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I don’t know if the operator had any choice on the result…
I have three friends who have/had Grand Ams, and I can tell you that there is a reinforced jack point on the Unibody rail about 3 inches in and four forward from where they had the jack in this picture. I’ve lifted and lowered that car six times myself with no damage.
The jack is shaped to fit the rail; if you stick it just anywhere (say, an unreinforced patch of random sheetmetal) it will focus the pressure on a small area and cause damage. This is a total operator fail, they should’ve taken the two minutes to read the jacking and towing page of the owner’s manual and this wouldn’t have happened.
Great cars if you take proper care of them, my one buddy’s had 130,000+ miles and seventeen years under its belt when he sold it after he had it three years with no major repair bills. (It was still in good shape, but he wanted a Jeep.)
thanks for taking the time to explain the fail.
but how do you explain the dumbarse who is unable to follow simple instructions?
Failblog fodder?
Foilblog Fadder
Foilfog bladder
Boiled Frog Bladder?
Broiled Grog Splatter
Oiled Borg Fragger
Just Plain Dumb
bust janes thumb
All cars have supports in the frame for jacks… Your not suppose to stick them just anywhere, for any car.
You’re*
Or you can drive a Civic and get 300,000 miles out of it for the same money.
How did they get a picture of my wife’s car?
wtf its my wife 2
Do you both live in Utah?
polyandry… they live in India.
i live in utah. never heard of anything like this before though.
i do. but this is new to me. never heard about it until now. maybe they did it on purpose?
3rd
im a dyke
Congratulations.
My middle name is dyxie. no joke.
Your first name is Les?
Saying you are a dyke is just a cry for someone to stick a finger in you. Dutch maybe?
Actually, I’m sure a tam…never mind.
A tambourine?
…
That would make walking around interesting.
he’d constantly be tinkling…
The language is terribly NSFW, but this is starting to remind me of an episode of Detroit Metal City (11:30)
I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the return of Czuhc and his mad avatar amending skills.
*hornpipes*
*dances*
*squeezes bagpipes and friends*
*does something like a river-dance, jig, and grand mal seizure*
Woot, Czuhc!
Could be worse. There’s a voice actor named Richard Cox, no joke.
Ha ha. or Dick Van Dyke.
[announcer]: “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Dick Van D..[stifled laugh]… oh, i’m sorry.. uh.. Mr. Dick V… hehe.. erm… sorry, folks…Mr… uh… Mr… [hurried yell].. PENISVANLESBIAN! [dead silence] Ah! Ha Ha. Uh, sorry… i couldn’t help myself… Now where was I?… oh yeah, uh…. Mr… hehe.”
And Peter O’Toole. Don’t forget Peter O’Toole.
do you have a finger stuck up your arse?
I’m tired of these jokes. This one really went flat.
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Ha.
hehe
I giggled…
Anyone fancy a flatjack?
*belgian roffles*
I never get tired of the bad puns.
Yeah, all those pictures and instructions on the jack… they’re just for show.
Yeah, it’s just to keep the people who write them in a job. It’s not like they actually MEAN anything or have important information that could save you thousands at the body shop.
I’m just impressed they were able to actually find the jack.
srsly a jack that works!!!!
Yes, it opened that door just like a can of tuna!
I don’t know, I can’t quite get a rise out of this one…
This one leaves you crushed?
I was floored by it.
It just tyres me out.
I don’t know — I’m kinda jacked-up about it.
It gave me a lift this morning.
I don’t know jack about tyres.
Oh sh…
*cough*
Yeah, might as well change the car door while at it.
*cough*
Win!!
for the door replacement industry.
the wynens repair book
the jack handle that went flying across the yard in anger.
for the Canadian winters.
the canadian winters?? huh?
In the wintery weather too! Must suck for him/her.
Trust me, its a ‘her’.
*yawns*
*pokes ^ with a stick*
*loses interest*
*leaves*
You forgot to sharpen the stick first.
*hands AE a nice sharp stick*
That’s not a stick he was using.
where is that fish when you need it??
Who do you need the fish for?
she just wants to flap him for the halibut.
We thwack trolls (and on occasion, others) with a shellacked fish. The type of fish changes from time to time. I prefer to use the mackerel.
*THWACKS M.J.Fox with the shellacked mackerel*
do you ever use clubs? maces? morningstars? flails? axes? swords? or, worst of all… DETAILED, 3-INCH THICK D&D MANUALS?!
Or at least, it’s not one made of wood?
Depends on the time of day, ari.
Say Ry, have you ever met our Granny here? I presume the two of you would be innuendo machine’s armageddon…
Granny Cat Flaps?
Yup.
He was starting to post right before my mental breakd err hiatus. Doesn’t hurt that he isn’t hard on the eyes, at least on myspace.
*facepalm*
Of course, MS!
