Everyone knows it's Festivus Season-

So let's start with the honorary "Airing of the Grievances".. get it off your chest so you can start the new year fresh. Keep it car related. This should get interesting...

1. Dad's driving mini-vans that try racing me every time i take my TSI to work. We get it dude, your life sucks but tuesday morning at 815am on the highway is not the time to prove how small of a D you really have. I'm going to let you pass me every single time. just watch out for that cop up there.

2. You bought a $12,000 evo. and you're going to charge me $500 for a used oem part you pulled off it to replace with a new $500 aftermarket performance part you bought.. Just stop. i'll give you $75 bucks and wont tell your mom you voided your dealer warranty.

1) People who act like assholes in their ads. Not a sentence goes by before you're told not to ask stupid questions or don't waste their time. You think I want to drive across the state and give you 5-10k cash when you're an asshole?

2) People who sells things without pictures or any information. "I have an Eagle Talon for sale"-OK, what kind, idiot? Don't make me work to find out about your product. I don't have to buy your car. You apparently need to sell it so make it easy for me.

^ there we go!

Vegas smith said:

2) People who sells things without pictures or any information. "I have an Eagle Talon for sale"-OK, what kind, idiot? Don't make me work to find out about your product. I don't have to buy your car. You apparently need to sell it so make it easy for me.

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100% agreed.

Ok I can't resist: People who describe their problem and:
1) Don't say what year (or generation), model, engine, tranny type, mods, non-factory stuff they have. Having to guess just the generation, model, and engine (size, turbo/NT, 6 bolt) is the worst as any answer is dependent on it. I then have to search through their past posts and hope it's mentioned somewhere and for the car he's presently asking about - what a waste of time! I'm volunteering my time/expertise everyday on here for free. Don't provide all the necessary info and I won't provide the answer.
2) Don't state what was recently done on the car which may be relevant.
3) Another bought a new alternator from AZ and battery is dead thread.
4) Any title that only says "Car Won't Start" and the post just says "Any ideas?". I just skip those.

Being an installer/tech, when ppl come in the week before christmas, and want to purchase a product, then have it installed that day. Not realizing that I'm booked out past jan. 15th. Then get pissed when they can't have have whatever it is in their time frame.

You're lack of proper planning does not denote an emergency on my part. Plenty of ppl managed to come get things done early or scheduled properly, instead of waiting till the last second to try and get a surprise rigged up.

And ppl in Subarus that can't drive in the snow }

People who have something for "sell".

An evo driving retard, who says my talon is the first evo, get out of my sight. Congratulations, you bought a evo and didn't have the first clue about a timing belt, or that you need replace it. So your wife drives it to work, throws the timing belt, and you spend 7k dollars having someone else build you a stock engine.

Or someone who comes up to you and the gas pump and asks,,,, " how much you boosting " or tell you about their turbo Honda delsuck... Or any vehicle that is " stanced" or "stretched" what completely ignorant stupid person came up with that. Congratulations, you have succeeded in advertising you are a utter moron .

And yes, you Mr Honda Odyssey driver that's doing 90mph on the highway with all of your kids in the car, now your going to kill yourself, and your offspring cause your in a hurry to something that's obviously more important than life

The bad evo owners in general, for sure. Oh you drive a DSM? That means you are immediately inferior to me and everything I do. Evos are just soooooo much better than DSMs will ever be. You're not worthy to be in my presence, peasant.

bravo guys

To add to giving advice to people.
1. When the first 20 people mention the same thing, but the owner won't listen and than finds out it was the problem that the first person mentioned but doesn't acknowledge they were right, and that they found out all by themselves without anybody's help.
2. When Subaru/Honda owners drive by and rev up to the max while I'm working my talon in the driveway. Then they keep driving up and down my road acting like idiots.
3. A pet peeve of mine, is when people don't stop at stop signs or use turn signals. Also, when the last person comes to the four way stop and goes first while there is 3 other people waiting to go.

