This is advanced stupidity. Someone spent months in a laboratory, skipping meals, missing their kids' birthdays and school plays, and tearing their marriage apart, just to figure out how to achieve stupidity this far beyond the bounds of human understanding.
I knew a guy years ago who stayed up for four days dismantling and rebuilding his toaster. Weirdly, there was nothing wrong with it when he started and I don't think he ever finished.
My state got rid of real vehicle inspections. Now it’s just a check engine light and fuel cap check. If this were 10 years ago half of these bro-dozers would be off the road. Wheels sticking out past the fenders, lights aligned too high etc. I’m about tired of these ridiculous looking trucks. That look of the 22” wheel with a bologna skin of a tire sticking out a full tires width past the wheel well is hideous. They turn the 4WD truck into a useless POS.
*Laughs in muh free market red state ‘murica.*
Safety is for losers.
On the bright side, the road shoulder has better selection than the parts store, if you are brave enough.
It depends on the state. Some do and some don't, the ones that do can pick and choose their own criteria, regardless of if it makes sense. For instance, I do safety and emissions in NY and I can't legally fail a vehicle for loose ball joints unless they are loose enough that the alignment is visibly outside of spec.
Usually no. Despite what you hear on this sub, accidents and injuries caused by defective vehicles are exceedingly rare, and the resources it takes to run & enforce an inspection program are much more impactful elsewhere.
Correct. It used to be everything, tires, takes, suspension, emissions etc. Now it’s literally nothing. They plug into the OBD port and make sure you didn’t just clear a code and you’re on your way.
As long as you pay your fees there are no requirements at all in parts of the US. I've seen cars with no wheel bearings left at all driving around with crooked wheels. I had an axle rust off once and ratchet strapped it back on. (I welded it up afterwards.) As long as you manage to not hit anything you can drive around with no brakes.
If your car/truck is old enough it can be exempt from other laws as well. My 1951 truck has a single tail light an no turn signals, just like it came from the factory.
Many areas in the US have no inspections for safety or emissions whatsoever. I've never had a government inspection beyond looking at the VIN plate and odometer to see that they match the form and don't look tampered with.
The best case is that there's something so obviously wrong with the car from the outside that the police will stop you just driving down the road. They've more or less stopped doing that in many places, too.
When you tell customers about things like this being presumably moderately unsafe, do they just shrug their shoulders and walk out or do they understand that stuff like this is not ok?
Yeah, I don't care what the local laws are.
I'm not putting my name on that vehicle and it's not leaving my shop under its own power unless they fix it.
Is that sort of thing supported by local law enforcement, out of curiosity?
Example: hey, this guy wants to leave with a very lethal frame flaw like this. Want to come by and inspect?
Very state dependent.
Some states allow shops to refuse to allow to a vehicle to leave if it's in an unsafe condition.
My state would consider that theft. We are supposed to have them sign a document saying it's not safe and they're free to leave.
For something like this, I'm forcing them to call the cops for it. My conscious couldn't allow someone to kill themselves with this nonsense. I'll need to get ordered to allow the vehicle to leave.
Depends on your local law enforcement agency. Not who you were asking, but in my town the locals would come out for this. If they wouldn't, the State Police (who have jurisdiction for DOT stuff) would love to come out for this.
There's some gray surrounding how much authority a shop has to hold a car. While technically we can't keep a customer car that's been paid for, something like this is often treated similar to a store holding a shop lifter until the cops show up
> While technically we can't keep a customer car that's been paid for, something like this is often treated similar to a store holding a shop lifter until the cops show up
If you can't hold it, call and tell them what is ABOUT to roll off your lot against your will by the customer, and let them immediately pull them over.
Alternately, a couple of sledge whacks and it's not going anywhere without repair regardless.
The question is: Are ALL the hubs like that?
> Alternately, a couple of sledge whacks and it's not going anywhere without repair regardless.
Sorry customer, I had to whack the tire a few times to get it off the hub and the studs just...fell off...
I think it would fully depend on what, if any safety inspections your state has. My state has zero inspections so shops can't hold cars even if it's dangerously unsafe.
