Women Claims Her Kia Pulls to the Left.

[Cobra93]

bullshit

You're telling me that this chubby little girl who can barely see over the top of a Rio weighs as much as Greg Oden or Andrew Bynum?

That's absurd.

OK. She's sleek, svelte and sexy. Whatever you say. 

Maybe we should post the video and make a poll in General talk and see what other people think? 

[ifcar]

Okay, according to the first Google hit, the ideal body weight for a 5'1'' woman is between 100 and 132 pounds. This woman is fat, but she's not twice what she should be.

Perhaps 50 pounds would be a lot of extra fat for a short person to be carrying around, but it still doesn't put her near 200.


Have you people never actually seen a truly fat person?

[NomisR]

Dude, she's 2 feet shorter than either of those guys. She would look like an ant next to them.

Not to mention fat weighs less than muscle.


Look at it this way--what's a thin weight for a girl around 5 foot tall? 100-110 pounds? Add a hundred pounds to that, and this is what you get. If I weighed 300 pounds I would look like a ball too.

Like I said, she's probably 200lb, either way, she's still fat.

[Tave]

No doubt. My only point was 200 pounds isn't going to knock a car out of alignment.

And according to Kia, it didn't.

OK. She's sleek, svelte and sexy. Whatever you say. 

200 pounds is BIG for a woman, especially a woman that short.

[NomisR]

Okay, according to the first Google hit, the ideal body weight for a 5'1'' woman is between 100 and 132 pounds. This woman is fat, but she's not twice what she should be.

Perhaps 50 pounds would be a lot of extra fat for a short person to be carrying around, but it still doesn't put her near 200.


Have you people never actually seen a truly fat person?

I've seen plenty, my office is filled with them!

[NomisR]

No doubt. My only point was 200 pounds isn't going to knock a car out of alignment.

And according to Kia, it didn't.

Smaller she is, the more concentrated the weight? 

[Cobra93]

Okay, according to the first Google hit, the ideal body weight for a 5'1'' woman is between 100 and 132 pounds. This woman is fat, but she's not twice what she should be.

Perhaps 50 pounds would be a lot of extra fat for a short person to be carrying around, but it still doesn't put her near 200.


Have you people never actually seen a truly fat person?

I had a girlfriend that was 5'2" and weighed 110-115 most of the time. She had to buy her clothes in the childrens department. When she bought Levi's jeans they were a size ZERO. Kia girl would make 3 of her. For crying out loud people. Watch the video. She barely fits behind the steering wheel. The car pulls to the left. How many clues do you need? 

[Cobra93]

No doubt. My only point was 200 pounds isn't going to knock a car out of alignment.

And according to Kia, it didn't.

200 lbs probably won't. But she's not just 200 lbs.

As far as the KIA dealer goes, they were definitely trying to save face.

[NomisR]

I had a girlfriend that was 5'2" and weighed 110-115 most of the time. She had to buy her clothes in the childrens department. When she bought Levi's jeans they were a size ZERO. Kia girl would make 3 of her. For crying out loud people. Watch the video. She barely fits behind the steering wheel. The car pulls to the left. How many clues do you need? 

Her stomach was right up against the steering wheel and her arms are thicker than my thighs...

[Tave]

I had a girlfriend that was 5'2" and weighed 110-115 most of the time.

And if she put on 100 fricking pounds, she would look EXACTLY like that. Bone, tissue, organs, muscle, blood, and water are all much more dense than fat.


300 pounds on a 5'2" girl would be astronomically fat.

[NomisR]

And if she put on 100 fricking pounds, she would look EXACTLY like that. Bone, tissue, organs, muscle, blood, and water are all much more dense than fat.


300 pounds on a 5'2" girl would be astronomically fat.

Something like this?

[Submariner]

Watch a lawsuit come out of this.  I'm thinking emotional distress with a heaping tablespoon of "irreparable mental damage" thrown in for flavor.

Seriously...the only one to blame for her embarrassment is herself.  With cars (small, especially) I would guess that the drivers weight takes a greater tole on the way the car performs, thus the reason why she had to sit in it.  It's not their fault she is a Twinkie queen. 

The best quote from the article

"The woman hopes her story will "make manufacturers more aware of our growing society."

TranslationThe woman hopes her story of the worlds growing laziness and disregard for personal care will force more law makers and corporations looking for votes and sales to give into gluttonous eating habits and pathetic (read: none) physical care we are growing to regard as normal.

[Submariner]

Something like this?

[Cobra93]

And if she put on 100 fricking pounds, she would look EXACTLY like that. Bone, tissue, organs, muscle, blood, and water are all much more dense than fat.


300 pounds on a 5'2" girl would be astronomically fat.

You're ignoring the most obvious factor. Fat people have bones and muscle too. In fact, imagine carrying an extra 100 lbs. around all day, every day. Do you think you won't gain muscle mass? Once again, that girl is at least 260 lbs if she's an ounce. Argue all you want. You're still wrong.

