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Das Volk posted:While we're on vans: Fine, I'll be the one to say it. I LOVE lowrider trucks and vans. Because the internet is an awesome place I found another picture of it:
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 01:37 |
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GoodbyeTurtles posted:
I had a similar experience today: What's worse than improperly installing a cheap ball joint with no snap ring? Continuing to drive on it long after its inevitable failure!
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 03:44 |
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 03:59 |
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I wonder if this is a Honda.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 04:23 |
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fakeaccount posted:I wonder if this is a Honda. Pretty sure it's a Ferrari with some Honda badges on it.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 04:28 |
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From a thread labaled "cheap auto repair"
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 04:32 |
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It's like someone's first try with the Forza decal editor made it to the real world.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 12:16 |
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opengl128 posted:He's still pretty active on Flickr Bookmarked. Thanks.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 16:09 |
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Powershift posted:From a thread labaled "cheap auto repair" Couldn't even spring for the black tape. For shame.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 17:26 |
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Ugh, loving transphobic car makers.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 18:21 |
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A video containign this appeared on my newsfeed... The scraping noise was the perfect accompaniment http://imgur.com/fuNyesN
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 22:14 |
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thegasman2000 posted:A video containign this appeared on my newsfeed... The scraping noise was the perfect accompaniment An article that someone liked on my facebook: http://simplyfreshfitment.blogspot.com/2014/07/i-cringe-every-time-i-scrape-says-love.html?spref=fb Title: quote:“I cringe every time I scrape,” says Love, laughing. “But it’s worth every minute!” The car: It's, perhaps, not as offensive as the car you linked, but still. "I cringe every time I scrape." Yeah, because the car's height is perhaps optimal for driving on not well-kept and uniformly flat roads, moron.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 23:16 |
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Protocol7 posted:An article that someone liked on my facebook: Oh no, someone enjoying their car. Burn them. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jul 23, 2014 |
# ? Jul 23, 2014 23:18 |
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BlackMK4 posted:Oh no, someone enjoying their car. Burn them. You know, I don't remember saying they couldn't enjoy their car. Just that I think it's not "worth it" when you leave a little bit of your undercarriage behind every 30 minutes.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 23:20 |
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Protocol7 posted:You know, I don't remember saying they couldn't enjoy their car. Just that I think it's not "worth it" when you leave a little bit of your undercarriage behind every 30 minutes. You don't, you end up leaving some scrapes in your exhaust... which if you're smart has a little sacrificial piece of rebar welded to it at the low spots where it drags. Driving a low car that scrapes isn't as big of as a deal as people here make it out to be. It's a street car, not a race car. It's about fun and enjoying the car - something that a lot of 'car enthusiasts' have forgotten about, apparently. That's terrible car stuff. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jul 23, 2014 |
# ? Jul 23, 2014 23:21 |
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In the interest of not participating in a stupid page-long debate, you can describe half the thread in the tone of "Oh no, someone enjoying their car. Burn them." They can enjoy their car, and I can opt to not enjoy their car (or in this case, I think the car looks okay, but I can't really agree with their reasoning). So let's just agree to disagree.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 23:26 |
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BlackMK4 posted:Oh no, someone enjoying their car. Burn them. Can we agree this is awful? Because this is the truck equivalent of what you're defending.