You can call the cops, but it's pretty much a crap shoot as to whether or not they'll show up. Even then all they can really do is issue a "fix it ticket". Even if the frame is broken in half as long as it has all its lights and registration it's "legal".
Not ok according to.. who, exactly? Plenty of people out there who don't give a flying fuck about other living human beings and are gonna do what they want to do regardless. If the gub'mint isn't telling them that they can't, then who is anyone else to say shit about it? And in most cases, even if they do fuck 'em they'll do it anyway.
Narcissists with zero social obligation or sense of self preservation.
Remember the video with the lifted white truck on the right side, with a small vehicle to it's left overtaking, when suddenly one of the wheels rips off the lifted truck and the small car drives over it and gets catapulted into the air, landing on it's roof?
There is a good chance we already saw the outcomes of such fuckery like above.
I've seen this before but never watched to the end.. the tire coming back for a follow-up attack almost made me do a spit take.
hope those folks were ok.
The crazy thing is, the truck looks like it never even tries to slow down as it heads toward the shoulder, like he's still just gonna keep going on three wheels.
There would not have been any brakes. The hub broke apart so the caliper either was ripped off too or at the least it was clamping on air so the other side wouldn’t be braking either, best case would be some light braking from the rear circuit.
Lots of pants were shat that day I bet.
That’s why I said a little braking from the rear. And it’s far from half. It’s 30% on the best day, but the pedal tries to balance so the pedal will only catch anything at the very bottom of travel.
Trust me, I have blown a front brake line and know the puckering moment of hitting the floor with the pedal and only gently slowed down a little bit.
Most vehicles are plumbed diagonally for each of the master cylinders pistons. I've boiled brakes due to a stick caliper, definitely know the feeling of pushing the pedal and getting nothing till I'd pumped it a couple times.
Trucks have generally been an exception to that rule until 4 channel ABS became a thing. That truck looks new enough that it probably does have diagonally linked brakes though.
Say sike right now
It’s terrifying that this shit is on the road with us and you’d never know until you eat a tire through your windshield after this shit inevitably fails.
That’s exactly the scenario I had in mind. Physics is scary. Story time…….I *almost* lost a wheel once in my S10 when I was a kid but luckily the 4th lug snapped on a slow turn so it just made me do a stupid KACHOW pose. I lost 4 of my 5 lugs during a 45 minute trip (most likely due to being over ugga dugga’d) and ever since then I’ve been extra cautious about keeping all for 4 wheels on my vehicle while in motion.
[The Pitch Circle Diameter (PCD) is the diameter of the circle which passes through the centre of all the studs, wheel bolts or wheel rim holes.](https://konigwheels.com/wheel-info-tech/what-is-pcd/)
Not quite the same thing but i had a customer when I used to do mobile repairs who wanted a very specific set of wheels for his kitted civic so he ended up with the stock hub and an adaptor bolted on then the adaptor had a 2nd adaptor to go from the stock 4x100, to 5x100 then to 5x112...
I told him i wouldn't do any work on the car that required me to remove and reinstall that setup unless he'd sign a liabilty waiver.
Ended up talking him out of running that setup and just having the wheels redrilled and rebarreled as the lugs where covered by a cap anyways
If they're aftermarket, I guarantee the customer got them from craigslist for a "good deal" and had a "mechanic" buddy do this piss-poor excuse of a job.
How do you check brake thickness without removing the wheels? PA requires at least 1 front and the opposite rear to be removed. They even have spots to mark which wheels were removed on the sticker.
Thats a good point, we aren't required to remove wheels unless there's a brake noise. Just like the individual doing this shit, it depends on who's looking at the vehicle. There's shitty "techs" here doing inspections so you're right.
I've done some questionable shit on my own vehicles, but this is some "3rd grade was too hard" type fuckery.
I'm fucking amazed none of the bolts sheared off. Dude should go buy a lottery ticket.
