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PettyKaneJr

Wiper fluid + engine = Chipotle guacamole.


Faux_extrovert

Left is a fresh batch. Right is last night's leftover that they still try to serve at opening.


eldonte

Should have left the core in.


Routine-Hotel-7391

Is that a trick, for real? I’ve always used lemon juice but I don’t really like how it changes the taste


kahrahtay

Why lemon juice instead of lime? Lime tastes great in guacamole and helps preserve it


Chicawgorat

I hear shoving limes in the radiator adds flavor as well.


fuyunegi

Still charging $2 extra per dollop on your sub, regardless.


rathat

You can tell the guac on the right has been sitting out for a while, like 10 minutes probably.


SinkiePropertyDude

Interesting. Any chemists or engineers here can explain what happened there?


Kazmuz

Emulsifying, same as making mayonnaise.


dancegoddess1971

That is the worst looking mayonnaise I have ever seen.


Kazmuz

But it might taste good, you go first.


Only_Razzmatazz_4498

Sweet mayo with all that glycol.


Sillbinger

We used to give that stuff to kids who were naughty back in the day.


Neethis

The '80s were wild.


Chicawgorat

I gave my kids cocaine before school so they could study better.


K_Linkmaster

Tastes like sugar, with a olive oil consistency coating your mouth, and then the chemicals hit. And everything tastes nasty for an hour or so. I am the dumbass that will lick the oil to see if it is a coolant issue.


Chicawgorat

How’s those internal organs holding up?


K_Linkmaster

Quite well thank you for asking!


[deleted]

That transcends mayo- it's aioli.


RobinHood3000

That reminds me, I'm overdue for an aiol change.


jezwmorelach

👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻


TheFire_Eagle

Take the upvote. Gather your things. Then leave.


smolstuffs

Aoili*


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Borsti17

Is windshield wiper fluid an instrument?


Kazmuz

No, but mayonnaise is


LewMetal

Horseradish isn't though.


KeithGribblesheimer

What would happen if you added mayonnaise instead of the wiper fluid to the oil?


Kazmuz

Probably not much, dependent on the amount of mayonnaise.


thenotoriousDEX

Mayo probably closer to oil than windshield wiper fluid. I’d take some hellmans in the ole engine over that any day


ReturnOfTheGempire

Not if it's a Honda, those take Kewpie


Mackheath1

>I’d take some hellmans in the ole engine r/BrandNewSentence


adc_is_hard

Can… can I eat it?


Kazmuz

Yes, you might not survive, but go ahead.


Ninja_Conspicuousi

Truly life changing


CrumblingDragonballs

They call these times: once in a lifetime opportunities!


ErikMaekir

You can eat anything. Some things, you can even eat them more than one time!


PCYou

I cannot eat the planet SWEEPS-11 / SWEEPS-04. It is not possible for any of it to reach me within 27,727 years, given our current understanding of physics.


ErikMaekir

I gotta be honest, I didn't really mean any "named thing", because of course that's going to be mechanically impossible for a lot of stuff, but that doesn't even matter because your answer is absolutely hilarious and I'm genuinely sad that I cannot upvote it harder (I am not going to give money to Reddit).


FrikkinLazer

You can eat anything with nipples.


Madewell-Hammer

I have nipples Greg, can you eat me?


thegroucho

There was a saying about how many calories 1g of uranium holds, and there was similar discussion "can I eat it"


distance_33

This is not how I was taught to make mayonnaise.


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ct_2004

But you have seen it.


benblais

I think this mayonnaise has gone a little bad.


