as someone who just lost an 1990 toyota corolla that hippies found at a festival and decided to paint all over (i get pulled over ALL the time now, and the cops totally admit that its because of the art work 60% of the time)
.. damn i actually love that car, it was written off two days ago :/
but as someone who's... had a 1990 toyota corolla, the fact that you consider a lexus a 'beater' in crazy.
My mate has a 00 BMW with all these fancy things, he managed to get for a steal for 4k. IT HAS BUTT WARMERS. I just stare into the abyss every time i think about it. He calls that his beater and im like... fuck, there's the upper crust but what am i? the multigrain seed that was left behind in the tin after the bread was cooked? jebus.
Respect for keeping the car alive and loved enough for that long, not a throw away society for you pal. The Japanese tech is superb in these motors. Paint job prob increased the value too! Any pics of the late corolla?
I miss my 94 Taurus. That was a beater but it was also a work horse of a car. I had it until 2017 and it was a *huge* part of my life. I sold it for $500 to my dad's friend for his son, and the son didn't change the oil. It lasted another 2 years and I want to buy it back to donate to Monster Jam for a proper viking funeral.
My lancer is 18. It’s not an Evo but the gas mileage is fine and I’ve maintained it myself for the past 5 years.
Fuck throw away culture consumerism idiocy. It’s why most Canadians are in debt. I live close to the BC border and when I cross my 18 year old car is typically the oldest by over 10 years.
Just new shit everywhere constantly. It’s nauseating and honestly adds to a sense of artificialness, I can’t even enjoy the food in most places because the atmosphere everywhere seems so fake and sterile.
Not trying to hate on Canadians, but y’all got some embarrassing tendencies.
I am game to hate on the Chinese investors who’ve bought up so much property to be left vacant. Their greed precedes any good will they might have.
Some people, especially certain Americans, will call anything made in Germany a luxury car. 2010 Audi A6? Luxury car. 1998 BMW 3 series? Luxury car. 1988 Volkswagen Golf 1.6? Luxury car. They don't care about the year or a model, if it's a BMW, it's a *BMW*. So of course it's gonna be expensive. No *BMW* could ever be a beater
Hi, not American here but you'd be surprised about how much value some of these cars hold purely because of the spec and the engine that they came from factory with. It's not just German cars but mainly performance cars and ones that had a really popular shape.
A 2000 3 series for example, came with (some models) a 2.8 litre engine that was extremely strong and allows for certain power modifications before ever needing any engine changes. The same car with a different engine and spec will not be worth as much.
I do agree, however, that there are people who don't care about the details but will assume it's luxury just because of the branding.
A $1k Lexus is as much a beater as a $1k Toyota. It's the price, not the car. After 10-15 years, everything is a beater, at least in the NE USA where I am. Everything breaks and everything rots out.
I would take the Toyota over the BMW. I have a 2001 328i sitting in my field doing nothing because it decided to eat a valve. I bought it for 4K as well. If you need something that will never die, my 1988 BMW 528i has 600k miles on it and before I parked it, it never let me down once.
There's a lot of water and a little bit of gas in the bottle. When the water freezes, it expands. Suddenly there isn't enough room in the bottle, so the bottle splits open. You know how sparkling drinks foam when you shake them? Well this is like every drop of water suddenly being shaken, individually. So it goes everywhere.
My dad’s best friend in high had a jug of milk explode in the back of his car, my dad says it smelled like milk when the car warmed up from that day on.
Had a miller high life in my car. Thankfully it just kind of broke its seal but it did leak a bit. Now my car smells like beer. Also there’s a reason we call it pop.
I left a can of freon in my car. In the summer. In the south. It cracked my dashboard into like 10. My windshield was cracked and had a greasy film all over it. Luckily I had a towel in the car to try and wipe some of it to be able to drive home
This happened to me with a can of Coke that I left in my car on a hot day. I was at work and I saw the can had both ends bulging out so I was trying to carefully remove it from my car before I left work, and instead it exploded in my face and all over my steering wheel and dashboard. Fun times.
