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So my friend's dad is a ford mechanic. His buddy has a ford windstar that just ended its 70k mile extended warranty, so he volunteers to do the 75k maintenance. Finishes up, and asks when the oil was last changed. Gets a surprised response; "change the oil?"
Pops the oilpan open, and chunk chunk chunk, out comes this oil that looks like black chunky milk. There's about a quart and a half in there. Puts some fresh stuff in, closes it up, and away the minivan goes. Amazing. The 75k mile oil service.

wow! and i thought my dad's 35,000 miles w/out an oil change was bad! he finally had me do it for him

the most astounding part of that story to me was that a ford winstar was still running at all after 70K miles

-Mike

You know this isnt that uncommmon. Ive heard two other similar stories. Still shows you that some people just dont take the time needed. You dont need to be an expert in every field but you should know the operating procedure for a car.

Can't do that with a Toyota, I've seen Siennas come in with seized engines after the soccer mom owners let them go 12k miles without changing the oil...

I don't understand why people buy brand-new cars and do that. The idea of completely wasting the $25,000 you just spent by treating it like garbage makes absolutely no sense to me. If you want to do that, get an old Ford Taurus for $500 and drive it until it doesn't go anymore. Much more economical

Its just that the US has abandoned the "survival of the fittest" idea. There are so many laws are in place to protect dumb asses from themselves these days I seriously plan to retire in another country.

A great example is the picture of a baby drowning upside down in a bucket. Every god damn bucket ever made has the same stupid picture on it. If you have a child and leave dangerous items around its your fault, not the inanimate object! Will we soon be required to place warnings on knives about a cut hazard?
I want to find the person responsible for this type of stuff and stick a cork screw into their eyesocket

I want to find the person responsible for this type of stuff and stick a cork screw into their eyesocket

Get in line

-Brian

my ex's friend's mom had a 96 mustang convertible. she loved it. One day her check engie light came on at about 60k miles. She had about a quart of oil in it. She didnt know that it needed to be changed.

They should teach common sense in school instead of the math classes 90% of the people sleep through or English, maybe. They could teach basic finances, car and home maintenance, etc. But then the big industries and lawyers won't make as much money off the stupid andd that would be unamerican. Personally, I don't care about making money off the stupid - its what they manufacture idiots for, but when I'm insulted and treated as one of them is where I draw the line. What ever happened to laughing at someone for falling down or spilling hot coffee on themselves? Now its worth a million dollars to be stupid so they can afford to breed more stupid people like themselves. The de-evolution of man. It's like HG Wells' Time Machine.

Steve

no, we NEED english classes in school, ones that actually teach the dumbasses how to spell and use grammar properly, but yeah, somethings people make no sense to me. We actually are forced to wear protective hand wear or cut-gloves, because a bunch of dumbasses saw through their hands while cutting bread. They had some safety meeting where this guy showed us a picture of some assface that was cutting bread in his hands and he actually cut right though the skin into two of his tendons and cut them. Now his pinky and ring fingers dont go straight anymore and wont until he gets surgery. I say that guy deserves it.

you really can't teach common sense.....I guess you can show people stuff...and they may learn....but trying to teach someone common sense is very difficult if not impossible.....we've just abandoned darwinism......

Those who can't learn common sense should be enslaved. Not mistreated - given guaranteed health care, food, and housing, but not much extra. All decisions will be made for them so they won't be stressed out and because they're frankly incapable of their own decisions. They should do the same menial task day after day and they'll pay for themselves. Don't call it slavery, call it something cool and have rap stars advertize the idea and the people will line up like the Lottery on a big jack pot day. There are lots of people I've worked with over the years that would love to be a part of this system. Then the resources could be directed to those who could make better do with them.

Steve

^ Brilliant! Especially the part about the rap stars.

-Brian

Last week an outback came in to the dealership where I work. There was about a litre and a half of chunky pitch black oil that oozed out of this car. I just don't get some people .

Mark,

This is not car related but shows a lack of common sense. My dad's company makes boxes for large companies. One day while one of the employees slit his arm open w/ a razor knife; blood was everywhere. The plant managers shut the entire plant down and made all the employees come to the bloody area where they received a lecture on how the area was contaminated and no one was to come within 50 feet of it, yet the employees where standing in the middle of it.

Here's your sign!

HAHAHAHA!!! I guess that just shows the mentality of corporate America, these days. . . . they're so uptight about making examples of people and covering their own asses, that they end up looking like fools in the process.

I walked up to a guy who was trying to unlock his door with a coat hanger and before I could stop myself I said, "Whatdja do lock your keys in your car?" He said, "nope, just washed and and now I'm hanging it up to dry"

THere's your sign.

I saw that guy on blue collar comedy, he was pretty good.

I've got another one:

I changed my friend's sister's power steering/alt belt on her eclipse (PITA job, btw) So we're laughing about her mods, intrax springs, pep boyz rimmz, fartcan, under hood ram air, those clear taillights, and a BOV. So we're lookin at this big blitz bov and idea. we duct tape a duck whistle to the outlet and pointed the whole shebang downwards, so it was out of sight. Finish the job, take it for a spin.. QUAAAACK-quackquackquackquack! Funniest noise you've ever heard. It's been on for a couple days now...

LOL!!!!!! OMG. . . that is priceless!

I would love to see/hear a video of that!!!

Steve

We were gonna tape a kazoo to the PCV valve of my crx when i had it to make it sound like it had a turbo.

You guys sure you didnt see that idea on a video that floated around on NASIOC? They connected a ballon (or maybe a rubber glove) so the pressure would release slowly

magicmike wrote:the most astounding part of that story to me was that a ford winstar was still running at all after 70K miles

-Mike

Bwahaha

i didnt. only board i went to was honda-acura.net and never heard anythign about it. bf's brother just used to tease me, say my car sounded like a kazoo.