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Dealers would be fine if they weren't universal scumbags gouging every dollar they can out of customers. Until that's fixed, I cheer every time Telsa goes to court to defend their right to sell a product. I have no doubt that at the other extreme we'd get gouged too, I just want the happy medium.
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There will always be a market for a lot full of vehicles you can walk onto and drive off of. You don't have to have an exclusive relationship with a manufacturer to do it. After all, used car lots are a thing. But as is sobbing for the dealers is a bit like asking "but what about the poor local loan sharks?" when a bank wants to open a branch in an area.
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Mar 15, 2014 19:13
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my darling feet posted:I ran over a curb with my '13 Ford Focus, and now my decorative undercarriage is hanging off the driver's side. I can't just leave it, because experience shows it would bounce up and down with my car driving and I'd eventually be driving over it (not good). Yes, pictures are an excellent idea. SOrry about the snow and crap - New England weather hurray. I was able to snap back on the furthest point of the car, but I'm not kidding in thinking it's a perma solution.  
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Mar 15, 2014 19:29
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my darling feet posted:Yes, pictures are an excellent idea. SOrry about the snow and crap - New England weather hurray. Your car will turn to rust and blow away before it becomes a problem 
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Mar 15, 2014 19:53
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Slavvy posted:Aren't horses terrified of cars because they're idiot animals with no sense? They're far from idiot animals (you want dumb? Cows.) - they're just prey animals and act like it unless trained otherwise (and even then some). The type of horse that would be pulling something like that has been broken of being afraid of cars. If they were not, they wouldn't be strapped to that thing (or maybe this one just lost it's road card).
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Mar 15, 2014 23:49
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Shifty Pony posted:You don't have to have an exclusive relationship with a manufacturer to do it. After all, used car lots are a thing. I would totally love a "hot hatch new car lot" with nothing by hatches to choose from.
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Mar 16, 2014 01:12
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Uthor posted:I would totally love a "hot hatch new car lot" with nothing by hatches to choose from. I went to look at a Mazdaspeed3 at a Toyota Dealership, but it had been sold the day before. The sales guy pointed me toward a CR-Z and a mustang GT before I left. Dude wasn't even listening when I tried to give him examples of what a "Hot Hatch" even was at the beginning.
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Mar 16, 2014 03:03
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Network42 posted:
I didn't do it, I swear.  Shifty Pony posted:There will always be a market for a lot full of vehicles you can walk onto and drive off of. You don't have to have an exclusive relationship with a manufacturer to do it. After all, used car lots are a thing. I've bought my last 4 cars from a place like this and I love it. takes 20 mins to sign all the paperwork, and he line items everything, including what he's making off of me.
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Mar 16, 2014 03:25
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Is there any advantage at all to filling tires with nitrogen? I seem to lose a few psi every couple of weeks so it seems like going to the trouble of going to a shop to get topped off would outweigh any advantages.
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Mar 16, 2014 04:43
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Personally, I prefer a ~78% nitrogen mixture in my tires.
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Mar 16, 2014 04:49
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:Is there any advantage at all to filling tires with nitrogen? I seem to lose a few psi every couple of weeks so it seems like going to the trouble of going to a shop to get topped off would outweigh any advantages. Only consistency in pressure changes. Plain old air will have vapor in it that makes pressure unpredictable as temperature changes. Nitrogen does that too (because all gases do), but it's a known value. Gimmick for passenger cars, important for F1 cars (which is where nitrogen inflation started).
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Mar 16, 2014 04:54
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xzzy posted:Only consistency in pressure changes. Plain old air will have vapor in it that makes pressure unpredictable as temperature changes. Nitrogen does that too (because all gases do), but it's a known value. They tested this on fifth gear some time ago. They can't get pure/dry enough nitrogen into tires at a tire shop for it to have any noticeable effect.
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Mar 16, 2014 04:57
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Powershift posted:They tested this on fifth gear some time ago. They can't get pure/dry enough nitrogen into tires at a tire shop for it to have any noticeable effect. The effect is super noticeable, it fills the cash register because people listen to the bullshit and get convinced they need to buy the most common gas on the planet.
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Mar 16, 2014 05:24
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xzzy posted:The effect is super noticeable, it fills the cash register because people listen to the bullshit and get convinced they need to buy the most common gas on the planet. You don't understand, if you leave atmospheric air inside a tire for 150 years, it will rot the tire from the inside.
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Mar 16, 2014 05:26
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So I assume tire shops that advertise nitrogen use some sort of concentrator? Or are they filling tires off bottled gas? At work we get small cylinders of nitrogen from airgas, but we're only purging refrigeration lines, not filling tires.
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Mar 16, 2014 05:26
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Well, I can easily see where the idea comes from. Despite living in countries where all tap water is drinkable, a hell of a lot of people still buy bottled water.
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Mar 16, 2014 05:29
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How about we stop talking about tires, or maybe start a tire thread. This is a terrible car thread, it's about terrible cars.      I hope this makes up for my contributions to this derail.
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Mar 16, 2014 05:31
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Well, I can easily see where the idea comes from. Despite living in countries where all tap water is drinkable, a hell of a lot of people still buy bottled water. SoCal tap water tastes like poo poo though.
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Mar 16, 2014 05:32
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Yeah, they have big, like, 25L cylinders of the stuff. The best part is that the oxygen and moisture variation inside the tire is supposed to be bad for the rubber. As opposed to the outside which is exposed to oxygen, constantly changing moisture, temperature, road dirt, brake dust, UV radiation, curb damage... E: Not to mention that, with the moisture thing, most of the water vapor is gonna condense out when the air is compressed, and any shop that's not a $50-a-month operation is gonna have water separators on the lines. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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Mar 16, 2014 05:34
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Ummmmm... how is that not exploded yet? I guess it must not be touching the other terminal. Barely?
