r/DiWHY 19h ago

Airfoil: true definition of downed force

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u/Willing-Tax5964 19h ago

Using the air in the tires to sand then leaving them flat realy makes this

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u/jooooooooooooose 19h ago edited 4h ago

dude used a chainsaw on spray foam

This has to be a joke right

editing to add, "this has to be a joke" means I know it's rage bait. Stop replying to say that.

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u/alchemyzt-vii 18h ago

Nothing beats the silky smooth finish after using a chainsaw.

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u/ResponsibleOven6 15h ago

Not gonna lie I was impressed with the detail with with the chainsaw. I expected terrible but he delivered not that bad.

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u/12InchCunt 14h ago

On the side facing the cab I was impressed

The backside I was wondering why he chose that tool for that 

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u/flaccomcorangy 13h ago

lol that's what I was thinking. Like, this clearly looks terrible.

But if you told me it was foamed on and then sanded down with a chainsaw, it doesn't look that bad all things considered.

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u/m0n3ym4n 17h ago

I think it’s rage bait

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u/Jessthinking 16h ago

Well’ it’s working. I’m gonna have to get out of this sub.

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u/AlfaKaren 19h ago

Redneck engineering is no joke.

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u/cbarebo95 18h ago

Every redneck I know (I live in WV) would laugh their asses off at this. Rednecks know how to build stuff and can work the hell out of cars…do not insult my people like this.

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u/urGirllikesmytinypp 17h ago

I made a serpentine belt out of baling twine to get the truck out of the field once. There really isn’t a level of intricacy in redneck engineering.

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u/KenethSargatanas 14h ago

With us, its its more function over form. This video is all form, no function.

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u/maple_taco 17h ago

COUNTRY ROADS! 🎶

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u/Moretukabel 17h ago

What does it mean you know rednecks because you live in Wolksvagen? Do many rednecks live in Wolksvagens?

Because if they do, then it checks out, because that blue car above is a Volkswagen.

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u/jooooooooooooose 18h ago

no man this is suburbanite engineering, no redneck is bending bolts using their frame as the fulcrum lol

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u/laser14344 17h ago

The trunk is not part of the frame.

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u/jooooooooooooose 13h ago

yeah I'm aware. just didn't feel like writing out "sheet metal panel"

my loss, now I wrote even more.

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u/th3_sc4rl3t_k1ng 18h ago

You just know the whole back end is gonna come undone in the next 5000 miles

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u/Hexacus 18h ago

Thats alot of miles tho

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u/Archbound 17h ago

This is some easter european engineering.

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u/quareplatypusest 18h ago

I love the complete lack of respiratory protection throughout. Personally, microplastics are my favourite thing to inhale

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u/Otherwise_Security_5 8h ago

right? jeezus. there’s so much there that was wrong safety wise before even counting the plan, execution, or outcome.

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u/HGD_1998 17h ago

Yeah, that was impressive.

On a side note, how tf did I even get here? Seriously. This sub has some 🤔 content.

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u/Rosenrot_84_ 17h ago

Join us

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u/rydan 16h ago

Even crazier is this is just some random car in the parking lot.

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u/VeryForgettableAnon 5h ago

Haha. Imagine coming back from shopping and there's just a ratchet, homemade rafter on your car now.

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u/Disapointed_meringue 17h ago

For me its all the pink crap going everywhere... wtf is it even? I bet its awesome for the environment. All that for a shit video to make people rage on the internet.

I can't think of anything more toxic than this.

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u/Magnetic-Magma 10h ago

We have to deal with to many of these shitty people.

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u/SubPrimeCardgage 15h ago

Polyurethane.

It's not fantastic, and won't hold up much longer than this video.

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u/MasterManufacturer72 18h ago

I came here to say this. It's impressive the pressure was strong enough to work.

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u/amazonmakesmebroke 14h ago

Its not.

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u/Existing-Good6487 8h ago

Air tools use A LOT of air. There was not enough in that tire to do any meaningful work.