Do people know that Granny is a guy? Or is that one manly looking woman on his profile?
You’d be surprised how many people on this site think I’m a dead Beatle.
Besides, you can’t really pigeonhole him as a ‘guy’ when his lips drag along the floor leaving a snail trail.
With the pink hair and blank expression, I thought you were a girl until you started shaking your hot pepper sauce my way.
It’s a blow to a man’s ego to have to carry around a bottle of hot sauce to prove he’s a guy – I’m just sayin’…
Color your hair a mans color like deep purple or blue and I wouldn’t think you were a girl!
Actually, it’s starting to come in deep purple and I was trying to hide it to look younger.
Granny is a guy?? And here I was thinking he’s one hell of a handsome granny.
Dont poke me, bro.
*pokes ^*
Hehehe…
:[
Im not a piece of meat that can be poked willy nilly. Im a human.
O really? Well how about poked billy milly then?
silly willy..
Milly Vanilly?
hey wow, I didn’t even see your lips moving or anything!!
with a herring?
hehe… lol. Brave Sir Robin should get that.
Fine then. Poked silly willy it is.
*pokes ^)
^=MJ Fox, not JW.
that has yet to be proved….
*clickie*
Wouldn’t that monkey use apostrophes?
Ahem, I agree…
I employed an army of monkeys, but after 5 years at their typewriters, they never produced a single work of Shakespeare.
Just a couple Harlequin romance novels. Very disappointing.
D@mn monkeys! Can’t do anything right, can they?
Could’ve been worse. Could’ve been Tom Clancy.
And “Twilight”. Don’t forget that.
That was half a dead monkey with a pencil.
♫ After all we’re only human,
always fighting what we’re feeling, ♫
♫ hurt instead of healing,
after all we’re only human,
is there any other reason why we stay instead of leavin’ ♫
If it had been a Ford the thing would have fallen apart.
Dont you think they would have noticed one the door started to frickin crumple?
Maybe it slipped down or soemthing, but seriously.
It’s a Pontiac. Those trim panels are so flimsy that when they take the jack back down, it’ll pop back into place. The door, however… if you look at the point on the car where the jack is, you can see a dark shadow on the other side,… that would be the steel support beam the jack was supposed to be on.
If they had it on the right spot, the only thing they could’ve managed would be for it to fall forward or back if they forgot to set the parking brake. Either way, no harm done unless they were underneath at the time.
*takes car and folds a nice hat for jam*
Heavy is the head that wears the car!
Yay! I’ll never need to hunt for a parking space ever again.
You might have a slightly hard time getting through doorways, though.
Only if Jam is not exiting or entering.
But if the door is not a door, then I cannot enter through the entrance.
*gets confused*
D’oh!
Refresh, refresh, refresh!
*sniffs*
Yup! :p
Q: When is a door not a door?
A: When it’s ajar!
*wokkawokkawokka*
“This is not a door.”
Yes it is, I read the braille sign right before I went into a coma.
Hey! She isn’t Rosie O’Donnell sized. Or at least that’s what I thought…
Let’s go to the Royal Ascot together!
*roffles*
I would lend my hat to one of the jockies but his horse might collapse.
HAHAHA!
That happens often when Jam wears just a hat.
*takes his hat off to her*
It’s true. People do laugh at me when I wear nothing but a hat.
♪ Baby take off your coat
Real slow
Take off your shoes
I’ll take off your shoes
Baby take off your dress
Yes, yes, yes
You can leave your hat on ♪
But but but… then you’ll laugh.
Is it a big hat? Because those are funny.
Czuhc made me a car hat. Wanna go for a ride in it?
Can you put the top down?
I could but it’s cold and you wouldn’t like your eyes to water.
Laughter is the best medicine (knows because Reader’s Digest says it is so).
Since when is collapsing the horse = laughing?
Depends how ticklish you are.
Now wouldn’t that be a curse.
Oh baby…
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Oh baby…
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
yeah… and heavy is the back that carries my backpack (i never use a locker)
Jack on, jack off.
I was just going to say that, JackÄss.
I like the tree in the back…
That’s kinda vague considering there are over ten of them in the picture.
I think Duroc’s describing that one tree. You know, the one without any leaves. And it’s kind of conical. And it has some branches.
Jeez, LGB, you gotta be more specific than that.
It’s the one set against the white sky.
Ohhhhh…now I know which one. It’s the one that is kinda brownish in colour.
Duh — it’s the one BEHIND the car.
Cars have behinds?
You spelt tyre wrong.
Fail.
The Feng Shui is all wrong here.
The moral of this story: Before you start cranking back and forth, make sure you’re doing it in the right spot. Otherwise, you could wind up with your back door stuck permanently open.
I said that very same thing to my ex-husband a long time ago.
Now he walks like John Wayne.