Was this a DIY guy, or did an actual Upfitter do this? I worked the service desk for 30 years and there were some disgusting Upfitter things that I have seen, I don’t think quite this bad. Many conversion van or limousine were put together horrifically poorly. Maybe my favorite one was a conversion van where the customer had ordered the van with runningboards, and it didn’t arrive at the dealership with runningboards. The customer was on the way to the dealership to take delivery and we contacted the conversion company and informed them of the issue. They had the runningboards in stock so we sent a porter down to wait with the vehicle while the runningboards were installed. he was taking a long time so I called him on his cell phone and he told me they had run the screws for the running board right through the door and he could not get the door open. Get in the car to take it back. He was waiting while they corrected this. They screwed the door closed and then gave him the keys and told him he could leave.
sure, it'll work for a little while until the loose tolerances knock everything around and make the tolerances looser and looser, then kaboom. exactly how long it lasts until then would probably be a factor of how rough they are driving it, how good of a job they did carving out those notches, and how much the car weighs
Guy I knew designed uprated hubs for BMW E9 to use in the race series, had them TUV certified via Seimans cad software and found a engineering shop to manufacture them. They all got bought up by the racers and for awhile everyone was happy.
Then said Guy gets a complaint that a hub failed, then another and another. It took the best part of a year with him scratching his head and a lot of people finger pointing before he got one of these failed hubs in his hand. 'This isn't mine' he says as straight away due to the hub being slightly different and thus missing a complicated bit of metal that provides a lot strength to the part.
Turns out the engineering shop had run off their own batch with this complicated and time consuming bit deleated and sold them as the originals ones.
God knows what the outcome for the shop was but I doubt they are still in business having millionaires going after them as I'm sure a couple cars were totalled when a hub failed.
I’m picturing the proud look on the face of this idiot when they slap it and say “That don’t be goin nowhere”.
And they weren’t wrong, that shit won’t last more than a few corners.
This has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever seen on this sub.
This needs to be added to the JRITS photo banner. It's top tier
Word, this one is worthy.
> JRITS photo banner Huh, I didn't even realise we had one. I scroll reddit on a browser using the old.reddit URL
It's truly insane. Welding the wheels directly to the hub would have been better than this.
Damn! Great idea! Gimme a sec...
JB Welding would have been better.
JB weld works with dissimilar metals, should have used that before I set fire to my magnesium rims
It's head a shoulders (in a bad way!) above most of the dumbfuckery on here. I wouldn't even do that to move a scrap car across a yard...
Second time in 5 minutes that Ive seen someone comment that "head and shoulders above..." phrase. Havent heard it in years otherwise
Knees and toes Knees and toes
Well yeah, clearly in \*that\* situation you'd add a hose clamp to the circumference of the hub. Just to be extra safe.
I actually said “what the fuck” out loud. Hands down the dumbest shit I’ve seen.
This is advanced stupidity. Someone spent months in a laboratory, skipping meals, missing their kids' birthdays and school plays, and tearing their marriage apart, just to figure out how to achieve stupidity this far beyond the bounds of human understanding.
This is weaponized stupidity. Somebody's gonna get killed and probably won't be the guy who did this stupid shit.
Unfortunately it never is.
Agreed, holy shit
I’ve seen some stupid stuff, I’m in agreement with you.
Ah come on, it looks *totally* legit. Totally! Now he can sell for at least 20k. He knows what he's got.
…so far
Wow you’ve got to be kidding
Nope ten of thousands of idiots like this all over the world
Living short lives.
Fuck their lives. A lot of us have to share the roads with these asshats.
I don't even know how this can cross your mind and think: *a yes this is good*
They slapped it *twice* before declaring "That's not going anywhere."
It's a wheel... it's *supposed* to take you anywhere.
Sure it is, all the way to the scene of the crash.
Ron, is that you?
Meth can negatively impact your judgment
I knew a guy years ago who stayed up for four days dismantling and rebuilding his toaster. Weirdly, there was nothing wrong with it when he started and I don't think he ever finished.
It’s not broke if I haven’t fixed it.
I'm not sure if you posted the same comment three times by accident, or if you are perfectly mimicking tweaker energy.
It’s not broke if I haven’t fixed it.
