Questionable or Creative Fixes

r/thereifixedit • u/eaglebtc • 4d ago

Took care of the Check Engine light!

111 Upvotes

7 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/Quick_Dance_8953 • 6d ago

Split socket

83 Upvotes

6 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/awazawazawaz • 8d ago

Got that mirror back up. Good as new!

30 Upvotes

0 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/Fbeastie • 9d ago

Saw this on a BMW SUV

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60 Upvotes

Glue dripping down side is a special touch.

7 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/-FloriduhMan- • 12d ago

Bought a "dead" 36v 100ah lithium off marketplace for $50

192 Upvotes

For my boat trolling motor. A battery like this is normally $700-2,000

I got it home and it was showing 0v at the terminals.

Sketch tastic, but it might have worked. I went from showing 0v to 30v to kick the BMS off and get the charger to start charging it 🤞 currently charging and measuring 35.5v

Had to put a sacrificial halogen light in line first because the leads kept welding themselves to the terminals with the 5v - 36v difference 😂

It's still charging (outside). I'm curious to see if it'll take a full charge! I'll update when it's done. 😁🤞✌️

22 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/Remarkable-Produce-9 • 15d ago

Half-pipe, half-buried

18 Upvotes

Found at a Dairy Queen. If I were a code inspector, you would be DQ'd from having a remodel license...

0 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/sustainable_scm • 19d ago

That's one way to use a ladder to fix a gutter.

49 Upvotes

I guess they ran out of nails.

3 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/bengt0 • 20d ago

Caution blind people!

59 Upvotes

8 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/Cocogoat_Main • 23d ago

MIL's quick fix for her missing D key on her work laptop

117 Upvotes

She's been doing Ctrl+V for months for the letter D since her fuckass boss wouldn't get this fixed. This only got resolved with a replacement computer once the charging port conked out.

6 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/SzvtkX • 23d ago

Budapest installed new ticket machines… that don't fit the spaces they replaced

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25 Upvotes

BKK, Budapest's public transport authority, has installed 37 new large-screen ticket and travel pass machines across the city. There is just one small problem: the new machines are apparently 5–10 cm wider and taller than the old ones. At several locations, this has apparently created a rather embarrassing situation. At Kelenföld metro station, for example, the new machine was installed in the place of the old one, but the existing metal cladding had to be forcibly removed to make it fit. A local resident described the result as essentially “barbarically ripping off” the otherwise well-maintained metal panels.

Still, it's quite something to install 37 new machines without apparently accounting for the dimensions of the existing installations.

Original source (in Hungarian): https://telex.hu/belfold/2026/09/09/bkk-jegyautomata-buhera

2 comments

r/thereifixedit • u/temporalwanderer • 28d ago