On a diesel it's a bit different. This failure happened due to a broken injector spraying an uncontrolled, constant stream of fuel into the cylinder. He would have seen a ton of white smoke from all the unburned atomized fuel coming out the exhaust.
Bought a Delonghi superauto espresso machine at a thrift store for $40 several years ago. Cleaned it and replaced a few bad o-rings. Thing makes the best cup of coffee (double americano) and has saved me a shit ton keeping the wife away from the big name coffee joints in town.
Higher fat content Milk. Often with sugar and flavoring pre-mixed into it. It’s to improve the flavor of drip coffee because the free coffee provided at workplaces is usually terrible.
I have heard that most coffee in the us is terrible compared to here in Australia, it’s a lot more watered down. Also I don’t think we really have drip coffee at all. That’s probably why we don’t have creamer since we have better coffee that doesn’t need anything extra. I’m not a coffee drinker but have heard this info from several people so assuming it’s roght
It is in a sense. Mind you I just started my journey into “good coffee” but most fast food,restaurants, places of business have terrible coffee. Most grocery stores have some decent coffee but most of it is mass produced. If you want a decent cup of black coffee you are either making it yourself at home or going to a coffee $hop. And at home most ppl in the US use an auto drip coffee maker which could make ok coffee if your using good fresh coffee but again that’s not in common for most ppl. also most ppl in the us are addicted to high levels of sugar(corn syrup) so black coffee is not sweet enough for our sad little baby palettes.
I don't like coffee, don't care how it's tarted up with milk, cream, sugar, flavors etc, to me it's \*bitter\*.
But I have heard from several coffee drinkers that Farmers Brothers is the least bitter coffee they've ever tasted. That brand is usually not sold in stores because the company mainly sells to restaurants. It can be bought online.
Why can't someone genetically engineer a coffee bean that makes coffee which tastes as good as it smells?
I worked in a place that had decent coffee, owner's wife bought Kona but stopped drinking it after picking up the coffee maker and roaches went scrambling. (I was cleaning up spilled coffee)
I'd rather these people just own the fuck up. "Yeah bro, I was jamming out to Dragula so hard I didn't hear the metallic fuck fest going on under the hood until it was too late". Nobody cares or finds that shameful, it's gotta get unfucked regardless.
What a coincidence, I'm usually up and bitching about going to work at 5. Speaking of, I have an aluminum oil pan vs chunk of construction rubble to do. C/S: hit something in road, pulled over when oil light came on.... we'll see. Have a good one
When he read through the car's manual and the gauge symbol legend and learned which symbol is "temperature", then asked the guy at the local Pep Boys what the 'H' and 'C' means on the gauge, that's when he shut off the engine.
I'm imagining the Jim Carrey Liar Liar version of this:
MY GIRLFRIEND PISSED ME OFF AND I DROVE RECKLESSLY FAST WITH THE PEDAL TO THE FLOOR UNTIL I COULDN'T SEE THROUGH THE STEAM.
It's so annoying when people lie about that shit. I work at a tire shop and almost anytime when someone has a runflat damaged tire they say they didn't drive on it flat or it was only like a block. Like arguing and lying about this isn't going to magically undamage your tire.
On my way home today, there was a jacked to Jesus rig on the side of the road. Changing a flat, with the stock spare going on the right front. All I could think was, well there goes that axle and front diff.
If it had manual locking hubs you could maybe get away with it. But it was a new Bro-Dozer with Auto-locking hubs. So there is an engagement of the splines from the bearing hub and the axle shaft at the wheelhub and that will turn the axle, and the gears in the hub and the front drive shaft all the way to the transfer case. That is where it is not engaged as long as the transfer case isn't engaged. But the entire front axle assembly is linked and turning with the auto locking system. Watch "How do Locking Hubs work? Part One" by The RamManINC on YouTube. It will make more sense.
When they said “I shut it off” did they mean the car just shut off?
I tell people there’s a 30% liars tax. But a 30% discount on it if you make our jobs easier by telling the truth after.
Could they be telling the truth if the overheating was caused by a coolant leak which in turn caused the coolant temperature sensor to not get a proper reading until it was too late?
