What Are The Worst Auto-Related TV -Show Errors?

"ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)" (adabofoppo) 02/13/2014 at 10:12 • Filed to: Crappy TV

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While binging on CSI Miami (*puts on sunglasses: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*) on Netflix I got to Season 6, Episode 17: "To Kill A Predator" in which they claim that there is a car-rental company in Miami that specializes in "green-cars" and therefore was able to rent a bio-diesel Dodge Charger.

The opening sequence has the car running down a guy, and the engine noise is very obviously not diesel.

I know CSI: Miami has another episode where they try to talk about street-racing/F&F type stuff and have a FWD Eclipse "drifting" around a parking lot.

There is also a Numb3rs episode with terrible car knowledge.

Anyone have anything else?

RazoE > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/13/2014 at 10:14

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FWD AE86 in Archer.

daender > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/13/2014 at 10:14

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Lonestranger pointed out a sad error on Archer , fwd AE86.

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Sn210 > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/13/2014 at 10:19

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Spoilers! Dexter
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In an episode of Dexter, Deb crashes her silver e46 BMW. When they investigate the car after, they're looking at a wrecked silver e36.

EL_ULY > Sn210 02/13/2014 at 10:26

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lol good eye :]

My hovercraft is full of eels > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/13/2014 at 10:51

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If this counts: in one of the episodes of MTV's Cribs, they visited Missy Elliott.

She showed them her F355 bed (stating she loved Ferraris), saying she had a plasma TV under the hood, and opened the front... and that she had her sneakers in the trunk, and opened the back.

http://www.wat.tv/video/mtv-crib…

jariten1781 > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/13/2014 at 10:59

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In pretty much every movie there's stupid unrealistic tire squeals. Slowly pulling into a parking spot "screeeech", driving down a dirt road "screeeech". Drives me nuts.

Saf1 > jariten1781 02/13/2014 at 11:06

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HATE that. A close 2nd is overlaying very, let's say optimistic, but in reality very delusional sound of roaring V8s when your protagonist puts his foot down.

camaroboy68ss > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/13/2014 at 11:09

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In the Vegas CSI there was a episode where a high school kid built a electric replica Porsche speedster. It races a 1934 ford 3 window coupe but the cops call it a roadster and a 1933, (they are different)

Also NCIS la had a challenger with a supercharger that worked on a switch.

Korea Miéville > Sn210 02/13/2014 at 11:11

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But it's Dexter , so it could have been Ghost Dad's E36 and Deb is just hallucinating from the mind-altering drug the Ice Truck Killer's secret love child injected into her because of reasons.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > daender 02/13/2014 at 11:15

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You know, I bet they did that on purpose just to see if their fans were paying attention.

After their AMA on here, they seemed like proper gear-heads and would know better than to have a FWD 86.

Sn210 > Korea Miéville 02/13/2014 at 11:26

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Jay Lauer > Korea Miéville 02/13/2014 at 11:31

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That whole car pairing confused me. They actually made good sense of car castings though.

Dexter drives a grey Escape, because it's the most common thing, and he can escape.

Miguel drove a Navigator, cause he's a rich DA, spanish, and a serial killer.

Trinity drove an Express van, cause he's a serial killer.

Jordan Chase drove a BMW, cause he's a heartless serial killer.

Quinn drove a Cadillac cause he has horrible tastes

Batista drove a Smokey and the Bandit Fireturd cause he has horribler tastes

Masuka drove a jacked up F150 cause he has horriblest tastes.

But why cast Deb with a convertible BMW, and then why stick to it and update the BMWs. Weird thinks that I think way too much about.

911e46z06 > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/13/2014 at 11:52

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On the most recent Shameless someone called this dude's Charger a Challenger, and he didn't correct them.

Korea Miéville > Jay Lauer 02/13/2014 at 12:00

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I never noticed the car pairings on the show. Hilarious!

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/13/2014 at 13:24

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Everything ever said in TopGear.

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > camaroboy68ss 02/13/2014 at 13:26

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I remember both of those. I don't know to which extent the switch-activated supercharger is dumb. Boost control exists for turbocharged engines, so why can't it exist for superchargers? (Is my reasoning right?)

