What was some terribly wrong ideas that you had about cars as a kid?

>Mine: I thought that I could own an 18 wheeler as my personal car and park that shit in my driveway and cruise around and do various degenerate shit with it.

>I thought that ejection seats came standard in all cars.

Didn't know how much oil to put in the engine for my first oil change on our family's minivan. The lawn mower took one quart so I put one quart in the van. Drove it around the block and the oil light wouldn't go off. I was at least smart enough to drive back and ask my dad what's wrong. Engine didn't seize, they still have it to this day.

Genius senpai

>I thought every car had a v engine( i thought our mk2 golf had a v4 engine)
>I thought all cars were awd(4 wheels were spining)
>When our exhaust was blown i thought my dad put a racing engine in the car
Now that i think of it, i was sure a dumb kid

Top kek. We were all dumb kids once

I wanted to check the oil in my car and the transmission fluid.
I knew that the car had to be on to check the transmission fluid, so I pulled up to my local gas station and checked it.
Took the oil dipstick up and some guy noticed me checking it while the car was still running.

I got a mouthful from him.

When I was 9 years old I watched the Fast and the Furious with a girl who was "into cars." I asked her what a 10-second-car was when they brought it up in the movie. She told me it was a car where you can shift through all the gears in 10 seconds. I still laugh every now and then when I hear someone say 10-second-car.

I thought drum brakes were the norm. You wouldn't believe the look on my face when I learned about ABS.

Priceless

I thought RWD was normal and only Hondas were FWD (my parents only owned RWD vehicles)

Lmao.

I thought cars moved through jet propulsion from the exhaust

this thread is great hahaha.

I thought Subarus were Australian cus it kinda sounded like kangaroo

Kinda related. Whenever I saw nitrous I thought the flames coming from the exhaust meant it was pushing the car like a rocket booster.

Look man, I actually filled my accord with diesel

On my level, get it

Top kek

When I was 7 I through a nut into the carburetor of my family's RV when my dad was working on it. It ended up puncturing the sides of the cylinders into the water jacket and coolant started burning and smoking out of the tailpipe

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>i thought rear wheel and front wheel drive just meant which wheels steered.

i once pointed at an alternator and asked if that was the turbo

I read this as you saying
> I once nutted inside.

Guilty of thinking all cars were a V when I was little

The 4th of July parade in my town features a local Corvette club.... I asked my partents if the C5s were Lamborghinis

Until recently I thought FWD stood for four wheel drive. I sure felt dumb

Nitrous added spin to the wheels
Wedge cars are aerodynamic
Pop-ups made a car cool automatically
All cars are rwd even civics, thanks nfsu
The higher the mph on the speedo the faster the car is
Lamborghini Countache is the fastest car there is
The more foreign the car the more luxurious it is
Radar detectors detected patrol car
Civic is the coolest car ever
All cars have the same transmission
Did you get the belt?
Same here, I blame Subaru Outback ads

>hotrods are cool, would build one

My dad told me when i was little that if i got to 120mph on the speedo that the car would turn off and not to do it when i got older

>I thought that 4wd cars were faster because all four wheels were pushing it.

Guilty of both of these.

>Car pool

I pictured a limo, with a hot tub

I think everyone thought this as a kid, but i can certainly say that is exactly what i pictured

I thought piss collected in your nutsack and when you had to pee your balls were full

Just now noticed I wrote "through" instead of "threw"

Fun fact: panda breeders show pandas panda porn in order to get them in the mood.

>knowledge is power

Top kek genius!

I was kind of an idiot kid
>thought all cars had to be supercharger or turbocharged to get air into the engine
>thought all cars had rear wheels driven, and that the dive type meant what wheels were steered
>I thought the flames from nitrous pushed the car to make it go faster
>all cars were trucks
>rocket fuel in the gas tank would make the car go faster
>thought all engines were V something
>thought Subaru was Australian because I played some rally game based in Australia where you could drive a Subaru
>thought big-rigs were V12's
>thought drifting was the fastest way to corner
>thought turbocharged mean there was a button on the dash that injected nitrous
>thought all axles were solid axles, got confused when I couldn't find the front axle on my dad's camry
>thought axle and driveshaft were the same thing

Why don't biker gangs ride motorcycles like the other gangs?

>>all cars were trucks

we all did that user

That the largest number on the speedo was as fast as the car could go

underrated unrelated

keked out loud

First I thought the engine size (4.2 L, 3.5 L, etc) was the gas tank capacity.
Then I thought it was the engine oil capacity.

Subaru was an Australian manufacturer because of Paul Hogan commercials.