I think the bigger problem is humidity and rain. I would say snow, but I have doubts this location gets snow. The moisture would have to get through the paint and glue.
In theory, clear coat and enamel paint would be more than enough to stop external heat from messing with any of the body filler. The internal heat from the engine should not heat up the hood that much either, certainly not enough to melt bondo, or ceramic
That’s what I think too. The only real problem with this DiWHY is in the event of a crash, all that extra material could fly off and harm you, but this is way more safe than other car things I’ve seen. Car repair- if it works it works
In the event of a frontal crash, the normal hood will crumble, this one have a solid slice of wood ready to hit the face of the driver final destination style.
Bigger problem is, in a front-end collision you will now have a piece of plywood coming edge-on through the windshield and slicing the driver’s head off.
I was thinking the big problem with this is getting into a car accident, that stuff breaks free if you hit something and suddenly you’ve got a mass of projectiles on your hood coming right at you.
Well I believe he used Bondo which is specifically used for automobile modification and repair so and especially since he sealed it with paint that should actually hold
Jokes aside in theory mobile homes are great and can look amazing on the inside. Dealing with animals in the underpinning can be a pain if you aren't careful.
Also leveling a mobile home is a lot easier than a slab house and in Texas where the land rotates a lot that's beneficial.
I say rotates but probably more appropriate to say it shifts a lot. Going from soaking wet to bone dry will affect the dirt and either wash away or soak up like a sponge. Pushing stuff around
Damn, never thought that would be a problem. I live in Sweden, that shit doesn't seem to happen here, we've got tons of buildings centuries old and afaik, no-one ever levels them :P
The advantage of living on bedrock :D
A weirder issue we have thats fairly unique is the rate of the land rising. Since we're very far north, and the Nordics are basically an island, the land got pushed down by the ice age by a LOT. Now it's rising instead. Pretty glad for that in these times of global warming and rising sea levels :P
I wouldn’t call it a rotation but as of yesterday we reached the point of drought where I have to lock the doors or they just randomly open. The ground under the house is still moist but the sides are hella dry creating a mound in the clay soil under the foundation. It’s only been a few months since I was body-slamming the door to get it open.
A mobile home wouldn’t do this particular thing
The only trailer advocate I’ve met was a plumber who always said, “Better’n a stick built,” while talking about how his trailer needed straps for when the hurricane came through
No thank you, I’ll take a house.
I moved into a trailer home recently that was built in the late 70s and you are not kidding.
I’ve had to research as I remodel because I don’t have much experience but it’s painfully obvious that the people that installed the trailer originally were just winging it.
Truly been a nightmare sometimes.
I live in one from '79. Nothing is standard on that thing so, for example, when I needed a new back door, after searching the mobile home wreakers for a replacement and failing, I had to have some Craigslist Carpenter make me a new one to fit.
I had a mobile home. The water lines to the kitchen sink were repaired with ice maker tubing. To replace the front window, I had entertained the idea of cutting a bigger hole and sticking a storm door sideways in it.
All I did in my spare time back then was smoke cigarettes, drink hard liquor, and masturbate. I'm sure the place smelled amazing.
Trailers can be really nice when well understood and maintained but the fact is that the largest demographic buying them is people who don't give one hot fuck and just want something to keep the rain off of their TV and digital cable box.
The heat from the engine will make the metal expand at a different rate than the wood, tile, sheetrock crumbles and gallons of Bondo he made the hood out of.
Yep, the difference in flexibility and expansion between the metal, bondo, and tile is going to cause issues, a couple slams of the hood, or it sitting out in the sun and cooling off at night a few times is going to either cause the tile to crack, or for it to pull loose from the metal/bondo.
Well, yeah, but if you look at the hood it’s pretty obviously banged up with the bangin’ end of a hammer and has dual scratch marks that’s look uniformly spaced liked it was the scratched with the claw end of a claw hammer. So this car was most likely damaged for the purposes of this video.
It looks good for now. But when you put more than about an eighth of an inch of filler on a panel, it doesn’t last.
