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Brigdh posted:Yes, actually I do. Around here the other towns only salt when its really needed. My town dumps enough sand to make a castle in every intersection every time it snows, even if the snow doesn't stick. They also use the wrong kind of sand which actually reduces traction. Well, fair. Proper sanding still beats any salting, from what I've seen. Ignoring freezing rain on bare pavement, where salt is likely the best bet. Can we agree on "proper winter road maintenance beats lovely cheap lowest contractor"? 
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revmoo posted:It would be nice if the city would put a little pit stop somewhere convenient where you could pull your car up and have it blast away the salt residue from underneath. I do believe they call that a car wash.  The problem is, you would need to do it weekly or so when they salt really crazy like they tend to do in my area.
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DEAR RICHARD posted:There was an 18 wheeler at a stop sign waiting to make a left turn. I was sitting a couple car lengths behind it giving it a lot of room to navigate, plus the whole fact that I'm invisible if I'm up any closer. Also, I know that the turn is kind of tight for a big truck to make. This exact same thing happened to me yesterday except the rear end in a top hat behind me tried to go around me in the opposite lanes and almost got killed because funny enough the light was green for them.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I do believe they call that a car wash. Wait, you don't?
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I do it a few times a week at this rate. What my local car wash needs is a PB blaster setting.
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Salt is the reason I can't get a Ford Escort Cosworth and it sucks so much 
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The dealer I'm leasing my daily from has a free automatic wash bay for customers. They're a block outside my neighborhood too, so I can wash my car on the way home pretty much any time I want. It's really nice, especially for someone like me who's really lazy about washing their car otherwise.
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BraveUlysses posted:I don't think that's salt brine, it's some sort of chemical (that smells kinda like ammonia to me). Pretty sure it is Urea, I think we started using it a bit after the clusterfuck of a storm a few years ago. I've been told it's better for corrosion than salt brine but we don't use it much because of the cost.
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How we use salt in the winter in Phoenix. 
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I do believe they call that a car wash. If I ever move someplace that salts and I get to build my own garage I will install one of those underbody sprayers and have it activate as you drive in. Also, it'll be nice and high pressure too, not like those ones that just kinda mist. Well hell if we're fantasizing I mean I'd have the whole works so I could wash my car in the garage.
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InitialDave posted:Twice? I wish! From my impression reading threads here Europeans must really like their new cars. With the prices for new cars so high but people in AI buying used cars cheap it doesn't really add up that used cars are cheap because there is little demand for cars in general. If that were true new car prices wouldn't be so high too.
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CharlieWhiskey posted:I know this thread is normally about those that we don't want to share a road with, but watch this if you want to think about those that you do want to share the road with. Faith in humanity restored.  Speaking of people you share the road with, I don't know what it is lately with people tailgating in the middle lane of the motorway. If you want to go faster, there is an entire lane to the right of you where you can happily overtake and speed off into the distance if you want to. I had one similar the other day, a guy in some Citroen van driving right up my arse while I was in the middle lane. I saw a lorry moving out into the middle lane to overtake another one up ahead, so I moved to the right hand lane. The Citroen then starts trying to undertake me now I was out of the way.  Didn't work out for him though, as the gap between the lorry ahead closed fast along with the space he would need to get in front of me and overtake. Typically an Audi or two had rocketed up behind me and blocked off that way as well, so he was stuck doing 55mph until the lorry moved back into the leftmost lane.Seriously, he could have avoided getting trapped by either just overtaking me like he was so desperate to, or moving out behind me and overtaking the lorry after I did. Some people.
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My favorite tailgater was the dickbag in the Cayenne who drove like 2 car lengths behind me for about 10 miles of Chena Hot Springs road in Fairbanks one winter. It was about 30 below outside and above freezing temps a the end of November put about 3 inches of solid ice down on the road. It was getting grated about once a week by 5ton plow trucks but it was still slick as hell. The speed limit on that road is 55 in good driving conditions. I was doing about 35-40 in a State parks F350 full cab on lovely all season tires. The Alaska DNR is too broke to put winter tires on EVERY truck, apparently. So dude in the Cayenne keeps pulling to the left to peek for his shot at passing. In retrospect I probably should have just pulled over but with how the road and the berm were, it was much safer to just keep going. Last thing I want is to catch the berm and get sucked off the road in the rear end end of nowhere in -30. So he finally sees his chance and passes me, speeding up to probably around 60. About 5 seconds later, a moose steps out into the road. He barely missed it and somehow miraculously managed to not overcorrect. That moose would have obliterated him at that speed.
