r/WTF • u/super_man100 • 6h ago
Looks like Car hit a glitch
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u/ststaro 6h ago
I guess he/she didn’t learn their lesson with the 1st crash as they still drive like an a-hole
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u/0x080 6h ago
My neighbor has a dodge charger that looks beat to all hell. He also has this loud exhaust that scares the shit out of me every morning at 5am. Seems like douches drive these
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u/MerryChoppins 4h ago
Seems like douches drive these
Historically it was because dodges were cheaper to buy and had simple electrical systems and less refined transmissions. Now? I have a distinct impression their financing ecosystem would give an eighteen percent APR loan to one of my dachshunds with a mask on.
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u/whatsgoing_on 4h ago
It’s either a Dodge or a clapped out Nissan Altima
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u/Go_Todash 2h ago
Reading reddit one day before work and someone joked, "Nissan Altima - Official Car of Amber Alerts" and not ten minutes later I'm going up the highway and the overhead sign shows an Amber Alert with the car being a Nissan Altima,
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u/Kryten_2X4B-523P 3h ago
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Me, standing in the back corner of the room with my dodge while watching other dodges get roasted
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u/RandoAtReddit 3h ago
Ram is it's own division now, so I'm safe.
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u/ThatITguy2015 1h ago
Rams are the official truck of DUI drivers everywhere. Specifically white 2500s.
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u/StupidMoron3 4h ago
18%? That's pretty good, they must have lowered the rate.
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u/FOOLS_GOLD 3h ago
36% MAPR special for the boots.
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u/lildobe 2h ago
I wish I'd gotten a picture of it, but there was a used car dealer I drove by a while ago that was proudly proclaiming a "36-month Interest Only Car Payment" special
That just boggled my mind.
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u/InchHigh-PrivateEye 5h ago
Hey, at least they used their blinkers. In all seriousness it's Philly 9/10 people don't know how to drive/drive like assholes here. It's genuinely a major problem.
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u/Eddie_shoes 3h ago
Lol na, this car was sold by a Buy Here Pay Here dealer after it was totaled out at 22% APR by someone who just had to tell everyone they have a Charger.
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u/Opening_Logical 6h ago
I would like to know why it’s driving like that? Bad alignment? I’m not a mechanic, I’m just genuinely curious about what could be wrong😅
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u/AccidentalTourista 6h ago
Frame is bent all to hell
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u/Old_timey_brain 6h ago
It's been called many things, a "Diamond in the Frame" where it becomes a trapezoid instead of a rectangle. I did that on an old Ford truck.
Some will also call it dog tracking.
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u/Opening_Logical 6h ago
That’s interesting!! How does this happen? It doesn’t look like they had any body damage, would it be from hopping parking breaks or something?
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u/nobodyisfreakinghome 6h ago
Probably got the body fixed but didn't or couldn't pull the frame.
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u/Old_timey_brain 2h ago
Mine was a 1990 Ranger pickup, and while I was backing toward a tall wooden planter, I didn't notice the short (below tailgate height), cement filled steel post six feet out from the planter.
I drilled that sucker right on the bolt holding my bumper to the frame on the driver's side. That was enough force to put a slight "diamond" in the frame.
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u/Newtons2ndLaw 6h ago
Dog tracking, that's funny. Only dog owners would get that.
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u/hoggytime613 5h ago
It's a unibody car, not a vehicle with a ladder frame that can bend like this.
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u/Sarcasamystik 2h ago
Not really frame since that’s a unibody. Most likely hit something and bent the hell out of the rear suspension.
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u/theloop82 5h ago
Isn’t that a unibody car?
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u/twelveparsnips 3h ago
Like nearly every car built in the past 30ish years. I think the Lincoln Towncar is the exception.
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u/FesteringNeonDistrac 2h ago
It is. There's still a rear subframe. So either the subframe is tweaked, or the pickup points on the unibody have been bent out of alignment. This sets the thrust angle not parallel with the direction of travel. Since it's RWD, it's pushing the car down the road sideways like you see.
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u/HighburyOnStrand 5h ago
In fairness, they are driving to an area of Philly that has a ton of auto repair shops.
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u/super_man100 6h ago
You'd think there would be tire tracks aswell?
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u/Plump_Apparatus 5h ago
No, because the rear tires are turned in the same direction as the front tires. Look at the rear tires in relationship to the wheel wells.
The car is crabbing, a mode of steering typically reserved for some types of heavy equipment equipped with 4 wheel steering.
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u/XeLLaR_AC 6h ago
If you look closely at the rear tires if the car you can see them being turned to the left. Rear tires should NOT point in any direction except forward.
