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My grandneice's middle name is Akira 
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Bucephalus posted:My grandneice's middle name is Akira Yeah, it's a real name... for a boy
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Jun 17, 2014 18:26
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PCOS Bill posted:Yeah, it's a real name... for a boy A Japanese boy, not often found in white-trash Ohio.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:32
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 JALOPNIK LINK, but it's pretty loving terrible nonetheless. http://jalopnik.com/father-son-restoration-project-turns-into-nightmare-aft-1591656312
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Jun 17, 2014 18:40
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Sounds like that Lavin guy needs a swift kick in the giblets, at the very least, for suing the owners for "missing parts" after getting the car taken from them (and then immediately sold to him...). What a loving rear end in a top hat. Edit: please note I am not saying the car shouldn't have been returned to the rightful owner, but everything else about that story just makes me really angry.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:51
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In this case, shouldn't the state compensate one of the two parties, because it was an inspector working under the state's name that issued a clean title? In effect, the state created a second car in 2000 when it created a new VIN, and now it owes one party a car that doesn't exist.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:58
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Jun 17, 2014 18:59
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Geirskogul posted:In this case, shouldn't the state compensate one of the two parties, because it was an inspector working under the state's name that issued a clean title? In effect, the state created a second car in 2000 when it created a new VIN, and now it owes one party a car that doesn't exist. Would probably require time in court to get it sorted out, which means even more money out of the guy's pocket. Technically I believe the car should have been given a bonded title when the VIN couldn't be found. The specifics vary by state but the general idea is you get a special title that carries some insurance on it, which pays out if the original owner ever shows up.
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Jun 17, 2014 19:09
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I think the most fair judgment would be to award the car to Rockwell, the original owner, but offer the right of first refusal to Caperon if Rockwell decided to sell the car (which he did, to that shitheel Lavin). Not even sure if something like that would be binding or even legal but that seems pretty fair to me.
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Jun 17, 2014 19:27
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PCOS Bill posted:Yeah, it's a real name... for a boy
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Jun 17, 2014 19:55
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:
How the hell do you even recognize a partially restored car that was stolen from someone else nearly twenty years ago unless you're in on a scam?
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Jun 17, 2014 20:26
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PCOS Bill posted:How the hell do you even recognize a partially restored car that was stolen from someone else nearly twenty years ago unless you're in on a scam? Probably due to the very, very small number of '63 Cutlass Convertibles running around? I really don't see these people being in on a two-decade scam for a dollar amount this small. Saw that on the local news site a few days ago, it loving sucks. The original owner is a bit of a douche for only offering to sell it back for $15k - unless it was worth anywhere near that when it was stolen from him. The friend who found it is the real loving scumbag, though, for threatening to sue the father/son for the parts that weren't on the car. I'd have told him to piss up a rope and sold the spare parts for scrap just to spite him, but that's just me. And yeah, AZ really hosed this up. Edit: The dickbag who bought the car back for peanuts and sued for the spare parts is actively commenting on the article now, ha. 
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Jun 17, 2014 20:34
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This was parked out front of my work yesterday. The seatbelt trapped in the door made it all the better.
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Jun 17, 2014 22:40
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I helped my buddy change the front brake pads on his 2001 civic last night. We start by taking the lug nuts off, but one is seized on each side. We proceed to turn them counter clockwise and rip the studs right off. So he's down to three out of four lugnuts on each side. We get the wheels off and unbolt the calipers. I take off the pads. One is FULLY down to the metal over about 30% of the pad. The other three still have a very thin layer of brake material. The rotors are pretty thin and recessed past the edges, not sure if that's normal. He didn't get replacements (he's broke) so we just left them in there. We put that all back together with the new pads. Then we started checking tire pressure. One was at 20 psi, and it was the same one that was pretty bald on the inside edge and showing the steel belt. The rest were okay, so we put the best two in the front and the half bald one in the rear - I hope that's the right setup when you have one lovely tire. We then checked his oil - just the very tip of the dipstick showed oil, but it only took about a quart to get it back up to the line. The oil on the dipstick showed black as sin. So we ripped off two wheel studs, topped off fluids, and learned that he needs new everything. At least he will have braking power when his front wheels fall off.
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Jun 17, 2014 23:04
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Astonishing Wang posted:Then we started checking tire pressure. One was at 20 psi, and it was the same one that was pretty bald on the inside edge and showing the steel belt. The rest were okay, so we put the best two in the front and the half bald one in the rear - I hope that's the right setup when you have one lovely tire. I'm pretty sure that (1) you should put the tires with the most traction in the rear, regardless of FWD or RWD, (2) that tire showing its steel belts is a VERY bad idea to run on, and (3) that car will most likely commit a murder-suicide sometime in the near future.
