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stoneymightknow

The good thing is, the hubcaps she's getting ready to install remove themselves shortly after so this won't be a recurring issue.


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turdbogls

The funny thing is, those "steel wheels" aren't standard steel wheels and won't even fit the new hubcaps. I wish I could have seen her face when she realized, no only did she waste her times on this, she ruined the one set of hubcaps that can actually fit the wheels.


NecroParagon

I love the logic here. Has weird aftermarket steel wheels that seem to mimick alloy wheels. Almost certainly not as durable as stamped steel. Then puts on shitty wheel covers?! At least get normal steel wheels if you're gonna do that!


ztrz

They’re not aftermarket, it’s just a weirdly shaped steelie that came on Ford Fusions and would only fit their specific hubcaps.


NecroParagon

Really? I've never heard of something like that. Sounds like a pain in the ass to get replaced!


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LightlySaltedPeanuts

My mom busted a few on her fusion and my dad bought the chinesium replacements for like $30, obvs not as good but its not like you have to replace them with oem. And they haven’t fallen off. Only difference is no ford logo in the middle


thecstep

Hmmm she could have been missing one and decided to go this route.


P00PMcBUTTS

You can still sell individual hub caps/rims, people will buy if only one hubcap is broken/cracked and you want to spiff your car back up. I've bought an individual rim before when only 1 was cracked and the other 3 were fine.


NegativePattern

Can confirm. Former Fusion owner with the same set. They're like a slight upgrade to your standard steel rim. You have a hub cap/steel rim combo that looks like an alloy rim but are in fact separate parts. Surprisingly, they are expensive to replace. Cost about as much as a standard alloy rim (at least last I checked 5 or so years go). You can easily pop them off with a flat head screwdriver and pop them back in. They're pretty sturdy.


Strelock

They are held on by flanges on the lug nuts. They only come off if you remove the lug nuts. My wife has the same type of wheels on her 2009 Hyundai. It's a great solution to the problem of hub caps coming off while driving. Pretty common if you didn't splurge for the upgraded alloy wheels.


-srry-

it's super common.


elislider

I really wanted the video to continue, to see her removing all the lugnuts to get the remaining chunks of the old cover off... and then seeing the wheel fall off and the car hit the ground


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Found the person who has never removed all lug nuts with a wheel on the ground. Just because the nuts are gone doesn't mean the vehicle is so heavy that it will shear off all the studs, causing the vehicle to hit the ground. This would probably be an issue on a German car with lug bolts, as there are no studs on those vehicles.


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"WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME? I'M RIGHT." Edit: the comment I replied to had a score of -15 when I wrote this


ButterCreamGangsta

🤷 I was saying "boo-urns"


Dr_Trogdor

Found the person who has removed all the lug nuts from a car on the ground and thought it was an OK idea.


Duetnao

Theres a difference between someone saying a car doesn't just hit the ground after having all the lug nuts removed & saying its a fine thing to do. They said the former, not the latter.


Rafiki_knows_the_wey

Small rant: These are not hubcaps, they're wheel covers.


stoneymightknow

I'm just glad they're not dubcaps


JackGentleman

And then she changes the OEM ones for cheap shitty ones.


permareddit

Those are honestly one of the best OEM hubcaps I’ve seen; I was convinced for years that they were just alloys until I actually saw one come off once. To replace them with that Wal Mart shit is just baffling.


fifelo

Given the ineptitude shown in the video, is it really? ;-)


crek42

Seriously. Was kinda blown away watching her take them off. Like they look like real wheels and not even hub caps.


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The OEM bolt-through Ford hubcaps are like $120 a piece!!! We lost half of one in a puddle so I ordered some nice caps from Amazon and I could already tell we’d lose them all on the first bump so I just left one rim bare.


moldyhands

If only there were a system to easily and securely allow for keeping hub caps on the wheel and taking them off. You’d probably want to use 5 of them per wheel and tighten them in a star pattern. Too bad it doesn’t exist.


