[LastPlaceComics] Hand Em Over
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Dharma Curious (he/him)replied to [email protected] last edited by
Haha. That's amazing. It's one of my favorite stories. My family collect outlandish stories by way of poverty. Lmao
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Definitely Ghosts
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Incontrovertibly.
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/home/pineappleloverreplied to Dharma Curious (he/him) last edited by
I feel so sorry for your bro
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/home/pineappleloverreplied to [email protected] last edited by
This is why I love lemmy.
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️replied to [email protected] last edited by
My Jetta's engine just exploded into a fire ball one day going to work. Does that qualify as a "hoopty?"
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Dharma Curious (he/him)replied to /home/pineapplelover last edited by
I texted him the clip of Peter Griffin locked in his car today, with the caption "Just a reminder that this is literally you"
He then called me just to say "fuck you very much" and hang up. Lmao
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
It's so weird hearing new american-made words, they always sound strangely adorable.
I'd just call it a shitbox, but hoopty sounds so wholesome in comparison.
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[email protected]replied to 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ last edited by
All VWs are in some part a hoopty. I don't hate the brand, though it's one of the few I don't recommend to people who don't like turning wrenches. So many electrical gremlins and other weird mechanical quirks. Usually not enough to stop them running, but definitely enough to make them a hoopty.
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thank you for acknowledging my 94 ford tempo
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
This was a MkIII and my ex-VW dealer mechanic sort of hated it. Sometimes he’d try to refuse pay because he wasn’t sure if he’d fixed something.
It did leave me dead in the water once when a fuel relay was failing intermittently, causing the car to suddenly shut off at speed (weeeeee) but generally it ran well and was fun to drive. They are definitely quirky… I quickly learned to always use OEM only or it would act up.
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[email protected]replied to Dharma Curious (he/him) last edited by
I had a 1980 year Oldsmobile 98 that didn't have as many crazy issues as yours but did have one amazing one.
Driving home one evening from college classes the headlights didn't work so I took it into the shop.
Couldn't find anything normal as a cause but I had one of those old time small town mechanics that couldn't stand to lose to the car. So he said he wouldn't charge us for the extra work hours if he could keep it as a project until he was done. Took over three weeks of him going through the wiring and finally found a harness/wire that had worn through and was grounding to the car frame.
So far nothing too weird for an old car. The bizarre part is that he had good current equipment and it is supposed to test if a wire is grounded out like that to the frame or even if it is broken by kicking signals along it like you can to find damage to Ethernet cables.
So with that tester in hand and knowing without question what the problem was he hooked it back up and it still reported nothing wrong. He called the manufacturer and they said as far as they know that violates the laws of electricity.... Worked fine with the new wires so again definitely correct and his tool worked on everything else he ever tried it on.
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How are both of you this dumb?
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I'm American and honestly this is the first time I've heard "hoopty". I usually go with shitbox or beater, and I also hear the older generations use "jalopy" sometimes
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Dharma Curious (he/him)replied to [email protected] last edited by
Oldsmobiles are magic. Sometimes vile, evil magic lmao
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[email protected]replied to Dharma Curious (he/him) last edited by
fantastic comment. really nicely written and super entertaining! thanks for sharing
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[email protected]replied to Dharma Curious (he/him) last edited by
This is great. It reminds me of the Olds my dad had that had intermittent power steering, like you'd be turning into a parking spot at the mall (this actually happened to me) and the power steering would stop working, suddenly making the wheel much harder to turn. All kinds of random fun.
Cutlass Ciera diesel. If you got behind someone doing 50 mph on the highway, you were basically stuck there, because it would take forever to pass them.
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It's a southern word
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This is why I often leave the keys in the ignition of my manual beater Suzuki. Teenage hooligans can't drive it and its value doubles when the gas tank is full anyways, not much to lose.
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Gotcha, thanks