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Then I strongly suggest you never come to this side of the Atlantic in spring or summer. Limit on single carriageways is fifty. On a motorway or dual carriageway, it's sixty. You occasionally forget and find yourself doing more, or put on a spurt to pass someone. Speed cameras aren't able to differentiate that you're towing, so if there's no actual police around, sitting at seventy or so isn't really an issue.
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Typically Australians don't even call them hitches - They are tow-bars. In fact, first car I ever spun around was the NC Ford Fairlane we used to pull around a four horse trailer with. It used to be very common to see cars suffering from what was locally known as 'saggy bottom syndrome' but ours had self-leveling rear suspension.  meanwhile, is this factory or aftermarket?  Either way it is terrible. tobu fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Oct 12, 2012 |
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Oct 12, 2012 22:38
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tobu posted:Typically Australians don't even call them hitches - They are tow-bars. In fact, first car I ever spun around was the NC Ford Fairlane we used to pull around a four horse trailer with. Stock. E46 compact.
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Oct 12, 2012 22:46
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Powershift posted:Not only that, but speed is a massive factor in towing, and most European countries limit cars towing trailers to FIFTY miles per hour. it's scary enough seeing inexperienced drivers try to hold on to hold onto small pickups towing trailers at 65mph, let alone a loving passat. I'd much rather tow with a decent Passat than a small pickup truck (which means an older one as all the new models are giant) Except for the whole VW transmission exploding thing.
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davebo posted:I sure don't in the D.C. area, but I'm curious about Australia. When I do see cars with hitches they're often aftermarket ones installed below the rear bumper, but I notice that Falcon has it tastefully done below the bumper but above the rear body kit. If they're so common there, do pretty much all dealers just have them as factory options or is it usually after market hitches? Almost every car maker offers a factory tow bar. The large cars (Falcons and Commodores) are designed to have heavyweight towbars and have bumper cutouts and underbody mount points ready to go. Imported cars usually get a Haymen Reece of varying capacity marked as a factory kit. Big cars like my Caprice that have the heavyweight tow bars have a Haymen Reece tow bar that is rebranded Holden. Mine has a tow limit of 2300kg or in South Australia 2700 kgs. Apart from the mind blowing ability to drink fuel when climbing it'll handle that kind of weight quite well. Chewing 5 litres of fuel to climb Victoria Pass gets old pretty quick tho. Last event towing to, the car drained the 80 litre tank in 240 kms.
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Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAfZ1N56qjY&t=14s
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Cat Terrist posted:Almost every car maker offers a factory tow bar. The large cars (Falcons and Commodores) are designed to have heavyweight towbars and have bumper cutouts and underbody mount points ready to go. Imported cars usually get a Haymen Reece of varying capacity marked as a factory kit. Yup. My VE Commodore came with a Holden-branded Hayman Reese 50mm hitch receiver bar rated to 2100kg (or 4600lb) braked. I'm fairly sure the tongue type tow bars are only rated to 1600kg, but the hitch receiver bars are far more common. There is a removable square panel moulded into the middle of the bumper insert that can be taken out for a towbar. I'm moving from Melbourne to Perth in 4 months, towing an 8x5 box trailer, so it should be interesting to see what difference that makes to my fuel consumption.
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This particular Baton Rouge Lowe's is rife with great parking.   Guy was also wearing a wolf howling at the moon shirt so not sure if this thread or awesome. 
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It's a V6, so it's "COS I GOT" lots of sticky tat from Halfords?
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So this is a thing I saw today in a parking lot.  In case you were wondering, yes, the Smart logo is still on the steering wheel behind the smoked glass but I couldn't get a picture of it due to said smoked glass.
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Kenshin posted:So this is a thing I saw today in a parking lot. Haha, I think that looks kinda cool. I'm a bad person, aren't I? 
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HairyNipple! posted:Haha, I think that looks kinda cool. I'm a bad person, aren't I? Naw, I think it's okay too.
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Das Volk posted:It's a V6, so it's "COS I GOT" lots of sticky tat from Halfords? Going to Jail "COS I GOT" caught selling coke.
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Octopus Magic posted:Naw, I think it's okay too. It would be forgiven if it were a Brabus, but as it is...
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This lady has been driving around my town for the last week or so. The only damage seems to be the bonnet but how it doesn't fly open is anyone's guess. I bet she will continue to drive around like this until the police catch her.
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tobu posted:This lady has been driving around my town for the last week or so. The only damage seems to be the bonnet but how it doesn't fly open is anyone's guess.
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mobby_6kl posted:It would be forgiven if it were a Brabus, but as it is... There is nothing forgivable about a Brabus Smart.
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Bang Me Please posted:how the hell does a person damage nothing but the hood like that? Maybe it got backed into by something high riding with a towbar?