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 23:31 |
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kastein posted:
I'm not defending that abomination, the truck equivalent to that E90 would probably be something like this: That LS400 would definitely be that bro-truck and is terrible as gently caress. That BMW? Not terrible. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jul 23, 2014 |
# ? Jul 23, 2014 23:43 |
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I'm sorry but if your car cannot make it over a large speed-bump without significant scraping and your car is not also restricted to track-use then your car is stupid.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 00:07 |
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Was the fake vinyl roof an OE option on these because god drat BlackMK4 posted:I'm not defending that abomination, the truck equivalent to that E90 would probably be something like this: The BMW is pretty awful actually. Sorry
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 00:07 |
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Kenshin posted:I'm sorry but if your car cannot make it over a large speed-bump without significant scraping and your car is not also restricted to track-use then your car is stupid. See: Most exotics or even a stock height 997TT.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 00:21 |
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kastein posted:
No. The wheel choice is strange, the lug-spikes are definitely not optimal, I'm not a fan of the grille, and who knows what could be going on with the suspension. But I loving love duallies with big chunky ATs, and it's even a Ford. I'd blow the dude who drove this.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 00:55 |
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N is for Nipples posted:No. Well that got weird rather quickly. I posted this in the chat thread but no one cared. http://www.autonews.com/article/20140721/LEGALFILE/307219975/selling-vehicles-for-export-angers-automakers-but-is-it-illegal quote:When U.S. Secret Service agents showed up at Jaguar Land Rover Cincinnati, a customer wearing a T-shirt and shorts who claimed to be a wealthy energy broker was about to buy a Range Rover with a cashier's check for $93,005. Apparently BMW's nonsense naming/engine displacement scheme is some kind of trap to expose straw buyers.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 01:31 |
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Some terrible OC... This is some of the the chitty brake fluid my life has basically been depending on since I bought my car... Wow.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 01:58 |
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Looks like the fluid I took out of Blazer last year (I have a picture but imgur is being stupid right now.) Which reminds me, I should probably flush the fluid on the Protege one of these days; at least the reservoir got clean fluid when I bled the clutch while putting the new motor in. Maybe when I put my new front struts in.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 02:03 |
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Fucknag posted:Looks like the fluid I took out of Blazer last year (I have a picture but imgur is being stupid right now.) Yeah I suspect that this may be some of the original fluid from 2000. The stuff in my reservoir was fairly clear so it was topped off but there are no records of the system ever having been bled or flushed.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 02:30 |
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BlackMK4 posted:See: Most exotics or even a stock height 997TT.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 05:48 |
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Root Bear posted:I had a similar experience today: Unfortunately, this was in 1997, and I don't have any pictures of it, so have this instead.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 05:50 |
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Speaking of CV axles, here's an old one. Someone posted that their Subaru GL would only move in 4WD mode, not FWD mode. So I had them take a picture of the axles.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 16:59 |
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Am I looking at that right? There's a cv boot and a stub in the hub but no axle? On mobile so it's hard to see, but how do you manage to do that? Another classic is owners pointing out the hella horns as turbo's, haha.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 18:13 |
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Bajaha posted:Am I looking at that right? There's a cv boot and a stub in the hub but no axle? On mobile so it's hard to see, but how do you manage to do that? I thought that was it at first too but it looks like the shaft is hiding behind the tie rod. TBH I'm actually kind of at a loss as to what's going on in that picture. Content: Sorry for the quality, my phone's camera needed cleaned off. Click for huge - not the demolition derby car under tow but the sexy fairy decal on the back window of the Expedition towing it.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 18:21 |
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Bajaha posted:Am I looking at that right? There's a cv boot and a stub in the hub but no axle? On mobile so it's hard to see, but how do you manage to do that? Note the ball bearing sitting on the LCA right by the balljoint. Well, there's your problem! kastein fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Jul 25, 2014 |
# ? Jul 24, 2014 18:36 |
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Is that a ball bearing on the control arm? content: OBAMNA PHONE fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jul 24, 2014 |
# ? Jul 24, 2014 18:39 |
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BraveUlysses posted:Is that a ball bearing on the control arm? This guy is a local that ends up at every hellaflush event.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 22:08 |
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SaNChEzZ posted:This guy is a local that ends up at every hellaflush event. Ahahaha that loving car. I watched that thing pull into the car show at FDLB, and it got hung up on one of those plastic cable covers. Then it dragged it partway through the parking lot and hosed up some power lines coming from a generator or something. I even took a picture, with a flash: Plus it looks exactly the same like 5 years later.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 23:13 |
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Kenshin posted:Many newer exotics have automatic ride-height adjustment that lowers the car when put into track mode and raises it for street or sport modes. Even the F40 had something like this.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 05:22 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Speaking of CV axles, here's an old one. Someone posted that their Subaru GL would only move in 4WD mode, not FWD mode. So I had them take a picture of the axles. My grandfather's GL eats CVs for breakfast.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 05:23 |
animeliker posted:Even the F40 had something like this. The Mclaren F1 was the first car to do this on the fly AFAIK, it would get lower with speed.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 08:58 |
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Throatwarbler posted:Well that got weird rather quickly. So I guess it's back to buying stolen BMWs and Land Rovers smuggled out of the country in shipping containers. Some people might find this terrible for some reason, but that's mostly subjective, right?
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 09:52 |
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Slavvy posted:The Mclaren F1 was the first car to do this on the fly AFAIK, it would get lower with speed. Porsche 959 did it in 1986. Other things the 959 helped usher in: carbon fiber and aluminium body, AWD as a performance aid, active differentials, tire pressure monitors, factory cars capable of hitting speeds in excess of 200 mph, etc.
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