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With normal wheels and non-painted hood it would be a factory optima, which is a very good looking car by appliance standards (camry, accord etc).
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ToyotaNation.com forums have some amazing car photo threads. Check out the Camry, Corolla, and Matrix subforums. Not surprisingly the older the models the more ridiculous is becomes. http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/1...minimum-48.html
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I went looking for info on some Cavalier boards once. All Lambo doors, all the time. Almost no info about the code my CEL was spitting out.
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Mar 21, 2014 21:56
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Science has proven that the more a car resembles a toxic rainforest-dwelling insect the better it is.
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davebo posted:I signed up for Optimaforums when I got mine in 2012 for some general info. I still get an email once a month featuring their "ride of the month". I just got this: I kinda like it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME_HYvcaEDo It's the Jezza so I guess it is related. Edit: To AI that is. Fattig fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Mar 21, 2014 |
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Das Volk posted:There really is a forum for every make and model, isn't there? And of course people in those forums that rice the poo poo out of their cars. a-body.net has a very good signal-to-noise ratio. They even expanded in the last year or so to include U platform vans and X platform cars (Citation et al). Not too much ricing, except for the guy we ran off a few years ago asking us the best way to notch the subframe so he could fit 22s and still turn.
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 There was also a massive stick-on scoop on the hood
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Mar 22, 2014 02:13
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 Saw this today and thought of you guys
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freelop posted:
Why do you hate us? 
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Do vanity plates count? Not because of the idea of a vanity plate or anything, but I can't figure out if it is supposed to be "Die Happy" or "Die Hippy". Somewhat polar opposites that you would want to be clear about. freelop posted:
I swear PT Cruisers attract bad plastic chrome like Fieros attract bad conversion body kits.
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Mar 22, 2014 18:59
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I... I can't stop browsing the thread 
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Mar 22, 2014 18:59
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Shifty Pony posted:Do vanity plates count? Maybe dead hippies make him happy but dead hipsters are probably the new dead hippy so I would go with die happy by owing GMAC $60k on a new vette when you die.
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Goober Peas posted:
That looks more like it would develop lift.
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Mar 22, 2014 20:46
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Goober Peas posted:
Downsforce
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Mar 22, 2014 21:09
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Cage posted:Clearly that's just a limousine TV antenna. For a split second I thought there was a Brak sticker on the gas door. Also, I see why it was mounted that way (antenna is in the way)
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Here, have this thing. The picture through the window didn't come out, but it had a CB on the console not attached to anything, plus another one on the floor buried in a huge pile of garbage. Also, yes, that is an intake... thing built out of chimney pipe. No idea what the birdshit welded bracket on the driver side is for, maybe another antenna?    Images hosted on my private image host.
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PainterofCrap posted:Please tell me that those are not repurposed plastic flower pots. Nah, don't be ridiculous. Those are plastic kiddie sand buckets.
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I saw a PT painted with Captain America images on both sides and the rear but I was too slow to get a picture as the light was so long that I lost them and it ruined my whole day.
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That reminds me of the black Scion xB near the folks with a silver mural of Spider-Man swinging over the Chicago skyline on both sides. I actually like that one, though. I mean, it's gaudy, but the black and silver look good together.
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Wasabi the J posted:A good write up of what the gently caress you're looking at. I am just learning how to work under the hood, so I was just as confused as the author as a child. That is the most apologist article I've read in a long time. Listening to how he describes the most rear end-backwards engineering decisions as "advanced for it's time" is just comical.
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quote:Unusually the ECU is mounted in the boot....The HE system also has a vacuum hose from the intake manifold going all the way back to the ECU what the gently caress.
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Today I learned that canister/skidplate oil filters are "Labor Intensive" when I went to try out a different carwash that also does oil changes. 
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Mar 23, 2014 18:33
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A skid plate is likely to rain mud/grime down on a tech while (s)he wails on the rusty stuck bolts with an airgun. A canister oil filter, that's just laziness.
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nitrogen posted:Today I learned that canister/skidplate oil filters are "Labor Intensive" when I went to try out a different carwash that also does oil changes. Someone has never had to lift a H1 skidplate, some of the ones on Toyotas, or the joy that is a bunch of torx fasteners on a VW.
