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

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Vanagoon: Jan 20, 2008; Best Dead Gay Forums
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How can you say front wheel drive is not more efficient. You don't even need the back half of the car.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 20:37

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# ? Jun 11, 2024 20:09

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Vanagoon posted:

How can you say front wheel drive is not more efficient. You don't even need the back half of the car.

# ? Apr 27, 2017 22:48

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

um excuse me posted:

Probably not engine related or I probably would have heard something at work about it by now.

If they've just gone with "mechanical failure", that could mean a whole host of things on one of those, right?

# ? Apr 27, 2017 22:56

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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BloodBag posted:

Texas used to have two stickers on the windshield of cars. One was your registration, which required proof of insurance to renew, and the other is your annual inspection sticker. They would both have the month and year they're due so that officers can look at them quickly to see if you're current on both.

Now they have the 'Texas Two-Step' which is a quaint, Texasy way of requiring a passing mark on an annual insection to renew registration, and only one sticker. In the past, disreputable shops would get paid a few bucks under the table and give you a new sticker for inspection. Now you have to have your results put into a system that will get pinged when you want to renew registration.

Before this, you could just get a fake sticker and be on your way in your horrible hazard to everyone on the road. Now, if you don't pass inspection, you don't get renewal. What people do now is scrape the registration stickers off and print out a fake paper tag and tape it to the back of their heaps. I've seen tags that say 2011 ford fusion on the back of those banana shaped mercedes cars (CLS?) I've seen fake paper tags taped to license plates. TX law states you have to take your tags off the car at sale, so there you go.

You know when a car has a check engine light that makes it fail inspection because you'll see paper tags on ancient shitheaps like early 2000's hyundai accents with 4 different body panel colors.

TX only requires pulling the tags when sold by a dealer. If it's a person to person sale, the tags can stay, or the seller can keep them. That's a relatively recent change - they used to always stay on the car in a private sale.

But it's $30 and a printer to get a 30 day tag.. renewable 3 times. But yeah, even printing a fake tag isn't a big deal, so long as a bored cop doesn't run the tags and wonder why a tag for a 2005 Cadillac is on a 1999 Kia.

I'm ashamed to admit one of my coworkers has been driving his car like that for a year. It's a beat to poo poo Hyundai of some sort (whatever their high end car in the early 00s was), with a nasty misfire; it's pretty much a rolling superfund site.

There's not a whole lot stopping a shop from faking a car through the inspection either. Plug it into a different car, or if it's not OBD2, just stick the sniffer in a known clean car. I don't think the inspection computer queries the VIN on OBD2 here (they might, but these are ancient DOS-based machines from the 90s - they struggle badly enough just printing off the reports).

# ? Apr 28, 2017 01:48

B4Ctom1: Oct 5, 2003; OVERWORKED COCK; Slippery Tilde

Vanagoon posted:

How can you say front wheel drive is not more efficient. You don't even need the back half of the car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktlvQgngq90

# ? Apr 29, 2017 17:28

NoWake: Dec 28, 2008; College Slice

Someone hold onto that dog, goddamn.

# ? Apr 29, 2017 17:56

B4Ctom1: Oct 5, 2003; OVERWORKED COCK; Slippery Tilde

B4Ctom1 posted:

EDIT:

fixed because I reposted this same event

B4Ctom1 posted:
Left home for a meeting 10 minutes early in my 2009 Outback. 40 minutes for a 30 minute trip. 10 miles of gravel county road and then a short trip on the interstate into town. I get about 1 mile from the house and move to the edge of the road as a larger truck is coming the opposite direction.

Something must have fallen off a vehicle and migrated to the edge of the road. Still don't know what. I guess I got too close to the edge of the gravel road and found it. When I ran it over, I could hear it clap the underside of the fender a few times, but I could hear the air coming out fast. I can only see a chunk of it sticking out of the tire. What ever was flapping flew out/off. Can wait till I get another wheel, so when they knock the tire off, I can see what it was. I honestly think it was a tool like a screwdriver.

Was dressed in business attire, and still got it changed in 15 minutes, without getting dirty. Only 5 mins late into the meeting room. The boss says, "I was just about to ask where Tom was". Perfect timing.

