"thejustache" (thejustache)
06/18/2015 at 13:35 • Filed to: None
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"thejustache" (thejustache)
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Took my car in today for its first NYS inspection since I got it. I figured I’d tighten up the parking brake cable a bit first, so I popped the center console and found... an entire box worth of perfectly preserved cheez-its.
There are way too many there for them to simply have slipped through cracks.... someone had to have been working on the car, knocked over a box, and left them all in there. At least I know I don’t have a mice problem, or these would all be chewed to bits! In other news, for being a least a year old these look nearly perfect, which is kind of scary. I’m certainly not about to risk a try though!
Whats the weirdest thing you’ve found while wrenching on your car?
505Turbeaux
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:36 |
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haha that is a big cheez it problem. I found a big bag of moldy weed and a sheet of acid (wasnt good anymore either) in the door panel of a 63 bus I had
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thejustache
> 505Turbeaux
06/18/2015 at 13:37 |
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Oh how stereotypical!
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:40 |
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The first step is admitting you have a problem.
Pixel
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:40 |
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Did a tuneup on my then g/f Saturn, found the air box filled to the brim with acorns. Emptied it all out, & put the new air filter in. A month latter she complained of a rattling noise “like rocks in a box” in the left front on bumps & turns. After much hunting around & bouncing the car I open the air box... and find it half-full of acorns.
Some aluminum screen mesh and a hose clamp sealed off the air intake tube in the fender and solved the problem for good. Persistent little squirrel though, I give him credit for that.
CalzoneGolem
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:40 |
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I found a single pez under the tray of the flip out console of Bullmobile.
SR20: http://oppositelock.kinja.com/cleaning-out-m…
Devon lost his burner, understands electric cars don't require front grilles
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:42 |
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When I took apart the dash on redvan, I found a bunch of toll tickets that must have been precariously stuck into gaps sometime between 1995 and now and fell in.
T5Killer
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:42 |
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WOW that is weird. I am sad I haven’t found anything weird in my cars yet.
Rico
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:43 |
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Good thing the salt in these kept it from going moldy and stinking up the car.
4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:43 |
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What in the world...
When I bought the Series Land Rover the two rear storage boxes were padlocked shut. First thing I did after buying it was pop the locks to find: Rope. A rubber mallet. A pair of pliers. A late 90’s Subaru brochure.
It was an adventure of discovery for all of 2 seconds :(
Twism
> 505Turbeaux
06/18/2015 at 13:45 |
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so when you say it wasn’t good anymore... are we talking no effect or bad buzz?
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thejustache
> T5Killer
06/18/2015 at 13:46 |
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In my last car I found an old ipod and a still valid CT license. Pretty sure my friend who was underage at the time snagged that and successfully used it as his for a while...
Bob
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:48 |
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I pulled the overhead console down on my then, new-to-me Grand Wagoneer and found a gun permit, $50 cash, and a 20-year-old gift certificate to a local pizza place. The pizza place honored the certificate even though it was 20 years old!
Takuro Spirit
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:49 |
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Camry = Found a couple dozen fish take stones in the rear trunk area, below the floor
Silverado = Fabric softener sheets stuck in behind the dash vents
Legacy Wagon = A fork under the back seat
Legacy Sedan = A pretty lady’s Army ID card and the ninja I keep in my cars to this day
Red P71 = Lots of dust due to the missing body plug
White P71 = Lots of baseball cards (city cops hand them out) and a moldy wet mess under the floor in the back seat I did not want to identify
95 Neon = Nothing. It was amazingly clean.
94 Talon = $3 worth of change IN THE TAPE PLAYER
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505Turbeaux
> Twism
06/18/2015 at 13:51 |
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no effect at all. Been banging around in a bad in a door panel for 35-40 years at least. The weed was more black remnants and I didnt try THAT
Azrek
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:51 |
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Replacing a bumper on a Chevy Blazer and a factory socket head rolled out of the hollow bracing and into my hand. I put it on my socket wrench and it made the rest of the installation really easy.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:52 |
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I bought my 240Z from a guy in Santa Cruz, it was in a shed. I went through the car and found the tool kit and all that intact, then I found a bunch of 1970’s NGK plugs in cute little Japan printed boxes all in perfect shape. I do a lot of graphics for shows so I know what vintage printing is like, its pretty cool to see it on little folded boxes.
BeaterGT
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:53 |
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I don’t see a problem! <3 cheez-its
G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:54 |
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I found a disintegrating brooch in my car. That, and part of a rug. Nothing too interesting.
