How insightful, Business Insider, apparently you believe that most of your readers are dependent idiots. I'll service my car if I want to.

11. Trust your wife to understand the reason behind any of the first 10 items.

For some reason, "driving through a wooden shed," "dropping a caravan on it," "setting it on fire" and "imploding a twelve-storey building directly beneath it" are absent from the list.

And by "this" i didn't mean a repeat thread,but a rather contradictory thread. Whoops.

11) Let it work in a Transformers movie.

11) Put a Tea Party bumper sticker on it.

Parking in some of the crappy neighborhoods I lived in when my family was young and relatively poor.

Yeah, I get all my great car advice from Yahoo.

/ And my financial advice from my local Indian casino.

Put an Obama '12 bumper sticker on it.

I've done (6) before. Couldn't be helped.

By the time I reached home, smoke was coming out from every orifice on the car. 10 minutes after I'd parked, a neighbor called saying my car was on fire. It wasn't though. Major repair the next day.

Subby: Think you are doing the right thing with your Fark account? Here are the 10 worst things you can do to your precious account

1. Submit links to nonsensical "surveys" that are little more than PR fluff promoting a particular company's services and have absolutely zero basis in fact
2. Submit links to nonsensical "surveys" that are little more than PR fluff promoting a particular company's services and have absolutely zero basis in fact
3. Submit links to nonsensical "surveys" that are little more than PR fluff promoting a particular company's services and have absolutely zero basis in fact
4. Submit links to nonsensical "surveys" that are little more than PR fluff promoting a particular company's services and have absolutely zero basis in fact
5. Submit links to nonsensical "surveys" that are little more than PR fluff promoting a particular company's services and have absolutely zero basis in fact
6. Submit links to nonsensical "surveys" that are little more than PR fluff promoting a particular company's services and have absolutely zero basis in fact
7. Submit links to nonsensical "surveys" that are little more than PR fluff promoting a particular company's services and have absolutely zero basis in fact
8. Submit links to nonsensical "surveys" that are little more than PR fluff promoting a particular company's services and have absolutely zero basis in fact
9. Submit links to nonsensical "surveys" that are little more than PR fluff promoting a particular company's services and have absolutely zero basis in fact
10. Submit links to the Daily Fail and/or Sun claiming to contain "hot" women

You've violated nine of the ten golden rules, Subby. Poor play. Poor play indeed.

So... "don't intentionally not fix things that you know to be broken or malfunctioning", basically.

Insightful. I would never have thought of that.

I don't work on my high-tech car, I work on my low-tech truck

Aboleth: I've done (6) before. Couldn't be helped.

By the time I reached home, smoke was coming out from every orifice on the car. 10 minutes after I'd parked, a neighbor called saying my car was on fire. It wasn't though. Major repair the next day.

I've driven on an engine that was starting to overheat. There was nothing fatally wrong, just a very, very hot day, A/C, and a tiny engine that was probably a little low on coolant.

What saved the day is one of those great pieces of advice from dear ol' Dad that you file away until you need it. If the engine starts to overheat, turn on the heater and draw some of the excess heat off the engine. It worked - I don't even remember having to have the car repaired.

Please don't youtube videos of car repair! You might discover how simple and inexpensive it is.

Well that was useless. Let me sum up:

"Don't break your shiat"

There. Now you don't need to click the link.

Random Anonymous Blackmail: I was actually at a tire place waiting to get my vehicle serviced when a couple had just come back after leaving. The tech forgot to put the lug nuts back on the wheel.

I left.

I had a lube place forget to put oil in.

Also, every single person working at the quick lube place has been in jail and possibly prison more than once.

/I used to own 2 oil xchanges.

#10 is entirely dependent on your own skill.

#6 is just a retard test. Fail that, and you probably shouldn't have a license to begin with.

#9 on that list is the absolute truth, and becomes apparent to folks who dabble in aftermarket / performance gear for cars. In more cases than not, the improved thingamajig isn't going to have the fit / quality / durability that the oem one does. Spark plug cables are a perfect example of this.

/yes, I know there are exceptions.

11. Use the trunk as a temporary graveyard for your dead toddler.

scotchcrotch: 11. Use the trunk as a temporary graveyard for your dead toddler.

Ugh, we had a woman do that here.

The best example of the snowball effect of missed car repairs is the air filter. It costs about 20 bucks to replace, but if left alone, a dirty filter can bust oxygen (02) sensors in cars, which cost as much as $250 to replace. And when the sensor fails, you'll first see your gas mileage plunge, then possibly wind up with a $1,000 bill to replace your catalytic converter.

huh.... this might actually explain a few things with my car.... crap.

/wasn't sure if I was right when I thought my car went from 380 gallons a tank to 240... just told myself I must not have reset the odometer.

..csb

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But it stopped squealing so I thought the problem had went away....

uh.. holy shiat.

ImpendingCynic: Aboleth: I've done (6) before. Couldn't be helped.

By the time I reached home, smoke was coming out from every orifice on the car. 10 minutes after I'd parked, a neighbor called saying my car was on fire. It wasn't though. Major repair the next day.

I've driven on an engine that was starting to overheat. There was nothing fatally wrong, just a very, very hot day, A/C, and a tiny engine that was probably a little low on coolant.

What saved the day is one of those great pieces of advice from dear ol' Dad that you file away until you need it. If the engine starts to overheat, turn on the heater and draw some of the excess heat off the engine. It worked - I don't even remember having to have the car repaired.

I'd probably know to do this if I didn't live in the tropics where most cars have no heaters.

Ok, why the fark was this green lit? moderators drunk? clicked wrong thing?

Drive it about three miles south-west of my place and leave it unlocked with a GPS system on the dash and lose change on the seat.

Billy Bathsalt: I don't work on my high-tech car, I work on my low-tech truck

High tech cars are actually not that complicated. Compare and contrast a late model car with a 1984 Honda Accord, farking hoses and other pneumatic doodads everywhere.

Car companies are so eager to cram high tech gadgets into cars. It's sad, I'd much prefer a car that was advertised as the "Least computerized vehicle allowed on the road." All that crap breaks (which the service departments love) or go completely out of style in 5-7 years. Having an iPod dock built into your dash will seem really stupid in a few years.

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But it stopped squealing so I thought the problem had went away....

...

Wow.

Aboleth: ImpendingCynic: Aboleth: I've done (6) before. Couldn't be helped.

By the time I reached home, smoke was coming out from every orifice on the car. 10 minutes after I'd parked, a neighbor called saying my car was on fire. It wasn't though. Major repair the next day.

I've driven on an engine that was starting to overheat. There was nothing fatally wrong, just a very, very hot day, A/C, and a tiny engine that was probably a little low on coolant.

What saved the day is one of those great pieces of advice from dear ol' Dad that you file away until you need it. If the engine starts to overheat, turn on the heater and draw some of the excess heat off the engine. It worked - I don't even remember having to have the car repaired.

I'd probably know to do this if I didn't live in the tropics where most cars have no heaters.

When I went to Brazil, I came across the same thing there. It seemed like heat in one's car was an anomoly.