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CharlieWhiskey posted:I know this thread is normally about those that we don't want to share a road with, but watch this if you want to think about those that you do want to share the road with. I am not kidding; that almost moved me to tears, after a iet of the usual Russian dashcams.
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CharlieWhiskey posted:I know this thread is normally about those that we don't want to share a road with, but watch this if you want to think about those that you do want to share the road with. a really nice youtube complication it was the lovely music which really made it.
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BraveUlysses posted:I don't think that's salt brine, it's some sort of chemical (that smells kinda like ammonia to me). Ah, thanks for the heads up!
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The Door Frame posted:I know they're not great for people and it makes used cars and everything else more expensive, but the condition of some of the cars I've worked on is frightening. Like they shouldn't be allowed on the road, but have been driving that way for months.
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dpidz0r posted:I think the point was that the people who drive their cars in that condition are the same ones who drive on an expired license with no insurance. To them another law just means one more thing to ignore. Meanwhile, the rest of us who are responsible and actually maintain our cars get slapped with yet another set of fees and bureaucratic hoops to jump through. I don't see how a yearly inspection is such a hoop to jump through - for the 99% of people that don't do their own maintenance the car should be in for servicing at least that often anyway.
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It's ok as long as it's a safety inspection. If it gets to "oh no, that's not a factory-spec or otherwise approved air intake, even though your emissions themselves are in spec, so gently caress you", then it becomes something else.
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Yeah, having seen pictures of cars from no-inspection states I never want the mot over here to go away
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InitialDave posted:It's ok as long as it's a safety inspection. If it gets to "oh no, that's not a factory-spec or otherwise approved air intake, even though your emissions themselves are in spec, so gently caress you", then it becomes something else. Definitely agree with that - once and inspection regime is in place there is definitely the temptation for the authorities to start adding non-safety stuff (here exhaust noise is actually part of the inspection)
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Cakefool posted:Yeah, having seen pictures of cars from no-inspection states I never want the mot over here to go away dissss posted:Definitely agree with that - once and inspection regime is in place there is definitely the temptation for the authorities to start adding non-safety stuff (here exhaust noise is actually part of the inspection) We do luck out on that here, especially with the clause that things like kit cars get to use their engine's age, not the build age, to set the limit. And it doesn't get updated. Build something with an old SBC, and as long as it doesn't smoke, you're good - and you're good to immediately replace it with an LS lump, which you can do anything you like to, as long as it doesn't smoke.
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Vehicle inspections?? What's it like to live somewhere without freedom? Recently I've seen so few people properly doing right-of-way at intersections that I actually started questioning myself and looked it up to make sure I wasn't just a moron doing it wrong.
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InitialDave posted:Yeah, the pre-60 lack of MOTs makes me... dubious. I do think most people who own classics tend to maintain them very well, and that the rigours of the modern MOT will become less and less appropriate for older machinery, but I'd have preferred a compromise - such as a pre-60 MOT only consisting of a structural safety check or whatever. I know what you are saying, but I think it's fairly reasonable: any car from before 1960 is going to require extensive looking after to keep it on the road, so that if it runs, then the rest of it is probably going to have been maintained as well.
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Not only do we not have any sort of inspection - most of rural Alaska is completely exempt from vehicle registration and insurance requirements. Granted, a lot of these places don't really have and can't be reached by roads, and the populations can get into the double digits - but it's still pretty interesting http://doa.alaska.gov/dmv/reg/exempt.htm
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BIG HORNY COW posted:Not only do we not have any sort of inspection - most of rural Alaska is completely exempt from vehicle registration and insurance requirements. Granted, a lot of these places don't really have and can't be reached by roads, and the populations can get into the double digits - but it's still pretty interesting Surely "you will literally die if your car fails at the wrong time" is a pretty good motivator for folks to keep their poo poo in shape? Are rolling deathtraps that common out there?
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InitialDave posted:It's ok as long as it's a safety inspection. If it gets to "oh no, that's not a factory-spec or otherwise approved air intake, even though your emissions themselves are in spec, so gently caress you", then it becomes something else. Ir sounds like you're talking about the special snowflake that is California, which is a study in how to go too far on these matters.
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I hear canada has a bunch of sand available up at Athabasca. As far as salt.. I have hauled whole trainloads of salt headed east. Especially last year. The train cars that haul it are hilariously corroded. Parts falling off of them. They don't even look like they would be good for scrap.
