Horrible Mechanical Failures: Looks Like the Tin Man's Undies After Taco Tuesday

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Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Revolvyerom posted:

Actually it can. For about half of one cycle.

Was going through my automotive desktop images folder, and saw some pictures that were probably best suited for this thread. For all of them, click for big.

All that went through my head when I saw this was "MAAAAXIMUMMMMM DORRRRRIFTUUUUU!"

# ¿ May 30, 2010 15:12

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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 23:29

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Roflex posted:

"Was my daily driver, needed something less compact."

"Have a quote from a reputable PDR guy, I haven't got the legs to get it fixed myself."

# ¿ Sep 17, 2010 05:58

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glyph posted:

Always thought this one was insane.

http://www.audisite.com/635/are-audis-safe/

And the answer is no, they're not really that much safer than anything else, dude just got AMAZINGLY lucky.

He looks so casual about it.

"RS6, ja... So Ich came into der corner mit der kleine dab of oppo, und die scheisse hit der fan, ja!"

# ¿ Jan 2, 2011 01:49

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Itchy_Grundle posted:

It's a 1976 Fiat Mirafiori.

The same one that's in the LeMons wiki article?

# ¿ Apr 11, 2011 22:51

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Revolvyerom posted:

i.e. would someone whose intelligence level is at the point where they think driving like that is a kickin rad idea (and having seen the driver talking), do you think he could find anything not mounted front and center on the dash? It was either gutless, or the car was fighting any attempts to get slightly sideways.

"Dude, what's that orange light flashing over there for?"
"The one with the picture of the skidding wheel? That's the burnout light. It comes on whenever I drift! Pretty cool, right?"

# ¿ Aug 17, 2011 22:52

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Savington posted:

um

"So it's been making a bit of noise for a while whenever I brake..."

# ¿ Mar 22, 2012 03:33

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Powershift posted:

Two for one!

Dual airbags? In *my* tires?

# ¿ Oct 16, 2013 04:48

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RandomPauI posted:

I love documentaries about engineering disasters and whatnot. I'm not aware of any shows about them other than modern marvels specials, mayday, and seconds from disaster. I could have sworn there were other ones that went into the causes of building failures, ship sinkings, etc.

I love Seconds from disaster, but this:

"Now, by rewinding the events of that day and by going deep into the investigation,"

always reminds of this:

YES.

GO DEEP.

YESSSSS.

DEEPER IN.

DEEPER.

HNNNNNNNNGHHHHHHHH!

:gizz:

# ¿ Sep 24, 2014 10:16

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

some texas redneck posted:

Yeah those shows annoy the gently caress out of me but how did you find my porn collection

These are the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.

It's mostly in the way the (British over here) announcer intones that line. He puts just enough emphasis on the word deep that it sounds oddly creepy.

Otherwise, those shows are excellent at turning complex structrual engineering and physics lessons into a form understandable by Joe Average.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2014 10:22

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Quit.

Vent your anger at the customer once you have nothing to lose.

Find a shop that doesn't treat you like a free gently caress-up fixing robot.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 00:24

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cursedshitbox posted:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA

Oops. I forgot. You're in the US...

Carry on with the subtle sabotage instead.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 00:34

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Farking Bastage posted:

My uncle put 300k on that old Ford I-6 without an overhaul at a time where such mileage was unheard of. Those things are unbelievable. I often wonder how one would do with modern fuel delivery and valvetrain.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Falcon_(Australia)

Modern fuel delivery, valvetrain, *and* a factory turbo if you wish. :australia:

Falcons are by far the most common taxi around here, and they do stratospheric mileages with minimal maintenance.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2015 23:25

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KozmoNaut posted:

That's not really much of an achievement, considering the stratosphere sits between 10km and 50km altitude

You know what I mean...

# ¿ Mar 14, 2015 01:22

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

I should do the world a favour and cap you like ol' yeller.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 00:00

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Mooseykins posted:

What is it, a D4D engine?

If it is, i done injectors on them without issues. Don't pry poo poo out though, i use a Volvo injector slide hammer to pull them out.

Is the Volvo injector slide hammer anything like the BMW one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK8MqxEeMJY

# ¿ May 20, 2015 13:23

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

spog posted:

Okay pop quiz. What's do these icons mean?

The clues I will give you:

Rover 75
Appeared 1 hour after I bought the car from a dealer, when I was performing an emergency stop (wanted to test the brakes). I released the brake pedal, the front rose back up, the icons appeared
Stayed lit for the rest of journey home (3miles)
Doesn't appear in the users handbook anywhere.
Isn't the Top Gear logo next to the Cat in the Hat's hat.

These icons means you copied and cropped the picture from this page on retrofitting a traffic warning system to a Rover 75?

# ¿ Aug 2, 2015 12:43

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Powershift posted:

MacFirson Strut.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2015 16:08

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

0toShifty posted:

A customer came in.

Invoice said:

FRONT BRAKE ROTORS
REAR BRAKE ROTORS
PA STATE SAFETY AND EMISSIONS INSPECTION
COURTESY CHECK
Order Notes: Customer installed own pads and now it makes grinding noise, thinks it needs rotors now.

There seems to be a SLIGHT issue with the inner pad here...

That's right - the backing plate of that inner pad is against the rotor. It finally happened. I didn't think I'd ever see it - but there it is.

