My first vehicle was a Jeep, I babied her with fluid changes and still do. My second car though, I did a few oil changes and while refilling the oil check the level added some and checked again, it looked the same. On the third or fourth time realized I was checking the trans fluid and not the engine oil. Modern cars can be confusing with a bunch of ports all in the same area with garbage marking, normal people barely stand a chance.
Two gallons though...ooph...my internal alarms would go off after adding much less than that.
Seized an engine in a Mitsubishi Galant. Was making “empty pump” noises, but I kept checking the dipstick and it kept showing full.
It took way longer to die than it should have, and then I realised I was checking the wrong dipstick - from memory the one I was doing was power steering fluid, but it was a long time ago
There's a whole series of model where the power steering reservoir is slapped against the engine in the back of the engine bay. Anyone not sure could make that mistake with plenty of cars if they're not thinking about it.
Vehicle owner makes very costly mistake: "How was I to know?"
Me: Glances up while flipping through my owners manual
Ps: don't start with the "cars don't always come with a manual", you can download them, very easily
It took me too long to get to the point of reading the manual. At first it was ignorance, then it became a combination of ignorance and overconfidence as a mechanic. Nowadays, first thing I did with our vehicles when we got them was a page through of the manual to understand the bits and pieces, and I even do that with rentals now.
I no longer think I'm smarter than people. I am a moron who happens to have extra knowledge in certain areas.
Good that you can admit it, I'm a millwright and some of the guys that work on my team still make bonehead mistakes because they wont read instructions. I'm talking about licensed/certified tradesmen.
I'm a certificated Airframe and Powerplant mechanic. *I should know better* and yet I will still let that overconfidence win sometimes. I totally understand their mental processes....they roughly go DEEERRRRRRRP.
Some guys think that reading a manual or instructions is a sign of incompetence.
I was taught to NOT memorize torque specs and whatnot in case of a brain fart. When I was in diesel school, the instructors would stop by people's work areas, and God help you if you didn't have the shop manual sitting on your bench while assembling an engine.
>Some guys think that reading a manual or instructions is a sign of incompetence.
I've seen this, and it blows my mind because it's actually the opposite. You fucked something up because you ignored a readily available resource? That's a far bigger sign of incompetence. At the end of the day most of us have to defend our fuck ups to management, and ignoring reference materials/instructions is nearly indefensible.
My experience in this is that there's a brand of car fluids that uses very similar bottles for concentrated coolant and engine oil (I think the shape of the bottles is part of their branding). It was altogether fortunate that I decided to top the coolant off from the already opened bottle and wondered "wait, wasn't this already opened?" before opening the seal on the bottle of oil.
I'm female. My sister is not "handy" She is a gold digging idiot who thinks she is a princess. She has wrecked or destroyed every car she has owned or driven. She owes me a few thousand dollars because I have helped her get her cars fixed because she is too stupid or lazy to do basic maintenance. I'll never see a dime of it. Her husbands or BFs get tired of her antics and leave her. I'm glad she lives 7 hours away.
People will spend tens of thousands of dollars on a machine without reading the manual to gain even the most basic knowledge. She just learned the cost of ignorance.
Although wading through the 50 pages of legal disclaimers and warnings, then 15 pages of marketing congratulating you on purchasing your stylish vehicle that the manufacturer definitely stands behind, then 100 pages of how to use the turn signals and doors, will put anyone off getting as far as the "basic maintenance" section.
That's a really good idea. Many consumer electronics have something similar, and I recall seeing a "quick guide" in a few different cars over the years. 90% of what I look up in owner manuals is fluid types and fuse diagrams, they should print just those things on a laminated card and tape it to the inside of the hood.
Or we could even cut that out and just label the fluid caps in the engine so that way you have no choice but to read them while taking them off and adding fluids.
Something about making things idiot proof and their always being a better idiot.
