Oh Michiganders...

"Autohaus Derp" (autohausderp)
12/10/2015 at 13:10 • Filed to: Prius, Michigan, Funny, Fails

Looks like even late model Prii arent exempt from your spectactular bodging skills.

I’m still getting used to living in a state with no safety inspection. I’m sure there are plenty better ones out there, what’s the best bodge you Opponauts have seen out on the road?

DISCUSSION (18)

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > Autohaus Derp
12/10/2015 at 13:21

You wouldn’t believe the stuff you see crossing the border up from Mexico, sometimes. I may start documenting it for giggles.

Brickman > Autohaus Derp
12/10/2015 at 13:27

The duct tape repels water for less drag = more MPG :D

Mercedes Streeter > Autohaus Derp
12/10/2015 at 13:27

This smart at a “buy here, pay here”. Okay, so it has the front end of a 1998-2002 MCC smart city coupe. That’s all fine and dandy, except that the city coupe isn’t legal for import in the USA.

It also has Euro spec lighting (as you can see, a reverse light was randomly tacked onto the back), rear light housings from a completely different smart, and body panels I think also came from other smarts. The weatherstripping was also very weirdly worn.

The VIN lists it as a 2005 with a salvage title. 6,000 miles on the odometer.

The link on the bonnet is “carfaxcar.com” which after a Google search, returned that carfaxcar.com was at some point, an importer of smarts...yet, the speedometer has the G&K importer engravings on it.

What in the everlasting heck happened to this car?

Kinja'd!!!

Autohaus Derp > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
12/10/2015 at 13:29

Do it!

Chariotoflove > Autohaus Derp
12/10/2015 at 13:34

So many, where to start? Entire windows made out of duct tape. Bumpers held on with wire ties or string. A 911 in the neighborhood running an emergency spare for 3 months. A sedan with the front left wheel (and only that wheel) cambered in at 45 degrees. I’m sure I’ve forgotten many. This is North Texas after all.

Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa > Autohaus Derp
12/10/2015 at 13:50

I just can’t fathom how there is a first world country that don’t have state mandated safety inspections. And this in an era when you have two countries that are so anal for them in the likes of Germany’s TÜV/DEKRA and GB’s MOT.

This is just plain dangerous, I am sure that in those states, accidents caused by cars that should not be on the road happens a lot and it just scares me.

Even in my corrupt and poor country(Bulgaria) we are making great strides to at least diminish the number of car that should not be on the road, even if this is hampered by lax checks and plain corruption.

Autohaus Derp > Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa
12/10/2015 at 13:56

I’m British, and I share your feeling living here! I’m sure its a contributing factor in the huge number of road deaths every year in the USA.

Sweet Trav > Autohaus Derp
12/10/2015 at 14:16

I mean to some degree, but I would suggest that perhaps our attitude on drinking and driving is different from GB, and you cars generally are smaller, when a Renault C2 hits another C2, the occupants are more likely to survive when a 9000lb Escalade hits a Kia Rio at 70+ mph in the states. Your drivers training is also far more intensive AND Americans per capita drive more miles, More miles driven, more deaths, statistically.

450X_FTW > Autohaus Derp
12/10/2015 at 14:57

Did you know you can use an old couch cushion to replace a broken window? Spotted in Waterford, MI

Kinja'd!!!

Frank Grimes > Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa
12/10/2015 at 15:05

there are 50 states. did you really think there wouldnt be some with safety inspections? I live in one that does.

zeontestpilot > Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa
12/10/2015 at 16:26

Because the auto companies started here (Michigander speaking). I figured they probably bribed their way to prevent inspections. Idk, inspections seem like unnessary spent money to me. I know what my car needs, I'll buy it when I can afford it.

zeontestpilot > Sweet Trav
12/10/2015 at 16:28

Makes sense. Plus our roads are usually straight, very boring.

Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa > zeontestpilot
12/11/2015 at 02:20

You are on a car site, so maybe you know, but how many people know what they need. This is one of those cases that the suffering of few is justifiable for the greater good of everybody. Also it is once a year, money should not be an objection.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa
12/11/2015 at 06:16

we don’t have them here ( Victoria , Australia) down under.

bob and john > zeontestpilot
12/11/2015 at 10:39

you, yes.

90% of the population, not so much.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Autohaus Derp
12/11/2015 at 10:43

Travis’s points are all great.

And this is from a guy in Michigan, who grew up in New Jersey that had inspections.

The inspections in NJ were a hassle and a pain in the ass in general. There were state run and private inspections. Most people who couldn’t get their car to pass at the State run inspection center said screw it, and slipped the local garage that did inspections an extra 100 bucks and POOF it passed.

I failed once for having rust on my vehicle. Sorry, guys it was 17 years old at the time and was never garage kept, yeah, it’s gonna have some rust.

zeontestpilot > bob and john
12/11/2015 at 11:00

It’s why I spread the word of car care to friends and family. A few weeks ago I educated I coworker on the penny test, he had never heard of it. I then went into detail about how to perform the test, and what counts as a pass or fail.

I guess that’s what the inspection is for too. but wouldn’t it inspire laziness in car maintenance, because you just get your car fixed after you fail the inspection?

bob and john > zeontestpilot
12/11/2015 at 11:08

yea. unfortunately, you MIGHT be able to teach 100 people? max? and then whats to stop them from forgetting after you’ve moved on? (changed jobs, moved)

and somethings you just cant check that easy. brake pads as an example. or worn shocks. stuff that is so blatently obvious to us so something that others would NEVER think about it. I know people who didnt know how to add washer fluid FFS.

now, take that 100 ppl. how many residents are in your city? couple 100k? lets say, 1/3 have a car or two. so thats 30-50k cars.

so out of 30k cars, you changed 100-200 of them (assuming some ppl have 2 cars that they check) thats 0.6 PERCENT of them that are in reasonable shape thanks to you.

lets multiply that by 10 to assume that 10% of the pop are car guys and actually check up on this stuff. so that 6% of ALL the cars on the road that are ‘safe’.

fuck that, bring on the state safety inspections.