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Shrapnac posted:What's on the wheels in the 2nd pic? Boots or chocks, or hopefully it's being towed. Scales?
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Slavvy posted:First generation ravs are one of those cars where the engine and drivetrain will still be going when the rest of the car has been melted away when the sun expands to a red giant several billion years from now. I feel like the next generation of sleeper cars is gonna have to be early Japanese cute-utes because they've clearly overtaken large sedans as the most common car on the road. Now just to figure out how much boost a RAV4 block can take before the head walks off. e: gently caress that, first gen CRV and RAV4 resale is loving insane for a 20 year old SUV. Idiots must be buying them used because they're surely safer than a five year old used car, dur dur.
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Slavvy posted:First generation ravs are one of those cars where the engine and drivetrain will still be going when the rest of the car has been melted away when the sun expands to a red giant several billion years from now. The original RAV4 was Corolla based so I can definitely believe it.
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  Truck almost went off the bridge. Luckily he had 9 other trucks in the bed.
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Thumposaurus posted:Scales? Yeah, they look like scales. Either way, [what appear to be NYS] troopers might let a bit of speed by, but I doubt they'd let that continue.
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tobu posted:I've always had a lot of fun thrashing the poo poo out of rav4's. Goon, I Know the Answer to That, owns one and it has taken an obscene amount of punishment. Plus when I was helping his dad change his fuel filter on his Rav4 (it doesn't have one that needs to be changed for like a million miles) I found it has a secondary gear stick in the engine bay coming directly off the gear box. If you have to choose between replacing the rear wheel bearings and self trepanation I recommend the latter. At least on a first gen. Did those on my aunt's and holy gently caress that was a lovely job. The new bearings come without the hub flange pressed into the unit bearing because... drumroll... Toyota thought it would be wise to make the stackup go: knuckle, unit bearing, brake backing plate, bolts. And the flange won't fit through the backing plate, so you get to separate the bearing and the flange, somehow remove the outer wheel bearing cone remains from the flange/splined hub, then press the flange into the new unit bearing with the brake backing plate in between without destroying any of the seals. And if you live in the salt belt, the stupid tiny metric bolts that hold the parking brake cables to the backing plates are guaranteed to snap off, leaving you attempting to drill the world's hardest steel bolt stubs out of a piece of cheesy corroded cast aluminum on the end of the brake cable sheath, which works out about how you'd expect unless you have the patience of a saint. Fortunately I do once I have exhausted my repertoire of 4 letter words. Why can't you just replace the brake cables, I hear you cry? Why, because Toyota decided to put them over the fuel tank and trap them with it, so if those bolts are corroded and break while you're dropping the tank enough to get them out, the fuel tank straps/bolts and the pressure line from the pump to the chassis are probably solid balls of rust too, so I hope you don't mind replacing those at the same time... and the strap bolts go up into weldnuts inside a unibody stiffening rail. See where this is going? Straight to hell that's where!  Fortunately I succeeded in drilling out the bolt stubs and through bolted the side that had been a problem, but the shop I brought the wheel bearings to to have them pressed in managed to monkeyfuck one of the seals so I will probably need to do it all again in 10-20k miles. This time I know what's up and will bring a shop press with me though. e: on the redesign a few years later from the rav4.1 to the rav4.2 they became sane and put the loving rear unit bearing mounting flanges where any sane person would so the stackup is knuckle/backing plate/bearing/bolt and it's a 30 minute simple remove/replace project like you would assume it to be. kastein fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Oct 24, 2013 |
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kastein posted:If you have to choose between replacing the rear wheel bearings and self trepanation I recommend the latter. At least on a first gen. Try a timing belt on a jap import one with the BEAMS 3s-ge and ABS. Definitely in my top 5 jobs where I just wanted to pack all my tools away and leave work forever.
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OH HELL NO MY RIMS! gently caress! poo poo!! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f9f_1382587962
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I don't know what you think is terrible about that. I think it's marvelous.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I don't know what you think is terrible about that. I think it's marvelous. It is wonderful and makes me happy.
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Well you're absolutely right I guess 
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`Nemesis posted:OH HELL NO MY RIMS! gently caress! poo poo!! There is justice in the world...
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`Nemesis posted:OH HELL NO MY RIMS! gently caress! poo poo!! Ashes to Ashes, Trash to Trash.
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Oct 25, 2013 05:35
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"This can not be happening whatsoever." That sentence really bothered me for some reason.
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Oct 25, 2013 05:52
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I bet those ladies were just blown away by his driving talent, and how well he kept his composure when things went wrong. The only thing that could have made it better was if the women were undercover police.
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Oct 25, 2013 05:57
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So did he get laid?
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Oct 25, 2013 06:04
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Yes, by Rosy Palmer and her five sisters.
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some texas redneck posted:Yes, by Rosy Palmer and her five sisters. Mrs Palmer and her five daughters
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Usually, I'm the one adding a new level of creepy to a conversation.
