Hopefully this message will end up in the original topic, where there was an outbreak of flaming. Someone took offense at someone else asking a relatively easily answered question.
Why would someone participate in a site, presumably to share their knowledge, and then insult those who know less? If you think someone is being lazy for not further researching something by themselves, then save everyone some stress by simply not answering.
I mean, if people want to get into fights over such a trivial matter (an easy question about a car part on an Internet site) with such an easy solution, then it's no wonder people have larger problems getting along.
Maybe the person thought they were being proactive by posting their question. Indeed, had my wife posted the question about the timing belt, I would have been impressed!
None of us were born knowing how to tear down an engine; or about manuals, for that matter. Everyone is somewhere on a scale of knowing any particular subject. Should the people who rebuild transmissions insult those who don't go beyond doing their own tuneups? Maybe the person who asked about the belt knows more about lots of other subjects than the person who objected to them asking.
What if you went into a library and asked the librarian for information about something. In response, the librarian jumps up and shouts for everyone to hear: "You IDIOT. You don't know THAT?" How useful would libraries be if that happened?
The Internet is a fabulous resource for sharing knowledge. Boorish, bullying behaviour (such as spamming and flaming) not only wastes bandwidth, but also destroys a lot of that value, with no benefit to anyone.
Those who come to the Internet for the purpose of trading insults should create sites dedicated to that sport where they can pit their skills against others who want to play those games.