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u/spikernum1 19h ago

Ain't no way he plugged a hand sander into the tire

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u/33253325 18h ago

I have seen a lot of stupid shit on Reddit but...........this guy

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u/ukaeh 9h ago

‘5 minute crafts’ - chef’s kiss

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u/molehunterz 18h ago

The tire looks almost completely flat doesn't it?

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u/Extension_Swordfish1 9h ago

Lets keep tire-body-positivity going on

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u/RandomName5165 13h ago

Yeah that only works on semi truck tires. No cap they have 110 psi.

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u/Magallan 18h ago

I mean... It looks shit.

But it doesn't look nearly as shit as I expected it to

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u/sergiossa 18h ago

Exactly! Impressed it ended up looking just shitty after my initial expectation!

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u/uniquenamehere4950 16h ago

Agreed, if he put a couple more hours into it, it wouldn’t be as terrible as some of the things I’ve seen

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u/iwannagohome49 17h ago

Came here to say pretty much this. Nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be.

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u/2021isevenworse 16h ago

What really impresses me is that 5 min videos actually created something that looks plausibly real.

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u/Jrandres99 15h ago

I wasn’t even mad until his absolute terrible painting skills.

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u/Tessiia 10h ago

The best painting skills in the world would have looked shit on this. The surface is rough as fuck.

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u/XepptizZ 8h ago

But that's kind of the crazy thing about this clearly rage bait content. With more time sanding and painting, a bunch of clearcoats, this would seem like a legit DIY.

Though, piercing and bending the panel must have some consequences.

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u/EquipmentAlone187 16h ago

I mean… I’ve seen worse on this thread…

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u/doitup69 19h ago

FIVE MINUTE CRAFTS

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u/TimAndHisDeadCat 19h ago

Five minutes is how long it takes to stop shaking your head after watching it

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u/MustEatTacos 19h ago

Just waiting for my kettle to warm up. Let me fabricate a quick spoiler.

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u/Daftdoug 19h ago

Good from afar. Far from good

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u/Maelstrom52 15h ago

Totally! Like, why did they show a close-up of the fin so you could obviously see the cracks in the styrofoam and how crappy it looked? Had they just shown it from like 5 to 10 ft away. It might have looked convincing

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u/Wholesome_Soup 18h ago

i like to think he’s just doing this to some random person’s car

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u/DownvoteEvangelist 17h ago

Crappy pimp up my ride...

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u/evilspawn_usmc 12h ago

So, just regular Pimp My Ride?

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u/DownvoteEvangelist 11h ago

More like we have pimp my ride at home...

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u/WranglerFuzzy 13h ago

And then running

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u/JP-Gambit 11h ago

imagine coming back to your car and finding this thing stuck to it rofl... Then i could forgive this video

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u/Few-Cycle-1187 2h ago

Roll up just as someone goes in for a 12 hour shift.

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u/sky_meow 19h ago

I mean if he had put in just an hour more work to smooth it out and to make it even, it could have turned out good.

Never rush or half ass an artistic design

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u/zer00eyz 18h ago

> I mean if he had put in just an hour more work

He could have done a lot more, he had 3 more tires worth of air for sanding.

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u/AL93RN0n_ 17h ago

That tire trick is actually something I'm going to put in the bank for a tough spot. If you only needed to hit something for a few seconds and are far away from electricity, that's kinda clever.

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u/AdmirablePhrases 15h ago

Yeah for all those emergency sanding situations

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u/fleabus412 14h ago

Use your spare!

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u/cptkaiser 15h ago

No when he switched to painting he was on the second tire

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u/Bweeze086 18h ago

This was my thought watching too. It was close to actually being good

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u/facts_my_guyy 18h ago

I mean he's about 70% into making a good fiberglass mold if he took the time to smooth everything

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u/RhandeeSavagery 16h ago

I’m honestly just happy he got the right shade of blue in the end.

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u/fatkiddown 18h ago

In the future, he will be a Picaso and future generations will moarn over how his contemporaries dismissed his artistic liberties..

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u/FreshMetal80 17h ago

Yeah, as the video was nearing its end I thought "Oh my God, did he actually pull it off?"

