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What on earth does NO SAFETY EQUIPMENT FOR SMOKERS mean? Do the brakes and seatbelts stop working when you light up or something? I do like the idea of boycotting entire states though.
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fakeaccount posted:It doesn't always say that. Sometimes it says "I'm too fat to ride a loving motorcycle." Why the gently caress am I responding... The Slingshot is a side by side trike with a steering wheel, three pedals, and a stick. It may be classified as a motorcycle, but it isn't one. I really don't see it competing with motorcycles, either. It's as wide as a drat car and drives like a car with lovely traction and wonky balance. The can am, in my opinion, absolutely fits the bill as a motorcycle for fat or old people. I don't understand why you can't get over the silly classification that is purely a way for Polaris to sell a car without making it conform to safety regs. If it had 4 wheels but was otherwise the exact same, it would be a car through and through, not some crazy motorcycle car hybrid thing. Aside from just plain not being interested in riding a motorcycle, I'd simply rather throw one of my kids in the passenger SEAT of a slingshot than the bitch seat of a crotch rocket. Yes, it's still not exactly safe, but it's certainly easier to live with, and, again, I don't have any desire to own a motorcycle.
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Feb 18, 2015 06:54
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quote:ASK ME ABOUT COVERING UP MY INSECURITIES WITH A $1200 STROLLER
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Feb 18, 2015 06:56
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eyebeem posted:Why the gently caress am I responding...
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Feb 18, 2015 07:34
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razorscooter posted:guy fuckin' loves whatever OBX is, also apparently fond of rear end Outer Banks of North Carolina. It goes with the theme. eyebeem posted:not-a-motorcycle Someone slap a sidecar hack on a Ducati Monster. I bet that can be done for <$Slingshot
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Feb 18, 2015 07:45
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Safety Dance posted:Someone slap a sidecar hack on a Ducati Monster. I bet that can be done for <$Slingshot  I realise it's for a wheelchair but I can't get the image out of my mind of a morbidly obese guy riding a mobility scooter up onto the platform, locking in and riding off on the monster. About 8000 pounds stirling, according to the website.
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Feb 18, 2015 08:03
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Looks like he was trying to make the wheelchaircycle from Silver bullet: Which imho is wrong thread.
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Feb 18, 2015 14:55
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eyebeem posted:I don't have any desire to own a motorcycle. This isn't a very manly thing to say.
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Feb 18, 2015 15:28
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dissss posted:My flatmate has a mid 90s Mazda Familia which hasn't had any preventative maintenance since 2011 either and that drat thing runs just fine - starts first pop, isn't unduely noisy, gearbox and cluctch are still fine. How does this make any sense at all whatsoever? Change the loving oil.
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Feb 18, 2015 15:34
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razorscooter posted:guy fuckin' loves whatever OBX is, also apparently fond of rear end Freedom Van is a Kia Sedona  'Muricah.
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Feb 18, 2015 15:43
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88h88 posted:This isn't a very manly thing to say. I was in a bad road bike accident thanks to a driver on a cell phone that somehow left me alive and not paralyzed. It left me somewhat paranoid about 2 wheels.
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Feb 18, 2015 15:49
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PCOS Bill posted:Ugh just go buy a new car already you disgusting poor what's wrong with your taste? Are you really this stupid? In Colorado, having a car that is billowing out white smoke and stinking up everyone behind them for a mile is kind of against the law seeing as we have emissions testing. But lets blame it on them being poor vs making poor decisions. I've been poor before and my car wasn't a smoke factory.
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Feb 18, 2015 16:27
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Lightbulb Out posted:How does this make any sense at all whatsoever? Change the loving oil. She makes poverty wages so even with me helping out on rent, she still has to choose between food and bills on occasion. Vehicle maintenance is a luxury. Land of opportunity. 
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Feb 18, 2015 16:55
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Great Beer posted:She makes poverty wages so even with me helping out on rent, she still has to choose between food and bills on occasion. Vehicle maintenance is a luxury. Also know as "penny wise pound foolish". "I need a vehicle to make my meager wages and can't afford another one. How about I don't maintain this one so it goes to poo poo and then I'm really screwed?"
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Feb 18, 2015 16:58
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PCOS Bill posted:The original exhaust probably rusted out, and the fartcans are cheaper than OEM replacements. They likely DID service that. I'm having a hard time believing that fartcans are a matter of cost savings.
