Why men should not write advice columns

[Twiddler]

Dear Roger,

I hope you can help me. The other day, I set off for work leaving my husband in the house watching the TV.
I hadn't driven more than a mile down the road when the engine conked out and the car shuddered to a halt. I walked back home to get my husband's help.

When I got home I couldn't believe my eyes. He was in our bedroom with the neighbour's daughter. I am 32, my husband is 34, and the neighbour's daughter is 22. We have been married for ten years.

When I confronted him, he broke down and admitted that they had been having an affair for the past six months. I told him to stop or I would leave him. He was laid off six months ago and he says he has been feeling increasingly depressed and worthless. I love him very much, but ever since I gave him the ultimatum he has become increasingly distant. He won't go to counselling and I'm afraid I can't get through to him anymore

Can you please help?

Sincerely, Sheila


Dear Sheila:

A car stalling after being driven a short distance can be caused by a variety of faults with the engine. Start by checking that there is no debris in the fuel line. If it is clear, check the vacuum pipes and hoses on the intake manifold and also check all grounding wires. If none of these approaches solves the problem, it could be that the fuel pump itself is faulty, causing low delivery pressure to the injectors.

I hope this helps,

Roger

[wellyfish]

love it

[pingu]

could also be the vacuum pipes if a deisel

dave

[fishypaul]

might be out of fuel

[Greenheart]

Don't forget to check the distributor cap & HT leads. Has your neighbours daughter got any good looking mates?

[asp383]

could even be a build up of cluth dust on the crankshaft sensor ... just needs removing & cleaning the tip.
my mrs just said "that's about right for men"

[Kiwi Angler]

Unusual to walk back home, most wife's would just turn the radio up and wait.

[BaggieRich]

I kid you not, I once got a rescue call from the missus asking me to come and get her.

When I arrived at her car she was stood outside panicing. Turns out a bee had flown in through the window and she didn't know if it was still in the car or not. She wanted to drive my car home, whilst I drove hers incase she got stung!!!! For gauds sake.

A bit mad you might say, but not completely insane until I tell you that she'd left our two kids to fend for themselves whilst strapped into their cars seats throughout the whole thing!!!!! Things is, neither of them could care less about bees so we all had a good laugh at Mummy on the way home, the daft bint!!!!

[asp383]

i used to do accident & breakdown recovery for a company contracted to the breeakdown organisations & police, so have come across loads of call outs that seem so silly at the time.
oddest 1 was a call out about 11pm on the 1st night of being on call after my new year break, i thought it was a wind up, especially when they said it was just round the corner from me ... a jack russell bitch chased a rat into the engine bay of a range rover (other 4x4's are available) & got well & truely stuck with it's nose between the bellhousing & trans tunnell, back end was stuck by the steering column & exhaust manifoldafter removing the steering column section, i unceramonuasly lifted her out back end 1st, after a quick checkover, she was looking none the worse & i hadn't got the car back together before she wanted to try finding the rat for round 2.
others were women wanting to know where to put screenwash in, how to check oil level & even a few that didn't know how to 'pop' the fuel cap cover.
will say this though, i found most women were prepared to give it a go changing a flat tyre, even if they did eventually have to admit defeat & call breakdown, most men didn't get anything out of the boot & stood there watching you work

[roco420]

What a coincidence, my name is Roger too!

Although thats not me, I would probably have given that reply.