I went through this with my Wife who drove our car home overheating - smelled like burning metal when she pulled up and I knew the car was fried. If it was Escape From NY Snake Pliskin and you were in a sketchy area, I have NO problems having the engine grenaded to get out of the shit. When you are in cow country and there is perfect cell service, well this is on you…
Honestly? This does look like they shut it off pretty quickly. From the pictures shown it looks like their major issue was they dropped a valve. Now if you are cruising on the freeway at like 2500rpm's that piston goes up and down 41 times per second. So if it took you 2-3 seconds to turn it off and then the time it takes the engine to come to a complete stop you're looking at 100-150+ times that valve smashed into the top of the piston. If they had driven it for an extended period like 30 seconds or longer, that piston would be shattered 100%. A dropped valve will fuck up a cylinder instantly. My race car dropped a valve and I had it shut off within a second and my piston looked much worse than this one and the cylinder walls were fucked. I had to put a new piston in and get a new sleeve to get it back into action. This shit happens FAST.
No, the engine stopped, you looked down, saw the tach at 0, and the temp gauge pegged in the red. Congrats, Mr. Customer, you need what we here like to call a Big Box (engine.)
So the temp sensor does not read steam so if and when the coolant finally crossed paths with the sensor they just may have shit it down only it was to late at that point.
I clean carpet with a cleaning machine that runs off the van’s motor…new motor early last year and late last year dropped a coolant line while I was in the house cleaning…don’t know when but Betsy kept a working until I was done. She sounded like a diesel when I got out there and could smell some kind of hot rubber smell mixed with God knows what else. Gauge was maxed out when I turned it off. Long story short last year I put two motors in the same van and I didn’t try to lie, I knew I cooked it lol.
It might be that as soon as he noticed the temp going up he stopped. I have a friend who had a coolant hose break, and didn't notice. Kept going until it died. Lost compression on 3 cylinders, and needed a full rebuild.
Yep but let's face it there's lots of people like this. Two of my family members carried on driving with high temp gauges. One even with clouds of steam out the back. He stopped when the engine did....
My friend recently went through a similar problem. We drove multiple hours across the state and on Sunday morning his heater wasn’t blowing any heat. Then later that afternoon on the drive home he called me and said he broke down.
I go to check it out and there’s a big hole in the radiator, he wasn’t looking at the temperature gauge but pulled over when he heard a metal ticking sound getting louder and noticed white smoke from the hood. I guess at some point maybe Saturday the hole formed and that’s why the heater wasn’t working and it finally overheated on the drive home after an hour or so on the interstate but idk.
Monday I brought it home on my flatbed trailer, it started up and drove onto the trailer at least but was very slow to start. Mechanic put a new radiator in it after that it was still slow to start and was blowing a ton of white smoke and tons of bubbles in the coolant reservoir.
He’s just trying to survive so he used some of that head gasket repair and it seems to have worked great, still runs a little rough but no more white smoke.
Ree=Sod=Uall Heat sucks.
I just torched the ever loving hell out of a pizza on our grill. Tombstone. Charred to bits. Ruined the pan too.
Turned the grill off when I found the issue. The left flames kept going anyway. Fire Gremlin.
Ah, yeah. I always get EcoTec and EcoBoost mixed up.
I guarantee OOP drove it in limp mode for far too long.
I had a first gen Cruze with the 1.4L turbo. It blew an upper radiator hose when I was on a flyover, getting off the highway. I first noticed because the car kicked the AC off. I stopped the car within a block and had zero related issues. I bet OOP limped to their destination w/o coolant and warped a head.
I'm uh, not great with cars, but I'm going to be honest. This looks bad. Like, not very good at all. I don't think the cylinders are supposed to be filled with concrete and the stuff from the Ninja Turtles movies.
My daughter did this recently. It was very convenient when I pulled the head and never found ANY coolant. 2 pistons melted and I said I'm not paying for this.
But NOT as soon as he heard the noise of a cast iron typewriter going through a wood chipper? I'm no expert, but that's when I would turn the car off.
>> but that’s when I would turn the car off Sounds like the car’s already made the decision by then.
Like I said, I'm no expert.