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Feb 18, 2015 17:06
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eyebeem posted:I was in a bad road bike accident thanks to a driver on a cell phone that somehow left me alive and not paralyzed. It left me somewhat paranoid about 2 wheels. That's better. And I can totally understand being paranoid having been knocked off myself. I attended a dude who'd been knocked off his bicycle a week or so ago, nothing too serious but he was banged up pretty bad and it shocked the gently caress out of me for a day or so.
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Feb 18, 2015 17:28
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Great Beer posted:She makes poverty wages so even with me helping out on rent, she still has to choose between food and bills on occasion. Vehicle maintenance is a luxury. $20 for an oil change. Skip a bottle of booze or a meal out one week. Problem solved.
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Feb 18, 2015 17:33
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CommieGIR posted:I'm having a hard time believing that fartcans are a matter of cost savings. A few cars ago (Maybe 2005ish?) my entire exhaust decided to give in to the Salt Belt all at once from the pipe right behind the exhaust manifold all the way to the muffler, it had rusted out in about six spots, I hit one big bump and it went WHUMPF. The cheapest shop in town wanted, parts only with labor on top, about $700 to replace from just behind the manifold back. I got a rice as gently caress exhaust that passed inspection/too old of a car for emissions with a huge raspy fartcan for $375 shipped online, header to muffler, and replaced it myself. It sounded like poo poo, it was hilarious looking, but I only kept the car for a few more years before selling it on to someone who also thought it was terrible but my asking price for a running car was what they could afford. angryhampster posted:$20 for an oil change. That's quite the assumption you've got going there about every impoverished person.
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Feb 18, 2015 17:37
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I have to agree even if not the biggest fan of pcos bill. Someone living like that probably eats out never (it's been years for me), or might not drink at all. (Yeah I drink because sometimes I don't eat, but that's just my alcoholic arse, it's not what every poor person does) Also I suppose oil is cheaper there, but $20 doesn't even cover the cost of oil and filter here, more like $60-80. What do you get for $20 there? Recycled oil and no filter change? e: That being said, car comes before bills if they want to protect their asset that helps them earn money. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Feb 18, 2015 17:41
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PCOS Bill posted:
My assumption wasn't fair I'll agree. However if the car is the sole means of transportation to continue working, its basic maintenance should be prioritized over drat near everything else.
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Feb 18, 2015 17:55
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angryhampster posted:My assumption wasn't fair I'll agree. However if the car is the sole means of transportation to continue working, its basic maintenance should be prioritized over drat near everything else. You should read this http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor-people-seem-to-make-bad-decisions/281780/
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Feb 18, 2015 18:01
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Motronic posted:Also know as "penny wise pound foolish". A rich man can buy a really, really good pair of boots that will last for years, can be resoled multiple times, and throughout will keep your feet toasty and warm, and the elements out. $100 a pair. A poor man only has enough money at any one time to buy cheap, crap boots that fall apart after a year, aren't able to be resoled, and are generally uncomfortable and leak. $20 a pair. By year 6, the poor man has spent more on boots than the rich man, will continue to spend more forever after, and still has wet feet. PCOS Bill posted:I got a rice as gently caress exhaust that passed inspection/too old of a car for emissions with a huge raspy fartcan for $375 shipped online, header to muffler, and replaced it myself. It sounded like poo poo, it was hilarious looking, but I only kept the car for a few more years before selling it on to someone who also thought it was terrible but my asking price for a running car was what they could afford. I think you're being disingenuous to use a shop-quoted price as comparison for an ebay/online price to say that ricey systems on shitbox cars are there because it's cheaper. A non-ricey budget system is probably even cheaper than that. For instance, if I look on National Tyres website, the first line they have on their "reduced exhausts" is a Mini Cooper backbox down to £300 fitted. On Ebay, I can get a "performance" backbox and centre pipe for about £170, which shows exactly what you're saying... But I can get an aftermarket non-"performance" backbox and centre pipe for about £100.
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Feb 18, 2015 18:02
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It sounds like she may not be able to afford to drive, but there are few other options (before bootstraps gang arrives: I grew up in a place with appalling public transit. I walked everywhere until I got my full license at 16. The bus sometimes is not an alternative, I guess it also taught me the value of a well paying job.). Tough situation really.
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Feb 18, 2015 18:02
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I think the bigger issue I had is that someone would unironically believe that changing the oil would hurt things more than they would help.
