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I was told that once it enters the yard, they won't let you have anything with the VIN on it. Is that not the case?
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QuarkMartial posted:I was told that once it enters the yard, they won't let you have anything with the VIN on it. Is that not the case? Depends on the yard's policy. A dude I know just pulled an almost whole Eclipse from a local yard.
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Jun 28, 2015 23:04
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Pham Nuwen posted:You do this every time motorcycles comes up and it's really loving tedious. Actually it's whenever shitheel bikers engaging in borderline suicidal behavior - that typically gets blamed on people not being aware of motorcycles and/or not sharing the road - comes up. But don't let that stop you from backseat modding the off topic chat thread 
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Jun 28, 2015 23:19
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RillAkBea posted:I love the fact that old (for Japan at least) kei cars are cheap enough to be practically disposable. Yeah, if I still lived in Japan I'd definitely have one for beating on/rainy days. I've never paid more than ¥100,000 for a vehicle here, my first car was a '96 Mark II (100,000), next was a 00 Daihatsu Atrai-7 (80,000), and I had an old '92 XLR250R Baja (100,000) that was my daily driver my last year here. Never had to put anything through shaken though, to be fair. Did about 150kms of driving yesterday, definitely getting better. My friend (the actual owner, on paper) is still a bit rough around the edges, especially on hill starts, but he was able to drive us most of the way home so I could have a beer at my favourite restaurant. Saved a kitten from the middle of the road on the way back  Whoa, do you mean you did all the driving school rigamarole to get the AT license without having a foreign one?! I know that is theoretically possible but seems like such a daunting pain in the rear end, a few foreigners I know here keenly regret not getting their licenses before coming and have basically consigned themselves to not driving for the rest of their time in Japan. I managed to pass the (automatic only) foreign license conversion on my first go, which surprised the hell out of me, the tester said I was the first foreigner to pull that off in about a year. I made up for it by taking 8 tries to get a 400cc motorcycle license (from scratch), my marginal Japanese for understanding feedback and a lack of English info available online at the time made it a lot of (expensive) trial and error. I also had to spread out tries over a year since my employers were such wankers about taking leave. All told it cost me about US$1,000, which was cheaper than a school at least. By contrast, when I got back to the US I was able to bang out the whole MSF weekend course in 5 hours for $250 when the only other student in the class didn't show. 
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Jun 28, 2015 23:42
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:FINALLY catching Mad Max. 15 minutes until Valhalla. I have had a religious experience. Av change incoming.
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Jun 28, 2015 23:57
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FYI - I finally got to see Mad Max Fury Road. I want a war rig. Also, the first 3 movies are such a yawn. I mean all I want to see is trucks, fire, cars, and super chargers.
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Jun 29, 2015 00:10
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I have had a religious experience. Av change incoming. ONE OF US E: gently caress I just realized I saw it 5 times in theaters, but was financially responsible for a total of 10 tickets including the ones I bought for broke friends and I sprinkled out 6 or 7 avatars that I remember, holy poo poo I dumped money on Mad Max 
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Jun 29, 2015 00:57
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I went on opening night with 13 friends. It was good times. I was concerned we were going to have to hand out gang beat-downs to motherfuckers talking or using their phones during the film but luckily everyone sat in reverence from start to finish.
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Jun 29, 2015 01:22
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I have had a religious experience. Av change incoming. We have witnessed you and you shall be welcomed to Valhalla shiney and chrome
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Jun 29, 2015 01:55
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Mad Max's final showing is Tuesday here, I think I'm going to go watch it one last time in theaters, bringing my total viewings up to 5. They better bring this movie back to theaters at some point, goddamn it just won't be the same on a TV and home speaker system.
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Jun 29, 2015 01:56
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The only advantage of watching it at home is you can turn it up as loud you want.