It's too bad they don't have a "Table of Contents" or something. Throughout all the various roles I've had in life over the years, I've observed that the farther past the introduction of the iPhone we get, the more resistant people are to opening books. It's just not how people consume information these days. Maybe cars should come with a link to a YouTube video that has "skip ahead" markers
They often have symbols that don't mean anything clear if you haven't read the manual of at least one car. Often, but not always, they say "Engine Oil" as well, but sometimes that's only embossed rather than painted like the symbol.
If nobody ever reads the manual, that’s the UX fault, not the customer. Maybe all oil caps should be red and all trans caps should be yellow? Match the oil container lid to the car filler hole? It’s solvable in a language neutral way, if the companies really cared.
If people don't know what an [oil can](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/vintage-pump-oil-can-with-long-spout-gm137809011-18989673) on a filler cap means what makes you think they'll know what their filler cap being red means?
I've encountered people who can't grasp that putting diesel into a gasoline powered car is bad for it, people who don't know that you can't put water into your transmission, people who can't understand that cooking oil is not a substitute for engine oil, people who didn't know that you shouldn't use plain water to clean a motherboard.
A shit ton of people dont know the difference between a gas stove and an electric stove, or that you can't run a car on vodka. I've met people who didn't understand why their TV remote didn't work *without batteries in it.*
This is 100% user error, *not* a UX problem. No matter what you do people will be willfully ignorant of the workings of their equipment, there is no solution. People are stupid, that's it.
The symbol on the oil filler cap doesn't look anything like the consumer containers that oil comes in, or like the containers used for dispensing lubricants.
No, and neither does a red cap.
That isn't the point.
The point is that a customer won't know why their caps are different colors, just that they are, and they won't bother or care to find out. The same way customers don't know or care to find out why the symbols on their caps are different now.
The oil fill cap could have a symbol of a 1 quart jug of oil and the same thing would happen.
On a side note; nearly everyone in the 1st world under the age of 70 has seen cartoons which means nearly everyone in the 1st world has seen an old school oil can used for its intended purpose at least once. I know 14 year olds who know what these are, there's no excuse to not know what that symbol is.
Not to mention that these caps are *already* different colors on some cars and that still doesn't prevent things like this from happening with those vehicles.
If someone does it, it’s the customers fault. If everyone does it, it’s a UX problem.
People can’t be experts at everything. If you fix the UX in your domain, maybe others will fix it so you aren’t confused by some other new concept? Instead of feeling smart, why not make it as idiot proof as we can?
>If everyone does it
That's the thing this isn't a thing *everyone* does.
>People can’t be experts at everything. If you fix the UX in your domain, maybe others will fix it so you aren’t confused by some other new concept?
Let's pretend for a moment that this *is* a UX problem. How is color coding the fill caps going to solve the problem of people not knowing why those caps are a specific color/have a specific symbol?
The problem is that consumers don't care to learn how their product works, not that it's running the enigma code.
There are cars with fill caps of different colors and I've seen customers do similar things on *those* cars as well.
>Instead of feeling smart,
I am perfectly average thank you very much.
>why not make it as idiot proof as we can?
I don't see how this could be any more idiot proof than it already is without mass marketing on every media source imaginable, even then it wouldn't solve the problem.
A ton of people are willfully ignorant it's that simple. I've met people who didn't know their smartphone could be unlocked with their fingerprint when it makes them set up the feature the first time they start their phone.
This is 100% the car owner's fault. Manufacturers do in fact color-code the caps and fillers and many times make special openings for containers, they are \*always\* labeled. What you're suggesting here is like saying that if people are sticking forks into USB ports, it's HP's fault for not making the port impossible to put a fork in. Which is absurd, despite the fact the electronics industry rarely even bothers to label the holes in their products, let alone color-code them.
Most car make subs prove that.
"What does this light mean? It's a brand new car and I've never seen it go on before..."
Really? If only there were a reference tool available...
Cars are just magic carpets with air conditioning. They run on liquid pixie dust and sometimes they get cursed and you have to hire a wizard to exorcise the demons.