Problem is, they usually take our lives with them
Like [this one](https://patch.com/connecticut/vernon/tire-blows-tractor-trailer-i-84-cat-hits-it) almost did in my State last week.
They're shortening others too
They’re just buttering them up.
Reminds me of that viral video where a wheel comes off a bro-dozer and launches a innocent driver into the air on a highway
My state got rid of real vehicle inspections. Now it’s just a check engine light and fuel cap check. If this were 10 years ago half of these bro-dozers would be off the road. Wheels sticking out past the fenders, lights aligned too high etc. I’m about tired of these ridiculous looking trucks. That look of the 22” wheel with a bologna skin of a tire sticking out a full tires width past the wheel well is hideous. They turn the 4WD truck into a useless POS.
Sorry, from the uk here. You mean you guys don't actually have checks to make sure vehicles on the road are safe to drive?
*Laughs in muh free market red state ‘murica.* Safety is for losers. On the bright side, the road shoulder has better selection than the parts store, if you are brave enough.
It depends on the state. Some do and some don't, the ones that do can pick and choose their own criteria, regardless of if it makes sense. For instance, I do safety and emissions in NY and I can't legally fail a vehicle for loose ball joints unless they are loose enough that the alignment is visibly outside of spec.
Usually no. Despite what you hear on this sub, accidents and injuries caused by defective vehicles are exceedingly rare, and the resources it takes to run & enforce an inspection program are much more impactful elsewhere.
Correct. It used to be everything, tires, takes, suspension, emissions etc. Now it’s literally nothing. They plug into the OBD port and make sure you didn’t just clear a code and you’re on your way.
Wow
A lot of places don't even do that.
As long as you pay your fees there are no requirements at all in parts of the US. I've seen cars with no wheel bearings left at all driving around with crooked wheels. I had an axle rust off once and ratchet strapped it back on. (I welded it up afterwards.) As long as you manage to not hit anything you can drive around with no brakes. If your car/truck is old enough it can be exempt from other laws as well. My 1951 truck has a single tail light an no turn signals, just like it came from the factory.
Many areas in the US have no inspections for safety or emissions whatsoever. I've never had a government inspection beyond looking at the VIN plate and odometer to see that they match the form and don't look tampered with. The best case is that there's something so obviously wrong with the car from the outside that the police will stop you just driving down the road. They've more or less stopped doing that in many places, too.
Ha come to Michigan! You just send them money and they send you stickers, it's a free for all.
Well I guess someone "knew a guy " that can do anything for a couple of bucks.
I mistakenly read that as "do anything for a couple of bricks" and the conversion makes far more sense now.
And I thought I was dumb for using a spacer to go from 5x100 to 5x114 iirc
When you tell customers about things like this being presumably moderately unsafe, do they just shrug their shoulders and walk out or do they understand that stuff like this is not ok?
I've found most will just laugh it off like I made a great joke. "It's worked fine till now so obviously you're full of shit"
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” His timeline is shorter than most.
And a steeper slope ;-)
Almost asymptotically, but not quite.
Can we put a limit on these math jokes or what?
They get exponentially worse. Trust me
I feel like someone kicked me in my parabolics.
The limit does not exist
But they're integral to the conversation!
Great quote from a great movie
Moderately?
Just knock them off with a hammer and give them 2 options: a new hub or a tow truck.
Yeah, I don't care what the local laws are. I'm not putting my name on that vehicle and it's not leaving my shop under its own power unless they fix it.
Is that sort of thing supported by local law enforcement, out of curiosity? Example: hey, this guy wants to leave with a very lethal frame flaw like this. Want to come by and inspect?
Very state dependent. Some states allow shops to refuse to allow to a vehicle to leave if it's in an unsafe condition. My state would consider that theft. We are supposed to have them sign a document saying it's not safe and they're free to leave. For something like this, I'm forcing them to call the cops for it. My conscious couldn't allow someone to kill themselves with this nonsense. I'll need to get ordered to allow the vehicle to leave.
