Hello! Log in or Register   |  Help  |  Donate  |  Buy Shirts See all banner ads | Advertise on TheSamba.com  
TheSamba.com
 
Think you've seen it all...
Page: 1, 2  Next
Forum Index -> Off Topic Share: Facebook Twitter
Reply to topic
Print View
Quick sort: Show newest posts on top | Show oldest posts on top View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Glenn Premium Member
Mr. 010


Joined: December 25, 2001
Posts: 76760
Location: Sneaking up behind you
Glenn is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 2:05 pm    Post subject: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

No you haven't.

When you have time to kill, check them out.

https://www.youtube.com/@JustRolledIn


Link

_________________
Glenn
74 Beetle Specs | 74 Beetle Restoration | 2180cc Engine
"You may not get what you pay for, but you always pay for what you get"

Member #1009

#BlueSquare
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Who.Me? Premium Member
Samba Member


Joined: July 14, 2014
Posts: 2190
Location: UK (South)
Who.Me? is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Yeah, I subscribed to that channel a while back.

There's a lot to be said for annual, mandatory safety/roadworthiness tests like we have in Europe.
_________________
Andy


Looking for info on my truck's history. Are you from Campbell California or nearby. Do you recognise it? ... http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=636786
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Gallery Classifieds Feedback
jinx758
Samba Member


Joined: October 04, 2014
Posts: 671
Location: Texas
jinx758 is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Thanks for sharing ...

These videos are entertaining.

Some people are SO CLUELESS and most aren't aware they're in the shallow end of the gene pool.

Take care ... stay safe

jinx
_________________
" It's not valuable unless you learn something from an experience. " Henry Ford

It's not unlike the same difference

You can't push a rope


VALVES (cold)
POINTS
TIMING
CARB (fully warmed engine)

SCRAPE ALL GROUNDS

My Craigslist rescued 100 footer :
1971 Standard Bug
1776cc dual port
034 distributor
38mm EGAS Carburetor
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
supercub
Samba Member


Joined: June 07, 2010
Posts: 358
Location: Wisconsin
supercub is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Here's one that came in at work a couple years ago for a flat tire. If I remember correctly, a caliper bolt fell out and the caliper shifted and ground through the rim. They probably had to drive it for a while grinding though to get it all the way through. Just turn up the radio more I guess. Some people.

Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.


Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Bonesberg55
Samba Member


Joined: January 18, 2012
Posts: 1271

Bonesberg55 is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 4:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Who.Me? wrote:
Yeah, I subscribed to that channel a while back.

There's a lot to be said for annual, mandatory safety/roadworthiness tests like we have in Europe.


You are right on! In most states here, emission testing is required in urban areas with no regard for whether or not a vehicle can stop or hit a bump without the front end coming apart.
In Illinois, safety inspection for light trucks used to be required but that was done away with a long time ago. Don't pollute the air but everything else is just fine. Idiots!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Jon Schmid
Samba Member


Joined: May 29, 2012
Posts: 2033
Location: Southern California
Jon Schmid is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 5:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Bonesberg55 wrote:
Who.Me? wrote:
Yeah, I subscribed to that channel a while back.

There's a lot to be said for annual, mandatory safety/roadworthiness tests like we have in Europe.


You are right on! In most states here, emission testing is required in urban areas with no regard for whether or not a vehicle can stop or hit a bump without the front end coming apart.
In Illinois, safety inspection for light trucks used to be required but that was done away with a long time ago. Don't pollute the air but everything else is just fine. Idiots!


I'm rather surprised that we don't have annual vehicle "inspections" here in CA. Another reason to fleece us drivers/vehicle owners with more "fees." Mad
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Classifieds Feedback
KTPhil Premium Member
Samba Member


Joined: April 06, 2006
Posts: 33879
Location: Conejo Valley, CA
KTPhil is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 7:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Jon Schmid wrote:
I'm rather surprised that we don't have annual vehicle "inspections" here in CA. Another reason to fleece us drivers/vehicle owners with more "fees." Mad


We used to have random (yeah, right) roadside inspections for smog and safety in California. Stopped in the mid-'70s, I think. They weren't comprehensive, but covered lights, tires, brakes.
Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Joe 20
Samba Member


Joined: August 27, 2005
Posts: 655
Location: Ohio
Joe 20 is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Ya, Ohio had them too. Stopped around the same time. They'd set up by the side of the road and pull over drivers at will. Usually young with a "hot rod." They were dreaded. If you did happen to pass they wanted to put an ugly sticker in your drivers side lower windshield...uhhh no thanks...can I just put it in the glove box? If you didn't pass it was a warning, ticket, or tow...up to them.
_________________
"Someday the world is gonna be populated by nothing but Volkswagens'" Corporal Klairvoy
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
TDCTDI
Samba Advocatus Diaboli


Joined: August 31, 2013
Posts: 12815
Location: North Carolina
TDCTDI is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Customer states…


It used to mak a grinding noise but then it stopped about three months ago…
Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.