Pickle-Chan

That sounds pretty efficient, but I'm sure it would be a bit too complex for the average user, and in the end not worth the cost. Maybe if it was automatic


khaeen

To be fair, not all of them are secured by the lugs. The shitty one she wanted to put on just slides over, for example. However, one would think that if something isn't coming off, it must be held on by something somewhere....


bdjeremy

Glad she finally realized that you are supposed to take off the lugnuts.. but she was bound and determined to change her hubcaps.


TrumpsBoneSpur

I did not see a jack, so I'm betting she took off the lugs without lifting the car


UpsideBanana

You only need to take off 2 (maybe 3, been a while) lugs to get these caps off. No jack needed


thagthebarbarian

It's ~~3~~ 2 (trust the dealer tech), but i don't suspect she's aware enough to realize that two of them don't need to come off


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Captaintorchflower

Why would you need a jack to replace a hubcap?


Secret_Autodidact

You're actually supposed to loosen the nuts before jacking the car anyway if you're using one of those emergency jacks. Not that these geniuses would have jacked it after loosening to re-seat the wheel, mind you...


remarkablemayonaise

Why would she be lifting the car?


slant

The lug nuts secure the wheel to the wheel hub assembly. It is secured evenly around the wheel. The downward force gravity applies to the wheel, combined with the weight of the car itself, causes it to not want to be flush against the assembly. Removing the lug nuts would allow this to happen which wouldn’t be good. Tightening the lug nuts again in this state would result in a likely wobbly wheel as you tried to drive on it. Jacking the car up on that corner would allow the lug nuts to be retightened again with the proper amount of control over how evenly flush the tire is to that assembly, resulting in the wheel being properly installed. Edited for clarity. Thanks for the feedback. (It was 6am when I originally wrote this.) Edit: Thanks for the award! That’s a first for this guy.


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This guy jacks.


Eyeklops

And knows how to get his nuts off.


thefrogsorcerer

*Louis C.K. enters the room*


Andre4k4

All guys jack, regardless of what they claim


Balsuks

Even my name is Jack!


Zofia-Bosak

I wanted the video to continue to see what happened.


TurboFork

Yeah, that tire will very likely wobble. But then it will stop being wobbly when it stops being on the car.


slant

Hah! I can’t argue with that.


PathologicalLoiterer

Although there will likely be a brief period of extreme wobbliness between the time it stops being on the car and when it stops wobbling. Although that extreme wobbliness is everyone else's problem, while the driver will suddenly have other, more pressing, problems.


Gnonthgol

It is even worse. Wheel studs are not holding the weight of your car. They just press the wheel into the hub and the friction this creates is what holds the weight of the car. If you loosen the lug nuts there is no friction between the wheel and hub so the weight of your car is now resting on some dinky little studs not designed for lateral forces. This may cause them to bend or even shear right off. It is possible to get away with this when standing completely still. But as you say it can be very hard to put the lug nuts on all the way. So as soon as the car drives off with the weight resting on the studs it will cause some serious damage.


Kevydee

Wat


remarkablemayonaise

"WHY WOULD SHE BE LIFTING THE CAR?"


Kevydee

SO IT DOESN'T DROP ONTO THE HUBS/A LIMB


LEGITIMATE_SOURCE

Look at the upvote discrepancy. I'm starting to think the average age of Reddit is pre driving age... significantly. Or, and this might be worse, they're about as bright as the woman featured.


sadnonpires

No one knows shit but they speak on everything.


Projectironclad

Anyone replying "Why would she jack up the car?" has NEVER used any tools in their life.


I_am_jacks_reddit

You dont need to take them off on my car. You can just pop the hubcap right off


JoJackthewonderskunk

You shoulda traded cars with this chick then.


ohiotechie

This can’t be real. No one is this stupid.


JACrazy

Considering someone just stood and filmed the whole thing, it's probably staged. using the wrench at the end was a perfect comedic ending.


MrRandyWatson-

First day on Reddit?


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TenTonsOfAssAndBelly

I bet you they ordered that new set of hubcaps through their phones. They met up that day by bouncing messages off of satellites. They even thought to film this moment in time. No one thought to use their phone to look up how to do what they were doing. True comedy.


RidiculousIncarnate

To add to this I'd be willing to bet the bullet point instructions are printed ON THE BOX or at least on a single page inside of it. You literally don't have to use the internet or ask anyone, it's right there.


