VIDEO: How To Disable A Cash For Clunkers Car

[Michael Palero]

A video of a Volvo being disabled for CARS

http://jalopnik.com/5327580/video-how-t ... e=true&s=i

The prescribed and approved method of disabling a car according to law involves replacing the engine's oil with sodium silicate, more commonly known as liquid glass. When the car is run with a mixture of water and sodium silicate the liquid quickly evaporates and the solids are left behind, causing most of the oiled surfaces to seize and break.

As you can see in the video above, the results are fairly horrific. You can actually hear this car scream. In fact, if you watch all the way, you'll see it spout up its last bit of oil before it breathes its last breath.

[Mako Koiwai]

Pretty nice "clunker"

[George Schilling]

Pretty nice "clunker"

Watching the Volvo die sums up the whole CARS program. What a taxpayer rip-off.

[Sebastian Rios]

That was horrible. Almost like torturing kittens.

[Jonathan Lugod]

[Kevin Price]

Someday we're going to look back at this phenomenal waste of money and machinery and shake our heads. Oh wait, we're shaking our heads already.

[Kristoffer Gjevre]

Yesterday I watched them kill an 1995 Oldsmobile Aurora with 240,000 miles:
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