Stupid dangerous pictures in adverts

[Jim1064]

These two from Lidl this week.

Go on, undo the wheel nuts without lifting it off the ground. But at least he's using ear protection.

And isn't that battery charger connected the wrong way round?

Nuts

(I have both, they are actually pretty good)

[the-norseman]

looks like its off the ground to me, wheel potentially isnt fully of the ground but the gap between body and floor is huge. Looks like a MK1 or early MK2 Golf.

Edited by the-norseman on Monday 13th January 11:22

[Bill]

the-norseman said:

MK1 Golf looks like its off the ground to me.

+1

[Mr Pointy]

Surely it's normal to slacken the wheel nuts before raising the wheel off the ground? You don't fully tighten them until the wheel is lowered do you?

[StevieBee]

Don't see anything wrong in the first one.

The second would be something OfCom / HSE might be interested in.

[Your Dad]

Not from an ad, but still makes my fingers tingle.

[Riley Blue]

Mr Pointy said:

Surely it's normal to slacken the wheel nuts before raising the wheel off the ground? You don't fully tighten them until the wheel is lowered do you?

'Yes' and 'Always'.

[wildoliver]

Your Dad said:

Not from an ad, but still makes my fingers tingle.

That's a cracker.

The battery charger "could" be showing it has reverse connection protection (which it does have, as most do these days and no harm will be done connecting it in reverse) or even the ability to connect in reverse and it sort it out internally (it can't, I've got one, it's fairly crap), but many years of working on cars I've learnt that what looks like an earth lead, is black like an earth lead isn't always an earth lead. Unless I can see the symbol on the battery, or see the lead is connected to the body in the case of a neg earth car (I do work on pos earth cars too) I don't assume these days. The give away looking closely at that pic though is the other lead looks to be a distribution point with fuses etc. which will always be on the positive. I wouldn't get hot under the collar over it or call it dangerous though.

[Davie]

Jim1064 said:

And isn't that battery charger connected the wrong way round?

Might be setting myself up for a massive fail here... but on my car, the battery load sensor is on the negative terminal, which looks to be the case in the image? That and there appears to be a thick brown cable to the back of the battery, usually that's a earth? My positive connection just has a single black coated cable, just as in the image too.

[.:ian:.]

Davie said:

Might be setting myself up for a massive fail here... but on my car, the battery load sensor is on the negative terminal, which looks to be the case in the image? That and there appears to be a thick brown cable to the back of the battery, usually that's a earth? My positive connection just has a single black coated cable, just as in the image too.

Yes, though if you RTFM you are supposed to connect the negative charger cable to the chassis, if you connect it to the terminal it bypasses all the management doohickeys and it will confuse the BMS

[SO27]

Bill said:

the-norseman said:

MK1 Golf looks like its off the ground to me.

+1

If it is, then it's got some very short springs. I'd expect it to droop far more than that.

Looking at them I suspect they're just AI generated images rather than real photographs

[Douglas Quaid]

OP you undo the nuts before you lift it off the ground. He’s doing it right. Do you jack it up before starting to loosen the nuts? I wouldn’t want to be cranking on a wheel brace with an extension bar while the car is sitting on jack stands.

[Countdown]

Re: the 1st picture

if it's on the ground then aren't you supposed to loosen the nuts using a wheelbrace BEFORE you jack it up (and then use the air gum to spin the nuts off?

[Richard-D]

Douglas Quaid said:

OP you undo the nuts before you lift it off the ground. He’s doing it right. Do you jack it up before starting to loosen the nuts? I wouldn’t want to be cranking on a wheel brace with an extension bar while the car is sitting on jack stands.

One of the benefits of an impact wrench is being able to skip that step. Just jack it up and rattle them off.

You're right for how you'd do it with a wheel brace or breaker bar of course.

[WelshRich]

Might just be me, but both of the Lidl images look a bit AI generated, just be grateful that the number of fingers is correct!

[csd19]

Battery charger is on correctly, that's a VAG MQB chassis car. Positive terminal on the battery is at the front so nothing to see here....

How do I know? Had the battery out of my Leon last week doing the DSG fluid & filter change, the filter is accessed underneath the battery tray.

[Moulder]

WelshRich said:

Might just be me, but both of the Lidl images look a bit AI generated, just be grateful that the number of fingers is correct!

Agreed. That old pair of pants being pressed into service as a rag don't look realistic to me. Guess some things are still beyond the available technology.

[Plymo]

This was a good one! Very "professional"

[KAgantua]

Jay Leno knows how to use a pair of scissors!!

[Byker28i]

There's quite a few old ones, never mind the smoking ones