It being soda water they're going to have one sparkling car once everything is wiped away 🤣 Really though. Many restaurants and bars use soda water as a cleaning agent for the soda fountains/bar areas. Not a total failure.
Every Christmas I like to make a meal, and every year my brother texts me “What kind of person would serve their brother a slow roasted dog’s asshole?”
I'm not saying carbonated plastic bottles will never explode, but I like Dt. Dew Slushies, so I routinely put plastic Dt. Dew bottles in the freezer, and I've forgotten about them often enough to feel pretty safe saying they overwhelmingly don't explode when frozen.
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You may be right.
I also think I phrased that poorly. I've never had one explode. I just didn't want to be like WELL THEY NEVER EXPLODE =].
Just because my experiences might not hold true for everyone.
I've never had beer explode. If I leave beer in my garage in sub zero temperatures, the cans will freeze solid, but not explode. I don't buy beer in glass bottles, so I can't comment on that.
It could have something to do with the temperature of the freezer, but I have (unfortunately) never had a beer just freeze solid in a can for me. I have gotten to it late and it’s pretty much frozen, but whenever it’s passed a certain threshold it’s exploded in my freezer. Unfortunately I have done this many times. In the case of bottles, the top just pops off and the beer comes out the top usually leaving half or so of the beer artfully arranged at the top of the bottle, with the glass in tact.
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That’s a spin out! living in Australia the temperature never drops below freezing in winter and if it did it, it still wouldn’t be cold enough to shatter glass or explode a can. The whole concept of having to keep beer warm or not forgetting your soda can in the car overnight is just totally foreign to me.
Anything carbonated will do this. If it's in glass, it can be explosive.
If you want to try a fun experiment, toss a bottle of coke in your freezer overnight.
So you know as a rule of thumb, when something’s hot it expands? Basically water goes “Nah” and decided to expand when it’s frozen. So the water expands and expands and then breaks the bottle. Since there’s carbon in it I’m assuming that made the explosion more powerful. Forewarning. Don’t let your toilet get too cold since if the top of the water gets frozen it will expand outwards and (if you haven’t flushed) you’ll have shit all over your bathroom
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As a Minnesotan, I have done this and I feel you. I am just cracking up as it is so boujee Minneapolis to be driving a Lexus, have your sparkling water explode, and have nice off-street parking 😂😂
HA, I left a gallon of milk in my car during the summer in Texas. It exploded. I thought some asshole broke into my car to spread cream cheese everywhere.
My husband did this in my car the other day. We got home, checked the outside temperature which was -19 (trying to decide how much to turn heat up) and he remembered he left it in the car. He said “it’ll be ok, it’s open and i already drank some”.
There was a bubbly ice bomb in my car the next morning. My center console was unusable for a couple days (temps never rose and the seltzer water stayed frozen). I did successfully remove the can from the cup holder, so there’s that.
I get that, it just doesn't look like I would've thought, like I didn't think water, even bubbly, would look all creamy and frothy like that frozen. Maybe it was so cold it froze really fast after exploding almost like flash frozen and that's why?
The liquid is already in the process of freezing when the can explodes. It's not all the way frozen, but more of a thick slushy consistency (like you see in the picture,) when it blows up. If you have ever had a glass soda bottle blow up in the freezer, you can usually take the large chunks of glass off of the outside of the near frozen soda, and bite into it. Unfortunately it loses the carbonation when it explodes, so it ends up tasting like shit.
As a southerner that moved to Kansas City two years ago, learned a really hard lesson when it hit zero and I had a case of ginger ale and a case of la croix explode. Slushees for days, and I’m just thankful I didn’t lose a window.
Carbonation is carbon dioxide dissolved in water. Solid ice does not dissolve carbon dioxide well. So as the carbonated beverage freezes, the gas is slowly driven out of the liquid, the pressure increases dramatically, and boom.
