|
I'd rather have the 5 cylinder, but from what I can remember from when I was looking at 6 cylinder Volvos it should be fine. Isn't it basically a Ford Focus underneath that's been tweaked to Volvo specs? A tad bit expensive though maybe? For being NA prices.
|
#
?
May 3, 2024 13:00
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 18, 2024 22:46 |
|
|
Powershift posted:Torque pro shuts off powerstrokes when it tries to connect, although most regular code readers do too. I'm too dumb to understand this answer
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2024 15:10
|
|
|
Humphreys posted:I'm too dumb to understand this answer OBD scanner makes Ford diesel computer go wonky.
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2024 16:24
|
|
|
Grumbletron 4000 posted:Gonna go look at a 2011 Volvo S40 T5 tomorrow. $3200. Can anyone give a quick rundown of why this is a good/ bad idea?... FYI there's a Volvo thread and most goons there only read their sub'd threads so that's the best place to ask. That is a lot of miles, they're great cars and solid but you will be spending a lot on maintenance. Do a timing belt, a PCV/oil filter housing, a whole cooling system and both accessory belts as a baseline and be ready for some weird expensive stuff to break. They're reliable but they're not Camrys. They are mostly Focus parts but everything that isn't common to the focus or to all the other whiteblocks can be pricey, and there is a lot of it.
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2024 21:37
|
|
|
Turbo Fondant posted:be ready for some weird expensive stuff to break. for example, the ECU was replaced bc it kept time with a quartz crystal, like a watch, so ofc ours somehow cracked resulting in random codes being thrown as the canbus gradually fell out of sync. idk if this was revised in later models but it wasn’t a cheap fix. the internal clutch cylinder was showing signs of failure too, which is to be expected at that mileage, but some kids in a stolen kia mercifully sideswiped and totaled it out before that repair came due. though from what i understand the automatics are reliable and less costly to run. it also got disappointing mileage around town. iirc the turbocharger exhaust housing is part of the exhaust manifold versus other production T5 motors due to packaging issues, and that also concerned me but idk if it’s actually adds increased costs wrt repair/replacement. weve got fond memories of it though bc it was a seriously comfy, fast, and fun to drive car to drive. it just cost a lot to maintain, and we’ve found our ownership experience has been miles better in a base model of the recent gen mazda3
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2024 23:55
|
|
|
Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars https://www.newscientist.com/article/2429249-being-angry-for-just-8-minutes-could-increase-risk-of-a-heart-attack/
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 06:27
|
|
|
By that logic, I'm already dead.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 06:35
|
|
|
Yeah I think I died in 2010. I’m baseline angry, never mind the levels of ire induced by a stuck bolt or dropping a tiny screw inside the dashboard. Or, god forbid, a socket falling in the engine bay and not hitting the ground below. Hell I might be death himself based on anger alone.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 11:33
|
|
|
RIP IDB, thought of engine repair and died
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 13:16
|
|
|
Hey, anyone wanna see a straight 8?
