Doesn’t have to be thousands of dollars. Just a thing you spent money on that turned out to be a complete waste.

  • Tiral@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    10 hours ago

    When I was 25 I was making a lot of money. So I bought my childhood dream car, you know the one you have on your wall with the chick in a bikini on the hood. So I bought a '98 Diablo VT with I believe around 3k miles (this was in 2001). It was the absolute piece of shit. Don’t get me wrong, it was gorgeous and sounded twice as sexy. But I shit you not, every other time it left the garage the most random shit would break, crap that shouldn’t break on a car with 3k miles and 3 years old. Spark plugs were fowled, radiator hose blew, wires would be frayed and cause electrical issues. It was like non-stop. I soldnit for a 20k loss.

    Mind you I’m 43 now and own 9 cars, 4 motorcycles, and grew up building engines with my dad. So I have no issues working on cars or doing whatever. I can tell tell you outside of Jeep, that Lamborghini was the biggest piece of mentally handicapped engineered vehicle I’ve ever seen.

    • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      8 hours ago

      mentally handicapped engineered

      i feel old now

      (seriously though, i feel like this attempt at an euphemism misses and in fact intensifies the reason we don’t use that word)

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      7 hours ago

      Jeeps - there’s an old movie about a small town infested with C.H.U.D.-like critters underground. As the plot crawls along, multiple characters keep saying bad things about their Jeeps, like “Could you drive? My Jeep is still in the shop.” By the end it’s pretty obvious somebody didn’t like Jeeps. Then during the credits the director drives up in a Jeep, gets out and says, “They say every story has a moral, and I guess the moral of this one is, Don’t Buy a Jeep.” Then he tries and tries to start it and finally gives up. I probably saw this back in the 80s on Showtime, and I’ve been searching for it ever since we got the Internet lol.