WTF is wrong with people?

[NorCal]

I came across a women today who was complaining that her Toyota was smoking and asked me to take a look. Let me start off by saying that I am not a mechanic.

I immediately pop her hood and check the oil, and no oil is showing on the stick. I asked her when she last changed her oil? She told me that she has owned the car for 6 years and she never knew she had to change the oil. :wtf:

I was obviously shocked. I asked her if someone else is charged with her maintenance and might have given it an oil change without her knowledge. She said she was single and she has never had it in for service since she purchased the vehicle new. I checked the odometer and the Toyota had 53,000 miles.

Thats freakin nuts, WTF is wrong with people. . . :banghead:

[tast101]

I think if you have no Idea, you need to break out the manual because there is a diagram that gives you an idea of when to have certain maintenance done.

[killer20072001]

There was somebody like that when I worked at O'reillys. Basic same story but when asked if she had ever changed the oil she replied. "They put that in at the factory. Don't they?"

[THE-HOE]

There was somebody like that when I worked at O'reillys. Basic same story but when asked if she had ever changed the oil she replied. "They put that in at the factory. Don't they?"

Oh wow, haha I didn't know people like that existed.

[imtbear69]

Oh wow, haha I didn't know people like that existed.

There are more then you think,i would say in the last 5 years I have come across at least 10 mostly woman but a few men,some people just have no clue,who ever taught them to drive never told them all they needed to know and those people keep some of my friends in buisness lol

[baron]

That is why you see such a large (well, not really large, but more than you would think) number of cars sitting on the side of the road. Around here, they give them about a week to come and get their car before they tow it, but I've seen some perfectly good cars sitting there that died from lack of simple maintenance. You would think it would be common sense, but if no one ever told you and you don't open the manual (or, if it is a big, junky manual of the like that came with my Tahoe), I suppose I could see how you might (I mean really, common sense folks, there are tons of oil change places around, you think that would at least give you a clue) not know only because of the last 4 cars I can remember getting, the dealer never once said anything about maintenance expect for something like "come to our service shop for any problems."

[Brick]

"They put that in at the factory. Don't they?"

That's scary! How do these people accomplish everyday tasks?

[grimm]

there are many people who exist who don't have a clue that vehicles need to be maintained. well, i guess i should say there's a lot of people who aren't the brightest of bulbs period.

i knew a dude who thought he was the shit (there's a lot of dudes that think that around here) he had a 2000 honda accord v6, bought it brand new. i can sometimes hear when a car is in dire need of an oil change, and i remember asking him, "have you had your oil changed recently?" he said "my car uses synthetic oil, you don't need to change it!" in an i'm-cool-as-hell voice. what an ass... anyways, he eventually realized that it needs to be changed at routine intervals, but to this day, 10 years and some replacement engines later, has changed the oil 5 or 6 times. but... the icing on the cake is that he's 31 years old, his parents bought him the car, replaced his engines, he pays no rent or major bills, and works a full time job, so he has money to blow out of his ass and even if he didn't his parents would cover it...argh...

[imtbear69]

there are many people who exist who don't have a clue that vehicles need to be maintained. well, i guess i should say there's a lot of people who aren't the brightest of bulbs period.

i knew a dude who thought he was the shit (there's a lot of dudes that think that around here) he had a 2000 honda accord v6, bought it brand new. i can sometimes hear when a car is in dire need of an oil change, and i remember asking him, "have you had your oil changed recently?" he said "my car uses synthetic oil, you don't need to change it!" in an i'm-cool-as-hell voice. what an ass... anyways, he eventually realized that it needs to be changed at routine intervals, but to this day, 10 years and some replacement engines later, has changed the oil 5 or 6 times. but... the icing on the cake is that he's 31 years old, his parents bought him the car, replaced his engines, he pays no rent or major bills, and works a full time job, so he has money to blow out of his ass and even if he didn't his parents would cover it...argh...

I wonder if they would adopt me lmao

[grimm]

I wonder if they would adopt me lmao

LOL! You're not the first person to say that either!

[blackcoffee]

Well, my dad never tought me shit like that. He was / has never been into teaching me anything, and were not close in that way at all. But I've always been into anything that moves and has an engine. I think I've known a car needs oil since I was 5 years old. I have some friends that could care less about cars and hey they might not think to check they just drive there car where they need to go, its not there fault, there just not programmed like that, but there still smart people.

[HotCarl]

I have some friends that could care less about cars and hey they might not think to check they just drive there car where they need to go, its not there fault, there just not programmed like that, but there still smart people.

+1 on that. This isn't about a car but it's related. I mowed lawns in high school, I knew this one guy who was in his late 40's, a pretty successful lawyer, good overall guy, good hunter, good common sense, etc. But when it came to handy work or anything like that he'd rather pay someone to do it for him ya know. Anyways, so I would use his mower when I would mow his lawn, and he had like 3 of them in the garage and I asked him about why he had so many and he said well when one stops working I just buy another, you can have one if you want, I think I ran it out of oil and it seized... I took it home, new plug, oil, and gas and she ran great. Just goes to show some people don't think too much about certain stuff...