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Come on guys his CD player just went all the way in! WHAT THE gently caress ARE THEY GOING TO DO NOW??? gently caress!
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And the "gently caress em up bro, gently caress em up" at the beginning. The way he says it, so incredibly angry, as if he were talking about someone he just caught breaking into his house that he literally intended to kill with a bat or a crowbar. And not a bunch of girls he knew just sitting in another car over there.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:And the "gently caress em up bro, gently caress em up" at the beginning. "Post terrible car stuff in this thread - gently caress em up bro, gently caress em up" should be the new title for this thread.
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What was he trying to do? take a right turn after they spotted cops?
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This NEVER would have happened if he would've just drifted in a big circle around their car until they decided to give him their number. loving rookies.
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I love that one of the tags on the video is "VTEC kicked in yo"
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I'm visiting my aunt and uncle in az and they were telling me about how they had to get all the hard brake lines replaced in their ~02 yukon because they had rusted (car was in ontario until recently), and it has cost them thousands of dollars. So I'm driving it to go meet up with some people last night and notice the brakes don't feel all that great. Start driving back, after a few stops the brake light comes on. Get it home, take a look under the car and the frame rail and crossmember on the driver's side are soaked with brake fluid and it is dripping onto the ground. MC reservoir is empty. All the lines at the front- from the MC to the ABS and ABS to the front wheels are rusted and the one line to a front wheel is what is leaking. My uncle does not seem as angry as I think he should be.
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Did you explain to him that he and everyone else in the car almost died?
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Hell of a parking job tho.
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Powered by Enzo Ferrari spinning in his grave, hahaha I love it
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The only thing that could make that better is if it had tits and was on fire. Oh.
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On the way home today I saw a Prius with those eyelashes on it and I was all excited to post about how dumb it looked but it doesn't hold a loving candle to that poor thing.
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Voltage posted:
Gotta be a lottery winner.
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Godholio posted:Did you explain to him that he and everyone else in the car almost died? Yes. And the stupid assholes at the dealer were trying to upsell him on bullshit like new a/c hoses this morning.
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I drove cross-country to do some backcountry hiking in western montana and the panhandle of idaho this past summer, while I wanted to take two cars the rest of my group decided we'd be best off taking a chevy venture that was "totally good to go and up to date on maintenance." First our A/C compressor seized after blowing metal shavings all over the engine bay. No biggie I guess, coulda happened to anyone... Then 18 hours later at 1 am on a windy switchback I noticed that the brake pedal wasn't really doing anything much except going to the floor... so I geared down and started braking with the ebrake (this is hard to do on a pedal-type ebrake), which apparently was also on its last legs and had two settings: "off" and "lock the back wheels up while we keep going forward." When I found a level spot (in front of a sign warning us about the upcoming 7% grade) for us to pull over and camp for the night, nobody else seemed at all bothered about the fact that we had no brake fluid left, brake lines had burst and the ebrake cable was literally hanging loose under the car. So basically non-car people have no appreciation for "almost died" incidents.
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:When I found a level spot for us to pull over and camp for the night, nobody else seemed at all bothered about the fact that we had no brake fluid left, brake lines had burst and the ebrake cable was literally hanging loose under the car. How exactly does one ignore "We had no brakes"? Presuming they didn't have some sort of deathwish.
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:When I found a level spot (in front of a sign warning us about the upcoming 7% grade) for us to pull over and camp for the night, nobody else seemed at all bothered about the fact that we had no brake fluid left, brake lines had burst and the ebrake cable was literally hanging loose under the car. Sweet Christ. 
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Yeah. I didn't get any sleep that night. I actually noticed the brakes because we had some amazing aurora borealis going on, so I pulled over to shut the lights off and check them out for a sec. Then when we started rolling again I attempted some emergency stops and didn't stop. The rest of the group wanted to continue on to our scheduled campsite, which was about 2000 vertical feet lower in elevation than where I actually stopped. I'm glad we saw the northern lights.
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Voltage posted:
as far as I'm concerned, anyone who can afford a modern Ferrari can do whatever they like with it. Galler posted:On the way home today I saw a Prius with those eyelashes on it and I was all excited to post about how dumb it looked but it doesn't hold a loving candle to that poor thing. I nearly got smashed by someone in a Prius with eyelashes and an oversized bumper sticker that said "ACK NAUGHTY", who decided to try and pass me in the left lane (on a 25mph surface street) while I was changing lanes, and then honk madly. The driver looked to be in his mid-20s, male, and with a shaved head. I think he was angry that he had to drive his girlfriend's car  
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I saw an oblivious Prius hit a bicyclist today. Bicyclist wanted it to happen so bad that he went from inside a crosswalk and ran a red inside a playground zone to make sure he could cut the Prius off and get hit in the rear end. Very conflicted but still left my card with the cyclist.
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