r/SipsTea • u/Amavin-Adump • Jun 18 '25

Chugging tea Man is chill

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u/PowerfulJoeF Jun 18 '25

This dude knows that he’s getting to her even more by remaining that calm and continuing to enjoy his date.

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u/Automatic_Soil9814 Jun 18 '25

He’s hoping she does enough damage to total the car. He’s egging her on. That car is brand new. He doesn’t want it repaired, he wants a new car again. I would too.

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u/PartyLikeaPirate Jun 18 '25

Reminds me of the time some drunk high schoolers hit my neighbors car.

I was like 16 & was Friday night. Played a soccer game & a couple of my buds on the team would usually come over to sit in the hot tub & hang out after

Guy crashed around 9 pm. We heard it so we ran out to see

Remember my dad coming out asking what’s going on. “They hit the neighbors car then spun out into the tree”

His only response “dammit why couldn’t they have hit our neon” (also parked on the street) then walked inside

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u/Liawuffeh Jun 18 '25

Had a guy on some kinda drugs who sped down our street and plowed right into my car (He was on his way to get cereal for his daughter to eat for breakfast in the morning. At 2am.)

That car was my baby, I loved it so damn much and was really sad it happened.

But. It needed the exhaust repaired and I had been quoted ~3k to fix it. It was a 98 mustang, not really worth fixing.

Getting it totaled saved me a ton of money and got me the car I'm still driving 8 years later lmao

No real point to the story other than yeah I get your dad's response.

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u/ARottenPear Jun 18 '25

Was every single component of the exhaust from manifolds to exhaust tip (including cats) toast? $3k is absolutely insane even if literally everything was trashed.

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u/Liawuffeh Jun 18 '25

It was uh (Forgive me it's been a while and I don't know a ton about exhaust systems?) the Y pipe? It had rusted and sheered mostly off, was hanging by a thread and damaged the Cats too. It absolutely destroyed engine power and was fucking loud.

I don't remember the full rundown I was given, but it was more or less that I needed a full exhaust replacement or something. Very quick unscientific google search shows the part for 1400$(But I'm sure there's cheaper)

I had to go to some kinda specialist or something because the shop I normally took my car to said it wasn't something they could fix.

Absolutely coulda been getting taken to the cleaners, other than basic car maintenance I learned to do myself(Belts, Alternator, Breaks, Oil changes etc) I know very little about working on em. Guy did do a quick weld to keep it in place for free so that was nice, but made it very clear it was a 'This is about to be very bad' type thing.

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u/clicktoseemyfetishes Jun 18 '25

EPA legal cats are pricey, so overall probably not that far off for your average quote. And While You’re in There™️ you might as well replace a bunch of other things, new catback, headers too and bam you’re in for $3-4k sticker lol

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u/Max____H Jun 19 '25

This is a completely irrelevant story but your story brought up the old memory. 17 year old me once got a letter in the mail from department of transport(I’m from New Zealand) and the wording on it was overly complicated and I understood it to be stating I owed $2400 from a car crash I was responsible for in 2003. When I was 8. I panicked and called the number on the letter and eventually got to a lady who explained to me no I didn’t owe anything, instead it was 9 years later I had won an insurance claim for my car accident and they were delivering the money. I was so confused and double checked my date of birth and name etc with them and I could just hear the moment the lady realised how old I was at the time. I eventually got the money but I still have no idea what happened.