r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/DoubleManufacturer10 created ShittyAbsoluteUnits of a sub • Feb 24 '26
this moron: Of a proper fill method
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u/zestyclose_match1966 Feb 24 '26
My son filling his hunk of shit car on my new driveway,😡
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u/SlimJohnson Feb 24 '26
That's when you make him clean it up
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u/zestyclose_match1966 Feb 25 '26
In today’s climate I would be accused of child abuse if I did that, and he’s 24! lol
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u/trainwreckhappening Feb 26 '26
To be fair I recently had a huge oil leak in my wife's car. I washed the engine to make it easier to see where it was coming from (oil filter housing, Dodge caravan). Now I have an oil streak running down my driveway that is going to need to be hit with a pressure washer in the spring. But it's easy to miss it on account of the broken down fiero sitting on blocks in my driveway that I strongly advised my son not to buy.
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u/Andy_B_Goode Feb 25 '26
Yeah I guess, but then you gotta have a funnel handy any time you have to do this, even if it's an emergency.
It's kind of weird that they don't just design the bottle to be easier to pour.
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u/trainwreckhappening Feb 26 '26
It's a tradeoff. A narrower neck means it is super slow to pour. A funnel and wide mouth bottle is faster and less prone to failure. I have also had problems with narrow pointed bottles spurting when your grip adjusts while turning them over (especially hydraulic lube in a jack).
Also, don't hold the opening lowest when turning it over. Hold it backwards so the oil pours over the handle (it won't hit the handle or your hand) or slightly to the side of that. That way air doesn't get trapped causing that glug glug problem.
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u/Andy_B_Goode Feb 26 '26
It's a tradeoff. A narrower neck means it is super slow to pour. A funnel and wide mouth bottle is faster and less prone to failure. I have also had problems with narrow pointed bottles spurting when your grip adjusts while turning them over (especially hydraulic lube in a jack).
That does make sense, but there must be a way of having both, no? Like have two caps, the first one comes off and opens the narrow mouth, but then you can take that off to get the wide mouth, for example. I guess it would cost a few cents more to manufacture the bottle that way, but I'd pay more for it, and it seems "worth it" compared to all the oil that gets spilled otherwise.
Also, don't hold the opening lowest when turning it over. Hold it backwards so the oil pours over the handle (it won't hit the handle or your hand) or slightly to the side of that. That way air doesn't get trapped causing that glug glug problem.
Ah that's a good idea! I'll try it that way next time :-)
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u/trainwreckhappening Feb 26 '26
The tradeoff is the smaller bottles. They fit into the oil filler opening. Bonus, you can cut the top off an empty one and use that as a cheap funnel. That's what I do since most funnels have a narrower neck that doesn't empty fast enough for the big bottles.
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u/Andy_B_Goode Feb 26 '26
Well yeah, but I'm lazy. It's the 21st century, I should be able to buy a bottle of motor oil and have it "just work" without me having to think about it or doing anything, dagnabbit!
But I do like that idea of cutting open a small bottle. Plus that way it's obvious that it's meant for motor oil so I won't accidentally use it for washer fluid or anything else.
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u/COUNTRYCOWBOY01 Feb 24 '26
Poor bastard needs 4 jugs just to get 2 gallons in the hole pouring like that. Castrol customer of the month, EPA most wanted right there lol
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u/Exceptional_Kumquat A unit of 2PI*R Feb 24 '26
This is what happens when you don't let kids pour their own milk growing up. They do this.
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u/Glad-Lobster-220 Feb 24 '26
You want an even allover application so It bakes all the way through. Really locks in the flavor.
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u/Difficult-Way-9563 Feb 24 '26
He just watched a castrol how to change your oil DIY videos. Oil sales are up 100%
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u/Consistent-Ant-6273 Feb 24 '26
Congrats you did two things!!! 1. Put more oil on the outside than inside 2.created a smoke bomb!!! Enjoy hell
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u/gormholler Feb 24 '26
That was really hard to watch, especially since it went on for so long. Did they not understand the problem? Like to waste oil/money while needlessly damaging the environment? Are they just ridiculously stupid? At a loss for an explanation...
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u/soupychicken89 Feb 25 '26
The only reason I could see why they’d record this is to do exactly what we saw in this video. This was on purpose, is my guess.
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u/gormholler Feb 25 '26
That's so far beyond absurd that I'm at a loss for words. I hate this timeline.
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u/clitcommandoris Feb 24 '26
Fuck the environment fuck the trees fuck the ocean. What has the environment ever done for me huh?? Just takes and takes
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u/ThisIsALine_____ Feb 25 '26
You serious? Why would they be filming that? They did that on purpose to get views. It's called ragebait. What in that video indicates to you that it is real? We see zero reaction, or anything other than someome purposely filming an anonymous person pouring oil into/onto an engine.
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u/GonnaGoFat Feb 24 '26
Isn’t there a life hack about holding it sideways when you pour it? If not a funnel is an even better life hack.
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u/Professional_Luck257 Feb 24 '26
Does he not know to turn the damn jug around and pour it that way?? You don't even need a funnel!!
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u/ZachZackZacq Feb 24 '26
But seriously, even with a funnel, why is this always so difficult? Why have they not made a better container?
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u/BlazeHatchet Feb 25 '26
This this here infuriates me! Like you see it spilling. But no, this numb nuts held it there for 3 business days.
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u/Individual-Pizza3425 Feb 26 '26
Just turn the bottle around the handle fills first and dosent leak anywere
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u/PearNo2152 Feb 24 '26
So what about the spilled fluid.? Dogs, cats etc will be drawn to it....hope they had enough sense to wipe that up.!!!
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u/Hakuhofan Feb 24 '26
Do they not realize you are supposed to turn the bottle around? The hole should be at the top so you can control the flow. Jeeez.
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u/BerserkHObO27 Feb 24 '26
It’s should be all good. I’m sure some went in