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patricia_bennett26•6h ago

Vent: my rear brake line let go in the Wendy's drive-thru on Tuesday

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hunt.rowan•3d ago

Bought a $60 timing light at Harbor Freight and it showed my old Civic was running 15 degrees off

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carr.willow•3d ago

TIL the guy at Autozone told me to skip the $18 fuel filter and just run cleaner, and now my truck stalls at red lights

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aarons36•4d ago

Vent: bought a $20 "mechanic's special" compression tester off a guy in Fresno, and it actually read the same as my $90 one

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piper_green•6d ago

At a swap meet in Modesto a guy sold me a $40 torque wrench that snapped on a head bolt, so now I only buy used tools when the seller lets me test them first

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troyjackson•10d ago

Showerthought: I finally ditched the impact wrench for a breaker bar on rusty bolts

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wrenstone•13d ago

The $40 alternator I fixed with a 25-cent part everyone told me to replace

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wyatt_green•14d ago

Crossed the 3,000 mile mark on my $450 Crown Vic today

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the_val•26d ago

My buddy's rust bucket made me rethink my whole paint plan

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ryan_carr59•1mo ago

Vent: the $2 part that ate my whole weekend on the Integra

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sarah687•1mo ago

Hit 100,000 miles on my $600 Cherokee right as the odometer broke

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Vent: my rear brake line let go in the Wendy's drive-thru on Tuesday

Bought a $60 timing light at Harbor Freight and it showed my old Civic was running 15 degrees off

TIL the guy at Autozone told me to skip the $18 fuel filter and just run cleaner, and now my truck stalls at red lights

Vent: bought a $20 "mechanic's special" compression tester off a guy in Fresno, and it actually read the same as my $90 one

At a swap meet in Modesto a guy sold me a $40 torque wrench that snapped on a head bolt, so now I only buy used tools when the seller lets me test them first

Showerthought: I finally ditched the impact wrench for a breaker bar on rusty bolts

The $40 alternator I fixed with a 25-cent part everyone told me to replace

Crossed the 3,000 mile mark on my $450 Crown Vic today

The pick-n-pull in Kansas City changed my mind about junkyard parts

Trailer hitch wiring meltdown at a rest stop in Ohio

The $35 torque wrench that started a fire near Tulsa

Cheap torque wrench from harbor freight, actually not garbage?

My buddy's rust bucket made me rethink my whole paint plan

Vent: the $2 part that ate my whole weekend on the Integra

Hit 100,000 miles on my $600 Cherokee right as the odometer broke