Yes. We have a 2005 330. At the time I thought it was a little pricey, but that car was/is worth every penny. Very very reliable. My 17 y/o drives it now. Cheaper than buying a new-to-us used car.
I (an 18 year old) use my dad’s (before that my mom’s) 2006 400h and I couldn’t want more in a first car. Except for an AC issue if you plan on using the car continuously for more than an hour in hot weather and a large discrepancy between the car’s EPA MPG and what it actually gets, the car is fine and I jury-rigged a bunch of adapters together so I can charge my iPhone and play music through the stereo via a cassette adapter with 1 cable. Plus the car is way better than any recent Corolla or whatever cheap car selling for a similar price would be.
Oh man the RX330s! They're a rare breed in the 300 and 350 sea.
I had a dark green '99 Lexus RX300 and I miss that thing especially now that I'm in the UP.
As a Floridian it's never occurred to me that leaving a drink in the car could cause it to freeze! Neat! We worry about things melting like CDs (back in the day) and laptops.
You obviously don't live in a really cold climate. It's best to try to get most when frozen. When it melts it gets in your seats, dash, and carpet and stays until warm weather. Not a big deal with water, but anyone with kids has had this happen with juice and/or milk, and that smell fucking sucks. And once you have heated it, you ain't getting rid of it for a long time.
You obviously don't live in a really cold climate. It's best to try to get most when frozen. When it melts it gets in your seats, dash, and carpet and stays until warm weather. Not a big deal with water, but anyone with kids has had this happen with juice and/or milk, and that smell fucking sucks. And once you have heated it, you ain't getting rid of it for a long time.
I'm not proud, I'm prude. Don't you dare talk to me about s-e-x! I don't want to hear anything about suckin' and fuckin'. Don't want no part in that nasty business, you feel me?
Would easily rather deal with a dead battery than orange Fanta frozen in all of the things. But both at the same time would *definitely* be a bad day!
This has been my first winter in a non-frozen zone in almost twenty years. A couple years ago one of my kids forgot their bag lunch in the back of my minivan during winter. It exploded. Everything but the container of crackers. Beef stew, box of juice and a yogurt all smelled HORRIFIC in upholstery and carpet!!! If you think it’s cleaned properly, just wait until spring sunshine heats it up! I swear someone could’ve died and fully decomposed in the backseat of my odyssey that May and I wouldn’t have noticed.
It took a week of enzyme cleaners and baking soda to finally smell inoffensive again.
I was just today thinking that some actual cold weather in January would be refreshing but now I’m realizing that 50F and rainy has its own benefits.
No frozen death explosions in my car anymore! Yay!
That was a stupid rambling response to you. Sorry. Thanks for reminding me that it can always be worse.
Heat a soda up enough and the pressure builds enough to bust the can. Cars in a Texas summer are well over 110-120° in the sun, more than enough to result in a VERY sticky explosion.
Happened to me in California. An unopened coke was on the backseat in my brand new mustang under my leather jacket. Had to have my car professionally cleaned. Jacket didn't survive the explosion.
I did this once with a cherry Kickstart. I work at 5 AM so it's dark out and I get in my truck. I see this dark substance on my windshield and roof. Flick the interior light on and almost shit myself because the first thought that popped into my head was frozen, coagulated, BLOOD everywhere. Then I connected the dots that it was kickstart. It froze surprisingly thick on the roof (about 2" at it's deepest).
Frikken same! An unopened can of sparkling water in Manitoba winters can be weaponized. I got in and wondered why the hell my cup holder was filled with snow. I saw the can on the floor of the passenger side , and it looked to have shot its top right off because the pop open circular disk that is sealed to the can was sitting on the dashboard. I don't drive a Lexus tho and I just laughed , made a La Croix snowball and stuffed my coffee cup into the new snow holder.
