Thursday, February 19, 2009

Manual Funnies

The great care taken in designing and building this car is completely and thoroughly reflected in the quality of the Owner's Manual that accompanies it. For illustrative purposes only I've taken the liberty of quoting a few short excerpts here:

"There are many kinds of impure accessories and spare parts suit to this Revolution ev electric vehicle in the market."
"The running noise is low but the use life is longer"
"It should apply the brake and reduce the speed firstly to turn."
"If abnormal happens on the battery connecting wires please repair at once."
"The electric vehicle is prohibited to be exposed to the sunshine."

And these are the sections that are actually readable. Other sections aren't so good. Here's my personal favorite:

"At high temperature place the battery inner pressure will increase to make the battery limiting valve opened automatically, and bring about the battery lose water highly ... such as the battery's active ability reduced, speed up the pole plate softening, the shell hot when charging, the shell balloon or deformed, etc."

Uh, what?
You should see the pictures. I worry about black blobs being copyrightable due to the level of excellence exhibited by our legal system so, I'm not going to reproduce them here.