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It's the crack in the windshield right?
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Nov 26, 2013 20:29
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KoRMaK posted:It's the crack in the windshield right? I'm sorry about my crack problem  but really though; 
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Nov 26, 2013 20:32
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yyyyyy posted:I'm sorry about my crack problem Nah, you're crack is worse. Lowered trucks are cool.
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Nov 26, 2013 20:41
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Yup, that doesn't belong itt
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Nov 26, 2013 20:42
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I'm not really seeing a problem here, it doesn't appear to have anything seriously wrong with it. If the work was done competently, that's pretty cool.
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Nov 26, 2013 20:43
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At least it makes the bed easier to load.
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Nov 26, 2013 20:45
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FogHelmut posted:At least it makes the bed easier to load. If it's bagged, you can crank up the air on the front, and drive a motorcycle right on the tailgate. Lowered trucks are great, i was thinking of making a bobber street truck out of my F250.
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Nov 26, 2013 20:46
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kastein posted:I'm not really seeing a problem here, it doesn't appear to have anything seriously wrong with it. If the work was done competently, that's pretty cool. I wish I'd gotten a better picture of it from behind, it was like cross member/oil pan scraping on speed bumps low Powershift posted:If it's bagged, you can crank up the air on the front, and drive a motorcycle right on the tailgate. Lowered trucks are great, i was thinking of making a bobber street truck out of my F250. I didn't think about it being on bags, hrm
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Nov 26, 2013 20:47
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yyyyyy posted:I wish I'd gotten a better picture of it from behind, it was like cross member/oil pan scraping on speed bumps low So? Lowered trucks, when done competently, are cool 
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Nov 26, 2013 22:14
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Geirskogul posted:So? Lowered trucks, when done competently, are cool Sooner or later someone is going to wander in here and spout off some ridiculous bullshit about lowered dualies being the exception to this and I would like to point out that they are loving wrong. Because slammed dualies are the best kind of lowered truck.
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Nov 26, 2013 22:39
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Terrible Robot posted:Because slammed dualies are the best kind of lowered truck. Its much easier to spot the douchebags in the crowd when they stand.
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Nov 26, 2013 22:41
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I'll take lowered trucks over brolifts any day of the week. 99% of the trucks you see on the road are just driven like a car anyway.
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Nov 26, 2013 22:55
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I'll take lowered trucks over brolifts because I can actually see around the lowered trucks in my car
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Nov 26, 2013 23:07
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veedubfreak posted:I'll take lowered trucks over brolifts any day of the week. 99% of the trucks you see on the road are just driven like a car anyway. Same. Brolifts are hellaflush for trucks; a decent lowered truck is just as cool as a decent lowered car. That being said, I'm perfectly fine with a reasonable amount of lift, competently designed and installed, if the owner uses it. I'd be a giant hypocrite if I wasn't  In closing, here is a terrible brolift:  Fortunately spotted at the junkyard. The whole front end of the truck was charred, based on the realtree seat covers and general hackjobbery I assume the owner did some redneck wiring under the hood and forgot all about fuses.
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Nov 26, 2013 23:32
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Are those bricks? Also, lowered trucks don't have their headlights burning out my retina like brolifts.
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Nov 26, 2013 23:52
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Yeah, they usually have lovely HIDZZZZZZZzzzzz instead. Sometimes brolifts have those too though, for the ultimate in airplane spotting lights! They are cast iron/steel (not sure which, didn't have my grinder with me to check) lift blocks. One is probably factory, but stacking two is ghetto to the max, and a bad idea. Especially when you end up with 6-8" of height because of the combined blocks, that's just asking to cause damage to the leaf springs if it's driven except on sundays to church by your grandmother.
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Nov 27, 2013 00:11
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I have recently on my evening commute seen a few cars (including a WRX) with headlights are LITERALLY blue. Not kinda sorta whiteish blue, but projecting blue colored light onto the road, poorly at that. I just don't loving get it.
