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Oh god  http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1099844 Friend's XJ got butchered by a retard running an "offroad shop". He's currently trying to figure out what to do about it, current demand is that they return $1000 of his deposit money and all his aftermarket parts, leaving them with the hillbilly-fabbed shell and part of his deposit. I think that's being too generous, but he kinda just wants to get out of it and move on with his life.
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netwerk23 posted:The problem with them is that they can only serve one person at a time, and that person will now spend 4x as long picking a drink. The normal dispensers can at least have more than one cup going at once and it's very easy to pick your drink. I like the idea (although I hate the touchscreen that has no feedback) but there's always a line now. That, and the fact that while you're waiting for the fizz in your cup to settle before you top it off, the menu resets itself so you have to choose your drink all over again if you want to add more. Not to mention how much the touchscreens suck.
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kastein posted:Oh god Jesus. I'd vote for shooting it and putting it out of its misery. I don't know poo poo about correct 4x4 setups but even I can see why half of that poo poo would fail instantly like welding that shock straight to the axle...
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kastein posted:Oh god I totally understand where he's coming from about getting out of that mess, especially when he pointed out what they've done to the unibody. Holy hell.
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Shocks don't appear to be welded straight to the axle, but now that you say that, the front shocks are mounted to this incredibly hack bracket welded to the side of the lower control arm. Not only is the mounting bolt essentially in single shear (since there's almost nothing supporting the outer end of it, just some bent 1/4 plate and a few tack welds) it will rotate the control arm against the limit of the heim joints, wearing them out prematurely, as well as wearing out the shock bushings extremely quickly and introducing some very strange handling characteristics from the small zone of almost undamped suspension travel caused by the rotation of the control arm. And yeah, no matter what, that chassis is junk with what they've done to it. It's just a matter of who ends up with how much money and parts at this point.
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Sorry I meant the lower link. I don't know why I wrote axle. Seems like as soon as it articulates up (not that this thing should ever be allowed to) it's going to give somewhere. Especially with that weird rear end inboard spring setup.
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kastein posted:Friend's XJ got butchered by a retard running an "offroad shop". drat is a understatement. However, it does make we wonder what the work at your average  shop looks like.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22449442 What's that, Skippy? The dibble can just, like read things you wrote on a public forum? 
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I took this photo of either the most or least self-aware Volkswagen in the Safeway parking lot. Click for a better look at the stickers, the "ubercool" license plate, and the lovely "fog lights" that look like track lighting fixtures.  My favorite is either the atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 01:19 on May 9, 2013 |
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May 9, 2013 01:15
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I hate that shocker sticker so loving much.
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I'm glad rage faces and internet meme bullshit finally found its way into vw-ricer circles, it lets me think they are idiots for more than one reason at a time.
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atomicthumbs posted:I took this photo of either the most or least self-aware Volkswagen in the Safeway parking lot. Click for a better look at the stickers, the "ubercool" license plate, and the lovely "fog lights" that look like track lighting fixtures. Wrong thread -- gotta be trollin'. TWO shoshinsha decals on a German car? Come on, buddy. That ain't no Honda.
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enojy posted:Wrong thread -- gotta be trollin'. TWO shoshinsha decals on a German car? Come on, buddy. That ain't no Honda. You'd think that...but no. Jettas have become the new Honda, go to any local college, they are being picked up by a lot of ricers lately, especially as the A4 is becomming an older and cheaper car.
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If I ever own a Lamborghini, I'd troll the piss out of people with a horrible wrap similar to that. The wailing and gnashing of teeth, indeed.
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May 9, 2013 02:48
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  Who the gently caress rattlecans an Audi?
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your rattlecan is their ~custom matte finish~
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ctishman posted:
I'd wager that's plastidip. The B6/B7/B8 forums on Audizine are currently spraying everything they can with plastidip.
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Speaking of lovely stickers: The gently caress is wrong with people?
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When you can buy a $1800 B5 A4 1.8T Quattro, worse sins than Audi's emerge.
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Devyl posted:If I ever own a Lamborghini, I'd troll the piss out of people with a horrible wrap similar to that. The wailing and gnashing of teeth, indeed. I actually like the wrap and the rest of the look but the motorcycle slipons are a bit too much
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Speaking of lovely stickers: Why would you put that on your car? Why?
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Octopus Magic posted:Why would you put that on your car? Why? I imagine a mentality of "HEH vagina joke LOL my buddies are gonna LOVE THIS poo poo". Consider the target market. Also I have a serious boner for matte finishes, so I don't hate that Audi as much as I probably should. I also haven't seen nearly as many slammed/stanced VW Golfs in the Seattle area with shocker stickers lately as I used to. Jesus, a few years ago, 9 out of 10 Golfs I saw had gigantic shockers in the back window.
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Octopus Magic posted:Why would you put that on your car? Why? As the mighty car mods would say... "For mad street cred man!"
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Code Jockey posted:I imagine a mentality of "HEH vagina joke LOL my buddies are gonna LOVE THIS poo poo". Consider the target market. The misogynistic manchildren who buy that poo poo are often the same people posting in MRA on Reddit, so I'm not hugely surprised.
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atomicthumbs posted:I took this photo of either the most or least self-aware Volkswagen in the Safeway parking lot. Click for a better look at the stickers, the "ubercool" license plate, and the lovely "fog lights" that look like track lighting fixtures. BUILT NOT BOUGHT. (There are two shocker stickers on the back of that poo poo jetta.)
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G-Mach posted:BUILT NOT BOUGHT. That one is one of my biggest hates. Especially when you see it on a bare-stock car with maybe a new set of wheels on it. What part of that did you build, exactly? I saw a completely standard Focus yesterday with a sticker saying 'NOT BUILT ON BENEFITS'. And again, I had to wonder... what of it was built? Unless there's some mental 4WD V8 conversion underneath or something, in which case, fair play.
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May 9, 2013 10:04
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What if I paid someone to install the components competently? What slogan fits my needs 
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Pizza delivery bloke near me had a Passat with a "built in Germany, perfected in Stoke" sticker on it. Lowered, stanced, big exhaust with sooty marks all up the bumper, stickers, hidz, illegal tint, poo poo bodykit, It fell apart quickly and was replaced by a Prius. Stoke's idea of perfection doesn't agree with mine.
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Wasabi the J posted:What if I paid someone to install the components competently? What slogan fits my needs  Contracted, not transacted
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joat mon posted:
Fabricated, not desecrated.
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VolumeOverTalent posted:I saw a completely standard Focus yesterday with a sticker saying 'NOT BUILT ON BENEFITS'. And again, I had to wonder... what of it was built? Unless there's some mental 4WD V8 conversion underneath or something, in which case, fair play. This actually sounds more like some  anti welfare poo poo to me.
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Previa_fun posted:This actually sounds more like some I was thinking it refers to the (wrong) rumor that was going around that Ford took no government money.
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Nah, it's nothing that clever, I fear. It literally means that whatever it was that was 'built' on the car, it was done with his own money, rather than spending his dole money on it. I just find it stupid to see that sort of sticker on a bog-standard car with nothing visibly done to it.
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VolumeOverTalent posted:
A reference to the GM bailout? Ford did sell a V8 RWD conversion kit for the 1st generation Focus, actually. It wasn't a big seller at about $20k (plus car).
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Speaking of lovely stickers: Anyone who appreciates this decal is like a vagina
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enojy posted:Anyone who appreciates this decal is like a vagina Full of centipedes?
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ctishman posted:
Oh c'mon at LEAST rattle can it in the Audi Sport colors: Red, Grey, Black. I mean, that is what I want to do. Straight Black is so Honda Ricer
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