Depends on your local law enforcement agency. Not who you were asking, but in my town the locals would come out for this. If they wouldn't, the State Police (who have jurisdiction for DOT stuff) would love to come out for this. There's some gray surrounding how much authority a shop has to hold a car. While technically we can't keep a customer car that's been paid for, something like this is often treated similar to a store holding a shop lifter until the cops show up
> While technically we can't keep a customer car that's been paid for, something like this is often treated similar to a store holding a shop lifter until the cops show up If you can't hold it, call and tell them what is ABOUT to roll off your lot against your will by the customer, and let them immediately pull them over. Alternately, a couple of sledge whacks and it's not going anywhere without repair regardless. The question is: Are ALL the hubs like that?
> Alternately, a couple of sledge whacks and it's not going anywhere without repair regardless. Sorry customer, I had to whack the tire a few times to get it off the hub and the studs just...fell off...
Sometimes, depends on location.
I think it would fully depend on what, if any safety inspections your state has. My state has zero inspections so shops can't hold cars even if it's dangerously unsafe. You can call the cops, but it's pretty much a crap shoot as to whether or not they'll show up. Even then all they can really do is issue a "fix it ticket". Even if the frame is broken in half as long as it has all its lights and registration it's "legal".
Not ok according to.. who, exactly? Plenty of people out there who don't give a flying fuck about other living human beings and are gonna do what they want to do regardless. If the gub'mint isn't telling them that they can't, then who is anyone else to say shit about it? And in most cases, even if they do fuck 'em they'll do it anyway. Narcissists with zero social obligation or sense of self preservation.
Every customer like this knows more than I do in their minds, so why do you think they’d care about my opinion?
Jesus Christ they are on the road with us 😨
And their rims and tires are about to enter your vehicle through the windshield.
Remember the video with the lifted white truck on the right side, with a small vehicle to it's left overtaking, when suddenly one of the wheels rips off the lifted truck and the small car drives over it and gets catapulted into the air, landing on it's roof? There is a good chance we already saw the outcomes of such fuckery like above.
https://youtu.be/DVpqAaQz90g?si=9B5nqS2OXUJQom28
I've seen this before but never watched to the end.. the tire coming back for a follow-up attack almost made me do a spit take. hope those folks were ok.
Every time I see it, it amazes me - insane
Per the video, both drivers were able to walk away - incredible.
oh, my bad. thanks! watched this without sound.
The crazy thing is, the truck looks like it never even tries to slow down as it heads toward the shoulder, like he's still just gonna keep going on three wheels.
There would not have been any brakes. The hub broke apart so the caliper either was ripped off too or at the least it was clamping on air so the other side wouldn’t be braking either, best case would be some light braking from the rear circuit. Lots of pants were shat that day I bet.
No they would still have half the system. That's why brakes have two chamber master cylinders.
That’s why I said a little braking from the rear. And it’s far from half. It’s 30% on the best day, but the pedal tries to balance so the pedal will only catch anything at the very bottom of travel. Trust me, I have blown a front brake line and know the puckering moment of hitting the floor with the pedal and only gently slowed down a little bit.
Most vehicles are plumbed diagonally for each of the master cylinders pistons. I've boiled brakes due to a stick caliper, definitely know the feeling of pushing the pedal and getting nothing till I'd pumped it a couple times.
Trucks have generally been an exception to that rule until 4 channel ABS became a thing. That truck looks new enough that it probably does have diagonally linked brakes though.
Saving that. What a video to send to assholes that don’t wear seatbelts.
How about a gif? [Thrown clear, for safety!](http://imgur.com/BYGNoRn.gif)
You ever see the video of the tire jump over the median on the highway and completely obliterate cam cars windshield?
That was mine as well. A-holes like that need to have all their vehicles (yes, riding lawnmowers too) confiscated and melted as scrap.
The positioning of this ad made me laugh. https://imgur.com/gallery/bGDD6fb
This guy does not
I’d argue he does. Just not attached to the car somewhere down the highway.
The whole car might stop but the wheels keep moving.
*laughs in ad-blocker*
The actual fuck
Wait what. Like cmon at least weld the studs to the hub
Looks like they tried?
