She was churning plastic

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• UncleArthur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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    • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      /c/dadforaminute@lemmy.world

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  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A subculture of “the damn mechanic is always just trying to rip me off” will do that.

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    • edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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

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  • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i mean, you should change oil more than once a year…

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    • UncleArthur@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      My car requires a service plus oil change every year or 10k miles, whichever comes first.

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    • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can get away with changing it once a year as long as you rotate it every few months.

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• ImminentOrbit@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Lol, I can’t even process what I’m looking at.

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  • darkevilmac@lemmy.zip ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Oil pan full of sludge, presumably because so much of the motor oil has burned off

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• sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  It isn’t supposed to look like that?

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• TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Forbidden chocolate milk.

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