[Tave]

Exactly like that.

[Cobra93]

Something like this?

Naw, she's clearly no more than 180-185 lbs. 

[Madman]

This woman will never have to go to a gas station again....

http://www.carspin.net/forums/index.php?topic=17555.0



Cheers,
Madman of the People

[FlatBlackCaddy]

Well i lost altleast 10 pounds laughing my ass off at this thread.

[FlatBlackCaddy]

LMAO

[FlatBlackCaddy]

"It pulls to the left alittle bit"

[the Teuton]

I don't know how to respond other than to say this:

I am appalled about all of this politically correct bullshit.

My family has owned several late-1980s to mid-1990s Asian compact cars.  They were not designed for big people.  My dad is maybe 5'6" and I am 5'7" and we're both a touch under 200 pounds, and we both fit fine in them.  On the other hand, I have a friend who is about 6'0" back home and 320ish or so.  He's, for lack of a better word, obese.  He can not comfortably sit in my car in any seat.

In a modern Japanese or Korean car, we're supposed to accommodate fatasses in subcompact cars.  How is that supposed to work?  Are we supposed to defy the laws of mass and just say, "Hey, here's a small car, but I'm sure it'll work for you!"  One size does not fit all, and it's ridiculous to think it should.

Trucks have big seats for big, brawny workers.  That's their target market.  Yet, now we're seeing urban cowboys and lesbians eat them up like chocolate.  That's fine because they're physically smaller than the seats that were designed for the car.

Over in Japan, the Evo and STI have narrower, more supportive seats, yet here they're wider for our fat asses.  They don't even offer the better seats as options here!

What I guess I am trying to say is that if she wanted a car to support her girth, whether this was truly her fault or not, she should do one of two things:  shop for a car that better suited her needs or lose some weight.

Instead it is shit like this why eventually all seats, even in sports cars (and currently in Corvettes to some degree) will be flat, wide, and unsupportive like these.  The bitch should just buy heavier duty springs and shut the fuck up.

[Submariner]

The bitch should just buy heavier duty springs and shut the fuck up.

Dude grow up.    It's her right to be fat.  Consequently, it is her right to bitch about it, and the duty of everyone around her to conform.  However, no one has the right to call her out on her weight, because she is part of our "growing society."  In fact, the mechanic was wrong to put her in the car to calibrate it to her weight because she may realize she is a lard ass and needs to loose weight.  Instead, he should have guessed her weight (making sure to cut whatever he thinks she really is in half, because we don't want to state the obvious) then find weights equal to that amount and put them in the car to calibrate it.  And, if she refuses to sit in the car, and he cannot accurately guess her weight (because she will not tell you) and you refuse her service, she should sue because it's discrimination.  Jesus...has chairman Obama not taught you anything about modern liberalism?

...capitolist pig. 

[S204STi]

First of all, this is not the first time I've heard of this happening, and yes her weight was the cause of the issue.

That said, the dealer should have come up with a solution that didn't involve pointing out that she's basically a heifer.

[S204STi]

That said, frakkin' hilarious!

[Submariner]

First of all, this is not the first time I've heard of this happening, and yes her weight was the cause of the issue.

That said, the dealer should have come up with a solution that didn't involve pointing out that she's basically a heifer.

No, they shouldn't have.  No one should have to work around something just because you may be offended by it, especially if it's their own doing.

[FlatBlackCaddy]

They should have just sneaked about 100 pounds of steel under the passenger seat, covered it with carpet and called it a day.

Actually easier yet they could have just found the biggest guy in service and had him sit in the driver seat while they aligned the car. There was no need to suggest it to her and cause a scene.

[S204STi]

No, they shouldn't have.  No one should have to work around something just because you may be offended by it, especially if it's their own doing.

So there was seriously no better way in your mind to work around it without having to embarrass her?  Yes she's fat, yes its funny, but they as a business shouldn't put them selves in that position.

My solution; find another tech (not necessarily a huge one) and stick him in there with a bag of floor-dry on hit lap to simulate the weight as much as possible.

Like I said, LOL but bad move on the dealer's part.

[Submariner]

They should have just sneaked about 100 pounds of steel under the passenger seat, covered it with carpet and called it a day.

Actually easier yet they could have just found the biggest guy in service and had him sit in the driver seat while they aligned the car. There was no need to suggest it to her and cause a scene.

Again...shes a lard ass...she needs to live with the consequences. 

[S204STi]

Actually easier yet they could have just found the biggest guy in service and had him sit in the driver seat while they aligned the car. There was no need to suggest it to her and cause a scene.

What he said.

[FlatBlackCaddy]

Again...shes a lard ass...she needs to live with the consequences. 

It's customer service. Even if you know she's a lard ass you do what i suggested above to fix the problem and keep her the hell away from the dealership. Otherwise she'll keep coming back for a half a dozen alignments.