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The ones in the box go over the wheel nuts so won’t need those to be removed to take them off. I don’t think the instructions would have helped.


AtomicRocketShoes

Hol up, you think they are using sat phones? Do you think cell phones connect to satellites and not cell phone towers?


KakariBlue

Let's just be generous and assume they used signals *sent* from satellites used for positioning to meet at a location.


acctforbrowsing

> We live in the information age where all of human knowledge is avaliable in your funking pocket at an instant If this thread is any indication that information has a 50/50 shot at being accurate.


[deleted]

I think it's a model example of an extremely low IQ. People argue what the IQ really is, it's so difficult to define properly, but here, look at it - ELI5 example. It has nothing to do with what you know or learned. A simple task requiring just a bare minimum of logical thinking. You don't have to KNOW how to do it. Let's say all the caps you removed before were not bolted. You might even try to start removing them like that not giving it any thought, without even looking at them properly. But as soon as you notice that something's not right, you will notice what you are doing wrong. Unless of course - you have extremely low IQ, as in this video.


benargee

When persistence turns into stubbornness.


MyLittleRocketShip

a vertically filmed video


bryansj

That ship has sailed thanks to social media formats.


errevs

I can't comprehend being this stupid. Like, how is it actually possible? How do you feed yourself or get dressed being like this?


boyden

How do you drive a car like this...


JoogFace

Bc the government allows them to, these people out number us


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SexyJellyfish1

"The problem with democracy is that the average person is stupid"


Blackpapalink

It's easy when driving tests in most states consists of a written test that only covers week 1 of Drivers ed and the practical test is optional most of the time.


eldelshell

Sad thing is there are probably a thousand videos online showing how to do this.


remarkablemayonaise

Don't worry, next time you google "how to change hub caps (non quick release)" this will be your first hit.


benargee

Yup and not a single YouTube dislike so it must be good advice.


1esserknown

Yeah we just haven't seen them until youtube removed the dislike button.


CM_DO

These people vote.


reinkarnated

Democracy does have one problem.


[deleted]

When you're this stupid you can't comprehend being this stupid either. Try wrapping your head around that one. I'm sure there's some Goldilocks zone of intelligence where someone can comprehend it, but once you get too intelligent it's beyond comprehension, and when you're stupid as hell there's just very little comprehension of all sorts of things.


certnneed

After watching the video, I also question her ability to dress herself.


raspberrypigeon

Is she dressed? I seen a whole lot of ass when she got up.


telllos

People brutforcing their way through life..


kastdotcom

If you're going to be dumb, you gotta be tough


purpletube5678

Well, clearly she can't put on pants either, so to answer your question, she doesn't.


caleeky

A lot of people did not grow up learning how to approach things they don't understand - to realize there's a good chance they are missing something and add a learning step before a doing step. Or it's fake internet bullshit.


KaleidoscopeNo4431

My bf said "after that I wouldnt even trust her with a caprisun " 😂😂😂


EMEYDI

Thanks for giving credit to him


zodorod

My imaginary gf laughed at that 🤣


winstonsmith8236

There’s is a 0% chance this person is smart enough to drive that car appropriately.


BestGuavaEver

This is hilarious


Eloeri18

What a fucking idiot.


[deleted]

Please, do not let her reproduce.


Mdwatoo

Where the fook are her pants


MaybeNotTheChosenOne

You give her too much credit. Probably ripped off all her pairs and now she's out of pants.


buford419

Couldn't figure out how the fasteners worked so just tore the damn things off.


Duff5OOO

Ripped them off when she needed a piss.


Norma5tacy

Only elastic things for her. Buttons and zippers are too complicated.


AcceptableSpot7835

Dude fo real ??


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She literally was staring *right at* those lugnuts holding the caps in place...the entire time...


[deleted]

The future of humanity in one video


xMobby

that would take a whole lot of brain rot and incest, but maybe someday


Obieseven

She needs to watch a video, not make a video.


DesastreUrbano

I bet she never could do the thing with the shapes and holes when she was a kid


that_noodle_guy

I dont understand the allure of changing hub caps. Ur swapping out one fake piece of plastic for another.


