Our forum's stroppy teenager is still as stroppy as a nearly 15 year old can be, but is now trying to gather as much info as possible to show up her future class mates when she starts day release as the first girl from her school and possibly the first female on the course at Redhill Tech.
She will be doing motor mechanics and has already impressed the tutors there by being the only one who knew the difference between petrol and derv engined cars. She was the quickest and most accurate(torque wrench setting) changing a wheel at their taster day.

My Laguna needs a service. Is she busy on Saturday? I need the car for golf on Sunday 

My misses does her own servicing, has changed brake pads,discs and calipers and is now helping me strip and rebuild my modified XR4x4 - she learns and I get an assistant

She did an all-female mechanics course at college, when they were all asked to bring their own cars in and service them everyone else had Fiestas, Corsas, Clios, etc, she turned up in her Sierra Sapphire 2000E with Cosworth bodykit


Paul

The scary bit is she has told them that one of the cars at the college is missing several vital parts.
What do you expect when they have a non turbo Subaru Imprezza. First thing she said it needed was aVortex exhaust.

Quote from: Trainfish on June 26, 2013, 12:06:12 AM
My Laguna needs a service. Is she busy on Saturday? I need the car for golf on Sunday 

Sorry she currently has no Renault Experience, she has only worked on proper cars.
List of cars she has helped on so far.
Subaru Imprezza WRX (Japanese Import)
Nissan 350ZX twin turbo.
Audi A4
1959 Cheverolet Bel Air
and this weekend she is supposed  to be helping  a neighbour down the road working on a Focus ST.

She can work on our car....bucket and sponge is waiting!

Good for her Mike, hope it goes well for her, give her our best wishes 

I hope it goes really well for her too and also please give her my best wishes You must be very proud of her

Does this mean she won't be pestering you so much about her layout?

Very true Jane, however I have had to dig put my old collection of Haynes workshop manuals.
In the last week I have been busy framing different certificates that keep coming home from school.
She is now a young first aider as well, and has also been asked to help with a Drumming workshop at a local primary school.
I think her layout may be on the back burner for a while now

Impressed, Mrs "H" doesn't like me opening the bonnet thing to top up the windsreeny washery bottle..

Quote from: Oldman on June 26, 2013, 08:52:21 AM
List of cars she has helped on so far.
Subaru Imprezza WRX (Japanese Import)
Nissan 350ZX twin turbo.
Audi A4
1959 Cheverolet Bel Air
and this weekend she is supposed  to be helping  a neighbour down the road working on a Focus ST.

A most impressive resumé.  It would be interesting to see which boys cope and which don't when she's better than they are.

First Aid and drums, too.  And not yet 15?  Very cool!  She makes the Twitter crowd look totally lame.

Quote from: Trainfish on June 26, 2013, 12:06:12 AM
My Laguna needs a service. Is she busy on Saturday? I need the car for golf on Sunday 

I had a Laguna.  I loved it.  But didn't actually open the bonnet myself - I left the mechanic to do all that.  At some point cars stopped being mechanical and started being electronic.  Lost me completely.

In the days before I could afford a mechanic, I once replaced a piston on one Renault 4.  Put it back together and it started first time.  I still have no idea what the bolt and three nuts I had left over were for.   I replaced the head gasket on another, with the same result.  Good old Haynes Manuals!   I still have the old piston as a memento.

Monkey says thanks for all your best  wishes.
Mark she has been a drummer for the last 5 years and plays Afro/Carribean hand drums.
She also can get a tune out of  a guitar
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Quote from: Mustermark on June 27, 2013, 01:48:03 AM
I had a Laguna.  I loved it.  But didn't actually open the bonnet myself - I left the mechanic to do all that.  At some point cars stopped being mechanical and started being electronic.  Lost me completely.

Never went for the Laguna; much preferred the 19; we loved that one (until some berk didn't look where he was going & pulled out into us, writing it off 

Never did a vast amount of maintenance myself on it; had a neighbour who handled most of it for us (was a mechanic, and indeed went to a Renault garage not long after we bought it  ); after saying that, a while after we moved away we had the thermostats fail & blow out the expansion tank.  Got the Hayes manual out, bought a decent toolset (still have it), picked up most of the bits from the local auto factor (right next door) and a new tank from the Renault garage a few miles away (never understood why the factors never stocked them for Renault ), and replaced both the thermos (found out the second had gone when we tried to get going again with the first one replaced  ) as well as the tank - well impressed that I could do it & save a couple hundred quid !

Mike

Quote from: Oldman link=topic=14814.msg147705#msg147705
She also can get a tune out of  a guitar

Sounds like she should be careful where she drops the cough sweets

It's amazing how much you can can save by having someone in the family who can do things like this.

I'd never done anything more than fill the car up with fuel before starting work in a garage (admin side) but I do all the servicing on my and other family members cars now. Not only did I learn an awful lot, but it's fun too! Nothing quite like getting down and dirty and doing a job yourself!

Big props to her for wanting to do something like this, mechanics has historically been far too male dominated!