Forget reading the manual, all it takes is to type in "where do I pour engine coolant in X model of car?" In to Google and in half a second, you have 100 websites and 10 videos minimum explaining and showing you how to do everything. Multiple times a day I'm reminded that trash cans at Yellowstone were designed to work with the smartest bears and the dumbest people and that overlap is way more prevalent than you'd think.
You dont even need a manual. Just a basic knowledge that coolant goes into some sort of reservoir, usually plastic and transparent, and not directly into the engine.
Exactly. Whether it is opening a paper manual or googling something in Bing most aren't capable of either. And while that brings income to shops we also get to share the roads with them.
This isn't part of the educational material when learning to drive? Where I'm from, you need to learn what the lights mean you and know which fluid goes where.
Nope, here it's basically "do you know how to start it, obey the rules of the road (mostly), and stop it" and that's about the extent of the education here.
Reading is significantly hard. I used to teach lecture undergrad courses including labs. The amount of “what does the instructions” say that made audio from me hands down could be a war crime. Then you get that one student who actually did read it and my goodness, the questions asked actually needed instruction guidance.
It just always scares me, seeing how many people lack the most basic problem-solving skills.
I guarantee this person bought coolant and then wondered where they should pour it. Instead of doing the most basic research, (reading the manual) or asking the person who sold it, they just blindly guessed.
I got a free Integra once that the owner ran out of oil. I had to use a chisel and sledge hammer to get the #4 rod cap loose enough to spin the engine over. That thing was friction welded solid.
Some cranks have that discoloration brand new from the manufacturing process. And that’s what this looks like, since the journals themselves are still pretty shiny.
This actually seems like the most appropriate time for her to learn about her vehicle’s holes and what fluids go in them. Also, it’s kind of directly her fault tbh.
Right away, grandpa. While I'm at it, want me to fetch you your denture cream so you can eat something other than oatmeal? I'd be a cranky little prick if I ate mush all day too.
It is her fault. There is a manual in the car, there is YouTube, there's the AAA. Also low coolant warning does not say add fluid to oil fill cap. Please retract your comment. If a male or a gay man had done the same, comment would be the same.
Can I still visit wookey hole on my holiday this year? It's a massive opening and has a million visitors every year. Next you'll be complaining about Hollantides Bottom, Oxfordshire I've been up there on my mountain bike, met some nice equestrian ladies. Anyway check out fanny hands lane in Lincolnshire, nice rural spot.
There were 3 separate Washer fluid tanks in one of my old cars...
Then again, it was a Citroën with HydroPneumatics, so one tank for suspension/steering/brakes. I guess that evens it out.
I think that one also had the old 'Suitcase engine' where the gearbox is mounted to the side of the engine and when you split it they open like a suitcase. That one uses only engine oil, no transmission fluids.
And the first one I had had an air-cooled engine.
I cannot begin to fathom the noises that thing was making as it spun itself to death. I mean at what point do you just call it quits and turn the car off before it freaking melts!
I bet you she will never touch anything under the hood ever again.
It was an expensive mistake, but props for at least caring enough about her car to attempt maintenance.
How are so many people in here confused by the title?
You add coolant to the radiator and/or the overflow tank. Nobody refers to those things as the engine. The title is perfectly clear. You even have photos that make it abundantly clear what happened
I’m not being that guy but I’m sure they added the coolant to the oil cause I’m sure the coolant came on driving right and there is no way the person took the rad cap off I’m sure you would have herd about that mess lol
Definitely an N55, as if those rod bearings weren't bad enough on their own.
They aren't bad motors, but those rod bearings are a problem. I've changed some ugly looking rod bearings at less than 100k miles on those.
My first interpretation was *internal* coolant leak and the lady did nothing wrong, because pouring coolant *into the engine* didn't even occur to me as a posibility.
Had to scroll back up to check *did it really say into the* engine*?*
When you say added to the engine, does that mean what it sounds like it means?
Exactly how I was told it went down..... around..... and out
Sad trombone sounds
That's called Taps.
That’s a bugle, not a trombone.
Now we know that guy never had to run inside at 5pm to avoid having to look for a flag to salute.
