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diymirage

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Late last night I'm heading home from dinner when I spot two car with the hoods up
I decided I'd see if I can give an a hand and when I get there, there are three kids staring at these cars, one with a set of jumper cables in his hand...all three of em looking lost like all get up
I asked the kid with the cables if they needed any help
He told me they were trying to get one car started and I took on end of the cables from him
That's when I noticed he was holding both clamps together in one hand...together
So I took a moment to warn him of the possibility of the other guy not paying attention and zapping him
(I showed him how I always clamp one of the clamps on the cable so they can not touch)
Then I showed him red on red, black on black and got her running post-haste

I took the cables off my car, clamped on clamp on the cable (as I always do) and turned around to hand the kid the cables and saw him holding both clamps in o e hand again.

Makes me wonder, didn't their dad teach them the basics anymore?
 
I taught my three grandsons the proper way to jump a car a few years ago. Soon after they had to jump their moms car. They did it properly and were so proud.
 
Along the same lines, this Liberty Mutual roadside assistance ad always bugs me - really your kid can't change his own flat tire?!

 
diymirage said:
Late last night I'm heading home from dinner when I spot two car with the hoods up
I decided I'd see if I can give an a hand and when I get there, there are three kids staring at these cars, one with a set of jumper cables in his hand...all three of em looking lost like all get up
I asked the kid with the cables if they needed any help
He told me they were trying to get one car started and I took on end of the cables from him
That's when I noticed he was holding both clamps together in one hand...together
So I took a moment to warn him of the possibility of the other guy not paying attention and zapping him
(I showed him how I always clamp one of the clamps on the cable so they can not touch)
Then I showed him red on red, black on black and got her running post-haste

I took the cables off my car, clamped on clamp on the cable (as I always do) and turned around to hand the kid the cables and saw him holding both clamps in o e hand again.

Makes me wonder, didn't their dad teach them the basics anymore?
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Chances are that they don't have a dad in their lives and if they do, that dad doesn't know either.

What I find frustrating is that all three young men probably had the means to watch a youtube video on how to jump a car on their smartphones but chose to be helpless.
 
I don't remember what company the tv ad is for, but there's one running now about two young guys on the side of the road out in the boonies with a flat tire.
One of them is on his cell phone saying, "Daaaad! Of course I know what a lug wrench is."
He gets off the call and then asks his buddy, "This is a lug wrench. Isn't it?"
Then sounds as if he's going to break into tears.

I taught my son the basics and tried to teach my daughter but she wasn't having any of it. She kept insisting the car would fall on her if she crawled under it to do an oil change - even when the car was sitting on all four tires in the driveway.
My daughter does know there are two types of screwdrivers though - 'Plus' (+) and 'Minus' (-).
 
ocdart said:
I don't remember what company the tv ad is for, but there's one running now about two young guys on the side of the road out in the boonies with a flat tire.
One of them is on his cell phone saying, "Daaaad! Of course I know what a lug wrench is."
He gets off the call and then asks his buddy, "This is a lug wrench. Isn't it?"
Then sounds as if he's going to break into tears.

I taught my son the basics and tried to teach my daughter but she wasn't having any of it. She kept insisting the car would fall on her if she crawled under it to do an oil change - even when the car was sitting on all four tires in the driveway.
My daughter does know there are two types of screwdrivers though - 'Plus' (+) and 'Minus' (-).
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You didn't watch the commercial Scott posted, did you?
 
Both my boys had to change a tire in the driveway before I would let them drive.
I'll be damned if I was going to go change a tire at 1:00 am because they didn't know how to.
They also had to show me the knew how to check & change oil too.
The one, well it a good thing there's such a thing as AAA. He's not a get your hands dirty type.
The other, he's an executive for a plastics manufacture, he wouldn't think twice of crawling on the ground in a suit.
 
:rofl:Sometimes it's a curse to be gifted in that sort of way. 2 AM on a Sunday morn, I had just got home from working swing shift at a Chevron Station in Barstow, had to be back to open the place at 6. Dad comes into the bedroom, rattles the bed like the Sylmar eartquake, "come on, we gotta go get your little sister's car. It's in a sand wash out by Rainbow Basin and I know you know the way". Sure enough, she had done her Evil Knevel imitation into a washout across the road to one of the local desert party spots. Never did find all the hub caps, 2 flats, muffler barely hangin on. Got back just in time to get into my blue Chevron suit and hustle off to work. He pulled me out of a sand wash or two, I was just payin it back.
 
Unconventional said:
Got back just in time to get into my blue Chevron suit and hustle off to work. He pulled me out of a sand wash or two, I was just payin it back.
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growing up i was big into dirbikes
a buddy drove a toyota 4X4 and we would go off roading together all the time

one day we got stuck in i dont know what
i got my dirtbike stuck first, and trying to pull that out my buddy got his toyota stuck

we were like a pair of dinosaurs in a tar pit...we were going nowhere

so, as a last resort we called my dad, who drove a landrover at the time
(wasnt the first time he had to come save us either)

so, i explain the whole thing, tell him where we are and dad says "sure, let me finish supper and ill be right over"
ok, i say....you almost done?
and i could hear him grinning over the phone as he said, nope. your mom is just serving the soup

but, that was dad for ya
(and he did come to get us)
 
I've seen more than a few cars come in on a flatbed with a flat and a perfectly good spare,jack, wrench..etc
I always give them the same line, " paid for a tow huh, girlfriend stuck at work and couldn't help?"
 
