Its scary that people drive their cars around like this, and are barely aware of how poorly they maintain their cars.
http://www.reddit.com/r/justrolledintotheshop
Its scary that people drive their cars around like this, and are barely aware of how poorly they maintain their cars.
http://www.reddit.com/r/justrolledintotheshop
"Normal" people take their car in for an oil change every 8000 miles or so, might check the tires if they're visibly low and beyond that, only does anything else if it stops working entirely for whatever they need it for, starts making a noise the radio wont cover up, or some state inspection racket orders them to.
Why do you think new cars have big plastic covers over the motor and whatnot? The typical owner will never do anything there, making it less stressful (and reducing mistakes) locating the washer filler, the only thing under there they care about/interact with.
In reply to Kenny_McCormic:
With the crowd I hang out with I forget how unmechanical and inept most vehicle owners are unfortunately.
Huh it's not even as bad as usual today. I remember I once saw a post on there titled "what are tires and why do I need them?" with a pic of a car driving on a bare steelie, the "outer hoop" was about half worn down.
I am always scared walking past people's car and looking at tires in parking lots.
93EXCivic wrote: I am always scared walking past people's car and looking at tires in parking lots.
Yes. Also its surprising how many cars on the road are missing one or more lugnuts.
Once saw a Suzuki micro-van that had two lugs on each wheel 
When I drove my Trueno donor car home, it had a nasty vibration under braking. The shop that sold it sent me off with one wheel only having two lugs...next to each other
In reply to ProDarwin:
If I had to guess, locking lugnuts have killed more people than any other modification. I see tons of cars which are missing their 5th (or 4th) lugnut on every wheel, probably because Joe Blow's Tire Shop air chiseled them off the stud and then asked for more money to replace them with acorns.
Being in the car-biz for the last 13 continuous years, its amazing what you see. Kinda scary at the same time.
Isn't there something in driving school about a "walk-around"?
GameboyRMH wrote: When I drove my Trueno donor car home, it had a nasty vibration under braking. The shop that sold it sent me off with one wheel only having two lugs...next to each other
93EXCivic wrote: I am always scared walking past people's car and looking at tires in parking lots.
I put two new tyres on the back of my mom's rendezvous this past fall when I noticed they were nearly bald. Would have been very dangerous with all the snow we got this winter
I'm actually ashamed of my wife's car right now. I let the rear tires get down to 3/32 in the center, 1 on the outer edge. Damn crappy Kumho's. they only lasted 48k miles on 2 different cars. You'd think that a $41 a piece tire would last longer.
Trans_Maro wrote: Isn't there something in driving school about a "walk-around"?GameboyRMH wrote: When I drove my Trueno donor car home, it had a nasty vibration under braking. The shop that sold it sent me off with one wheel only having two lugs...next to each other
Yeah I missed it, but the lugs were hidden inside the big dumb rims the car was driving on at the time. What's the shop's excuse?
This is why I wish state safety inspections were more thorough and common. You Florida people must see the worst E36 M3.
i'm guilty of it currently (no excuse for it) yet my reasoning is that my commute is less then 10 miles daily. Now that it should be getting warmer i'll get everything sorted
I'm keeping this link for reference.
Leafy wrote: This is why I wish state safety inspections were more thorough and common. You Florida people must see the worst E36 M3.
I haven't noticed cars being in worse shape down here, but I frequently see pick-up trucks in ridiculously neglected shape. These are usually used by tree trimmers---stacked 15ft high with trimmings in a truck so worn out and rusty that the bed seems about ready to fall off. I see these things nearly every day. I'm always amazed that they still move under their own power.
To be honest though.....I saw much worse when I lived in IL. Back then we didn't have inspections in my county, and the combination of rust and neglect was amazing. Yes....I was guilty of it as a yout, with my 78 Nova's subframe so rusty that the doors would open randomly. My seats weren't bolted down either......which made for an exciting ride when the door flew open at 70mph mid-corner.
Ah--- to be young and immortal again....
Well, luckily I fixed my main maintenance issue. I looked at the take off's and the left rear (that last month was on hte right front) had NOT inner tread block. It was smooth.completely smooth. Damn.... no wonder she was complaining it was squirrelly in the ice/rain/snow yesterday.
In reply to Joe Gearin:
If its McHenry county, they STILL don't. Scrappers are the scariest ones. When scrap in the ridiculously high cage is in better shape then the truck hauling it...
This was on the first page, and is my favorite "Ricers Shouldn't Be Allowed To Modify Cars" picture ever.
Don't run a mechanical oil gauge inside the cockpit, kids:
Appleseed wrote: In reply to Joe Gearin: If its McHenry county, they STILL don't. Scrappers are the scariest ones. When scrap in the ridiculously high cage is in better shape then the truck hauling it...
sure enough---- I lived in McHenry county!
More cringe per minute this way.
In reply to Sky_Render:
No, dont run a mech oil gauge into the cockpit with the crappy provided nylon tubing rubbing on stuff.
I did it with a metal line once.. still leaked eventually. Electric is the only way to go
In reply to Sky_Render:
I've ran plenty of mechanical oil pressure gauges. Generally I like run copper line, but I used the nylon also without ever having a failure.
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