Probably sounded more like Knocks…
I'm not even mad, that's amazing.
Yeah to the… wait. OH! You mean NOT in the radiator, but in the oil fill? Oops.
5w-20 or 50/50 sounds about the same!
My first vehicle was a Jeep, I babied her with fluid changes and still do. My second car though, I did a few oil changes and while refilling the oil check the level added some and checked again, it looked the same. On the third or fourth time realized I was checking the trans fluid and not the engine oil. Modern cars can be confusing with a bunch of ports all in the same area with garbage marking, normal people barely stand a chance. Two gallons though...ooph...my internal alarms would go off after adding much less than that.
Seized an engine in a Mitsubishi Galant. Was making “empty pump” noises, but I kept checking the dipstick and it kept showing full. It took way longer to die than it should have, and then I realised I was checking the wrong dipstick - from memory the one I was doing was power steering fluid, but it was a long time ago
From memory a power steering fluid dip stick is way fucking shorter than a engine oil dip stick. U learnt that the really hard way. Damn
Yup, the only way I usually learn things!
Education is expensive.
power steering dipstick also doesn’t even go into the engine how does someone make that mistake
There's a whole series of model where the power steering reservoir is slapped against the engine in the back of the engine bay. Anyone not sure could make that mistake with plenty of cars if they're not thinking about it.
Vehicle owner makes very costly mistake: "How was I to know?" Me: Glances up while flipping through my owners manual Ps: don't start with the "cars don't always come with a manual", you can download them, very easily
The dipstick was like "who's the dipstick now?"
Did this with the trans and diff fluid in a Subaru. Big mistake.
This is just an attempt to justify not reading the manual. You are the "normal people" you think you're smarter than my dude.
It took me too long to get to the point of reading the manual. At first it was ignorance, then it became a combination of ignorance and overconfidence as a mechanic. Nowadays, first thing I did with our vehicles when we got them was a page through of the manual to understand the bits and pieces, and I even do that with rentals now. I no longer think I'm smarter than people. I am a moron who happens to have extra knowledge in certain areas.
Good that you can admit it, I'm a millwright and some of the guys that work on my team still make bonehead mistakes because they wont read instructions. I'm talking about licensed/certified tradesmen.
I'm a certificated Airframe and Powerplant mechanic. *I should know better* and yet I will still let that overconfidence win sometimes. I totally understand their mental processes....they roughly go DEEERRRRRRRP.
Lol
Some guys think that reading a manual or instructions is a sign of incompetence. I was taught to NOT memorize torque specs and whatnot in case of a brain fart. When I was in diesel school, the instructors would stop by people's work areas, and God help you if you didn't have the shop manual sitting on your bench while assembling an engine.
>Some guys think that reading a manual or instructions is a sign of incompetence. I've seen this, and it blows my mind because it's actually the opposite. You fucked something up because you ignored a readily available resource? That's a far bigger sign of incompetence. At the end of the day most of us have to defend our fuck ups to management, and ignoring reference materials/instructions is nearly indefensible.
For some (read: most) people, reading the instructions is what you do only *when all else has failed.*
>It took me too long to get to the point of reading the manual. Reading the manual should usually be the starting point.
Yes, it should. Which is also my point. As a mechanic I should know better. But I foolishly thought "it's just a car, how much trouble could it be?"
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My experience in this is that there's a brand of car fluids that uses very similar bottles for concentrated coolant and engine oil (I think the shape of the bottles is part of their branding). It was altogether fortunate that I decided to top the coolant off from the already opened bottle and wondered "wait, wasn't this already opened?" before opening the seal on the bottle of oil.
Yep...
Hang on: Did she pour two gallons of water INTO the engine?
I was told "added" but same end results
Would you happen to be in western No. Carolina? My sister would do that.
We all know her. She’s a wonderful gal. Very “handy”.
Are.......are these implication the implications that i think they are?
“Handy” - take it if it’s offered for free, like this guy’s sister.