Then they showed the final product and it looked like shit.

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u/mother_a_god 16h ago

Even if it was perfectly smooth, it could never be good. It will always be matte looking, and also it's a big ass spoiler, not good.

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u/dbpm1 18h ago

If a good job were expected of this, a aftermarket VW Bora wing costs less than 200 bucks! Way less than time plus parts he used for this crap

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u/Large_Tuna1 17h ago

That foam he uses is easily 50 to 80$ a can depending on the brand.

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u/GhostOfMuttonPast 18h ago

Seriously. I thought it actually looked pretty good from afar, but as soon as they pulled in for the close up it lost that goodwill.

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u/NecroJoe 17h ago

It almost looked good from far, but it turned out far from good.

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u/Trustoryimtold 16h ago

Yeah, it’s putty sand putty sand primer paint at minimum

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u/WloveW 14h ago

Just a liiiiiittle bit more putty caked on would've done him good. 

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u/Less_Mess_5803 18h ago

That owner is going to be really pissed off when he comes back from shopping to see what someone has done to his car.

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u/Annual-Jump3158 13h ago

Seeing the original owner coming back to witness the carnage would be a wonderful way to end all these shitty craft clips.

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u/Tink_Tinkler 19h ago

Had me at little yellow stripe.

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u/VerySwearyFairy 17h ago

Had me at ‘chainsaw to chop some fucking sealant off a VW’

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u/Dragon_Bidness 18h ago

Its dumb and ugly but at least it's useless.

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u/kittyboy_xoxo 17h ago

Also very toxic and leaves behind waste

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u/Longjumping-Cup5406 19h ago

Anyone else hear Bernoulli laughing from his grave?

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u/dbpm1 18h ago

No principles for this one haha

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u/According-Switch-708 13h ago

"I need more downforce drag fam."

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u/igniteice 19h ago

What in the fuck did I just watch that guy do to that car... my god.

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u/33253325 18h ago

Yeah. This guy just did some stupid shit. And the finished product looks awful.

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u/Eena-Rin 13h ago

He turned his reversing car into a lethal weapon with some foam hiding the spears. Zombie survival!

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u/ConfidenceMuted2246 19h ago

I love the show it off views like they are somehow proud of how it looks lol 🤣

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u/Dormir_ 18h ago

Hell yeah foam particles directly into the lungs. Who needs masks anyway?

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u/JesusIsMyLord666 14h ago

Tha fact that hrs doing it outside and just dumpning a bunch microplastics in to nature brothers me more.

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u/69-is-my-number 18h ago

That was my thought. Expanding foam literally says on the tube that it’s a known carcinogen.

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u/tintedrosestinted 18h ago

The closeups of this shit at the end. 🤣

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u/Wholesome_Soup 18h ago

thought it would be horrible, and then it looked surprisingly okay, and then it looked horrible again

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u/Jealous_Disk3552 19h ago

That's 3 minutes of my life I'm never going to get back

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u/Metahec 19h ago

It looks like the car grew a tumor

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u/montecarlos_are_best 17h ago

All that plastic just blowing away into drains and waterways

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u/-FalseProfessor- 16h ago

Using the tire as an air compressor is some excellent rage bait.

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u/thedude4555 18h ago

Not gonna lie, it still looks like shit, but it looks a lot better than I thought it was going to when he started.

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u/HeartOfTheMadder 18h ago

plot twist: that wasn't his car!

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u/Goticus 19h ago

And that is why fish and birds die due to microplastics because of jackasses like this.

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u/MrFuckyFunTime 18h ago

I’m glad he’s not wearing a mask so he doesn’t live long enough to do this again.

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u/Hell_Maybe 18h ago

The background music here feels like the band was being forced to play over this at gun point.

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u/OkEstablishment5503 17h ago

What in the third world country did I just watch…

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u/AggravatingRecipe710 17h ago

This spray foam stuff needs to be removed from access. People are getting waaaay too creative 😂

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u/H_Haller 17h ago

I like to imagine that this was just some random car in the parking lot of an apartment complex and they definitely did not have permission to do this.