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BlackMK4 posted:The joy that is a bunch of torx fasteners on a VW. I've done enough of those to think charging a motherfucker more than the "19.99" advertised is perfectly rational.
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Those and the Mazda 3 undertrays, which have an access hole for the filter canister... that doesn't actually give you access to the canister because it's like 3 inches offset from the hole.
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BlackMK4 posted:Someone has never had to lift a H1 skidplate, some of the ones on Toyotas, or the joy that is a bunch of torx fasteners on a VW. Back when I had a Toyota truck and got twenty dollar Jiffy Lube oil changes I think they mentioned it was quicker to take a holesaw to the plate than it was to get it off and back on
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Crustashio posted:what the gently caress. Oh yeah. ECU, all the fuses, a vacuum line, and the fuel tank, all stuffed into the trunk. Fuel tank is under the parcel shelf, holds something like 18 gallons, and the fuel pump only fails when it is full. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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I just did the most terrible car thing. Helped my girlfriend buy a new Corolla. One hundred thirty-eight horsepower of cvt yawn on wheels. Edit: vv oh yeah it's fine for her. She was completely indifferent about what car she got, aside from thinking Toyota's are reliable so if you get one you'll never have a problem. It's just the most bland gutless car I've been in, and it felt wrong putting a downpayment on it that probably could have bought a more inspired used car. Although at least bluetooth comes standard now. davebo fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Its probably a perfectly fine car for her. 
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As someone who works for Toyota, thanks, and sorry.
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Cakefool posted:As someone who works for Toyota, thanks, and sorry.  I am not good with MS Paint
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nitrogen posted:Today I learned that canister/skidplate oil filters are "Labor Intensive" when I went to try out a different carwash that also does oil changes. This is hilarious. Also gently caress having to buy a 30 dollar oil filter cup just to take off the new Toyota cartridge filters.
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davebo posted:I just did the most terrible car thing. Helped my girlfriend buy a new Corolla. One hundred thirty-eight horsepower of cvt yawn on wheels. Hahahahaa the corolla comes with a CVT there? Sweet god. Preoptopus posted:This is hilarious. Also gently caress having to buy a 30 dollar oil filter cup just to take off the new Toyota cartridge filters. Bonus points: if they're the alloy type (there is a plastic and alloy type, both shaped the same) they're sometimes so tight that they just obliterate the spotwelds on aftermarket filter cups. I eventually sucked it up and spent $60 on a genuine Toyota one that has never gone wrong.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Back when I had a Toyota truck and got twenty dollar Jiffy Lube oil changes I think they mentioned it was quicker to take a holesaw to the plate than it was to get it off and back on I don't know how many times you've put your wrist/arm through a just-cut hole in sheetmetal (and then tried to muscle off a tightened oil filter) but this sounds like a recipe for some serious bloodletting right here. It's making me cringe just thinking about it. Jesus, I wouldn't put my arm through there for a thousand dollars.
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kastein posted:I don't know how many times you've put your wrist/arm through a just-cut hole in sheetmetal (and then tried to muscle off a tightened oil filter) but this sounds like a recipe for some serious bloodletting right here. Though it's fine if you've got the filter wrench and a long enough extension. Slavvy posted:Bonus points: if they're the alloy type (there is a plastic and alloy type, both shaped the same) they're sometimes so tight that they just obliterate the spotwelds on aftermarket filter cups. I eventually sucked it up and spent $60 on a genuine Toyota one that has never gone wrong. At my old shop we got chewed out multiple times for losing that loving tool since nothing else would get the filter off; turns out it was one dude leaving the tool on the cartridge when he was done. There were multiple occasions I'd lift a Prius up and find our tool stuck on there (this was after one of our upper techs bought his own set). All the other brands you can stick a normal filter wrench, or even the plier type in a pinch, but Toyota are special little snowflakes like that. I also love how you can't just remove a plug to drain the cartridge, you have to use the lovely little drain tool that comes with the new filter: 
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Fucknag posted:Those and the Mazda 3 undertrays, which have an access hole for the filter canister... that doesn't actually give you access to the canister because it's like 3 inches offset from the hole. The explanation for that is the hole is something for manufacturing, not an access hole.......  I dunno. It would have been perfect if it was in the right place, though.
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