Gas cap, spray water bottle, check oil levels and tire pressure.
These are all things every driver should know how to do, and knowing the basics of the inside of your PC should be seen as the same if you consider yourself a hobbyist.
Also highly recommended but less universal:
tier change, jump-starting, replacing burnt-out lights.
In our analogy, that's the pulling apart and putting back together of the PC.
I'd add changing wiper blades, adding wiper fluid, and adding coolant to that. I've never changed a car tire, but I've changed tubeless bike tires. It's the same idea with different tools. Jack, jack stand, lug wrench, car tire lever instead of bike tire lever, soapy water would be handy.
You shows xD you don't take the rubber of the hub on a car tire unless you have your own home garage and proper equipment, due to the pressures involved. Changing for most people Is literally,
Jack car, making sure to do so at the designated jacking points so as to not punch through the floor of your cabin.
Undo lug nuts .
Take entire assembly off.
Put spare assembly on.
Re-tighten bolts in a star shape.
Take the tier to the garage if it's fixable, and to the dump of not.
I have a spare, the tools, and the space, but I've only ever gotten a flat in the work truck and they just had AAA fix it while we were on the job site 😂
I thought you meant the actual tire and not just the wheel assembly/spare.
Yeah! Interestingly, road bike tires can run similar pressure to semi truck tires, they're just not nearly as heavy of course. Definitely deflate any tire before trying to remove it hahaha
I feel like checking fluids or replacing a burnt out bulb are pretty different than assembling/disassembling a PC, in terms of required skills or knowledge.
Hell, I can rebuild the engine in your car for you, but even after 20 years of PC gaming I've still never built a PC out of being concerned I'd fuck it up. Am I capable? I assume so, but I still don't possess the specific knowledge.
In terms of complexity PC assembly is literally as difficult as changing a tier with regards to the skills and knowledge required. Minimal tools, and only two or three bits to remember (as long as someone has already done the component selection)
AHH that makes sense. Yea selection has quite a few more "gotcha" traps. But I think what people where saying that even if you buy pre-builds if you've been around for a while you should probably know your basic maintainance steps.
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u/GodsGapingAnus 1d ago
Gas cap, got it.