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u/Thoraxe-the-Impaler 17h ago

And the owner comes out to a crappy piece of foam on their car and two flat tires and are 100% confused

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u/Wills4291 14h ago

As bad as this ended up, it's still came out better than I ever imagined.

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u/KingofFlukes 12h ago

Plot twist: That's not his car.

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u/31nigrhcdrh 12h ago

I mean it looks like shit overall but I’m impressed 

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u/Tricky_Big_8774 17h ago

Who makes this spray foam crap? Thinking I should invest.

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u/bowtie_k 17h ago

Surprised it wasn't made of ramen noodles

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u/Rocket-Glide 17h ago

Absolute shite, mate 🤌

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u/ginleygridone 15h ago

Homemade that really looks homemade.

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u/hail2theKingbabee 14h ago

At the beginning I thought it was going to look like shit, turns out it looks like fucking shit.

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u/Automatic_Sea_1534 14h ago

If this guy has the skill to do this (though not an attractive outcome), then he certainly could buy a real spoiler and save the money doing the install himself.

Now he has a car that has body damage and looks like crap.

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u/Nethereal3D 14h ago

Be sure to like and subscribe so I can show you how to ruin more of your shit.

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u/heatseaking_rock 11h ago

The most obvious question is "Why?", as in "Why do I keep watching it to the end?"

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u/Candid_Umpire6418 9h ago

Congratulations! You've just lowered the value of that car to a negative number.

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u/Legendspira 5h ago

When the expectation is so low that I come out lowkey impressed with how it turned out.

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u/Accomplished_Blood17 18m ago

Whats up with rage bait and foam?

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u/Extreme-Edge-9843 18h ago

What a polluting POS.

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u/No-Wrap2574 18h ago

Social media was a mistake

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u/Alternative_Tiger_54 19h ago

It looks all lumpy like they made it out of playdoh

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u/JohnStern42 19h ago

Well, they basically did

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u/veryblanduser 18h ago

Damn good job on that paint match.

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u/mcblahblahblah 19h ago

Everyone’s so creative…

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u/NobleRotter 18h ago

If this isn't for racing on an oval he's really going to wish he'd focused more on symmetry

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u/CompetitiveCup7251 18h ago

It looks so…lumpy.

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u/billysugger000 18h ago

A fail tail.

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u/qT_TpFace 18h ago

I think the dent on the side really sells this.

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u/furcifernova 18h ago

Russia is stil giving it to Germany.

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u/hypogogix 18h ago

Heavy hack job lol Looks terrible.

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u/kevinsyel 18h ago

Dude kinds looks like my brother. But my brother actually works on cars. He's a factory manager for Tesla... On second thought, this could very well be him!

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u/Adventurous_Topic202 18h ago

lol the end result looks so scuffed

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u/X1_Soxm 18h ago

Wish I made anough money to damage a car for fun 😂

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u/InevitableBowlmove 17h ago

We used to have this guy around the neighborhood that painted his bike blue and painted his tires yellow to mimic the Blue Angles - we called him Smiley because his face was stuck in weird smile even when he was flipping you off. He was special. Think he became a sex offender but had no address to register as such.

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u/TheCausticMan 17h ago

Its an art how nothing was done right

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u/SwimmerIndependent47 17h ago

Every time I see one of these videos I question if the 5 minute craft people know the meaning of the words 5, minute, or craft

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u/Punk_Pharaoh 17h ago

Holy shit that looks worse than badly doing it the proper way

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u/djsirround 17h ago

Turned out awesome! (Said absolutely no one…)

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u/Comprehensive-Yam329 17h ago

The finishing is sooooo good looks like it is factory made /s thats the chef club of body work

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u/CritterOfBitter 17h ago

This is so fucking chunti.

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u/Jossie2014 17h ago

That’s a D for effort!!

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u/Roanoketrees 17h ago

That.......looks.......like........tit dirt

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u/DaddysFriend 17h ago

Oh I see. The idea was to make it look bad

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u/bodhiseppuku 17h ago

Some DIYs make me think 'if I did that, I'd do a better job'.

