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Ludicro posted:Everything in this video. Is there a fender flares anonymous? Cause someone needs to start attending some meetings.
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Uthor posted:What's the shape next to the horse? My brain isn't processing it. EightBit posted:It looks like the shape of a state with a church steeple silhouetted over the flag background. I can't tell which state though, maybe Virginia with another silhouette in the upper right? I think it's a barrel racer: 
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Motronic posted:Wait....a dealer HAD ONE IN STOCK? They sent pretty much all of that back to Germany from US dealerships and warehouses, so we have to either pay huge shipping fees or wait a month or two (whenever the warehouse does it's next order).
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Hahahaha, recognize this place by the SSR. It's usually parked inside along with some other thread-worthy cars.
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Ludicro posted:Everything in this video.
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Zeether posted:I think we've already established that bosozoku stuff is too awesome to be considered terrible.
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kastein posted:That's the maximum roof/exhaust height, as in "our loving bridges are 14 feet tall please don't hit them" not the rocker/bumper/frame height. We had a truck plow into a bridge around here, and shut down a major highway for a couple days. Three months later, another truck did the same drat thing ten miles down the road.  I've also got a friend in North Carolina who lives near this bridge: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4766966/
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Geoj posted:So people will subscribe to it. Actually, you don't, at least not in a 2013. I just used the bluetooth in one today with no active OnStar subsription.
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features on my GM fleet vehicle (A 2012 Chevrolet Captiva, which is a rebadged last-gen Saturn Vue) is it has bluetooth connectivity for phones, however you have to buy minutes from OnStar in order to make calls from your own phone over the bluetooth system.
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Captain Bravo posted:We had a truck plow into a bridge around here, and shut down a major highway for a couple days. I drive by 11'8" at least twice a month.
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Zeether posted:I think we've already established that bosozoku stuff is too awesome to be considered terrible. You're wrong, it's terrible.
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aventari posted:You're wrong, it's terrible. No, actually
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aventari posted:You're wrong, it's terrible. I'm sorry you're wrong about everything
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I have a confession. I am Terrible Car Stuff. The photos below are of my now former vehicle. I owned this car for 4 years. It has lived about 2 years in its current condition. I've been waiting and waiting for somebody else in AI to see me on the road and post pictures of my car in this thread. I thought for sure it would happen after seeing a car owned by somebody I actually know personally posted in this thread. For reference it was a few years ago and it was a white VW GTI with the vanity plate ZUG ZUG.Shampoo posted:
And yes, he is exactly the type of guy you think he is. Well years have gone by and I've driven all over Massachusetts and beyond and nobody has spotted me or at least gotten pictures for this thread and now that I have traded this car in I am coming clean. 2006 Ford Focus ST. 218,000 miles. Fake hood scoop off of a late 90's Subaru. Yellow stripe from the internet. Black wheels by rattle can. Driver's mirror taped on. Its all there, and its all terrible. I didn't do all this because I'm living some myth that I drive some sort of fast sports car and need everyone to know it. I don't throw on some sunglasses and cruise downtown areas honking at women with my badass car. I just got bored with my car and decided to put some poo poo on it for my own amusement. Little kids love it. Real men and women laugh at it and that is all that I wanted out of it.   Ok AI, come mock me, I'll be the guy in the corner with the Dunce Cap on.
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I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen that driving around yet. Honestly, you should either pull it all off, or go full retard and make sure it's obvious that it's not serious PS: side mirrors are $25 at sams pull a part in worcester, pull your own and slap it on in the parking lot.
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kastein posted:I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen that driving around yet. Honestly, you should either pull it all off, or go full retard and make sure it's obvious that it's not serious Well the car is gone now so no worries on looking bad now. I was living on Cape now in Plymouth so I was 2 hours now hour and a half from Worcester. I have replaced that mirror twice and got them for $45 ordered from a junkyard. Third time the mirror got hit (loving Boston street parking) it wasnt damaged as badly so I just taped it back on. I am the bane of AI's existence
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bigbillystyle posted:Well the car is gone now so no worries on looking bad now. I was living on Cape now in Plymouth so I was 2 hours now hour and a half from Worcester. I have replaced that mirror twice and got them for $45 ordered from a junkyard. Third time the mirror got hit (loving Boston street parking) it wasnt damaged as badly so I just taped it back on. I am the bane of AI's existence Plymouth? You should drown your sorrows in a boat of fried clams at The Lobster Hut. I wish I was...  South Jersey, near Glassboro. Took it about five years ago; it's probably in China by now. And yes, that was a '77 Volare wagon. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Apr 16, 2014 |
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PainterofCrap posted:Plymouth? You should drown your sorrows in a boat of fried clams at The Lobster Hut. I wish I was... Was that a Volare/Aspen?
