Surely this is but a handful of people, no?
not all,but still enough to piss me off!
Spark plugs underneath intake manifold and fuel rails. Letās put the normal maintenance items underneath parts that should never need changed. Makes sense.
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Having to own three sets of spanners. I only managed because I borrowed dadās A/F spanners. Can people not just agree on a fucking standard and stick to it?
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The fact that I can no longer get away with eating like a starving person at a 24/7 all you can eat buffet!
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Yes,
And Yes.
And not just that, but the torx heads, and hex heads and on and onā¦
I just got a whole new set of just about everything to do a tune up and breaks on the wifes car.
First thing I do on any repair is break a couple of things then replace it. That eliminates those items as a possible cause right off the bat.
Aluminum car parts piss me off. They snap off so easily its like some kind of mechanical magic.
Also pisses me off- Losing tools. I know that Iāve had several sets of metric sockets and wrenches over the course of my adult life. I just donāt know what happened to them.
Wiring harnesses. Fidgety little shitty things made of plastic that break as soon as you touch them.
My new SOP is to spray everything down with WD-40 and penetrating oil.
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My brother in law takes the dirty oil after a change and sprays the whole underside and engine compartment. Like hillbilly undercoating. His cars are great to work on. No stuck bolts.
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While weāre on the subject, I hate it when they mix metric and US bolts and measurements on the same car. I just torqued 5/16" bolts to 8Nm. Wtf?
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My wife, who works in environmental risk, would kill me if I did this.
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Some roads in western PA are literally ātarred and chippedā. They spray thick oil down on a thin gravel bed. Donāt know how the EPA/DEP lets that happen.
I have recently married one of these, and I notice a complete change in driving habits when heās on home ground (grew up in Marlborough, went to college in Boston, now works remotely for a company based in the area). Weāre there often - in fact were there for a party yesterday.
We live in semi-rural New England, and Iām much more likely to become impatient enough to pass on our two lane roads than he is. Heās patient and courteous by nature, but as soon as he hits a real highway headed into that city, everything changes. He doesnāt do it to be an asshole, though. I really donāt understand the mechanism by which that particular switch flips, but he isnāt an asshole in any arena. Habit, I guess. Or else it challenges him alike to a fast game of hockey. Upon reflection itās probably a combination of the two.
You know this thread is old when people are returning Netflix dvds
Sorry. No place in North America is the worst in the world for drivers. No.
WD-40. What would we do without it?
People eating small amounts of food at all you can eat buffets. STOP WASTING YOUR MONEY.
Oh, thatās not my claim. My only claim is a switch to more aggressive driving in the greater Boston area on the part of someone who drives patiently elsewhere.
When people have the right of way, donāt go, wave you on, an d then start to go. I fucking hate those people with all my heart.
When people schedule a Friday afternoon meeting and donāt show up. Fuck them
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Could have stopped here.
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Thereās a manager at work whose main contribution to any team is just nagging people. She literally set up a meeting at 5:30 one day because she thought some members of the team needed to talk. But she didnāt want to show up, so she didnāt.