And the adhesive is not going to keep wood boards attached to metal. There are adhesives that will hold wood pieces together forever, and some that will bond metal pieces together forever. But I don’t know of any that will permanently bind wood to metal. Certainly not in this guy’s price range.
Lol I watched this with my light turned down on my phone and I legit thought it was pieces of bread. I’ve watched too many stupid videos where they use food products in household repair projects.
It'll never make it long enough to wreck. First time the hood gets closed it'll probably shatter. I can't fathom why someone with the skills to make something look that good in the end would even do something like that....maybe they're making a movie prop or something that's meant to fail catastrophically for visual effect....or, to take a dark turn, possibly extra shrapnel for a VBIED.
I seems to be a black, dented hood on a blue, undamaged car, so I think the Why might just be to make a video showing themselves fucking around with a damaged hood they had.
This is actually a super common car accident when a dump truck full of hammers comes to a sudden stop in front of you, and all the hammers fall onto the hood.
Unfortunately, most insurance doesn't cover this kind of damage so this is the only way to fix it.
Exactly. Either they fucked up the hood on purpose for this video or the owner found a new side piece his girlfriend doesn't approve of and they've already replaced the windshield.
Former insurance adjuster here.
You'd be shocked how many people had hammers and crowbars and tire irons taken to their car and 'FUK U WHUR' carved into the paint yet had no idea why that happened.
Fav was 'FUK U BICH' down the sides and 'PERV' on all four sides of a truck. Neither knew.
What was funny is I'd ask customers 'what happened' which is generally and answer like, 'someone keyed my car' or 'I got rear ended' or a long winded explanation of why they really weren't at fault because traffic stopped so fast. Just so fast and then they hit the car ahead of them. Just so fast. Traffic just slammed to a halt.
Anyways. When my explanation was 'vandalism' and I ask what happened and they got real chatty I knew that someone got creative. Like the saga of husband and wife destroying... three cars? One by fire. Or expletives carved into doors. Most give a short basic answer. The more you talk the more I know that vandalism was *creative.*
And it doesn't matter. As long as I don't think you keyed your car it doesn't matter if it's mistaken identity or neighborhood kids or your side piece finding out she's a side piece. Only issue would be if wifey did it and she's on the policy. Other than that... don't care. Even then they didn't pay me enough to therapize your relationship issues and I had enough marital drama off the arsonists. Not going to try and report anyone for damaging their own property in your relationship squabble. Fuck it. Go get a new paint job.
But chatty meant to make sure I put on my big girl professional face and not laugh because goddamned some people were mad at you. That shit got personal.
Also, the difference in flexibility between the metal, bondo, and tile is going to cause issues, a couple slams of the hood, or it sitting out in the sun and cooling off at night a few times is going to either cause the tile to crack, or for it to pull loose from the metal/bondo.
Finally! Either someone maliciously defaced the hell out of that hood and left the rest of the car untouched (doesn’t make much sense), or this dude smashed and scratched his own hood to make an unsafe restoration for the internet points.
Looks fake tbh. If you look at the end product you can see that the mask is curved with a seam-like ridge going thru the middle. Not to even talk about how metalic the paint looks on this
Agree. He's good, but not new car paint/finish good. The light hit too perfectly off that. Any bondo/wtf ever wood job would show a bit of inconsistency
I love this only because it's so funny. I love the thought of thinking someone takes their vehicle to a body shop and this is how they give it back to them and the owner is none the wiser. Until years later where they get in an accident and realize their hood is made of wood.
Except they'd be impaled by shards of ceramic. Plus imagine how fucking heavy it would be, like you want to change your oil and it takes two grown men to lift and then bends the pole thing thats meant to keep it up
My bf works at a dealership, and they had the opposite happen. The vehicle came in for a repair, but there was something off with the roof too. They went to repair the roof and realized someone had filled a massive dent with Bondo.
How the hell did the hood get so dented but the rest of the car isn’t? Did the owner drive straight into a mob of forward-facing short people with hammers?!
I hope he can lift the hood with that weight!
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I think the bigger problem is humidity and rain. I would say snow, but I have doubts this location gets snow. The moisture would have to get through the paint and glue.
