Your car knows you...

You drive your car quite often and never have any problems with it. It doesn't stall out, stutter, shake or anything...or does it? Point of this thread...sometimes we are soo used to our cars that we subconsciously do things to prevent it from stalling out or driving funny. It may be something minuscule that we don't even notice...something we're not even aware we're doing. So it's always funny when someone else drives your car and 20 seconds later it stalls out on them. Or when someone is driving your car and you have to tell them exactly what to do and when to do it. Or you drop your car off to a shop and you have to leave detailed instructions of how to start it, when to put it in gear, when to hit the gas, etc...haha!! It's like your car has an attitude that only you know how to deal with. And only you know how to keep her temper from flaring up. So maybe she knows you and knows when you or someone else is driving, haha. You ever get that feeling?

Noobz347...I know exactly what you're talking about. It's because we're not just driving our cars obliviously. We're ALWAYS listening to and feeling our cars, even when they're running perfectly. My cars have all made a funny noise. Sometimes it happens once and never again, sometimes it's intermittent, and sometimes it's continuous. And like you said it's always indicative of a new problem or issue. In the back of my mind I know EVERY single last strange sound my car has made since I got it. Sometimes I'm driving and I hear something and I'm like "oh wow that noise is back, I haven't heard that since May 08"...haha!! Or I'll drop my car off at a shop and they'll call me and say "we can't get your car running"...so you show up there and start it in less than 5 seconds.