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Raluek posted:Surely "you will literally die if your car fails at the wrong time" is a pretty good motivator for folks to keep their poo poo in shape? Are rolling deathtraps that common out there? I sold my 77 J10 to a friend because the frame was way too far gone for me to pay to have fixed. The PO used it for launching a boat by backing the entire rear end into seawater. My friend was going to fix it himself but ended up selling it off to someone else - who I later saw driving it with a giant bed full of wood. He obviously didn't heed any advice about not doing poo poo like that because later that day someone told me they saw it split in two on the side of the road. RIP cool old truck
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InitialDave posted:It's ok as long as it's a safety inspection. If it gets to "oh no, that's not a factory-spec or otherwise approved air intake, even though your emissions themselves are in spec, so gently caress you", then it becomes something else. It's even better when the only thing that they care about is emissions while not giving one poo poo about safety. In CA you can have bald tires, torn wipers and one half working headlamp on your tweaked frame beater but it's good to go as long as it's passed the smog check. Put an aftermarket air intake with no CARB sticker on your perfectly maintained car? No registration renewal for you.
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kastein posted:Having fixed rusty/cracked frames, I would much rather measure the old one (assuming it isn't tweaked to hell) and blow 500 bucks on box tubing to build a new one. Holy hell does welding rusty hosed up old frames suck. The original plan, when I had taken it to another friend who has a 4x4 shop, was for him to find another donor J10 with a frame we could cut up and repair the rusted one with. He decided against it though, mostly because he didn't want to charge me for all that labor because it would have turned into a huge project that I didn't really have the money for. He even refunded me for the other work he did - replacing the radiator and the exhaust - because he felt so bad about the truck sort of being a lost cause. 
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Michael Scott posted:http://vimeo.com/112263732 Jesus, that guy ain't gonna make the next "nice drivers" video. "Holy gently caress, I just witnessed what was probably a fatal accident! Meh, that's not really a good reason to pull over and stop, I've got places to be!"
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BIG HORNY COW posted:The original plan, when I had taken it to another friend who has a 4x4 shop, was for him to find another donor J10 with a frame we could cut up and repair the rusted one with. He decided against it though, mostly because he didn't want to charge me for all that labor because it would have turned into a huge project that I didn't really have the money for. He even refunded me for the other work he did - replacing the radiator and the exhaust - because he felt so bad about the truck sort of being a lost cause. Man, I want one of those so drat bad Too bad they've basically all rusted out, been hackjobbed by their 10 owners, or simply been scrapped by someone who thought "old lovely truck who cares" by now. I mean, they're out there, but the choices are pretty awful and range from "rusted" to "beat" with a couple "perfect, but the guy knows what it's worth" thrown in for good measure... unless you have $40k.  Won't be sharing a road with this one anytime soon, it has under 2500 well-documented miles on it.
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BIG HORNY COW posted:The original plan, when I had taken it to another friend who has a 4x4 shop, was for him to find another donor J10 with a frame we could cut up and repair the rusted one with. He decided against it though, mostly because he didn't want to charge me for all that labor because it would have turned into a huge project that I didn't really have the money for. He even refunded me for the other work he did - replacing the radiator and the exhaust - because he felt so bad about the truck sort of being a lost cause. oooh pretty! It's a shame you had to let her go.  These trucks are getting more and more rare, and all of the examples I've seen in person look like father time has been stomping on them rather hard.I've got an 84 J10 of my own sitting in the back yard that needs some attention. Tomorrow I'm going to do a little cutting on a rear bumper, but mounting will have to wait until I can get a hold of a welder to fab up some brackets. I've got to work on front bumper, rear bumper, a working speedometer/cluster, and exhaust & other misc. pieces before I get it legalize and drivable. Maybe I can update my project thread with something other than cries for help. E: goddamn Kastein you're embarassing me! Mine will NEVER look that good! Now I talk about my truck and everybody's gonna say "Oh, the one with white rattle-can paint and the copenhagen-tin horn button?" Double E: It's all in good fun, that's a beautiful truck. JukeboxHerostratus fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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Cage posted:Im sure the answer is just "not paying attention" but what the gently caress, car had like 4 seconds to move to the right or maybe even give the brakes a wee touch, what were they thinking? "I'm in my lane, the other driver is in the wrong, this won't be considered my fault, I'll let insurance cover the damage "
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