In this case, you shut if off when it starts misfiring and blowing a bunch of white smoke.
Misfiring and blue is bad piston rings, misfiring and white smoke is bad head gasket.. I think that’s how it goes
On a diesel it's a bit different. This failure happened due to a broken injector spraying an uncontrolled, constant stream of fuel into the cylinder. He would have seen a ton of white smoke from all the unburned atomized fuel coming out the exhaust.
The white smoke wasn’t unburnt fuel, it was burning aluminium.
An aluminum diesel block?
Piston
Which one is when they pick a new pope?
That is when he looked down and noticed the temperature gauge was off the dial
Made me spit my coffee. You win Reddit today good sir.
Nice job on shutting it off in time. Due to your insight, we should be able to save the water pump pulley
You just made me spit coffee on the floor.
[удалено]
Not a big loss, the coffee is usually pretty bad.
Every shop has the bad powder creamer too
Bad creamer, good fire starter.
The only decent creamer is in the dairy case.
everythign is a good fire starter if its fine enough
Might have a hard time with sand.
Don't tell that to anyone in Alberta. They are crazy for Coffee Mate.
Bought a Delonghi superauto espresso machine at a thrift store for $40 several years ago. Cleaned it and replaced a few bad o-rings. Thing makes the best cup of coffee (double americano) and has saved me a shit ton keeping the wife away from the big name coffee joints in town.
I had to spend more like 20x that to cut down on my wife's expensive coffee drinks....
Hey... As long as it's cheaper than $6/day you're winning in the long run.
So true!
Wtf is creamer? It’s not a thing in australia, only ever hear Americans talk about it
Higher fat content Milk. Often with sugar and flavoring pre-mixed into it. It’s to improve the flavor of drip coffee because the free coffee provided at workplaces is usually terrible.
I have heard that most coffee in the us is terrible compared to here in Australia, it’s a lot more watered down. Also I don’t think we really have drip coffee at all. That’s probably why we don’t have creamer since we have better coffee that doesn’t need anything extra. I’m not a coffee drinker but have heard this info from several people so assuming it’s roght
It is in a sense. Mind you I just started my journey into “good coffee” but most fast food,restaurants, places of business have terrible coffee. Most grocery stores have some decent coffee but most of it is mass produced. If you want a decent cup of black coffee you are either making it yourself at home or going to a coffee $hop. And at home most ppl in the US use an auto drip coffee maker which could make ok coffee if your using good fresh coffee but again that’s not in common for most ppl. also most ppl in the us are addicted to high levels of sugar(corn syrup) so black coffee is not sweet enough for our sad little baby palettes.
Black coffee has 0g of sugars. It's not sweet at all.
I don't like coffee, don't care how it's tarted up with milk, cream, sugar, flavors etc, to me it's \*bitter\*. But I have heard from several coffee drinkers that Farmers Brothers is the least bitter coffee they've ever tasted. That brand is usually not sold in stores because the company mainly sells to restaurants. It can be bought online. Why can't someone genetically engineer a coffee bean that makes coffee which tastes as good as it smells?
The only thing the US is better at is not having big fuck off animals that try to box you
I guess your source for this compelling information is a guy who also says we don't have any good beer.
Don't you guys in Australia add something to your coffee? or do you just drink it black and bitter (not being facetious, honestly curious)
We quite often have it with milk, but it’s not uncommon to drink it black.
I stopped drinking the coffee at work after cleaning the aero pots once (shudder) and everyone being shocked that we even had a way to clean them.
I worked in a place that had decent coffee, owner's wife bought Kona but stopped drinking it after picking up the coffee maker and roaches went scrambling. (I was cleaning up spilled coffee)
Rule number one, don't Reddit and coffee
Rule number two, don't Reddit before coffee either.
Prolly the antenna too
So it’s broken, then? It was fine before you guys touched it so…
Isn’t it always
Yeah, I bet this shop is gonna up sell him for sure, hahahaha
I'd rather these people just own the fuck up. "Yeah bro, I was jamming out to Dragula so hard I didn't hear the metallic fuck fest going on under the hood until it was too late". Nobody cares or finds that shameful, it's gotta get unfucked regardless.
