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Any idea what I'm looking at here? I'm not sure if it's a *thing* or just massive frame damage. edit: or both 
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Oct 17, 2013 15:34
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Guinness posted:I and my friend group are all mid 20s to early 30s city dwellers, and it's funny how some of my friends who were once vehemently anti-car-ownership changed their stance once they finally found some "real" jobs and could afford one. The unfortunate thing is that it took some of them several years out of school to get anything resembling a "real" job despite their best efforts. MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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Oct 17, 2013 15:38
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bisticles posted:Any idea what I'm looking at here? I'm not sure if it's a *thing* or just massive frame damage. He has a dump box installed. The filler neck is attached to the frame of the truck and no longer to the box so he has to lift the box to fuel it up
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Oct 17, 2013 15:51
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Powershift posted:He has a dump box installed. The filler neck is attached to the frame of the truck and no longer to the box so he has to lift the box to fuel it up ahh... well I'll be. Thanks.
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Oct 17, 2013 16:23
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One of the Wheeler Dealers episodes shows a DeLorean bodywork specialist working.
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Oct 17, 2013 16:43
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I did the math on public transit and it would cost me almost double what I spend in fuel on a monthly basis to bus/train to work. Along with that, I would have to deal with walking to the bus stop in the snow and cold rear end winter bullshit we get here, ride to the park and ride, take a bus to the closest train station, take that train to the station another 1/2 mile from where I work and then walk in. All in all it would take me about 2-3 times as long and cost 2x as much to not drive to work. Now I guess I could sell my car and stop paying insurance, but then how do I get to the mountains on the weekend when I want to snowboard?
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Oct 17, 2013 16:57
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Throatwarbler posted:Excessive government regulation once again strangles economic growth and job creation Pulling out of all markets other than the US and Canada and cutting their product lines down to nothing but trucks in order to keep more of their profit margins is economic growth and will create jobs?
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Oct 17, 2013 17:12
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EightBit posted:This is not getting the love it deserves. Neptr posted:Reminds me of the F-350 Super Duty King Ranch I saw blasting down the highway last Sunday. F-350...what's that badge there on the side?  POLICE INTERCEPTOR  What about this other F-350?  Whoo, boy! A KING RANCH Police Interceptor!  What, exactly, they're going to intercept?  \/\/\/\/ little known  Use 'Amount' for things you can't count, like water. Use 'Number' for things you can count, like cities. \/\/\/
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Oct 17, 2013 17:15
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veedubfreak posted:I did the math on public transit and it would cost me almost double what I spend in fuel on a monthly basis to bus/train to work. Along with that, I would have to deal with walking to the bus stop in the snow and cold rear end winter bullshit we get here, ride to the park and ride, take a bus to the closest train station, take that train to the station another 1/2 mile from where I work and then walk in. All in all it would take me about 2-3 times as long and cost 2x as much to not drive to work. Now I guess I could sell my car and stop paying insurance, but then how do I get to the mountains on the weekend when I want to snowboard? Congrats on living somewhere that is in the middle of nowhere, and working in the middle of nowhere, I guess? The vast amount of cities that were built prior to the expansion of the automobile make it very expensive/difficult to own a car.
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Oct 17, 2013 17:34
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Pulling out of all markets other than the US and Canada and cutting their product lines down to nothing but trucks in order to keep more of their profit margins is economic growth and will create jobs? He was being sarcastic. 
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Oct 17, 2013 17:39
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Octopus Magic posted:Congrats on living somewhere that is in the middle of nowhere, and working in the middle of nowhere, I guess? Spoken like someone who's never been to one of the many large metro cities with urban sprawl problems.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Spoken like someone who's never been to one of the many large metro cities with urban sprawl problems. Drive: 12 miles, 18 minutes Bus: 3 buses, 1h 32m. Later, I worked for AlliedSignal (Honeywell) Drive: 15 miles, 21 minutes. Bus: 3 buses, 1h 34m I'm fortunate now, in that I work at the airport, Denver has comparatively good Public Transportation, and there are lots of buses that go to the Airport. It still would take me twice as long to commute 22 miles as it takes me to drive.
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Kenny Rogers posted:Exactly. When I lived in Arizona, I lived on Center Street in Mesa, and worked at the SRP building off the 202. Sounds about right. I live 7 miles from work in Phoenix metro and it would take me 3 buses and 75 minutes to get to work. If there's any traffic a round trip would be three hours. A day. Visit family in Houston? Better rent a car. Fly to San Antonio for business? Have a car because lol bus there. Went to Atlanta for some training and if you weren't in literal down town or the air port you were hosed (although the tram thing was neat if a little limiting, still had to walk 1.5 miles to the hotel). Finally saw one of these stupid COD Jeeps in the wild. 
