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Splizwarf posted:Re: truck sizes: I can easily see over my mom's F150, circa late 90s. Even on tiptoes, I can't see over the current F150s, which come with a set of loving stairs built into the tailgate. As an option! And you totally don't need them, and apparently they can get clogged up with mud and poo poo pretty easy. gently caress that poo poo.
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Modern cars are just too goddamn big in general. My 1991 S-10 Blazer is narrower and shorter than a current Toyota Camry.
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Oct 11, 2014 03:24
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thelightguy posted:Modern cars are just too goddamn big in general. My 1991 S-10 Blazer is narrower and shorter than a current Toyota Camry. I drove one of those most of last year, I was astounded how many "compacts" of the modern era were roughly the same footprint; hell, a lot of them weigh more than that truck!
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Oct 11, 2014 03:31
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^^^^^^^^^^ My mazda2 is basically the only car that can actually comfortably fit in my courthouse's employee spots (there's also a couple of minis, two fiat 500s, and a smart), which appear to have been painted a very long time ago. Big trucks are comical there, but even camrys and stuff fill the whole spot. Splizwarf posted:why_I_won't_restore_a_beetle_for_my_wife.jpg: Backstory: She was going the wrong way drown the freeway (DUI). He was, I assume, also doing 50+ before trying to stop. It isn't like that was a 30mph collision and even a modern car could have been a fatal (not that being in a beetle helped). nm fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 03:40
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Fucknag posted:I drove one of those most of last year, I was astounded how many "compacts" of the modern era were roughly the same footprint; hell, a lot of them weigh more than that truck! Crash standards are a bitch.
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Oct 11, 2014 05:46
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I mean, you say that, but then I'm buying a Fiat 500 Abarth next month which manages four and five star rankings without being the size of a WWII tank.
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Oct 11, 2014 05:52
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thelightguy posted:I mean, you say that, but then I'm buying a Fiat 500 Abarth next month which manages four and five star rankings without being the size of a WWII tank. Yeah, but it's 2600lbs. A turbo corvair was only 2500lbs. The 401-XR gremlin was 2400lbs, and that had a 401 cubic inch V8. The ford pinto started at 2000lbs dead, was still rear wheel drive and could still seat 4 people without requiring 2 of them to be double above-the-knee amputees.
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Oct 11, 2014 06:17
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thelightguy posted:I mean, you say that, but then I'm buying a Fiat 500 Abarth next month which manages four and five star rankings without being the size of a WWII tank. OK, so it's 4 inches narrower and 5 inches shorter than the S-10. of course, it's way less long  e: ^^^ 
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Oct 11, 2014 06:20
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I really hate that I missed out on the Z600 on craigslist for $500 because I legitimately couldn't figure out where I'd store it. It's almost a full two feet shorter and nine inches narrower than my civic 
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thelightguy posted:I mean, you say that, but then I'm buying a Fiat 500 Abarth next month which manages four and five star rankings without being the size of a WWII tank. The thing about those ratings is they are tested against standardized barriers at preset speeds. When you get crashed into by a 3 ton truck with the bumper at window height things don't turn out the same way.
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jamal posted:The thing about those ratings is they are tested against standardized barriers at preset speeds. When you get crashed into by a 3 ton truck with the bumper at window height things don't turn out the same way. True, but I've seen the frontal crash test video for the S-10 and it ended up with the engine in the driver's lap so it's probably an improvement.
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Oct 11, 2014 06:52
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Customer drops off her Durango for a wheel alignment, and makes no mention of any unusual noises or handling issues other than a crooked steering wheel.   "You mean you can't fix my wheel alignment? But that's why I came here!" 
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Oct 11, 2014 06:56
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Root Bear posted:Customer drops off her Durango for a wheel alignment, and makes no mention of any unusual noises or handling issues other than a crooked steering wheel. So how hard did the Drift Queen pitch that fucker into something to break a spring like that?