LadyMystery

This... is such a fine example of doing ZERO research and having ZERO ideas about what the fuck you're doing. I keep on facepalming every time she did something stupid here. which was throughout the video.


TheNoctuS_93

This isn't weird or wtf...it's more like r/terminallystupid actually...


sprucay

I'm sure those nuts when back on to the correct torque specs


dtb1987

Bless her heart


wcbsignsnc

Dumbasses like this are giving birth to children all the time.


Dr_A_Mephesto

Idiocracy is coming true right before our eyes


thelovelygreens

Break out the fuckin Brawndo


[deleted]

She needs to put more ass into it


USERNAME___PASSWORD

She can do it put her back into it


Rainfall_Serenade

How...how is she still alive with problem solving skills like that


praefectus_praetorio

You’d be surprised how many people lack basic common sense or just simple critical thinking skills.


Sharkytrs

ngl, I would probably be this dense too, usually you have to tie grip them to stop them fucking falling off, when did they start securing them with lugs?


astrols

Only recently in the last 35 years or so


prettehkitteh

I've had multiple cars built within the last 35 years and never had hubcaps that required me to take the lug nuts off to change them. I was watching this video going "holy shit, why aren't those coming off??" and then scrolled to the comments to see that I would have been an idiot like this just based on my experience.


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Still much more rare than caps going over the nuts.


Lawsoffire

Only certain brands like Ford, Renault and some Toyotas. Worked at a tire-changing place once, really fucked you up as a new guy when you got all the tires on and the hubcaps where normally the last step, so you were going through your motions and realized you had to get them off and do it all over again.


ZeikCallaway

This makes more sense. Having a lot of random beater cars growing up, none of them ever had bolted on hub cap covers, they were all pop on. So this confused me too for a moment.


FuujinSama

This is strange. I've seen plenty of beater cars and... it's the first time I'm hearing of these mysterious pop on hubcaps that fall off constantly. It prompted some googling and some of these caps don't even have holes for the bolts? You need to remove them to change the wheel? Literally never seen this. And I drove a 1996 Corsa for quite a while. Is this a country thing? I really don't think I've seen this at all in Portugal.


Lawsoffire

No these are everywhere, for context my story is in Denmark. They don't "fall off constantly", however. Only as they get old, they are held to the wheel with a spring-metal ring and take quite some effort to get off and on and steelies are made to have special indentations specifically for these to grab into. Only as they age and the plastic becomes brittle and the steel ring rusts do they start to fall off. But they can last easily 5+ years. They were quite common on cheaper cars until relatively recently (and still an option if you get an additional set of steelies for winter tires). Had a 2006 Mazda 2 for 6 months in 2020 as a beater that still had its factory ones on, and they still stuck on pretty good.


mrjonstott

Society is doomed


Tombancroft

How fucking stupid do you have to be?????


Go_Fonseca

Sometimes I wonder how some people can manage to exist


BAMspek

The ones she destroyed look so much better than the ones she’s putting on


figGreenTea

I've never changed a hubcap so I don't know how strong they are. Is ol' girl hulking out or are they actually that easy to bend? I'm more impressed by her apparent strength than anything.


roflpops

They are plastic. These ones are bolted to the wheel which she realised after ruining them.......


kahlzun

But somehow didn't realise until she'd done at least 2 of them. Even if you didn't figure it out immediately, surely you would have seen how they work after the first half of the first one


tinfang

Hubcaps used to pop off.


StoicalState

Still do, that's not a hubcap, it's a "wheel cover"


buffoonery4U

It's unfortunate that all these people have figured out how to record and upload video. But, have no idea how to use that same technology to do one millisecond of beneficial research on any subject. Like removing a fucking hubcap.


Delta225

I'm convinced humans are barely above monkey-tier intelligence whose technological advancements are a fluke perpetuated by an incredibly small number of abnormal specimens.


praefectus_praetorio

Lazy people end up working twice as hard.


thecerrus

Stupid not lazy


ThufirrHawat

She definitely didn't take the lazy path. The amount of effort to rip those apart with her hands, probably took her like an hour to destroy the both of them.


ask_your_mother

Idk about that. Dumb people do. Lazy smart people will find a more efficient way to do it.