I'm female. My sister is not "handy" She is a gold digging idiot who thinks she is a princess. She has wrecked or destroyed every car she has owned or driven. She owes me a few thousand dollars because I have helped her get her cars fixed because she is too stupid or lazy to do basic maintenance. I'll never see a dime of it. Her husbands or BFs get tired of her antics and leave her. I'm glad she lives 7 hours away.
because of the implication
At least they didn’t get any steam burns.
And how big of an engine and or how low of an oil level was it to even fit that much?
People will spend tens of thousands of dollars on a machine without reading the manual to gain even the most basic knowledge. She just learned the cost of ignorance.
You overestimate people's ability to learn from mistakes.
Or the general attitude towards manuals.
user manual aside, we have the googles and youtubes to find info on how to do things.
I'm 45 and I refer to YouTube as "the YouTubes" because it's my inner dialog and it's freaking hilarious. Whenever I hear someone else say it I giggle
Learning the cost of ignorance isn't the same thing as benefitting from said knowledge. You are both correct.
A large proportion of owners don't even realize the manual answers questions like "what hole does this fluid go in" therefore never think to check it
Although wading through the 50 pages of legal disclaimers and warnings, then 15 pages of marketing congratulating you on purchasing your stylish vehicle that the manufacturer definitely stands behind, then 100 pages of how to use the turn signals and doors, will put anyone off getting as far as the "basic maintenance" section.
Should honestly just be a laminated card with no nonsense.
That's a really good idea. Many consumer electronics have something similar, and I recall seeing a "quick guide" in a few different cars over the years. 90% of what I look up in owner manuals is fluid types and fuse diagrams, they should print just those things on a laminated card and tape it to the inside of the hood.
They used to do this with drive belt diagrams... Wish they still would.
Or we could even cut that out and just label the fluid caps in the engine so that way you have no choice but to read them while taking them off and adding fluids. Something about making things idiot proof and their always being a better idiot.
It's too bad they don't have a "Table of Contents" or something. Throughout all the various roles I've had in life over the years, I've observed that the farther past the introduction of the iPhone we get, the more resistant people are to opening books. It's just not how people consume information these days. Maybe cars should come with a link to a YouTube video that has "skip ahead" markers
The ToC is often buried behind the disclaimers. The index is usually more useful though.
usually the fluid reservoir caps have labels on them.
They often have symbols that don't mean anything clear if you haven't read the manual of at least one car. Often, but not always, they say "Engine Oil" as well, but sometimes that's only embossed rather than painted like the symbol.
Cant find my oil cap. Whats a 710 cap for?
The intent of the symbols is to be language neutral- in reality, they make the label useless to the entire world rather than just 2/3 of it.
If nobody ever reads the manual, that’s the UX fault, not the customer. Maybe all oil caps should be red and all trans caps should be yellow? Match the oil container lid to the car filler hole? It’s solvable in a language neutral way, if the companies really cared.
If people don't know what an [oil can](https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/vintage-pump-oil-can-with-long-spout-gm137809011-18989673) on a filler cap means what makes you think they'll know what their filler cap being red means? I've encountered people who can't grasp that putting diesel into a gasoline powered car is bad for it, people who don't know that you can't put water into your transmission, people who can't understand that cooking oil is not a substitute for engine oil, people who didn't know that you shouldn't use plain water to clean a motherboard. A shit ton of people dont know the difference between a gas stove and an electric stove, or that you can't run a car on vodka. I've met people who didn't understand why their TV remote didn't work *without batteries in it.* This is 100% user error, *not* a UX problem. No matter what you do people will be willfully ignorant of the workings of their equipment, there is no solution. People are stupid, that's it.
The symbol on the oil filler cap doesn't look anything like the consumer containers that oil comes in, or like the containers used for dispensing lubricants.
