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drat it. I need to either stop drinking or lock my bank account when I drink. Three packages showed up today. A eBay order of Snap-On screw drivers/misc tools. A pyrex cup for my Tig welder. And a set of vise jaws for my Wilton vise. I need NONE of these and the total was just under $260. I do need tires for our truck and now I get to put it off another paycheck because I'm an idiot.
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Cakefool posted:Deal with that loving avatar. It could be worse 
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the spyder posted:drat it. I need to either stop drinking or lock my bank account when I drink. Three packages showed up today. A eBay order of Snap-On screw drivers/misc tools. A pyrex cup for my Tig welder. And a set of vise jaws for my Wilton vise. I need NONE of these and the total was just under $260. I do need tires for our truck and now I get to put it off another paycheck because I'm an idiot. It could be worse dude, coulda wasted that on hookers and blow.
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iwentdoodie posted:I played: Sans Boston this is a solid list. Please, please start that mk2 GTI thread; I gotta live vicariously somehow.
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1500quidporsche posted:Seriously are you my loving lost twin or something? My friend and I just did a TSD Rally in the Scirocco this weekend and had Prince blasting the majority of the time. Very serious. And I have ~20 Prince vinyls.
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Lawnmower shopping - Consumer Reports really likes Honda but all the user submitted reviews from people who have owned them 6 months + say they used to be good but are unreliable poo poo now. Anyone have experience in this area?
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Welp. Out of the 3 cars in the house... 2003 Avalon has something hosed in the electrical. Pretty positive it's a shorted cell in the battery, though it still cranks (... very slowly). Tonight all of the lights (inside and out) started going off and on, same with the radio and cluster, then started acting normal again. Parked it a bit, came back out, and the interior lights were on. Then turned off when I opened the door. Then came on when I started the car. Then went off and on several more times. Voltage while idling was 13.4, dropping quickly to <10V after being shut off. Battery was hissing too.  I'm hoping it's just the battery, but no way am I getting near a hissing battery. I'll deal with that poo poo tomorrow.2001 F-150 is shititng its transmission. Still drives for now, but anything below 45 mph = it downshifts into 2nd. Mine just needs tires... Darchangel posted:There was a mounted grill in my back yard, and a gas line running down the wall from the soffit, but it's not connected in the attic. I assume it was supposed to run to the gas line where the stove and water heater connect. The line is still there - maybe I should get someone to hook that up for me again, and run a line to my propane grill. Do any mods have to be made to the grill? Orifices or something? I know propane != natural gas, necessarily. SOME kind of adjustment has to be done, but I'm not sure what. I know propane has a higher energy density per cubic ft, but also tends to cost much more.
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blk posted:Lawnmower shopping - Consumer Reports really likes Honda but all the user submitted reviews from people who have owned them 6 months + say they used to be good but are unreliable poo poo now. Anyone have experience in this area? Buy a Toro! Don't buy through a box store. There's a ton of great dealers around here and it's nearing end of season. You should be able to find a good deal on this-model-year leftovers. I do have a ~3 year old Honda and it's just OK. There's no way I would pay $449 for it again after looking over the equiviant Toro's.
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the spyder posted:Buy a Toro! Don't buy through a box store. There's a ton of great dealers around here and it's nearing end of season. You should be able to find a good deal on this-model-year leftovers. I do have a ~3 year old Honda and it's just OK. There's no way I would pay $449 for it again after looking over the equiviant Toro's. Which dealers do you like? One of the features I really want is a washport - judging by photos, it looks like Hondas don't have those but some Toros do. The biggest feature I want is never having to borrow my buddy's truck, lugging it into the bed and taking it to the shop because it doesn't work. blk fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Sep 22, 2015 |
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Is it coincidence that the VW news comes out and it seems like AI is eating itself alive or is the hive mind just reacting in the only way it knows how, with self abuse? 
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blk posted:Lawnmower shopping - Consumer Reports really likes Honda but all the user submitted reviews from people who have owned them 6 months + say they used to be good but are unreliable poo poo now. Anyone have experience in this area? Remember that no one leaves reviews after 6 months to say everything is loving great. Go to any car forum and you'll find out that that car is the most unreliable POS when that is only true at VW and subaru forums.
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Im glad this thing happened to vw. Diesels in passenger cars are a massive scam anyway and your better off without them
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Although ironically they make much more practical sense in america than they do in europe oh well
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It's the news that the VW "cheat" is simply part of the test mode that has caused me to lose respect for them. I believed it was actually a clever system that detected inputs/behaviour that showed the car was on the test cycle, and reacted accordingly. To find that it's just, well, a switch, effectively, that runs a different map? That's a disappontingly simple solution, and as both Germans and engineers, they should feel bad.
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InitialDave posted:...and as both Germans and engineers, they should feel bad. iDave, please never stop posting. (Happened upon the chassis plates for your old landie last night in the basement. Gave me a good chuckle.)