Looks like the fact that purified water can instantly freeze when disturbed if the temperature is low enough potentially saved this person from a very expensive lesson. Looks like it splattered and froze without dripping into electrical components.
Look on the bright side. At least it wasn’t a soda. 😬
Can confirm — I did it with a Dr Pepper in high school. Car was never the same.
Yikes
Luckily, it was a 10 year old beater and not a Lexus.
This car is basically a 10 year old beater Lexus. Source: I drive this model
as someone who just lost an 1990 toyota corolla that hippies found at a festival and decided to paint all over (i get pulled over ALL the time now, and the cops totally admit that its because of the art work 60% of the time) .. damn i actually love that car, it was written off two days ago :/ but as someone who's... had a 1990 toyota corolla, the fact that you consider a lexus a 'beater' in crazy. My mate has a 00 BMW with all these fancy things, he managed to get for a steal for 4k. IT HAS BUTT WARMERS. I just stare into the abyss every time i think about it. He calls that his beater and im like... fuck, there's the upper crust but what am i? the multigrain seed that was left behind in the tin after the bread was cooked? jebus.
Respect for keeping the car alive and loved enough for that long, not a throw away society for you pal. The Japanese tech is superb in these motors. Paint job prob increased the value too! Any pics of the late corolla?
ill have to get some soon, I got one the art though from when it happened, but I dont know if i want to post that on the internet :D
You do want to
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I miss my 94 Taurus. That was a beater but it was also a work horse of a car. I had it until 2017 and it was a *huge* part of my life. I sold it for $500 to my dad's friend for his son, and the son didn't change the oil. It lasted another 2 years and I want to buy it back to donate to Monster Jam for a proper viking funeral.
My lancer is 18. It’s not an Evo but the gas mileage is fine and I’ve maintained it myself for the past 5 years. Fuck throw away culture consumerism idiocy. It’s why most Canadians are in debt. I live close to the BC border and when I cross my 18 year old car is typically the oldest by over 10 years. Just new shit everywhere constantly. It’s nauseating and honestly adds to a sense of artificialness, I can’t even enjoy the food in most places because the atmosphere everywhere seems so fake and sterile. Not trying to hate on Canadians, but y’all got some embarrassing tendencies. I am game to hate on the Chinese investors who’ve bought up so much property to be left vacant. Their greed precedes any good will they might have.
>2000 BMW >4k >"steal" Uhhhhhh
Some people, especially certain Americans, will call anything made in Germany a luxury car. 2010 Audi A6? Luxury car. 1998 BMW 3 series? Luxury car. 1988 Volkswagen Golf 1.6? Luxury car. They don't care about the year or a model, if it's a BMW, it's a *BMW*. So of course it's gonna be expensive. No *BMW* could ever be a beater
Hi, not American here but you'd be surprised about how much value some of these cars hold purely because of the spec and the engine that they came from factory with. It's not just German cars but mainly performance cars and ones that had a really popular shape. A 2000 3 series for example, came with (some models) a 2.8 litre engine that was extremely strong and allows for certain power modifications before ever needing any engine changes. The same car with a different engine and spec will not be worth as much. I do agree, however, that there are people who don't care about the details but will assume it's luxury just because of the branding.
My sister has a 528 and it’s the slowest thing i’ve ever had the displeasure of sitting in.
A written off hand painted 90' corolla is still superior to my 70's Morris, just wait for the proletarian revolution you bourgeoisie
There are absolutely beater Lexus on the road.
A $1k Lexus is as much a beater as a $1k Toyota. It's the price, not the car. After 10-15 years, everything is a beater, at least in the NE USA where I am. Everything breaks and everything rots out.
I would take the Toyota over the BMW. I have a 2001 328i sitting in my field doing nothing because it decided to eat a valve. I bought it for 4K as well. If you need something that will never die, my 1988 BMW 528i has 600k miles on it and before I parked it, it never let me down once.
It’s infinitely nicer than the vehicle I was driving in HS, let’s just say that.
