Gimmicks you are ashamed you fell for

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How many of us have fallen for gimmicks like the Metwrench set or the Tornado for your carburetor? (which was allegedly endorsed by Sam Memmelo of the old Shade Tree Mechanic show)
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TDCTDI · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:51 pm Post subject:

& im sure some butthurt greeny is going to mention "clean diesel"
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mark tucker · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:58 am Post subject:

sam momello.......have you watched him?? that alone should be enough to get you to stay away..... PCH ( publishers clearing house) you have won a zillion dollars!!! just go through all out shit 345678903453 times for200 years and we will be ariving at your location to give you another pile of shit to start over with but you are defiantly a wienner!!!! we have generated your address and have a map to your home!!! crap they know where I live now. Shocked

Malokin Martin · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:05 am Post subject:

Not me personally, but I worked with a recent Asian migrant that got taken in one of those, "Send me money Nigerian prince" scams. They cleaned her out. This was like 2005

awreed · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:20 pm Post subject:

I bought a new pair of beetle running boards from Mid America many years ago for something like $15.
When I got them a few weeks later they were slightly thicker gauge than a pop can- I probably could have rolled them up like burritos with my bare hands. The quality was just plain pathetic. Would have cost me too much money to return, so I ended up just giving those pieces of crap away for free at a swap meet much later.
Lesson learned.

daven · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:16 am Post subject:

Salad Shooter - nuff said.

Enkiel · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 7:57 am Post subject:

giving 5k$ to my mother for my father's funeral... before she inherited of 100k$....

how much i got? 0$

feel like a nigerian princess just ripped me off...

B Ramsey · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:56 am Post subject:

Empi.

marklaken · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:58 am Post subject:

solar panels. Maybe not a gimmick, but even propped up with heavy government incentives, my "return" on my $5k investment is nowhere near the performance of an equal investment in a roth IRA stock index fund invested in 2010.
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hazetguy · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:00 pm Post subject:

My parents buy these for me sometimes. Maybe not the "name brand" version, but Aldi variety. Those Germans always make good stuff.

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69 Jim · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:18 pm Post subject:

This thread...

sixfootdan · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:53 am Post subject:

79SuperVert · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:00 am Post subject:

Snorklestang t-shirt... Rolling Eyes

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Merlin · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:01 am Post subject:

far rider · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:58 pm Post subject:

Leased a Subaru. Let me say at the get go, I NEVER go for any of the aftermarket add ons. But This being a keyless ignition car I went for the insurance on the key. Naturally it was part of a package that included polish, wash, interior conditioner, leather cleaner etc. $1200. Now every month I beat myself up for agreeing to the snake oil.
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OB Bus · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:37 pm Post subject:

Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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mark tucker · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:01 pm Post subject:

massachewtits got distrucked??? dam Shocked

was it isel?? I think we be safe... we got's the mouse. and nobody effs with the mouse, not even mini....she's effing goofy Shocked

( pluto was taken the video..)

HMVWNAB · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:57 am Post subject:

Was looking for gimmicks as related to automotive products, not Nigerian Prince and double your investment scams and the like.

For instance, my mechanic at the time called Split Fire spark plugs a gimmick, but there are probably people who swear by them.

Another one that comes to mind is the magnetic something or other you put around the fuel line I think it was.
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mark tucker · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:18 am Post subject:

crap....well witch was it the something or the other????? witch do I need to remove???? I have incompleate instructions and vauge shit.... Rolling Eyes

hmm I think my chrysler hemi was a spit fire Shocked

shit fire, fart spark's!!! save matches.


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