{"id":4322,"date":"2019-05-23T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2019-05-23T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T10:00:23","slug":"home-improvement-store-car-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/23\/home-improvement-store-car-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Improvement Store Car Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who loved his first car more than it deserved, I understand holding onto a car longer than I should. That being said, this is just a bit too far. This car should&#8217;ve gone to the junkyard years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4323\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019_05_23_01.jpg\" alt=\"2019_05_23_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s mechanically sound, but the body is just gone. The right rear fender has been patched with a sheet of metal, and the gaps from all the rust filled in with expanding foam. The repair order said &#8220;do not lift&#8221;, so I don&#8217;t even want to know what the bottom of the car looks like.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4324\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019_05_23_02.jpg\" alt=\"2019_05_23_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The left side of the car was even worse looking than the right side. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the expanding foam actually pushed the rusted metal out as it expanded, it&#8217;s in such bad shape. It looks like this quarter panel is 50% foam, 25% paint, and 25% metal at this point. Just get a newer car.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who loved his first car more than it deserved, I understand holding onto a car longer than I should. That being said, this is just a bit too far. This car should&#8217;ve gone to the junkyard years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[21,55,70],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-bodywork","tag-rust","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}