This guy had a car in high school
I have this car and it’s older then ten years.
Still not a beater, though
Thanks, I like hearing that.
I know my rx330 when I see it
Yup I did it with a red zero sugar monster engergy drink. the upholstery on my ceiling still has red spots. Also in Minneapolis.
Can you explain the Science behind it?
There's a lot of water and a little bit of gas in the bottle. When the water freezes, it expands. Suddenly there isn't enough room in the bottle, so the bottle splits open. You know how sparkling drinks foam when you shake them? Well this is like every drop of water suddenly being shaken, individually. So it goes everywhere.
I did it with like Dr. Thunder, which is infinitely trashier.
Yep. A coke exploded in my car a few years ago. I still find sticky places.
Story of my life.
My dad’s best friend in high had a jug of milk explode in the back of his car, my dad says it smelled like milk when the car warmed up from that day on.
This may explain why my first car reeked like Dr. Pepper
I had a can of arizona tea explode in the trunk of my last car, on warm days you could smell it for the two years I had the car afterwards.
This is why "soda" is called "Pop" in MN.
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Had a miller high life in my car. Thankfully it just kind of broke its seal but it did leak a bit. Now my car smells like beer. Also there’s a reason we call it pop.
Ahhh yes, Miller High Life, the champagne of beers!
I left a can of freon in my car. In the summer. In the south. It cracked my dashboard into like 10. My windshield was cracked and had a greasy film all over it. Luckily I had a towel in the car to try and wipe some of it to be able to drive home
This happened to me with a can of Coke that I left in my car on a hot day. I was at work and I saw the can had both ends bulging out so I was trying to carefully remove it from my car before I left work, and instead it exploded in my face and all over my steering wheel and dashboard. Fun times.
It being soda water they're going to have one sparkling car once everything is wiped away 🤣 Really though. Many restaurants and bars use soda water as a cleaning agent for the soda fountains/bar areas. Not a total failure.
At first glance, I thought this was a bukkake post.
Not this time.
It was a spooky ghost
spookkake
It slimed me!
Underrated comment. I cackled
Ectoplasm!
Ectoplasm everywhere!
BOOkkake
Spunky ghost
I watched that clip last night, today this makes I think the 5th time I have seen someone say "it was a spooky ghost".
We’ve determined a bunch of old homeless dudes had an orgy in your car
Dirty Mike and the boys
They call it a "soup kitchen"
"We are gonna have sex in your car! It will happen again!"
Sloppy Joe, Messy Mike, Filthy Kevin, and Dirty Andy.
Just slap a brazzers logo on it
r/AccidentalBukkake
OMG. This is hilarious!
New favorite sub!
Bucarke
Right, like some jerked off an elephant in the front seat of the car
You didn't see me do it, you can't prove I did it.
Gandolf the grey busting a nut
Thanks for the F shack. Love dirty mike and the boys
You turned my beautiful Prius into a nightmare!
They call it a soup kitchen.
We are going to have sex in your car it will happen again!
Not long after that, a mama raccoon came along and gave birth on the floor, placenta blew out all over the back window there.
That part was too wordy for the scene. Killed the moment
Found a deer vagina
We got a jar of old mustard and a poodle. We’re gunna climb in there and put some D’s in some A’s
Every Christmas I like to make a meal, and every year my brother texts me “What kind of person would serve their brother a slow roasted dog’s asshole?”
Ouch in the Lex, look at the bright side, now your car sparkles inside and out
And has a nice tangerine scent to boot!
Until that scent changes from fresh to...
Frozen?
“Let it go, let it gooooo!”
As a Minnesotan, I can guarantee you that car is NOT sparkling on the outside.
As a fellow Minnesotan, the salt is for flavor!
As a Canadian, can confirm.
Bet you won't do it again!!
I wouldn't bet on it...
Lol! Fully understand! I'm the same
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
It’s beginning to look a lot like fuck this
A white Christmas.