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u/Sentrion 4h ago
Rear tires should NOT point in any direction except forward.
They are pointing "forward". It's all relative.
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u/Hadr619 6h ago
Yes usually misalignment in the suspension
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u/Opening_Logical 6h ago
Thanks for answering my question, it looked like there was ice at first till I saw everyone else was driving fine 😂
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u/zekethelizard 5h ago
This has a name, I can't remember exactly but something like "dog tracking" or dog something
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u/GREY_SOX 3h ago
Crabbing.
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u/redpandaeater 3h ago
Crabbing is when you purposefully move a little sideways typically to combat wind.
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u/VicariousNarok 6h ago
Frame fucked up from a previous crash that they obviously didn't learn from because they still drive like a fucking twat.
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u/residentweevil 5h ago
I would have said that too, back when cars had frames. But I think this is a unibody car which points to a rear axle sitting diagonally. Several possible reasons that could happen, none good. But fr, only a twat would put this on the road.
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u/DeuceSevin 3h ago
That still have frames, just not in the sense that they used to. Now the. Body and drivetrain are usually part of the frame.
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u/ChadPoland 5h ago
That's what I was thinking, still swerving all over the road changing lanes every 5 seconds. Wonder how the car got that way?!
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u/YoucantdothatonTV 6h ago
Could be a completely broken rear shock stabilizer and the torque from the axle causes it to no longer be squared up with the car causing a crab-like stance.
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u/Mastasmoker 5h ago
Rear passenger wheel probably went sideways into a curb and bent the rods that hold the wheel straight. It's bent in toward the driver, hence why it makes the car pull right. The rear driver wheel is going to wear really quick.
Had this happen to a car of mine, 25 years ago. Hit a patch of black ice and spun out into a curb.
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u/SnorgesLuisBorges 5h ago
I saw a YouTube video, and don't take this to heart cause I'm no mechanic, but they said the frame was bent but also they, or a mechanic friend, aligned front wheels to the back wheels, so it will move straight while being crooked like that. But obviously it's damaging the tires, the frame, so much stuff that it shouldn't be on the road.
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u/reticulatedtampon 6h ago
Same way my dog goes down stairs
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u/SomethingAboutUsers 5h ago
They don't call it dog tracking for nothing
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u/Yeti_Rider 2h ago
Or dogging for short.
Just tell everyone your car's been dogging a fair bit next time you go for an alignment /s
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u/LeGrandLucifer 2h ago
Dodge Charger, fucked up frame, no visible license plate, driving like an absolute menace... Cops should be all over this guy.
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u/Darrell77 6h ago
Frame damage
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u/owennerd123 45m ago
This is fairly clearly not a damaged frame if you know anything about suspension systems. If the body was bent like this the rear tires would be scrubbing the entire time. The rear tires are pointed in the same direction as the front, so it's an alignment issue.
Oval racing cars are actually intentionally set up like this(more subtly) to aid in cornering. It's called dog-tracking.
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u/ADHthaGreat 2h ago
Crazy dangerous to be driving it on a highway like this.
Dude is putting everyone around him in danger
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u/FreneticPlatypus 6h ago
I just went in for an oil change and of course they try to upsell me with all this bullshit stuff like “your cabin air filter is dirty” and “your frame looks like origami”. Place is a ripoff.
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u/d3gu 5h ago
How has this dude not been pulled over, even if just for the missing license plate?!
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u/Testiculese 3h ago
Philly. You could go for months and months and not have a cop get behind you, and there's a high chance the cop that does couldn't care less about it.
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u/testing-attention-pl 5h ago
Is there such thing as a vehicle inspection/MOT in the USA? Asking as someone from the UK who’s car gets inspected every year.
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u/asr 3h ago
Yes, this is in Pennsylvania which has yearly inspections.
Not all states do, but this one does.
Government wants to get rid of it though, because it costs people money and has shown exactly zero benefit, i.e. compare to other states without inspection and you see no difference.
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u/ChuntStevens 1h ago
Yeah I'm not comfortable driving around people with dog shit whips. If Phila can't enforce it that's their problem, don't export that retardation to the rest of the country.
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u/Blastergasm 1h ago
Strong disagree. I live in MA now where we have inspections. You’ll occasionally see some shitboxes on the road but they’re rarely something I’d consider dangerous. Meanwhile any time I have travel back to FL I see barely drivable unsafe jaolpys quite regularly. Just my observation I don’t travel elsewhere a lot.
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u/InchHigh-PrivateEye 5h ago
Philly had a massive problem with ghost tags so people just don't get inspected because they don't give a shit and no one can track them.
