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Ahh the steam fair with the traction engines running the victorian era rides.
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MrYenko posted:My Volt does this. Ive done it with the keys in my pocket as well. I haven't done it yet during precipitation, but it's a really, really dumb feature. It really is stupid. The one use case is if you're walking back to your car on a hot day and can't bare to stand for a second after lowering the windows, and the detraction is potentially ruining your car because you forgot to take your keys out of your pocket while sitting down. Looking online it can probably be disabled with a bit of work, but I wish it was just a setting in the dash (that was disabled by default.) Geoj posted:Does it work to put the windows up? I could see that feature being useful in the event you left your windows down on a warm day and it suddenly starts raining... Yes, you hold the lock button for a few seconds and the windows come back up.
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May 20, 2015 15:26
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tyler274 posted:It really is stupid. The one use case is if you're walking back to your car on a hot day and can't bare to stand for a second after lowering the windows, and the detraction is potentially ruining your car because you forgot to take your keys out of your pocket while sitting down. It's a fantastic feature when it's 90+ degrees every day from May to October like where I live and you have stupid leather seats that will give you an actual burn. Opening the sunroof and windows expels most of the 140 degree air that's inside the car (and yes, I've left a thermometer inside to check).
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May 20, 2015 15:36
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tyler274 posted:It really is stupid. The one use case is if you're walking back to your car on a hot day and can't bare to stand for a second after lowering the windows, and the detraction is potentially ruining your car because you forgot to take your keys out of your pocket while sitting down. Between this and the whole "using a repeater to unlock your car with the keys in the house" it sounds like you need a Faraday cage to hold your keys! I would have worried about this in Vermont, but I parked far enough away that the keys didn't work inside. Also, my 3 series key has a really, really short range, yours must be made of magic or something.
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May 20, 2015 15:52
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wallaka posted:It's a fantastic feature when it's 90+ degrees every day from May to October like where I live and you have stupid leather seats that will give you an actual burn. Opening the sunroof and windows expels most of the 140 degree air that's inside the car (and yes, I've left a thermometer inside to check). Which is why you can unlock the car and open the windows with the buttons on the drivers armrest. As you said, It's a feature that is certainly extremely helpful in some situations but poses significant risks (which is why I said it should be disabled by default.) tyler274 fucked around with this message at 16:46 on May 20, 2015 |
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May 20, 2015 16:42
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tyler274 posted:Which is why you can unlock the car and open the windows with the buttons on the drivers armrest. As you said, It's a feature that is certainly extremely helpful in some situations but poses significant risks (which is why I said it should be disabled by default.) It's a feature that is disabled by default on VWs. You have to turn it on using Vagcom.
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May 20, 2015 16:47
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Wasabi the J posted:cummin up on a tire change hopefully. Yea they are all overcompensating d bags but they got money to burn and always needing tires bearings and brakes and exhaust work cause they drive like poo poo so i love having them in my shop.
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May 20, 2015 16:48
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veedubfreak posted:It's a feature that is disabled by default on VWs. You have to turn it on using Vagcom. Doing a few cursory google searches, the feature used to be disabled by default on BMWs sold in the US, and you had to change some variables in the car's code to enable it. I guess that policy changed in the last few years.
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May 20, 2015 16:49
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My '06 325i has that feature, and I agree it great for hot days so I can open the windows while I'm walking up. Mine doesnt' close the windows with the lock button though, which would actually be more useful when I invariably forget to roll the rear windows back up and get out of the car.
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May 20, 2015 17:08
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Funzo posted:My '06 325i has that feature, and I agree it great for hot days so I can open the windows while I'm walking up. Mine doesnt' close the windows with the lock button though, which would actually be more useful when I invariably forget to roll the rear windows back up and get out of the car. You can code that in with one of the software bits. I can't recall if BMWhat (now Carly for BMW) does it, you might need a laptop and the whole suite.