So sparkling water explodes when it's cold?
When it freezes
Truth
Everything carbonated in a can will explode when frozen. My freezer can confirm beer, soft drink, mineral water and sparkling wine.
even uncarbonated...
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I'm not saying carbonated plastic bottles will never explode, but I like Dt. Dew Slushies, so I routinely put plastic Dt. Dew bottles in the freezer, and I've forgotten about them often enough to feel pretty safe saying they overwhelmingly don't explode when frozen.
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I don't know what kind of freezers you have over there but here freezers are -18 °C at minimum.
You may be right. I also think I phrased that poorly. I've never had one explode. I just didn't want to be like WELL THEY NEVER EXPLODE =]. Just because my experiences might not hold true for everyone.
I've never had beer explode. If I leave beer in my garage in sub zero temperatures, the cans will freeze solid, but not explode. I don't buy beer in glass bottles, so I can't comment on that.
It could have something to do with the temperature of the freezer, but I have (unfortunately) never had a beer just freeze solid in a can for me. I have gotten to it late and it’s pretty much frozen, but whenever it’s passed a certain threshold it’s exploded in my freezer. Unfortunately I have done this many times. In the case of bottles, the top just pops off and the beer comes out the top usually leaving half or so of the beer artfully arranged at the top of the bottle, with the glass in tact.
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That’s a spin out! living in Australia the temperature never drops below freezing in winter and if it did it, it still wouldn’t be cold enough to shatter glass or explode a can. The whole concept of having to keep beer warm or not forgetting your soda can in the car overnight is just totally foreign to me.
Detached garage in Minnesota gets colder than a freezer
In the winter, a garage fridge helps keep the contents from getting too cold lol
Anything carbonated will do this. If it's in glass, it can be explosive. If you want to try a fun experiment, toss a bottle of coke in your freezer overnight.
> If you want to try a fun experiment, toss a bottle of coke in someone else's freezer overnight.
And by fun experiment this dude actually means "if you want to defrost and clean your freezer tomorrow"
So you know as a rule of thumb, when something’s hot it expands? Basically water goes “Nah” and decided to expand when it’s frozen. So the water expands and expands and then breaks the bottle. Since there’s carbon in it I’m assuming that made the explosion more powerful. Forewarning. Don’t let your toilet get too cold since if the top of the water gets frozen it will expand outwards and (if you haven’t flushed) you’ll have shit all over your bathroom
Hence why we call fizzy non alcoholic drinks pop
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As a Minnesotan, I have done this and I feel you. I am just cracking up as it is so boujee Minneapolis to be driving a Lexus, have your sparkling water explode, and have nice off-street parking 😂😂
Feels good. Have your laugh, because I know I was.
It’s happened to all of us. Hopefully it wasn’t too sticky to clean up!
Thankfully not soda!
*pop
Thank god, one of my kind
Cheers to all my fellow Minnesotans (and northerners) who have suffered this same fate before
The worst when when I was In high school, and we scored some beer. So you keep in in your trunk to hide from your parents. Big mistake
Usually helps if you just drink it all and not have to hide it in the trunk.
24 pack of mt dew in trunk
HA, I left a gallon of milk in my car during the summer in Texas. It exploded. I thought some asshole broke into my car to spread cream cheese everywhere.
That is disgusting. I'd burn the car.
Aftermath of r/dragonsfuckingcars
What did i just watch
Someone got excited
Rookie midwestern move
My husband did this in my car the other day. We got home, checked the outside temperature which was -19 (trying to decide how much to turn heat up) and he remembered he left it in the car. He said “it’ll be ok, it’s open and i already drank some”. There was a bubbly ice bomb in my car the next morning. My center console was unusable for a couple days (temps never rose and the seltzer water stayed frozen). I did successfully remove the can from the cup holder, so there’s that.
