Dumbest things you've heard people say about/seen people do to their cars

[MikeDE]

'All you have to do is adjust the dwell on those valves and you get like 60hp'

[redsubdivisions]

I work two jobs and despite working at a dealer behind the parts counter during the day, I seem to never be able to get away from car idiots even after we close.

My night manager at my second job is a decent guy. We both have families to take care of, same age, etc. He mentions he is into cars and says that he constantly talks about them. Cool, he likes cars, so I spark up a conversation about my M20 turbo build and before I can finish about my mild power goals and how I don't want a ton of power, he chimes in and begins to tell me about his all motor 4-cylinder Nissan SR20VE with 200hp will "spank your car" and how he has invested $4k in his suspension setup for what is basically a 2-door Sentra.

I figured out what type of guy he was after that and just avoid any car talk when I'm there.

[cferb]

Idk if you guys know about honda del slow (sol) but in the u.s. they came with a single over head cam, so this guy in my class was like my del slow has a b16(supposed to be dohc) with vtakk and he pops his hood and we see the single cammer no vtakk all stock and hes like yeah my b16 came in sohc. I just walked away
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They were sold in the US with the DOHC B16, doesn't mean his was, but they exist.

[JinormusJ]

Dumbest things you've heard people say about/seen people do to their cars

Was working on my car the other day in front of my house diagnosing a steering rack studder

I was under my car when some high school kids walk by and say: "Cool car bro, I like the inline-V6"

I said thanks and they kept on walking

Had to control my lols or else look like a douche. It has 6 cylinders, so at least they got it half right

[kwill22]

He shouldn't have tried to pass himself of as all-knowing, but they do make you test the batteries (it only takes a few minutes to do it properly). I work at Advance and if you ring up a battery, the computer will ask you if you tested the customer's and what error code the tester gave.

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That's the part that mainly pissed me I off because he originally said it'll only take like I 5 minutes and that turned into an hour. I didn't have a problem with him testing because I knew he had to for me to get the warranty replacement

[e30jake]

Friend of mine told me her dad sold his car because of the head casket

[Conki]

Friend of mine told me her dad sold his car because of the head casket

Edit: Nevermind, i thought YOU misspelled "gasket" haha.

To add to the topic:
I can't even remember how many times I cringed when people I know referred to their wheels as tires.
As in "I just got these sick chrome tires from Sear Auto, bro".

[mrcheezle19]

I work at a car dealership in sales so you would hope most of us know a thing or 2 about cars, well not my boss. Anyways one day I have a customer who is fairly knowledgeable about the Diesels. I go through the motions but clearly he's not buying today so my boss decides to come over and "attempt to close" him. My boss starts to say some small facts he know about the engine and then slides in there that there's turbos on each cylinder... I'm not suppose to talk so I just let him dig himself into a hole. The customer plays along and asks him how that works. He kinda stutters and says that the turbos force air through the injectors to get the fuel into the firing chamber faster creating more boost. At this point I say thanks Micah, he walks away and the customer and I look at each other. I just say he tries his best and hand him a card. Then my boss asked me if he explained it correctly, I said you were close, the customer didn't know much anyways.

I've got many stories with my boss and stupid shit he said, I'll start a mini series.

[Ether-D]

I worked at O'Reilly back in the day and a customer came in wanting a harmonica balancer for his Bru-rick.

[Subtle]

I'm not master mechanic or Subaru expert but last time I checked valves we not called "plungers". According to my friend and the dude that claims to be a "subaru mastertech" took his $100 to diagnose his "stuck plunger" mind you the car still runs just it had a large vacuum leak that was causing his missfire issue...

[ThatOneEuroE30]

I got some good ones all from the same person to. The first one is I'm sitting in class talking cars and this kid interrupts and I shit you not said these exact words " Me and my buddy are taking 2 v6's and welding them together to make a v12" I walked away without saying a word... The next one is this kid says he was drifting his Subaru sti at 150mph on the interstate. He has also said that he has a Ferrari and like six corvettes and a bunch of other shit while the only car I see him drive is a POS GMC jimmy with painted green wheels sticker bombed and truck exhaust.

[IronFreak]

Had a guy hope onto a local clubs FB page and ask how to install a BOV, after further discussion, not only was he serious (thought it was a bad troll).......but he didn't even have a turbo on his GTO. He just went and bought a brand new Greddy BOV because he...in his own words "want the swoosh sound"........

[HarryPotter]

Just join the R3v facebook page.

[Jorgen]

When I was rebuilding my old (99) cougar motor and adding a bunch fo the SVT contour engine components I had the kid at Napa down the street arguing with me everytime I went in for fluids or cleaners and what not about how this would never work and I needed to just get a new Mazda motor since it was the same as the Probe (note I am rebuilding a cougar).

This second comes from work. I do sales/engineering support for an auto supplier. The people around and questioning this all have at minimum 1 engineering degree and sell underhood components to OEM's. At an assembly plant we are standing by the line looking at our engine parts, the engine and front cradle are there, then the rear suspension some were AWD cars some weren't, there were no unibodies on this is right before the union station. We were looking for AWD vehicle underpinnings only. Every time one would come along I would tell them to check the details on it or mention it. These guys couldn't figure out how to tell if it was an AWD setup or FWD coming along. Even after I pointed out the drive shaft.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Had a guy hope onto a local clubs FB page and ask how to install a BOV, after further discussion, not only was he serious (thought it was a bad troll).......but he didn't even have a turbo on his GTO. He just went and bought a brand new Greddy BOV because he...in his own words "want the swoosh sound"........

lolololol I read that