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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Self-contained engine oil filters are supposed to be installed hand-tight.

Hand-freaking-tight, not torqued down to the Nth degree. Not hand-tight plus a quarter-turn for good measure. Hand-tight. If your gasket cannot keep the oil in, then you have either a bad gasket or a scarred sealing plate.

I just spent four hours and $70 on tools to remove the old oil filter... it should have been a twenty minute job to change my oil and instead it took me half a day.

Because some [insert vividly descriptive expletive here] had to torque the damn thing so much the gasket ended up twice as wide as it was supposed to be.
 
I once tried to change the oil and filter on a new 78 trans am. The guy that put that filter on was mad at the world or something. I destroyed the filter before I finally got it off. And you bet.. I was mad as hell.

My dad taught me to put that filter on left handed so you could take it off right handed. No tools needed.
 
Try changing a filter on a car that has two systems. The Spitfire Manual called for a male threaded filter. My car used a female filter like normal. Try to convince the idiots that you need a female filter! Either the manual had a type or someone modified the one I had.
 
Could've gone either way... I have learned the hard way that automakers tend to change things even in the middle of a model-year, sometimes quote arbitrarily.
 
Grinding my own gears tonight: I just spent a lot of money on what I thought were compilation albums only to discover that it's a metric butt-ton of covers.

And of course, since it's a digital sale, I can't get a refund.

... I'm going to bed.
 
Not being able to find any Wrigley's Doublemint. :mad:

All of this stuff is terrible.
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Dngrsone said:
Grinding my own gears tonight: I just spent a lot of money on what I thought were compilation albums only to discover that it's a metric butt-ton of covers.

And of course, since it's a digital sale, I can't get a refund.

... I'm going to bed.
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Can't you pre-listen digital download sales, usually a minute of each song?

With CDs though, they usually stated if they were re-recordings, lives, covers, etc.
 
mikedt said:
Can't you pre-listen digital download sales, usually a minute of each song?

With CDs though, they usually stated if they were re-recordings, lives, covers, etc.
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Yes, it's totally my fault. I had come upon the listing earlier in the day and avoided it because our didn't list the artists named after each song.

Then, because I was tired and not thinking well, feeling a little pressure because my wife wanted some new music to listen to for our road trip today, came back to it last night and started buying.

When the downloads began,I saw that the artist name was the same for everything. then I saw the two star overall reading and started reading litany of disappointment...
 
My rant for the day: my kids.

I love them. I do. Bout with that said, I am so ready to kick my daughter out of the house, regardless of whether she's capable of fending for herself (she's not), and every time my eldest son uses a vehicle it breaks, and when he "helps", things end up going wrong.

Today, he helped to load the trailer, and four some reason known only to him, he placed the generator on its side.

The one I had just finished filling up with gas.

So tonight, we will NOT be using the heater because the wife is afraid it will cause an explosion because of the fumes... Of course, the person responsible isn't here for me to yell at, either.
 
Dngrsone said:
Self-contained engine oil filters are supposed to be installed hand-tight.

Hand-freaking-tight, not torqued down to the Nth degree. Not hand-tight plus a quarter-turn for good measure. Hand-tight. If your gasket cannot keep the oil in, then you have either a bad gasket or a scarred sealing plate.

I just spent four hours and $70 on tools to remove the old oil filter... it should have been a twenty minute job to change my oil and instead it took me half a day.

Because some [insert vividly descriptive expletive here] had to torque the damn thing so much the gasket ended up twice as wide as it was supposed to be.
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olbriar said:
I once tried to change the oil and filter on a new 78 trans am. The guy that put that filter on was mad at the world or something. I destroyed the filter before I finally got it off. And you bet.. I was mad as hell.

My dad taught me to put that filter on left handed so you could take it off right handed. No tools needed.
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Fram filters have the grip section at the end of the filter. Helps alot. But I have had at least once had to hammer a screwdriver through one to get it off.
 
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My rant: Took a weekend trip to Ft Worth, TX to visit in-laws. Came out of hotel yesterday about 8 hours before we were planning on leaving for home back to Nashville and had a flat tire. Inflated and put some fix a flat in it to at least get to in-laws to inspect. Get there and find a screw in the tire. Needless to say, since the rear tires had 40K miles on them, 2 new tires. And an afternoon wasted when I should have been taking a nap for the nightlong drive back. But my father-in-law did pay for said tires and treated me to lunch while we waited.
 
Airbnb is annoying, frustrating, tedious and I have deleted my account. So instead of staying in a nice cabin for the weekend (mid June) I am starting from scratch. Probably pitch the tent in my back yard. :mad:
 
shalemail said:
Airbnb is annoying, frustrating, tedious and I have deleted my account. So instead of staying in a nice cabin for the weekend (mid June) I am starting from scratch. Probably pitch the tent in my back yard. :mad:
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Dngrswife books a lot through Groupons, though the prices are usually better off-season.
jhtalisman said:
Fram filters have the grip section at the end of the filter. Helps alot. But I have had at least once had to hammer a screwdriver through one to get it off.
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That's what I tend to buy. I've found that by the time I have to resort to the screwdriver trick, I'll end up just shredding whatever is left of the filter casing and it's going to be much longer to get the remnants removed.
 
My rant for today is Rude Bicyclists.

Don't get me wrong...I do believe that Bicyclists do deserve respect, but I also believe that Bicyclists should respect drivers also.

Yesterday I was driving slowly (5-10 moh) through a park in Washington DC. As I was driving, two Bicyclists came up upon me from the rear of my car, smacked the rear windows of my car, flicked me off, and passed me, as if I had done something wrong. Honestly, the Bicyclists came up on me, and I was in my correct lane on the roadway, driving very slowly.

Then later a Bicyclist was lazily riding their bike in the middle of the road, and I was forced to drive behind them at about 3-5 mph.

I know that the moto of Bicyclists is "Share the Road", but I just wish that they would follow their own advice with respect to cars.
 
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