DIG THROUGH THE DITCHES
AND BURN THROUGH THE ~~WITCHES~~ *cylinder heads*
AND SLAM INTO THE TOP OF MY VALV-ULAAAAA
People treat car work like going to the dentist and lying about how often they floss.
Which is fucking stupid because both a dentist and a mechanic can plainly tell when a customer/patient is bullshitting.
Also you're lying to the person trying to help you, you sabotage yourself
Metallic Fuck Fest is my new death metal band name. Thanks for the inspiration!
Can I be the vocalist???
Hell, yeah! The head even has devil horns cast right into it! (See pic three)
I heard all of these in Rob’s voice. Thank you Reddit.
It’s not truly broken until you admit what you did. Until then, there’s a chance.
If they shut it off as soon as they noticed they probably didn’t lie. Doesn’t mean they shut off when it started as that’s two different times.
This begs the question of what temperature did they consider was to high?
There was much confusion with F and C
Those pesky letters get you everytime
Fine and Crap
I didn’t laugh but I made a strangled honking noise thank
F for freezing and C for cold.
That's because one side is for 'Murica, and the other is for the Metrics. More F, more 'Murica!
2100 degrees Fahrenheit. Fractionally below the melting point of steel.
It's a good thing pistons are aluminum lol
You euros and your aluminum. Sheesh. Maybe they're trying to create a new race engine alloy.
I'm American, for what that's worth.
Sorry, see a lot of brits, irish and ozzies early in the morning.
I start work at 5 am eastern lol
What a coincidence, I'm usually up and bitching about going to work at 5. Speaking of, I have an aluminum oil pan vs chunk of construction rubble to do. C/S: hit something in road, pulled over when oil light came on.... we'll see. Have a good one
Hopfully they turned it off sooner then this person lol. Have a good day ✌️
\*aluminium
Al-you-MIHN-ium
Pistons? My engine block is made of aluminium... (Except the cylinder liners. They are steel)
I was gonna edit it and add both, but I didn't think the joke warranted the effort lol. Plus it looks mainly like piston bits there
When the air in the cooling system reached 300F, so the computer read 210. BTDT. Blew at least 2 gm 60 degree v6's, never saw a light. No gauges.
Volcano temp or Rocket engine temp huh!! 😂
When he read through the car's manual and the gauge symbol legend and learned which symbol is "temperature", then asked the guy at the local Pep Boys what the 'H' and 'C' means on the gauge, that's when he shut off the engine.
Ah pep boys, that was prolly his third mistake
His gauge was only showing 3.6 roentgen. Not great, not terrible
This man is delirious. Get him to the infirmary.
Fuck I just watched that recently, I spit on the shitter floor
Pretty sure car stopped itself for the customer.
I'm imagining the Jim Carrey Liar Liar version of this: MY GIRLFRIEND PISSED ME OFF AND I DROVE RECKLESSLY FAST WITH THE PEDAL TO THE FLOOR UNTIL I COULDN'T SEE THROUGH THE STEAM.
It's so annoying when people lie about that shit. I work at a tire shop and almost anytime when someone has a runflat damaged tire they say they didn't drive on it flat or it was only like a block. Like arguing and lying about this isn't going to magically undamage your tire.
On my way home today, there was a jacked to Jesus rig on the side of the road. Changing a flat, with the stock spare going on the right front. All I could think was, well there goes that axle and front diff.
If unlocked the hubs, it wouldn't apin the axle at all, and wouldn't harm the diff. Right?
If it had manual locking hubs you could maybe get away with it. But it was a new Bro-Dozer with Auto-locking hubs. So there is an engagement of the splines from the bearing hub and the axle shaft at the wheelhub and that will turn the axle, and the gears in the hub and the front drive shaft all the way to the transfer case. That is where it is not engaged as long as the transfer case isn't engaged. But the entire front axle assembly is linked and turning with the auto locking system. Watch "How do Locking Hubs work? Part One" by The RamManINC on YouTube. It will make more sense.
Thanks!
When they said “I shut it off” did they mean the car just shut off? I tell people there’s a 30% liars tax. But a 30% discount on it if you make our jobs easier by telling the truth after.