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Jun 29, 2015 02:00
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Is it common for a lease to set the number of vehicles allowed on the property? We're looking at a place that's really nice, with a 2 car garage, but they want to set a limit of vehicles allowed. They're OK with 3 which should be plenty but still feels weird. Also originally specified no maintenance on the property. After I complained they said they'd be willing to add a rider for in-garage work if we take responsibility for damage such as oil spills and tire rubs, the same poo poo that you'd get just parking a car and not doing maintenance. I guess it's the kind of poo poo you deal with when renting a nice house from well-off white people... They're loving fussy.
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Jun 29, 2015 02:19
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Maybe they had a bad experience in the past?
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Jun 29, 2015 02:36
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Pham Nuwen posted:Is it common for a lease to set the number of vehicles allowed on the property? We're looking at a place that's really nice, with a 2 car garage, but they want to set a limit of vehicles allowed. They're OK with 3 which should be plenty but still feels weird. Hello -- yes it is very common for the lease to specify number of vehicles, number of occupants, and number of pets. It's also common for the lease to specify activities excluded on the property -- common ones I've seen personally include operating a business, sub-leasing the property, and repairing vehicles. Is it still casual racism if it's white people instead of black people, asians, hispanics, or middle-easterners?
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Jun 29, 2015 02:39
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Geirskogul posted:Totally serious about that $30, if you're up to it. I just got back from the beach. I'll knock this out tonight or tomorrow.
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Jun 29, 2015 02:43
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Pham Nuwen posted:Is it common for a lease to set the number of vehicles allowed on the property? We're looking at a place that's really nice, with a 2 car garage, but they want to set a limit of vehicles allowed. They're OK with 3 which should be plenty but still feels weird. Yes, it is common.
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Jun 29, 2015 03:07
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yes it is common. The dive apartment I had for a year while prepping my house for initial move-in was that way, it was in a kinda lovely area and I think I might have been the only white dude there. All my neighbors were awesome, we all drove lovely cars and the maintenance company had cameras up and signs prohibiting mechanical repairs in the parking lot so we just threw extension cords out our windows across the chainlink fence to the garbage strewn vacant lot next door and worked on our poo poo boxes there, gently caress da police  I don't know why a management company renting lovely apartments next to a vacant lot on the bad side of town with their old washers and dryers and water heaters lined up along the fence (seriously) thought they were above car work in the parking lot, but they did.  Some of the coolest, most down to earth people I've lived or wrenched with were met there. Everyone was willing to lend tools if needed, or jump in and help. I ran into one of the guys I knew from there at the local junkyard last weekend actually.
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Jun 29, 2015 03:24
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When I first moved into my old condo, I came across two guys doing a shirtless engine swap on a Jetta in our parking lot. I therefore assumed that parking lot work was a-ok. A couple years later the condo board shifted enough to trust-fund kids and retired geriatrics that that poo poo got clamped down on. They tried to write up some people who lived there for things that the neighbouring houses were doing (a pair of Somalians flipped early-90s Honda Accords, often including lashing the rad support to a tree and doing reverse burnouts). I showed them, though; a couple months after I left I was in the same area and my Subaru blew a lower rad hose. I went into their visitor parking and merrily dumped almost an entire cooling system's worth of 50-50 all over it.
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Jun 29, 2015 03:50
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For nostalgias sake I loaded up some music I listened to in college...found this on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_QRS_tyUDg Holy poo poo that album still holds up, and the live recording is phenomenal. Katatonia sounds like some sort of glam/death metal band, but they are actually super listenable emotive heavy rock, I guess.
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Jun 29, 2015 04:04
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For the most part my area is full of people that wrench. Even if its god awful stanced Nissan 350z's its still cool.
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Jun 29, 2015 04:25
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I'm generally not against tinting rear windows in sedans and such, but extreme tint on SUVs or wagons can go gently caress itself. I'd like to see the road when I'm reversing out of a perpendicular parking space. Are you all blind or something? 5% is pretty much standard in everything but the front doors here and the only time it was remotely annoying was on the wagon AFTER I did the manual swap and I didn't make a conversion harness for the backup light switch. I actually had to turn my head and look. (Oh the horror!) Parking lots at night are a non-issue.
