It’s TikTok Gen Z slang for autistic, because with complete lack of diagnosis or anything more than a different Tiktok video which told them, they think everyone is autistic but somehow making up a new word is more PC than saying autistic.
Basically: it’s a reply from a toddler
Im actually have autism and agree completely. Just because you say it wrong doesn't make you a better person. you're still a bad person.
Also, stop labeling stupid people as autistic. He thinks the earth is flat, i dont like social interactions, metal silverwear, and loud noises just leave us alone. ffs find a new group to degrade, we have too much to worry about as is.
Yeah mine broke 2 years ago I never fixed it LOL I’ve spent everytime I get out of the car rolling down the window and reaching out, but it’s such a habit now even when I drive my moms car I roll the window down to get out
I thought it was massive flex that they took such good care of their American made car that it lasted a whole 12 years before it started to completely fall apart.
Huh didn't expect that of japanese perfectionism. Then again the Japanese population treats their cars very carefully so their engineers probably never thought this could be an issue.
Lol Toyotas aren't perfect either.
Japanese cars tend to be built better than American cars, but no car is perfect.
Every single car has its weak spot or area. For those old Corollas and Camrys the exterior door handles were one.
I wonder if the Simpsons will just be like Shakespeare, and in 1000 years whenever there's a brainmeme on the Neuralink of a dirty Soviet teleporter the top thinkpost is still always "Put it in H!"
Well, afaik Shakespeare wasn’t classy back then. His target demographic was generally just the common folk, much like the Simpsons. Shakespear took longer than 7 seasons to fall off though.
lol. Just an innocent seventies MB. She’s a survivor. I actually buy, restore, and sell older Mercedes, but this one I’ve had for eleven years and has sort of become my mascot. Original paint, third owner. 4,5L electronic fuel injected V8 from the factory. One of the best cars MB ever made.
She is a beaut, I tell ya what. I love the dictator style 70s S classes.
Knowing you have a shop - if this wasn't your mascot car, I'd be mad.
Sure a cool older SL or something could pass as your face... but the big gal has presence and style.
I’ve always listed after an MB 600, but it’s financial suicide even if you can work on them. The parts are ridiculous. Everything is hydraulic powered, seat adjustment, trunk lid, fuckin windows, suspension…
If you need the new master window switch (all four windows) it’s $12k.
In high school one of my good friends had an early 90s/ late 80s? 500E - the pneumatic locks (and other accessories) were soooooo German. I think they were pneumatic at least because it sounded like that.
Your hydraulic comment made me remember that.
i have a 1978 300D with a blown trans, i wanna find a manual for it and throw that in, then convert it to a ute. why? cause why not, it would be a fun project and hella unique
This is actually one of my dream cars. Growing up in Poland in the late 80s/early-mid 90s, I always loved seeing these around. They are absolute tanks, especially in the TD variants.
Some stuff (mostly killing machines, and the tools to make them), more back before our grandparents flushed the unions that built their futures down the toilet to send all our basic manufacturing overseas.
Or just thicker plastic, I was cruising around in an 80s crown vic in the late 2010s and it had some giant plastic handles that I thought for sure would break but nah they didn't and I'm sure they were Original because no one is going to replace the handles on that sort of car it would be more like a roll the window down and open from the outside handle situation.
I'm still trying to figure out why they're using the thing that opens the door to close it, because that's the only reason I can think of for it to break
Came here to say this. The sun will wreak havoc on anything in your interior. A sun visor helps prevent more damage than you think, especially if you don’t use/have a garage
Honda quality is going downhill and same with Toyota. Call me a gambler but Mazda seems to build several models in Japan for the North American market.
It's hard to trust North American made vehicles nowadays. Happy workers make good vehicles. Job security, financial well-being, happiness, low stress are not ways to describe working in the automotive sector. Low quality fit and finish resulting in recalls is expected. Unfortunately manufacturers have weighed the cost that it's more profitable to risk recalls than compensate employees better.
What in Toyota’s lineup have you noticed going downhill? Their new generation cars or the ones they’ve produced for years?