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Nov 27, 2013 00:12
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SALT CHAT I lived in Sioux Falls, SD for 5 years and they used quartzite instead of salt, it's commonly known as pipestone there. It's like nature's kitty litter and after the season ended they'd sweep it all up and leave it to dry for reuse the next year.
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Nov 27, 2013 00:19
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bisticles posted:Is that what I'm seeing when instead of salt, they're laying down a bunch of stripes of something liquid? Maybe it's not as effective in deep ice or super-cold temperatures, but it seems to help keep accumulation off the roads. Yeah south Jersey is doing this too.
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Nov 27, 2013 04:58
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veedubfreak posted:Also, lowered trucks don't have their headlights burning out my retina like brolifts. This, this, this. Seems to be even worse now that I'm up a bit higher in the CX-5 versus the old Grand Prix, but I get this poo poo a few times a week on my commute. Adjust yo' drat lights, idiots!
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Nov 27, 2013 11:31
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Guess who spent two days in jail, and can't afford to get their car out of impound? Bonus points if you can guess who also gets to carry a mandatory SR-22 for the next 5 years or so, thanks to the combo of "no license" + "no insurance" charges. On top of the "unregistered vehicle", "expired inspection", "driving without headlights" (they didn't work), and "speeding" issues. On the upside, that Maxima won't be on the road anymore. Sucks really bad for my coworker, he spent far more than that car was worth just to get the keys. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Nov 27, 2013 11:48
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Chinatown posted:I have recently on my evening commute seen a few cars (including a WRX) with headlights are LITERALLY blue. Not kinda sorta whiteish blue, but projecting blue colored light onto the road, poorly at that. If you haven't seen pink or purple yet, you must live in a nice area.
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Nov 27, 2013 13:27
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some texas redneck posted:Guess who spent two days in jail, and can't afford to get their car out of impound? Seems like racking up that list of offenses should get you a mandatory car crushing while you watch.
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Nov 27, 2013 15:33
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some texas redneck posted:Guess who spent two days in jail, and can't afford to get their car out of impound? Also, why would you not just walk away from a car that's impounded for n, where n is greater than the value of the car in impound?
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Nov 27, 2013 16:51
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Kenny Rogers posted:I don't need to read any further than this - it's the best story I've read all week. I think its illegal in most areas. In Arizona, after X amount of time the impound lot will assume title as an abandoned vehicle and auction it off, but you are still on the hook for the towing and storage charges that have been racked up during that time period. Anything that wasn't paid for by the auction price will be billed to you and potentially sent to collections.
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Nov 27, 2013 17:21
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Kenny Rogers posted:Also, why would you not just walk away from a car that's impounded for n, where n is greater than the value of the car in impound? I'd guess that they'd start charging you a storage fee if you didn't pick it up after a certain amount of time, and those fees would probably compound daily until it hit whatever time limit they have for impounded vehicles and send it to auction (lol) or the crusher.
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Nov 27, 2013 17:23
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Chinatown posted:I have recently on my evening commute seen a few cars (including a WRX) with headlights are LITERALLY blue. Not kinda sorta whiteish blue, but projecting blue colored light onto the road, poorly at that. Sometimes that's just because they have the wrong type of bulb in their headlights and they're too cheap/stupid to go buy the right bulbs.
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Nov 27, 2013 18:22
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some texas redneck posted:Guess who spent two days in jail, and can't afford to get their car out of impound? I never noticed that the door cards don't match the dashboard before. I only know about SR22 from insurance commercials from the US where a tiny computer generated general tells random homeowners that they can get car insurance even if they have one. After looking at it, wow wow wow. We have "facility" insurance which covers you if you are completely unable to get insurance any other way (which has been misused, e.g. modified cars) but it's maybe 4-6x what it should be for premiums. Seems like it just encourages people to drive more without insurance.
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Nov 27, 2013 18:25
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FogHelmut posted:If you haven't seen pink or purple yet, you must live in a nice area. Purple and green were favorites in my old neighborhood.