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Just got back from a three-day, 500 mile jaunt with the GF for anniversary weekend. My E46 330ci/poorman's M3 often sits covered these days (due to motorcycle/jeep stuff), so it felt great to take it out and remember why I bought it in the first place. Went up CA 1 from LA to Hearst Castle, and saw the gross, amazing opulence that place embodies. Saw a few nice cars, but mostly rental mustangs/camaros doing the PCH thing. Frankly, PCH only gets good North of Hearst Castle so I decided gently caress Ventura county on the way back, and took the long way home inland through some back highways/farm country I'm familiar with from camping. Lo and behold, some of them had been recently resurfaced so it was freak-out-the-gf time through the canyons. I've been through Lockwood Valley many times in camping rigs, but it's a really fun road in something sporty and really awesome scenery. Straights, curves, twisties, some whoopdie hills, and never saw a CHP (although they do cruise through there fairly often, so be careful) . Great road. The E46 loved it, but my old Hankooks are pretty tired, and I think it's getting time for a suspension refresh as it just rolled past 80,000k and feels kinda sloppy. Also if anyone is planning a trip through PCH near Hearst Castle I found a kickass B&B in Cambria with amazing hosts, fantastic breakfasts (fresh eggs raised onsite, natch), complimentary local wine/cheese in the evenings and a freebie beer fridge 
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Jun 29, 2015 05:35
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Geoj posted:Actually it's whenever shitheel bikers engaging in borderline suicidal behavior - that typically gets blamed on people not being aware of motorcycles and/or not sharing the road - comes up. It's more that you come off as an obnoxious twat whenever motorcycles or corporations get brought up.
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Slept in the guest bedroom last night since it has some obscene thread count sheets on the bed (a/c also works a lot better in there), and even a couple of Tramadol weren't helping much with the sunburn. Woke up to a camera going off this morning. I guess my mom has never seen my cat sleeping with me or something? He pretty much always sleeps right next to my shoulder or face.  Pham Nuwen posted:Is it common for a lease to set the number of vehicles allowed on the property? We're looking at a place that's really nice, with a 2 car garage, but they want to set a limit of vehicles allowed. They're OK with 3 which should be plenty but still feels weird. All of this is super common. Just lay down cardboard under the car before doing anything and/or if it has known leaks. My last apartment allowed 1 car per tenant, or 1 car + 1 motorcycle. It wasn't really enforced though, unless you parked in someone else's covered parking (and even then, it took at least a week to get them to tow the drat car, which is when I told them what they could do with the spot I was renting) Every lease I've signed also defined how many overnight guests you could have and how often they could stay. Only the super ghetto apartment actively enforced that, they would walk in unannounced (completely illegal) early in the morning, then start looking at how many burned out light bulbs you had (and charge $5 for every bulb that was out), if you'd done any damage, how many pets you had, etc. Since I tend to sleep either naked or in just boxers/tank top (naked that day), they got a bit more than they bargained for when I heard people stomping around. Ozmiander posted:Maybe you shouldn't throw stones, since you proudly posted about driving home drunk and pinballing off jersey barriers. Fully expected someone to bring that up.. Yeah, not my brightest moment, though I wouldn't call it a "proud" post. Definitely a post I should not have made, but I got a well-deserved rear end chewing from you guys over it.
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Jun 29, 2015 06:11
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some texas redneck posted:Definitely a post I should not have made, but I got a well-deserved rear end chewing from you guys over it. Only because we care.
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Jun 29, 2015 06:14
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some texas redneck posted:Any DFW goons interested in doing the Color Fun Fest 5K? It'll be in McKinney. Walk or run, family friendly. I'll probably alternate between jogging and walking. A chunk of the money goes to charity. FWIW, I registered today. If anyone cares to register and be a team or some poo poo, PM me or something.
