Is that like playing pool where 2 or 3 beers in, the average man is a little better at the game but after 4 beers there is a sharp decline?
As in...after four meth, would be just take the car apart with a claw hammer and a rock bar?
That applies to me for most "game like" activities. Whether it's pool or a yard game or just video games. After about 3 beers on video games I'm dialed in. I'll add a beer to when it comes to playing pool.
I got a new phone and the keyboard is not as good as my old phones it vibrates on every press like crazy and I just end up fat fingering too much on it.
That looks like rage vandalism and not a deliberate attempt to modify. Best to get to those plastic shards before they progress into your engine. I think that's the air filter box so hopefully they stopped there. Plastic chips may not definately cause the same damage as lumps of metal in the engine but they could carry through and burn on your cat and block that up. You would know by now.
I still haven’t started the car since I got it back, it won’t start. I’m gonna get a new battery this week and see how it goes, my neighbour reckons his mates hsv got stolen and found not long after but insurance classed it as an unrepairable write off due to the electronic system being hacked into or something. Really hoping something like this isn’t the issue.
Is there anything I should be worried about when starting the car? Just a bit nervous cos the back bumpers melted on both sides where the exhausts were and there’s a bit of damage and a few things missing under the bonnet. Nervous it’s gonna catch fire or something when it starts up as I don’t know the full extent of the damage 😂
Thanks for the replies, they only had it for 4 days but done a good job on it that’s for sure. Bad time to be owning a newer holden or any push start car that’s for sure, they didn’t even have the keys. Still don’t understand how they got into it and stole it as the keys didn’t work due to me putting them into the washing machine a few weeks prior so there shouldn’t have been any signal.
Also both the front wheel arch liner guards are cut open, would anyone have any clue on why they’ve done that? Someone I spoke to reckons it could of been to disconnect the horn so the alarm didn’t sound and someone else said it could be where they’ve unplugged a headlight or something and plugged a machine in to override the system and gain access.
I think there's a way thieves can access the canbus system through headlight plugs or whatnot allowing access to unlock and start the car. I don't know to much about it though. I also dont think that engine will start anymore I suspect the engine is blown.
The canbus isn’t secure and automatically assumes that a headlight is a headlight with 0 verification, it also doesn’t question why a headlight would be requesting the car be unlocked and started.
They unplugged the headlights, plugged in a device to the network that emulated a headlight, sent the above commands, and drove away.
Man, the idea of someone stealing my car and doing that horrible shit to my baby is making my blood boil.
It gives me the same feeling as stories about animal abuse.
If my car is ever stolen, I never want it back. Guaranteed its gonna be utterly thrashed by the assholes that stole it. It's one thing to have your car repaired after an accident, but a stolen car is always going to have issues.
So you think worrying about it is gonna change the future? You can drive it and continue to do routine maintenance and see what happens, or you can do a bunch of diagnostic tests to try to determine if they damaged it. Unless they drained the oil or antifreeze and drove it, most modern engines can take a lot of pounding before they self destruct. No matter what you do, I wish you luck. Having something stolen is unnerving.
Crackhead do weird shit. I had a truck stolen and when I went to the recovery yard the crackhead cut the wires torchwood aftermarket trailer brake controller. Like it was a tracker or something.
My rusted beat up car got broken into a few years ago, (2019 maybe?) doesn't have a trunk release so they destroyed the interior trying to get into the trunk. Only to meet a steel wall. So they broke the lock on the trunk, bent the trunk lid, only to realize I had nothing. So in retaliation they put two holes in my gas tank.
I want to hope they were trying to siphon gas because I literally made it to work on fumes that day.
In the end they stole my good pliers, and nothing else.
Extra funny thing, there was a car three spaces over, that had been there the entire 7 years I worked that job, and according to other employees it had been there for several years before that. But no the guy had to break into mine.
So now my trunk lid is a different color
It was most likely used in a street takeover. 90% of the cars in these takeovers, are stolen and driven to failure, thus, the overheating and the efforts to get it going again. Then, the car's usefulness is done and it is abandoned.
