Prior to this week, if you asked me if a bottle of Pepsi could serve as coolant, I would have put my hand on your forehead to make sure you’re not suffering from a fever. Yet, thanks to the madlads of Garbage Time, I now know that you can use Pepsi as coolant in a car, at least for a short time. But what else can you use Pepsi for?
Well, Lewin is on a roll, writing articles about seemingly insane things that you could do to your car that somehow work, like pouring water into your engine to remove carbon build-up. Naturally, there’s only one question, from Drew:
But how does Pepsi work for this?
The answer from A. Barth wins one of my favorite COTD nominations in recent memory:
It’s pretty sweet, but you have to use flat Pepsi.
You’re trying to clean the carbon out of the engine, right? But Pepsi is carbonated, so if you just poured it in you would actually be ADDING carbon to the combustion chambers and that’s no bueno. Be sure to shake the soda a lot first so you can get all of that carbonation out of there.
Bravo, bravo. I can’t stop laughing and I thank you for it!
Today, Thomas wrote about how another coupe has been sent to live on a farm upstate. It’s always sad to lose coupes, convertibles, and sedans, but the crossover is still on a path of world domination. It’s wild to think that a lot of folks out there are celebrating independence, but aren’t doing it by buying small cars, as V10omous notes:
People having fewer kids than ever but also buying fewer coupes and convertibles than ever is one of those trends that I wouldn’t have predicted.
Why do so many DINK couples need to *both* drive compact luxury CUVs?
Look, I’m trying! Most of my vehicles are motorcycles, wagons, and coupes! Though, I suppose the bus does offset things a little. Speaking of dying car classes, Nissan might be killing off three of its sedans, but it can redeem itself, from Abdominal Snoman:
I so hope they make a special edition of the Altima EV with a massive 200KW battery and call it the “Big Altima Energy Edition.” Bonus points if one of the rims is a spare.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Look at that little nugget! Somebody has been watching Garbage Time. BRUCE!
Thank you very much! 😀
And a crisp high-five to Drew for the setup 🙂
I took the low-hanging fruit. You worked some magic with it.
bonus if all 4 are donuts! Congrats on COTD
Forget DINKs, it’s Dunkin’ Edition.
I don’t get the multiples of the same (boring) vehicle, either. I live in an uppity neighborhood and several neighbors have 4-5 cars, all of which are non-colored SUVs and maybe a big sedan, some even have multiples of the same boring thing. Only one neighbor has a coupe—old 911—and another had an (orange!) I-Pace that didn’t stick around long. Porsche guy’s green Rivian R1T also seems to have come and gone.
I live in a bit of an uppity neighborhood as well, and I took see lots of odd pairings of vehicles. I can count on two hands the number of folks on my street and the next street over who either have two of the same class of vehicle (3-row SUV, mostly) or two of the exact same vehicles. It’s really odd.
My neighbours have two SUVs, yet they used to give me shit for having two cars “the same” for the four years I had a Z4 Coupe and my GT86.
My cars weren’t the same at all, one had steering feel and tiny rear seats, the other had a wonderful engine and a hatch I could fit a mountain bike in. I assume they can find similar significant differences between their Ford Puma (the SUV that uses the name from an old sporty coupe, I wonder if there is a pattern there Ford?) and whatever their other one is. A SEAT something?
One of my neighbours has an X5 and a Range Rover. It’s like they read a comparison test in a magazine and bought both cars.
Neighbors two houses down for years had two Toyota Highlanders, one a 2017 and the other a 2018. The 2017 was recently traded in for a Lexus RX450h, but only because they couldn’t get their hands on a new Highlander Hybrid. Nice folks, but they only have a family of three…
A neighbor has his and hers Chevy Silverado’s, both appear to be the same model year and both are white. They also had a white Subaru, but they traded that in on a white Mercedes Wagon. There is also a fourth white car, maybe a Chevy Impalabu, but I can be sure after all the whiteness, I fell into a state of ennui.
A family on my street has 3 white XC-90s. I am guessing one for each parent and one for the teenager?
I live in a non-uppity neighborhood and there is a house with 3 Jeep renegades and nothing else. It terrifies me every time I walk by
Perhaps it’s just one person and they rotate so as not to put too much stress on any one vehicle? 🙂
I think it’s so they have backup transmissions when one inevitably fails
This is strange I see it too! I even commented about it to my wife when we drive by, why do they have an Escalade AND a GLS450? It still doesn’t bother me as much as a person that lives on the cross street to me who has 4 vehicles and even though he has a walkout basement garage, has his cars all over the street messing up the already tight ass parking on my crowded street. Who needs a POS 90s Mirage, POS 90s F150, POS Plymouth Voyager, and POS Subaru? Don’t answer that.
Seen a bunch of those, too—they have way more shitty, unreliable cars than they can possibly have people in the house. Why not just have two good ones! Or the other is the abandoned junker that was never a good car even new, isn’t worth much even in good running order, and won’t ever be worth anything (especially sitting out to rot for a decade or more covered in tree shit and filled with vermin). What are they keeping it around for? Junk the POS. Hoarders, OK, it’s some kind of mental illness, but I see this on properties that otherwise look decently maintained and not packed with other junk.
Obvs the dinks need a crossover or SUV for their dogs.
Don’t dunk on DINKs, it’s not dank. Let ’em get a donk. And no, denk isn’t a word.
How wrong you are!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denk_(political_party)
Dang.
My wife and I are technically SINKs, but most of our friends are DINKs. You’re not wrong. You gotta have one utility vehicle for dog hauling and stuff. But we’ve also got three sports cars, so I think that covers us.
My next door neighbors (and good friends) are the disappointment that V10omous is talking about. She bought a CRV, and when it came time for him to get a new ride, we talked about Civic Si, Integra, Giulia, etc. until one day he showed up with… a Forrester. (facepalm)
Yeah I have both kids and a dog and still own only one vehicle capable of transporting the dog.
Any vehicle can transport a dog if you get close enough.
source: have transported a a Great Dane in a Pontiac Vibe and a Great Pyrenees in a Kia Soul.
Part of the issue is my mastiff is too scared/big/uncoordinated/old to jump into anything higher than my minivan. And I certainly can’t lift him in against his will. So it’s not just the willingness of the driver that makes the difference!
Can relate to this. Rottweiler here.
Assumes every car ride equals a trip to the Vet.
You need a little ramp.