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Oct 17, 2013 18:18
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Kenny Rogers posted:I agree. That's a reason to buy a Miata, right there. I'm dying to see these photos but they don't work!
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Kenny Rogers posted:Exactly. When I lived in Arizona, I lived on Center Street in Mesa, and worked at the SRP building off the 202. MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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Oct 17, 2013 18:23
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Spoken like someone who's never been to one of the many large metro cities with urban sprawl problems. But that was exactly my point in the second sentence?
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Octopus Magic posted:But that was exactly my point in the second sentence? Urban sprawl is a very prevalent problem that exists from coast to coast. That makes your second statement hard to take seriously, especially if you travel frequently and get to experience it first hand.
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Oct 17, 2013 19:08
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Urban sprawl is a very prevalent problem that exists from coast to coast. That makes your second statement hard to take seriously, especially if you travel frequently and get to experience it first hand. The vast amount of cities that were built prior to the expansion of the automobile make it very expensive/difficult to own a car. I bolded the important part. Or perhaps you've never tried to own a vehicle in NYC/Boston/Philly/Chicago
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Oct 17, 2013 19:14
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StormDrain posted:I'm dying to see these photos but they don't work! e: Fixt Kenny Rogers fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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Oct 17, 2013 19:25
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meh, not worth the derail This thread needs more CR-V's with fart cannons. 
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Oct 17, 2013 19:36
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I ride the bus to work, but I couldn't do it without a car because I have to take my kid to daycare and then get to the park and ride. If I had to bike/walk to get to the bus it would take me like 2 hours to get to work.
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Oct 17, 2013 20:37
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Kenny Rogers posted:Exactly. When I lived in Arizona, I lived on Center Street in Mesa, and worked at the SRP building off the 202. Funny you mention the airport. I live on tower just north of i-70 and drive to the Tech Center every day. 19 mile drive takes 20-30 minutes depending on how many stupid fucks have driven into each other on 225. At least the light rail will be coming out all the way to the Airport pretty soon. Although it'll still cost me more for the lightrail than fuel because of the way Denver does the fair rates.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Sounds about right. I live 7 miles from work in Phoenix metro and it would take me 3 buses and 75 minutes to get to work. At one point, I lived 1.8 miles from work. I even lived on the same street as my employer (Preston, for DFW goons). Walking took about 35-40 minutes. To get there by bus, it would have been about 2 hours each way. Why? my employer was in Plano, I was (barely) in Dallas. I'd have to take a bus (southbound) to a transit center in Addison, then switch to a bus heading to Plano (northbound). And I'd still be walking about 15 minutes on top of that. fake edit: I just looked at DART's route planner, they've since added a bus that would... take me across 190 to Plano, then I'd still have to get off and walk 1.2 miles. What's the point of that? 
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veedubfreak posted:Funny you mention the airport. I live on tower just north of i-70 and drive to the Tech Center every day. 19 mile drive takes 20-30 minutes depending on how many stupid fucks have driven into each other on 225. At least the light rail will be coming out all the way to the Airport pretty soon. Although it'll still cost me more for the lightrail than fuel because of the way Denver does the fair rates. Dipping back into my bag of On Topic post material... I wish I'd been able to get better pictures of this. It's a non-turbo 2G DSM that had some sort of plastic cup taped into a hole cut in the hood, mismatched rims, and gigantic fartcan.  Click for an *enormous* view of my nose (until you scroll over to see the intake).   STANZALONE still takes the cake in my Terrible Car Stuff folder, however.
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Surprisingly, despite the fact that I live 45 minutes north of Boston, the train ride from a nearby station to one near where I work takes half as long as driving there. Once I got there however I'd have 1.3 miles left to get to work, which would either take me (according to google maps) 25 minutes to walk, or 7 minutes to bike. I can take a bike on the train, and added to the 1 minute from my house to the train station on a bike it would only take me 20 minutes to get to work by bike and train, while it takes about 22-25 minutes by car. However, that doesn't factor in leaving time to make sure I don't miss the train and the problems with bad weather. It also doesn't factor in that since I live in a pretty rural area, I can't get anywhere without a car and the train tickets would cost more than the gas to do the drive. Nor does it take into account the fact that the earliest train would make me 40 minutes late to work, and I'd have to wait an hour for the train at the end of the day. I'd probably be in better shape though. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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Oct 18, 2013 01:55
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Maker Of Shoes posted:
I'll bet around 97% of those Jeeps won't see anything rougher than a pothole or wet/icy road.
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I hate the stupid COD jeep idea, but I can't really complain too much because it's a silly appearance package, as such it has pumped up the pool of available project jeeps to be purchased in good condition for reasonable prices in 10 years and turned into actual fun offroad vehicles. Think of it as a gift to future broke jeep AIers, funded by dumb xbox gamers with daddy's money.