How the everliving gently caress can you have sufficient mechanical knowledge to disassemble a caliper, retract the piston, remove the old pads, reinstall the new pads, and put the whole thing back together, yet still somehow get a pad back to front.

I know we all have off days, but that's a pretty obvious screw up.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 15:24

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Platystemon posted:

So what you�re saying is that your rig will determine you�re doing a test, then completely alter its behaviour to guarantee a pass?

We're talking China here, not Volkswagen. :haw:

# ¿ Aug 31, 2016 00:46

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You Am I posted:

The Cruze diesel was awful, my work has one of those for doing on site work/going to meetings. The other car, a Focus diesel (which I brought from my workplace) was a far better car.

I had one as a loan car while my Commodore was getting serviced, and hated it.

Noisy under load and with normal throttle the transmission seems like it was having a race to get from first to sixth as fast as possible, so when you wanted to accelerate or overtake, the engine lugged while it remembered that it had to downshift.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 03:10

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Domestic Amuse posted:

Same applies to the Cadillac Catera (save for the "cute" part), a German car (Opel Omega-based) with a special snowflake British-built V6 that required special care, and yet people were surprised when it fell apart after being neglected like a 3800.

Wikipedia page on the L81 V6 posted:

Firing order: 1-2-3-4-5-6

Really, I think the falling apart was inevitable...

# ¿ Oct 10, 2016 14:40

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Sagebrush posted:

lomarf

Catering to people that really liked the look of the Murano CrossCabriolet but also considered Japanese levels of reliability to be far too boring.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 14:07

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`Nemesis posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urtoqW_jewo

Aw, I thought it was gonna tip over.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 01:49

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big crush on Chad OMG posted:

you're still likely to get in some poo poo.

The Adventures of Special Agent Family Member.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 19:14

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Platystemon posted:

This is why you only ever use a dab of oppo, no more.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 13:59

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joat mon posted:

Awesome mechanical success: Just used the bread trick to remove a pilot bearing. I can't stop giggling like a little kid at the ease, beauty and absurdity of it all.

I googled this.

No idea how someone came up with using bread as a malleable hydraulic medium, but poo poo, it works...

# ¿ Aug 26, 2017 20:00

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Sagebrush posted:

...a gyroscopically stabilized motorcycle-like commuter car thing...

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 09:31

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BitBasher posted:

What's the gas mileage on that?

18 inches per gallon.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 03:07

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The Door Frame posted:

"It's a feature. Keeps the car warm in winter. And the surrounding firefighters"

CE Lancer?

# ¿ Jan 28, 2018 02:27

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Collateral Damage posted:

Looks like an older Saab.

Looks like a CE Lancer:

Original:

# ¿ Jan 30, 2018 01:51

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Seat Safety Switch posted:

Excellent work, Detective Shitcar.

Doo-do-do-de-doo, De-tec-tive Shitcar, doo-do-do-de-dooooo!

The Twinkie Czar posted:

I would subscribe to the Detective Shitcar youtube channel.

�I�LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, SHITCAR!�

# ¿ Jan 30, 2018 04:22

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EightBit posted:

Tighten two nuts against each other at one end of the rod, insert into a drill with a socket, hold other nut with a wrench.

If the towbar maker knew how to do that, he would also have the wherewithal to not build that abomination in the first place.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2018 06:02

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wesleywillis posted:

How the gently caress are they supposed to get in to the trunk?

"Where did you leave the keys to the trailer?"

"They're just in the trun-ohhh gently caress."

# ¿ Feb 6, 2018 07:39

Bass Ackwards: Nov 14, 2003; Anything can be used as a hammer if you try hard enough.

Someone should have given that guy a hand.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2018 08:27

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nmfree posted:

I'm the anal butt plug (as opposed to the oral butt plug)

You never go rear end to mouth.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2018 04:37

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I still think the award for worst ECU placement goes to the Isuzu D-Max/Holden Rodeo with the 6VE1 3.5L V6.

Heat? Check.
Vibration? Check.
Premature failure? Check and mate.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2018 11:15

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dpack_1 posted:

With all these strict rules and regs it's got me thinking. Trans-continental driving trips are a thing, and obviously every country has different regulations on what is 'legal' on a car or not.

What would happen if someone brought a perfectly legal (in their country of origin) car across the border into, say, Germany, and suddenly it breaks 18 different zergwenfeffleheischeize laws or whatever word they'd use for that poo poo?

Do foreigners just get a free pass for having their headlights .2� out of alignment and only cleans the headlights every 8 sprays of screen washer instead of 7?

�Cooler. Three veeks.�

# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 03:11

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Crotch Fruit posted:

I think on the show Ice Road Truckers, Canadian truckers often said "icks" whenever referring to metric speed or distance. I thought it sounded kinda cool and a lot easier to say than kilometers per hour.

Are you sure they aren�t saying �clicks�?

That�s a common slang term for kilometers or km/h, as in �go five clicks down the road and turn right at the traffic lights,� or �just got flashed by a speed camera, and I think I was about ten clicks over.�

I can�t speak for all Commonwealth countries but it�s certainly used like this in Australia.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2018 13:40

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bolind posted:

It would be hilarious if the tire manufacturer�s logo was proudly displayed in grotesque distortion on that bubble...

*beeping*
�The lever you have pulled-- "brakes"-- is not in service. Please make a note of it.�

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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 23:29

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Iridium posted:

https://i.imgur.com/eG95TgJ.mp4

I want to drive this solely for the experience.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2020 05:32

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