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My '08 3-series (the V8 one) has a programmable timer that will crack the windows and pull in fresh air through the blower to get hot air out and then put the windows back up when it's done. It recommends only using it once per day to avoid draining the battery but it's pretty handy to have it do that 5 minutes before coming back out to a hot car after work, on the occasion I have to park on the roof.
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Ether Frenzy posted:My '08 3-series (the V8 one) has a programmable timer that will crack the windows and pull in fresh air through the blower to get hot air out and then put the windows back up when it's done. This isn't new actually...my '94 BMW has this as well. I've never messed with it though
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Wasabi the J posted:cummin up on a tire change hopefully. No way brah, those have at least another 20k of life left - you can't even see the cords yet!
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tyler274 posted:Doing a few cursory google searches, the feature used to be disabled by default on BMWs sold in the US, and you had to change some variables in the car's code to enable it. I guess that policy changed in the last few years. My old E34 sort of met in the middle on this feature. You could turn your key into the door lock and hold it to have all the windows roll down and the sun roof pop up or vice versa. Pretty useful if I'd left a window down or wanted to purge the car of hot air.
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May 21, 2015 04:46
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If I had to guess, axle tramp on a leaf-sprung live axle caused a failure of either the RHS spring or mounts, at which point the axle assembly rotated relative to the surviving LHS mount, creating a force vector for which it wasn't designed, thus precipitating a second point of failure. From there, nothing's* actually holding the axle captive any more and it's free to roam the world, looking for another axle with which it can settle down and start squirting out other 8.25" diffs. Assuming that it wasn't just a failure to torque important things. *: brake lines, like earthing straps, don't count as mounting hardware. Edit, better explanation: The rear axle has pupated, and has burst forth from its chrysalis. Once exposed to air, its wings and exoskeleton will harden and then it will set off to find a mate. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 13:09 on May 21, 2015 |
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May 21, 2015 11:40
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It's good for whoever was driving that the back end of the car went up over the curb. Getting into an accident with another vehicle because yours decided to spontaneously disassemble itself would be kind of difficult to explain "No, you see officer..."
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May 21, 2015 12:58
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Hood pins by Igor.
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Protocol7 posted:
Almost-bald nitto mud grapplers: the telltale sign of a dipshit
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May 21, 2015 15:18
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Nah, he's just being environmentally conscious. Why use new tires when these old ones still work just fine?
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tyler274 posted:It really is stupid. The one use case is if you're walking back to your car on a hot day and can't bare to stand for a second after lowering the windows, and the detraction is potentially ruining your car because you forgot to take your keys out of your pocket while sitting down. Chevy doesn't have the lock/roll up feature. Also, the thing has remote start, which means I can remotely turn the air conditioning on, which is a hell of a lot better than swapping the hot inside air for only-slightly-less-hot outside air. Apparently it can be disabled, but the dealer has to do it. Asking a GM dealer to do anything more complicated than tie their shoelaces is dangerous.
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kastein posted:Almost-bald nitto mud grapplers: the telltale sign of a dipshit "I bought these really expensive off road tires so I could ruin them on roads" 
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CommieGIR posted:"I bought these really expensive off road tires so I could ruin them on roads" Why do I keep having to replace my tires every 6 months!? They cost $200 a pop!
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IPCRESS posted:The rear axle has pupated, and has burst forth from its chrysalis. Once exposed to air, its wings and exoskeleton will harden and then it will set off to find a mate. Pretty sure it's this tbh.
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kastein posted:Almost-bald nitto mud grapplers: the telltale sign of a dipshit This is on I-25 somewhere isn't it 
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Tremek posted:This is on I-25 somewhere isn't it They're everywhere  some banjo playing fucktard posted:22" rims fit Chevy or dodge 8 lug no curb rash couple spots the powder coat chipped has 325/50R22 Nitto Terra Grappler tires 2 tires r good 2 r not 600$  Allow me to translate the bolded portion: "I am too much of a retard to get my alignment fixed and burned up a pair of front tires in five thousand miles" ANOTHER |
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May 22, 2015 04:56
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kastein posted:They're everywhere Man, ain't that the truth. We've been undergoing mad construction/expansion at work the last couple of years, and since we're within Los Angeles area ~~reasonable commute range~~ we get a ton of 909 Krew bros. It got to the point where I considered starting a brotruck review blog. So many nittos and general grabbers. My favorite that I think I posted before - this thing was driven onsite every morning for months with it's tiny dangling penis poking out front. At least the coopers weren't bald yet. 
