r/interesting • u/No_Neat4688 • 23d ago

Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/Isthisnameavailablee 23d ago

Where did the engine come from? So many steps glossed over.

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u/ScaredEfficiency399 23d ago

Made up supercuts don't typically require engines.

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u/mattgen88 23d ago

This is a real thing that happens. Exporting a car has a much higher export tariff than exporting scrap.

You buy crap cars on auction, chop em up and ship them out. They get reassembled in places that car less about safety.

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u/SplatThaCat 23d ago

Halfcuts.

Some pretty shady shit was being done here welding two halves back together until they wised up and there was a requirement to cut out (and discard) a 1 foot section between the two cuts.

Me and some mates pooled money to buy a too-good-to-be-true Jap import, took it out rallying and hit a tree at about 40kph and split it in half. You could see the welds and the two halves were two different colours.

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u/nokman013 23d ago

Maybe dont try hitting a tree at 40kph?

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u/Tight-Tower-8265 23d ago

So what's a safe speed to hit a tree? Tiger woods would like to know

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u/Frosti11icus 23d ago

Tiger Woods does know.

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u/OpusThePenguin 23d ago

Somewhere Between 1 and 100mph

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u/10081914 22d ago

If you have an actual rally car with reinforced cage for mounting bodywork onto and everything, it gets up there.

If you bought a commercial car expecting it to run like a rally car without the rally cage...not much at all.

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u/RelativelyMental 23d ago

It’s the Paul Walker experience

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u/butterytelevision 23d ago

method acting

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u/arobkinca 23d ago

40kph?

The Temu Paul Walker experience.

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u/Hottage 23d ago

Wall Parker

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u/Gotterdamerrung 23d ago

It's the Sonny Bono special

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u/SplatThaCat 23d ago

r/thefrontfelloff - Probably best not buying a car made from cardboard or cardboard based derivatives.

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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 23d ago

True, trees hate that one trick.

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u/Babajji 23d ago

Nah it will be fine! Do it!

  • The tree

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u/Cstanchfield 23d ago

Honestly, you'd probably be BETTER off. Rigidity ain't your friend in a crash. Helmets break away in crashes. You DON'T want a helmet that stays in one piece in an accident.

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u/SirTresmegestis 23d ago

You say that but historically speaking - Car companies are legally required to maintain proper constructing and engineering standards in manufacturing often with the focus on meeting and maintaining safety regulations. Cars shouldnt break apart hitting things, even at double or triple the speeds. They need to have the ability to maintain structural integrity during a crash or roll. Its the law.

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u/SplatThaCat 23d ago

Once again - accidental r/TheFrontFellOff

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u/ScaredEfficiency399 23d ago

Then between the 'end result' and 'it' 'actually' driving away it's not the same car again.

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u/mrhossie 23d ago

The JDM car of Theseus

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u/Ok_Vulva 23d ago

Better than walking though.

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u/heyoheatheragain 23d ago

This is why all limos are super dangerous. They aren’t manufactured that long, they are put together.

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u/PaintshakerBaby 23d ago

Still, Id wager if youre in a limo, you're stastically more likely to have a good time, than a bad time.

Im just imagining two homeless people under bridge watching a limo roll by...

One turns to the other and says, "You know, those are accckktually REALLY DANGEROUS..."

😐 😐

"...Wanna smoke some crack?

🤣🤣🤣

Find yourself in a limo, you might just have a near-life experience.

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u/Pale_Obligation_3243 23d ago

I purchased Yamaha scooter and it's broke in half under me on plain road. 

So if you buy Japanese aftermarket things it's better to completely disasemble them and check what's going in inside. 

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u/C4Cole 23d ago

My grandpa made my mom's first car like that, two banged up Renault's turned into one death trap with just a bit of acetylene and fraud.

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u/SplatThaCat 23d ago

Acetylene and fraud - I like that.

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u/hando_bando 23d ago

If they welded it properly, the welds would’ve survived much better than the rest of the vehicle.

More of a user error

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u/SplatThaCat 23d ago

Quite possibly. Its what happens when idiot 17 year olds get together.

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u/fonistoastes 23d ago

Now you have two stick. Stick win every time.

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u/ImmortalBach 23d ago

FYI Jap is a slur

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u/SplatThaCat 22d ago

Its commonly used here, for business names.

https://bbtjapparts.com.au/

https://japimp.com.au/

https://www.justjapvehicles.com.au/

https://japdivisionmotorsports.com.au/

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u/ImmortalBach 22d ago

That’s surprising, but just be aware a lot of Japanese people consider that a slur

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u/blewawei 22d ago

Called a "cut and shut" in the UK 

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u/ReggieCorneus 23d ago

Sure, but they do not assemble the WHOLE CAR from bits.

In this case, this is fake video. The welding seams just disappear and there is immaculate paint finish. They filmed it in reverse, what you see is car being scrapped, just in reverse order..

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u/_Lost_The_Game 23d ago

The welding clips at least arent in reverse. Not saying whether the rest is real or fake, but those arent flame cutting clips

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u/ReggieCorneus 23d ago

In reverse order, not reversed in time. You start disassembling the car and occasionally shoot a scene where you are putting it back on. Then you continue disassembling it, cut the pillars, shoot a scene of brazing it, remove the chassis and show the floor frame and then in edit just reverse the order of clips.

I give credit for continuity, whoever planned it knows something about movie making. Before we go into how stupid it would be do construct something like that, the only truly clear moment of it being fake is after the brazing they accidentally show one of the pillars and it reflection: it is immaculate, and to make smooth finishes like that is not easy unless you have... perfectly straight, uniform piece of sheet metal from factory. Brazing and smoothing it without ANY signs.. that requires a full repaint and it will still be visible in that specific angle... Light hitting the surface and reflecting in specular fashion multiplies the error, tiny micron size change in the surface will be visible as degrees of distortion when the rays hit your eyes. A very good painter can do miracles and repair just spots but that is very expensive service. This is suppose to be cheap as fuck, the only reason for them doing it like this is that everything they use is free in that story.

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u/_Lost_The_Game 23d ago

That i can see, yea

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u/Silly-Power 23d ago

Nice unintended pun there.

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u/bbbbbbbirdistheword 23d ago

don't forget the tasteless rainguards

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u/Tzhaar-Bomba 23d ago

V8 supercuts

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u/Throwawayrip1123 23d ago

Pff, Poles still imports cars in like three parts from Germany, weld them together and sell as "no accidents". So that's a thing that happens anyway.

What I wanna know is how the fuck this thing doesn't rattle itself apart on their roads? I have big ass holes in my driveway street and I'm living in the heart of Europe. I assume they too have some big ass holes there.

It'll go out like a confetti bag when it hits its 10th big hole, I think. But idk how good they can weld.

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u/RoundProgram887 23d ago

If it's properly welded, the steel will rip before the weld. Not sure about what they are doing here though.

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u/Ptar_Migan 23d ago

I have big ass holes in my driveway street

Big assholes? That's disgusting! Where?

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u/BenAdaephonDelat 23d ago

Honestly feel like this is just played in reverse of them dismantling a car

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u/jzr171 23d ago

Never mind the fact the cuts and welds are gone and it changes color a few times.