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u/Tango00090 7h ago
All the blinker fluid now gone
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u/Gay_commie_fucker 7h ago
Gonna run out of honk juice too if they keep going.
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u/GravyMcBiscuits 6h ago
Dude ... the honk juice reservoir is in the steering wheel. Stop spreading nonsense.
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u/ni_hao_butches 6h ago
Gay_commie_fucker and GravyMcbiscuits are having an argument about honk juice and where to put it. I love Reddit.
I have an older model and have to manually honk. Personally, I love the feel of manual honking.
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u/GravyMcBiscuits 6h ago
Gay_commie_fucker is a fucking idiot who clearly doesn't know the first thing about honking.
Mechanical (manual) honk is fine but it was a lot harder for folks with weaker upper body strength. I love the vintage manual honk ... but I fully understand why most customers prefer the hydraulic power honk systems that we have today.
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u/Leyohs 6h ago
Y'all don't use electric honk nowadays? Just charge it at home from time to times and you'll be fine. Unless y'all are road ragers and then I'd get why you'd need something more traditional
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u/Aramor42 5h ago
Charge it at home? I've got the new wireless charger that uses the potential kinetic energy of the cars in the other lane.
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u/Leyohs 5h ago
Bro that thing costs a month of my salary where I live no way I'm buying that shit
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u/Sculptpaintandplay 5h ago
Next he is gonna tell us the pee isn't stored in the balls...
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u/nsfwaltsarehard 6h ago
Actually newer models use honk sheets. The juice is old technology. Downside is the sheets aren't user serviceable.
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u/riedmae 6h ago
Nah, bro, that's just a "flaw" of the Apple honkers I think they took away honker serviceablity for profit reasons.
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u/GravyMcBiscuits 5h ago
They hide the sheet mounts way back by the firewall specifically so you have to drop the tranny to get to them. Ain't nobody got time for that.
It's a dealership/manufacturer conspiracy.
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u/jacksonmills 7h ago
Ahhh so thats why some peoples blinkers don’t work or stay on, good to know
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 6h ago
BMW blinkers are just stickers, like headlights on NASCAR.
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u/HilariousMax 5h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9eS8PtfmRg
"This is the dumbest moment in the history of our company!"
Oh Geoff, how I wish that were true. =(7
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u/Old_Indication_4379 7h ago
Gonna have to send the kid into auto zone to grab it.
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u/ironkodiak 6h ago
I work at a hardware store that sells car stuff.
Actually had 2 kids looking for blinker fluid in the store. Grandpa told them it should be in automotive but it could be anywhere in the store so they should look all over. They even found a picture of it if they Googled it. I zoomed in on the picture to point out it was a pic of one of those gag boxes you use to hide Christmas gifts in.
My cashier knocked on the cash room door to ask me (for the kids who were at the service desk) if we sold it & I just stared at her before she finally said "What?"
She was young (under 21) & had no clue either so we spent the rest of the shift talking about blinker fluid, board stretchers, buckets of steam, etc.
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u/right_in_two 5h ago
Y'all should sell some tiny containers labeled blinker fluid. And on the back the instructions say "add 1-2 drops to each eye and then blink". And its just a re-labeled eye drops bottle.
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u/arrakis2020 7h ago
WTF? Did they drive it through the Sahara desert?
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u/Dark_Akarin 7h ago
Maybe a river. If it had a snorkel on it, it could be full of silt.
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u/Space_Slime_LF 6h ago
So then pop the light and actually clean it instead of wasting water being lazy.
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u/SubPrimeCardgage 6h ago
Agreed.
This looks cool for social media, but this car could become a basket case full of electrical gremlins. If it's this filthy, I think I'd want to hit all of the connections with contact cleaner.
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u/Capybarinya 7h ago
I think I saw this video earlier with a caption that it was after the Burning Man
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u/jaspersurfer 7h ago
My van still looks like that almost a year later. Nothing that goes to the playa ever comes back the same
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u/Draymond_Purple 6h ago
Playa Dust is FOREVER
I offroad my 4Runner a ton, dent it, break it, beat it up - I'll still never bring it to the Playa.
