Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine or advice forum.
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions, identify objects or get advice. We accept very few questions, and they must be over topics much more difficult than what is easily discoverable with a search. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. Not hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
8. All polls must have an "Africa, by Toto" option. Why? Because we hear the drums echoing tonight.
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Changing lights on 99 percent of cars: twist it pull it push it turn it
Changing lights on a VW: dismantles the entire front end to gain access
Assume the service position
I changed the lights on my wife’s Yaris once, never again
Learned this the hard way. I was visiting my parents years ago and my mom's jetta had a headlight out. I offered to fix it and grabbed a bulb from the auto parts store down the street.
Two hours of searching online/youtube later the bulb was finally replaced.
My Hyundai is easy on three. Just a plug and a wire spring. The one on the outer driver's side has the battery right in the way, so if I'm not careful I'll get a hand cramp from the acrobatics. Still done it enough times to know the routine, and far better than taking the front off. Having that as a "feature" for a regular maintenance item is just lazy engineering.
On my car you have to access them via the wheel case, rotate the wheel to the left or right to access the left or right front lights, then stick your arm all the way in there and change the light blindly because you can't see shit from this angle.
This is becoming the norm and I hate it. I do a lot of basic services for my friends and half of them are in through the wheel well or worse behind the battery.