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Jun 18, 2014 02:26
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smax posted:I'm pretty sure that (1) you should put the tires with the most traction in the rear, regardless of FWD or RWD, (2) that tire showing its steel belts is a VERY bad idea to run on, and (3) that car will most likely commit a murder-suicide sometime in the near future. Correct. Being broke is no excuse to put others in danger. Get a loving loan or a credit card if you can't afford a single tire. I hope someone rams a knife into it.
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Jun 18, 2014 02:29
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I didn't want to derail the thread but seems like if this guy is that broke he should sell his car and take the bus. If he wants to live a long life anyway
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Jun 18, 2014 02:30
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I think you guys are overdoing it. This is probably the average used car owner that's too poor to just buy a new one every few years. 
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Jun 18, 2014 03:06
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Larrymer posted:I think you guys are overdoing it. This is probably the average used car owner that's too poor to just buy a new one every few years. It's kinda nice to be able to call at least one of these people a moron somewhat directly, even if they're not the only one driving cars that will put a family of 4 in the wrong section of the newspaper.
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Jun 18, 2014 03:10
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bobbilljim posted:I didn't want to derail the thread but seems like if this guy is that broke he should sell his car and take the bus. If he wants to live a long life anyway Where do you live that a lovely used car in that bad of shape would even get you a one year bus pass?
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Jun 18, 2014 03:15
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smax posted:I'm pretty sure that (1) you should put the tires with the most traction in the rear, regardless of FWD or RWD, (2) that tire showing its steel belts is a VERY bad idea to run on, and (3) that car will most likely commit a murder-suicide sometime in the near future. Fully agree with 2 and 3, but why wouldn't you want more traction on the front tires? The front tires handle more of the braking forces and steering.
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Jun 18, 2014 03:50
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Crotch Fruit posted:Fully agree with 2 and 3, but why wouldn't you want more traction on the front tires? The front tires handle more of the braking forces and steering. http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/repair/6-common-tire-myths-debunked-10031440 quote:2. When replacing only two tires, the new ones go on the front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Hb5kQCaTg
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Jun 18, 2014 03:52
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Crotch Fruit posted:Fully agree with 2 and 3, but why wouldn't you want more traction on the front tires? The front tires handle more of the braking forces and steering. Because your car is much more likely to spin uncontrollably if you have no traction in the back. It's a bit more complex than that, but I'm phoneposting. E: aaand beaten.
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Jun 18, 2014 03:54
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So the way I see it, new tires on the front makes it easier to drift your Mercury Cougar. Seriously though, I remember watching some WRC commentary once that went counter to this advice. I guess the difference there is race car driver vs regular driver.
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Jun 18, 2014 04:14
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PCOS Bill posted:Where do you live that a lovely used car in that bad of shape would even get you a one year bus pass? It wouldn't, but taking the bus for a year would still be cheaper than the total yearly cost of owning a lovely car like that, even if you never buy tires. Especially if u factor in the cost of killing yourself and others with your deathtrap.
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Jun 18, 2014 04:21
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Safety Dance posted:So the way I see it, new tires on the front makes it easier to drift your Mercury Cougar. I think in situations where you are running a 4wd vehicle in a race environment you want the newer tires in the front as newer = more tread = larger rolling radius. If you have a larger radius tire in the back, it means you are going to be "pushing" against the front tires which are trying to roll a bit slower. If you have the new tires in the front, it means that the fronts will be turning a bit faster than the rears, which means the back will be "pulled" a bit from the front and will be more likely to slide around (which is a good thing in rallies I'm guessing.)
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Jun 18, 2014 04:24
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Safety Dance posted:Seriously though, I remember watching some WRC commentary once that went counter to this advice. I guess the difference there is race car driver vs regular driver. Yep. This is why most cars have suspension tuning that trends heavily towards understeer. To most people, massive understeer feels normal, neutral to mild understeer feels sporty, and anything that actually trends to oversteer is deadly.
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Jun 18, 2014 04:25
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IOwnCalculus posted:Yep. This is why most cars have suspension tuning that trends heavily towards understeer. To most people, massive understeer feels normal, neutral to mild understeer feels sporty, and anything that actually trends to oversteer is deadly. I don't know if deadly is the right term for it, after changing my car from mild understeer to mild oversteer it saved my rear end when I overcooked a turn while racing. If the front end had washed out instead of drifting I would have crashed.
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Jun 18, 2014 06:19
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Das Volk posted:I don't know if deadly is the right term for it, after changing my car from mild understeer to mild oversteer it saved my rear end when I overcooked a turn while racing. If the front end had washed out instead of drifting I would have crashed. IOwnCalculus posted:Yep. This is why most cars have suspension tuning that trends heavily towards understeer. To most people, massive understeer feels normal, neutral to mild understeer feels sporty, and anything that actually trends to oversteer is deadly. Unsafe at any Speed is the source of all evil. I kind of want to own a turbo Corvair just for that reason. 