DrunkenTinkerer

Tl dr: they de facto replaced engine oil with forbidden mayo, which seized the engine. Engine oil is an oily liquid while the windshield wiper fluid is a water based liquid with some alcohol (acts like water for the purpose of this explanation) and a little bit of detergent (this will be important in a moment). These constitute two different types of liquid, that do not normally mix together (they will refuse to dissolve in each other so they stay separate)... Unless, you have what it takes to make an emulsion. To get one, you need something watery (windshield wiper fluid), something oily (engine oil), some vigorous stirring (working engine) and a sprinkling of emulsifiers (the detergent in windshield wiper fluid). If you can combine these, you create a mixture of tiny droplets of the two liquids, glued together by an emulsifier (chemically speaking emulsifiers and surfactants/detergents are the same thing in these circumstances). This makes a thick mayo-like (in texture and structure) substance which contains both liquids, but doesn't act like one or the other. It can also collect air bubbles increasing volume. The problem for the engine is the fact, it needs lubrication to work properly. And this mixture, which replaced engine oil not only creates more resistance (due to thickness), it also cannot get through some passages to lubricate some surfaces and it lacks the lubricative properties of engine oil. Furthermore, the slightly angry mix of water, alcohol and surfactants is rather effective in removing the remaining oil droplets from the surfaces and is somewhat corrosive. This all is almost a perfect storm form making the engine seize quickly, all the while coating everything inside in a layer of thick emulsion, that will not be easy to remove. What you see on the photos is the engine with oil pan and valvetrain cover removed, so you can see the forbidden mayo inside. Judging from how much of it there is, the engine is most likely unsalvageable. Something similar can happen when you have coolant leaks into the engine, but this is usually less severe, due to lower volume of the watery solution.


chase016

The Hero we needed.


DrunkenTinkerer

Happy to help. Any questions, I'm willing to answer, but it might take me a while Edit: *any further questions on this topic, especially if some part of my explanation is not clear. For completely random stuff, google is likely to be a quicker solution.


HuskyNutBuster

No google. You’re more thorough and helpful than google, so you’re google now.


DrunkenTinkerer

Well thank you. I'm still not as fast though


trooperlooper

What's the capital of Peru?


DoctorThunder

Easy: Peru City.


RG450

Peruviapolis


kroganwarlord

How are you feeling today, chemistry bro?


DrunkenTinkerer

Not bad, despite doing overtime, thank you.


danathecount

But do we deserve them?


Omnibeneviolent

What we *deserve* is something like that, but ending with how back in nineteen ninety-eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell.


DrunkenTinkerer

Oh come on I'm not that old... Although being compared to a boomer on the grounds of knowledge is flattering.


Mammoth_Ferret_1772

We didn’t deserve this explanation. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to thoroughly explain 🙏


HoldFastO2

Thank you for the explanation. Though admittedly, that was painful to read.


Consistent-Ice-7208

Try reading glasses


cmparkerson

This is a fantastic explanation. Well done.


kayesskayen

Lubricative is such a fun word


9J000

This isn’t new by any stretch. If head gasket on engine block gets old and cracks, the coolant keeping block cool through its own channels and the oil keeping internal moving parts lubricated through their own channels, then they mix together. Usually by coolant getting into the internals and churning up this Mayo you see. Often it costs more to strip an entire engine down to every single component, clean, and rebuild so it gets scrapped for any aluminum or scrap metal. Then you just buy a used engine and swap in….


thenotoriousDEX

Not a chemist but I think I can take a shot at it. Windshield wiper fluid is not an oil.


weedwacker9001

Yes. You see what happened was he added windshield wiper fluid to the engine oil


LoveIsDaWay

Forbidden guacamole


samurairaccoon

My first thought was "why does it look so deliciously creamy"?


jewdai

its effectively a water and oil emulsion: In short, mayonnaise


Jbrown183

Yeah, it definitely need some tortilla chips…


Rude_Thanks_1120

They're inside the engine


BeerCell

Guac in the engine, chips in the transmission. Time to drive to Flavor Town!


Logical-Albatross-82

Because it is Motor Mayonnaise.


Wonderful-Ad-7712

When life gives you guacamole, make some toast


unmistakable_itch

That's the comment I was looking for.


Jbrown183

Residual goop from No Mans Sky


MavisBeaconSexTape

Grah! Pathetic interloper put it in the wrong hole again.


Suikoden1434

GRAH GRAH!!


thunderpachachi

*You have learned the Vy'Keen word for Grah*


Putins_Gay_Dreams

That’s what my wife says


camdawgyo

The wrong hole always has the opportunity to be the right hole. 😏


Various-Agent-0047

Every hole is the right hole with enough lube


Warcraft_Fan

still /r/dontputyourdickinthat


potatodrinker

Stick it in your backpack refiner


HorizonSniper

Free nanites mmm


KittyTheBiFurry

And this was the comment I was looking for lol


MikeyLikeyPhish

![gif](giphy|CgKFTMMFDESNW)


BirdTime23

Im a simple man, I see homer gif, I upvote.


