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In the south, they replace broken headlights with Coors Light
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I’m not sure the law says it has to be pretty, only that it works.
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When I didn’t have a lot of money I used red packing tape to fix a smashed taillight.
Please keep the tone of this thread to be more about clever ideas than about classism. Not everyone can afford OEM parts for their car.
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My dad had a truck with a clear tail light. He carried a red crayon with him that he’d rub on the light when he got pulled over. One of the neighbor kids gave him a box of red crayons for his birthday one year.
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In fairness, the sports drink did say is contained…electrolytes. (ba-dum, tss)
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Sometimes it’s also a matter of how available the parts are. I drive a 2006 PT Cruiser, which needs a specific taillight assembly, and I know the local auto parts stores won’t have it in stock. So I order what I need off the internet… but that’s two to three days until it arrives. If I need to drive, I may have to get creative with a temporary fix until I get the part.
This is something I never thought of. Kudos to that driver!
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Seems more like a Florida thing.
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So the light work but the red cover was gone, is that correct?
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Seems like an ingenious case of Sports Utility Vehicular deployment.
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As long as the bulb is still working and doesn’t get hot enough to melt through the sport-drink container, seems like a pretty clever stopgap to me.
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Red Green is a gift to humanity!
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Street legal.
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Gatorade was invented there.
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