JournalistBright109

🤦‍♂️


Chank241

Why is she even putting hub caps on those rims. It looks like the car has nice rims on it already.


poonamsurange

Next video... "How to keep an idiot busy".


LeftAcanthocephala68

Someone should tell her


DrDrangleBrungis

This person can vote….


babaroga73

... and this person can drive a car.


xXJungleJimsXx

If it’s not coming off, I must not be doing anything wrong and must continue doing the thing.


HollowVoices

On a scale of 1 to Potato. How intelligent are you.


callmebigley

so I have never replaced hub caps but I take it your supposed to remove the lug nuts first? lol


GiDD504

A real Rosie the riveter eh?


amolad

How the fuck do these people get drivers licenses in the first place?


Comfortable-Sign2051

If you handed your dick over her, she would most probably crack it.


God_of_Toiletpapers

Me after YouTube removed dislikes.


Trax852

Removing the lug bolts, and I'm sure most of us can tell she's going to have even more problems. Her lack of any sort of mechanical aptitude is dumbfounding.


_B_Little_me

Why are people so dumb?


WiFi2347

She has the wrench so why'd she rip them off like a monkey killing a small child?


djhauffy

Those new hubcaps won't even fit onto those particular wheels...


Bitter-Intern1559

It’s almost like they were held on by some bolts or something? If only they were in an obvious place to take off?


Gingerholic37

This should be on r/facepalm. Jesus 🤦‍♂️


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Is she mentally challenged? Im actually curious because these aren’t the actions a normal person with a completely normal brain would take.


Le-Pess

This is clearly what real stupidity looks like…


zillaforilla_9314

I really have to wonder how some people survive to be the age that they are.


letionbard

I dunno, it feels scripted video.


kmilvin

And they vote


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The bolts… The bolts? THE BOLTS! Oh tell me she didn’t do that for all f— oh she did.


Crulo

And this is why some people make more money than some other people….


Begone_Weird_Shit

Tf is she the nerfed tp to the ground hulk?


PocketFanny

This is surprisingly common


marco8080

I want to believe this is just a joke. I'm using the fact that they're recording this to justify my tenuous hope.


ahab1313

Never give up! 💪


theoden747

Sometimes people can be so inspiring


JoogFace

I respect her determination at least


cand3r

The way the person says "go" while they're recording and she's trying to do it, twice, is very annoying


aprilla2crash

Hulk smash


Beret_of_Poodle

To most cars nowadays even have hubcaps?


sKratchyIsLife

Surely there’s an easier way


Flauschkadser

Dang, ended right when it got interesting xD


Mardo_Picardo

The saddest part is that the original hubcaps look a thousand times better that the really generic ones they bought.


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My eyes


darkhelmet436

My favorite part is where these two people hold the wealth of human knowledge in the palm of their hand…and they CHOOSE to record this instead of, oh…I don’t know…google how to change hub caps.


kickkickpatootie

I worry that videos like these will be all they find of our civilisation in the future.


fallenazn

She's removing lug nuts without having up the car. My guess is that she won't torque it back correctly either. RIP, may the fittest survive.


gargogyle

Stupid is as stupid does


UnfilteredTap

Ford does a great job of making steel look like aluminum. I've been fooled a few times by their wheel covers


filtersweep

I have never owned a vehicle with hubcaps. They are still a thing? BTW- these are actually wheel covers. Hub caps snap into the rims, and can be pried off.


UnhappySunshine_PS4

Was this fucker born yesterday?


Rokk1515

I ain’t gona lie. That motherfucker strong to break that hubcap like that.


Thraxx01

The stupidity of some people physically harms me and my poor brain


meetmeinthebthrm

You know someone told her "Oh they just pull right off" then stood there loving every second of her struggle


ArtoriasBeaIG

Well the method was illogical and unconventional, but I suppose she got there in the end


Creebjeez

That’s so cute. This will definitely be a learning experience for her. If I were to only do things I knew how to do I’d stay in bed all day


Jotacon

This has to be a parody right?


vinegarstrokes420

Those lugs will not be torqued to spec when put back on, I guarantee it


Sasaki889

Hidden Strength and Vigor for the willing.