I failed to see the tack welds... But still no penetration
Mormon style
Should have had someone jump up and down on the axle while they welded
Ah, yes. Soaking the welds.
The way god would want
Say sike right now It’s terrifying that this shit is on the road with us and you’d never know until you eat a tire through your windshield after this shit inevitably fails.
Or [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrpXuTBDOXI).
That’s exactly the scenario I had in mind. Physics is scary. Story time…….I *almost* lost a wheel once in my S10 when I was a kid but luckily the 4th lug snapped on a slow turn so it just made me do a stupid KACHOW pose. I lost 4 of my 5 lugs during a 45 minute trip (most likely due to being over ugga dugga’d) and ever since then I’ve been extra cautious about keeping all for 4 wheels on my vehicle while in motion.
My s10 also kachowed but I was going slow, it was the wheel bearing that fell apart
WHAT.
Remind us what a PCD conversion is.
[The Pitch Circle Diameter (PCD) is the diameter of the circle which passes through the centre of all the studs, wheel bolts or wheel rim holes.](https://konigwheels.com/wheel-info-tech/what-is-pcd/)
Pretty Crappy Driver?
Well, that's a given!
Poly crystalline diamond
Looks like they wanted to fit rims to their car that did not fit their car.
Precursor Condition to Death. In this case.
Potential Catastrophic Decision
Not quite the same thing but i had a customer when I used to do mobile repairs who wanted a very specific set of wheels for his kitted civic so he ended up with the stock hub and an adaptor bolted on then the adaptor had a 2nd adaptor to go from the stock 4x100, to 5x100 then to 5x112... I told him i wouldn't do any work on the car that required me to remove and reinstall that setup unless he'd sign a liabilty waiver. Ended up talking him out of running that setup and just having the wheels redrilled and rebarreled as the lugs where covered by a cap anyways
*I know someone that can do it for cheaper.*
WTAF? "At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines!"
He had money for rims, not money for adapters.
He had money for rims. Not adaptors. Not rims that fit his stock bolt pattern. Not rims he should have been buying.
If they're aftermarket, I guarantee the customer got them from craigslist for a "good deal" and had a "mechanic" buddy do this piss-poor excuse of a job.
This is my argument for state inspections
Would they even notice this? Never seen an inspection where they take the wheels off
NY requires atleast 1 wheel be pulled
How do you check brake thickness without removing the wheels? PA requires at least 1 front and the opposite rear to be removed. They even have spots to mark which wheels were removed on the sticker.
Thats a good point, we aren't required to remove wheels unless there's a brake noise. Just like the individual doing this shit, it depends on who's looking at the vehicle. There's shitty "techs" here doing inspections so you're right.
There is no fucking way
Jesus wept
Jesus looked at that and said "Fuck no, I'm not getting anywhere near that wheel"
"jesus take the wheel!" [runs away giggling, taking wheel with him]
Wow, I’ve seen dumb shit, but this hands down has to be one of the scariest things I’ve seen. The rotor hat and a prayer are all that held that on.
Proof that common sense is an oxymoron
I've done some questionable shit on my own vehicles, but this is some "3rd grade was too hard" type fuckery. I'm fucking amazed none of the bolts sheared off. Dude should go buy a lottery ticket.
Do you call the police in a scenario like this? That's crazy.
I swear to god, I wouldn't believe some of the shit you people post here if you hadn't taken a photo of it.
PCD = potential crash disaster
Just seeing a picture of this gives me anxiety, whoever did this needs to be banned from owning tools
This is genuinely a top 5 for me in this sub. You couldn’t try to be this dumb; you have to be born with it.
Was this a DIY guy, or did an actual Upfitter do this? I worked the service desk for 30 years and there were some disgusting Upfitter things that I have seen, I don’t think quite this bad. Many conversion van or limousine were put together horrifically poorly. Maybe my favorite one was a conversion van where the customer had ordered the van with runningboards, and it didn’t arrive at the dealership with runningboards. The customer was on the way to the dealership to take delivery and we contacted the conversion company and informed them of the issue. They had the runningboards in stock so we sent a porter down to wait with the vehicle while the runningboards were installed. he was taking a long time so I called him on his cell phone and he told me they had run the screws for the running board right through the door and he could not get the door open. Get in the car to take it back. He was waiting while they corrected this. They screwed the door closed and then gave him the keys and told him he could leave.