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Oct 11, 2014 07:35
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Is it also missing lugnuts?  Or did you remove those before finding the broken leaf?
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Oct 11, 2014 07:36
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Is it more likely that whoever did that exhaust work that is clearly recent is totally stunned and didn't see the failing spring, or that they did, advised her of it and she decided to ignore it and keep going for x miles? Leaf springs don't often go from "no obvious flaws that you could see from 50ft away" to, well, that in less than the time it takes for a cheap muffler to start rusting.
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Oct 11, 2014 07:46
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Horrible owner failure here:  That's from just rolled into the shop, it's in for a timing belt change. 2003 with 32 miles on it. wilfredmerriweathr fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 17:33
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Horrible owner failure here: So, has it sat on a dealer lot for the last 11 years? Or was there some shenanigans with the odometer?
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Oct 11, 2014 18:23
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I assumed it was a museum/investment car of some kind.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:26
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According to the reddit OP (who works at the shop) the owner bought it new, drove it home and parked it until now. He's selling it and took it to the shop to have it looked over. Owner's daily driver is a silverado.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:28
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thelightguy posted:True, but I've seen the frontal crash test video for the S-10 and it ended up with the engine in the driver's lap so it's probably an improvement. No, probably not. Crash ratings are based on collisions with a vehicle of the same size. Hint: you do this by crashing the car into a wall/stationary object. When you have a very large car hit a very small one, the damage is proportionate to the energy each of them is carrying. Size still rules; having a bigger car can offset a poor crash rating if you're hitting something small.
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Oct 11, 2014 19:51
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Here's the effects of a big ol' Chrysler Concorde (3,500lbs) vs my Honda Accord (2,800lbs). Dude blacked out while huffing and hit me on the drivers side at about 30-45° from head on. I was merging into the turn lane, making a left into a parking lot. He was leaving the parking lot and I guess just stood on the throttle across 2 lanes while he was blacked out. I was checking my mirror and just as I looked up I caught a short glimpse of the car just as it was hitting me. It totaled my car out, the frame was bent and both airbags deployed. It pushed my car back into my original lane at least a foot or two and I still have neck and back pain from it 3.5 years later. Their car was driving around with a junkyard bumper and fender shortly afterwards. The size difference isn't massive but that boat of a Chrylser definitely rocked me a lot harder than something smaller. 
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Oct 11, 2014 20:18
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:According to the reddit OP (who works at the shop) the owner bought it new, drove it home and parked it until now. He's selling it and took it to the shop to have it looked over. Owner's daily driver is a silverado. Time wise its a good idea to do that belt being made of rubber and all. Its not just miles that wear it out. Unless that car doesnt have a belt and the jokes on me.
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Oct 11, 2014 20:18
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My first car was an '87 Grand Marquis. When she bought it, my mother said "I don't want you to get in an accident, but if it happens, you'll win." She swapped me that for the Toyota van that my dad was trying to give me. Engine's over and behind the front axle, under the driver's seat, behind the driver's legs. Jump the battery through the sliding side window on the driver's side, as it's behind the engine in the floor. I rear-ended a bread truck with that Grand Marquis once, and savagely collapsed the grille, pushing it in. Car still ran fine, because it had a foot or more space between the grille and the radiator. I never fixed it, because I felt it gave me a visually threatening advantage in Philly traffic. v  v
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Oct 11, 2014 20:30
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This was the very first car I ever got in a wreck in. Mine was significantly more rusty. Picked it up for $400 out of a Walmart parking lot. God, I miss that terrible fucker. It was like driving a couch with a rocket strapped to it. 4200lbs curb weight with a 5 liter v-8. I got rear ended by a cop in it, didn't even scratch the bumper but put his cattle catcher into his radiator.
