One of the accepted realities of RV ownership is that your unit will almost certainly break, leak, or find some extremely weird way to break. Yet, hundreds of thousands of these things are sold each year. I have written in depth about RV problems and the costs to fix them. Clearly, we RV people are a little bit weird, and that’s okay!
I wrote about a new travel trailer that opens up three times in size, using three giant rubber seals to keep water out. It adds a lot of points of failure. Noahwayout:
Do RV owners have a fetish for things that break, leak and mold in their own driveways?
My family has been RVing for decades, and this is exactly what happens to RVs sometimes. Thanks for the laugh.
DaChicken:
Obviously, yes.
– Signed, an RV owner.
Fellow weird car enjoyer Mike Harrell chimed in:
…things that break, leak and mold in their own driveways?
I don’t need an RV for that.
Rod Millington:
I prefer to refer to RV owners as mobile masochists.
Jason wrote a Cold Start about African Volkswagens that have “elephant’s foot” style taillights. JayJay:
But seems somehow universally in order, that the biggest elephant’s feet are found in Africa..
Lincoln Clown CaR made a good joke about Jason’s magical ability to tell the finest differences between Volkswagens:
You can tell by the strange combination of old and new details
No, I’m afraid I cannot.
Lotsofchops:
Torch could show me all the variations side-by-side and my response would be “they’re the same picture.”
Balloondoggle:
THERE ARE 4 VARIATIONS!!!
Emil Minty:
I am a Nigerian Prince who is unfairly being required to sell all of my cars. If you buy my Beetle for USD 25,000, I can buy back from you for USD 100,000 in 6 months. You can use the car, I just want someone responsible like you to own it and promise to sell it back to me.
Sid Bridge also had a Nigerian Prince joke:
I guess the Brazilian VW factory was really expecting that the Nigerian prince would deposit all that money directly into their account in exchange for sending the parts.
Canopysaurus:
Torch, I think you should schedule a check up soon because you’re exhibiting symptoms of Type 1 Diabeetles.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Top graphic image: Mercedes Streeter
It also appears that Mercedes’ Venn circle of automotive pain also includes Phaetons, drop-top Muranos and much, much more.
I’d love to revel in my COTD mention but I have to pack up up my moldy old RV for a week of camping… in the rain, of course.
Your RV knows that you called it out online. Prepare for a week of pain, followed by months of misery.
For a community that seems to put a higher than normal value on Yugos, Alfa Romeos, and malaise era muscle cars, I don’t think we have much room to criticize the masochistic tendencies of RV owners.
Hi. My name is Rad Barchetta, and I own a 1970 Triumph GT6.
Hi Rad. Welcome to Autopians Anonymous. We have kind of a light turnout tonight as many members’ cars aren’t running right now.
I don’t see the connection. Keep it simple is a great philosophy. A tent has worked well for mankind for millennia.
A tent won’t protect you from an angry leprechaun with scissors.
-Checkmate
I’m convinced there are two types of VW Beetle owners with very little in-between.
The First: “yep, it runs”
The Second: “Well, akshually, that’s an early 1968 German model trim panel, so it clearly doesn’t belong on a 1972 Mexico model. Not to mention that the horn’s tone is slightly off-key, likely due to the shell coming from a 1983 Brazil export model that used zinc instead of steel. But the most heinous crime is that you’ve fitted the wrong tires onto this car – it never came from the factory with Kumho All-Weather tires, you need to use proper Continentals if you want to be taken seriously”
Is diabeetles similar to diabeetus?
Yes but with less beets.
Only Type 1. The correct term for Type 2 is diabuses.
When you wanted one as a kid but didn’t get until later in life, also called adult onset.