But it started making that same noise on the other side last week.
_________________
Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
cdennisg
Samba Member


Joined: November 02, 2004
Posts: 20231
Location: Sandpoint, ID
cdennisg is offline 

PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Who.Me? wrote:
Yeah, I subscribed to that channel a while back.

There's a lot to be said for annual, mandatory safety/roadworthiness tests like we have in Europe.


That means you have to rely on the inspectors. At 1:57 in this episode, we see what they missed.


Link

_________________
nothing
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Gallery Classifieds Feedback
madmike
Samba Member


Joined: July 11, 2005
Posts: 5291
Location: Atlanta,Michigan
madmike is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 5:55 am    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

My Dad's Transmission shop, a young gal in a Pinto said she had a noise , I drove it in on the hoist and it locked up,lifted it up ,pulled inspection cove off the Differential, and "Metal Dust" hit me in the face, pin that holds the spiders fell out and locked it up Shocked we had a good laugh, then replace the whole dam thing, from the wreckers Wink
_________________
'Black Ice'Drag Buggy 'Turbo'
Rail Buggy 1915 turbo
76 Drag/Street bug 2180cc 'Turbo' 11:85 @113 mph"If I go any faster I'll burn up the Hamster" ,gets 28 mpg. also 10/09/22 11.90 @115 mph
"If I'm ever on Life Support,UNPLUG Me, Then Plug me back In see if that Works"
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Gallery Classifieds Feedback
oprn
Samba Member


Joined: November 13, 2016
Posts: 12632
Location: Western Canada
oprn is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:02 am    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

madmike wrote:
then replace the whole dam thing, from the wreckers Wink

The whole car... I hope... with something else that didn't explode on impact! Shocked Just about anything else you would find at a wreckers would be better than driving a Pinto! Wink
_________________
We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
oprn
Samba Member


Joined: November 13, 2016
Posts: 12632
Location: Western Canada
oprn is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:16 am    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

We used to have mandatory yearly inspections here too. The inspectors were a bunch of diehard anal jerks that would fail nearly every car that went through. That started in 1969 and Dad knew that the old '57 Plymouth Suburban Wagon would never pass so he bought a new '69 Bay Window Bus.

Well the new Bus failed! Headlights were adjusted too high! Dad told them it was because no one was sitting in the front seats, let me in there. Nope! Against the rules! No one is allowed in the cars when in the inspection bay.

Back at the dealership they confirmed that all VWs were failing due to headlight adjustment. They screwed the headlight adjusters down and put them back up after the car passed.

In 1971 government abandoned the mandatory inspections.
_________________
We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Bonesberg55
Samba Member


Joined: January 18, 2012
Posts: 1271

Bonesberg55 is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 8:26 am    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

When I was a kid in NJ back in the 60s, I usually went with my dad for his safety inspection. The only time he failed was in headlight aiming and it was with a new Rambler station wagon. They gave him a temporary sticker(30 days). He took it home, aimed the headlights himself, went back, and passed. You may not think that headlight aiming is a big deal until you're older and glare bothers you during night driving. There's also that super bright lighting that they allow now that discourages me from driving at all when its dark.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Jon Schmid
Samba Member


Joined: May 29, 2012
Posts: 2033
Location: Southern California
Jon Schmid is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:47 am    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

KTPhil wrote:
Jon Schmid wrote:
I'm rather surprised that we don't have annual vehicle "inspections" here in CA. Another reason to fleece us drivers/vehicle owners with more "fees." Mad


We used to have random (yeah, right) roadside inspections for smog and safety in California. Stopped in the mid-'70s, I think. They weren't comprehensive, but covered lights, tires, brakes.
Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.


