First you need to install a set of Falkin 165/70 tires. Then go grocery shopping and get a 2 liter bottle of soda, I got diet 7-Up for 99 cents. Then on your way home, let the crappy arse Falkins shake the living hell out of the bottle. When you get home (Here's the important part.) make sure as you pull the bag of sodas from the passenger floor that you get one of them caught on the seat bracket. When you feel it catch, yank HARD to un-hook it from the bracket. If you do it properly like I did, the bracket will slice a 1/4" opening into the side of the bottle. Thanks to the crappy, yet very new, Falkins, the shaken bottle will suddenly come to life. It was a mix of a fireworks pinwheel and the fountains in Vegas. The 7-Up flooded the carpets while not missing a piece of glass, dash, seats, and doors. By the time I dove in after the rotating sprinkler there was still about a liter left. I fought with it to get it out of the car while making sure the back seat wasn't missed. Once out of the car I wrestled it to the ground. Silly me thought my 99 cents was up, until it propelled itself under the Mini and continued to wash my fuel pump, wiring, and SS exhaust. So, if you do it just right, you can pressure wash both the interior and the underneath of a Mini for just 99 cents. It is recommended to use diet soda to cut back on the future ant invasion. Since everything was pre-soaked, I decided to continue where the 7-Up left off and pull the carpets and clean the entire interior. I'm happy to say that when I finally got to the bottle there was less than an ounce in it. If you're going to try this, get all you can from the bottle. Good luck and have a video camera ready! 
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Nov. 13, 2009 3:13 p.m. fastclown Reader
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Nov. 13, 2009 3:34 p.m. plance1 HalfDork
funny. pop explosions should be on everyone's bucket list. Also, I remember working for a guy during a construction coop job. I was assigned a pickup truck to drive. Boss gave me a hard time for no reason, one of the things was that he was dissappointed in me because my construction truck, the truck that I take to jobsites, repeat construction truck, was dirty and had some dust in it. I took it to the car wash and hosed it inside and out. He marveled at how clean I got the interior!
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Nov. 13, 2009 3:49 p.m. DukeOfUndersteer Dork
ive done that, but in a Gallardo Spyder! It had the "Driver's Pack" which meant you got a small, little cup holder by your right elbow. Well, picking up lunch for my boss one day, i put his drink in the cup holder. As im heading back, i shift from 3rd to 4th, and "Wham!!", my elbow knocks the Bob Costas out of the soda and it spews everywhere! Lucky enough for me, the detail crew were happy to clean it up for me...
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Nov. 13, 2009 4:20 p.m. turboswede UltraDork
Clown says, "Kids? Its roundup time!" and proceeds to throw shaken bottles of pop on the ground. "After you get done with those, clean the car! I'll be in my lair."
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Nov. 13, 2009 4:31 p.m. Tyler H Dork
That will make you appreciate having black and/or leather interior...unless you don't. In that case, it will suck.
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Nov. 13, 2009 5:31 p.m. TJ HalfDork
I think the clown is right on the money with this...it was all the tires fault.
My wife left a 12 pack of Sprite on the passenger seat of my son's car this past summer. Figured he would carry it in later. The next day under the blazing Alabama sun, it got a little too hot inside the car for the sprite to handle it and three of the cans exploded. I found one of them under the rear seat, one in the hatch area, and the other on the front floor. 3 cans worth of sprite made quite a mess - the hardest to clean was the headliner. Almost an entire 2 liter in a smaller interior sucks.
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Nov. 13, 2009 6:42 p.m. porksboy Dork
I had a can of Cocacola explode in my Pinto once. I just wiped off the glass.
The car was rattle canned flat black inside and out. I didnt wash it because the paint would rub off. I think I washed it twice in 4 years of ownership. The first time when I discoverd it would rub off and just befor I sold it to make it look "better"
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Nov. 13, 2009 7:15 p.m. maroon92 UberDork
I have had several soda explosions in the aspire...i have also had Chicken Fried Rice explosions, as well as differential and transmissions explosions all over the back hatch. I think John had a garage door explosion right through the hatch of that car too.
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Nov. 13, 2009 7:40 p.m. wbjones Reader
unless the tires were out of round... or the wheels were out of balance.... I'm not sure how the Falkens were to blame.... have had several sets myself and figured the rough ride was due to the 500+# springs I had on the Integra... silly me it was the tires all along....