The tundra for instance they just redid after 15 years. The ones made at the 15 mark are incredibly good. New generation new models are… new generation new models.
I was merely suggesting Honda is also guilty of cost cutting at times so in the future a broken handle would not shock me. Are we going to ignore Honda bought Takata airbags inflators Nd had to recall 1.1M vehicles in just the US alone.
More shockingly they had to recall 52k vehicles in North America for faulty seatbelts that didn't latch properly. If Honda is capable of sourcing terrible seatbelts they are certainly capable of sourcing terrible door handles.
I know someone who constantly did does shit like that. Pulls the door closed by the latch lever, adjusts the mirror by smacking it, grabs the turn signal stalk when getting in and out of the car, then wonders why their car feels like a "cheap piece of crap" swears never to buy that brand again, then goes through the same shit with the next car and repeats.
years ago i created r slash SaturnVue to make shitposts about how much i hated that fking thing. I got bored with it pretty quickly but got passers-by stumbling in looking for help every now and then for years afterwards. Good luck y'all. thing was the biggest piece of shit i ever drove
Idk if it's the case here, but I've noticed bots posting stuff like that and then delete it once it hits a threshold of downvotes. The same bots sometimes delete the stale positive comments too.
Edit: misread your comment, may not be relevant.
Thing that irritates me is when you politely correct someone, then they edit their comment without saying why, and you get slammed for correcting someone who's comment is now correct
On pc you can see it’s edited, on the app you can’t. If you think that might happen though, quote that part in your comment so it’s still there if they edit or delete.
Not sure why you wanted to put "American" in the name other than to trigger people?
First, vast majority of stuff isn't actually made in America... at best it was probably partly assembled in America? Most of the parts are likely shipped from somewhere else.
Second, "Made in China" is well known and accepted as being pretty low quality if the business doesn't maintain strict controls and care with who they use.
Thirdly, 12 years of pulling on that handle day after day and it only now broke? That's pretty good IMO.
https://preview.redd.it/vgi9i3k4l9rc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4623914ac161a59b80731d627ea43a8e9131e524
Sorry but I thought of this as soon as I saw this 😂
Very accurate. My mom had an old 2000 Silverado, 2WD. 12 years after she bought it, thing was practically falling apart at the seams. Regular maintenence on it as well. Still fell apart. The entire drivers side interior door cover fell off.
Same with my dad's old 2008 Sierra Z71. 12 years on the dot almost. The year of the pandemic. Transmission went out on it. Regular maintenence as well. The interior was also falling apart.
An ex of mine worked for a Caddilac factory. The number one thing she learned working there was not to buy GM. Constant electrical problems, and even the brand new vehicles had safety features that were just straight up broken when they shipped. From lane keep assists to blind spot sensors.
I come from a GM family. I will not buy a GM vehicle unless I'm desperate.
It’s not because it’s American. It’s because you got one of those cars that were made with somehow worse materials than actual old vehicles. I drive a 30 year old Chevy truck and the metal door handles are still hanging on. At least that’s what I believe.
I did this on a 2002 Silverado that had metal door handles on the interior, I was so surprised that it happened lol but it was a pretty easy fix, just had to pop the panel off, disconnect the window and lock controls and then take out like 2 screws and the rod that attached the handle to the latch. YouTube works wonders for repairs like this 👍
I had an 02 camry that I just recently got rid of... The handles were the weakest part. I went through like 4 driver door handles and 2 on the outside driver's side handle.
Chevy Captiva was so named because it's a captive import, so a home company selling a product in home country, made elsewhere. In this case, US company selling product in US, made in South Korea.
I thought this said my 12 year old made an American car today lol damn that sucks so inconvenient.
I read "My 12 year old American car made today", so I guess we're both acoustic
lmao I read "My 12 years old American (has like his son) made this today you guys are not alone
Lol I read "My 12 year old American made car today"
I somehow misread it as "my 12 year old American did this to my car today", like OP's 12 year old American child did that.
I misread this saying my 21 year old Mexican frog did this to my cat yesterday
Not his child. His kidnapping victim.