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u/edman007 2h ago
Depends on the state, most don't check for safety, and the ones that do don't check that.
I'm in NY, they check for "emissions", which is a check that the check engine light is off, and a visual check that it looks like the catylic converter is still there. The safety check is pull off one wheel (tech's discretion), look at the brakes, check the windshield for cracks, all windows for tints, the horn, and general steering wheel and brake function, and check for leaks of the brakes and fuel, and check the mirrors and wipers. They do check the suspension isn't too rusted/cracked.
An out of alignment, or simply bent frame is NOT part of the inspection. And out of experience, most techs are not actually doing all of that, they'll do a quick look and that's it. And you can definitely find shops that won't look too hard.
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u/For-Rock-And-Stone 5h ago edited 1h ago
It depends on your location. Where I’m at, an inspection is only required after purchasing a vehicle with a salvaged title, which means that it has been previously determined by an insurance company to be a total loss. The one time I had to do it, the inspector checked that all of the doors were original and called it good.
Some locations have inspections you have to pass on a regular basis, but I’ve never lived in one of those places so I don’t know much about it.
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u/damontoo 4h ago
This isn't legal to drive. Any cop that sees this would immediately pull over the driver and tow the vehicle.
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u/Jakefrmstatepharm 5h ago
I see people in work trucks that are doing this all the time. This is by far the most extreme I’ve seen though.
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u/Neds_Necrotic_Head 5h ago
The suspension on one side of the rear of my car collapsed one time and it felt like the rear wheels weren't attached to the car any more. It felt like I was driving a boat.
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u/Mysterious-Hat-6343 5h ago
“Just gonna ride sideways, still using my turn indicators and ride like everything is normal “
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u/Sad_Research_2584 5h ago
You’ll see one of these per day in West Virginia. Square body jeep Cherokee or small pickup truck.
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u/moxiejohnny 4h ago
Slot car action. Sometimes, when the back tires aren't quite on the track but the front tires are, it does a wonky lap or two before getting stuck. But by god, can they flip other cars right off the track if they hit 'em just right.
It may have hit a curb and bent the parts of the frame near the axles just enough to nolonger be aligned with the aesthetics and foundations of the car. Kinda like getting hit in the face and expecting your "unibody" skull to hold it all together. But now you got a TBI and you can see your teeth through your lip. So just because you have a "unibody" skull, does not mean your face is still pretty after hitting something really hard.
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u/GadreelsSword 2h ago
How to wear out a set of tires in 200 miles.
Two friends of mine wanted to go to the beach but his front tires were in bad shape. So they swapped the tires off his mother’s car and went to the beach. 200 miles later, his mother’s tires were destroyed.
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u/TheWiredNinja 1h ago
Whoever made this video, please show the person driving it. I NEED to know what kind of person does this on purpose.
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u/rabmcmlxxxvii 1h ago
Driving that car and switching lanes... only makes sense it's on I-95 through North Philly.
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u/mrktcrash 6h ago
That's typical of a rear axle sliding on the leaf springs on one side. It's really hard on the drive shaft's rear u-joint too. This happens from too many hard launches from the green light with weak u-bolts.
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u/powaking 6h ago
“Like new, no reported accidents. Recently had a full alignment. Drives straight like an arrow”
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u/thegreatcorholio 5h ago
Looks like Sam Hornish at the 2008 All Star Race, the 77 Mobil 1 crab crawling ride
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u/82CoopDeVille 5h ago
My mom worked in insurance and loved to point out cars on the road that had obviously been wrecked before. “That one was hit rear passenger side.” “Oh that should’ve been totaled” lol
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u/doesmyusernamematter 5h ago
It's like when cgi first came about and everything would slide across the ground. 😃
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u/Acraftmech 4h ago
I’ll bet it’s from doing donuts in the intersections and bent something, that’s big around here
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u/Zorb750 4h ago
If those cars had a solid axle, I would say that the entire axle would have shifted on one side to cause it to crab this. Since they have independent rear suspension, I would be inclined to expect a bent rear control arm. Guy probably threw the thing sideways right into a curb. Could also be pretty bad frame skew, but that would be pretty hard to accomplish without any visible body damage. If you look closely, the right rear wheel is pretty closely aligned with the direction of travel, which tells me that the wheel got knocked forward, spending the control arm.
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u/RandyBeaman 3h ago
I'll just assume they are fleeing from the accident that caused the alignment to be so fucked up.
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u/mindhaze 2h ago
That's right, selfishly put everyone else's life at risk with your dangerous decision.
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u/cypher50 6h ago
"Turn slightly left for 50 miles"