I know we had the recent roadside smog monitors to allegedly measure traffic as it drove by. I was always waiting for some clown to pop me when I went by in my 356. Razz
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Classifieds Feedback
oprn
Samba Member


Joined: November 13, 2016
Posts: 12632
Location: Western Canada
oprn is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:05 am    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Bonesberg55 wrote:
When I was a kid in NJ back in the 60s, I usually went with my dad for his safety inspection. The only time he failed was in headlight aiming and it was with a new Rambler station wagon. They gave him a temporary sticker(30 days). He took it home, aimed the headlights himself, went back, and passed. You may not think that headlight aiming is a big deal until you're older and glare bothers you during night driving. There's also that super bright lighting that they allow now that discourages me from driving at all when its dark.

Yes I get it that headlight aiming is a safety thing but what the inspection morons failed to understand was that in a rear engine vehicle the load on the front axle and therefore the ride height AND headlight height was totally dependent on people sitting in the car!
_________________
We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
madmike
Samba Member


Joined: July 11, 2005
Posts: 5291
Location: Atlanta,Michigan
madmike is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 5:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

BITD,When Ford recalled the pintos for the gas tank thing,,all they did was pull one of the gas tank straps and slip a molded piece of Plastic under it, so the Diff don't rupture the tanks so easy,yea tank is right behind the Diff housing Rolling Eyes Laughing
_________________
'Black Ice'Drag Buggy 'Turbo'
Rail Buggy 1915 turbo
76 Drag/Street bug 2180cc 'Turbo' 11:85 @113 mph"If I go any faster I'll burn up the Hamster" ,gets 28 mpg. also 10/09/22 11.90 @115 mph
"If I'm ever on Life Support,UNPLUG Me, Then Plug me back In see if that Works"
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Zundfolge1432 Premium Member
Samba Member


Joined: June 13, 2004
Posts: 12454

Zundfolge1432 is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 5:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Glenn wrote:
No you haven't.

When you have time to kill, check them out.


I like stuff like that. Used to be most people knew a trusted mechanic that would look over the car while doing routine maintenance, self service stations took care of that. But rather than see it as a negative I see it as guaranteed work for a mechanic. I remember a fellow at work telling us his wife ruined the engine in their car because she put bubble gum over the oil pressure light because??? Because the light bothered her…
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
cbeck
Samba Member


Joined: January 14, 2014
Posts: 2494
Location: high ridge, mo
cbeck is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

oprn wrote:
madmike wrote:
then replace the whole dam thing, from the wreckers Wink

The whole car... I hope... with something else that didn't explode on impact! Shocked Just about anything else you would find at a wreckers would be better than driving a Pinto! Wink


Remember the exploding square body chevy truck? Where the slo mo cam showed the Estes rocket engine smoking under the fuel door moments before impact.
_________________
My cut in half and rebuild thread
www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=647779
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Gallery Classifieds Feedback
cdennisg
Samba Member


Joined: November 02, 2004
Posts: 20231
Location: Sandpoint, ID
cdennisg is offline 

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:16 pm    Post subject: Re: Think you've seen it all... Reply with quote

Zundfolge1432 wrote:
Glenn wrote:
No you haven't.

When you have time to kill, check them out.


I like stuff like that. Used to be most people knew a trusted mechanic that would look over the car while doing routine maintenance, self service stations took care of that. But rather than see it as a negative I see it as guaranteed work for a mechanic. I remember a fellow at work telling us his wife ruined the engine in their car because she put bubble gum over the oil pressure light because??? Because the light bothered her…


A friend of mine had an early 90's Honda Civic with massive miles on it, back in the late 90's. His wife had some sort of contract job with the US Forest Service over at Mt Rainier National Park one summer, and drove the Civic to and from here every two weeks (300 miles one way?).

One day she got home and he went to check out the car, and there was NO OIL! He asked her about it, and she said she saw the oil light come on, but" had a good feeling about it" so she kept driving. She drove about 100 miles with the oil light glaring. He added oil and kept driving the car for several more years, but the oil pressure had dropped significantly.
_________________
nothing
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Gallery Classifieds Feedback
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Forum Index -> Off Topic All times are Mountain Standard Time/Pacific Daylight Savings Time
Page: 1, 2  Next
Page 1 of 2

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

About | Help! | Advertise | Donate | Premium Membership | Privacy/Terms of Use | Contact Us | Site Map
Copyright © 1996-2023, Everett Barnes. All Rights Reserved.
Not affiliated with or sponsored by Volkswagen of America | Forum powered by phpBB
Links to eBay or other vendor sites may be affiliate links where the site receives compensation.