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Jun 18, 2014 06:23
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sofullofhate posted:I kind of want to own a turbo Corvair just for that reason. With the updated suspension, sure.
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Jun 18, 2014 07:36
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I was visiting my parents and driving their bare-bones 2013 F150, when I noticed they are really quite see-through in the back: e: I just looked up some official ford press photos, and apparently they all come like that, I thought it was missing some inner wheel-well coverings with it being the bare-bones base model: 
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Jun 18, 2014 07:49
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Das Volk posted:I don't know if deadly is the right term for it, after changing my car from mild understeer to mild oversteer it saved my rear end when I overcooked a turn while racing. If the front end had washed out instead of drifting I would have crashed. Emphasis on most people. To those who don't know how to handle it, even a regular old aircooled 911 or a MR2 or an early S2000 is a deathtrap. To anyone who knows how to handle a car that wants to turn, it's a whole different ballgame.
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Jun 18, 2014 08:13
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I don't think that any S2000 belongs on that list at all, if anything they're probably one of the more neutral Japanese RWDs from that period
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Jun 18, 2014 08:15
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Das Volk posted:I don't know if deadly is the right term for it, after changing my car from mild understeer to mild oversteer it saved my rear end when I overcooked a turn while racing. If the front end had washed out instead of drifting I would have crashed. Second, don't forget most people drive FWD cars, and leaving aside the somewhat unexpected situation of oversteer occurring where understeer would be expected, it risks putting you in a position where you aren't able to balance the car - in addition to lift off oversteer, which isn't rare anyway, sufficient difference in traction between front and rear can cause the back to come out under acceleration round corners, as the front end continues gripping with the increased speed, but the back lets go. Makes it quite entertaining, because just about anything you do at that point will likely result in more oversteer. I've run a car with that kind of traction balance, and while it's a complete laugh when you want to have fun on roundabouts, it makes for hard work when you just want to drive at a decent pace normally. For an average driver it'd be borderline lethal, but even for drivers like us, it's not a good idea. Better to keep the tyres roughly equivalent front to rear, and tweak it with pressures and suspension settings (and left foot braking in FWD and AWD stuff). In other news, here is the latest, and possibly one of the worst, sanctimonious and unintentionally hilarious "speed kills and nothing else matters for safety" adverts: http://youtu.be/MD8BkIgp9Fo
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Jun 18, 2014 08:27
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I've fitted my share of absolutely lethal chinese tyres to lovely econoboxes and I can categorically say that I'd rather have the 'good' tyres on the front. Maybe american roads are of a different surface but sticking supercats, ling-longs or blacklions on an otherwise competent FWD car makes you instantly sledge at the slightest hint of rain. I'm not meaning 'some understeer' that you can control by buttoning off, I'm meaning you enter a roundabout and the car just continues to travel at a tangent regardless of your inputs. You have to manually straighten the wheel into the slide, apply the brakes, then resume turning.
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Jun 18, 2014 11:13
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Slavvy posted:I've fitted my share of absolutely lethal chinese tyres to lovely econoboxes and I can categorically say that I'd rather have the 'good' tyres on the front. Maybe american roads are of a different surface but sticking supercats, ling-longs or blacklions on an otherwise competent FWD car makes you instantly sledge at the slightest hint of rain. I'm not meaning 'some understeer' that you can control by buttoning off, I'm meaning you enter a roundabout and the car just continues to travel at a tangent regardless of your inputs. You have to manually straighten the wheel into the slide, apply the brakes, then resume turning. Two things: a) I've never encountered tires that were that bad unless they were completely bald or there was significant standing water on the roadway. b) Europeans get a whole lot more training before they are allowed to drive. In the US it's basically "can you drive around for a few hours without hitting something? OK, now can you do the same for 5 minutes at the DMV? You are now certified to drive for the rest of your life." These conditions do not lend themselves to American drivers actually knowing how to react when they start to spin.
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Jun 18, 2014 11:50
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While out on my bicycle, I find that there is an interesting amount of brake pad backing plates lying in the shoulder.
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Jun 18, 2014 11:55
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Rich showoffs are terrible car stuff. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10898305/Rich-kid-of-Instagram-sees-cars-worth-500000-torched-by-arsonists.html The Telegraph posted:'Rich kid of Instagram' sees cars worth £500,000 torched by arsonists Also arsonists are terrible too.
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Jun 18, 2014 12:21
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FogHelmut posted:While out on my bicycle, I find that there is an interesting amount of brake pad backing plates lying in the shoulder.  "Hey Clark, come over here and tell me what's wrong with this picture." #240drivers
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Jun 18, 2014 12:34
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quote:It has taken a lot of hard work and effort to get where we are and we cannot take a loss of £340,000. I guess someone doesn't have insurance... That's a terrible car stuff.
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