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veedubfreak posted:What? That's clearly the passenger door. Good thing you're pretty. Sudo Echo posted:Just gonna savor this post Yeeeeuuuup.
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veedubfreak posted:What? That's clearly the passenger door. Haha I love this post.
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cursedshitbox posted:Good thing you're pretty. 
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Romney is polling really well this time around.
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The most interesting places are where they drive on the right but have a 50-50 mix of LHD and RHD cars
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veedubfreak posted:What? That's clearly the passenger door. See, there's a reason the U.K. is also known as Brokeback Island, and it has to do with them doing pretty much everything rear end-backwards with a capital rear end.
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dissss posted:The most interesting places are where they drive on the right but have a 50-50 mix of LHD and RHD cars West Auckland on a summer sunday? edit: wait, how the gently caress is a land border between RHD and LHD countries resolved? Have they got like a big crossover bridge or grid or something? Slavvy fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Slavvy posted:edit: wait, how the gently caress is a land border between RHD and LHD countries resolved? Have they got like a big crossover bridge or grid or something?
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Slavvy posted:West Auckland on a summer sunday? Sweden actually switched what side of the road they drive on during the 60s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H They made the changeover of all their roads effectively during the middle of the night. Prior to that change, their interaction with either Norway or Finland involved crossover stops at the border. I've heard that in Norway there were actually a few rural backroads that are unofficially shared with Sweden, which no doubt led to the occasional accident.
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Slavvy posted:West Auckland on a summer sunday? I was thinking Cambodia where all the cars are second hand imports, just half come from the states and the other half from Japan. Also I see a lot of JDM models on those Russian dashcan videos.
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dissss posted:I was thinking Cambodia where all the cars are second hand imports, just half come from the states and the other half from Japan. When Russia raised tariffs on Japanese imports the opposition in the Russian far east was so intense that troops had to be dispatched from Moscow to put them down. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/world/europe/16russia.html?pagewanted=all http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20121003/176382673.html
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This explains why so many of those russian crash videos are of people pulling out seemingly without looking. They're simply on the wrong side of the car. My mind is blown. Vodka explains the rest.
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Slavvy posted:West Auckland on a summer sunday? I too would like to know how it works in places that don't have bodies of water between them. I found this bridge which claims to be sat between China (RHD) and Hong Kong (LHD) http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/flipper-bridge-hong-kong-china.jpg
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Isn't there a giant interchange in Africa or something where they switch what side you're driving on as you cross the border?
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Slavvy posted:edit: wait, how the gently caress is a land border between RHD and LHD countries resolved? Have they got like a big crossover bridge or grid or something? They do between Macau and mainland China, but it's crossing water 
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1) Us. 2) Places we used to own. 3) Japan, for some reason. Exceptions 1) drat upstart colonials.
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I found a fascinating article about why countries drive on the side of the road they do, which is not a sentence I was expecting to type when I woke up this morning. Short answer is after the war, because being different to the British was the in thing, for obvious reasons. Also it turns out the reason in Japan is "because we built their railways".
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I'm happy to have cars that drive on the same side as Japan and the UK for now, keeps it interesting enough for direct imports for me. I would be annoyed if Japan changed over ever though. As long as they stick with us I'm cool with it. But it's interesting that more and more cars sold here come from Korea and they are LHD country, but sold cheaply here in RHD. While at the same time any USA vehicle is impossible to import due to a $20K conversion and other 'engineering' fees on top. I can buy a whole Korean vehicle for that much. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Regarding VW Axle nut chat: We had 3 ACVWs and 2 Vanagons. This is what we used. You can use it the normal way with a breaker bar, or bash the square part with a hammer.
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Vanagoon posted:Regarding VW Axle nut chat: I used to work with a guy who had an old Beetle. Even with a huge breaker bar, he couldn't get the axle nut off, so he would wedge the ratchet handle in the ground and back up over it. This would destroy the ratchet handle, but since it was a Craftsman, he was able to get it replaced for free. Sears started getting suspicious after the second or third one in a brief period of time, so he had to get his wife to swap it out.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I used to work with a guy who had an old Beetle. Even with a huge breaker bar, he couldn't get the axle nut off, so he would wedge the ratchet handle in the ground and back up over it. This would destroy the ratchet handle, but since it was a Craftsman, he was able to get it replaced for free. Sears started getting suspicious after the second or third one in a brief period of time, so he had to get his wife to swap it out. The Ridiculously Large Screwdriver with a Lifetime Guarantee(TM) is a standard component of the VW toolkit too. Didn't know it applied to ratchets.
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Vanagoon posted:The Ridiculously Large Screwdriver with a Lifetime Guarantee(TM) is a standard component of the VW toolkit too. Didn't know it applied to ratchets. How else would you do this.. True story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhfcdQf1QA&t=21s
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thetechnoloser posted:How else would you do this.. True story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhfcdQf1QA&t=21s Yeah, if I tried that, I'd lose several fingers and the screwdriver would end up in my skull.
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Reminds me of the guy who ruined his bike by pouring that in the fuel tank thinking it was an octane booster or some poo poo.
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Vanagoon posted:Regarding VW Axle nut chat:  Honda crank pulley. Apply either with a loving powerful rattle gun, or jam it against the frame with a 1/2" powerbar and get another power bar -with a long pipe or jack handle over the end- and wrench on it with all your might. How such a small bolt can resist that much torque without shearing is beyond me. An this lil' fella has a theeng just loike it!
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Wolfsbane posted:I found a fascinating article about why countries drive on the side of the road they do, which is not a sentence I was expecting to type when I woke up this morning. Swedish trains still run on the left track, apparently.
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Were they some insane hypermiler? drat.
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That must have been a great ride, bouncing around on a single tread lug.   I believe I read somewhere that the actual failure point is usually around 350 psi, and tires are ridiculously overengineered, but I would be tempted to tell them to buy a whole new set just to teach the idiot a loving lesson about not doing dumb poo poo that will endanger them and anyone in front of them when they have to panic stop on roller skate wheels.
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This is terrible car stuff and a question rolled into one (Or maybe I'm who you share the road with...) but fits with the last topic here - My tires on my four wheeled vehicles always look low despite being at the pressure listed on the door frame. The ride is decent, and they don't wear funny that I've noticed (Not that I've kept many vehicles through more than one or two sets of modern tires) but every time I look at them they make me think something is wrong. Do I need to stop worrying about it or should I start putting a few more pounds of air in so they stop looking like I'm five minutes from a flat? Maybe I should just post a picture to show what I mean...
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I've heard tubed dirt bike tires blow up from over inflation, sounded like a shotgun going off. I can't imagine what a tubeless car tire blowing would sound like.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I've heard tubed dirt bike tires blow up from over inflation, sounded like a shotgun going off. I can't imagine what a tubeless car tire blowing would sound like. A light ringing.
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