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Feb 18, 2015 18:18
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InitialDave posted:I think you're being disingenuous to use a shop-quoted price as comparison for an ebay/online price to say that ricey systems on shitbox cars are there because it's cheaper. A non-ricey budget system is probably even cheaper than that. For instance, if I look on National Tyres website, the first line they have on their "reduced exhausts" is a Mini Cooper backbox down to £300 fitted. On Ebay, I can get a "performance" backbox and centre pipe for about £170, which shows exactly what you're saying... But I can get an aftermarket non-"performance" backbox and centre pipe for about £100. This is really going to vary car-to-car. My wife drives a 2003 Mazda 6. The stock exhaust gave up in 2012 and we replaced it with a "budget" catback (aluminized steel pipe and a generic muffler) from a local exhuast shop for $130. That replacement just rusted out again this winter. I could either pay another $130 for another cheap catback from an exhaust shop, or for $250 I can have a stainless catback system delivered to me from an eBay seller. An OE-spec catback for this car is about $700, and anything else from a "reputable" manufacturer is more expensive than that. Sure, the eBay exhaust probably isn't the best quality but it's far cheaper than a normal replacement and being stainless will last longer than the budget exhaust I had in the salty winter hell that exists four months a year where I am.
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Feb 18, 2015 18:44
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Geoj posted:This is really going to vary car-to-car.
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Feb 18, 2015 19:05
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Lightbulb Out posted:I think the bigger issue I had is that someone would unironically believe that changing the oil would hurt things more than they would help. Everyone knows when you start putting new parts on an old car, other old parts start breaking. This applies to oil too! A Toyota dealer even had me sign a waiver about it when I asked them to do work on a 100k+ mile car. edit - for parts, not for oil.
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Feb 18, 2015 19:20
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Lightbulb Out posted:How does this make any sense at all whatsoever? Change the loving oil. Wouldn't that run the risk of dislodging all the gunk that is keeping what oil is in there in?
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Feb 18, 2015 19:25
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wow look at all those words nobody should post
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Feb 18, 2015 19:30
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maybe it was just driving home after 5 night shifts (and salt spray going up the sides to make ears), but... (really hard to find an angle on GIS that matched) 
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Feb 18, 2015 19:33
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Stud broke off in a helicoil?
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Feb 18, 2015 19:35
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Sudo Echo posted:wow look at all those words nobody should post Pictured: someone who should have realized they were in over their head and knocked it the gently caress off before they got that screwed. That's off by a full bolt radius and I bet it's not perpendicular to the surface, which is why it snapped when torqued... kastein fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Feb 18, 2015 19:41
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I saw this today, is/was this some sort of test car or camera car? It has manufacturer plates so I figured from a distance it was just some new model camo painted since those are pretty common around Detroit but then I got up close and saw the bumper plate and roof mounts and noticed it was a tired looking Edge. There were two posts coming out of the front bumper that looked like they probably had something mounted on the front too at some point. Fake edit: also only just now noticed some sort of cable taped up the front fender to the roof.
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Feb 18, 2015 19:56
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I'd imagine it has something to do with preventing damage in slow speed impacts during snow/ice testing?
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Feb 18, 2015 19:57
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revmoo posted:Stud broke off in a helicoil? Stud, off center helicoil, and another stud.
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Feb 18, 2015 19:59
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Slavvy posted:How is having three random number plates dangling off the back of your car while the real one is completely obscured not illegal? The one visible in the middle is the "real" plate. The one under the bumper is probably the original plate from '77 and the two others are members plates for a group dedicated to beach driving.
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Feb 18, 2015 20:00
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BlackMK4 posted:I'd imagine it has something to do with preventing damage in slow speed impacts during snow/ice testing? I'd guess it's so it can be pushed back to the garage when it breaks down.
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Feb 18, 2015 20:02
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Lightbulb Out posted:I'd guess it's so it can be pushed back to the garage when it breaks down. That sounds more accurate. 
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Feb 18, 2015 20:03
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Fo3 posted:Also I suppose oil is cheaper there, but $20 doesn't even cover the cost of oil and filter here, more like $60-80. What do you get for $20 there? Recycled oil and no filter change? $60-$80 for an oil change? Good God, what kind of oil are you using? I don't think I've ever paid more than $35 total of a change, using new oil and a filter.
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An oil change on my E36 is around that much, 8 quarts of oil at 8 bucks a pop, plus five bucks for a filter == 71 bucks.
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