I’d be willing to bet you wouldn’t buy a car from him.
I thought Pit threads were for putting swear words next to unusual nouns.
Fuckwaffle.
My thoughts exactly.
Jadis, this is a blatant accusation of trolling. Consider this a warning not to do it again.
TVeblen
Pit mod
Seriously, what’s the problem here. As the GQ thread explained, it appears quite possible to spend more on oil-changes than you’ll ever see returned to you in extended life in the car, especially if you do it every 3,000 miles. Now, I don’t think that letting it go 100,000 is that good of an idea, but if his car breaks, he’ll buy a new one.
Unlike what other posters suggested, this is most definitely not like telling your kid just to stop eating for a couple of days so that he can go to a strip club. Also, no, you can’t hear his long-chain hydrocarbons screaming from 100 miles away.
Alas, it’s more like 500 or a thousand, and you can only hear them late at night, asleep, in your dreams. They chitter like some vast insect horde on the edges of reality. “Free us, free us!” they cry, but who will listen, and what will they do if granted the release they so desperately crave?
Won’t somebody please think of the lubricants!
Are we talking about the car or the swinger’s club, now?
The amount of time and energy spent on this lame pit is preposterous.
I think this is just another case of ol’ Roland being too juicy of a target to pass up. I have seen many accusations of attention-seeking made against them, but damned if there aren’t a dozen people on here who enable it.
The guy has got enough problems, none of them involve you, and an oil change is the least of them. Get a grip.
Is that a new menu item at Waffle House?
What kind of syrup comes on them there fuckwaffles? I think I want mine plain.
Yep, he seems to have some real problems going on with money and worrying about failing nursing school (as a nursing school failee I can understand his fears).
But this is just bad judgment on his part. The way people ‘point it out’ to him may or may not help him, who knows. But if a person has money problems then not spending $30 a year to avoid ruining an engine is a terrible idea, and so is the idea of spending thousands to repair a car that is falling apart and has a street value of $900. Some people have to help themselves first and foremost.
Maybe it’s a new menu item at the swing club.
I’ve arrived at the point that I think there are two real possibilities:
1.) I’m not allowed to say, but if so, he’s been moderately successful at it, or
2.) The guy’s for real real, and we won’t have to worry about him for more than about a year, as his toenails grow out of control, curl around and sever some major blood vessel.
Goodnight, Roland.
For the love of Og…what’d I DO?!?!
A few points in response:
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Isn’t there already a pit thread devoted to why I’m insane, lazy, sociopathic, “a troll”, and just plain wrong? What’s the point in starting another?
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Look my car has over 310,000 miles when your car gets that many miles then bitch at me about my auto maintenance. Of course you are correct in that there are many times that I could afford to get the oil changed and just don’t take the time (I think I even pointed out that there was a certain morbid fascination that I had developed to see just how long I can go). We live 20 minutes outside of town (between Indianapolis and Shelbyville) and there is nothing that is real convenient. In addition, I work full time and go to school in Muncie (about an hour and ten minute commute each way).
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The swing club would be free and paid for by my wife’s nursing buddies if we go. As for eating out my wife says that SHE WILL eat out a few times per month it’s up to me if I wish to join her. The same goes for cable in fact our only account is in her name, and her name alone.
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If I have a defining characteristic it is that I hate the so called conventional wisdom and feel compelled to challenge it at every turn. Of course I realize that the CW is often correct (or at least partly so), but I hate it and everything it stands for just the same. The first time I remember thinking about this issue must have been when I was in the first or second grade and my parents encouraged me to “suck up” to teachers to get better grades. I remember thinking " well just for that I will go out of my way never be more than distantly cold to teachers because I don’t want any favors". I remember thinking the same thing when I was about ten and my mom “kidded” me that I would soon be chasing girls. I remember saying nothing but thinking “just for that I swear never to ask a girl out in my entire life”, and I haven’t. To me the CW represents fate, authority and all that jazz. Screw it all I’d rather die and burn in Hell for eternity than accept that reality (and I’m still a conservative/libertarian Republican). At the same time I realize that this attitude is illogical, counterproductive, and most of all damaging of my ability to be a responsible husband and father. Thus, I repress this attitude MOST of the time in the real world, but find that it slips out much more in “cyberspace”.
