Metal rusts and velour can be torn, so it’s only a matter of time before your old Honda Civic breaks down. Of course, if you have money and you bought that car because you love the way it looks, you can probably just take it to the mechanic and let them fix it. However, if you’re broke and that was the only reason why you got that pile of junk in the first place, you’ll probably have to bring it back to life yourself.

But fear not, you’d be amazed to know how much is possible with so little. And the subreddit r/RedneckEngineering is the perfect example of that. It has plenty of funny, surprising, and creative DIY projects that simultaneously make sense and appear completely useless but can definitely inspire you to pick up a wrench and start working on that metal pony of yours.

Continue scrolling to check out recent posts that went viral within this online community and fire up Bored Panda’s earlier article on it for more.

#1 Who’s Laughing Now?

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#2 All Y’all Doing Yard Work Like Scrubs. Here’s The Real Way

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#3 Cut A Pool Noodle In Half To Make A Comfortable Armrest For The Truck. From Australia

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#4 Fixed The Downspout

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#5 Anti-Theft Protection

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#6 How To Keep Your Drone From Falling Down Into A River

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#7 This Man Is Before His Time

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#8 Feast Your Eyes… My Brother’s Gaming Chair

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#9 It Makes Sense

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#10 My 11 Year Old Scotch Taped The Phone To His Face So He Could Play Xbox And Talk

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#11 The Birdhouse Booby Trap Device

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#12 Automatic Door

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#13 Disinfecting In A Beiping Market, Smart And Timely!

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#14 I Work At A Warehouse In Sweden, And Recently They Halved The Speed Of All Forklifts (From 16 Km/H To 8 Km/H) For Safety Reasons. I Just Thought They Put Some Limiter In The Software, But No. They Found A Far Smarter Solution…

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#15 Ramen Fix

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#16 Saw This In Another Sub And Thought It Belonged Here

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#17 Home Made Drone

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#18 It Ain’t Stupid If It Works

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#19 This Guy Built A Wooden Gym So He Could Train

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#20 Pool Heater

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#21 This Has To Count

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#22 Homemade Roller Coaster

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#23 Ain’t Stupid If It Works!

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#24 Found In A Group Called “Stairs Designed By People Who Aren’t Afraid To Die” But I Still Quite Like How Simple And Cheap A Solution It Is

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#25 A Plunger And Hot Water, Who’d A Thunk It

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#26 Humane Rat Trap

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#27 Portable AC Unit (Pumps Ice Cold Water From Cooler Through Copper Coil Over Fan)

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#28 Safe As Houses

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#29 My Father Built His Own Observatory

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#30 Does This Count?

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#31 Oculus 2 Weight Balance Fix

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#32 Our Doorbell Has Been Broken So We Had To Improvise

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#33 Speaker Theft Deterrent

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#34 Way Above Around Pool

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#35 The 80s In Switzerland

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#36 Pharmacy Ran Out Of Iv Holders. They Suggested To Hold It With My Hands. I Lasted Half A Bottle

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#37 Adjustable Wrench

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#38 My 96y/O Great Grandma Was Having Trouble. Her Apartment’s Ac Vent Blew Directly Into Her Eyes To The Point She Couldn’t Watch TV Or Read Anymore. I Made A Cardboard Vent Cover To Go Over The Vent & Reverse The Air Flow Direction

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#39 Found This On An Old Project File, I Was Ahead Of My Time

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#40 I Couldn’t Find Any Washers That Would Fit Over The Heads Of Screws… So… Yep

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#41 My Dumbass Solution To The Problem Of High-Hanging Fruit

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#42 There, I Fixed It

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#43 Well It Surely Works

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#44 Ummmm

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#45 This Guy Knows Whats Up

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#46 Redneck Rotisserie

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#47 Saw This Volume Limiter On R/Hometheater Thought Of This Sub

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#48 Deathcart

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#49 That Oughta Do It

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#50 Local Shop Wanted $400 To Use Their Coil Compressor. Boss Said I Could Borrow The Pony Clamps As Long As I Brought Them Back Monday…

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#51 The U Pipe Under My Kitchen Sink Refuses To Stay Connected. A Ten Pound Dumbbell Solved The Problem

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#52 Bubba, Why Does Your Lawn Have Crop Circles On It?

