Stupid Things I Have Done

[jjeff]

For a long time the sequence at most gas pumps was to pay, lift a lever, select grade, then pump. But on some there was an additional button located somewhere to actually turn the pump on. Most pumps had no additional button, 1 in 50 did. Each time I would encounter a button pump, I would fumble around, waste time, trying to get it to work, even cancelling everything and wheel around to a different pump, nada. Go to the counter- oh theres this button you need to push. %#. Thanks. I remember once overhearing on old couple getting into it - just pump the gas would ya, I'm trying I'm trying - didn't know about the stupid button. I see they've eliminated those now.

Apparently it's now to difficult and inconvenient to unscrew a gas cap on your car anymore. Aka capless fuel fills.

 

[jjeff]

Ram made the really stupid decision to design their gear shifter as a knob, and place this knob on the dash right next to the volume control knob for the radio. I've been driving for more than 30 years, and until getting this truck, have never had any issue with accidentally shifting into park while rolling, or going from forward to reverse by mistake. But I must've done it a dozen times in the first weeks of owning this truck, it is truly the most stupid design I have ever seen in an automobile.

Everyone knows, and has known or 60 years, how a shift lever works. It's second-nature, we don't even think about it anymore. Their decision to abandon this shows a level of hubris that is almost unforgiveable. Beyond that, if you're going to screw everyone by ditching the lever and moving to a knob, for the love of all things holy... don't place it next to the effing volume control!

Wifes car push button shifter my automatically goes into park when cars shut off or doors opened, truck tried and true manual column shifter anyways several times after driving her car and getting in my truck I've forgotten to put my truck in park at least once when running and getting out of it, multiple times when I've parked it fortunately my "cat like reflexes" have mitigated any collateral damage minus my pride.

 

[Jstpssng]

Last fall I bought fluids and filters to service my Kubota. I forgot and left a 5 gallon pail of Super UDT2 hydralic fluid on my deck in a rain storm... when it dried the deck was coated with oil. That means water got into my fluid, so there went $125+ out the window. I bought another bucket and did the fluid change today. I pulled the main plug and let that run out, pulled both side plugs and put the main plug back in; then took the bucket and pulled the filters one at a time. While the last filter was draining I put the two side plugs back, then went to the shed for the funnel and fluids, and decided to have lunch.
Afterwards I went out, put the funnel in, opened the 5 gallon bucket and had that about 2/3 poured when I noticed hydraulic fluid running over the top of my drain bucket-oops, I should have put the filter on. After doing that I don't have enough UTF to fill it, so I started draining my fill buckets- only to see the gasket for the main plug in the bottom. Strike 3!!!!
Luckily I only lost about a quart of fluid when I pulled the plug and put the gasket back on, but sometimes I think that the Amish have the right idea; it would be easier to buy a horse.

 

[mrmikey]

Strike 3!!!!

That's when you give up for the day, grab a cold one or 6 and end the day with a buzz LOL

 

[Yander]

Hauling my JD 170 to mow the church yard when I was young. Didn't need to tie it down, I had it in gear and it was heavy, Pull away from a stop sign about 2 miles from my house and hear a sound coming from the back up my pickup and look in the rear view mirror just in time to see my mower rolling out of the back of my truck. Had hit the tail gate and opened it up.

I tried to hurry and get it back up the ramps but too late. A local farmer came by while I was loading it and asked if I needed help. I thanked him and said I'm ok. Didn't hurt the mower.

Also lost a brand new mattress out of the back of a truck and mattress was never the same.

I was hauling a friends refrigerator just across town, not far, it was heavy so don't need to tie it right? Barely pulled out and got up to 35 and the wind caught the fridge and bam it flopped over in the back of my truck. Never worked after.

All of that was prior to turning 22 and I've learned to tie EVERYTHING down.

 

[Yander]

This one my son did when he was a teenager. We bought him an older Toyota Cellica as a first car. It was high mileage and used oil so he had to check oil often. He came home one day and said he had oil all over his hood and it had been that way a couple day. Of course there was lecturing involved about driving it so long and not checking blah blah.

I went out popped the hood and there was the oil cap laying in a crevice on the engine. No oil on the dipstick. Car was making a lot of engine noise after. I decided to have a mechanic look at so about a week later we took it to a mechanic and the mechanic called and said the oil cap had been left off, he found it on the engine. I said, "what yeah that was what happened to it to begin with." He said it was laying on their just now when he opened the hood. My son had forgotten AGAIN to put the oil cap on.

The car was not drivable, had a lot of knocking and I sold if for $500 to an elderly man knowing what had happened to it and he still bought it. I had tried different additives but nothing seemed to work.

The other day we were finishing an oil change on his 2017 Rogue and he said wait, before we closed the hood, I have to touch the oil cap before I can close the hood, LOL! Expensive lesson for him.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

Trying to convince closed minded people to consider a different POV...

 

[Jstpssng]

This one my son did when he was a teenager. We bought him an older Toyota Cellica as a first car. It was high mileage and used oil so he had to check oil often. He came home one day and said he had oil all over his hood and it had been that way a couple day. Of course there was lecturing involved about driving it so long and not checking blah blah.

I went out popped the hood and there was the oil cap laying in a crevice on the engine. No oil on the dipstick. Car was making a lot of engine noise after. I decided to have a mechanic look at so about a week later we took it to a mechanic and the mechanic called and said the oil cap had been left off, he found it on the engine. I said, "what yeah that was what happened to it to begin with." He said it was laying on their just now when he opened the hood. My son had forgotten AGAIN to put the oil cap on.

The car was not drivable, had a lot of knocking and I sold if for $500 to an elderly man knowing what had happened to it and he still bought it. I had tried different additives but nothing seemed to work.

The other day we were finishing an oil change on his 2017 Rogue and he said wait, before we closed the hood, I have to touch the oil cap before I can close the hood, LOL! Expensive lesson for him.

Is there any chance that the oil cap had worked it's way off?

 

[Yander]

I guess anything is possible, but I don't think so.

 

[bcp]

... sometimes I think that the Amish have the right idea; it would be easier to buy a horse.

You ever tried to change the fluids on a horse?



Bruce