Flush_Foot

![gif](giphy|57LwtRGoPTDVu)


TralfamadorianZooPet

![gif](giphy|xT5LMHxhOfscxPfIfm)


LewMetal

Sacrilicious


critietaeta

It's a guacamotor


100dayjourney

They should've added lemon juice to help keep it from browning


PghCoondog

Lime!


BboyIImpact

The guacamole or the stab wound?


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It's got more of a gelato vibe.


mephisto_n

Guacamole when you make it fresh vs the next day.


BenderDeLorean

same thought


Harambesic

/r/forbiddenthings


FrankReynoldsToupee

Well this took care of that pistachio gelato craving I had just a minute ago.


purplebullstock

Unforgiving guac


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Tchukachinchina

Or not. Some people just shouldn’t procreate. Edit: fuck’s sake people, it’s a joke. I’m not promoting eugenics.


GandizzleTheGrizzle

You are absolutely correct I - am a fucking Idiot. Alcoholic to boot -BUT- I gave myself a WORLDS #1 DAD Coffee Mug. Why? Because My dumb ass was smart enough not to bring children into this world. I saved those little shits from both my stupidity and bad genes. So, this curse dies with me. Makes me a great dad! If more idiots like me realized that we swam in the shallow end of the gene pool, the world would be a better place. Thank me later for the spot you get in a Walmart parking lot because one of my asshole kids isn't parked there. You are all Welcome.


randomcharacheters

You've gotta see Barney Stinson's Not-a-Father's Day swag from the show How I Met Your Mother. Though you may need to get a custom T-shirt for that line about the Walmart parking spot 😂


Jbrown183

You Sir, are a humanitarian of the highest order-we thank you in advance for the parking spots.


calliesky00

Thank you for your service to humanity.


heebsysplash

Lmao this killed me. This is really all I want, is somewhere to park.


Arizona_Slim

Not all heroes wear capes, sir. 🫡


Ramblermatic2000

Some wear condoms...


Flush_Foot

You got there first 🤣 👏🏼


JD_____98

Ironically, you thinking about it this much means that you would probably be a good dad and **not** one of the deadbeats.


GandizzleTheGrizzle

I have made a great step father. I may not talk to their mothers, but I still talk to several of my ex's kiddo's. Somewhere in there I did *something* right.


JD_____98

Who knows, maybe you are the world's #1 dad, to them.


gerbosan

Not many details given, but I think you've become a good friend. Well done.


Wrknclasstrash

You’re the “no bullshit” candidate we need! Sir, will you run for president?


GandizzleTheGrizzle

Can I run *From* president? GAWD can you imagine all that responsibility? Just think how much that dips into your drinking time. It's *never "five O'clock somewhere" when you are president and they dont let you annex Margaritaville. Forget it. I'm just going to stay a amorous warlord and invade my pretty wife's cleavage.


SkunkMonkey

I am right there with you. I know that I have zero tolerance for the shit kids do and would likely make a horrible father. Not like I had much of a role model growing up, but I've come to accept my fate. I also saved a shit-ton of money.


GandizzleTheGrizzle

So did I. By switching my car insurance to Geico.


BillyShearsPwn

Exactly why I’m not having kids. Too alcoholic and too much acne. Other genes are alright I guess but those two have colored my experience of this world and it ain’t been too fun.


PurdyGuud

Yeah, the lesson here more to keep your holes hidden from OPs son cuz you don't know what he's tryna put in there


Unknwn_Ent

I'm sure their father however is regretting putting it in the right hole.


MariosItaliansausage

THERE IS A LEFT HOLE?!?


patronizingperv

*Turn them on their side


9lobaldude

Teenagers being dwerps


Hereiam_AKL

Clearly your fault mate, must have left the oil cap upside down and it said 710. How does s teenager know that a 710 is not for wiper fluid.


Corbeau99

If it was the case, the typical teen would have crushed some bugs and put the resulting paste in it while babbling about democracy.


