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#carwash #wire #soimadeabigmistate #oopsie
Mar 2, 2026 5:22 AM
sindail
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#carwash #wire #soimadeabigmistate #oopsie
nothingunused
Pick-up drivers and forgetting stuff in the bed of the truck that often flies out inadvertently - you can't name a better combo.
wasiteverreal
Whatever, insurance fraud for sure. 100% oops, write off get paid back
BlueSnowfox
idk. If he's able to throw away $10-16 just to spray some dirt off his paint without getting out of the truck he's already in a league above me. I would have done it with 4 quarters
youmakeausername
Oops feels insufficient
QueefMalone
Baconlovesyoutoo
I will never complain about replacing the tonneau cover on my truck. $400 is a bargain compared to that mess.
Rodltwo
blahblahbushes
Car wash and auto-body sanding shop.
MCpeepantz
"I told you there was bondo!"
NarcolepticHamster
Had a coworker who tried to take a semi (w/o trailer) through a car wash. The employees there were smarter than he was and told him to go away. That greasy 5th wheel would have shut the place down for weeks
OdinYggd
Must have been an unusually tall car wash, most of them can barely handle a modern pickup truck let alone anything as tall as a semi cab.
Moriarte
aside from the obvious issue at hand, why would the driver of the white car decide 'Hey, this looks like a good time to enter the carwash'?
allenvasher3000
Guess who just bought a lot of non-fictioning car wash parts
genevra1676
And the front body panels (at least the hood) on the car behind him
allenvasher3000
Yup
TheVillageGrouch9000
The car wash staff should have not let it go through.
REOJackwagon
https://abc7.com/post/disaster-fencing-wire-gets-tangled-spinning-car-wash-north-carolina/18659915/
wobblecopterrrr
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CallMeCourierSix
He probably fucked up the mechanical and hydraulic workings reaaaaaally bad. Not only is he going to spend the next six hours snipping metal and throwing it in his truck. He's gonna be on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in damage. Sure hope he has more than just liability insurance.
wobblecopterrrr
i mean, I won't pretend to know everything about drive through carwashes.. however,.. if some dude pulls in with like / whole fkkn farm fece worrth of aluminum wire.. that's not your fault
CallMeCourierSix
That's my point. Liability doesn't cover HIS mistakes. So unless he has comprehensive coverage, he's gonna be paying soooo much money out of his own pocket.
Autittuderp
That is a seriously bad day.
Great story for the family to laugh at you about. Which yes, would be rude.
Scobragon
I don't think the bill is going to be anything to laugh about.
Autittuderp
That's why it would be rude...
RyanSilver612
My local car wash was closed for repairs the day after I seen this. Still not sure if that's related
prilldomon
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AlwaysDownvoteDots
The writer that gets that claim is going to talk about it for years.
hightechpirate
Repost from like a week ago but then again half the content is fucking reposts around here lately
Kbantar
I'm here all the time and haven't seen it. If you really hate reposts, then the internet may not be the place for you.
InboxMeYourHDGIFs
Lately? Buddy, that's always been how it is here. If you're seeing too many reposts, that's just your sign to stop coming here so much.
hightechpirate
I need to get a life but last time I did that, I fucked it up royally
LordHosk
Did the guy who took the money and sprayed down the windows and the outside with the wands not look in the bed of the trunk?
When I worked at a carwash in the summer whenever a truck came through we had to check the bed, and if they had anything back there they couldn't go through. Trash, bottles, tools... Anything in the bed of the truck they had to pull out of line and go around.
If they had one of those tool chests, we had to reach over and pull the handle. If they opened... go around.
OdinYggd
Around here at least the money is collected by kiosks, and you go through an automated prewash bay that soaks your vehicle with degreaser to start working the crud loose. Its not till right before you enter the main machinery tunnel that you actually see workers with spray hoses that would also be checking things and will wave you out of the line if they think there is a problem. What are the odds that said workers just don't care.
ziralien
Don't these automatic car washes state to have nothing in the truck of your bed when you enter?
drhobotron
He had nothing in his head, instead.
Bukoden
And a sign that guarantees to stop everyone from forgetting something is back there and thinking there isn't, right? (video itself has a statement that it was forgotten about)
eion85
That's expecting a lot for people to read things.
zenoshogun
cowboycoco
In fairness, you can't expect pickup drivers to read.
battleofhastings1066
"Signs are for other people, not for MY truck."
Grimmrog
but when you think it's empty but isn't?
Kbantar
Everyone has a stupid moment. This one is going to cost that guy a LOT though.
LazyUsername99
I don't want to contradict the concept or anything, but I kinda do shit like this a LOT at my job. It usually looks WAY worse than it is, and it's just a tedious couple hours with a pair of cutters pulling it all out.
For the record, I work on equipment used for cardboard recycling, and the baling wire gets wrapped up in the machines like crazy.
sfbiker
I've never seen one say to empty your truck bed, but I've seen some that say "no pickups".
UprootedGrunt
Heard the story on the radio this morning -- apparently not only did the guy *forget* it was in there, having put it there the night before and not usually using this truck for work, but the car wash attendant checked the truck and allowed it through.
MiserableBustard
Doesn't look all that bad. Just going to be really annoying snipping all of it.
LazyUsername99
Agreed. I have to do crap like this all the time, it usually looks a lot worse than it is. Honestly, that stuff doesn't even look like it pulled tight and all of it is super easy to access, I'd prefer that to most of my jobs. I usually get called in when the wire cuts a hydraulic line, so everything is dripping oil and I'm laying on my back underneath the fucked up machine.
OlderThanTime
Depends on how much the tightening wires on that equipment damaged them. If they end up needing replacement/repair immediately, that'll be a chunk of time and money the wash is down. If something breaks later that they didn't know was damaged by this, same thing. Either way, non-zero chance the car wash comes a suing if insurance (which is it own headache) doesn't get it covered.
OlderThanTime
Then you have the damage to other vehicle, which while superficial, replacing windows and repainting is still a expensive process. Ideally it all gets handled by insurance, but situations rarely ideal.
OdinYggd
Lotta hours snipping the wire off. New shaft, bearings, brushes, and maybe a gearbox and it'll go again no problem.
The biggest hidden damage is the excess side loading on the bearings and gearboxes.
HeHeHebieJeebies
Wonder how much the car wash sues him for having to close down for 1-2 days. 500+ runs a day I would guess.
Grimmrog
I wonder if cutting the wire may just do it and evertyhign works again. Don't car washes have a sort of safety more that when too much reistance happens they autostop?
HeHeHebieJeebies
Agreed the tow rail has auto stop. I don't see the "buy the cheapest possible" executive team paying more for a 1 in 50,000 scenario. Towns and cities give carwashes a hard time for permits so maybe that safety feature is forced on them.
OdinYggd
Really depends on how long it was winding around before someone pushed the emergency stop, how tight did the wire get. Excess side load destroys bearings and gearboxes even if the motors have excess force shutdowns. Going to be hours with wire cutters snipping it off a coil at a time.
b00guy
I want to see video of it actually happening!
Kbantar
Probably looked like something out of a Final Destination movie only without the victim.
WindowStreetJournal
It must have been so loud!
freakdiablo
I'm just imagining something between a metal grinder and something hard in a blender.
wobblecopterrrr
L0rdinquisit0r
the origin scene was quite loud
JustFeedMePieDammit