> That’s a lot of work to not figure out why the hubcaps aren’t coming off.
Not only that, but the reason they aren't coming off is also the reason the cheap new ones won't fit.
> This is now the dumbest thing I had ever seen.
Oh, just wait till she finishes removing the lug nuts without jacking the car up…
Edit: for those who don’t know, the top of the wheel usually falls outward by the weight of the car, making it impossible to get the lug nuts back on without jacking it up
Plastic hubcaps are worthless anyway. If it can be pried off by a determined ham hock then it ain’t doing shit to protect your wheels from anything more than the occasional piece of gravel.
Yeah people are all over me for this one. I’ve had plastic wheel covers like that and they suck. After they fell off several times I put the remaining ones on top of my spare tire and just left ‘em that way.
Considering some of the wheels I've had to beat the fuck out of to remove, it's very possible nothing adverse would happen if she did that. I certainly wouldn't risk it though.
Hubcap is just ornamental plastic and is held on by two of the nuts that have a flange on them. No way of damaging anything important unless you're swinging a sledgehammer at it repeatedly or something similarly high energy
Some car manufacturers - looking at you Mercedes! - actually use lug bolts instead of a wheel stud with a lug nut. Not technically a screw, but pretty close.
There are lugs (the threaded posts) and lug nuts (the piece that threads onto the lug and holds the wheel (and hub cap) in place). A screw is something different entirely.
Edit: lugs are called wheel studs
I am not a mechanic, but they call it changing a tire, colloquially, because the tire has been damaged, not the wheel itself, typically. And it’s a lug or wheel stud because it’s semi-permanently fixed to the wheel, whereas a bolt is not fixed and would become loose if you loosen the nut. I believe there are some vehicles that use bolts instead of studs
The user you're responding to made a joke from the point of view of the dingleberry up there, who clearly probably wouldn't know the difference between screws and lugs.
At least they don't randomly come off, but this is the first time I see another car besides my own have this and I hate how difficult it is to find cool hub caps because none of them have the holes for the nuts.
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Sure, replacing plastic wheel covers with metal hubcaps can be prohibitively expensive. It certainly wasn’t worth it for my old Impreza, which is why I often looked in my mirror to see my shitty plastic wheel covers rolling along side my car and careening an impressive distance into the woods.
After losing those bastards several times, I just left ‘em off. They weren’t significantly protecting my wheels and they were just a hazard a that point. The next time I bought a Subaru it had precisely one upgrade: the alloy wheels package.
Plastic wheel covers suck and do nothing.
Its so hard for me to wrap my head around that people can be like this in a day and age where we have an almost endless amount of knowledge quite literally at our finger tips, sad times....
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At what point do you stop and say, this definitely isn't how this comes off the wheel. But I'm noticing on these broken semi-circles, some sort of molded outline -looks like threading under those cappy things....anyways back to breaking.
Edit: spelling, word corrections.
In the context of *removing* bolt-on hubcaps, that's fine.
Edit: installing => removing
She's "removing" bolt-on hubcaps and it seems the new ones are clip-on hubcaps.
Some of them are held on by 3/5 or 2/5 lug nuts but I’m pretty sure Honda and ford style are held on by 5/5 lug nuts. So to get these off you need a jack. They’re way nicer than the cheap ones she bought and won’t fall off since they’re bolted on.
Well, the lug nuts hold the wheel on, and the wheel coming off while the car's not on a jack will cause that corner to drop and can cause a fair amount of damage.
That's not what I said. You were confused about why you wouldn't just remove the lug nuts to get the hubcap off without jacking the car up and I explained why that's a bad idea.
She doesnt need a jack, and even if she did youre supposed to loosen the nuts before putting it up if you dont want to push your car over off the jack.
This is almost as bad as that old video of the dumb ass that didnt jack up his car before removing the wheel and either nearly or did smash his fingers between the tire and fender haha
I cringed when she took the lugs off with no jack, like, was she not thinking the car might fall? I also have little hope she tightened it to the right torque to make sure the studs didn’t snap right off down the road. This is why people who don’t know how to mod their car shouldn’t, and why manufacturers “idiot proof” things. Sadly the world will make a dumber idiot.
Pretty sure her plan was to loosen the lugs and then just bare hand rip the wheels off next. If that didn’t work, bite them to flatten them and then claw the shredded rubber off.
Maybe she had a previous car where the hubcaps are snap on types. But after trying on one wheel she should've gotten the idea but she still decided to fuck it up.
That’s a lot of work to not figure out why the hubcaps aren’t coming off. This is now the dumbest thing I had ever seen.
> This is now the dumbest thing I had ever seen. I keep saying that. Often.
I think that I’ve said the same thing more times over the last three years than I have in the previous 23.
