I don’t understand how anyone can do this. If you’ve spent thousands on an asset that (in the USA) one relies on, surely you’d at least get it serviced once a year. I wonder what her house is like.
She was churning plastic
Submitted 2 months ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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UncleArthur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
A subculture of “the damn mechanic is always just trying to rip me off” will do that.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s kind of me because as someone who knows computers well and knows how computer repair places are, I can assume mechanics are the same. I usually plan to do my own repairs but I hate cars, am lazy, and rarely drive mine so I usually go way too long before just taking it in far later than I should have
edinbruh@feddit.it 2 months ago
Here you are forced by law to get your car serviced periodically. Mechanics are known to try to rip you off every time.
Plus, I could easily raise the counter argument that if I spend thousands on a machine, it better be reliable without needing to get serviced all the time
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
When I met my wife she complained the car was often smokey and lacked power up hill.
First think I checked was oil level.
It had none.
So I asked when she had the oil changed last, and she replied with something like “Oil change? What’s that?”
That car got donated to the wrecker for tax receipt program.
She’s not good with details, but also never had a dad or car guy influence in her life to explain what maintenance was all about.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
RTFM is a way of life. I’m not a car person by any means. I’m about as good at mechanics as fish are at cycling. I just read the manual, and do what it says, if I can. If not, I take the device to someone who can. Most devices come with documents made by intelligent, educated and experienced people who just want to help make it work.
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
/c/dadforaminute@lemmy.world
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t you have mandatory inspections?
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
i mean, you should change oil more than once a year…
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You can get away with changing it once a year as long as you rotate it every few months.
UncleArthur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My car requires a service plus oil change every year or 10k miles, whichever comes first.
Mpatch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah just run it once with out, then you just top up every other fill up no oil change needed
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That totally depends on your mileage.
If you are an average driver (USA ~20 000 km per year, European ~10 000 km per year), a yearly oil change is sufficient. Frequent changes are environmentally unfriendly, while at the same time costing more money than they save.
A good fully synthetic oil can do 20 000 km in most modern cars.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
A lot of people are more irresponsible than you can possibly imagine, and, if you point that out to them, you are harming them.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
People live life without understanding how things work.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
We need a r/justrolledintotheshop equivalent here. There was a lot of gold there…or shiny flakes in the sump at least
ImminentOrbit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lol, I can’t even process what I’m looking at.
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Crude butter
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Oil pan full of sludge, presumably because so much of the motor oil has burned off
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 2 months ago
Happy cake day!
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If you think that’s bad, look at all the random stuff australian shouty nugget man put into cars instead of oil.
python@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Franks dad? He’s alright mate. Those cars had it coming.
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Genuinely happy the Donkey lived.
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It isn’t supposed to look like that?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Customer states: Not getting good gas mileage.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Big deal, I never change the oil in my leaf.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You should be changing the reduction gear oil.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I actually did that last weekend! It’s really easy. One tool, one drain pan, not quite two quarts of ATF. Then its done for another 60k miles.
Nowhere near as messy and difficult as changing engine oil. And I even gained some range.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Forbidden chocolate milk.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Does it move?
Doom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m aware that this is a shit post, buuuut I just want to point out if this was very old oil it would be black sludge. This oil looks contaminated. Probably with coolant. If we’re going to do a sexism let’s at least accurately identify the engine problem.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 2 months ago
Yeah, that underside of an engine is way too spotless and clean to have driven the distance needed to break down engine oil.
Botzo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Agreed with both of you.
That’s the classic “milkshake” color and is definitely from coolant.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“She added washer fluid to the 710 cap”
Doom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah. In my experience it’s normally dudes that cause this problem by pouring cold coolant into a hot engine. Hot engine block plus cold fluid = BAD. The engine block cracks. If you ever need to add coolant only do it when your vehicle is cold (If it’s an emergency and you can’t wait for the engine to cool make sure the engine is ON and you add coolant slowly). If this only happened because someone just poured the wrong fluid into the wrong hole, hell yeah, because I’d rather do a clean out then have to replace my whole god damn engine.