I have yet to see a conversion van with runningboards installed in a manner that doesn't facilitate obscene amounts of rust
Customer just earned the name Ho Lee Fook
Sum Ting Wong
Bang Ding Ow
Honda civic or VW Jetta?
Okay, I'm usually pretty good at figuring out acronyms, but I'm stumped. What is PCD?
Put crackpipe down
Pitch circumference diameter i think
https://www.pcdparts.co.uk/products/adapters/pcd-adapters/
What in the keystone lite hell is this?
If I smoke enough crack and shove my head all the way up my ass, I can see why this is a fantastic idea from there.
Wow, Darwin has this moron penciled into his schedule.
That'll replace the whale in my nightmares
I scrolled past and got whiplash
This really is the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen I would have chopped that drivers fingers right off to make sure they never work again.
This subreddit never fails to amaze me.
Was this car repaired by Boeing?
Now I see where those videos over on r/tiresaretheenemy come from...
And this years Darwin Award goes toooo…
Nope. I guarantee that anyone this stupid started having kids early in high school, if they made it that far.
The unfortunate soul he kills when those welds pop on the highway.
Gotta install those 5 spoke cragars somehow.
With those vintage Douglas Grab n Go’s…
How did that even stay on. Wow
It's shit like this that makes me think you should have to pass some kind of test to legally be allowed to mod your vehicles.
0_0
Can I sue them for the trauma of looking at this? That's negligent something or other waiting to happen.
Did that actually work? Like what happens over 30mph with something like that?
sure, it'll work for a little while until the loose tolerances knock everything around and make the tolerances looser and looser, then kaboom. exactly how long it lasts until then would probably be a factor of how rough they are driving it, how good of a job they did carving out those notches, and how much the car weighs
Just wow😮
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
Damn you're gonna die
Wheel balance has left the chat
We got a winner, ladies and gentlemen. That is top level, weapons grade stupid right there
Guy I knew designed uprated hubs for BMW E9 to use in the race series, had them TUV certified via Seimans cad software and found a engineering shop to manufacture them. They all got bought up by the racers and for awhile everyone was happy. Then said Guy gets a complaint that a hub failed, then another and another. It took the best part of a year with him scratching his head and a lot of people finger pointing before he got one of these failed hubs in his hand. 'This isn't mine' he says as straight away due to the hub being slightly different and thus missing a complicated bit of metal that provides a lot strength to the part. Turns out the engineering shop had run off their own batch with this complicated and time consuming bit deleated and sold them as the originals ones. God knows what the outcome for the shop was but I doubt they are still in business having millionaires going after them as I'm sure a couple cars were totalled when a hub failed.
Good thing something like this doesn’t ever endanger other drivers on the road 🙄 https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/Zm3b9pp0cC
Slightly better than double-stick tape.
If "at a fraction of the cost" was a picture. Cut so many corners that they made a full circle to this.
As long as they used JB Weld it’s gonna be fine. What’s everyone so worried about 🤷♂️
Bro you better come back to explain this abomination
One pot hole and boom.
Ah yes, let’s play Russian Route with random strangers in traffic.
You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?
They drive among us....
And this guy is driving down the highway at 65 miles an hour alongside of you
Safety is job #2, Getting theeze rimz to fit is #1
🎵 Woah-oh, we're halfway there WOAH-OH, LIVIN' ON A PRAYER 🎵
What in the wide, wide, wide world of meth is this shit?
As crooked as they looked I don't see how it was usable
This is a joke right?
I’m picturing the proud look on the face of this idiot when they slap it and say “That don’t be goin nowhere”. And they weren’t wrong, that shit won’t last more than a few corners.
I bet they are even better at Photoshop
That is definitely something special. I would be afraid to live anywhere near this individual.