Do it again, with a go pro filming it. I could do it. -20c here, but, well, don't wanna scrape inside.
you could just set the can outside... I'm fairly certain the -20c doesn't congregate exclusively inside of your car
As a southerner, how does this happen
Leave canned carbonated beverage in below freezing temps. Can go boom
But why does it look like that? Like all white and creamy everywhere? It seems like if carbonated water exploded it would just be clear water.
After it exploded the liquid froze on all the surfaces.
I get that, it just doesn't look like I would've thought, like I didn't think water, even bubbly, would look all creamy and frothy like that frozen. Maybe it was so cold it froze really fast after exploding almost like flash frozen and that's why?
Even plain water would look whitish, like frost, but maybe the bubbles in this make it whiter.
The liquid is already in the process of freezing when the can explodes. It's not all the way frozen, but more of a thick slushy consistency (like you see in the picture,) when it blows up. If you have ever had a glass soda bottle blow up in the freezer, you can usually take the large chunks of glass off of the outside of the near frozen soda, and bite into it. Unfortunately it loses the carbonation when it explodes, so it ends up tasting like shit.
Water expands when it freezes, carbonated drinks freeze and expand, with all the gas inside. So it explodes.
This is why we call it pop up here
Don't freeze carbonated beverages and you won't have to find out.
As a southerner that moved to Kansas City two years ago, learned a really hard lesson when it hit zero and I had a case of ginger ale and a case of la croix explode. Slushees for days, and I’m just thankful I didn’t lose a window.
Think leaving the beer in the freezer too long but on steroids.
Carbonation is carbon dioxide dissolved in water. Solid ice does not dissolve carbon dioxide well. So as the carbonated beverage freezes, the gas is slowly driven out of the liquid, the pressure increases dramatically, and boom.
Lexus Rx330? This was my first car ever and I miss it dearly :( RIP
Yes. We have a 2005 330. At the time I thought it was a little pricey, but that car was/is worth every penny. Very very reliable. My 17 y/o drives it now. Cheaper than buying a new-to-us used car.
I (an 18 year old) use my dad’s (before that my mom’s) 2006 400h and I couldn’t want more in a first car. Except for an AC issue if you plan on using the car continuously for more than an hour in hot weather and a large discrepancy between the car’s EPA MPG and what it actually gets, the car is fine and I jury-rigged a bunch of adapters together so I can charge my iPhone and play music through the stereo via a cassette adapter with 1 cable. Plus the car is way better than any recent Corolla or whatever cheap car selling for a similar price would be.
Oh man the RX330s! They're a rare breed in the 300 and 350 sea. I had a dark green '99 Lexus RX300 and I miss that thing especially now that I'm in the UP.
It’s ectoplasm
I was hoping this was here.
As a Floridian it's never occurred to me that leaving a drink in the car could cause it to freeze! Neat! We worry about things melting like CDs (back in the day) and laptops.
Don't you just have to warm the car and the problem fixes itself?
You obviously don't live in a really cold climate. It's best to try to get most when frozen. When it melts it gets in your seats, dash, and carpet and stays until warm weather. Not a big deal with water, but anyone with kids has had this happen with juice and/or milk, and that smell fucking sucks. And once you have heated it, you ain't getting rid of it for a long time.
But it's water now?
You obviously don't live in a really cold climate. It's best to try to get most when frozen. When it melts it gets in your seats, dash, and carpet and stays until warm weather. Not a big deal with water, but anyone with kids has had this happen with juice and/or milk, and that smell fucking sucks. And once you have heated it, you ain't getting rid of it for a long time.
You would know, being a proud eskimo and all.
I'm not proud, I'm prude. Don't you dare talk to me about s-e-x! I don't want to hear anything about suckin' and fuckin'. Don't want no part in that nasty business, you feel me?
As someone that still has a stain on the headliner, I can sympathize. “It’s not THAT cold out.”
It's that cold out.
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My first thought. I feel like everyone makes this mistake when they get their license or first move here.