The permanent smile doesn’t match with John Wayne, though.
*snerK*
If we’re talking about virile actors of yesteryear, wouldn’t Rock Hudson be a better example? (^_~)
Your smiley confuses me.
It’s a wink, as opposed to the normal eyes-closed smile represented by (^_^)
It’s not Sloth from The Goonies?
Never saw the movie, sorry…
You have to be young. Compared to me, that is.
Neh, it’s from my teenageish years… just never saw it.
Babay Roooooooooooooooooothhhhhh!
HEYYYYYYYYY YOUUUUUUUUUUU GUYYYYYYYYYYS!
(I was wandering around York once, and a man came up to shake my hand and congratulated me on wearing a Goonies top. That’s a measure of how awesome the movie is)
*looks up, whistling*
Coincidence, pure coincidence…
*waddles off kinda funny*
*snork*
Until I saw the “Tire Change Fail” bit written on a picture, I had misunderstood “change” and had thought the guy had been trying to change lanes and he ran into a jack that had been left in the road.
I’m not kidding. :[
S’okay, Shadow. Jacks don’t really have a habit of finding themselves on the road much. Tearing into car doors, now, that’s a different story…
It could happen. Myself and at least half a dozen other people wound up with interestingly-shaped holes blown out of the sides of our tires when a garbage truck dropped its driveshaft in the middle of I-405 about a month ago.
One day you have to grow up and accept, no matter how hard you force it, the car won’t transform into a robot
Transmoomins, more than meets the eye…
I care a lot, about Transmoomins.
Nah, transmoomins when I run around in a dress. . .
*hides*
Is your dress shorter than your mini skirt?
Do your ears hang low, do they wiggle to and fro?
Don’t hide! Be who you are – even if it’s a marshmallowy guy in a dress.
Don’t forget the heels.
Careful there, some poor schmuck got sued by Michelin when he wrote a song comparing their mascot to a blow-up doll.
True, but they also gave it 3 stars.
Wait… what?
*rushes outside to where Tercel is waiting*
[Me]: “Dammit, you’ve been lying to me? I thought you turned into a robot!”
[Tercel]: “Who, me? Uh, no, that’s uh… that’s… erm… that’s Arty. Arty who? Arty Down-The-Road-Arty…uh, no yeah. Uh, I know him from the… uh… from the laundromat.”
*kicks car, sobbing, gains composure*
[me]: “….*snif*… cars….don’t….do….laun–”
[tercel]: I NEED MY SOCKS TO BE SOFT, DAMMIT!!! Maybe if you’d just go out and buy some softener, but NOOO. not for the poor old Tercel. ‘Oh, you’re a car, turn into a robot’…. Gosh, you’re really annoying”
When man with flat tire
brokeded his car door, he said,
“Aw man, that’s jacked up.”
Not jackedup, just jacked.
Therein lies the problem’s root,
Quoth the mechanic.
Aaaaah, haiku! And I tried to fit Shadow’s comment in the melody of “That’s Amore”…
Scary thing is, it almost works…
…or one of Confucius’ throwaways.
“Hey man, lets go carjacking!”
*scrunch*
“This is somewhat less exciting than anticipated”
I guess it kind of let the air out of their tires?
Expectations fell a little flat.
“What do we do now?”
Same thing happened to a friend who went cow-tipping.
No matter how much he tried to tuck into their g-strings, they wouldn’t give him a lap dance.
*snork*
* ahem *
How udderly inappropriate!
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
~Prince Philip
♫ You don’t bring me flowers…
any more! ♫
This pic has to be staged. There is no way to have that much damage from misplacing the jack. I’ve been running wreckers for years, and I’ve seen lots of mishaps with jacks, and hundreds of motor vehicle accidents. I believe the damage is real, but not caused by the jack. The jack was likely placed there for this photo after some other force caused that damage, like running over something.
Well, Duh, that’s a good point. If it’s not staged, at what point should the operator have noticed “Ok, this is destroying my car, maybe I should stop?” I think that’s where the real fail comes in.
Two words: ethyl alcohol.
too bad it wasnt a honda then it would have been funny
Well it looks like the tire is not the only thing on thew car that is flat.. lol
the tire was only flat on one side
Oy oy oy now, I love my Grand Am… just… if you’re gonna get rid of that one, can I have all the parts that aren’t busted? Same color as mine and everything…
Poops
now i know that isn’t just me that fail
I say FAIL to the photoshopper who sent this in. I own this car and that runner beneath the door is fiber glass. It wouldn’t bend like that unless it was melted. It would just shatter! And yes, I have seen it shatter after a dumb ass backed into me and I had to have the door banged out, the runner replaced and a fiber glass body panel glued back on.
he needs to be more careful. expensive tire change
thats for using crapy american cars /thumbs up