Thing makes noise wallet goes empty

Just turn the music up

I finally fixed the radio in my truck so I don't have to listen to the piston slap!

As a mechanic, you can pay me now to deal with it, or 10x as much if you ignore it.

It would help if there wasn’t a tendency for mechanics to fleece people who don’t understand cars. When I looked like a young woman, huge difference in the way I was treated - I needed to bring my dad.
Hell, the entire industry seems to be built on fleecing people. My stepdad was a finance guy for dealerships and he would fuck over anyone, friends and family included.
I’d love to opt out of car ownership entirely, but that’s literally the only way I can get to work. Need to pay a dickload to maintain the thing that gets me paid.
As a “mechanic” myself, I can say: many people mean, if we wouldn’t have the TÜV (car inspection) every 2 years in Germany, they would neglect so much! I’m talking, no oil change, no new tires, even with barely any profile left, no new brakes…
- Ist das beim TÜV auch gestaffelt, dass Neuwagen noch nicht so oft müssen?
  Bei uns in der Schweiz ist es typischerweise so 5, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2 Jahre. Aber wie immer sind wir zu föderalistisch, als dass es einheitlich wäre
- Same in the UK. We have an annual MOT tests and even with that some drivers let their cars slide so much.

It's just a slight rattling, what could go wrong if I ignore it for a while?

The front fell off
- That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
- So close to being 9front

New noises don't bother me. The amount of things that can shake rattle and roll (it's a mess but it's all tools and things I need for work) means a new sound pops up every week.

It's the new slightly different vibration that sketches me out.

Ever so slightly up/down vibration that you can barely feel when you get to 70? Congrats, next week when you drive to work you'll hit a bump at 15 and the whole ~~front~~ bottom falls off. And now you have 3 other problems because drive shafts start flying all over and smashing into things when they break.

No, I love vehicle ownership and definitely wouldn't prefer to relax on high speed rail for 20 minutes with a rolling bag/tool box or literally any other form of mass transit...

Sacramento Police department has a helicopter, Air One, that the department is super proud of. I live in a not-rich neighborhood where Air One likes to hang out and help which sometimes includes shouting inaudibly on the PA. Air One has its own webpage which is sometimes current about what it's doing, but not always.

Air One also likes to fly low enough that we can hear the thumping of the rotors through our apartments. At 11pm on a school night. We know it doesn't have to because the rescue choppers zing by quietly on their way.

And lately Air One has gotten, whinier. This loud screeee! that wasn't their before that makes me think something in the rotors is not sufficiently oiled, or something is about to fall apart. I wonder if Air One is soon going to make an unscheduled landing in my neighborhood.

What kind of dystopian future is this?
- It’s called dystopian present.
Air One sees this post as a threat. Air One doesn’t like it one bit. Air One sees you when you are sleeping. Air One also likes watching the Oakland Athletics play and uses crime as an excuse to get the best seat. Air One wants a friend to join them. Air Two is coming to town later. Air One uses a screeching mating call to attract Air Two. Air Two ignored me, Air One Sad.

Good thing I have a bike. My car broke down like 4 years ago, been biking since. People scare me, so I don't have places to be.

new my bike makes new noises
- A whole-ass new bicycle is cheaper than basically any car repair. Bicycles are so cheap in comparison to cars it's not even funny.

It's like learning a loved one is sick again.

"Again!? I really cannot afford this shit, babe!!!"

The violent rumbling is actually a relaxing massage.

ahh, my butt needed a glrbl on the wrbls

I have a 2002 Skoda. I don't care about new noise. New smells, however...

No noises after 105100km on my Toyota :) (65000 miles for my fellow freedom lemmyers)

65k is nothing for a Toyota, that car is a baby
my 123541 miles Toyota is purring like a new born baby.
About the same with my vw passat.
Do you follow the suggested service program?
- Of course, I do regular maintenance. Never been to a mechanic for a problem though, only to change oil filters and such

Your car is trying to entertain you every day with a new noise

Tonight I'm at work and roomie texts a video of a water leak probably from the ancient upstairs bathtub faucet...that's embedded in tile. Fucking tile. FUCK.

The month prior the faucet vibrated loudly when I tried to use it. The plunger failing to seat. Guess it caused a crack.

Cars are sentient beings that have gained ascension through acceptance of their fate. Humans should be killed to liberate the cars.

Makes sense to me, I know my Disney movies

As a Petrolhead, new noises mean "I hope thats a part I want an excuse to need to spend money on."

Really, yes it needs brake pads and rotors, but thats like $300. For $300 I got a set of calipers, near new rotors and barely used pads off a facebook group member breaking a higher spec model, then spent another $200 on braided brake lines because its basically no more work if I'm doing the calipers anyway.

Had this happen recently. Turned out to be a stick that was wedged up into the hub and rubbing on the wheel. But then in the process of removing the stick I found that the wheel was fused to the brake drum and no amount of kicking or banging on it with a sledge would knock it loose. Waiting for a dry weekend to take a more aggressive approach to dealing with that problem...

I read cat instead of car and was confused about the sad dog.

sad dog.
Pink Panther: am I a joke to you?

My mom's Nissan Juke just started screaming, 'Oh laaadyyy!' whenever she starts it.

Any idea what's going on? It's a '16, only about 40k miles.

Deadassss