The 50 Most Common Car Struggles

We've all experienced them.

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As much as we talk about loving our rides more than our future children, we don't discuss nearly as much how frustrating car ownership can be. Something difficult and frustrating can happen while driving (or just simply sitting in the driveway) every single day you plop into the front seat. Maybe you car window is stuck, maybe you ran out of gas, or maybe your car just sucks so much that you're embarrassed to be seen in it. Whatever the problem is, just know that you're not alone. Other people, including us, are constantly having trouble with the same issues you are. Let's take a closer look at The 50 Most Common Car Struggles. 

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Having a plastic bag as a window

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Being tall and having to sit in the back/bitch

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Forgetting where you parked

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Parking lot dents

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Turning on the car and the music blows out your ear drums

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Traffic causing the final 10 percent of a road trip to take as long as the first 90 percent

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Overestimating the amount of gas you have left

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Not knowing how to change a tire or jump a car with your girl in the car

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People picking their noses like they're invisible

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Something rolling around in the trunk

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Preventing the door from unlocking by pulling the handle too early

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Forgetting your sunglasses and then having to use the visor

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Hail storms making your car look like a golf ball

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Dropping something between the seats and feeling like you have Hulk hands

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Having to drive everywhere, because you're the only friend with a car

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When your seatbelt says, "fuck you" by wrinkling every inch of your newly pressed shirt

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When your seatbelt says, "fuck you" by locking up for no reason

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When your friends won't stop giving you stupidly obvious driving tips

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Duct-taped sideview mirrors

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People carelessly changing your perfectly set driver's seat

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When two semis drive side by side on the highway

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Not having any cash at a toll booth

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Traffic cameras that ticket you for running yellow lights

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Having mismatched or broken hubcaps

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Leaving the lights on, causing a dead battery

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Accidentally shifting down, when you're trying to go up

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Anybody who has any bumper stickers, period, particularly old political ones

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When you can't find the pulls for your trunk, hood, or gas tank

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When you have smoking burns in your upholstery

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When your leather seats, window sills, and shift knob are hotter than hell, literally

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Accidentally leaving takeout in your car during a humid summer night

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Cops who ticket you because you have a freakin' amazing car

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When there's some foreign sticky substance in your cup holder

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Having manual windows

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When your windows get stuck up, down, or halfway

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Sweating eight gallons because your air conditioning doesn't work

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Being in drive when you think you're in reverse

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Stalling a manual car in the middle of an intersection

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Rain leaking through your T-tops or convertible

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Trying to have sex in a car that's just way too small

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People honking at you because you were checking texts

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People touching your radio

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Blown speakers

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Your car taking 80 years to warm up in the winter

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Forgetting the parking brake is on and trying to drive

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Forgetting to put the parking brake on

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There's no way to connect your phone, wired, or wireless

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Trying to see through the baseball-sized hole that isn't fogged up

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Pulling up to the gas pump on the wrong side

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Rain the day after you wash your car

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