Answering questions without knowing details?

[path1]

Please help me understand...Maybe just me.

I do understand people posting questions that are vehicle specific. Posters leave out what model, brand or size out of their question.

But what I don't understand is how people can give answers without knowing more specifics.

Examples...
What oil should I run in my diesel?
I have duel axle trailer, what is the proper torque for lug nuts?
My weather stripping is bad, what type should I buy.
My awning is bad, how do I fix it?

How can anybody give a correct answer without knowing more details?

[2gypsies1]

Posts are like a book... you need to read every page to get the whole gist of the story. Sometimes things change midway and folks just look at the original title.

[doxiemom11]

Many times those details are in the original post. People don't always read them.

[RVER]

Some questions are generic and can be answered without specifics but the more information given the better the answer will be!!

[Tin_Pusher]

That's my answer, prove me wrong 🙂

[Cummins12V98]

My favorite is "Hey I just bought a XYZ what issues have you seen with this" WOW maybe a question like Hey I am thinking about buying a XYZ anything I should be aware of???

Another thing READ YOUR POSTS and ask your self does this make any sense BEFORE posting!

[jplante4]

tdst51 wrote:

downtheroad wrote:
I just ask my wife....she (thinks) she knows everything....:B

:B Come on, man! We married to the same woman?!?

I married Ms. Right. I just didn't realize that her first name is Always...

[happycamper002]

Agreed,

A good question is half answered.

Missing element of a question only raises more questions than answers. Technical questions for the most part do require definite answers.

Unlike illusions as in magic and voodoo, tech based questions have answers that are based on science or accepted norms...not by magic potions or smoke and mirrors.

[tdsxt51]

downtheroad wrote:
I just ask my wife....she (thinks) she knows everything....:B

:B Come on, man! We married to the same woman?!?

[2012Coleman]

TheLuvShack wrote:
If it takes a chicken and a half, a day and a half to lay an egg and a half. How long does it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
Chicken is a 3 year old Rhode Island Red.
Dill pickle is a big old kosher dill weighing 5.3 OZ.

A half a chicken? :h

[LarryJM]

DOUBLE POST

[LarryJM]

TheLuvShack wrote:
If it takes a chicken and a half, a day and a half to lay an egg and a half. How long does it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
Chicken is a 3 year old Rhode Island Red.
Dill pickle is a big old kosher dill weighing 5.3 OZ.

10 min you idiot :B everybody know that!!!!! Sheesh 😉

Now that age old light bulb question is still up for debate :E

Larry

[LarryJM]

gbopp wrote:
And, some just make it up as they go..... :B

Sadly I think that is more true than most folks think and it even worse that it's obviously from reading some of the answers the responder could care less if he's either making sense or really has an inkling that what he is saying is true or not:(

Larry

[slickest1]

Which came first? The Chicken or the Grasshopper!!

[TheLuvShack]

We may not know much about RVs, but now we do know our chickens!
Thanks DutchmenSport.