Millenial Car Guys...ahem...Car Persons

This is off topic, but hopefully in the correct forum. It is the "Road Side Pub" and I have a Jameson's Black Label on the rocks in my hand.

I've recently become concerned about the next generation of car guys.......ahem......"car persons". In the 90's it was all about the ass-clown import guys, but I think I'd rather have them back over completely worthless ass-hats complaining about $107 oil changes on their $60,000 Scat Pack Chargers that are now less unique due to Dodge releasing some other variant of engine/suspension/badge (LINK). It could just be a Dodge thing.

There are also "men" that sound like Napoleon Dynamite that cant change tires. (Link)

At this point I'm not sure if my daughters will have suitable males in society to find husbands. Although none of them are of dating age yet, so it might be a premature concern. What the hell are these fathers doing (or where the hell are they)?

If you are reading this and have boys, you better drag their asses out into the garage and off the xbox. In fact, if you have girls.....you better take them into the garage to work on cars......they may have to teach the boys.

I let my 9 year old daughter jack up the 2004 Cobra last week (with supervision).

I'd love to hear from some of the guys on this forum in their 20's or early 30's to reassure me that I'm wrong.

I'm 20 years old and my buddy and I think about this everyday. In college you see so many posers with their cars its ridiculous. They talk about how sick their Acura TL is and how it beats everything, but they can't change their oil or even change a wheel. At the age of 18 I did a HCI swap my 94 5.0 twice and my buddy and I are currently rebuilding his 2009 Mini Clubman JCW. It helps that I grew up in a farm family and my father was a police officer, so independence and doing things yourself was a big deal. Hopefully we're not alone.

Hahaha!!!!!! I right there with you.....I'm 35 with an 19 month old boy and his first word was car!!!!!! I completely agree with you....kids these days have NO CLUE how to wipe their own a$$ let alone check the oil or air in a tire....I could continue this speech FOR DAYS but I'll pipe down for others....awesome thread!!!!!

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Thanks buddy. I respect that a lot.

Unfortunately I found more negative evidence on youtube......

Is it a Hellcat thing?

Apparently that guy has more money than brains

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I'm a grandpa with a Millennial son and daughter. Taught them both how to shoot and basic car care stuff. Plus, my son has been working side by side with me for a decade on building my race cars and modding my Jeeps. We are looking for another truck to do a restore on right now.

From what I have seen, my son is an anomaly. On the radio in the DC Metro area, there are advertisements targeting Millennials with "How to Adult" schools, where they teach you how to plung toilets, change tires and check your oil, balance a checkbook, etc. Disgusting. Some dad's out there need to Man the F up and raise their kids.

Worked at a Ford quick lane for a while. Put some brake pads in backwards, let a car run with no oil for a little while. Eventually quit cause nobody liked that I always mooched tools and didn't buy my own.

When your girls turn 18 hit me up

When over 75% of millennials voted for Hillary Clinton, what do you expect?.....

I shake my head on a daily basis.

Some of these jerks can actually be learned up.
A kid down the street had a blown up 20 year old Accord. He would see me working on my cars in my garage and actually asked intelligent questions.
So I helped him buy a junk yard engine and swap it out.
Since then he has asked my help in doing an engine swap in an actual American iron car. An old Dodge Dart. And I noticed he is hanging out with a much hotter selection of chicks.
So there is some hope after all.
Plus I showed a really cute Korean Highschooler how to check, and change her oil last month. And she sure as hell wasn't 18. Darn It!

21 here, I did all the work on my cobra and made it go 10's and shooting for close to 9's next year. I enjoy working on my car, and feel privileged to have worked on cts-v's,TT ls swapped 65 impala, 1300hp chevelles, f2 foxbody, even cars upward of 2200hp. I find it fascinating, this will always be my hobby. Also 1 year away from getting my CPA, so not all of us suck.

I've complained about the price of my $100 oil change, but it's mainly because I remember a time when I could do a car for less than $20 by myself. I do most work myself. Hardest thing I've done is probably a cam install. 35 soon so I'm on the edge of it.

34 here, so I'm "technically" a millennial. Related: I hate my generation.

31 with a 2 year old son. I was raised on hard work and he will be taught the same. My son hates tv and loves playing outside in the dirt. Wants nothing more then to take rides in my trucks, mini excavator and bobcats.

I'm hoping he will restore faith for future generations

I fall in the millenial category I guess.

Usually do almost everything myself, aside from electrical gremlins.

My father did a lot of thing himself, with a manual next to him. He also got me involved early on, so I picked up on that. Some of my car friends who are limited in basic car maintenance usually had parents who were A) oblivious that you had to change the oil or B) took it to the cheapest place possible for service.

SID297 said:

I shake my head on a daily basis.

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This

I'm 28 and I've never been mechanically inclined. I can change my oil and do simple stuff along those lines but anything beyond that forget about it. I'll gladly pay someone to do the work for me the correct way instead of hacking it in myself.

I'm not a millennial, but who is paying $60k for a scat pack car when you can buy a HC for that & is it really $107 for an oil change on a Challenger?!

31 but don't consider myself a millenial. I enjoy making money off idiots who have no clue about cars. Have been doing it for years.

Try to help those who want to learn. The rest i just charge more.

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colin450 said:

I'm 28 and I've never been mechanically inclined. I can change my oil and do simple stuff along those lines but anything beyond that forget about it. I'll gladly pay someone to do the work for me the correct way instead of hacking it in myself.

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Exactly: I can do some stuff but I'm not rebuilding an engine, I'm letting a professional do it, as I don't have the time nor the desire. Guess I'm not a 'Man' oh well.