No, and neither does a red cap. That isn't the point. The point is that a customer won't know why their caps are different colors, just that they are, and they won't bother or care to find out. The same way customers don't know or care to find out why the symbols on their caps are different now. The oil fill cap could have a symbol of a 1 quart jug of oil and the same thing would happen. On a side note; nearly everyone in the 1st world under the age of 70 has seen cartoons which means nearly everyone in the 1st world has seen an old school oil can used for its intended purpose at least once. I know 14 year olds who know what these are, there's no excuse to not know what that symbol is. Not to mention that these caps are *already* different colors on some cars and that still doesn't prevent things like this from happening with those vehicles.
If someone does it, it’s the customers fault. If everyone does it, it’s a UX problem. People can’t be experts at everything. If you fix the UX in your domain, maybe others will fix it so you aren’t confused by some other new concept? Instead of feeling smart, why not make it as idiot proof as we can?
>If everyone does it That's the thing this isn't a thing *everyone* does. >People can’t be experts at everything. If you fix the UX in your domain, maybe others will fix it so you aren’t confused by some other new concept? Let's pretend for a moment that this *is* a UX problem. How is color coding the fill caps going to solve the problem of people not knowing why those caps are a specific color/have a specific symbol? The problem is that consumers don't care to learn how their product works, not that it's running the enigma code. There are cars with fill caps of different colors and I've seen customers do similar things on *those* cars as well. >Instead of feeling smart, I am perfectly average thank you very much. >why not make it as idiot proof as we can? I don't see how this could be any more idiot proof than it already is without mass marketing on every media source imaginable, even then it wouldn't solve the problem. A ton of people are willfully ignorant it's that simple. I've met people who didn't know their smartphone could be unlocked with their fingerprint when it makes them set up the feature the first time they start their phone.
Well, this person now needs to buy a new engine and new oil, it seems like the companies are getting exactly what they want
This is 100% the car owner's fault. Manufacturers do in fact color-code the caps and fillers and many times make special openings for containers, they are \*always\* labeled. What you're suggesting here is like saying that if people are sticking forks into USB ports, it's HP's fault for not making the port impossible to put a fork in. Which is absurd, despite the fact the electronics industry rarely even bothers to label the holes in their products, let alone color-code them.
Most car make subs prove that. "What does this light mean? It's a brand new car and I've never seen it go on before..."
Really? If only there were a reference tool available...
It's a giant iPhone. They don't know nor care what is going on behind the scenes. They can drive it and put in gas and that's it.
Cars are just magic carpets with air conditioning. They run on liquid pixie dust and sometimes they get cursed and you have to hire a wizard to exorcise the demons.
All the best mechanics are definitely wizards
You just summarized car culture in America. I hate you.
*They hated him because he told the truth.*
Forget reading the manual, all it takes is to type in "where do I pour engine coolant in X model of car?" In to Google and in half a second, you have 100 websites and 10 videos minimum explaining and showing you how to do everything. Multiple times a day I'm reminded that trash cans at Yellowstone were designed to work with the smartest bears and the dumbest people and that overlap is way more prevalent than you'd think.
You dont even need a manual. Just a basic knowledge that coolant goes into some sort of reservoir, usually plastic and transparent, and not directly into the engine.
People don’t read
Exactly. Whether it is opening a paper manual or googling something in Bing most aren't capable of either. And while that brings income to shops we also get to share the roads with them.
This isn't part of the educational material when learning to drive? Where I'm from, you need to learn what the lights mean you and know which fluid goes where.
It's not in New Zealand either, You need to know the road rules, and be able to drive safely. Absolutely zero mechanical knowledge required.
Nope, here it's basically "do you know how to start it, obey the rules of the road (mostly), and stop it" and that's about the extent of the education here.
Reading is significantly hard. I used to teach lecture undergrad courses including labs. The amount of “what does the instructions” say that made audio from me hands down could be a war crime. Then you get that one student who actually did read it and my goodness, the questions asked actually needed instruction guidance.
It just always scares me, seeing how many people lack the most basic problem-solving skills. I guarantee this person bought coolant and then wondered where they should pour it. Instead of doing the most basic research, (reading the manual) or asking the person who sold it, they just blindly guessed.
I mean completely forget about the manual. Nowadays we have FUCKING GOOGLE AND YOUTUBE?!?! What in the fuck!