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kastein posted:Think of it as a gift to future broke jeep AIers, funded by dumb xbox gamers with daddy's money. I think not. http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/23/new-study-compares-360-ps3-consumers/ http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2013.pdf http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp Joystiq from 2008 posted:Most interesting amongst the somewhat sparse research points was the age breakdown of console owners. Experian pegs Xbox 360 owners at being within the average age range of 35-44, while placing PS3 users as being over 44 on average. Other than age, the report shows that both 360 and PS3 owners share similar interests (board games, go-carting), and both reportedly watch less television than non-gamers polled (um, probably because they're playing games instead). The Entertainment Software Association from 2013 posted:* The average gamer is 30. COD has 40 million users, which means (roughly) 15 million of them are in their mid-to-late 30's, and can buy their own drat COD and Kenny Rogers fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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Kenny Rogers posted:Daddy's money? You sure put a hell of a lot of effort into proving me wrong on a single off the cuff comment, I think that might be the first time someone's posted an entire screen worth of stats and links over 6 words I wrote. I don't honestly care that much, either way, the vast majority of them will probably never do anything more challenging than a dirt road or a little snow with their jeep and that means well kept, barely used project vehicles hitting craigslist a decade later. Horrible poo poo:  More hacked up hillbilly horseshit by the same owner/"fabricator":  Guy got all mouthy and threatened to pull people's jeeps apart in a tug of war when told his "builds" were hillbilly hackjob bullshit that could be expected to explode if he did anything except play in mud puddles.
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Oil changes look easy at least. 
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Kenny Rogers posted:Daddy's money? So how's you're call of duty jeep ? Haha.
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kastein posted:You sure put a hell of a lot of effort into proving me wrong on a single off the cuff comment, I think that might be the first time someone's posted an entire screen worth of stats and links over 6 words I wrote. I don't honestly care that much, either way, the vast majority of them will probably never do anything more challenging than a dirt road or a little snow with their jeep and that means well kept, barely used project vehicles hitting craigslist a decade later. You sound really angry about people offroading in "hacked up" vehicles. I also can't find whats wrong with either of those.
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`Nemesis posted:Oil changes look easy at least. Look at that rear axle setup. drat, son.
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Slavvy posted:Look at that rear axle setup. drat, son. I was looking more at the red puddle by the window. Kinda freaking me out.
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Chinatown posted:You sound really angry about people offroading in "hacked up" vehicles. I am, because they plug up the fuckin' trail with their busted poo poo and usually spend time propagating bad info to people who don't know any better. The first one has 10-12 inches of lift to clear 35s, you can clear 35s on 4-5 inches of lift, and he's got the worst, least reliable radius arm kit available on there. And stock steering links at such a ridiculous height that I'd be shocked if it has less than a quarter turn of play in the wheel and will actually turn without the tie rod ends binding up completely if the right front wheel is up and the left front is down. You can see how close to maxed out the TRE on the right steering knuckle is. e: ahahah I just noticed something else, he's running a stock tie rod with a locked front diff, 10" of lift, and giant tires. For reference I have bent those badly screwing around in a snowy parking lot in a stock cherokee... and put a significant bend in one by laying it on the ground in my yard and jumping on the middle of it. They are spaghetti-stiff and have no place on any upgraded cherokee. The second is weak stock drivetrain/suspension parts turning tires way too large for it, hackjob frontend work, and general redneck bullshit. Plus if someone's got two or more steering stabilizers on their rig you can almost guarantee they are either bad at cars or made the mistake of listening to someone who is bad at cars when they planned their build. Also, he writes posts like this, so you know he's a winner: xj_redneck posted:My so called hacked up mud truck has gone as as far as and farther then any jeep around here typical jeep ***s, believe any other vehicle besides there amazing ****ed up heep is just a hack job. But when asked to hook chains jeep ***s just say "jeeps arent ment for that poo poo." If jeeps are great and can do anything better then a "hacked up mud truck" then hook the POS jeep you own with its awesome ability to out do anything a truck can do to my "hacked up mud truck" so i can tear if half. Wouldnt be the first time i rip an axle out, stap your drive shaft in half and and kink a unibody, watch your motor shoot sparks and chunks fall out the bottom, see a trany hanging in pieces under a jeep because they talk all big and bad bout there ****ing heep like a jeep *** does and then watches fall apart by the "hacked up mud truck" yanking there chain. All misspellings his. kastein fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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I love when people doubt kastein cause he knows so many things 
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Dr.Smasher posted:I was looking more at the red puddle by the window. Kinda freaking me out. That actually (probably) is blood... that's exactly where the fire department hauled the driver out of the van before stuffing him in the ambulance. Are you more freaked out now? 
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Fart Pipe posted:I love when people doubt kastein cause he knows so many things Dude's like an Oracle. I ever get another Jeep I'm driving it to him for all repairs.
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