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#53 When You Finally Decide To Re-Purpose Those Old Bombs You Had Laying Around…

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#54 Only Had Two Batteries, And Also This Thing Was Crazy Bright

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#55 That’s A Pretty Cool Audi

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#56 Guess It Fits Here

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#57 Someone Suggested This Would Fit Here

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#58 This Was Very Smart

Using tree limbs chained to the wheels to free a stuck tractor.

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#59 We Made A Buggy At The Machine Shop By Welding Two Scooters Together

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#60 Newest Swimming Pool Heating Technology

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#61 Trash Can Broke. Buy A New One? Never

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#62 A Menu Holder Out The Front Of My Local Indian Restaurant

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#63 My Sunglasses Broke While Working On A Roof Two Days Ago. So Far, So Good

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#64 Never Too Young To Start Rednecking

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#65 I “Installed” A Temporary Solution To Stop The Downstairs Ac’s Cool Air To Escape To The Rest Of The House Upstairs And Prevent The Hot Air To Come In Downstairs. The Bubblewrap Is Like A Curtain

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#66 Don’t Know

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#67 This Trailer I Spotted A Few Years Back

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#68 Fisher Cat Broke My Last Cat Door Into My Chicken Coop, I Decide I Wasn’t Going To Let It Win

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#69 Drove The Chevy To The Levee

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#70 Czech Engineering

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#71 Got Tired Of Losing Nerf Wars…

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#72 Jetskiyak

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#73 I Told Ya’ It’d Fit!

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#74 Broke My Glasses, Lost My Backups. Threw This Together Out Of Desperation

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#75 Forgot To Get A Fork For My Salad While On The Job. Worked Perfectly For Chick-Fil-A As Well. Only Took A Few Zipties And Tape

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#76 My Mum And Sisters’ Attempt At Providing Air Conditioning In The Back For Me, It Did The Trick!

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#77 A Pvc Pipe Basketball “Hoop” I Made So That My Son Could Practise

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#78 This Temporary Fix Has Been There For 6+ Years

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#79 When You’re Too Lazy To Paddle

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#80 Redneck Boat

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#81 Who Wants A Marg?

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#82 Who Needs A Gaming Chair When You Have A Folding Chair, Pillows, A Towel, And A Roll Of Tape?

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#83 Behold, My Friends Butt Razor!

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#84 Back In 2006 When We Lived In Thailand I Couldn’t Find A Guitar Hero Guitar For My Playstation 2 So I Hacked A Knock-Off Dualshock Controller And A Mosquito Zapper Into A DIY Guitar Hero Controller – Complete With A Mercury Switch For Star Power

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#85 Sun Blinds Were Not Bought, So They Built Their Own

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#86 Houma La, After Hurricane Ida

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#87 Not The Prettiest, But It Gets The Job Done!

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#88 USB In A Hotel Room

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#89 Farm Truck Boat On Water

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#90 Not Say I’m A Genius But

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#91 Behold, My Homemade Pontoon Boat

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#92 Floating Concession Stand Towed By A Jet Ski

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#93 Either Or

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#94 We’ve Already Thrown Out All Of Our Kitchen Without Realizing It’s Gonna Take 2 Weeks To Ship The Next One

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#95 Theft Protection

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#96 I Think This Belongs Here

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#97 Custom Body Work

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#98 I Mean…

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#99 I Present The Garden Multi Tool. Aka My 14 Year Old Is Learning To Weld…

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#100 Gotta Put That Pacific Northwest Heat To Good Use! Redneck Ingenuity!

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#101 My Brother’s Solution To A Bird That Wakes Him Up Every Morning

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#102 I Want To Steam Potatoes But Don’t Have The Rack

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#103 Hm

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#104 Redneck Engineering To Balance A Camper…

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#105 Saw This On A Highway In Missouri. I Think It’s An Old Truck Turned Into A Boat…?

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#106 Thought This Belonged Here

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#107 How My Husband Stirs Paint!

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#108 USB Power Bank

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#109 Apparently, Forceps Make Great Antenna Boosters

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#110 Mounted The Clock Boss. Vaccination Center, Bacau, Romania

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#111 If It Works, It’s Ok

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#112 My Buddy Needed A New Gaming Chair… He Sent Me This…

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#113 What In The Redneck Heck Is This…

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#114 Private Hospital, To Keep The TV At The Right Angle…

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#115 Hm

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