Automotive Maintenance Quotes

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next.

Once a rider [of an early automobile] is accustomed to the piston beat and the rattle of gears, he minds them no more than the pounding of horses hoofs in ordinary driving.

I trust the CRC brand and continue to use CRC automotive products because they deliver what they promise.

I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.

And he's lost both right front tires.

I have had window braces smashed in the front of my car, several times. They fail all the time in the front.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.

Car ownership as we know it will change. The promise of car ownership of the past, the freedom of open roads... the reality has been more of a burden.

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

I remember that my dad worked on cars from the '70s and '80s, and that's where my love came from: appreciating - even if it was a piece of crap - how much he loved American muscle.

It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.

I don't really know much about cars.

It's absurd that you know more about your car than you know about your body.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.

I don't know if I can ever change the world, but at least I can change the oil in my car.

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

I studied to be a car mechanic. That was my plan B. Servicing cars and changing tyres in Finland.