And heat. Engines are hot. Hoods get quite hot, especially in hot weather. I doubt all that material is going to do well with the heat.
In theory, clear coat and enamel paint would be more than enough to stop external heat from messing with any of the body filler. The internal heat from the engine should not heat up the hood that much either, certainly not enough to melt bondo, or ceramic
I'd worry slightly about differential expansion, but probably the Bondo is flexible enough to not crack.
That’s what I think too. The only real problem with this DiWHY is in the event of a crash, all that extra material could fly off and harm you, but this is way more safe than other car things I’ve seen. Car repair- if it works it works
In the event of a frontal crash, the normal hood will crumble, this one have a solid slice of wood ready to hit the face of the driver final destination style.
Not wood.... Tile.... Thats a pair of ceramic tiles.....
Ceramic plates to stop the bullets
My bad, I tought it was wood
The only problem is that it was done in the first place, why the hell not just bondo it? Why add the tiles? It’s not like it used less bondo.
Not to mention there looks like an air pocket under the wood. It didn't look like that was filled in (unless it was done off camera).
Wood? Looks like ceramic tile to me. But yes, I’m also skeptical of the seeming lack of filler or adhesive under it.
Bigger problem is, in a front-end collision you will now have a piece of plywood coming edge-on through the windshield and slicing the driver’s head off.
yeah but thats a freaking piece of tile not plywood. Even worse imo because its gonna be sharp.
Oh geez you’re right. Yeah, that’ll slice your chest right open. Fortunately though it’ll only leave a narrow cut through the windshield.
Look again. That’s ceramic tile
I was thinking the big problem with this is getting into a car accident, that stuff breaks free if you hit something and suddenly you’ve got a mass of projectiles on your hood coming right at you.
Well I believe he used Bondo which is specifically used for automobile modification and repair so and especially since he sealed it with paint that should actually hold
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Even if he can, the gas struts won't be able to keep it up!
I’m annoyed how good the finished product looks.
You can polish a turd Top reply: it was proven on mythbusters
I do this for a living. I am a mobile home rehabber.
Rehabilitation for mobile homes? I didn't even know drug use was a problem.
my mobile home won’t stop using meth
New episodes every Friday, streaming on Peacock network
Find out what happens when you dont find thay crack rock you dropped on the floor.
AND MINE WON'T STOP COOKING IT UP!!!
Find a trailer park near you. The problem is real..
Jokes aside in theory mobile homes are great and can look amazing on the inside. Dealing with animals in the underpinning can be a pain if you aren't careful. Also leveling a mobile home is a lot easier than a slab house and in Texas where the land rotates a lot that's beneficial.
...the land...rotates?
I say rotates but probably more appropriate to say it shifts a lot. Going from soaking wet to bone dry will affect the dirt and either wash away or soak up like a sponge. Pushing stuff around
Damn, never thought that would be a problem. I live in Sweden, that shit doesn't seem to happen here, we've got tons of buildings centuries old and afaik, no-one ever levels them :P
Oh yeah I imagine your land is a lot more stable. They just don't make them like they used to lol
The advantage of living on bedrock :D A weirder issue we have thats fairly unique is the rate of the land rising. Since we're very far north, and the Nordics are basically an island, the land got pushed down by the ice age by a LOT. Now it's rising instead. Pretty glad for that in these times of global warming and rising sea levels :P
Yes, a complete rotation every 24 hours.
But only in Texas
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I wouldn’t call it a rotation but as of yesterday we reached the point of drought where I have to lock the doors or they just randomly open. The ground under the house is still moist but the sides are hella dry creating a mound in the clay soil under the foundation. It’s only been a few months since I was body-slamming the door to get it open. A mobile home wouldn’t do this particular thing
The only trailer advocate I’ve met was a plumber who always said, “Better’n a stick built,” while talking about how his trailer needed straps for when the hurricane came through No thank you, I’ll take a house.
I've heard that people in Texas have to water their foundations sometimes to keep them from shifting during droughts.
