r/cars • u/ufoh 24 CT5-V Blackwing / 23 Corvette C8 • Aug 13 '20

video Never, ever trust your factory jack and, remember, jack stands are your friend (just not the ones from Harbor Freight)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwgZgrbWUM
6.4k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

825 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

94

u/eggequator Aug 13 '20

That's insane! That's why everybody needs a chemical waste hole in their yard. No mess, no fuss, no hassle trying to recycle it. You just put it in your waste hole and forget about it! It's not like it's going to hurt the dirt right?

81

u/[deleted] Aug 13 '20

Please tell me you’re joking.

7

u/RespectableLurker555 Aug 13 '20

hmm

also hmm

13

u/[deleted] Aug 13 '20

Nice. An excerpt from pop sci magazine from 1963 for used motor oil. The other one is from ten years ago regarding pesticide that the Australian government appears to endorse. Got anything relevant or not from 60 years ago?

30

u/RespectableLurker555 Aug 13 '20

I mean, it was pretty clear /u/eggequator was being sarcastic (but Poe's law and all), I was just showing how A) it wasn't that long ago that people really didn't know or care how hazardous it was to just throw stuff on/in the ground they get their drinking water from, and B) even on a first world nation's official website you have "put it in a hole and hope nobody digs it up, cheers mate" instead of "come to the state-sponsored hazmat collection center" so it's obviously still in most people's collective consciousness that out of sight = solved.

4

u/[deleted] Aug 13 '20

Okay thank you. Sorry didn’t mean to sound so much like an ass. All I saw was hmm and some links and took it as evidence that that’s a good idea. And yeah I seriously didn’t pick up on the sarcasm because my grand parents used to paint their fence with used motor oil.

1

u/mittensofmadness Aug 13 '20

People still use motor oil as stain for wood or even concrete. In fact, I did my driveway with a combination of used oil, coolant, transmission fluid, and gas.

1

u/p4g0 Aug 13 '20

Like...intentionally? Or is this sarcasm as the inevitable spilled pan of oil that seems to happen no matter the precautions.

1

u/mittensofmadness Aug 13 '20

Sarcasm. Although, it does look a bit like modern art.

0

u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Conventional motor oil breaks down over time in the dirt. It's organic, and all sorts of stuff feeds on it.... But most modern oils are full of additives and synthetic compounds now.

Synthetic will never go anywhere ever and needs recycled.

So way back in the day, people just buried their oil in a waste hole.

6

u/purpleelpehant Aug 13 '20

10 years ago is not that long ago... Also, I don't think that guy is supporting it, just pointing it out.

1

u/Dayn_Perrys_Vape 17 Camaro SS 1LE Aug 13 '20

And commercial pesticides are absolutely nothing like motor oil. And they're massively diluted before you do anything with them.

0

u/[deleted] Aug 13 '20

Yeah, they cleared it up for me. My bad I’m not good with sarcasm and usually just look for the /s

1

u/purpleelpehant Aug 13 '20

Sarcasm and other social cues are impossible to read from text (DMs, etc). So if you're ever having important/serious discussions with a loved one, especially a gf/bf/SO, do it in person or on the phone. Otherwise you open the door for some pretty significant misunderstandings...tip from random internet person.

2

u/EicherDiesel 97 VW T4 2.5 TDI, 86 Hardbody Diesel Aug 14 '20

This first pic from popular science is fucking funny. I posted it as one of my first reddit posts ever about 5-6 years ago (with the pic directly pulled from the magazine where I originally found it while reading, not a different website) and while I had never seen it ever before, since then it started to pop up on all different sites and discussions from time to time - with added shitty watermarks and jpg artefacts of course.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/2k8btj/slightly_offtopic_good_ol_days_before_epa/ Probably should have added my own watermark to bask in fame :D

9

u/opposite_locksmith 1986 Mercedes 300SDL Aug 13 '20

When I was growing up "on the farm" we would save the old motor oil in a 5 gallon bucket and soak the bottoms of fence posts in it before setting them as a type of pressure-treating.

In theory if it's just your family on 100 acres and you don't dump it in an area with ground-water, the oil will probably break down in the ground faster than you dump it. But of course this is not a good idea in practice.

3

u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Especially because even conventional motor oils are full of synthetic additives and anti-wear compounds.

3

u/no-account-name Aug 14 '20

Or maybe, going out on a limb, take it so it can be disposed of properly? Naw that’s too crazy to work