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Bang Me Please posted:how the hell does a person damage nothing but the hood like that? Your mum sitting on it
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You Am I posted:Your mum sitting on it  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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You Am I posted:Your mum sitting on it Nope, struts aren't blown.
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^^^ this is good.Bang Me Please posted:how the hell does a person damage nothing but the hood like that? Other than it rolling into a garage/car port/tree limb with the bonnet (hood  ) up, I'm out of ideas.
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tobu posted:This lady has been driving around my town for the last week or so. The only damage seems to be the bonnet but how it doesn't fly open is anyone's guess. Luv ya Queensland. Where exactly was this taken?
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If red is sport, yellow is ceramic, is pink  ? Honda Civic with pink calipers, drums, and steering wheel emblem. tobu posted:This lady has been driving around my town for the last week or so. The only damage seems to be the bonnet but how it doesn't fly open is anyone's guess.
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psychoticmeow posted:Luv ya Queensland. North Ward is Townsville.
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That Yaplakal site is a gold mine. That one guy who fixed up that rolled SUV was something, but this dude.... This dude does this to his A3  Spends some time in a junk yard...    He admits this particular job was a little rushed.  Anyway time for paint, he chose to mix every paint in the shop  The result he called, "sky before a storm"  Bam  All thats left is to put it for sale online.  And make a thread about some of the little details in the cars history he forgot to mention in his ad after the car was sold. http://www.yaplakal.com/forum11/topic236705.html Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Oct 15, 2012 |
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Paul Boz_ posted:This particular Baton Rouge Lowe's is rife with great parking. I received one of the best notes in my life outside of a Kmart parking lot from a car diagonally parked. The rear end in a top hat parked in three spaces up near the front. So I parked on top of him, boxing his drivers side door in. I took a quick picture of his license plate and parking job for "if the enraged new owner of a Camaro attacks" and went it. It was like a five paragraph rant on the back of a McDonald's receipt. It was awesome.
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Misplaced Yankee posted:I received one of the best notes in my life outside of a Kmart parking lot from a car diagonally parked. The rear end in a top hat parked in three spaces up near the front. So I parked on top of him, boxing his drivers side door in. I took a quick picture of his license plate and parking job for "if the enraged new owner of a Camaro attacks" and went it. It was like a five paragraph rant on the back of a McDonald's receipt. It was awesome. You said you took a pic and there is no pic in this post what is wrong with you 
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Found while getting groceries this morning, on a nearly completely bedlinered 4Runner:
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conservatives.jpg "God said it was okay for me to bang your girlfriend."
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Misplaced Yankee posted:I received one of the best notes in my life outside of a Kmart parking lot from a car diagonally parked. The rear end in a top hat parked in three spaces up near the front. So I parked on top of him, boxing his drivers side door in. I took a quick picture of his license plate and parking job for "if the enraged new owner of a Camaro attacks" and went it. It was like a five paragraph rant on the back of a McDonald's receipt. It was awesome. The exact same idea went through my head when i saw those pics. Park correctly in a spot, with the front left corner of your car ~2cm from their driver's side door. Kudos for actually doing it, and I'd love to see some pictures.
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KozmoNaut posted:The exact same idea went through my head when i saw those pics. Park correctly in a spot, with the front left corner of your car ~2cm from their driver's side door. If you really wanted to be a dick, you call a friend, and park in front of and behind them.
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Is that 4Runner painted in bed liner?
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IOwnCalculus posted:Found while getting groceries this morning, on a nearly completely bedlinered 4Runner: ijustam posted:Is that 4Runner painted in bed liner? I don't think so.  
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ijustam posted:Is that 4Runner painted in bed liner? IOwnCalculus posted:...on a nearly completely bedlinered 4Runner  e;fb, and what the holy gently caress is going on with that FB?
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Rednecks from the shallow end of the gene pool will attach ANYTHING to a truck frame to make a "mud truck". Usually with a carbed 350 with fave hunnert horsepowah in between.
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Misplaced Yankee posted:I received one of the best notes in my life outside of a Kmart parking lot from a car diagonally parked. The rear end in a top hat parked in three spaces up near the front. So I parked on top of him, boxing his drivers side door in. I took a quick picture of his license plate and parking job for "if the enraged new owner of a Camaro attacks" and went it. It was like a five paragraph rant on the back of a McDonald's receipt. It was awesome. I used to pull this all the time when I rode my motorcycle all the time with people that would take up two spots. Amazingly I never had it pushed over.
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kastein posted:I don't think so. It must be awesome to have the mentality of a 3rd grader your whole life of what you think is "cool" (I drew a lot of sports car + monster truck combinations as a child) Octopus Magic fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Oct 15, 2012 |
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kastein posted:I don't think so. Gonna be so awesome when a couple of the rear mounts let go.
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