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So I’m at a car meet last summer trying to act like I know stuff about cars and this guy’s showing off his pristine Miata. Paint looks like glass, absolutely flawless. I’m nodding along pretending I understand how he got it like that and he mentions clay barring and I’m just like “oh yeah totally” […]
My car smelled like a gym sock had a baby with a burrito for like three months straight. I’m not even exaggerating. Something died under the seat – probably french fries I dropped and forgot about – and the smell just would not leave no matter what I did. Bought every air freshener I could […]
Okay so I’m gonna be real with you right from the start – my car is currently filthy. Like embarrassingly dirty. There’s a layer of pollen so thick it looks like someone dumped yellow chalk dust all over it. Bird poop on the roof that’s been there for three weeks. Road salt residue from winter […]
Okay so I’m gonna be real with you right from the start – my car is currently filthy. Like embarrassingly dirty. There’s a layer of pollen so thick it looks like someone dumped yellow chalk dust all over it. Bird poop on the roof that’s been there for three weeks. Road salt residue from winter […]
So I’m driving down the highway last month and a truck in front of me just absolutely demolishes a puddle, covering my entire windshield in muddy water. Can’t see anything. Hit the washer button and… nothing. Like literally nothing comes out. Just the pathetic sound of the pump trying and my wipers smearing mud everywhere […]
Alright so this is gonna sound dumb but I bought like seven different steering wheel covers before I finally found one that didn’t suck. Seven. I have a drawer full of rejected steering wheel covers that I keep meaning to throw away but never do because maybe someday I’ll need a backup? I don’t know […]
My sister just had her third kid and called me last week in full panic mode about needing a bigger car. She’s been trying to make a compact SUV work with three car seats and it’s finally broken her. I’m talking full meltdown about how she can’t reach the middle seat, the stroller doesn’t fit, […]
So I’m driving down the highway last summer trying to enjoy my road trip and I realize I’m constantly fighting the steering wheel. Like every few seconds I’m making these little corrections to keep the car going straight. My right arm’s getting tired from holding the wheel slightly left and I’m thinking “this is not […]
Man I’ve dealt with steering wheel shake so many times at this point I should probably just accept that I’m cursed. First car shook because of warped rotors. Second car shook because someone at Walmart forgot to balance my tires properly. Current car started shaking last month and I spent like three days convinced something […]
Okay so I got sucked into one of those YouTube rabbit holes at like 2am where I watched like 30 car mod videos in a row. You know how it goes – you start with something reasonable like “how to change oil” and three hours later you’re watching someone install underglow on a Prius. Anyway […]
My roommate in college drove like an absolute maniac. We’re talking flooring it from every stoplight, slamming the brakes at the last second, taking corners like he was auditioning for Fast and Furious. His tires lasted maybe 15,000 miles before they were completely trashed. Meanwhile I was babying my tires like a paranoid grandma and […]
So I almost died on the highway once. Well okay that’s dramatic, I didn’t almost die but I definitely had a moment where I thought “this is how it ends, killed by my own stupidity and bald tires.” It was pouring rain, like absolutely dumping, and I’m doing maybe 60 on the highway when traffic […]
Hit a massive pothole on my way to work like three months ago. One of those ones where you see it coming but there’s nowhere to go because traffic’s hemming you in on both sides. Just had to grip the wheel and accept my fate. BOOM. Pretty sure I felt it in my soul. Anyway […]
So I went to a cars and coffee thing last month and there was this brand new McLaren 750S parked next to a Ferrari F40 from the 90s. And like, the McLaren is objectively faster in every measurable way – more power, better aero, faster lap times, all of it. But literally every single person […]
So last winter I was being lazy about checking my tire pressure and just kept pumping them up whenever they looked a bit low. Except I wasn’t actually checking the pressure, just eyeballing it and adding air. Genius move right? Ended up with my tires at like 45 PSI when they should’ve been at 32. […]