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 13:47
|
|
|
kastein posted:Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars I am become death, destroyer of hearts
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 13:59
|
|
|
I've been on rifaximin (gut antibiotics) to try to help my IBS for about a week now. I thought I was tolerating it really well until last night when I pooped so bad that I almost passed out, but had to keep on pooping. I was in an awful cycle of laying on the bathroom floor to avoid blacking out and jumping back on the toilet for half an hour You know, I was looking at the bathrooms yesterday and thinking that I should clean them, but figured that I could do it today instead because I was tired 
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 14:23
|
|
|
The Door Frame posted:2024 AI Chat Thread: pooped so bad that I almost passed out, but had to keep on pooping but jokes aside I 100% empathize. I started getting mysterious IBS and painful, painful gut inflammation symptoms in my mid-20s that still haven’t been properly diagnosed. I’ve been endoscoped from both ends, put on various meds, and I still have to drop what I’m doing and find a toilet when it happens. Can’t even eat beef or pork or anything particularly fatty anymore (yes I’ve been tested for various protein and animal fat allergies) without expecting a bathroom emergency literally within the hour.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 14:57
|
|
|
kastein posted:Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars Lol I spend so much time arguing with health and insurance companies now, doesn't even need to involve cars anymore. Rip me.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 16:21
|
|
|
kastein posted:Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars They should do a study on the Geotechnical drilling industry. If you add up all the times I've been near frothing at the mouth over the last 21 years it probably a year straight.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 16:49
|
|
|
Good thing I don't work on cars too much anymore, these days my rage comes from just driving around and dealing with complete idiots on the road. The smartphone has hosed things up in so many ways but for driving it has to be the worst, the amount of people i see on their phones while driving is astonishing
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 17:19
|
|
|
kastein posted:Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars Fortunately for me, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. Applebees Appetizer posted:Good thing I don't work on cars too much anymore, these days my rage comes from just driving around and dealing with complete idiots on the road. Not just on their phones, but complete attention devoted to their phones, only being pulled away by rumble strips or a large thud.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 17:25
|
|
|
That's why I like living and riving here in the northern nowhere. Moose hardly ever use smartphones
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 17:25
|
|
|
kastein posted:Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars Hahahahahahahahaha how the gently caress am I even alive.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2024 17:32
|
|
|
     Helped drag this on the trailer on Friday, literally dragged on the trailer since the tire/rims my dad brought with had too small of a hub diameter. The 60s vintage tires were in rough shape. 
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2024 13:52
|
|
|
That looks like it's in great condition for its age. My dad used to tell me stories about how much he hated working on those things back in the 60s
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2024 14:16
|
|
|
Its pretty clean for a 1938, looks like two patches need to be welded in around the rear bumper and the surface rust underneath it needs treatment. There are a lot of seized controls and a some dents here and there but its complete with less than 40k miles on it. I wanted to pull the valve cover but ran out of time, there was a lot to do yesterday before the thunderstorms came through.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2024 15:03
|
|
|
Saw some cars today at a local show and then made pizza in the garden. A good Sunday all in all      Love the spare tyre placement here 
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2024 17:10
|
|
|
kastein posted:Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars nah, it'll be my liver.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2024 17:32
|
|
|
My guy 
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2024 22:01
|
|
|
Take my motorcycle out for a ride yesterday (minty Kawasaki ZG1400 Concours) to the grocery store. Get inside, start my shopping and about 2 minutes later a customer comes up to me  "Hey, is that your motorcycle across the street?"  "Yes, its probably mine.""Well, it's laying on its side" "Oh crap, did some one hit it?" "I don't think so."gently caress. Go outside, indeed it's laying on its side. Plastic bits smashed forming a perimeter of around 15-20 feet. That said, as I get out an older lady about 70 years old gets out of the car in front of it, holding her insurance info and obviously nervous. She just says "I didn't see it when I was backing up" (it is a big bike and it was parked perpendicular to the curb, she just didn't pay attention). But, as soon as I saw her I pictured my mom and I just wanted to calm her down. I thanked her for sticking around as I thought it was going to be a H&R. I probably looked like a piece of work as I wearing my bike gear but also just returned from competing in a martial arts tournament and I am presently sporting a pretty nice subconjunctival hemorrhage, so the white of my right eye looks blood red and a couple days of beard growth. Got her insurance and license info and she didn't have a pen or her cell to take any pictures of my stuff so I told her I'd stop by her house (small town 10K people) and I'd get it to her. I kept trying to calm her as she was so nervous and I asked "Do I seem upset to you?" And she replies no, so I say "Then if I'm not upset, you shouldn't be more upset than me. We'll deal with this. That's what your insurance is for." And she seemed to calm down a bit. I think there is a 50/50 that her insurance company will try to write my bike off as its 14 years old and low mileage, but the tupperware and bodywork is expensive. But I couldn't be mad at her as she tried to do the right thing and didn't bolt. gently caress my life.
