Do Cars Have Souls?

"Denver Is Stuck In The 90s" (denver80222)
12/28/2014 at 21:15 • Filed to: Spooky

Tonight I let my dad drive my truck. He turned the key and the starter wouldn't engage. I got behind the wheel and she started up just fine. Its as if she didn't want my dad to drive her. It was kinda spooky. Has any of you had a similar experience?

DISCUSSION (18)

jkm7680 > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:19

If cars had souls, Benjamin Rolland would have been killed by the BMW 2002 he sent to the crusher already.

EL_ULY > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:20

i think Kia does

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:28

Did he push in the clutch?

That aside, one of the cars at work... everyone uses it, no one complains about it. Chevy HHR. I went to use it once, and the key opened the door for me, but for all I was worth I couldn't make it turn in the ignition. I tried everything... moving the key in and out, jiggling the wheel, stepping on the brake, smacking the gear shift forward and back (as best I could with it in park), nothing. I spent two minutes pissing around and then about 30 seconds trying to find a lock button or something on it before I went back inside and got a key for a different car. I'd been given a mission I knew would take ten minutes with 12 minutes left in my shift, and I didn't have time to waste. To this day, no one else has had a problem with it.

MultiplaOrgasms > EL_ULY
12/28/2014 at 21:28

Was expecting a Kia joke. Not disappointed.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:28

The Bruiser definitely does. And its a self destructive schizophrenic. Between deciding it doesn't need brakes and slightly catching fire last night, it definitely has a soul.

shop-teacher > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:31

You probably just have a starter that's going bad. Sometimes they develop a "dead" spot, but if you hit the key a couple times, it'll go. My '89 S-10 had that issue, but any vehicle can do that.

If you're stranded, and the starter won't turn over no matter how many times you hit the key, try hitting it with something, and then try it again. Sometimes that'll move it off the dead spot.

Xyl0c41n3 > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:34

If they do, then all the cars I have had must automatically know how much I love my dad, cuz they've always gotten along with him. He's also the only person I can hand over the keys to and not worry at all about how he'll treat the car or how he'll drive it. I trust his driving implicitly. I don't mind sharing my car. If someone needs it, they're welcome to it, but my dad is the only person I never worry about driving it. Also, my last car had a kind of silly name. Don't want to say it because potentially doxxing, but it was something akin to "Pookie" in silliness. My dad would refer to the car by name, even in public, lol. So, my dad and my cars = good. Lol.

JGrabowMSt > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:35

My friend's old Mercury Milan. Supposedly made some really strange noise, but never made the noise whenever I looked it. Not once.

In her defense, she can be a bit crazy, so I don't blame the car.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
12/28/2014 at 21:35

He did everything right. It was strange

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
12/28/2014 at 21:40

Also, more "evidence" that cars have souls, I put my Lada in a ditch at the bottom of a gulley in the middle of nowhere (15 miles from a paved road, no cell service whatsoever). I stalled and restarted many times before giving up... one of the wheels was off the ground and I was in 14 inches of water... narrowly missed ending up in six feet... or upside-down. Five-mile walk to a friend's to get a tow out. They get me out, Everything's fine, the Lada starts, no worries. We say good bye (they're going the opposite direction as me) and they head up the hill. I turn to head up my side of the hill, leave the e-brake on, and stall. This is when the starter solenoid chooses to explode... I watch my friend disappear over the top of the gulley. By the time I make it up to the top of the hill, they're long gone, and there's no chance of a roll-start at the bottom of a gulley with a steep hill on both sides. Five mile walk later...

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:47

I was still a fairly new driver when I had my Integra, and I should have died twice in it. The fact that I am still here has convinced me that that car loved me deeply. By no means should I have escaped without a wreck or worse.

PS9 > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:58

Nope.

Vicente Esteve > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 21:59

If something sticks out of the seat to stab your father, then yes, the Rangr hates him.

wkiernan > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 22:10

I've bought two used cars where the second gear had been so abused that it would occasionally jump out of gear under acceleration. By doing nothing but driving them semi-competently (i.e. without clashing the gears at every other shift), over a period of a year or two the distemper or malfunction or whatever you'd call it disappeared, never to return.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 22:22

Our Volvo 850 took nearly 2 months to replicate what it was doing to my Mom, where it would cut power, for my Dad. So yes.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/28/2014 at 22:26

Yes, most definitely do. The ones that do not I would say are things like Camry's.

Tuned-Port-Injected-Rage > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/29/2014 at 01:55

My opinion? Yes. My 'Vette does, at least. There's a reason I named her Christine.

twochevrons > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
12/29/2014 at 09:06

I'm pretty sure that my 850R has taken a dislike to my wife. Although she's come around to it now, she was against the purchase to begin with. Every time she has driven it, it has had a breakdown of some kind, and even when she just rides in it, minor faults seem to crop up.