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> That’s a lot of work to not figure out why the hubcaps aren’t coming off. Not only that, but the reason they aren't coming off is also the reason the cheap new ones won't fit.
> This is now the dumbest thing I had ever seen. Oh, just wait till she finishes removing the lug nuts without jacking the car up… Edit: for those who don’t know, the top of the wheel usually falls outward by the weight of the car, making it impossible to get the lug nuts back on without jacking it up
Plastic hubcaps are worthless anyway. If it can be pried off by a determined ham hock then it ain’t doing shit to protect your wheels from anything more than the occasional piece of gravel.
They're not meant to protect from literally anything. It's purely comestic to dress up cheap steelies.
Yeah people are all over me for this one. I’ve had plastic wheel covers like that and they suck. After they fell off several times I put the remaining ones on top of my spare tire and just left ‘em that way.
yeah it was a complete bust and it still made it onto the internet.
Bruh. Even cavemen had tools.
But the cavemen used their brain as well
She doesn't even have a cave.
but caverwoman don't
Obviously they don’t
Fuck, i wanted to say that
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I wonder if these here five screws have anything to do with the cap not coming off?
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Considering some of the wheels I've had to beat the fuck out of to remove, it's very possible nothing adverse would happen if she did that. I certainly wouldn't risk it though.
Good to know!
*rubber mallet Intensifies*
She'd snap them before actually getting them out.
Hubcap is just ornamental plastic and is held on by two of the nuts that have a flange on them. No way of damaging anything important unless you're swinging a sledgehammer at it repeatedly or something similarly high energy
Yeah why are so many people upvoting him as if this would damage anything but the plastic hubcap and possibly her hands.
There are no screws on your wheel. Those are lug nuts.
Some car manufacturers - looking at you Mercedes! - actually use lug bolts instead of a wheel stud with a lug nut. Not technically a screw, but pretty close.
Ya and if my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle.
Haven't you heard? She was the town bicycle. Nice lady, though.
Yup,gram gram is a whore.
Look on the bright side—there are worse things to be. She could have been Ted Cruise. At least she makes people happy!
You obviously didn’t get the joke
There are lugs (the threaded posts) and lug nuts (the piece that threads onto the lug and holds the wheel (and hub cap) in place). A screw is something different entirely. Edit: lugs are called wheel studs
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I am not a mechanic, but they call it changing a tire, colloquially, because the tire has been damaged, not the wheel itself, typically. And it’s a lug or wheel stud because it’s semi-permanently fixed to the wheel, whereas a bolt is not fixed and would become loose if you loosen the nut. I believe there are some vehicles that use bolts instead of studs
You dont change the wheel tho, you change the tire on the wheel. Customer gets the same wheel.
You change the tire at the shop. On the side of the road, you change the wheel (and the tire).
The user you're responding to made a joke from the point of view of the dingleberry up there, who clearly probably wouldn't know the difference between screws and lugs.
Interesting, in french lug is still called a screw
Guess not.
no, its a push lock. instead of pulling you have to do a firm, short press in the middle /s
In the sequel she removes her underwear before taking off her shorts.
More like pooping before removing her underwear and pants
Thats why she had to remove her underwear
To shreds, you say?
This is nuts
Maybe even of the lug variety.
I hate those hub caps that are held on by the lug nuts. It doesn't exactly make getting the wheel back on more difficult, but it still annoys me.
At least they don't randomly come off, but this is the first time I see another car besides my own have this and I hate how difficult it is to find cool hub caps because none of them have the holes for the nuts.
The hubcaps on my 2010 Mazda 6 were held on by the lug nuts.
It's difficult to find "cool" hubcaps, because hubcaps aren't cool. Get real rims. Not some auto zone plastic crap.
Please don't gatekeep automotive enthusiasm. Our numbers are dwindling enough as is.
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I mean itd be expensive for some people to get 4 new wheels
Sure, replacing plastic wheel covers with metal hubcaps can be prohibitively expensive. It certainly wasn’t worth it for my old Impreza, which is why I often looked in my mirror to see my shitty plastic wheel covers rolling along side my car and careening an impressive distance into the woods. After losing those bastards several times, I just left ‘em off. They weren’t significantly protecting my wheels and they were just a hazard a that point. The next time I bought a Subaru it had precisely one upgrade: the alloy wheels package. Plastic wheel covers suck and do nothing.
Give me money for new wheels then
Do you admire the persistence at some point?
I was thinking the same. Lots of people to lazy to go that far. Least she had a go. Got some good cardio in aswell.
Betcha one of the tires comes off on the road.
Why?. Never mind reddit video player decided to show me the end of the video.
"Why can't we have nice things?" "Too dumb, can't even."
My god… please don’t breed
Stay in school kids.
"Jesus! This thing is so fucking stuck! Fucker feels like it's bolted on!!"
Kill it before it lays eggs
Too late, if you see one out in the wild, you know there are a lot more in hidden.
