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Mister Kingdom posted:ELO is awesome and I will not hear otherwise. I was foolishly mistaking ELO for this band and seriously could not comprehend how there were not one but two people on one page in this thread claiming they rock.
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ELO may actually be the one classic rock band that NOBODY hates.
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There was no sane way to get a picture of it, but while driving home I spotted a Miata slathered stickers. Among the most prominent: "Twilight Mom" and "NOBAMA".
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IOwnCalculus posted:There was no sane way to get a picture of it, but while driving home I spotted a Miata slathered stickers. Among the most prominent: "Twilight Mom" and "NOBAMA". Similar, saw a new Edge on the interstate here in Tampa yesterday that was covered in bumper stickers. Two that stuck out were "NOT MY PRESIDENT" with a picture of Obama, right above a "PROUD TO BE WHITE" sticker. With the US Navy plate for Florida. Made me sad to be somehow associated with someone like that.
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iwentdoodie posted:Florida. Well theres your problem. I could not believe the constant anti-abortion billboards when I drove from Orlando to Gainesville. And the constant stream of cars covered with bumper stickers like that. I have never felt so out of place than driving a rental BMW 5 series there.
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Negromancer posted:Well theres your problem. I could not believe the constant anti-abortion billboards when I drove from Orlando to Gainesville. And the constant stream of cars covered with bumper stickers like that. I have never felt so out of place than driving a rental BMW 5 series there. Really? Cause those seem like Civics in Tampa. But yeah, this place is ducking ridiculous.
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May 15, 2014 18:56
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Global warming will sort out the issues with Florida soon enough.
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veedubfreak posted:Global warming will sort out the issues with Florida soon enough. We just need Bugs Bunny to be real. 
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Bugs is sawing in the wrong place, all he needs is to blow up some ice in Antarctica to flood the place which will trigger a catastrophic melt that will literally submerge Florida.
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Terrible car stuff? GM in general. Lodged in the comments, between the usual fanboy wars: Tim Winn · Kankakee Community College posted:I have a 2004 Impala that fills the plastic intake with fuel when it senses low voltage in the distributor. We have had this car detonate the manifold twice while trying to jump start it. Not quality, not safe, not even close.
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May 15, 2014 22:17
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How does that even happen? It's like the car wants to die.
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May 15, 2014 22:29
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I suspect there's an unhealthy amount of "idiot who thinks they know things about electronics" involved there, but I don't know anything about that particular failure, so I can't be sure.
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May 15, 2014 23:01
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I think it's amazing that he found a distributor under the hood of a 2004 Impala.
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May 15, 2014 23:04
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xzzy posted:Bugs is sawing in the wrong place, all he needs is to blow up some ice in Antarctica to flood the place which will trigger a catastrophic melt that will literally submerge Florida. But then they'll move CLOSER to you.
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May 15, 2014 23:07
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I realized I have no idea when Chevy stopped using distributors... and yeah, no distributors on an 04. It was either coil-near-plug for the V8 (I believe) or waste-spark coilpacks on the 3800 and 3400. I'm not sure what the hell he's talking about with "senses low voltage in the distributor" either, I've never seen a distributor that measures ignition system voltage, the cam position sensor in some distributors isn't an analog sensor, its supply voltage is produced by the ECU not sensed by it, etc. Thus why I think he's an idiot talking above his pay grade.
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kastein posted:I realized I have no idea when Chevy stopped using distributors... and yeah, no distributors on an 04. It was either coil-near-plug for the V8 (I believe) or waste-spark coilpacks on the 3800 and 3400. I didn't know about the distributor but I figured maybe he'd read about voltage regulator's causing fires or something. Love the new avatar.
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Wasabi the J posted:But then they'll move CLOSER to you. You know the fable about boiling frogs? Rising sea level is the same way, if you drown them slowly they'll never notice.
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kastein posted:I realized I have no idea when Chevy stopped using distributors... and yeah, no distributors on an 04. It was either coil-near-plug for the V8 (I believe) or waste-spark coilpacks on the 3800 and 3400.  in 1996 when they introduced the Vortec line. I've got a '94 with the TBI 350 and it's got a distributor.
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Captain Trips posted:Terrible car stuff? The GM recalls seem to always follow a formula like "Defect in headliner fitting in 2 million cars; leads to airbag deploying and brakes failing when speedometer reaches 60 mph"
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I refuse to pay $gently caress for Volvo's molded heater hoses, so my current heater valve setup involves one of the hoses around the intake pipe from the underside and connecting to the valve. The valve's held away from the cruise control servo's rubber boot by a pair of zip ties. It works!
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Friar Zucchini posted:Don't know about cars or the S10, but at least for the full-size trucks, which I'd expect would be using technology that stands the test of time (i.e. outdated) I'm pretty sure they started using... um... something that's not a distributor Unfortunately, you'd be wrong. They had a funky distributor until whenever they got the GenIII stuff ('99-'01ish?). Makes it nice to stick a carburetor intake manifold on one and jam in a conventional distributor, though. No complaints here. E: This stupid thing:  I think this qualifies as terrible car stuff. Terrible brittle plastic, with a weird connector, under a bunch of poo poo at the back of the motor. Only redeeming quality is that you can remove the distributor cap and replace it with a block-off plate, and use its built in rotary encoder to run LS1 electronics on a gen1 SBC. Raluek fucked around with this message at 03:24 on May 16, 2014 |
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`Nemesis posted:
No one takes anyone in these seriously to begin with so this is completely fine by my book.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8q2D1S9VM8
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A few pages back, but parking in NYC:
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Snackpack Backpack posted:On topic, I keep seeing a car around that looks like it was covered in duct tape and then all the tape peeled off. The paint looks awful, but whenever I see the guy that drives it he always walks around like he's inspecting it for something. I finally managed to snag a picture of this car without the owner around. I'm almost positive I've seen it before with a camo print so my guess is he uses duct tape as a cheap wrap. It still makes no sense to me.  
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revmoo posted:ELO may actually be the one classic rock band that NOBODY hates. You can find entire albums by ELO and a tonne of other prog rock bands on youtube. Pardon me while I go listen to Out of the Blue 
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Gorilla Salad posted:You can find entire albums by ELO and a tonne of other prog rock bands on youtube. Not even ELO-related but this post somehow got Eye in the Sky by the Alan Parsons Project stuck in my head.
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License plate chat? (click for big)
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:License plate chat? I really wish that kind of poo poo was illegal.
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Not running plates is illegal  Or are you just being sarcastic?
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I think he thinks there is a plate on there, it's just covered with dirt. I had to squint at it too, c'mon man get a cell phone with a real camera!
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License plate chat! I can't decide if it's clever or not.
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Krakkles posted:Not running plates is illegal I was referring to the car to the left.  Also, a combination of the colors in the middle of the plate area and extreme blurriness of the picture lead me to believe it was a covered plate.
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The picture isn't blurry on my end. Imgur must have hosed up on my phone.
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:License plate chat? they probably have a temporary plate/permit on the dash.
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Linedance posted:they probably have a temporary plate/permit on the dash. Nope. Those are displayed in the rear window anyway. And yeah those polarized plate covers are terrible. No idea how you can get away with purposely obscuring plate numbers without getting pulled over.
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