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Nov. 13, 2009 7:44 p.m. jrw1621 Dork
Be very thankful it was Diet 7UP!
Since no artificial color = no staining
Since no sugar = no sticky after effect.As far as the 2L explosion being on bucket list...
I worked 9 years for Coca-Cola.
How about dropping whole pallets of 2L, or better yet glass 8 packs back in the day.
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Nov. 13, 2009 7:48 p.m. mw Reader
Once I was driving back to school after getting a hamburger, pop and a chilli cheese fries. When stopped to park in the school parking lot, I put the drink and the chilli cheese fries on the roof so I could get out. As I was getting out, I guess the suspension unloaded and the coke and chilli cheese fries fell onto me, covering my head and shirt and bounced off me and into the car covering both front seats. I couldn't have done it again that well if I tried. Also, I was running late for class and had to go covered in chilli, cheese and coke and didn't get to clean the car till the end of the day. The chilli and cheese never came out of the seats of that car.
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Nov. 13, 2009 8:52 p.m. patgizz Dork
i left a 4 pack of some sort of organic supposed to not kill me as fast pop in the vette last summer. 3 of them exploded under the heat of being in the hatch area. i'm still finding small sticky spots in weird places. most ended up on the backs of the seats, door panels, roof panel, and dash
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Nov. 13, 2009 9:37 p.m. Drewsifer New Reader
This is making me thirsty.
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Nov. 13, 2009 9:50 p.m. wayslow New Reader
I left an open case of beer in the back of my old RX-7, overnight, in minus 20 weather. The inside of the rear glass hatch was covered in a solid inch of beer slushy.
The smell never came out of that car.
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Nov. 13, 2009 10:03 p.m. mad_machine PowerDork
can't say I have ever had soda expode in my car. I once did have a full chocolate milkshake go flying up under the dash in one of my fiats when I had to emergancy brake when I got cut off once.
And I once fermented a bottle of nantucket nectors cranberry juice
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Nov. 14, 2009 8:42 a.m. dean1484 Dork
Gear Oil...
The smell that keeps on giving.
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Nov. 14, 2009 8:45 a.m. maroon92 UberDork
dean1484 said:
Gear Oil...
The smell that keeps on giving.
quoted for truth. I always dread cracking the diff housing open. Burnt gear oil is the worst.
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Nov. 14, 2009 8:25 p.m. DWNSHFT Reader
Well, ummm...
Since this posted by a clown, erm, am I supposed to laugh? Was it a joke?
David
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Nov. 14, 2009 8:56 p.m. jwdmotorsports HalfDork
Man, I about died laughing. Read it to the wife. She about died laughing.
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Nov. 14, 2009 9:39 p.m. fastclown Reader
No joke, it happened exactly as written. Regarding the tires, I use the skinny Falkin 10's on my other Minis but these are nothing more than thick innertubes with tread. They bounce you down the road. I have them pumped up to 38lbs and they still bounce you down the road. With less air the sidewall will fold under when driving at speed around corners. When we were in the Tennessee mountains for our Mini 50 my hands were sweating trying to hold onto the steering wheel. I remember cussing out the bastard that invented the leather steering wheel when it got hard to hold on. Stay away from the Falkin 165/70 10's, unless you want to pressure clean your Mini.
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Nov. 15, 2009 7:53 a.m. DWNSHFT Reader
I thought I used the emote... And I'm not laughing at your misfortune. I've had my share, but honestly, I've been lucky enough to avoid so much misfortune, I have to be thankful.
David
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Nov. 15, 2009 8:34 a.m. joey48442 SuperDork
What a funny story! Chasing it under the car is the best part.
Joey
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Nov. 15, 2009 8:45 a.m. Hocrest Reader
Two things would make that story funnier;
1 - A video camera
2 - You in the clown costume while this was all happening
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Nov. 15, 2009 12:10 p.m. alex Dork
Hocrest wrote:
Two things would make that story funnier;
1 - A video camera
2 - You in the clown costume while this was all happening
3 - Yakety Sax playing over the video.
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Nov. 16, 2009 8:59 a.m. Gearheadotaku Reader
maroon92 wrote:
+2. Gear oil is the worst.dean1484 said:
Gear Oil...
The smell that keeps on giving.
quoted for truth. I always dread cracking the diff housing open. Burnt gear oil is the worst.
had a full 64 oz. lemonade do a tidal wave across a work truck interior one time. Thanks goddess for vinyl floors. ( and seats, and door panels, and...)