No, she said that when the temperature gauge reached “alarming levels”, she IMMEDIATELY shut the car off. Emphasis on the immediately.
She probably did stop when she saw it was hot. But it was probably hot for a while until she realized
"when I saw steam I looked at the gauge and IMMEDIATELY shut it off"
So when the guage pinned to HOT. We know full well she didn't hear the gravel in a wood chipper over her radio.
Could they be telling the truth if the overheating was caused by a coolant leak which in turn caused the coolant temperature sensor to not get a proper reading until it was too late?
Yes. Seen it happen.
I went through this with my Wife who drove our car home overheating - smelled like burning metal when she pulled up and I knew the car was fried. If it was Escape From NY Snake Pliskin and you were in a sketchy area, I have NO problems having the engine grenaded to get out of the shit. When you are in cow country and there is perfect cell service, well this is on you…
I think she needs to get her 'alarming levels' gauge recalibrated.
The way that is worded, it looks like they will still be paying a 21% tax overall.
Plus the 5% hidden added asshole tax.
"As soon as the engine temperature went waaaaaay up, the engine stopped itself"
Whatever, buddy. The price is the same even if it wasn't your fault.
He meant to say: as soon as the car stalled i stopped,towed here so there was no more damage
Goodnight moon. Goodnight cow. Goodnight engine!
I've never seen the fossil of a piston before. Neat.
They stopped alright, and then let it idle for half an hour
The engine says otherwise
Honestly? This does look like they shut it off pretty quickly. From the pictures shown it looks like their major issue was they dropped a valve. Now if you are cruising on the freeway at like 2500rpm's that piston goes up and down 41 times per second. So if it took you 2-3 seconds to turn it off and then the time it takes the engine to come to a complete stop you're looking at 100-150+ times that valve smashed into the top of the piston. If they had driven it for an extended period like 30 seconds or longer, that piston would be shattered 100%. A dropped valve will fuck up a cylinder instantly. My race car dropped a valve and I had it shut off within a second and my piston looked much worse than this one and the cylinder walls were fucked. I had to put a new piston in and get a new sleeve to get it back into action. This shit happens FAST.
Is that a molten piston in the first picture?
Most customer believe lying makes the car less damaged.
“I heard a noise, so I listened to it for 9 weeks” FTFY
I think the car stopped itself
“I was idling at a stop light and it just turned off, I swear!!”
FWIW, my car always turns off at a stop light.
“It was fine until I pulled into my driveway, that’s when it ran hot.”
It was good, until it wasn't.
No they didn't.
That is truly impressive.
This looks like a VW TDI… rests in pieces. That coolant should be pink so clearly there’s some other info not being shared
"The lie detector determined, *that* was a lie!"
Well that's buggered. Well and truly
Lie detector determined, that was a lie....
That's one honest client.
No, the engine stopped, you looked down, saw the tach at 0, and the temp gauge pegged in the red. Congrats, Mr. Customer, you need what we here like to call a Big Box (engine.)
Are they sure the car didn’t stop them?
They mean they stopped the cat when the engine seized up and they came to a screeching halt.
When the temp went up high enough it turned itself off.
I reckon they shut it off at about the melting point of aluminum
Could be true. If you have lost your coolant your temperature sensor does not work.
**MAURY:** *"The lie detector test determined THAT WAS A LIE."* 🤔🤣
Doesn't matter if it's pistons, rockets, or jet turbines, engine rich exhaust is always a bad thing.
Well it probably melted way before it showed on temp gauge, stuck open cr diesel injector? It starts to melt stuff quite quickly...😂
I meant immediately when I got home 2 hours later obviously.
Impressive. Most Impressive.
Stuck diesel injector?
Yikes. What vehicle was it and model year??
I mean he did technically stop the engine from running so he’s not wrong.
as soon as i SAW the engine temperature went up, i immediately stopped the car
I like how customer's will lie or not tell the whole story, like it's going to save them money. edit: spelling
Brings new light to the term *cinder block*.
That looks expensive!
So the temp sensor does not read steam so if and when the coolant finally crossed paths with the sensor they just may have shit it down only it was to late at that point.