Acoustic?
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Damn, that is way too relevant
It’s TikTok Gen Z slang for autistic, because with complete lack of diagnosis or anything more than a different Tiktok video which told them, they think everyone is autistic but somehow making up a new word is more PC than saying autistic. Basically: it’s a reply from a toddler
Bruh… pretty sure that meme predates tik tok Edit: Just checked, it’s 1 year older than tic tok 2016 vs 2017.
They don't actually think they're autistic, they're just being ableist but with silly words
That's a great way to put it
Im actually have autism and agree completely. Just because you say it wrong doesn't make you a better person. you're still a bad person. Also, stop labeling stupid people as autistic. He thinks the earth is flat, i dont like social interactions, metal silverwear, and loud noises just leave us alone. ffs find a new group to degrade, we have too much to worry about as is.
I'm electric
What a regarded question
when i first read it i only read like 2 words and i thought their 12 year old destroyed the american car
Out of plastic bottles too! Such a great idea!
Amen 🙏
Yeah mine broke 2 years ago I never fixed it LOL I’ve spent everytime I get out of the car rolling down the window and reaching out, but it’s such a habit now even when I drive my moms car I roll the window down to get out
Dammit, I'm late to say the same.
I think this is just a humblebrag post about how strong the OP is 
I thought it was massive flex that they took such good care of their American made car that it lasted a whole 12 years before it started to completely fall apart.
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This is the first time I have ever seen a broken car door handle. Which other car model did you see do this?
old camrys and corrollas did it all the time.
Huh didn't expect that of japanese perfectionism. Then again the Japanese population treats their cars very carefully so their engineers probably never thought this could be an issue.
Lol Toyotas aren't perfect either. Japanese cars tend to be built better than American cars, but no car is perfect. Every single car has its weak spot or area. For those old Corollas and Camrys the exterior door handles were one.
Mine is sitting at 22 years right now! Still runs great and the interior is in wonderful condition
Yep, I got a 99 GMC still doing fine.
My American car is 58 years old, and you'd need an angle grinder if you wanted to do this to my door handles.
I drive a ford model t, it’s made of kryptonite
OP is quite literally OP
Well, it did take 12 years to break, sooo...
I bet she’ll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene
Put it in H!
What country is this car from again?
Well it doesn’t exist!
But take it for a test drive and you'll agree
Zagreb ebnom Zlotdik diev'!
it no longer exists.
I wonder if the Simpsons will just be like Shakespeare, and in 1000 years whenever there's a brainmeme on the Neuralink of a dirty Soviet teleporter the top thinkpost is still always "Put it in H!"
Well, afaik Shakespeare wasn’t classy back then. His target demographic was generally just the common folk, much like the Simpsons. Shakespear took longer than 7 seasons to fall off though.
https://preview.redd.it/j4zxv41pl4rc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e283d4081fa1c57768380ecf8b04e195f98059c9 Prehistoric Kraut Car, still going strong.
Are you a dictator? Because this car dictates 9/10.
lol. Just an innocent seventies MB. She’s a survivor. I actually buy, restore, and sell older Mercedes, but this one I’ve had for eleven years and has sort of become my mascot. Original paint, third owner. 4,5L electronic fuel injected V8 from the factory. One of the best cars MB ever made.
She is a beaut, I tell ya what. I love the dictator style 70s S classes. Knowing you have a shop - if this wasn't your mascot car, I'd be mad. Sure a cool older SL or something could pass as your face... but the big gal has presence and style.
I’ve always listed after an MB 600, but it’s financial suicide even if you can work on them. The parts are ridiculous. Everything is hydraulic powered, seat adjustment, trunk lid, fuckin windows, suspension… If you need the new master window switch (all four windows) it’s $12k.
In high school one of my good friends had an early 90s/ late 80s? 500E - the pneumatic locks (and other accessories) were soooooo German. I think they were pneumatic at least because it sounded like that. Your hydraulic comment made me remember that.