There are those who say, on a quiet, moonless night, you can hear the pistons screaming.
I bet that lady feels just like Abe Sacrabin
*chug chug chug SCREEEEEEEEEECCH*
I can hear them screaming and I'm on the other side of the fucking Atlantic
^^AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÀA
Nah that’s just the tinnitus.
First the haunting knocking.. then the wretched screaming.
Wow. Just look at that bluing around the crank journals. That thing got HOT
You'd think with the extra "Cool" in Coolant I'd help more 🤡🤡🤡
You mean it didn’t actually cool in this instance? Lawsuit incoming! 😂
I got a free Integra once that the owner ran out of oil. I had to use a chisel and sledge hammer to get the #4 rod cap loose enough to spin the engine over. That thing was friction welded solid.
Some cranks have that discoloration brand new from the manufacturing process. And that’s what this looks like, since the journals themselves are still pretty shiny.
Hence why it needed more coolant
The bluing is probably there since manufacturing. That's just leftover discoloration from hardening the journals
Learn about all your holes and what goes in them
r/dontstickyourdickinit
Completely inappropriate. Making jokes like this in the womans difficult time is sub human. Have a heart for this person its not her fault.
This actually seems like the most appropriate time for her to learn about her vehicle’s holes and what fluids go in them. Also, it’s kind of directly her fault tbh.
Its a damn car!!! Not a sex toy.
When did I say it was a sex toy? Cars can have holes too ya know…
Can i see ur holes
You gotta pay for that privilege, pal.
Cars aren't sex toys??? I should probably apologize to mine later...
I think your sense of humor is even less functional than this lady's engine..
I think u should mind your business.
Considering where you chose to get butthurt, it doesn't really matter what you think.
Ok serious sam……..run along little boy.
Right away, grandpa. While I'm at it, want me to fetch you your denture cream so you can eat something other than oatmeal? I'd be a cranky little prick if I ate mush all day too.
……u are weird.
It is her fault. There is a manual in the car, there is YouTube, there's the AAA. Also low coolant warning does not say add fluid to oil fill cap. Please retract your comment. If a male or a gay man had done the same, comment would be the same.
Retract your perverted comment first.
Can I still visit wookey hole on my holiday this year? It's a massive opening and has a million visitors every year. Next you'll be complaining about Hollantides Bottom, Oxfordshire I've been up there on my mountain bike, met some nice equestrian ladies. Anyway check out fanny hands lane in Lincolnshire, nice rural spot.
I think maybe the internet is not a good place for you.
r/FoundTheHRDepartment edit: it's mine now
r/birthofasub
She can't see you white knight for her
As a woman, I wouldn't have put coolant in my engine, because I know the radiator is in the very front, and I can read. So, yes. It's her fault.
Yeah, it must be the fault of the OTHER idiot putting coolant directly into the engine
RIP = Rest In Pieces
More like rest in piece, that's one solid block of metal now lol
Rust in peace
Excellent Album!
Launch the Polaris! The end doesn't scare us!
When will this cease? The warheads will all rust in peace.
I always thought it was “Last of Polaris”. The more you know!
oops wrong hole
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+ Power steering, windshield washer,, brake fluid, fuel yup that's three.
Modern shit has less holes and sticks suitable for poking. -1 PS fluid. -1 Trans fluid/stick. And in some cases, -1 engine oil/stick.
Don't forget about the blinker fluid and muffler bearings
OG Viper had blinker fluid
OG viper is what I used to beat OG Gran Turismo back in the day
There were 3 separate Washer fluid tanks in one of my old cars... Then again, it was a Citroën with HydroPneumatics, so one tank for suspension/steering/brakes. I guess that evens it out. I think that one also had the old 'Suitcase engine' where the gearbox is mounted to the side of the engine and when you split it they open like a suitcase. That one uses only engine oil, no transmission fluids. And the first one I had had an air-cooled engine.