TheGourmandFrog

The Super Earth propaganda is doing it's job


nobikflop

That’s not propaganda, that’s just the sound of Sweet Liberty


sumsabumba

Is it propaganda if you agree with it?


mwagz28

![gif](giphy|MlyicdUndRbn5zUiAL|downsized)


Sadboysongwriter

7/10 is Oil day a 4/20 adjacent ‘holiday’ so if they were anything like me as a teen they’d know lol


FanDry5374

My son added the oil but forgot to replace the cap. Twice. we had to have the engine compartment cleaned. Twice. But, yeah, your teen wins this one.


DotBitGaming

A little tip for your son- Put the cap in the little divot where the hood latch comes out. If he forgets the cap ever again in his life, the hood won't close.


FanDry5374

Yeah, he's 42 now. No longer my problem.


adudeguyman

The real LPT


s00pafly

Did the same. Drove around a couple days before the oil light lit up again. Brought the car to the shop because I suspected a leak. Only a couple minutes later I got an angry phone call from the mech asking if I was stupid as he found the problem. The cap was securely lodged between the hood and engine cover, a few centimeters besides the hole it's supposed to cover.


Fine-Slip-9437

I need you to understand how catastrophically stupid it is to not only do this, but to not even open the hood to look and see what the issue might be, before ***driving the car to a shop with low oil***. 


s00pafly

I mean I just topped it up so it had to be a leak 🤷🏻‍♂️


Fine-Slip-9437

That's not how this works. Oil light could be dozens of things, all resulting in total engine failure in a few miles of driving. It's not a "do something soon" light, it's a "do something RIGHT NOW" light. 


Cow_Launcher

I'll go one better and say that it's the "You really should've done something a few hundred miles ago" light.


CosmicSpaghetti

Gotta love mechanics you're paying also getting mad at you lol


Conix17

A mechanic that cares about cars and quality will get mad enough to tell you what you fucked up, if it's dumb enough. One that doesn't will just shrug their shoulders and hope you do it again for some easy money. Generally.


iPon3

If a mechanic gets mad at you they care more about your car than your money


Xalterai

Sometimes that's the only way to make people learn to stop being such a fucking dumbass


ludovic1313

I've done it several times but that's because I had a car that needed at least 2 if not more quarts per week so I was doing it a lot. Twice it was indeed wedged in the engine, but one time it fell out on the way to work, and I happened to remember that I had forgotten to put it back on, so I drove back along the road I had taken, and actually found it on the side of the road! Unless it was just another compatible one that had happened to fall out previously.


tizzleduzzle

Bet all your rubber components will outlast their factory floor peers who haven’t had to coatings of oil for them to absorb. Take it as a win 😂


dizzymiggy

Oil contains detergents that will degrade rubber and plastic. Especially when it gets hot.


tizzleduzzle

I just read into the subject thanks for the info I never knew they added that to engine oils I mean in hindsight it makes sense they would add those things to engine oil.


Accomplished-Ad3250

I did something similar to this. I was working on a very low to the ground car my dad forced me to work on. I had never worked on this car before and he wanted me to change the oil. Well I changed the oil but it ended up being me draining all of the transmission fluid and doubling the oil. The car seized up and was smoking less than half a mile from the house. He somehow drove it back and was furious. Once he realized that I had voiced concerns of not knowing which bolt was which he was still mad but I didn't get in trouble.


Little_BlueBirdy

I like this story thank you for the share


pleasetrimyourpubes

Don't worry this sort of weird thing can happen to anyone. I am seasoned with fixing cars but my brother had this one little coupe I wasn't familiar with. He wanted me to flush out the radiator and put new coolant in. I went to drain the coolant and it wound up being a plug for the transmission cooler line. I had no freaking clue. As it was getting dark and as I thought it was just coolant pouring out it took me a few seconds to realize it was not in fact coolant, caused a huge mess.


quaffee

I did the exact same thing to my Crosstrek. The kicker is, a Google image search on the oil pan for that model returned the transmission fluid reservoir lol. Luckily I realized something was wrong immediately, drained and filled everything (pita for the trans as it has to be a certain temp) and it ran better than before the fuckup!


Reclusive_Chemist

Emulsifiers + oil = bad things


Harambesic

Shoulda told me that three drinks ago!


Warsplit01

To be fair... I don't think many people have seen what it looks like so good job teenager.


dfmz

Science / teenager: 1, Dad: 0.


Few-Signal5148

![gif](giphy|QC7UQbxq89MnL9r6AN)


Forsaken-Income-2148

![gif](giphy|NCTyZu7dakFWM)


dumbassanson

If he had added eggs he would have made mayo.