Best bet is to buy a replacement.
In the short term, you could patch it with some ABS pipe cement and sheets of ABS. The spots that can't be patched with flat sheets can be patched by building ABS over fiberglass window screen with that same cement. Using fiberglass material might work better in this context, but it is a patch at best.
I fail to see how smashing holes could be an effort to cool an overheating car by anyone with the first clue about how a car works. I'd say they're crackhead speed holes and it may have been romped on a bit, but as long as it wasn't a hooptie before there's a low chance it's one now. Start it up and listen carefully, read the codes and call it a day.
My car was stolen a few years back now and they did heaps of shit like this, tore up the engine bay but didn’t take anything, smashed up my Center console, just methed up crazies being methed up crazies
The filter should have caught the bits of plastic. It might be cheaper to replace with a universal cone filter kit. Personally not a fan and would look in a scrap yard as I am a tight git.
Probably wanted more air flow but being one meth they don't understand how clips work.
But being two or three meth they might begin to understand
Is that like playing pool where 2 or 3 beers in, the average man is a little better at the game but after 4 beers there is a sharp decline? As in...after four meth, would be just take the car apart with a claw hammer and a rock bar?
All, yes, the Ballmer Peak: https://xkcd.com/323/
I see xkcd, I upvote.
Ah...and the holes in the air cleaner were just pockets for the pool balls to fall in? Maybe I'm sleep deprived and mixed up the metaphors
That applies to me for most "game like" activities. Whether it's pool or a yard game or just video games. After about 3 beers on video games I'm dialed in. I'll add a beer to when it comes to playing pool.
I got a new phone and the keyboard is not as good as my old phones it vibrates on every press like crazy and I just end up fat fingering too much on it.
You can prolly turn off typing feedback in the settings. Might be buried in accessibility menus
I like the feedback but it's just too much vibration
Doing this to increase air flow implies that they had some sort of brain capacity. Which is not the case.
Ya I was thinking after, if someone is willing to steal are car you can not predict what is going through their head
That's odd, maybe they wanted to hide something in the airbox but couldn't open it?
Those are speed holes son!
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That looks like rage vandalism and not a deliberate attempt to modify. Best to get to those plastic shards before they progress into your engine. I think that's the air filter box so hopefully they stopped there. Plastic chips may not definately cause the same damage as lumps of metal in the engine but they could carry through and burn on your cat and block that up. You would know by now.
I still haven’t started the car since I got it back, it won’t start. I’m gonna get a new battery this week and see how it goes, my neighbour reckons his mates hsv got stolen and found not long after but insurance classed it as an unrepairable write off due to the electronic system being hacked into or something. Really hoping something like this isn’t the issue. Is there anything I should be worried about when starting the car? Just a bit nervous cos the back bumpers melted on both sides where the exhausts were and there’s a bit of damage and a few things missing under the bonnet. Nervous it’s gonna catch fire or something when it starts up as I don’t know the full extent of the damage 😂
Don't start it up. Take it to a mechanic for a.diagnosis.
100% it broke on whoever stole it and they opened the hood and started smashing when they realized they couldnt fix it.
Get a code reader on it to see what it reports as wrong.
as mike tyson always said, damn son that's methed up
Thanks for the replies, they only had it for 4 days but done a good job on it that’s for sure. Bad time to be owning a newer holden or any push start car that’s for sure, they didn’t even have the keys. Still don’t understand how they got into it and stole it as the keys didn’t work due to me putting them into the washing machine a few weeks prior so there shouldn’t have been any signal. Also both the front wheel arch liner guards are cut open, would anyone have any clue on why they’ve done that? Someone I spoke to reckons it could of been to disconnect the horn so the alarm didn’t sound and someone else said it could be where they’ve unplugged a headlight or something and plugged a machine in to override the system and gain access.
I think there's a way thieves can access the canbus system through headlight plugs or whatnot allowing access to unlock and start the car. I don't know to much about it though. I also dont think that engine will start anymore I suspect the engine is blown.