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Mar 16, 2014 05:36
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Chinatown posted:SoCal tap water tastes like poo poo though. So does celery, I still eat it when my mother tells me.  Behold, the newest Ferrari. (Notice how it's at a loving Fiero meet or something, even.) Just pretend I posted that dog. You know the one I mean.
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Mar 16, 2014 05:58
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Nidhg00670000 posted:So does celery, I still eat it when my mother tells me. Do you think it's faster than the new Lamborghini?   
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They're both probably Duke powered, so I'm gonna say the Lambo because it looks like there's at least half a ton of bondo/glass on that yellow thing.
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Mar 16, 2014 06:11
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The fieroghini looks like a logical extension of lambo's current styling trends to their ultimate extreme.
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Tommychu posted:They're both probably Duke powered, so I'm gonna say the Lambo because it looks like there's at least half a ton of bondo/glass on that yellow thing. The lambo is also done by batshit russians, who we know are capable of this.    http://autobotanik.livejournal.com/38702.html
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Powershift posted:Do you think it's faster than the new Lamborghini? I'm going to say the "Ferrari", because the "Lamborghini" is just a mockup. You can't even get inside it. http://englishrussia.com/2014/02/18/we-have-our-own-lamborghini/
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Craptacular posted:I'm going to say the "Ferrari", because the "Lamborghini" is just a mockup. You can't even get inside it. http://englishrussia.com/2014/02/18/we-have-our-own-lamborghini/ So compared to the real thing, it has the same functionality but has less chance of catching fire. Seems like a win/win to me.
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atomicthumbs posted:Your car will turn to rust and blow away before it becomes a problem So the options are to try and cut it off (it's a plastic component), duct tape it, glue it, or go to the bodyshop and have someone charge me a couple hundred to do it since I'm a woman and don't have a driveway to work on it on my own?
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some texas redneck posted:All of the coke I've done has been pretty... white. This was kind of discolored, kind of tan. It tasted like coke, sort of. More like Arm & Hammer than anything. I didn't snort it, just tasted it. I've been around enough stuff to know this was a poo poo product, anyway. That was probably heroin you dolt.
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my darling feet posted:So the options are to try and cut it off (it's a plastic component), duct tape it, glue it, or go to the bodyshop and have someone charge me a couple hundred to do it since I'm a woman and don't have a driveway to work on it on my own? Just get some 3M adhesive (strip or bottle, your choice depending on fitting) for auto body panels, and you'll be fine. An overpriced $10 per tiny roll or bottle at any Autozone/Oreilly's.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:That was probably heroin you dolt. Or meth / trucker speed.
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KozmoNaut posted:I was just wondering whether you just went "eh, never look at gift horse in the mouth" and did it right off the dashboard v Yeah uh, I'd never touched coke at that point - and didn't touch it until 2003. LeftistMuslimObama posted:That was probably heroin you dolt. Could have been. I want nothing to do with H, I've lost too many friends to it. I've seen some really ugly coke that looked/tasted a lot like this stuff though. No need to call me a dolt over a mystery powder found in a pair of pants that I found in the trunk.  cyberia posted:Or meth / trucker speed. Meth is a lot more bitter.. and not nearly as fine of a powder. GutBomb posted:If you don't pay don't they just send you to collections? Usually the car just gets auctioned off after some set amount of time - they asked me if I wanted to abandon the car with them and forget about it, actually. They told me "it runs and moves", so I assumed it was in better shape. Panty Saluter posted:I can't believe you paid a week and a half of impound fees to get a burned out Accord back. Then again you said you had access to pretty good drugs, so Not burned out, just.. hosed up. Still got $100 out of it when I sold it, and got a lot of personal belongings out of it, at least. Sir Cornelius posted:Calling bullshit. Dallas PD, nuff said. I can't say I've ever had a positive experience interacting with them.
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Powershift posted:The lambo is also done by batshit russians, who we know are capable of this. This happens in the US too. 
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Driving off and making a turn would be a minor problem, but you could totally drag it up onto a flatbed. Or, y'know, use a $5 pair of bolt cutters. some texas redneck posted:Dallas PD, nuff said. I can't say I've ever had a positive experience interacting with them.
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Nope, but the Euro plate is extremely appropriate for once.
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Craptacular posted:I'm going to say the "Ferrari", because the "Lamborghini" is just a mockup. You can't even get inside it. http://englishrussia.com/2014/02/18/we-have-our-own-lamborghini/ This would look way better than the Fauxrarri if they'd paid a modicum of attention to the wheel and tire fitment. How do you manage to not cover your tire package when you're the one designing it? It doesn't look absolutely terrible, except for the skateboard wheels, and the rear diffuser. Better than a lot of kit cars and home-builts. Also, $15 grand for a mock-up that you can't even sit in and make vroom vroom noises? WTF?
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Alright here's a quick and dirty recap of the past few weeks of my car's life... Yes this is the correct thread.quote:I noticed gasoline stank for the past two months or so Lessons to pull from this story? Double check your mechanics' work (within reason,) and if you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHrHWwcGhCg   So now I have to hope and pray that the guy who sold me the motor will take it back and give me my money, or I have to find a buyer. Will wait to talk to the mechanic before I do anything obviously.
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"Said drive it it might fix itself." That is one of the most retarded things I have ever heard, I started laughing at that point and I'm sorry. But won't that lump be toast anyway owing to the silver stuff in the oil and the hydrolocked cylinders?
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Slavvy posted:"Said drive it it might fix itself." I'm supposed to change the oil next week, I'll see if it spits anything more out... The only way to really know if there's damage is to perform compression and leakdown tests
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