It starts an inevitable death clock for all your electronics and anything rubber (seals, gaskets, hoses etc.)
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u/sunburnedaz 5h ago
Same with the salt flats. After you go all nuts now take 300ft-lbs to remove. Whether or not the bolt survives the torque to remove the nut is another question.
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u/Draymond_Purple 5h ago
Yep, the Playa (Black Rock City) is itself also a dried lakebed so same same
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u/Medical-Potato5920 7h ago
That's just a regular amount of red dirt for a Pilbara mine site.
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u/Vanessaronicatoria 7h ago
Most likely around Moab. The dust there is the same color red.
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u/saucygh0sty 5h ago
I feel like there’s gotta be a chunk of dirt or clay stuck in there. Like where is it coming from
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u/FOTY2015 7h ago
Two months before total rustout and weird electrical issues.
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u/Shirinjima 7h ago
Same thing I was thinking. This can’t be good for the electronics. Maybe they gonna bit it with the power dryer afterwards.
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u/Frost5574 7h ago
Still wont get everything. Better to remove the taillights and clean it that way. They're at most 4 bolts and a couple interior clips on most cars.
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u/DDRaptors 7h ago
It’s so easy! The bolts only take 5 minutes and the clips only take like 5 hours, one hand gash and thirty micro cuts/scrapes.
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u/Krispy_Mick 7h ago
I worked at a Ford assembly plant for 10 years, the little clips are the worst to install. We would wear little leather finger protectors, without them your fingers are fuckin ruined.
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u/RabidBlackSquirrel 7h ago
Don't forget when you break the clips and have to buy an entire new housing that's either no longer available or ungodly expensive. All when the clips could have just been screws or something rational.
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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 6h ago
My Honda crv it's 2 screws and some plastic that slides into other plastic.
Those clips sound awful.
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u/AskMrScience 6h ago
This is why I always paid the dealership to replace the cabin filter on my old Mazda 3. You'd have to remove the entire glove box before you could pop the access panel in the passenger side footwell, and said glove box was secured with a bunch of plastic clips. I knew if I tried to do it myself, I'd break at least one of them and spend the rest of my days with a glove box that rattled.
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u/turkey_sandwiches 6h ago
Removing that glove box takes about 2 seconds on most cars. You open it up and squeeze the top corners in a bit and it drops down and out of the way. Some Toyotas have a little plastic shock that you need to remove one screw to disconnect. Very quick.
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u/GravyMcBiscuits 6h ago edited 3h ago
The bolts take 5 minutes if you have a good impact wrench. Otherwise you strip them and spend the next 2 hours figuring out how to cut/drill out that last rust-welded fucker (impact driver if we're talking about screws).
(I might still be a little pissed off over how comically stupid it got just to replace the license plate on my aging car)
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u/Talonsoldat 6h ago
Why do you even need to clean it, it's doing more harm than good, and you can't even see the dirt behind it. In 3 weeks it will be back to being dirty again.
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u/bullmooooose 6h ago
This. It’s a car, it lives outside. If I have to open things to fix them I will clean, but this is just silly and heightening the chances of running into electrical issues. Tail light wiring does not care if it is a bit dusty. It might care if it got water blasted into the connectors.
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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe 6h ago
Mechanic here. Some connectors are weather sealed. Some aren’t. Normally, exterior connectors like underbody and external lighting connectors are weather sealed. Normally. Some aren’t. For me, if I’m working on an external connector that isn’t sealed, I throw in some dielectric in there just in case.
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u/ossi609 4h ago
Also, weather sealed != pressure washer sealed
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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe 4h ago
I understand that. This person isn’t spraying 50psi straight into the connector though. It’s buried under the tail light housing. By the time water makes contact with the connector, it’s not pressurized.
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u/hey_im_cool 7h ago
I don’t know nothing about nothing but that looks like rust washing out of there already
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u/platypus_farmer42 7h ago
At that point take the fucking lens out and clean it right.