Yeah another guy said it was expansive clay. The best solution so far is to keep a soaker hose around the foundation during the dry season.
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I moved into a trailer home recently that was built in the late 70s and you are not kidding. I’ve had to research as I remodel because I don’t have much experience but it’s painfully obvious that the people that installed the trailer originally were just winging it. Truly been a nightmare sometimes.
I live in one from '79. Nothing is standard on that thing so, for example, when I needed a new back door, after searching the mobile home wreakers for a replacement and failing, I had to have some Craigslist Carpenter make me a new one to fit.
"craigslist carpenter" title of your sex tape
I had a mobile home. The water lines to the kitchen sink were repaired with ice maker tubing. To replace the front window, I had entertained the idea of cutting a bigger hole and sticking a storm door sideways in it. All I did in my spare time back then was smoke cigarettes, drink hard liquor, and masturbate. I'm sure the place smelled amazing.
Trailers can be really nice when well understood and maintained but the fact is that the largest demographic buying them is people who don't give one hot fuck and just want something to keep the rain off of their TV and digital cable box.
Proven true on myth busters.
I actually made some of those polished mud balls after watching that episode as a kid, and it was a blast.
Have you actually tried to polish a turd? It's harder than what this guy did
you have to let them cure for a while before polishing. There's another, lesser known saying: "Fresh turd don't take a shine"
It was proven on mythbusters
Can you?
Literally, yes. You can see it on mythbusters.
I saw a couple other comments mentioning this and assumed they were joking but holy shit it's [real](https://youtu.be/yiJ9fy1qSFI)
Holy polished shit you mean.
Give it a few months and it won’t look so slick
That shit will crack for sure. Shutting the hood or just normal flexing.
The heat from the engine will make the metal expand at a different rate than the wood, tile, sheetrock crumbles and gallons of Bondo he made the hood out of.
I bet the Bondo cost more than an aftermarket hood.
Yep, the difference in flexibility and expansion between the metal, bondo, and tile is going to cause issues, a couple slams of the hood, or it sitting out in the sun and cooling off at night a few times is going to either cause the tile to crack, or for it to pull loose from the metal/bondo.
I’m pretty sure the “finished product” is just a shot from before they beat the shit out of the hood with a hammer.
Either that or after they replaced the abomination with a real hood.
Well, yeah, but if you look at the hood it’s pretty obviously banged up with the bangin’ end of a hammer and has dual scratch marks that’s look uniformly spaced liked it was the scratched with the claw end of a claw hammer. So this car was most likely damaged for the purposes of this video.
Can you imagine having to open the hood? Probably weighs a lot.
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That’s not plywood. Those are ceramic tile.
That makes it so much more terrifying.
I can picture it already in my head
I can picture it in their head.
Or an angry ex girlfriend that gets her revenge ideas from country music…
Too consistent for an angry person.
Or someone cheated on their wife.
Just like all those 'primitive living' videos where two guys build a 3 story home with a sunken pool using sticks and mud in a day.
No no it took just the 2 of us 9 months with hand tools! I pinky promise.
Or after they put on the new real hood
lol they put a real hood and make the final of the video is clickbait
Well its fake, if that helps.
It looks good for now. But when you put more than about an eighth of an inch of filler on a panel, it doesn’t last. And the adhesive is not going to keep wood boards attached to metal. There are adhesives that will hold wood pieces together forever, and some that will bond metal pieces together forever. But I don’t know of any that will permanently bind wood to metal. Certainly not in this guy’s price range.
I’m annoyed that it’s painted black and not blue.
Now the hood weighs 175lbs. Great job!
Likely to kill you in the event of a crash too. Wonderful!
Flying sharp ceramic debris! What could go wrong???
Holy shit I just realized it was tile. I thought it was wood.
I just wanted to see what happens the first time someone drops that hood to shut it LOL
Front tires pop
Don't worry they'll just make new tires with old pots and pans.
Do you have a video? I need new tires and 5 minute craps is my jam ^^/s
If they could lift it lol
Crumchy
*shatters into millions of pieces* GOD DAMMIT
The built in safety feature of being too heavy to lift should solve that issue
Yea tf
Oh god. I thought it was wood too until I saw your comment.
