A while back, I went to one of those corporate places for an oil change. They fucked up putting the metal thing back on the undercarriage, but a family member told me it would be okay without that. So I’ve been driving without the metal protective layer thing.

This fell off sometime on my drive home from work. We are currently experiencing tornadoes, so I can’t examine it too closely at the moment. It appears that it was just zip tied back on…

I am dead broke - my money this month has to go to car insurance, I can’t even afford registration at this point.

Can I just rip it off? I need an oil change soon, but I’m going to try to stretch it out a month or so.

  • vapeloki@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That part is responsible for 3 things:

    • Noise. It reduces the amount of turbulence under the car
    • fuel efficiency, same as Noise
    • protection from the environment. It reduces the amount of dirt and water that hits parts like the engine and other stuff there

    It is not critical and as others said, you could leave it of. I would recommend to have a look of there was any other damage done while they ripped off, as the weather allows to