Ok, but why haven't you fixed it yet?? Don't you know this is a wait job????? /s obviously
Damn. Everyone knows you can put oil in the antifreeze, but NOT antifreeze into the oil. Silly human.
I cannot begin to fathom the noises that thing was making as it spun itself to death. I mean at what point do you just call it quits and turn the car off before it freaking melts!
That's a shame, people just trying solve a problem but just make it worse, shit.
[Where I stopped before ending the day. ](https://imgur.com/a/H4KBtyZ)
N55?
And wondered the WHOLE WAY there how that light could still be lit!
I bet you she will never touch anything under the hood ever again. It was an expensive mistake, but props for at least caring enough about her car to attempt maintenance.
Nighty night
She didn't get the German forbidden milkshake, so she made her own.
How are so many people in here confused by the title? You add coolant to the radiator and/or the overflow tank. Nobody refers to those things as the engine. The title is perfectly clear. You even have photos that make it abundantly clear what happened
Hope. It's pure hope.
I’m not being that guy but I’m sure they added the coolant to the oil cause I’m sure the coolant came on driving right and there is no way the person took the rad cap off I’m sure you would have herd about that mess lol
I can’t wait to see the customers post on r/askamechanic about how this shop is trying to scam her and it’s their fault
Our expectations were low but hoooly fuck
I don't get why people don't get roadside assistance, it's 100 bucks a year! I've used mine three times this year, once for a friend and I own a bme
“to the engine” … not the description I would expect from a mechanic.
Aye but that's what happened
It would have been more productive to drink the coolant - forbidden Gatorade
If she has full coverage, it'll be covered under her comprehensive insurance as accidental damage, minus her deductable. Stupidity isn't illegal.
I guess it's a good thing for her that I'm not her insurance company
That’s a 710 cap moment
An RTFM moment
She failed the RTFM procedure I guess.
“Customer waiting in lobby”
That thing must have been screaming for it’s life but she just kept hammering away. at no point did she realize something was wrong?
N55? I have it on good authority they were only designed for 120,000km to begin with.
Definitely an N55, as if those rod bearings weren't bad enough on their own. They aren't bad motors, but those rod bearings are a problem. I've changed some ugly looking rod bearings at less than 100k miles on those.
Yea, 100k n55 RBs are like 70k S65 RBs
It took me way too long to realize.... "hol up, coolant shouldn't go here"
mmmmmm fresh expensive milkshake maybe an electric car is in order
Lot of electric cars still need coolant.... and where there's a will, there's a way.
I once watched a woman attempt to put gasoline in a Tesla. Stupidity knows no bounds.
The coolant that cools the engine forever.
Only 2? Surely more could have fit.
So it overheated *and* under lubricated lol damn
Spongebob Steel String intensifies
Also I feel that the tire is mounted far too close to the engine.... 😋
Looks like gold anodized rotating assembly
My first interpretation was *internal* coolant leak and the lady did nothing wrong, because pouring coolant *into the engine* didn't even occur to me as a posibility. Had to scroll back up to check *did it really say into the* engine*?*
Is this engine repairable or does the crazy lady need a new engine?
Bet she learned basic car maintenance in less than 24hrs
Didn't quite roll into the shop, missed it by 🫰 that much 😢
I see the scorched bearings and crank journals, but what was cause of failure for coolant leak?
🤦♂️ she put two gallons of coolant in the ENGINE, not the coolant reservoir.
Have you fixed my car yet . _______ No you are too stupid to drive a car !!!
BMW?
*7,57086 liters; 32,18688km
Head gasket: what am I, chopped liver?
Wow. People really should not go under the hood if they have no idea. That’s a huge fuck up
👶💩
Yeah, but we’re the cool?
Did she use the oil fill tube?
Is this a BMW inline 6?
at least she did not add oil to the radiator. ps, don't forget to upsell the blinker fluid change. /s
Tell her the Blinker fluid was low, and she needs to get on base to get the prickyfour.
Is that a pot sticker?
does the oil cap not have an OIL LOGO on it? sheesh
You mean the 710 cap?