Do your electrical appliances die in pairs?

To be fair, I'm on my third new Honda, first an LSI and then a first and second CRV. The first CRV I kept seven years, the longest I've kept a car so far. The current one will be six in May and has only done 26,000 miles so I won't be changing it any time soon, there's no point. On that mileage I can put up with 23/24 miles to the gallon. None of my Hondas have ever let me down.

My favourite car (after my little Austin seven I had as a teenager) was my blood red Alfa Romeo Guilietta I had in the early eighties. 2lt all aluminium DOH engine canted at 30 degrees to reduce height. Two twin choke down-draught Webber carburettors. torque tube to the gearbox bolted to the de Dion back axle. This configuration balanced the weight of the car. What a beautiful car, mechanically perfect.
Unfortunately, it "rusted to buggery."

 

I do tell a lie,

I once got the first CRV out of the drive and onto the road with the nearside wheels up on the kerb. My wife then came out of the house got in the car "her side" and as usual shut the door. I turned the key but it wouldn't start.
I called out the emergency services and the guy arrived within minutes.

He looked at the car and said; "These never go wrong." (personally, I've yet to see one broken down at the side of the road in over twelve years)

"You say it won't start?"

"Yes!"

"Err has anyone slammed a door in the last few minutes."

My wife looked suitably embarrassed as when she shuts her door she doesn't allow for the slope with the two wheels up on the kerb so it closes "more firmly" than necessary.

"It'll be the fuel cut out" he said.

He reached round behind the centre consul pressed the re-set button and we were away.

I once had a Renault 5 GTI. It dropped two nearside drive shafts within months of each other.