Stopped at a truck stop in Amarillo and saw the wildest 'repair' on a Peterbilt

I was grabbing coffee at the big Petro off I-40 last week and saw a guy trying to fix a coolant leak on his rig. He had the hood up and was using what looked like an entire roll of duct tape and a cut-up soda can as a patch. I watched for a minute, and he was layering it on like he was frosting a cake! He told me, 'It's holding for now, just gotta make it 200 more miles.' Has anyone else seen a roadside fix that made you just shake your head?

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miles_sanchez1mo ago

Did he at least use the good, thick duct tape or the cheap shiny stuff?

quinn_wood1mo ago

The thick stuff saved my project last time, @miles_sanchez.

blake_bell2925d ago

Got a buddy named Dave who tried saving an old wicker chair with that cheap shiny duct tape. Thing looked like a metallic spiderweb by the time he was done, and it barely held together for a week. He finally went out and bought the good thick stuff folks keep talking about, the gray one that feels more like fabric than plastic. Chair held up through a whole summer of backyard parties and kids climbing on it before he finally replaced it. He still tells people it was the best ten bucks he ever spent on a repair job. Good tape makes all the difference when you need something to actually stay put.