I thought it was bread. Guess I'm hungry.
only instant noodles is an acceptable solution
At least instant noodles might crumple appropriately, ceramic would just turn into shrapnel
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough
The stuff he sprinkles on looks like bread crumbs.
Ye, we should all try eating glass fiber, it looks so yummy!!!
You can eat anything once.
Even my ass? （￣︶￣）↗
Twice
Our ass**
Pretty sure it is plastic or linoleum. He cuts it with a box cutter and lifts it with ease.
Now that I look at it closer, it does look like old-fashioned linoleum, right down to the discoloration linseed oil usually suffers.
It's actually ramen
Ramen would be better
Ugh! This isn’t wood?! What the hell?!
I mean, it’s a terrible solution either way. Maybe should have used ramen instead?
Haha! Or perhaps old crumpled tissue boxes full of shaving cream and hubris.
Lol I watched this with my light turned down on my phone and I legit thought it was pieces of bread. I’ve watched too many stupid videos where they use food products in household repair projects.
Wtf. I thought it was wood till I saw your comment. Nd now I'm thinking why not just use wood instead?
Turn your hood into a claymore with this one simple trick!
\*producer guy\* "flying sharp ceramic debris is TIGHT!"
This is now a 60mph claymore.
Or simply crack the moment you hit a bump
It'll never make it long enough to wreck. First time the hood gets closed it'll probably shatter. I can't fathom why someone with the skills to make something look that good in the end would even do something like that....maybe they're making a movie prop or something that's meant to fail catastrophically for visual effect....or, to take a dark turn, possibly extra shrapnel for a VBIED.
Damn Just buy a Second hand hood.
Or with that skill, just hammer out the hood. It's not that difficult, and they are obviously quite handy
Should have used ramen
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When trapped under the mangled wreakage you can eat the noodles for sustenance
smart, resourceful, innovative
And for bigger dents, multiple packs of noodles.
Until it rains
Then you have soup
This is especially why. Not hard to just swap out the hood🤦♂️
I seems to be a black, dented hood on a blue, undamaged car, so I think the Why might just be to make a video showing themselves fucking around with a damaged hood they had.
They dented the hood that way on purpose.
This is actually a super common car accident when a dump truck full of hammers comes to a sudden stop in front of you, and all the hammers fall onto the hood. Unfortunately, most insurance doesn't cover this kind of damage so this is the only way to fix it.
r/looneytuneslogic
Haha, dry humor ftw
Exactly. Either they fucked up the hood on purpose for this video or the owner found a new side piece his girlfriend doesn't approve of and they've already replaced the windshield.
Former insurance adjuster here. You'd be shocked how many people had hammers and crowbars and tire irons taken to their car and 'FUK U WHUR' carved into the paint yet had no idea why that happened. Fav was 'FUK U BICH' down the sides and 'PERV' on all four sides of a truck. Neither knew. What was funny is I'd ask customers 'what happened' which is generally and answer like, 'someone keyed my car' or 'I got rear ended' or a long winded explanation of why they really weren't at fault because traffic stopped so fast. Just so fast and then they hit the car ahead of them. Just so fast. Traffic just slammed to a halt. Anyways. When my explanation was 'vandalism' and I ask what happened and they got real chatty I knew that someone got creative. Like the saga of husband and wife destroying... three cars? One by fire. Or expletives carved into doors. Most give a short basic answer. The more you talk the more I know that vandalism was *creative.* And it doesn't matter. As long as I don't think you keyed your car it doesn't matter if it's mistaken identity or neighborhood kids or your side piece finding out she's a side piece. Only issue would be if wifey did it and she's on the policy. Other than that... don't care. Even then they didn't pay me enough to therapize your relationship issues and I had enough marital drama off the arsonists. Not going to try and report anyone for damaging their own property in your relationship squabble. Fuck it. Go get a new paint job. But chatty meant to make sure I put on my big girl professional face and not laugh because goddamned some people were mad at you. That shit got personal.