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Jun 29, 2015 06:21
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If you can dodge a wrench,
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Jun 29, 2015 06:31
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14 INCH SLIT posted:If you can dodge a wrench, Your Harbor Freight is way less dingy and brighter lit than mine. I always just assumed that was the look they were going for.
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Jun 29, 2015 06:35
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Along the same lines, my 4'11.5" wife didn't find it very funny when I asked her to pose next to the 800Nm 3/4" torque wrench.
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Jun 29, 2015 07:25
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A good friend from high school is 4'9.5". Every time you mention her height, even today (she's close to 40 now), she always reminds everyone "4'9 AND A HALF!" as loudly as possible after you say "4'9".
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Jun 29, 2015 07:41
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Leave it to a woman to worry about a half an inch
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Jun 29, 2015 07:48
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Funniest part was early in our relationship; she'd adamantly claimed that she was five feet even. For shits and giggles we measured her, which came to 151cm. She works in imperial, so I casually typed in "151 cm in feet and inches" into google while we were both looking at the laptop, and left it to her to figure it out. She was not amused. 
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Jun 29, 2015 08:23
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I know two tiny ladies, one of them comes bouldering with us on occasion and when we play horse sometimes I have to really think about moves that aren't just blatantly unfair to her considering I have a good 12" more reach than her.
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Jun 29, 2015 08:59
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some texas redneck posted:A good friend from high school is 4'9.5". Ha! The wife always says she's 5' 3 and a half as well!
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Jun 29, 2015 09:36
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I was once personally responsible for a friend's apartment building deciding they needed to put up signs prohibiting working on vehicles in the car park. Felt slightly proud.
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Jun 29, 2015 10:42
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mafoose posted:Are you all blind or something? I wasn't referring to a parking lot, people in parking lots go slowly. Is it uncommon in the US for parking spaces to reverse directly onto a decently trafficked street with normal speed limits? I suppose part of it is also that in the US you just have way more space everywhere, both in parking spaces and on roads. American cars look comically large on European roads, and even a Ford F-150 can barely fit into it's lane. I also wasn't talking about at night, when lights are quite visible. When you're behind a blacked out SUV or wagon, by the time you can see oncoming cars, your rear end end is already in the way. Of course it's doable safely, it's just a massive pain in the rear end.
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What always amuses me when people discuss American roads / car sizes versus Europe is that our trucks are the same width, and they fit on 99.9% of British roads just fine.
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stump posted:What always amuses me when people discuss American roads / car sizes versus Europe is that our trucks are the same width, and they fit on 99.9% of British roads just fine. We have an awful lot of roads where trucks can certainly drive but they'll be half into the on coming lane if they do so. Luckily it's rare they ever drive down them. A lot of our roads are loving tiny.
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Jun 29, 2015 12:46
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I'm from Scotland Up here most lorry drivers are pretty well disciplined at leaving room for other motorists, even on winding, barely two lane roads without a centre line. Occasionally you'll get a couple of lorries or busses meet on a tight section a have to slowly manoeuvre around each other but even that is pretty rare, and usually due to inexperienced drivers who don't know the roads I figure. Admittedly we don't have the high hedgerows England has which are a PITA for planning ahead. Most lorries seem to make decent progress on single track roads too. I remember a while back on the very single track Lairg to Laxford Bridge road slowly catching up to an empty fish artic sitting bang on his 56mph limiter, through corners and over crests. Benefit of a high driving position I guess!
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It's gotten to a point where the farmers and such round here can't be hosed to trim the hedges next to the road so it's been fun driving places not knowing when some complete dickhole is going to appear out of nowhere at 50mph on your side of the road. I remember one particular road in North Yorkshire that I had to drive on occasion for work and going along it even in a van with a high driving position gave me the fear.
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