?

No, it just screws directly onto a little flap-thing that covers up the gasoline filler cap.
7) What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ?

Ummm, uh oh… OK, big honking thick pinstriped chrome piece just down below the trunk lid itself, the keyhole is in a recessed place there… chrome bumpers… I think there’s something I’ve forgotten…

OK, got me on that one. It has the Pontiac crest emblem on the trunk lid, and the words BONNEVILLE on that thick pinstriped chrome piece, both of which I’d forgotten about.

8) How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits?

Registration, inspection, that’s actually pretty much it.

9) Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?

Umm, yeah… ERA NOW.

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 unless you count places where the paint has faded!

Disclaimer: the car and I parted company many many years ago. I live in Manhattan and have been carless for a long long time.

[SmartAleq]

1. Do your wheels lug nuts show through your wheel covers, if any? How many per wheel? Custom alloys on both vehicles, American Racing on the van, Konigs on Firefly, lug nuts show.
2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes) Van–Five, but they’re a twisty complicated pattern that looks like more. Firefly, five straight.
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? Van, no. Firefly, one bulb in back window.
5. What color are your rear turn signals, red plastic, yellow plastic, or clear plastic with red or yellow bulb? Van, red plastic. Firefly, same
6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city? Van has frame from dealer, no city. Firefly has a really busted up Trailblazers frame that needs replaced.
7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ? Van, Chevrolet. Firefly, Chevrolet and Cavalier in red.
8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits? Van, static sticker in driver’s side wind wing of Celtic knotwork snake. Firefly, parking permit from old apartment complex in driver’s side rear window, lower corner.
9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking? Hell naw, not allowed!
10. Is there any paint that’s not the same as the main color, perhaps black bumpers or a black area below the doors? Van is monocolor aside from one scrape on passenger side from asshole on Steel Bridge. Firefly has standard GM paint delam issue on hood but primer is also black. Paint job is black with silver rocker panels.

There is very, very little I don’t know about my vehicles!

[3acresandatruck]

@AHunter3

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

I don’t have wheel covers. Eight.

Disclaimer: the car and I parted company many many years ago. I live in Manhattan and have been carless for a long long time.

A long time ago, indeed! Wasn’t 1966 the last year Pontiac used those eight-lug wheels and brake drums? What year was your Bonneville?

[bbs2k]

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

Yes, but they’re fake. You have to pull off the hub cap to get to the real dirty looking ones. Fake & real the number is six.

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

Six.

3. Hi Opal!

I hope your art show goes well (I think that’s today).

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

It’s imbedded in the trunk, a grid I recently had to replace.

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

Yellow plastic, clear bulb.

6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?

No, just the plate.

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

I don’t think there is one? I also think I don’t understand the question.

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

Parking permit for Somerville on front windshield. Also the inspection sticker.

Back drivers side is my work parking permit.

Back passenger side is a silly little sticker telling me that the car was put together in Michigan I believe.

9. Any bumper stickers, including dealer or insurance or auto club or parking?

No bumper stickers, parking stickers mentioned above.

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

I got a touch of yellow on the back driver’s side of the bumper. Fucking fire hydrant wasn’t looking where it was going.

Holy crap, I just noticed, that’s a new “Paddy/Patty” in the OP.

[Student_Driver]

@Student Driver

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

Right-o, I was incorrect about the following:

7- in addition to the SEPHIA letters, there’s a red’n’chrome KIA logo on the back of my vehicle.

8- there are THREE Kia stickers, plus the oil change and Suicide Girls stickers

Whoo.

[Pushkin]

@Pushkin

1. No, there’s a plastic cover over them.

True.

@Pushkin

2. Too many to remember, a dozen?

@Pushkin

3. We had a Vauxhall once

Two actually

@Pushkin

4. IIRC third brake light up on the rear parcel shelf.

Top of the rear window.

@Pushkin

5. Red and yellow plastic.

Red and off white.

@Pushkin

6. Chrome frame, as below. Dealer name on the plate.

True

@Pushkin

7. Chrome around the license plate, Rover name and 45 model badge, with the Rover Viking logo in the centre.

No Rover name, but all the rest.

@Pushkin

8. I think there is a small engraving for the security system.

Not the security system, just that there is tempered glass.

@Pushkin

9. None.

@Pushkin

10. No, all body colour AFAIK.

Two black strips, they seem to be protection in car parks.

[AHunter3]

@3acresandatruck

A long time ago, indeed! Wasn’t 1966 the last year Pontiac used those eight-lug wheels and brake drums? What year was your Bonneville?

Yep

1965 Bonneville. Last driven in the middle 1980s.

[Queen_Bruin]

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

There’s a dustcap on each wheel, although I lost one last week. 4 lug nuts.

2. How many spokes in each wheel covers? (or holes if no spokes)
   5 spokes, or arms more like.

3. Hi Opal!
   Don’t you mean, “Hi, Opel!”?

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 is on the top of the rear window. 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?
   Yes, it has a frame: Antelope Valley Ford. Come June it will be replaced with a nice chrome “UCLA Alumni” frame.

7. What chrome trim is on the back, car logo, name of make, model ?
   Just “Focus” and “ZX3”. The Ford badge is in the center above the license plate and below the window.

8. How many stickers are on all the windows, including the ones for security system and ABS and child locks and parking permits?
   3 stickers on the rear window: One on the lower left, green. It’s the parking sticker for my husband’s school. Above it, I have a blue sticker of the vinyl type of a hand doing the “Westside” signal and “Westwood” beneath it. On top, a UCLA sticker.

There’s a PZEV sticker on each side window.

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?
    No - there is black molding on the trunk, but that is plastic - it forms the grip to open the hatch.

[Man_With_a_Cat]

@Paddy O'Furniture

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?

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

5

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, on the spoiler, I believe it’s actually 3 separate lights**

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

6. Does your license plate have a frame? With a dealer name? Including city?
   **
   No dealer name, I took that thing off. Front plate has a Bears frame, rear plate a White Sox frame.**

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

Driver side, the model name, right side, it says " 3.5L V-6". Both on the trunk lid on the rear.

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?

Fuck no, I hate 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?

Nope
Ok, I ran to the garage to check, and I got 100%. It’s what happens when you wash your own car, you kinda get to know those details.

[control-z]

Interesting quiz!

1. Yes, my lugs show, I have alloy wheels. 5 lugs per wheel.
2. Um, holes probably about 12 or 15. It’s a lot when I’m washing them.
   EDIT: Only 10 holes, just seems like more.
3. Yes, it’s above the rear hatch window.
   EDIT: Specificially it’s on the spoiler above the rear hatch window, and it’s clear with red bulbs/LEDs in it. Never noticed that!
4. Pretty sure my rear signals are clear with yellow bulbs. EDIT: Yep, LED bulbs too.
5. It did have a frame with the dealer name, that came off in a day or two.
6. On the back is a Mazdaspeed3 badge, Mazda “M” badge.
7. 2 on windshield, 1 theft deterrent on driver’s window, not sure about others.
8. No bumper stickers. Evar.
9. Black paint on window frames IIRC. Other than that all silver.