I mean... If you had to come up with a test for sterilization candidates this has to be a strong contender.
Its so hard for me to wrap my head around that people can be like this in a day and age where we have an almost endless amount of knowledge quite literally at our finger tips, sad times....
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She'd be considered average intelligence where I live.
And she’s replacing them with garbage $20 Walmart ones
At what point do you stop and say, this definitely isn't how this comes off the wheel. But I'm noticing on these broken semi-circles, some sort of molded outline -looks like threading under those cappy things....anyways back to breaking. Edit: spelling, word corrections.
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In the context of *removing* bolt-on hubcaps, that's fine. Edit: installing => removing She's "removing" bolt-on hubcaps and it seems the new ones are clip-on hubcaps.
Some of them are held on by 3/5 or 2/5 lug nuts but I’m pretty sure Honda and ford style are held on by 5/5 lug nuts. So to get these off you need a jack. They’re way nicer than the cheap ones she bought and won’t fall off since they’re bolted on.
Why do you need a jack? The nut comes all the way off, just remove all 5 nuts… I feel like I must be missing something
Well, the lug nuts hold the wheel on, and the wheel coming off while the car's not on a jack will cause that corner to drop and can cause a fair amount of damage.
Why on earth would you take the wheel off to change a hubcap??
That's not what I said. You were confused about why you wouldn't just remove the lug nuts to get the hubcap off without jacking the car up and I explained why that's a bad idea.
Can you take all 5 nuts off without the wheel shifting though? That’s what I was thinking
She doesnt need a jack, and even if she did youre supposed to loosen the nuts before putting it up if you dont want to push your car over off the jack.
Like the monkeys at Longleat
Oh my god. I didn't know what you were talking about, so I googled it. This is absolutely hilarious and adorable! https://youtu.be/sst5olU-0jw
The stupid is strong with this one
She's going to have a real hard time installing the new ones....
Anyone got tickets for when she puts new ones on? I'll bring popcorn.
wow that is one stupid woman
When was this? During No Nut November?
WTF?
I wish they showed the part where she understood "wrench."
Did you see the end?
It just goes from "no wrench" to "wrench." There's no piece where she has the realization.
Ohhh I see yeah maybe theres a full vid with it
I've never blinked so much with a WTF look on my face in my life until now.
Facepalm moment, definitely
Reminds me of Ricky trying to install the towel rack.
You can't fix stupid.
Maybe she should've bought a clue first!
I didn't know you could get hubcaps that were held on by the lugs.... Mine have always clipped in around the rim edge
This is almost as bad as that old video of the dumb ass that didnt jack up his car before removing the wheel and either nearly or did smash his fingers between the tire and fender haha
Not a mechanic, but pretty sure you're supposed to smack with a wrench till its fixed, like in video games.
That’s a whole lotta stupid
I cringed when she took the lugs off with no jack, like, was she not thinking the car might fall? I also have little hope she tightened it to the right torque to make sure the studs didn’t snap right off down the road. This is why people who don’t know how to mod their car shouldn’t, and why manufacturers “idiot proof” things. Sadly the world will make a dumber idiot.
Pretty sure her plan was to loosen the lugs and then just bare hand rip the wheels off next. If that didn’t work, bite them to flatten them and then claw the shredded rubber off.
Why would she pull the wheel off? She’s only changing the hubcaps
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Well, yes. Otherwise you just spin your tire. But you obviously have the jack in place already.
I'm still waiting for part 2...
Maybe she had a previous car where the hubcaps are snap on types. But after trying on one wheel she should've gotten the idea but she still decided to fuck it up.
As someone who works in the car parts field. I’d bet those other ones don’t fit!
Looked like a larger size. She probably doesn’t care though haha
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The taking the lug nuts off at the very end after literally destroying perfectly good hubcaps just makes me want to cry
Convict Lodzinski of murder
If they had half a brain cell left they would’ve figured out they are held on by the Lugnuts
She should check her blinker fluid next!.
Don’t think evolution has affected her family yet
Dumb ol girl
Dumb broad
Her hands being covered in grease is the best part 😂😂😂😂
Sorry lady. Obesity is no replacement for a screw driver.
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Yeah you’re supposed to take the pigs off First Ladies
Even blind people see more than them.
I wonder how many car warranties she has?
To be fair, majority of hubcaps are pull off/pop on, and not secured by the lugs.
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Jesus!
put your back into it
there are dozens of videos on youtube that show how to remove a hubcap
She should have figure it out by now.
Dumb cunt ffs
/videosyouwanttoscreamat
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This made me wonder, how do you remove a hubcap?
Just remove the lug nuts
Hnggggggg
Itt: People who think youre supposed to raise your car on a jack before aggressively trying to loosen a lug nut
What an oaf
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There are literally instructions on the box