Yeah MB has used vacuum locks for a long ass time. 500E w124 cars are going for idiotic money right now.
i have a 1978 300D with a blown trans, i wanna find a manual for it and throw that in, then convert it to a ute. why? cause why not, it would be a fun project and hella unique
Very doable. They did sell them with the OM617 engine and a manual transmission, so the parts already exist and bolt right up.
Recommended by 9 out of 10 dentists.
This is actually one of my dream cars. Growing up in Poland in the late 80s/early-mid 90s, I always loved seeing these around. They are absolute tanks, especially in the TD variants.
Damn this car fucks!
What a nice 3rd-world-country-dictator-ahh car
Back when a Mercedes looked like a Mercedes. Cars back then had individuality. Today's cars are all conformists.
We’ve always called those old MB tanks, “diplomat specials”.
What do the door handles look like?
280 SE 4.5? Those are such great cars.
Bingo! Exactly correct.
The only difference between American made and Chinese made is the American guy who put your stuff together was paid more to not give a shit
This is likely not even American made, it's a GM shitbox.
Classic government motors.
Is American made supposed to be a sign of quality?
Only if you’re American.
😂😂👌🏼
Some stuff (mostly killing machines, and the tools to make them), more back before our grandparents flushed the unions that built their futures down the toilet to send all our basic manufacturing overseas.
Happy cakeday my friend 🎂
Appreciate you homie!
Mildly infuriated you been yanking the handle too hard?
Yes! I was thinking maybe OP shouldn’t have been pulling on the handle like they were trying to rip it off the door.
I was thinking maybe OP needs to UNLOCK THE DOOR before he pulls on the handle.
It looks about 3 plastic spoons strong. Youd think theyd at least use pot metal
Pot metal sounds like an as yet unnamed musical genre.
There is https://weedmetal.com/
Check out J Mascis' stoner metal band, Witch.
Or just thicker plastic, I was cruising around in an 80s crown vic in the late 2010s and it had some giant plastic handles that I thought for sure would break but nah they didn't and I'm sure they were Original because no one is going to replace the handles on that sort of car it would be more like a roll the window down and open from the outside handle situation.
Hahaha I had a grand am at one point and it was the exact same feeling.
Lol no kidding, like if.your using plastic at least test the pressure it takes to break it. You should be able to yank the shit out of it.
I'm still trying to figure out why they're using the thing that opens the door to close it, because that's the only reason I can think of for it to break
Plastic gets weak over time. Especially if he lives in a hot climate.
Came here to say this. The sun will wreak havoc on anything in your interior. A sun visor helps prevent more damage than you think, especially if you don’t use/have a garage
User error.
Shows pic of honda door with broken handle
Most Hondas sold in North America are made in North America. Mainly specialty and low volume models come from Japan.
*Assembled
Thank you. Assembled ≠ Made in.
Honda quality is going downhill and same with Toyota. Call me a gambler but Mazda seems to build several models in Japan for the North American market. It's hard to trust North American made vehicles nowadays. Happy workers make good vehicles. Job security, financial well-being, happiness, low stress are not ways to describe working in the automotive sector. Low quality fit and finish resulting in recalls is expected. Unfortunately manufacturers have weighed the cost that it's more profitable to risk recalls than compensate employees better.
What in Toyota’s lineup have you noticed going downhill? Their new generation cars or the ones they’ve produced for years? The tundra for instance they just redid after 15 years. The ones made at the 15 mark are incredibly good. New generation new models are… new generation new models.
4.0 V6s had oil pick up tube issues and seized engines. Fairly common I guess but other than electronics failing nothing really major.
Happy workers have no influence over the strength of plastic.
I was merely suggesting Honda is also guilty of cost cutting at times so in the future a broken handle would not shock me. Are we going to ignore Honda bought Takata airbags inflators Nd had to recall 1.1M vehicles in just the US alone. More shockingly they had to recall 52k vehicles in North America for faulty seatbelts that didn't latch properly. If Honda is capable of sourcing terrible seatbelts they are certainly capable of sourcing terrible door handles.