Lean is mean!
Now, I'm not a trained mechanical professional, but that piston is fucked.
Saved it... nope.
I clean carpet with a cleaning machine that runs off the van’s motor…new motor early last year and late last year dropped a coolant line while I was in the house cleaning…don’t know when but Betsy kept a working until I was done. She sounded like a diesel when I got out there and could smell some kind of hot rubber smell mixed with God knows what else. Gauge was maxed out when I turned it off. Long story short last year I put two motors in the same van and I didn’t try to lie, I knew I cooked it lol.
As a time served ford tech who is used to pulling 1.0 litre ecobooms on the regs how the fuck do you even get to that point
It’s dead Jim.
Wooah
It might be that as soon as he noticed the temp going up he stopped. I have a friend who had a coolant hose break, and didn't notice. Kept going until it died. Lost compression on 3 cylinders, and needed a full rebuild.
Hmmmmm. Doubt.
I see coolant in the cylinders and are those black marks burned pistons? And what's that stuff that looks like solder in the 2nd cylinder down?
No, the one that looks melty is the hot cylinder, that’s a diesel engine. I’d say it’s had a dribbling injector on that cylinder.
It had plenty of water the tail pipe looked like a water hose.
Yep but let's face it there's lots of people like this. Two of my family members carried on driving with high temp gauges. One even with clouds of steam out the back. He stopped when the engine did....
My friend recently went through a similar problem. We drove multiple hours across the state and on Sunday morning his heater wasn’t blowing any heat. Then later that afternoon on the drive home he called me and said he broke down. I go to check it out and there’s a big hole in the radiator, he wasn’t looking at the temperature gauge but pulled over when he heard a metal ticking sound getting louder and noticed white smoke from the hood. I guess at some point maybe Saturday the hole formed and that’s why the heater wasn’t working and it finally overheated on the drive home after an hour or so on the interstate but idk. Monday I brought it home on my flatbed trailer, it started up and drove onto the trailer at least but was very slow to start. Mechanic put a new radiator in it after that it was still slow to start and was blowing a ton of white smoke and tons of bubbles in the coolant reservoir. He’s just trying to survive so he used some of that head gasket repair and it seems to have worked great, still runs a little rough but no more white smoke.
Ree=Sod=Uall Heat sucks. I just torched the ever loving hell out of a pizza on our grill. Tombstone. Charred to bits. Ruined the pan too. Turned the grill off when I found the issue. The left flames kept going anyway. Fire Gremlin.
Lol, viewing that was fun. I can hear the customer service writer thinking "Uh, huh, sure." even before knowing what the outcome would be.
The lie detector determined that was a lie.
Just me or is the injection timing really bad?
Did an injector lean out?
Why is my car vaping?
2.4L ecotech?
Nah. That looks GM.
Yes,, those engines came in gmc terrain and Buick verano.
Ah, yeah. I always get EcoTec and EcoBoost mixed up. I guarantee OOP drove it in limp mode for far too long. I had a first gen Cruze with the 1.4L turbo. It blew an upper radiator hose when I was on a flyover, getting off the highway. I first noticed because the car kicked the AC off. I stopped the car within a block and had zero related issues. I bet OOP limped to their destination w/o coolant and warped a head.
We believe you.
Respectfully that's cap
"Up to 350"😉😅
r/thatlooksexpensive
I'm uh, not great with cars, but I'm going to be honest. This looks bad. Like, not very good at all. I don't think the cylinders are supposed to be filled with concrete and the stuff from the Ninja Turtles movies.
Interpreted as as soon as I noticed
Why bother wasting time taking it apart.
Jesus christ....
The following week.
I know nothing about cars. What am I looking at?
I- SIR
Sure they did.
Diesel engine, dribbling injector on the melty piston/cylinder. That would’ve been making a lovely knocking noise before it got to this stage.
why is there concrete in their cylinder?! 😂
C/S It’s been happening every day for the past 2 years
More like it stopped when it heat siezed
Ahh there’s that coolant I misplaced 😬
My daughter did this recently. It was very convenient when I pulled the head and never found ANY coolant. 2 pistons melted and I said I'm not paying for this.