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Everyone seems to think my position of putting money into a $900.00 car is completely off base. Well I’ve got news for you folks I got the idea from somebody else. It was about six years ago and I was driving out in Randolph County to a typically hopeless mortgage “sales call” and listening to the only radio station I could get on radio with a busted antennae (yes it’s still broken). It was “Car Talk” with those brothers Ray and something, something. Anyway, they were telling someone that it’s almost ALWAYS cheaper to keep and repair the car you have than to buy another if cost is your primary concern. In truth, this was “news” to me since I had been raised in the CW that you shouldn’t sink “good money into bad” . So go argue with the master mechanics at Car Talk it was their idea.
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One thing that I can’t seem to convey successfully to “you guys” is the notion that asking a question doesn’t necessarily mean that I endorse or approve of a behavior (for the record I will even stipulate to the fact that I sometimes act like an immature, lazy piece of shit). For example, when I crafted the “car question” I was more curious than anything. Unfortunately, when people started “preaching” at me I digressed into defending my actions rather than sticking to the original OP. Just because I ask “would putting large tanks on the roof of building solve high rise fires” doesn’t mean that I’ve filed a patent or anything. Often I’m just looking for dispassionate analysis of my ponderings. Indeed, I wouldn’t even feel a need to defend my position in most cases if people would instead reply in a less judemental manner (and yet still one which conveyed their position). Let me illustrate with what I would consider to be a hypothetical “perfect” response to my question about my car:
Question by Roland D. : “Why does my car still run with over 300K miles despite the fact that I haven’t changed the oil for over 100K miles?”
Answer: Well Roland, in reply to your query the following points may be relevent:
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There are many possibilities perhaps the fact that you drive a great many miles burns off contaminants. Also, you indicated that you have to add oil about every 1,500 miles perhaps this supplies sufficient new lubricant to maintain friction reduction. It’s even possible that the Duralube that you indicated that you added is playing a role despite the fact that I’m not aware of any studies which prove its effectiveness.
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Note however at some point some of the “sludge” which is undoubtably building up will probably dislodge internally, block your oil pump and you will likely experience catastrophic engine failure (unless of course those “infomercials” about Duralube are correct and the Second Law of Thermodynamics is really just a load of bunk in which case you don’t even need an oil pump since the magic lube goes right on lubricating with its permanent “slick” layer. Then again maybe your car runs on dilithium crystals and won’t even need an engine.
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Roland, consider that you can find a few two pack a day smokers who eat biscuits and gravy every morning for breakfast and still lived to be 80. Maybe its just one giant oil changing conspiracy that auto mechanics have concocted in order to generate additional revenue. Then again maybe all those studies showing that smoking causes lung cancer are just one giant load of BS as well. The question you’ve got to ask yourself is “do I feel lucky?” On the other hand if you were 80 and smoked, I wouldn’t tell you to go out and get the patch to quit because baby that ship’s already cleared the Panama canal headed for Easter Island with a broken sail. Even if your car gets 700K miles I’ll always wonder if maybe you couldn’t have given your hero Al Bundy’s Dodge a run for it’s money and seen a cool million. You mentioned in a different post that you consider your obesity to be a sin because it represents disregard for the body that you believe that God gave you (although I’m agnostic we’re talking about you here so cut me some slack). Is this so different? Don’t spit on God’s gifts whether they are a physical body or a piece of Japanese aluminum since both play an essential role in your accomplishing his goals for your life. Not to mention the fact that most nursing school instructors don’t take the excuse of “not changing your oil” as a reason for missing class or clinicals. Now get your ass offline and go study before I have to come see you in person.
Nothing Roland. This is a really odd pitting.
FTR, some of us have cars that are worth less than 10 oil changes. 
Yes, it’s our own fault but the fact remains…
Stupid KBB, refusing cites.
It’s a fair condition '88 Jeep Cherokee with some mechanical problems related to the 4wd.