No-one ever taught me how to change a tire. When I got a flat, I just knew. It ain't rocket science.
 
how bout this...running around town yesterday spotted a ford exploder with its hazards on moving real slow in the fast lane
as i passed by, i noticed one guy (just one) pushing it

so i spun around, hooked up a strap and towed it to the gas station a few miles up the road

why a gas station and not a parking lot you ask?
well, it seems that exploder quit running once the tank runs dry

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Yea, I was at the drag strip some time ago, when a couple guys showed up in a Mopar looking to make some time trials. What I noticed was they had driven the car from a town probably 35 miles away with not as much as a pocket knife between the two of them. I noticed the car broke down most of the evening at the far end of the strip. When they eventually made it back to the pits, I loaned some tools to apparently adjust the floats. Again I saw the car stalled with the hood up at the far end and figured id never see the tools again. Eventually they made it back and did return the tools, when I looked under the hood asked what was up, one of them told me they weren't sure which way to go with the floats and think they may have made it worse. Now I don't know about you, but when I go to the strip, I load up at least the basic hand tools for minor problems that may arise. What I saw was a car that probably shouldn't have been driven 35 miles with absolutely no tools on board.
 
It's not just kids it's adults too.
If it's wasn't for Legos & cheap target furniture nobody would know how to put anything together.
Luckily with artificial intelligence & drones all of these tasks won't need be performed by humans.
 
Vitamin c said:
Yea, I was at the drag strip some time ago, when a couple guys showed up in a Mopar looking to make some time trials. What I noticed was they had driven the car from a town probably 35 miles away with not as much as a pocket knife between the two of them. I noticed the car broke down most of the evening at the far end of the strip. When they eventually made it back to the pits, I loaned some tools to apparently adjust the floats. Again I saw the car stalled with the hood up at the far end and figured id never see the tools again. Eventually they made it back and did return the tools, when I looked under the hood asked what was up, one of them told me they weren't sure which way to go with the floats and think they may have made it worse. Now I don't know about you,
but when I go to the strip, I load up at least the basic hand tools for minor problems that may arise. What I saw was a car that probably shouldn't have been driven 35 miles with absolutely no tools on board.
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HEY NOW that was my first time out (orange 71 duster right? when i pulled in you were just dropping of the trailer and you asked me if i actually drove in from Holland)

and i learned a LOT that day...to pack basic tools, for one, and how to adjust floats
(and the duster made it back home on its own power)
 
OK, my turn. Was pumping gas in my car one night and I noticed about 6 teenagers with Japanese cars and the hoods up on both. I could see them scurrying around both cars and everyone making suggestions but nothing really happening. As I kept watching I finally noticed movement of jumper cables but 1 car still not running. After about 5 minutes the 1 car leaves and a guy and his girlfriend climb back into the dead car. When I was done getting gas I walked up to them, knocked on the window and asked if they needed assistance. The guy gets out of the car (I notice no lights come on) and he says his car is dead and his buddy was going for some help. I asked him if he needed a jump but he said they already tried and nothing happened. I asked if I could take a look and he said "sure". I first grabbed the flashlight out of my glove box and then asked him to turn the key and there was nothing. I looked at his Battery and the positive post had an after market connector, the type where 2 small bolts make a clamp to hold the cable on. Well I can see all kinds of corrosion all around the cable and clamp. I pull out my Leatherman and remove the 2 bolts and the cable is full of corrosion (I had the guy hold the flashlight the whole time). I pulled everything apart and explained to him how electricity was never making it past the corrosion and jumper cables weren't going to help either. After cleaning the cable and putting the clamp back together the girlfriend cries out "the interior lights came on". I get everything tight and tell him to try it and the car starts right up. As I close his hood he says "sir" (now I know I'm old)
"I only have about $5 but if you can wait I can have somebody bring some more money". I asked him "did you learn anything about cars tonight?" and he said yes. I told him that's all the payment I need and to fix the battery cable correctly tomorrow so you don't strand your girlfriend again because her father might not understand.
 
Ok, heres mine. I am walking back to my car in the walmart parking lot. Theres a 20 something year old girl standing by her car in obvious distress over something. I ask her whats wrong. She says she cannot unlock her car a 5-6 year old VW new beetle because the remote wont work. I ask her to see her keys. I stick the key in the door lock, and unlock her car to her surprise, then i tell her to go get with the people at the walmart auto shop counter since they have replacement batteries for the remote there. I was shaking my head thinking can somebody actually be that stupid.
 
I taught my son the basics and tried to teach my daughter but she wasn't having any of it. She kept insisting the car would fall on her if she crawled under it to do an oil change - even when the car was sitting on all four tires in the driveway.
My daughter does know there are two types of screwdrivers though - 'Plus' (+) and 'Minus' (-).
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Does she know what the 710 cap is for?
I tried to teach my daughters too, but they could have cared less.
 
moparmat2000 said:
Ok, heres mine. I am walking back to my car in the walmart parking lot. Theres a 20 something year old girl standing by her car in obvious distress over something. I ask her whats wrong. She says she cannot unlock her car a 5-6 year old VW new beetle because the remote wont work. I ask her to see her keys. I stick the key in the door lock, and unlock her car to her surprise, then i tell her to go get with the people at the walmart auto shop counter since they have replacement batteries for the remote there. I was shaking my head thinking can somebody actually be that stupid.
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what about the "new" keyfobs chrysler used?
my 08 charger has one

if your not paying attention you'd never know there is an actual key hidden in there

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diymirage said:
what about the "new" keyfobs chrysler used?
my 08 charger has one

if your not paying attention you'd never know there is an actual key hidden in there
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Comes in handy for that magnetic Hide A Key. Keep a spare fob in the truck I do. What can I say? I'm known to lock myself out by accident on occasion :lol: Damm electric door locks. Wait, it started long before that :BangHead:
 
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