11: Leaky Junker Sentra Headlights
Quality problems with the Nissan Sentra have been rampant since the earliest days of the car. Reddit user red weasel told the story of a weird quirk in the taillight design. “I had the red taillight assemblies on a 1989 Nissan Sentra fill up with water, and couldn’t keep it from happening despite applying an enormous amount of RTV rubber sealant. The dealer and various garages all wanted ridiculous amounts of money to replace the assemblies and refused to drill holes through the red lens (as I would simply have done) because “[that’s] illegal,” apparently because it would produce a non-red (i.e. white) spot on the tail light.
“So I took it home and drilled holes through the red lenses myself, simply taking care to drill at an angle upward, so that from the back one still saw the only red light. Problem solved, never got stopped for illegal taillights or anything.”