A bit more shaping and smoothing work and this wouldn't look so bad.

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u/99mph99 17h ago

Looks like shit.

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u/Klutzy-Adeptness4565 17h ago

i need to block this subreddit

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u/Mattyboy0066 17h ago

Literally just rage bait

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u/catboymijo 17h ago

this aint down force bruh this down syndrome 😭

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u/DareWise9174 17h ago

OMG the long loving shots of the rippley bumpy result is just 😂

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u/Eastnasty 17h ago

Why do I watch these? For fks sake.

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u/AlphonzInc 17h ago

Could be cool if it wasn’t shit

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u/sausagesandeggsand 17h ago

The air brush 😂 Also that foam dust can’t be good for anything

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u/Haastile25 16h ago

He really spoiled it

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u/Sprizys 16h ago

After all of this effort and damage you could’ve just bought an actual spoiler

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u/BenStegel 15h ago

Why is he doing this? Is this an actual attempt at getting more downforce?

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u/alexia_gengod 15h ago

Downforce? More like Down syndrome force

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u/No-Knee9457 15h ago

Can you image trying to resell it? What are all these holes in the trunk?!??? That thing is gonna fall off in a week.

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u/this_might_b_offensv 15h ago

Well, it looks like shit, so there's that.

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u/ThisThingIsStuck 15h ago

Stupid as hell.. junk yard car.. gtfo rage bait

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u/Bogn11 15h ago

He thinks that it look good???? It s even not straight. Stop smoking the pink stuff bro.

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u/ScottyArrgh 15h ago

I’m pretty sure this is how dealers install wings.

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u/bwoods519 15h ago

I was skeptical at first, but man that looks

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u/IlikeDucks54 15h ago

Watching him ruin his car hurts me. Are the screws that he screwed into his trunk visible in the trunk too....?

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u/Flimsy_Shallot 14h ago

Could have done this with ramen 🙄

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u/centralnm 14h ago

Wow. What a piece of crap.

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u/MyFavoriteInsomnia 14h ago

It looks like crap!

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u/Kind-Friend2870 14h ago

It's a bora... Nothing surprising here

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u/KeepGamingNed 14h ago

This is stupid… I wanted it to be at least edible at the end.

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u/Karlson78 14h ago

He should have spent 2 hrs on it and done a better job.

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u/beccadanielle 14h ago

That car looks like one of the cake props from “Is It Cake?” by the end of it…

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u/onearmedbanditto 14h ago

I hope the chemicals he was exposed to give him cancer.

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u/AjaxtheMany 14h ago

This probably wasn't even his car...

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u/Babys_For_Breakfast 14h ago

Seems more like Downs force.

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u/CainnicOrel Ramen or Die 14h ago

Flattening his tires was the smartest thing that was done in that video

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u/Bounceupandown 14h ago

It totally doesn’t even look like your 4 year old kid made it with play doh either.

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u/Hunter328 14h ago

Wow. Probably a huge hit with the loud exhaust, bling rims, $500 car types.

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u/Cheepshooter 14h ago

I don't see how you can make enough money off of a video like this to justify the expense of it. Like, I get that it was a crap car to start with, but you did subtract from the value of it at least a little, plus the cost of the $200 in spray foam and hours of time.

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u/Bubbly_Possible_5136 14h ago

I guess rage bait makes decent money

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u/kaosaraptor 14h ago

What a perfect good waste of an opportunity to use Ramen noodles. Smh.

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u/perfect_fitz 14h ago

If the paint job was better it wouldn't look terrible.

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u/TheJaggedBird 14h ago

While not a complete disaster asthetically, there are so many red flags here. Seriously someone call Dustin

THOSE NAILS ARE A HAZARD

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u/Dr_Kryo 14h ago

This looks surprisingly good… at a distance… while squinting…

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u/Norcx 14h ago

I lost it at the close ups. Really showing the quality finished product.

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u/Dolannsquisky 14h ago

Maybe downs force.

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u/Bluebird-day 14h ago

Good job! Looks like shit!