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PainterofCrap posted:Plymouth? You should drown your sorrows in a boat of fried clams at The Lobster Hut. I wish I was... That doesn't look like a total hack job so I kinda wanna say, wrong thread, or has potential to be in that thread.
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PainterofCrap posted:Plymouth? You should drown your sorrows in a boat of fried clams at The Lobster Hut. I wish I was... Wrong thread!
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bigbillystyle posted:2006 Ford Focus ST That car stock belongs in this thread. It was pretty much the summary of Ford's corporate mentality in the mid-2000s: take a sedan, put a slightly larger engine in it (2.3 vs the 2.0 they put in everything else) along with some rear disc brakes and a few cosmetic upgrades and call it a performance model.
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FogHelmut posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p75FaYGAsXk But it came with the car! How could it not be adequate to support it? 
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Tha Chodesweller posted:But it came with the car! How could it not be adequate to support it?
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Geoj posted:That car stock belongs in this thread. It was pretty much the summary of Ford's corporate mentality in the mid-2000s: take a sedan, put a slightly larger engine in it (2.3 vs the 2.0 they put in everything else) along with some rear disc brakes and a few cosmetic upgrades and call it a performance model. To be fair, it wasn't really any slower than the SVT Focus.
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InitialDave posted:Given this is 'Murica we're talking about, how many lawsuits have there been over failed scissor jacks (presumably by the next of kin)? It's America, the jack and the jack holder and the spare wheel cover and the tool holder all have warning stickers.
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Q_res posted:To be fair, it wasn't really any slower than the SVT Focus. If straight line acceleration in a FWD econobox was your thing. The SVT at least had a close-ratio 6 speed transmission that really shines in road racing, markedly better brakes and suspension than the base model and was essentially a ST170 from Europe with USDOT spec bumpers. Most other manufacturers (hell, pretty much the rest of Ford's lineup for that matter) would have treated the differences on the ST as options across the board or standard features on higher trim levels. Whatever else you think of it it was not deserving of a performance badge. Geoj fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Crappy cell-phone picture, sorry. What you need to know here is that this car was traveling straight along the lane. The left-rear wheel was toed in about 5-10 degrees, making the car dog-walk about 5 or 6 inches difference front to back.  Another pic. If you look closely, you can see the left-rear turned to the right, compared with the front. How do you not notice this on your car? More to the point, how do you do whatever they did to the car to accomplish this and not wonder of there might be some damage?  Jeep JK Wrangler with huge rimzzz. Why the hell would you do this to a vehicle designed for off-road prowess? 
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I spend approximately 99.99% of my driving time in cities and on highways, but for those rare moments when you need to say "gently caress this noise" and just barrel through some wilderness to get from Point A to Point B, it's really nice to have that option in a vehicle.
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I'm always a fan of the cars doing 60+ on the highway with a rear wheel bouncing a solid 6-8 inches due to either being super bent or having thrown the weight. I don't understand how people can drive without their poo poo being perfectly smooth.
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veedubfreak posted:drive without poo poo being perfectly smooth. Thread title.
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veedubfreak posted:I'm always a fan of the cars doing 60+ on the highway with a rear wheel bouncing a solid 6-8 inches due to either being super bent or having thrown the weight. I don't understand how people can drive without their poo poo being perfectly smooth. That's not throwing a wheel balance weight. That's "shock is so blown it's providing no damping at all"
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PainterofCrap posted:Plymouth? You should drown your sorrows in a boat of fried clams at The Lobster Hut. I wish I was... I actually live about 5 minutes from there. Never been but we just moved here in September. Though being from The Cape and having friends that fish/clam/lobster etc I always feel dirty paying for seafood.
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SlapActionJackson posted:That's not throwing a wheel balance weight. That's "shock is so blown it's providing no damping at all" Yeah, a Civic on the way home yesterday was dribbling the passenger rear. Fuckin' horrifying.
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I can't count how many cars I've seen with some kind of hosed up wheel(s) driving around like it ain't no thang here. Cars that look like someone smashed into the wheel well and the camber is so jacked there's barely any tire hitting the road, and countless times seeing idiots with front wheel drive cars, with a donut tire on one of the fronts. Makes me shiver and I usually end up either hanging waaayyyy back from them in anticipation of an accident, or pass them up as fast as possible so I don't get caught in the inevitable 27 car pileup they cause.
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Yeah, it seems like once a week that I pass someone on I-95 whose tire is bouncing as they drive 70 to 75. Don't know how they don't notice or continue to drive like that.
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