Doesn't any of todays teens work on cars anymore?
I am from PA and that's what we did, we would go over to a friends house on a Friday evening with some beer and start working on it together. When the friends dad came home from work, he would come out and help too.

All the houses had garages up in PA, so we could work on them year around.
Seems like nowadays all the teens are playing sports or video games, cant make no money like that

I'm sure back in pennsyltucky or some other shit hole they are still working on their own cars.

Dude, there's no app for that.

MillennitardX Wrote:
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> Dude, there's no app for that.

Funny enough the apps is where you get all the gains with modern cars. Bolt-ons don't give you much gains compared to a simple tune.

pennsyltucky Wrote:
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> MillennitardX Wrote:
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> > Dude, there's no app for that.
>
> Funny enough the apps is where you get all the
> gains with modern cars. Bolt-ons don't give you
> much gains compared to a simple tune.


Not really. Bolt on a supercharger and the rest that goes along with it and tell me that a 'tune' makes more difference. Or a different rear end. Or much better brakes. Coil-overs. On and on...

But then a lot already have things like a turbo so boosting and changing fuel mix is easy and effective via software and most don't want to be changing their cars much beyond that.

PAbornnbred Wrote:
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> Doesn't any of todays teens work on cars anymore?
> I am from PA and that's what we did, we would go
> over to a friends house on a Friday evening with
> some beer and start working on it together. When
> the friends dad came home from work, he would come
> out and help too.
>
> All the houses had garages up in PA, so we could
> work on them year around.
> Seems like nowadays all the teens are playing
> sports or video games, cant make no money like
> that

Are you kidding me?

These kids are incapable of:
- exchanging greetings with others
- conversing with others
- listening with on open mind
- accepting a opinion differing from their own
- following rules without protest
- reading a book
- putting down their device
- removing headsets/earphones
- thinking of others (empathy)

Show me a kid that IS CAPABLE of doing
any of these things and I'll bet there mother
Was addicted to crack or dropped the kid on its
head as an infant.

So far as I'm concerned, these kids may as well lice in a cave.

My dad leased me a BMW Convertible 2 months ago when I graduated so I had something to drive when I start at UVA this fall.

We sent our daughter off the Wharton in a 10 year old Camry.

pennsyltucky Wrote:
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> I'm sure back in pennsyltucky or some other shit
> hole they are still working on their own cars.


As if Virginia is any less of a shit hole than Pennsylvania..

440 6-pack Wrote:

> So far as I'm concerned, these kids may as well
> lice in a cave.

Their parents ain't nothing to write home about either.

When Juniors Bentley needs work, I just have James take it to the shop.

Meh... Wrote:
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> pennsyltucky Wrote:
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> > MillennitardX Wrote:
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> > > Dude, there's no app for that.
> >
> > Funny enough the apps is where you get all the
> > gains with modern cars. Bolt-ons don't give you
> > much gains compared to a simple tune.
>
>
> Not really. Bolt on a supercharger and the rest
> that goes along with it and tell me that a 'tune'
> makes more difference. Or a different rear end.
> Or much better brakes. Coil-overs. On and on...
>
>
> But then a lot already have things like a turbo so
> boosting and changing fuel mix is easy and
> effective via software and most don't want to be
> changing their cars much beyond that.

A supercharger is not what is typically considered a "bolt-on" and I have a car with FBO and it's completely N/A.

I am from Johnstown PA and my dad was the auto shop teacher. We use to do the same thing, work on everyone's cars growing up. All the jocks would make fun of us, but when their cars wouldn't run, they would buddy up to us and want us to fix them.

I can remember picking up my girl friend at school one day and did a 10k burnout in front of the school. Those were the days

A lot of kids around here are the "intellectual" types. They are studying to get into Ivys, learning how to code or other things like that. Working on cars is simply beneath them.

In this area of highly educated fools, working with your hands is frowned on. No parent wants his/her child to be less than a PhD. Around here, you are a member of the educated elites, or you are a pee-on.

One poor underemployed milenial is shit for brains crazy for automotive, technical, cooking, everything.
Quite rare!

SumMo Wrote:
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> In this area of highly educated fools, working
> with your hands is frowned on. No parent wants
> his/her child to be less than a PhD. Around here,
> you are a member of the educated elites, or you
> are a pee-on.


Would be funny if their AC broke on the hottest day of the year and they couldn't find anyone competent to fix it.

A day in a milenial life:

Wake up & update Facebook status

Make avocado toast & Instagram/snapchat pic to the world

Gaze at a mirror

Update Facebook

Ask Alexa to stream my favorite orgasmafodder_

Tell Alexa that it was stupid

Update Facebook

Livestream self dancing to Migos

Check snapchat & Instagram

Continued. ..

My stepson is gay. He spends all of his time seeking cock. I'd be shocked if he knew how to operate a screwdriver.

It's illegal to work on cars insulin gton unless you work o them in your garage

It’s not the 70s anymore grandpa. Kids aren’t mechanically inclined anymore.