New wheel is $130 delivered from eBay

So here was the culprit

I asked Rick to save the offending item which I knew would be in the tire still. It looks much longer than it appears in the image, only 6" long. From what I can tell, it appears to be one of those T-handle combination screwdriver/wrench tools provided in someone else's tire change kit. Obviously with the wrench bit broken off, but you can still see the weld that was left over where it attached.

The tire-irony is not lost on me.

I intend to have that wheel patched and used as a full size spare as the spare tire well is sized to accommodate a full sized spare. Putting 60 miles (including 20 miles of sharp gravel road known to kill known good tires) on a safety donut was nerve wracking.

I laughed because the other day I was using a chainsaw and picked up the chainsaw "scrench" and realized that was the object that killed my tire and wheel, not something from a car's tool kit as I previously assumed.

BTW they ended up replacing the tire this month under road hazard because their fix wouldn't hold air when it was cold out.

# ? Apr 29, 2017 18:14

Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Greetings fellow HF shopper.

# ? Apr 29, 2017 18:19

Vanagoon: Jan 20, 2008; Best Dead Gay Forums
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B4Ctom1 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktlvQgngq90

Here is the video where they cut the car in half with a loving sawzall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw0Nrw4HqA4

# ? Apr 29, 2017 19:13

Anagram of GINGER: Oct 3, 2014; by Smythe

That's perfect but now you need a second one so you can race

# ? Apr 29, 2017 19:49

Lime Tonics: Nov 7, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

# ? Apr 30, 2017 17:02

Anagram of GINGER: Oct 3, 2014; by Smythe

Lime Tonics posted:

THAT WAS SO SATISFYING

# ? Apr 30, 2017 17:07

rdb: Jul 8, 2002; chicken mctesticles?

Did that just randomly let go? I don't see anyone around who appears to be messing with it.

# ? Apr 30, 2017 17:27

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

Probably had a blister, then it sat out in a hot sun all day soaking up heat.. and pop!

# ? Apr 30, 2017 17:31

AMISH FRIED PIES: Mar 6, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

Lime Tonics posted:

That car and this .GIF is my new go-to for explaining the concept of Chekov's Gun. :stare:

# ? Apr 30, 2017 18:16

IPCRESS: May 27, 2012

rdb posted:

Did that just randomly let go? I don't see anyone around who appears to be messing with it.

If I had to guess, I'd say someone welded a rim with the tyre still on it which started a small fire inside the tyre. I think Work Safe BC has a video on it (not this event, but one in which a worker was killed), and you'll find plenty of written reports of people trying it.

e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQbKCd3ezrA&t=59s

# ? May 1, 2017 01:10

Pigsfeet on Rye: Oct 22, 2008; I'm meat on the hoof

Lime Tonics posted:

Nice follow-up pictures.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/three-tonne-tyre-suddenly-explodes-10333725

# ? May 1, 2017 22:19

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Wow, so they just hooked up the air hose and left.

# ? May 1, 2017 22:30

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
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Cojawfee posted:

Wow, so they just hooked up the air hose and left.

linked article posted:

Russia

They didn't leave, they went inside to double check their vodka reserves for the day. :v:

# ? May 1, 2017 23:20

CAT INTERCEPTOR: Nov 9, 2004; Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Lime Tonics posted:

Goddamn that's impressive

# ? May 2, 2017 01:39

Puddin: Apr 9, 2004; Leave it to Brak

The article fails to mention the fact that the car was repaired by Russian mechanics and back on the road by the end of the day.

# ? May 2, 2017 09:34

Pomp and Circumcized: Dec 23, 2006; If there's one thing I love more than GruntKilla420, it's the Queen! Also bacon.

Puddin posted:

The article fails to mention the fact that the car was repaired by Russian mechanics and back on the road by the end of the day.

Its probably a convertible now...

# ? May 2, 2017 21:55

Big Taint: Oct 19, 2003

Pomp and Circumcized posted:

Its probably a convertible now...

Video located:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw0Nrw4HqA4

# ? May 2, 2017 23:59

LloydDobler: Oct 15, 2005; You shared it with a dick.

You Am I posted:

So would retreads (is that still a thing) be the boob job of the tyre world?

No, it's the comb-over.

# ? May 3, 2017 00:03

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

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# ? May 3, 2017 07:08

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

well it still turns don't it

# ? May 3, 2017 07:37

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