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 14:13
|
|
|
“Oh no, here comes this dangerous biker to Mad Max me”
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 14:20
|
|
|
It's a classic move. You see a car in great shape, with trim or other oddball parts that's hard to find but needed for your lot full of restoration projects. Remove the part, then smash into the car with the runabout and act confused and old. Geico covers their car, your shitbox is just a shitbox. Then you sell the restored cars at auction, and retire at 55. Bing bong simple.
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 14:37
|
|
|
slidebite posted:But, as soon as I saw her I pictured my mom and I just wanted to calm her down. You're a good person.
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 15:45
|
|
|
meltie posted:You're a good person. This. People make mistakes. 
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 16:13
|
|
|
slidebite posted:gently caress my life. It's just a motorcycle dude
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 17:30
|
|
|
I definitely would have gone off at her for not paying attention. Like yeah nobody got hurt but the amount of hassle it causes you because she couldn't be arsed to just look is.... gently caress off.
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 17:49
|
|
|
I hope my bike gets totaled by someone insured without any injuries. I'll buy it back and make a sweet table or something out of the engine. I like it too much to get rid of it but I really should get rid of it.
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 20:06
|
|
|
Olympic Mathlete posted:I definitely would have gone off at her for not paying attention. Like yeah nobody got hurt but the amount of hassle it causes you because she couldn't be arsed to just look is.... gently caress off. You would have gone off on a 70 yr old lady that was apologetic and clearly upset about it? Lol geez.
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 20:39
|
|
|
As long as I am made whole (which really is a question) is going to be the big thing here. If it is written off and the buy out is cheap enough I might try to buy it back but we'll see. I really don't ride it much anymore, especially now that I have the 996 so it definitely takes the back seat as my nice weather vehicle. Will cross that bridge when I have an idea of whats going on. I guess I had the right to be pissed off, but it would have gained me nothing at that point and I probably would have felt worse by yelling at some old lady that was already stressed. The damage was done. She was nice enough, owed up to it and didn't try some bullshit like somehow trying to blame it on me. She did what she could in the circumstances. meltie posted:You're a good person. I hope so.Applebees Appetizer posted:It's just a motorcycle dude It was just a lovely weekend. Working with about 3 hours of sleep for the previous 2 days, including a half day of competition sparring in between them and 6 hours of highway driving. I was exhausted and I basically felt like that Ben Affleck meme afterwards. All I wanted was to buy some lettuce and hamburger buns for a simple dinner and not open up some new ordeal that I have to deal with. e: this was me 
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 20:41
|
|
|
slidebite posted:LOL I think you're being sarcastic buy yeah, it is and why I wasn't mad. The gently caress my life was just the weekend in general Yeah I was being sarcastic but I get it, lovely weekend topped off by that would be the "of course" moment At least you didn't take it out on the old lady tho lol
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2024 20:52
|
|
|
slidebite posted:As long as I am made whole (which really is a question) is going to be the big thing here. Fingers crossed on that one.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2024 00:17
|
|
|
FWIW, spoke to my insurance company today and it sounds like the old lady was good to her word and her insurance has accepted 100% liability. I basically just now have to get it to the dealer for an estimate. I give it a 50/50 it's a write off. Basically all the plastics on one side of the bike plus the front fender are damaged plus the bag on the other side. The bags going to be about $1000+ ea alone. Happier times  
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2024 20:20
|
|
|
Oh cool a Concourse. My brother has one from the 80's it's mint. But also very fragile
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2024 20:29
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 18, 2024 22:46 |
|
|
slidebite posted:
That sucks. I will say though that the best measure of a person is how they act when things aren't going well. To be in that situation, step back, and choose to be decent speaks highly of your character.
|
|
#
?
May 7, 2024 23:33
|
|