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thejustache
> Bob
06/18/2015 at 13:55 |
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That’s pretty awesome!
jkm7680
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:56 |
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That’s strange, haha.
I haven’t found that much weird shit in my car believe it or not, a business card from Miami was the strangest.
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T5Killer
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 13:57 |
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LOL a friend of mine found a valid CA license with the name Tony Lee Serrato, the guy kinda looked like him so he used it to buy liquor all the time (we were 18-19 at the time) I used to mess with him and have Tony Lee paged on the intercom (we both worked at an Airport)
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thejustache
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
06/18/2015 at 13:59 |
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I love vintage NGK boxes, I have a few myself as well!
Brickman
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 14:08 |
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I found a shop towel stuffed in the a-pillar when I redid the headliner in my caravan. Must of been there from the factory, because no one worked on the interior til then.
NoneOfYourBiz
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 14:09 |
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I removed the centre console over my shifter to replace a light and fix an intermittent connection the other day.
No Cheese-Its. One nickle. Surprisingly clean.
http://cjottawa.kinja.com/i-mended-a-thi…
Rainbow
> Takuro Spirit
06/18/2015 at 14:12 |
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I once found $10 worth of quarters right on the seat of a car at the junkyard. It wasn’t gross or sticky or anything. So the guy who sold the car and the people who put it on the lot are apparently all idiots who can’t recognize free money when they see it.
TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 14:14 |
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I haven’t found anything odd in the SHO, but then again, I haven’t moved the seats or carpet. And there’s also the smell....
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Rainbow
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 14:17 |
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In 2005, my parents bought a brand new Dodge Caravan. When I opened the back door (presumably for the first time since it left the factory) a Lego man fell out.
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Takuro Spirit
> Rainbow
06/18/2015 at 14:17 |
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In a Dodge Raider we had traded in under Cash For Clunkers we found almost $10 in change. We had free sodas for the shop that day...
whoarder is tellurium
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 14:19 |
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Plot twist: The Cheez-It’s are infused with LSD.
Wurrwulf
> Pixel
06/18/2015 at 14:23 |
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That squirrel is so pissed at you.
newsmctado
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
06/18/2015 at 14:39 |
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It’s like Geraldo and Al Capone’s vault.
crowmolly
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 14:39 |
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Pixel
> Wurrwulf
06/18/2015 at 14:51 |
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As far as we can tell he decided to retaliate by chewing up the air filter on her housemate’s Honda Sabre and making a nest in the carb inlets. That poor bike never ran again.
Shamoononon drives like a farmer
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 15:04 |
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I don’t know, that’s actually kind of gross. Not quite as bad but teetering into the body in the motel box-spring level..
Wallaby
> Takuro Spirit
06/18/2015 at 15:52 |
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I can relate to the talon. When installing a short throw shifter in my Impreza, I found about 30 cents in pennies and a Mexican nickel under the shift boot. It did explain why shifts into odd number gears were occasionally buzzy.
That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 17:51 |
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I bought an ‘85 Mercury Capri 5.0 for $500. The carpet and headliner with both pretty gross, so I decided to pull them out. By the time I pulled the carpet, I had only paid $488.50 for the car because I found $11.50 in change scared around the car. It was a good deal.
TheOnelectronic
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 18:42 |
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One day my friends and I got up to the mountain, only to discover we COULD NOT find the key to the snowboard racks. We searched everywhere to no avail. We eventually had to remove the bindings and slide the boards out.
Fast forward about a year, and I’m installing a short shifter. I’ve got the center console all disassembled and...
I believe my exact words were “MOTHER FUCKER.”
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> thejustache
06/18/2015 at 19:42 |
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Broken rear window glass behind some insulation, hmm that wasn’t on the carfax.
914: chalk marks from the factory.
For my dads old truck. I was on the highway and approaching a toll booth. I needed a dime. There was a whole bunch of loose change in the cup holder. So instead of looking down I thought I’ll put it on the sill in the dash in front of the gauges. What I didn’t see was that the gauge cover is really about 1/4” from the sill. So I dump a handfull of change, and it immediately falls into the dash. For months/years afterwards, when you hit a bump coins would randomly fall out of the dash onto the floor.
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thejustache
> TheOnelectronic
06/19/2015 at 00:40 |
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Ahhhh that’s terrible. The locks on my thule snowboard rack were are least super simple to pick... if it makes you feel any better I have a good friend who dropped his now wife’s engagement ring into a crack in his car the night they got engaged. He ended up buying a second ring after searching to no avail... about a year later he found it after pulling the seats and pulling up the carpets. Cars are tricky!
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Bob
05/04/2016 at 12:26 |
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Now that’s a come up!