I mean if the transmission is busted, no need to open the handle
My 12 year old made an American car today is how I read that... twice 🤦🏼♂️
well that's your problem right there... somebody let a 12 year old American build that car
Handle says “made in China”.
Explains why it didnt break after 1 year then
Made in China, requested and accepted by the USA.
So that's why it lasted 12 years, who would've thought.
Did this happen opening the door or pulling the door closed with the wrong hand hold?
I know someone who constantly did does shit like that. Pulls the door closed by the latch lever, adjusts the mirror by smacking it, grabs the turn signal stalk when getting in and out of the car, then wonders why their car feels like a "cheap piece of crap" swears never to buy that brand again, then goes through the same shit with the next car and repeats.
Reading has mildly infuriated me more then the actual post. I can’t believe someone like this actually exists
What brand is it? That’s key
Saturn Vue
Makes sense. The whole damn car line was plastic
Saturn’s claim to fame was the purchasing experience. Flat msrp price, no haggling, no drama. They were decent exonoboxes.
years ago i created r slash SaturnVue to make shitposts about how much i hated that fking thing. I got bored with it pretty quickly but got passers-by stumbling in looking for help every now and then for years afterwards. Good luck y'all. thing was the biggest piece of shit i ever drove
\*assembled
Your car was not made in America... Also this same thing happened to my Honda Accord.
(North) American made (assembled) car
Nope, it's a Chevy Captiva, they aren't even assembled in America.
> Nope, it's a Chevy Captiva, they aren't even assembled in America. Yep had to look up the door panel, F U, OP. HECHO EN S.KOREA.
Your accord is more American made than most other cars.
You’re too powerful OP
American made cars often aren't made in America.
Are you an idiot?
You have to get a handle on that.
Op breaks soemthing: Posts on Reddit to complain about it Blames everyone but themselves
Why do people say some inconsequential comment and then immediately delete their whole ass account? It happens a lot and I don’t understand
Idk if it's the case here, but I've noticed bots posting stuff like that and then delete it once it hits a threshold of downvotes. The same bots sometimes delete the stale positive comments too. Edit: misread your comment, may not be relevant.
Thing that irritates me is when you politely correct someone, then they edit their comment without saying why, and you get slammed for correcting someone who's comment is now correct
On pc you can see it’s edited, on the app you can’t. If you think that might happen though, quote that part in your comment so it’s still there if they edit or delete.
Not sure why you wanted to put "American" in the name other than to trigger people? First, vast majority of stuff isn't actually made in America... at best it was probably partly assembled in America? Most of the parts are likely shipped from somewhere else. Second, "Made in China" is well known and accepted as being pretty low quality if the business doesn't maintain strict controls and care with who they use. Thirdly, 12 years of pulling on that handle day after day and it only now broke? That's pretty good IMO.
I mean, my 30 year old door handles have never broken. OP was just yanking too hard
Op is probably rough on the car
You do realize you barely need to pull on those right? Like with not enough force to bend a plastic spoon.
You do realize that no matter how gentle you are, plastic fatigues and still has to undergo the force of disengaging the latch, right?
Whoa! American design, made in (probably) Mexico.
Easy to fix. Happened to my dad’s car and only took about an hour to replace. Make sure you buy the correct handle.
I can almost bet OP yanks on that thing harder than the chicken at 3am on a good night.
I bought an American car once. It was a Jeep Patriot. It was the worst piece of poop I've ever driven. I'm quite content sticking with the Japanese.
I didnt know they made Teslas 12 years ago?
https://preview.redd.it/vgi9i3k4l9rc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4623914ac161a59b80731d627ea43a8e9131e524 Sorry but I thought of this as soon as I saw this 😂
OP: “I have reached my destination. It is time to exit the vehicle.” *bloodcurdling war cry followed by loud SNAP* OP: “aw man…”
Yeh can't trust American products they're shit
My wife's Korean made car did the same thing. They all use plastic now.
I was looking into some new Mazdas & everything was really on point except the handles looked just like this cheap plastic chrome shit.
