Last Wednesday, after waiting seven months, I finally got all the weatherstrips for my 72 Ambassador wagon. The originals were falling apart.
Dangerous Cars mechanics encounter
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Reasonable folks either address or get rid of these vehicles
What you are seeing is unaware or classic symptoms of folks who have Oppositional defiance disorder.
What you are seeing is unaware or classic symptoms of folks who have Oppositional defiance disorder.
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There was an electrician at work who had a Hyundai sedan. For years he had it filled almost up to the ceiling with newspapers. Suspension was fully compressed to the bumpstops. He got fired a couple years ago when he got caught wiping his own poop all over the the bathroom stalls.
I knew someone who did this in the military. We called him the phantom
er until we found out who it was.Thank goodness for multilink suspension. They give you a couple spare links in case one fails! 
Some mental health things going with many of those though, I'm sure many of their homes are similar...
You can get this content every day on Reddit's Just Rolled Into the Shop. The youtube title even alludes to it. Good reading... and watching.
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Funniest one I ever saw - an old VW Beetle.Some folks just don't know how to properly chain together rusted components
The floor pan was so rotted out, the owner had the driver's seat suspended with playground swing chain.
He had drilled, and installed hooks through the roof.
That was before cell phones - otherwise I'd have a photo of that stroke of genius.
I wonder how many dangerous cars mechanics send out daily with loose lug nuts or other components?
It has happened to me twice.
Stopped my neighbor just the other week. He had the dealer put on snows for him, day or two before? only lug left, threaded halfway on, the amount of wobble was astounding. Luckily it was right after a corner, and when I stopped to stare, he took it as a good time to stop too.
Dealer had to send a flatbed out to retrieve.
Yep, you should really stop and look at your lugs if there's an odd noise coming from a wheel that is getting noisier by the minute... I've under torqued a wheel twice now, but caught it early enough that only a couple lugs were backed off a couple threads and the others still snug but allowing some movement, and therefore noise. No damage of anything as far as I could tell, so tightened them up to "that will hold them" with the tire iron and carried on until next tire change.
I was struck by how many of the completely rusted out ones were new purchases. The buyers didn’t even peek under the vehicle to see how bad it was.
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