When people speed up to drive next to me and they just rev there crappy whatever there mom lent them
then they take off like I care that there cars gas pedal works

My cars slow leave me alone she's not turbod anymore hah

For me it's when people stop at a yield sign and just sit there . It's a yield not a stop sign people!! We have all these round-abouts and they all have yields. I hate it when people stop or act like its so hard to go around a circle . People it's a circle that you can only go one way thru, so drive thru it. Don't stop and sit there and watch everyone else go thru it! Put your foot on the gas and go thru the dang thing.
I also hate people that can't make a simple left turn. Like when your sitting at a stop sign waiting to turn left onto a road. Then some slow truck comes and even though there's plenty of room if they would just turn properly. They for some reason don't seem to have the ability to make the simple turn. So instead they stop in the middle of the road holding up all the other traffic. Making things take way longer than they should. Then look at you like your a idiot and tell you to go ahead first. Then after you go they use half the other lane to turn . I just don't see why it's so difficult to do a simple left. I've even had a guy take the left completely into the right lane. Like instead of going in front of my car he goes next to me completly in the right lane. And acts like hes so cool for doing it. He would have cause a major head on if someone was coming. Complete idiot just because he didn't (or couldn't for some reason) want to make a proper left hand turn.
Fart can honduh owners that can't seem to understand how stupid there cars sound! They try to tell you the super jdm eBay brand exhaust name. Like your going to be impressed . Dude the car is slow, and sounds horrendous. And on top of that you can't shift! It's not a good thing to keep bouncing off the rev limiter
Anyways it's a festivus for the rest of us haha!

Getting older and realising the "bro" was actually not that bad of an idea.

The stretched tire look that makes the car resemble a wheelchair cause the rim sticks out so far. NJ has the worst roads in the world and your going to drive a slammed car with stretched tires 80 mph down the road and have the nerve to make fun of my stock height car on 16" Ha!

Won't be the last person I wave at stuck in the weeds on the side of the road with a blown tire and a destroyed rim.

Type1DSMr said:

3. A pet peeve of mine, is when people don't stop at stop signs or use turn signals. Also, when the last person comes to the four way stop and goes first while there is 3 other people waiting to go.

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My wife didn't understand why I refused to drive my car when I bought it until I got the turn signals fixed. This is why. I refuse to drive a car with non working turn signals. I don't want to be that asshole that I day dream of beating with a bat in traffic.

+1 on turn signals. Especially when i'm driving a loaded truck and some person in either a tiny hatchback or i-own-this-road SUV squeezes right in front without even signalling. First of all: no you don't, and second: my truck's front bumper is much cheaper than rear half of your SUV, so that's something for you to think about.
And while we are on topic of lane changes and SUVs: was driving a truck in rush hour and noticed that an exit was coming up shortly. Had to exit, so turned the signal on and SLOWLY started merging to the right. Few seconds later heard a horn from the right side. Turns out some person in an SUV saw the open spot and went for it, and of course they did not think to even slow down to let the big truck in. Luckily a semi driver (who was few cars behind) saw this whole thing and slowed down to let me merge.

1. Honduh owners who try to brag about their tampons to me, then inevitably say they're going to get a gsx.
2. Craigslist:
a) starting ad with "sup CL" or "whassup CL", etc.
b) never responding to ads. Do you want to sell or not? If sold, take down the damn post!
c) people who sell "rare" 2g eclipse parts than can be found in any junkyard off any n/t.

3. EBay:
a) people who don't know how to barter. What's the point of best offers if you can't haggle over price?
b) people who don't know how to bid, and think waiting til the last 30 seconds is the way to do it.
c) "guaranteed" used parts.

4) guys with giant trucks with small penises who like to rev their monster trucks at red lights because they hear my catless exhaust. Wow. After you realize you just got dusted by a guy in a tiny talon go home and watch WWE to make you feel better.

I'll think of more later...

3. EBay:
a) people who don't know how to barter. What's the point of best offers if you can't haggle over price?
b) people who don't know how to bid, and think waiting til the last 30 seconds is the way to do it.

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a) Totally agree. Rarely do people actually use it to barter.
b) Totally not true. If you want a deal, that's how its done. Only noobs bid things up so they can pay more.

And people who cant write a damn sentence.

No punctuation in posts. The whole paragraph is one, giant sentence.

"To" instead of "too". "There" instead of "their".

b) Totally not true. If you want a deal, that's how its done. Only noobs bid things so they can pay more.


Snipers rarely win, or wind up paying more than they intended. I've had enormous success using the max bid method when I'm the first bidder. Just picked up a BNIB Megan racing rad for $80. Happy festivus to me.
http://www.ebay.com/gds/How-Bidding-Works-on-eBay-and-How-to-WIN-/10000000175182135/g.html

And now for the feats of strength...

This thread is all i could've ever imagined.

That! That makes me mad, look at that! I can't even begin to think of what to say.

It looks like a big ass shopping cart

I try and do the right thing, as I would want it to be done for me, but i'm still a dick. So, almost everyone bothers me.

ps. don't ask how I feel about hacked together DSM's.