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Nov 27, 2013 18:41
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I only know about SR22 from insurance commercials from the US where a tiny computer generated general tells random homeowners that they can get car insurance even if they have one. After looking at it, wow wow wow. Isn't there some sort of thing where these companies sell you "personal insurance" when you can't get real car insurance because of too many DUIs and such? Except it's not actually sufficient to drive, but they still make money for the same reason payday loans and rent-to-own stores exist?
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Nov 27, 2013 18:47
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Seat Safety Switch posted:We have "facility" insurance which covers you if you are completely unable to get insurance any other way (which has been misused, e.g. modified cars) but it's maybe 4-6x what it should be for premiums. Seems like it just encourages people to drive more without insurance. We have this too, I almost had to go in this direction because of the roll bar in the miata. I wanted to disclose it because others in the area have had coverage denied when the car was found to have a roll bar.
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Nov 27, 2013 18:50
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Terrible Robot posted:Sooner or later someone is going to wander in here and spout off some ridiculous bullshit about lowered dualies being the exception to this and I would like to point out that they are loving wrong. For all of the slammed truck love AI shows when pictures like these are posted, does anyone actually have one? I used to have an s10 with a drop on it but put it back to stock (for the most part) when I couldn't get into the driveway of the place I was living in, and eventually sold it
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Nov 27, 2013 18:50
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some texas redneck posted:Guess who spent two days in jail, and can't afford to get their car out of impound? Galler fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Nov 27, 2013 18:54
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hot sauce posted:For all of the slammed truck love AI shows when pictures like these are posted, does anyone actually have one? I used to have an s10 with a drop on it but put it back to stock (for the most part) when I couldn't get into the driveway of the place I was living in, and eventually sold it My D21 was so low the ball joints pulled from the wheel hub. Deal with it.
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Nov 27, 2013 19:14
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SaNChEzZ posted:Purple and green were favorites in my old neighborhood. I used to see the same - one on each side of riced out shitboxes in Worcester MA when I lived there. I don't know why people do that, but I saw it too often for it to be a coincidence. One green, one purple.
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Nov 27, 2013 19:26
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kastein posted:I used to see the same - one on each side of riced out shitboxes in Worcester MA when I lived there. Most of the ones I see are purple HIDs on a donked out camaro with green halos. It's turrible.
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Nov 27, 2013 19:29
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Sometimes that's just because they have the wrong type of bulb in their headlights and they're too cheap/stupid to go buy the right bulbs. So if i manage to put a standard bulb in upside down the light turns blue? This is done on purpose for street cred, bonus points if you aim the lights all the way up to dazzle other drivers. It's like "if you're gonna annoy people, troll them absolutely." Blue, gold/yellow i've seen (Gold is legal though), purple once and green never, i don't think driving with green lights is possible longer than 15 minutes in this country without getting some serious fines and inspections. Especially if you become visible on highway cameras. American styled orange sidemarkers are getting popular though, even though its forbidden to have orange city lights, i think the fines are manageable for most that i've seen using them (Unless its designed that way such as Volvo's or the new Mercedes classes) Gorillian Dollars fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Nov 27, 2013 20:37
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kastein posted:I used to see the same - one on each side of riced out shitboxes in Worcester MA when I lived there. Chromatic aberration, if you're seeing it often you probably need to see an eye doctor
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Nov 27, 2013 21:15
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Snowdens Secret posted:Chromatic aberration, if you're seeing it often you probably need to see an eye doctor That's completely different, after googling it - that's if colors bleed funny, like blue blurring on one side of your vision and red on the other. This is different, an actual green tinted headlight on one side and purple on the other, both of the "lovely ebay HIDzzz that claim FIFTEEN THOUSAND KELVIN COLOR TEMPERATURE" variety. I get chromatic aberration, but only in reflections off my glasses from crummy blue HIDs, which is because of the way the lenses are constructed. Makes me think there's a cop behind me every goddamn time 
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