“Unearthed Secrets: Mechanic’s Routine Repairs Reveal Hidden Treasures and Unexplained Mysteries”

"Unearthed Secrets: Mechanic's Routine Repairs Reveal Hidden Treasures and Unexplained Mysteries"
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For the uninitiated, it probably looks like the car is leaking some strange, viscous ooze everywhere. However, those with a little more experience can tell that something went wrong here, and all that stuff is an unsightly attempt to fix it.

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As far as Reddit user quiveringcalm could tell, this panel broke off the car’s interior, and the customer used a red RTV sealant to patch it back up. Although they wondered why this person didn’t use a less obvious color like black, commenters figured that they had the red stuff and didn’t want to buy more sealant.

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To gauge how horrifying this picture is to somebody, it helps a lot to know where they’re from. That rusted-out bottom may make the eyes pop out of some people’s heads, but commenters on mtld83’s Reddit post were quick to point out how common of a sight that is in the Midwest.

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That part of America can get cold and icy in the winter, and all the salt and other kinds of grit they use to keep the roads from getting slippery can have a destructive effect on a car’s undercarriage over time. But even for the most hardened Michigander, that spring being so extremely out of place is a bridge too far.

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They wouldn’t even let this in the shop

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As Reddit user Key_Hearing660 explained in their post, “He was coming in off the interstate for a fuel smell and 100 foot from the door I yelled at him to kill it and grabbed an extinguisher.” If nothing else, that certainly solves the mystery of what was causing the fuel smell.

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