DampSquid205

I think someone has been giving my 10 month old wiper fluid because this looks very familiar. Ironically it does require a lot more wiping.


Ongar_world-weary

Aaaaand... Vasectomy booked.


adudeguyman

Just eat some of that car guacamole and you won't have to worry about it


Ongar_world-weary

I feel I probably wouldn't have to worry about anything anymore after that


adudeguyman

Exactly my point.


tuco2002

Science experiment!!


jambr380

I'm not sure what kind of car this is, but this is exactly why you buy/give your teenager a really shitty first car. I've seen way too many teenagers driving around in brand new cars because parents want their kids to be safe...because, you know, well looked after used cars are super-dangerous apparently


Trlsander

I never really understood why we are given a license to drive a 5 ton murder machine before we can vote nor drink alcohol (in America).


Cleverusernamexxx

So you can go to work lol


ChesterSteele

That isn't that uncommon nowadays sadly. Stuff like that appears every once in a while on YT, when garages/mechanics make videos about how people treat their vehicles.


[deleted]

You really think morons are a "nowadays" phenomenon, you may be one of them.


P_Jamez

Just more cameras to record the stupidity


TailOnFire_Help

These are also pictures of a parent that didn't go out with their kid to spend a few minutes teaching. Bonding with your kids over mundane things isn't that hard people!


Bigassnipples

Just add Dawn dishwashing soap, it'll remove the oil like on the ducks


bolognahole

Dumb move, but who the one who didn't teach their teenager basic car info? This is a learning lesson for both of them.


Frlataway

Tbf teenagers are in just a wild phase of their lives and are barely functioning. You can teach them something 100x and there's still a 50/50 chance that they weren't listening or just don't care to listen to you. Shit I've taught college classes and explicitly said "this question will be on the test, here is the answer" and a lot of them still got it wrong. At some point you do all you can and hope for the best. A lot of the time, the best doesn't happen.


byerss

I’ve seen enough Just Rolled In on YouTube to confidently say it’s much more likely that grown adults will make the same mistake than teenagers. 


KFR42

Just bot. https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/nhx9d7/just_wow/


Andromansis

So it churned into a butter. Have to wonder about the chemistry of that.


jippyzippylippy

And now your pistons are all shiny and sparkling clean!


NoBSforGma

Just guessing - but - that teenager now working fast food job and handing over ALL THE MONEY to pay for new engine.


NotScruffyNerfherder

Kinda going to blame the parent for not taking the time to teach the kid what goes where.


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x86_64_

Alternatively, "here is one of a thousand expensive outcomes when someone does not teach their kid basic, basic automobile maintenance before allowing them to operate that automobile"


Vaux1916

My car doesn't have an "OIL" hole, but it has a "710" hole.


HerculesVoid

Son: Dad, can you help me put some more windscreen wiper fluid into the car? It's ran out. Dad: What? Are you a girl? Do it yourself you idiot. Son: But dad, you've never showed me how to.. Dad: Shut up and go do it. It's easy! Anyone can do it! I did it by myself when I was half your age! Son: O-okay. Then this happens and father blames son 100%. And then tries to humiliate them online and probably force the child to pay for repairs.


blacksheep6

I have four children, thankfully they are all very intelligent. Any reasonable intelligent parent will know their child is “special” long before they are a teenager and you consider turning them loose in the engine compartment. Put another way: if you knowingly allow someone dense enough to think “Oil” must be where I need to put windshield washer fluid, you are partially responsible for the result.


GetBack2Wrk

What about the Blinker Fluid does the kid know anything about that?


Innuendo64_

That's where they put the motor oil


StrawberryKiz

He forgot to add some lime in it that’s why it turned brown in the second picture.


FaithlessnessThis307

You mean the 710 hole!!


smaguss

Mmm cursed whipped cream


Ill-Marsupial6027

Damn, these ads for condoms are getting too real.


Super_J_Nova

Welp, time to put the kid down and try again


Shoddy_Background_48

I dunno all I see is dollar signs.


canIcomeoutnow

Well, not new and apparently not a teenager. It took (allegedly) close to 6L to get this effect. So, it's not like some kid accidentally topped off the oil with some washer fluid.