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You would not believe the amount of people who buy huge trucks and don't think about the price of tires. Then they run them bald to save money but still believe their vehicle is safe for winter driving and crash into everything making my insurance go up. It's a tire shaped poo poo circle that begins and ends in the brain of a suburban dad who builds a deck and suddenly needs a truck.
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Speaking of trucks: Here in Australia Dodge Rams cost a fortune, this family had just paid $110 000 for a 2013 model that was imported/converted (I think thats why it cost heaps). Cause of fire: Electrical Fault in the truck....The terrible car stuff is what the conversion company must have done with the electrics to cause the fire.
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Funny, I saw a Honda Ridgeline last night, debadged with a two-tone paint job, blacked out windows, huge light bar on the front, and a brand new set of Nitto Grapplers. Looked like it was just detailed, not that it had ever gotten dirty.
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Humphreys posted:Speaking of trucks: That's a MegaCab too they are looooooong as hell.
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Humphreys posted:Speaking of trucks: It's a Dodge, did the company have to do anything to cause that?
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Ford must be introducing a new 250 or 350 as I saw one all dazzle camo'd up yesterday on my way home. Michigan mfg plates down in Colorado for some reason. It was already smoking like a 100k mile never changed the oil car.
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veedubfreak posted:Ford must be introducing a new 250 or 350 as I saw one all dazzle camo'd up yesterday on my way home. Michigan mfg plates down in Colorado for some reason. It was already smoking like a 100k mile never changed the oil car. All summer long I see convoys of Michigan Dealer Plates along I-70. They always cruise the limit too - terrible seeing a gang of Challengers going at that slow clip, worse when I saw a group of Porsches a month or two ago.
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veedubfreak posted:Ford must be introducing a new 250 or 350 as I saw one all dazzle camo'd up yesterday on my way home. Michigan mfg plates down in Colorado for some reason. It was already smoking like a 100k mile never changed the oil car. 2016. We know it's aluminum because one burned down.
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Humphreys posted:Speaking of trucks: What does the Dodge Ram have that trucks more available in Australia don't? Is it a size thing, or just a "hur hur check out my sweet USDM import?" The Ram isn't particularly special compared to other trucks here so it seems odd that someone would pay a huge premium to import one unless it has some cool feature I've overlooked.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What does the Dodge Ram have that trucks more available in Australia don't? Is it a size thing, or just a "hur hur check out my sweet USDM import?" As far as I can tell, the Ford Ranger/Toyota Hilux-class are the biggest pickups currently available from the manufacturer in Australia. That and car-based utes. Australia is a weird parallel universe where the ute rose to prominence instead of the pickup truck..
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What does the Dodge Ram have that trucks more available in Australia don't? Is it a size thing, or just a "hur hur check out my sweet USDM import?" It is 100% this. It's usually middle aged white people with an irrational love of "americana" that they don't really understand at all. This is why here you can buy a 2001 F150 Harley Davidson edition for a mere 35 grand! Or if you're from the other side of the V8 MATE camp you can buy a 2005 Chevy Silverado SS for only 60 grand! Finally, a Dodge Ram 1500 2003 for 42,000. They have no benefits over a australian/NZDM ute whatsoever and, indeed, are actually extra useless here because they don't fit in any of the parking spots and are often too wide for driveways/side roads so literally the only reason to buy one is having too much money, not enough sense and a hard-on for american wankery.* *:no offence to americans intended.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What does the Dodge Ram have that trucks more available in Australia don't? Is it a size thing, or just a "hur hur check out my sweet USDM import?" It is a lot bigger?
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