SumMo Wrote:
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> In this area of highly educated fools, working
> with your hands is frowned on. No parent wants
> his/her child to be less than a PhD. Around here,
> you are a member of the educated elites, or you
> are a pee-on.

Well, we know where you rank on that scale. Actually, what used to be 'auto shop' has become a college-level computer class these days. The idea of kids working on cars in the garage went out with Lyndon Johnson.

Stragglers... Wrote:
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> SumMo Wrote:
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> > In this area of highly educated fools, working
> > with your hands is frowned on. No parent wants
> > his/her child to be less than a PhD. Around
> here,
> > you are a member of the educated elites, or you
> > are a pee-on.
>
> Well, we know where you rank on that scale.
> Actually, what used to be 'auto shop' has become a
> college-level computer class these days. The idea
> of kids working on cars in the garage went out
> with Lyndon Johnson.

And just where do I rank?

They pack all this shit in cars so tight you can't work on them without taking half of it apart.

I have a 1948 Ford rag top. It's easy to work on. plenty of room to do the work. runs on regular. I have a 2016 Fusion hybrid, too. I still haven't figured out where you change the oil filter.

FRINGSGROP Wrote:


> I have a 2016 Fusion hybrid, too. I still haven't
> figured out where you change the oil filter.

I am SURE there is a Youtube video showing how to change the oil on that car.

I have a Chevy Volt. I bought the factory service manuals for it. $250, 4 volumes, each about 2 inches thick.

I also bought a GM MDI scantool interface for it. $130 on Ebay. Now I can do everything the dealer can, if not more...because...well..have you seen some of the dipshits they have working at the dealers around here?

Just because the guy has all of the dealership tools at his disposal doesn't mean he's got the brains or the motivation to use them.

Anyway, money for both well spent, in my opinion.

I had to change the electric coolant pump in it which I did myself (it's well out of warranty) and both the scan tool interface and the shop manuals were helpful.

FRINGSGROP Wrote:
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> They pack all this shit in cars so tight you can't
> work on them without taking half of it apart.
>
> I have a 1948 Ford rag top. It's easy to work on.
> plenty of room to do the work. runs on regular.
> I have a 2016 Fusion hybrid, too. I still haven't
> figured out where you change the oil filter.


On the other hand you have a lot more resources these days for working on your car.

E.G your Ford - https://youtu.be/mnVg_EEGyYU?t=104

took all of 5 seconds to find

We signed my oldest son up for an auto maintenance class when he was 15. At the end he was able to strip and reassemble a car. He spent the next two summers working in an auto shop. Now he takes his car to the shop for oil changes and tire rotations.

It isn't just knowledge and skill. It is also inclination. Working on cars for him, like for me, wasn't a social experience. It was a job that needed to be done. Now that he's got a "real job" making "real money" he assumes that his evenings and weekends should be his "fun time". rather than a chance to do car maintenance or home maintenance.

That's what we did up in PA.
Back in 1975 when I was 17 I bought 64 Chevy impala for $150 me and my friends worked on that car for a few weekends and got to run like a champ.
It had a 327 with a 4 barrel carb dual exhaust that thing would out run any car around. I sold it a few years later for $2000. I will never forget those days working with my friends on my car and their cars. Wouldn't trade it for the world

You wouldn't make it a day in Fairfax county in this day and age with a cool modded car like that. Cops would be on you like flies on shit.

I worked on my wife's SUV. Turned out to be a simple fix, but used the laptop to verify there were no stored codes (everything is computers today), but then went back and looked at the basics. Found the Central lock fuse was blown. Swapped a new one, all done. The dealer would have charged $250, at least.

Then, also spent time in my garage working on my classic cars. Yes, I have more than one. It's a fun hobby, and all the stuff I learned in auto mechanics class in HS pays dividends. I rarely use a dealer for service. The brakes on my wife's SUV, for example, were over $800/axle on the estimate the previous owner had. I did the work for under $150. Oil changes, over $200 (takes close to 10 quarts of Mobil1), I can change for under $70, including washer and filter cartridge.

There used to be a LOT of great cars in Fairfax County. Not so much, anymore.

blink wrong and its reckless Wrote:
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> You wouldn't make it a day in Fairfax county in
> this day and age with a cool modded car like that.
> Cops would be on you like flies on shit.


Tell me about it. I had to give up my old cadillac because the cops would not stop pulling me over even though it was over 25 years old, CLEAN with a fresh paint job and everything (not all primered/rusted out it SHINED) and i had the hard white tags so it was fully legal, not even the antique tags, i had it purring like a kitten legit passing inspection AND emissions. They had NO PC to pull me over except the fact i looked out of place with my 80's caddy among the '00 hondas and trucks usually running around here.

Got old getting pulled over every other weekend with them assuming i was some thug or something. They'd see me rolling (LOL) pull me over run my license and let me go as i was legal, one or 2 even tried to search but i declined... but it just got old.

Now i am in a nondescript foreign car and HATE IT but it blends in with everyone else. I wanted to pass it on to my son, but figured he would be harassed WORSE since he is young.