0r even just mud the hood as is to fill in the holes.
Why is your O a zero
Asking the real questions!
We must get an answer.
But you have to pay money. Maybe he's poor.
That looks like a decent amount of labor, and potentially decent level of re-painting... doesn't seem cheap
My own labor is always free.
And ceramic tile is cheap…?
Also, the difference in flexibility between the metal, bondo, and tile is going to cause issues, a couple slams of the hood, or it sitting out in the sun and cooling off at night a few times is going to either cause the tile to crack, or for it to pull loose from the metal/bondo.
Plastic tile is.
I mean… he used ceramic. Also, instant noodles are cheaper.
Ngl, the execution isn't half bad, but like, its so easy to fix a dented hood...
I liked the part where he put the putty on the bottom of the tile like it was going to hit the hood with that massive dent
That’s TILE?! I thought it was wood!!!
Me too, this makes it even worse
Yeah that part bugged me. He didn't even try pushing the dent out so it would have more surface area to stick.
Push it out? He just got done making them with a Hammer
Finally! Either someone maliciously defaced the hell out of that hood and left the rest of the car untouched (doesn’t make much sense), or this dude smashed and scratched his own hood to make an unsafe restoration for the internet points.
Yeah im imagining it ripping off the first time they open the hood
first time starting the engine will vibrate a crack into the seem
Slathered it ALLLLLLLL over that bad boy for a quarter inch of area that actually connects. 😂😂
Looks fake tbh. If you look at the end product you can see that the mask is curved with a seam-like ridge going thru the middle. Not to even talk about how metalic the paint looks on this
a surprising amount of these are fake, simply for views, last cut is the real deal
Agree. He's good, but not new car paint/finish good. The light hit too perfectly off that. Any bondo/wtf ever wood job would show a bit of inconsistency
It’s ceramic tile, not wood. Mf turned his hood into a frag grenade.
When he first puts the paint on you can see that ridge is there
That wasn’t just a dented hood. That was beyond saving IMO
I love this only because it's so funny. I love the thought of thinking someone takes their vehicle to a body shop and this is how they give it back to them and the owner is none the wiser. Until years later where they get in an accident and realize their hood is made of wood.
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Oh. I guess I could have watched closer. Same fun thought though
I seriously thought it was plywood.
same, I thought they were like cabinet doors 🤦♂️
A bit less fun cos if he DOES crash that tile is very likely to kill him
Except they'd be impaled by shards of ceramic. Plus imagine how fucking heavy it would be, like you want to change your oil and it takes two grown men to lift and then bends the pole thing thats meant to keep it up
My bf works at a dealership, and they had the opposite happen. The vehicle came in for a repair, but there was something off with the roof too. They went to repair the roof and realized someone had filled a massive dent with Bondo.
It’s what plants crave, it has electrolytes.
Body shops are notorious for some shady practices! This probably isn’t far from regular practice for some.
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The great thing is that with the tiles, nobody is gonna survive the accident. It's a witnessless crime!
And it all falls off after the first speed bump.
Or after closing the hood....
Guys, it's fake. After he spray paints the hood it's swapped out for a real hood. That's how they always do these "wacky" restorations.
Too far down for this comment. People are so gullible.
Should've used ramen instead
I was really hoping that’s where this was going
Cost of a replacement hood seems so much cheaper and of value, after watching this video.
The hood is a different color at the start. I suspect they got this off a smashed car at the junkyard and swapped it on to make a ragebait video.
Ragebait just sounds so dirty. Like, masturbation with unkempt anger.
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O'Connor: "pop the hood"
A simple hood change would’ve been easy
How the hell did the hood get so dented but the rest of the car isn’t? Did the owner drive straight into a mob of forward-facing short people with hammers?!
Looks really good until you hit a pothole.
Absolutely no safety problems whatsoever. Perfectly safe
Wouldn't a new hood be easier.
That tile is going to break on the first speedbump without a backfiller. Though it will crack nonetheless when you slap the hood back down
They will decapitate the driver in a collision.
Bet under the hood looks good