[Piwoslaw]

At my local Peugeot forum you get positive feedback if you "upgrade" to larger rims and wider tires (the more expensive, the better), add chrome doodads, shiny exhaust tip, etc. You'll be the hero of the month if you chip tune to get extra horsepower. If you post about how to reduce fuel consumption you get maybe 1 user interested for every 10-15 that throw sh*t at you (except for HHO threads). Well, but you guys know what it's like.

Anyhow, I'm not afraid of their taunting (because I know I'm right and they're wrong, hahahahahahahaha) so I go ahead and explain why that huge spoiler standing vertically in the airstream isn't helping FE in the way that its owner claims, or remind the guy who is whining about his gas consumption that yesterday he bragged about his last tank's average speed being higher than the PSL on the highway.

No, I don't have any friends over there.

The taunting is actually more funny than anything else, like when I gave a long answer to someone's question about blocking the radiator during below freezing temperatures, and someone else started saying that the engine will overheat and blow up. So I remind him that I drive so efficiently that my engine isn't warm enough, especially when it's cold, even with insulation and blocked grilles. And he goes off again about overheating and that the wiring will melt, blahblahblah. I don't think he understood, or even read, my post!

Or yesterday in a thread about burning out DPFs people talked about how the DPF needs higher than normal exhaust temperatures to burn out, so the engine gets extra loads (rear window and side mirror heating), extra fuel, etc. Driving in lower gear with higher rpms also helps. After about 8 pages someone asks: Why?. So I explain that uneconomical driving is what the DPF needs: Doing the same work (driving) while using more fuel results in more waste heat. And someone sums up my post as some cosmic theories. I mean, that got me ROTFLOLing.