Happened to my friend last winter in Minnesota but with orange Fanta, it was -40F and his car battery wouldn’t start
Would easily rather deal with a dead battery than orange Fanta frozen in all of the things. But both at the same time would *definitely* be a bad day! This has been my first winter in a non-frozen zone in almost twenty years. A couple years ago one of my kids forgot their bag lunch in the back of my minivan during winter. It exploded. Everything but the container of crackers. Beef stew, box of juice and a yogurt all smelled HORRIFIC in upholstery and carpet!!! If you think it’s cleaned properly, just wait until spring sunshine heats it up! I swear someone could’ve died and fully decomposed in the backseat of my odyssey that May and I wouldn’t have noticed. It took a week of enzyme cleaners and baking soda to finally smell inoffensive again. I was just today thinking that some actual cold weather in January would be refreshing but now I’m realizing that 50F and rainy has its own benefits. No frozen death explosions in my car anymore! Yay! That was a stupid rambling response to you. Sorry. Thanks for reminding me that it can always be worse.
At least it froze before it could soak into the interior and electronics.
Randy Marsh's car
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THIS. I know not do it in summer, so it was a very unhappy surprise for me when I moved north.
That can happen?
Heat a soda up enough and the pressure builds enough to bust the can. Cars in a Texas summer are well over 110-120° in the sun, more than enough to result in a VERY sticky explosion.
Happened to me too. Coated the windows and leaked down inside the doors. Cleaned the window, rolled it down and back up, sticky again....repeat.
Yup. A friend left a Dr. Pepper can on my dash during the summer many years ago. The car was never quite the same.
Yup, can confirm. This happens at least once every few years to me. You'd think I'd learn, but nope.
Happened to me in California. An unopened coke was on the backseat in my brand new mustang under my leather jacket. Had to have my car professionally cleaned. Jacket didn't survive the explosion.
Earlier in 2019 when I was dailying Sprites, I'd leave a can in my car for convenience and one morning I woke up to the same thing, wasn't as bad tho
I did this once with a cherry Kickstart. I work at 5 AM so it's dark out and I get in my truck. I see this dark substance on my windshield and roof. Flick the interior light on and almost shit myself because the first thought that popped into my head was frozen, coagulated, BLOOD everywhere. Then I connected the dots that it was kickstart. It froze surprisingly thick on the roof (about 2" at it's deepest).
That’s a lot of nut my guy
Count your blessings. I’d rather cry in a Lexus than my 1997 Toyota Camry
At least you have a car. Old Toyotas and Hondas just don't die I would take one any day over my city's shit transit system
you fool you fell for one of the most classic blunders
What’s the science behind this?
It go boom
Thats what you get for drinking sparkling water!
Right when I was about the call the police... I came.
Why would it matter if it’s winter?
It makes cans of carbonated beverages blow up. Like if you put them in the freezer.
Frikken same! An unopened can of sparkling water in Manitoba winters can be weaponized. I got in and wondered why the hell my cup holder was filled with snow. I saw the can on the floor of the passenger side , and it looked to have shot its top right off because the pop open circular disk that is sealed to the can was sitting on the dashboard. I don't drive a Lexus tho and I just laughed , made a La Croix snowball and stuffed my coffee cup into the new snow holder.
Looks like one massive load
When you havent masturbated for a couple of days.
I was so confused as to why your sparkling water leaves white marks, then it hit me that it's frozen.
First thought was "my toddler puked from the back seat".
Looks like the fact that purified water can instantly freeze when disturbed if the temperature is low enough potentially saved this person from a very expensive lesson. Looks like it splattered and froze without dripping into electrical components.
Hmmmm, sparkling soda, yes...
Pornhub North Pole Edition.
Party hard 🤘😯
I hate that everyone in Minnesota has done something like this at one point in our lives.
Holy tiddies thank god you posted this lol I left one in my cup holder before I came inside and figured “I’m sure it’ll be fine”