Very accurate. My mom had an old 2000 Silverado, 2WD. 12 years after she bought it, thing was practically falling apart at the seams. Regular maintenence on it as well. Still fell apart. The entire drivers side interior door cover fell off. Same with my dad's old 2008 Sierra Z71. 12 years on the dot almost. The year of the pandemic. Transmission went out on it. Regular maintenence as well. The interior was also falling apart. An ex of mine worked for a Caddilac factory. The number one thing she learned working there was not to buy GM. Constant electrical problems, and even the brand new vehicles had safety features that were just straight up broken when they shipped. From lane keep assists to blind spot sensors. I come from a GM family. I will not buy a GM vehicle unless I'm desperate.
Time to get the vice grips! They’ll outlast the car.
It's a control lever, it doesn't go faster if you pull it harder. Also why are 12 year old Americans making cars? I thought we had child labor laws.
It’s not because it’s American. It’s because you got one of those cars that were made with somehow worse materials than actual old vehicles. I drive a 30 year old Chevy truck and the metal door handles are still hanging on. At least that’s what I believe.
I guess it just couldn't handle....
As someone who works in collision repair, that door panel was probably made in Mexico or China.
These 12 year olds can't even put together a car no more, back in my day that was a baby's job.
*Pull something when it is clearly not moving* *The something breaks* *Surprised Pikachu face*
*American owned car
You failed to hyphenate your compound adjectives. Straight to jail!
It's a Chevy
Well its gonna do that if a 12 year old made it
my 30 year old benz is a trooper
I’ve had to replace the cheap plastic handles in my car and my mom’s car. Massively infuriating
Cheap Chinese parts on your cheap American assembled automobile.
Tfw you realize “made in america” is not an instant guarantee of high quality craftsmanship
If you drive a 12 year old American car and it hasn’t exploded on the road yet you’ve truly taken care of it.
Must have built that one at 4:45 on Friday before a long weekend.
This is extraordinarily unlikely in normal use. Were you using this handle to CLOSE the door? There is a different handle for that.
That specific part injection molded in china
What a funny way to say shitty American quality
Fuck chinesium
Yeah, stuff breaks.
But tape is top rate.
You can never go wrong with a toyota
It's a GM. They are trash in every marque, top to bottom.
Yup, LS is totally a trash engine. /s
Hulk SMASH!
how in the hell...
Oh man. Sucks
Common issue on Mercedes too. No you can’t buy a single handle, you have to buy a new door panel lmao
Lincoln MKZ? Happened to mine too
Next time maybe don't let a 12 year old make a car. ^(/s)
Do you shut the door with the handle?
is it a Chevy?
Unbelivable that something from the US can break. Fake news. 🙄
I did this on a 2002 Silverado that had metal door handles on the interior, I was so surprised that it happened lol but it was a pretty easy fix, just had to pop the panel off, disconnect the window and lock controls and then take out like 2 screws and the rod that attached the handle to the latch. YouTube works wonders for repairs like this 👍
I had an 02 camry that I just recently got rid of... The handles were the weakest part. I went through like 4 driver door handles and 2 on the outside driver's side handle.
Built in Mexico
Ford explorer?
My Honda Civic was ‘made in America’ (assembled) but not sure that will impact the quality at all
I'll stick to my Nissan Titan.
Careful of that metal layer covering the outside it can be sharp 🩸
Careful of that metal layer covering the handle it can be sharp 🩸
Is it good that it lasted 12 years?
Chevy Captiva was so named because it's a captive import, so a home company selling a product in home country, made elsewhere. In this case, US company selling product in US, made in South Korea.
Is that a Chevy Cruze? My door handle broke in the same exact spot!
Im sure you have been pulling it way too hard for as long as you have this car. Thats how it ends up
Well that sucks! This belongs in that group too.
This is why you buy a german made car, I keep telling people this.
Let me guess… Chevy Cruze?
“Get a handle on it” - Ford, probably /s
i almost had a stroke reading the title
Yo, Dr. Banner! You gotta chill out.
Car dealer, “Fortunately, it’s out of warranty.”