Party-vi > Goshen, formerly Darkcode 02/13/2014 at 13:29

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I'm sure you could rig up a clutch'd pulley for the supercharger and some sort of bypass system when disengaged.

CalzoneGolem > camaroboy68ss 02/13/2014 at 13:29

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Supercharger switch?

Totally legit.

http://www.fastcar.co.uk/2012/05/04/sup…

vdub_nut: scooter snob > camaroboy68ss 02/13/2014 at 13:30

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Do what now?

vdub_nut: scooter snob > CalzoneGolem 02/13/2014 at 13:30

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we posted the same picture literally 30 seconds apart lol

HammerheadFistpunch > Party-vi 02/13/2014 at 13:31

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yup, you could....but why? Superchargers don't really kill your mileage unless your into the throttle and if you plan on using it at all you still need premium fuel...why not power all the time?

Party-vi > HammerheadFistpunch 02/13/2014 at 13:32

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I mean, he was just asking if it was possible.

HammerheadFistpunch > Party-vi 02/13/2014 at 13:33

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truth. Yes, you can. But dont

Casper > Party-vi 02/13/2014 at 13:42

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It would be more work than it was worth. If you spent all the time to tune the fuel system to match the curve of boost from the supercharger, you would then be over fueling as soon as you flipped the disengage switch... meaning either you would be using fuel injection with multiple maps and toggling them as well, just letting it run rich, etc.

CalzoneGolem > vdub_nut: scooter snob 02/13/2014 at 14:20

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Great minds and all that.

TwoFortified > Casper 02/13/2014 at 19:31

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Ok, that statement isn't inaccurate, but, I think, slightly misguided (based on my understanding of Forced Induction EFI cars). Your ECU has maps that are adjusted by air coming in. If your ECU was tuned to expect, say, 12 psi boost, and to perform at its best when under said boost, that's all fine and good. It doesn't mean, however, that, in the process of tuning it, your ECU forgot how to drive when under 0 psi boost. Would it make the same power? Obviously not. Would it make the same power as it did before it was presumably Supercharged and tuned? Probably not. Does it ever really make sense to "turn off" your supercharger? Well, I don't think so, and can't really think of a reason why you'd want to...

...but your engine would only run rich at the moment you turned off your supercharger (just like the kids with atmo BOVs...every time they take their foot off the gas). After that, the ECU would right itself.

...as far as I know. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Casper > TwoFortified 02/13/2014 at 20:10

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That's true if you have an ECU using something like MAP or other sensors that are decent quality and it has the ability to adjust based on metering. For example even OEM cars have variance built into the ECUs to allow them to compensate for all kinds of issues from heat to air density to fuel quality. I was basing my assumption on someone working on a budget that is doing something like clutching a super charger probably not building a system around the whole thing that would have a sensor setup to measure when the super charger is disengaged and with a static ECU setup like a single mapped stand alone (although any of them should be able to do it as well if correctly configured).

In reality you may actually run more into issues with timing than fuel, but it was just the first item that popped into my head imagining a Pabst Blue Ribbon fueled engineering meeting in a garage trying to make this happen. I have actually seen it done, but mostly as proof of concept systems or for very specialized purposes or in special car setups like the AW11 MR2 supercharger.

TwoFortified > Casper 02/13/2014 at 20:14

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I hear what you are saying, but I'm even under the assumption that a stock 90's era ECU with a bargain bin MAF sensor and fuel mappings that account for boost pressure would (read: should theoretically) be able to handle this transition.

I could very well be wrong though.

Casper > TwoFortified 02/13/2014 at 22:49

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Maybe if you only did like 3psi, otherwise no. That is why so many people ruin engines by adding turbos or upping boost on already turbo cars. It takes a fair amount of compensation in fuel and timing. It takes a change of injectors out even fuel pressure to make up some differences.

Again all hypothetical without a specific setup to reference, and a purpose built setup could do it with everything being sized for the setup.

Thomas Cotrel > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/16/2014 at 12:36

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Every. Single. Jump. From. Dukes. Of. Hazzard.

dave.iuliano > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/16/2014 at 14:25

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Virtually every overblown car explosion (pun intended) ever.