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Oct 11, 2014 20:52
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Liquid Communism posted:God, I miss that terrible fucker. It was like driving a couch with a rocket strapped to it. That's how I used to describe mine: two plush velour couches bolted to a fat V8, with some metal and glass thrown around them because ~laws~. Instead of an airbag, my passenger dash said "Ride Engineered  ".I loving love the big poo poo from that era, they're like rolling sideways Gothic skyscrapers. Mine had a front end made of battlements and crenellations. It sounded angry, too (... from the holes in the exhaust  ).
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Fart Pipe posted:Time wise its a good idea to do that belt being made of rubber and all. Its not just miles that wear it out. Unless that car doesnt have a belt and the jokes on me. Oh yeah he's doing everything right by getting it replaced. The failure here is buying an rs6 in 2003 and never driving it.
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Oct 11, 2014 21:09
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Splizwarf posted:
I raced a guy in a lovely 90's Mustang in mine. He was very, very surprised that a grocery getter with 4 guys in it could chirp the rear tires and get going like that.
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Oct 11, 2014 21:24
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Anyone can chirp bias ply tires
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Maybe, but mine hauled rear end a lot harder than someone my age deserved. That was the car where I learned that if you plant a hand in the roof, you can take turns a lot faster.Liquid Communism posted:I raced a guy in a lovely 90's Mustang in mine. He was very, very surprised that a grocery getter with 4 guys in it could chirp the rear tires and get going like that. Mine looked like this, only dark blue:   Sorry for posting the opposite of thread content, here's some broke poo poo. This is a 14mm Craftsman wrench that belongs to a coworker. It's been used for nothing but oil changes (ie like 15-25 foot pounds).   He bought it about 4 months ago. 
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Oct 11, 2014 21:52
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EightBit posted:Is it also missing lugnuts? Nope, that's how it came in. 4 out of 6 ain't bad, eh? Tommychu posted:Is it more likely that whoever did that exhaust work that is clearly recent is totally stunned and didn't see the failing spring, or that they did, advised her of it and she decided to ignore it and keep going for x miles? I'm kicking myself for not getting a pic of it now; but judging by the quality of the rest of that muffler repair (booger welds, adapters into adapters, etc) it's clear there's no shortage of ignorance from both parties involved here.
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Oct 11, 2014 21:59
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 vent valve on the 190s tank got stuck. yeah uh. what the gently caress. I've never seen a tank collapse like that. Usually it'll stall the car out.
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Oct 11, 2014 22:14
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 Please post the manufacturer of your fuel pump, thanks in advance.
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I'm guessing he filled it up when it was hot out and then it shrank overnight, actually. If it was the fuel pump that is drat impressive.Splizwarf posted:Maybe, but mine hauled rear end a lot harder than someone my age deserved. That was the car where I learned that if you plant a hand in the roof, you can take turns a lot faster. I did this to a gearwrench brand 14mm, but it involved a 3 pound hammer and actually needing an impact wrench, not a gearwrench Replaced on warranty 
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cursedshitbox posted:
Haha, this happened to my friend with the Rabbit TDI swap I got the ticket in. He was driving back from the midwest right after the swap sometime and the tank collapsed somewhere around Ohio leaving him with about 3-5 gallons of capacity and had to drive all the way back to Cape Cod like that. Good thing for ~50mpg!
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Oct 11, 2014 22:51
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Just hit it with a torch till it pops itself back out
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Oct 11, 2014 22:55
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kastein posted:I'm guessing he filled it up when it was hot out and then it shrank overnight, actually. If it was the fuel pump that is drat impressive. Happened within a few hours of a fillup on a 300mi road trip.
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Oct 11, 2014 22:56
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Man, when did you last see something suck that hard? Don't answer, CSB.
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Oct 11, 2014 22:59
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cursedshitbox posted:Happened within a few hours of a fillup on a 300mi road trip.  Yeah, I need to know what fuel pump you have. (you should be carrying a spare now, that can't be good for the pump.)
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Pair of bosch pumps. and uh yeah, I'm going to carry a spare cage incase this one takes a poo poo. Initialdave: 
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InitialDave posted:Man, when did you last see something suck that hard? 
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