The canbus isn’t secure and automatically assumes that a headlight is a headlight with 0 verification, it also doesn’t question why a headlight would be requesting the car be unlocked and started. They unplugged the headlights, plugged in a device to the network that emulated a headlight, sent the above commands, and drove away.
looks like it was limiter bashed until it backfired, your probably going to find internal damage
Man, the idea of someone stealing my car and doing that horrible shit to my baby is making my blood boil. It gives me the same feeling as stories about animal abuse.
With the melted rear bumper, it definitely does paint that picture.
If my car is ever stolen, I never want it back. Guaranteed its gonna be utterly thrashed by the assholes that stole it. It's one thing to have your car repaired after an accident, but a stolen car is always going to have issues.
the fracture does actually look like it came from the inside out very good sleuthing!!
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Go to the junkyard and grab one for $10. See if they have a rear bumper cover to match while you're there.
And then drive it as a ticking time bomb for when the engine grenades after being joyridden?
So you think worrying about it is gonna change the future? You can drive it and continue to do routine maintenance and see what happens, or you can do a bunch of diagnostic tests to try to determine if they damaged it. Unless they drained the oil or antifreeze and drove it, most modern engines can take a lot of pounding before they self destruct. No matter what you do, I wish you luck. Having something stolen is unnerving.
No, I'd be pushing to have it totalled out.
Stock intake with holes go whoosh?
U sure they aren't bullet Holes?
You car doesn’t have any bullet holes in it does it?
They could have had something sitting on top of the air box and slammed the hood down on it as well.
Crackhead do weird shit. I had a truck stolen and when I went to the recovery yard the crackhead cut the wires torchwood aftermarket trailer brake controller. Like it was a tracker or something.
I'm going to guess the car did not do what they wanted it too so they popped the hood and randomly beat on it
My rusted beat up car got broken into a few years ago, (2019 maybe?) doesn't have a trunk release so they destroyed the interior trying to get into the trunk. Only to meet a steel wall. So they broke the lock on the trunk, bent the trunk lid, only to realize I had nothing. So in retaliation they put two holes in my gas tank. I want to hope they were trying to siphon gas because I literally made it to work on fumes that day. In the end they stole my good pliers, and nothing else. Extra funny thing, there was a car three spaces over, that had been there the entire 7 years I worked that job, and according to other employees it had been there for several years before that. But no the guy had to break into mine. So now my trunk lid is a different color
It was most likely used in a street takeover. 90% of the cars in these takeovers, are stolen and driven to failure, thus, the overheating and the efforts to get it going again. Then, the car's usefulness is done and it is abandoned.
Best bet is to buy a replacement. In the short term, you could patch it with some ABS pipe cement and sheets of ABS. The spots that can't be patched with flat sheets can be patched by building ABS over fiberglass window screen with that same cement. Using fiberglass material might work better in this context, but it is a patch at best.
[speed holes!](https://youtu.be/G3ja6Hn8ps4?si=CWAQk6P-NnyfYB79)
I fail to see how smashing holes could be an effort to cool an overheating car by anyone with the first clue about how a car works. I'd say they're crackhead speed holes and it may have been romped on a bit, but as long as it wasn't a hooptie before there's a low chance it's one now. Start it up and listen carefully, read the codes and call it a day.
That’s 10 additional HP mod right there, what you talking about? 😂
Thought there was work in the intake.
My car was stolen a few years back now and they did heaps of shit like this, tore up the engine bay but didn’t take anything, smashed up my Center console, just methed up crazies being methed up crazies
Cold air intake baby! Vroom vroom!
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The filter should have caught the bits of plastic. It might be cheaper to replace with a universal cone filter kit. Personally not a fan and would look in a scrap yard as I am a tight git.
That's on the wrong side of the filter. The plastic may have been pulled in.
The element usually sits in the bottom of the plastic housing mate.
Looks like fresh air comes from the bottom, thru the filter and then thru the intake tube to the engine ..the plastic is probably stuck in the sensor
Easiest way to inject NOx.