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tmrdean
Latest Episode--Factual Error
Nov 5 2011, 2:18 PM EDT | Post edited: Nov 5 2011, 2:18 PM EDT
When one changes a tire on a Citroen, one raises the car using the level control, props up the corner of the car using a simple jack stand, sucks up the wheels be lowering the level control thus raising the sick tire above the ground, mounts the replacement tire, raises the car again to the top, removes the jack stand, (tightens the lugs nuts of course) and drives away.
The episode has Patrick raising the car with a scissors jack. This has to be a deliberate error, but why? Everyone knows that's how you change a tire on a DS21. Most people know that if it is a rear tire and you're pressed for time or don't have a spare, you can just remove the flat tire and drive without it. 2  out of 6 found this valuable. Do you?    
AmandaBlovesPatrick
AmandaBlovesPatrick
1. RE: Latest Episode--Factual Error
Dec 15 2011, 12:21 PM EST | Post edited: Dec 15 2011, 12:21 PM EST
Hi tmrdean,
I don't think it's true that "Everyone knows that's how you change a tyre on a DS21" because I certainly don't! I really wouldn't know at all; I can't drive and have never changed any type of car tyre! I would imagine you'd have to actually have a Citroen DS21 to really know how to change the tyres. BTW, the episode in question, Blinking Red Light, was absolutely awesome!!!

Amanda :o)
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Mentalgal
Mentalgal
2. RE: Latest Episode--Factual Error
Dec 16 2011, 10:16 PM EST | Post edited: Dec 16 2011, 10:16 PM EST
"Hi tmrdean,
I don't think it's true that "Everyone knows that's how you change a tyre on a DS21" because I certainly don't! I really wouldn't know at all; I can't drive and have never changed any type of car tyre! I would imagine you'd have to actually have a Citroen DS21 to really know how to change the tyres. BTW, the episode in question, Blinking Red Light, was absolutely awesome!!!

Amanda :o)
"
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MarkDS
MarkDS
3. RE: Latest Episode--Factual Error
Jan 9 2012, 2:01 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 9 2012, 2:01 PM EST
"The episode has Patrick raising the car with a scissors jack. This has to be a deliberate error, but why? "
I suspect that the vast majority of the original target audience (the USA) would not know how to raise the wheel on a DS. After all the model is now at least 35 years old, and only 38,000 sold in the USA in the first place.

So the 3 possible reasons for the error.

1: It was a real error. Jane (the fictional character) would know how to change a tyre on his own car, but perhaps Simon Barker and the rest of the cast and crew did not, so they got it wrong.

2. The cast/crew knew how to actually change a tyre but thought that the audiance would not know. So to make it look "realistic" used a jack.

3. Patric Jane does not know how to change a tyre on his own car. This is not that unusual. Many car drivers do not even know how to fill the windshield washer system with water, let alone change a tyre. 4  out of 4 found this valuable. Do you?    

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