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u/outside-myself 6h ago
ikr it's really not that hard to pop it out, check what's behind there, clean it, and then pop it back in... compared to whatever is going on here
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u/lunixss 4h ago
Popping it out sure, putting it back? Is a professional job. You can do it, but it will take well over an hour just putting it back alone and you will swear.
Edit: That is the way to do this though. The possible electrical damage and water sitting for a long time in places it shouldnt be freaks me out here.
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u/recast85 6h ago
It’s only satisfying if it ever gets clean. This is deeply unsatisfying. Like that gif of the garbage truck racing toward that pylon played on loop that never hits it.
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u/BactaBobomb 4h ago
Yeah, I'm surprised it's on here. I thought for sure it was on mildlyinfuriating.
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u/WarhammerRyan 7h ago
Still dirty water at end. Not satisfying. Also, who the hell gets that much dirt Behind Their Tail Light?!?!?
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u/RedVamp2020 7h ago
People who live in dusty environments. I can confirm that my car, after having driven on dirt roads for months, has a similar condition.
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u/StudiumMechanicus 6h ago
honestly. I haven't cleaned my car in a year because when I go back to work on monday mornings it's going to get just as bad.
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u/NorCalAthlete 5h ago
Someone who’s already blasted through the rubber seals with a power washer…
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u/FrostyD7 6h ago
Probably got coated in mud from off roading and dried. There's a huge clump in there that he's dissolving slowly. And I bet they cut the video short on purpose for engagement, it probably runs clear moments after it ends.
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u/Herr-Zipp 6h ago
Don't miss the next episode: How to get rid of electric issues.
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u/theuautumnwind 7h ago
It’s 2 Philips screws to pull that tail light off. I wouldn’t want to get water in them. Some have computers in them (ie ford) and sensors for accident avoidance and are very expensive to replace.
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u/jkell05s 7h ago
Yeah I was wondering if they were at risk of damaging anything by spraying water back there
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u/Imaginary_Ad6165 7h ago
Oklahoma car?
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u/faca_ak_47 6h ago
It's a fiat strada. This truck is well known in brazil for having absolutely fuck all for panel sealing against dust
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u/New-Camel-8878 7h ago
This isn’t satisfying at all. You should disconnect the light to clean more thoroughly.
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u/Demonyx12 4h ago
It never resolved or ran clear. Absolute torture. Half way through I was literally shouting out loud: when will it run clear! The video is not going to resolve!
My day is ruined.
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u/tomahawkfury13 6h ago
This in Australia? The colour of the dirt and how much is in there make me think it’s the fine red sand from down under
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u/I-live-in-room-101 5h ago
Rumour had it he’s still there, waiting for it to run clean.
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u/Front_Cant 6h ago
It’s like that old prank video of the bodybuilder at the beach shower with the endless shampoo lol
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u/Sxy_Cpl_4_U 6h ago
Its not behind the light, its inside your body panel. You definitely went off-roading and make sure you clean inside/out very well or in a long run you will have electrical issues. Been there and learnt a hard lesson.
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u/sogwatchman 6h ago
Just take the four or five screws out and remove the light assembly. See what the heck is going on. Do you have a void between the light and the back wheel that's filling with dirt or sand? Not a mechanic just saying what I would do rather than continue blasting water back there...
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u/Abigail-Marston 4h ago
This is bad design in my opinion. A head or tail light housing shouldn't be able to trap any dirt at all let alone that much. Cars vibrate when they operate and that dirt is going to act like an agregate in a rock tumbler. Eventually that will wear through the paint and begin to rust.
There should be some kind of gasket or seal around the housing but almost no manufacturers do this.
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u/Scyths 4h ago
To get that much shit there, the lights were 100% completely underwater, either in a flood or a river or whatever but NO CAR ever gets that much dirt behind it even if you use it for construction work during heavy rains ...
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u/supified 1h ago
This isn't satisfying at all because I now know there is a bunch of dirt back there we can't really properly access and even after the water stops running brown there is still probably a lot back there.
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u/Accomplished-Head689 1h ago
"Customer states; weird electrical issues with with taillights they have no idea how started "
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u/IIDn01 7h ago
Does the water ever run clear?