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IOwnCalculus posted:That's a remarkably simple trigger, and one that the EPA can prevent from ever working again by doing all tests going forward on four-wheel dynos. Do four wheel dynos have a linkage between the sets of rollers? Otherwise the second set will still be zero.
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InitialDave posted:It's the news that the VW "cheat" is simply part of the test mode that has caused me to lose respect for them. I believed it was actually a clever system that detected inputs/behaviour that showed the car was on the test cycle, and reacted accordingly. After seeing that it pretty much used the "front wheels moving, rear wheels stopped = emissions test mode," I'm wondering if a) VW has done that on other models/engines and/or b) Other manufacturers have done the same thing, it just hasn't come to light?
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I'd make the argument that the very fact that it's a laboratory test alone means that the system is fundamentally broken. If they want to estimate how cars do in the real world, actually test them in the real world. That way when car makers try to game the system, they accidentally improve IRL fuel consumption. Hire drivers to drive every new car around all day long for like two weeks, just chilling and driving like normal people drive, with a prudent mix of traffic variety, and do some dirt simple math with distance driven and fuel consumed, and you're done. One of the car magazines has a deal with some fuel company where they do just that, with a standard fuel mix and a standard driving route to minimize variables that might skew data, but it's not the guvmint so it's not *official*.
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Rhyno posted:It could be worse dude, coulda wasted that on hookers and blow. How is that worse?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:gently caress 2015. What happened?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:gently caress 2015. meatpimp posted:What happened? Seconded. Motion passed. What's happen Cat man?
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meatpimp posted:After seeing that it pretty much used the "front wheels moving, rear wheels stopped = emissions test mode," I'm wondering if At least (a) is confirmed: quote:"Further internal investigations have shown that the software concerned is also installed in other diesel vehicles," VW said in a statement.
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This is VW thing one huge loving can of worms. I wonder if the EPA is going to be more stringent on all car makers now.
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At this stage they pretty much have to introduce a test that consists of "several hours of driving on an unspecified assortment of city, interstate and rural roads, while logging the output of emissions sensors attached to the exhaust outlet" to sanity-check emissions numbers - it's hard to game that, though you can't really set a hard limit for it so it would have to be something like "within 20% of spec based on distance travelled and fuel consumed" as mentioned above
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Friar Zucchini posted:I'd make the argument that the very fact that it's a laboratory test alone means that the system is fundamentally broken. If they want to estimate how cars do in the real world, actually test them in the real world. That way when car makers try to game the system, they accidentally improve IRL fuel consumption. Hire drivers to drive every new car around all day long for like two weeks, just chilling and driving like normal people drive, with a prudent mix of traffic variety, and do some dirt simple math with distance driven and fuel consumed, and you're done. One of the car magazines has a deal with some fuel company where they do just that, with a standard fuel mix and a standard driving route to minimize variables that might skew data, but it's not the guvmint so it's not *official*. There are plenty of problems with testing methodologies and whatnot; however, being able to control for as many variables is important when doing A/B testing. It's not perfect or will 100% reflect "real world" uses, but a part of any decent testing regiment is to find deficiencies in the testing procedures and work to fix them.
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Phone posted:There are plenty of problems with testing methodologies and whatnot; however, being able to control for as many variables is important when doing A/B testing. It's not perfect or will 100% reflect "real world" uses, but a part of any decent testing regiment is to find deficiencies in the testing procedures and work to fix them. what do you think this is? ISO9000?
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ssjonizuka posted:what do you think this is? ISO9000? THIS IS THE WAY WE ALWAYS DONE IT YOU GOT A PROBLEM MAN!?!?!
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Holy poo poo, that's pretty impressive. At least mine's all GM. Not that that's necessarily a good thing... I had Genuine GM parts in mine too. I miscounted though, 10 different marques but only 16 different models. I'm probably forgetting some stuff though. 91-94 Escort GT: Block, crank, rods, oil pan, water pump, front brakes, outer tie rod ends BG Protege: top end, main bearing brace plate (the Escorts didn't get that), oil cooler, MAF NB Miata: Pistons (mo squish mo powah), oil pump BF 323: Transmission, axles, flywheel and clutch some random old BMW: air cleaner Ford Aspire: front steering knuckles, sway bar, rear beam axle, brakes and struts 1st gen Kia Rio: front struts Mk2 Golf: Summer wheels B14 Sentra: winter wheels FC RX7: seats, shift knob Civic: shift lever FB RX7: steering wheel Mk3 Toyota pickup: headlight buckets for 7" round sealed beams Isuzu Stylus: front bumper cover 92 Tercel: rear bumper cover '00 Silverado: radio, modified to remote-mount the display where the factory Festiva clock goes, and the knobs went to a switch blank on the left side of the column, the main PCB lived in the dash above the glove box
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1500quidporsche posted:Seriously are you my loving lost twin or something? My friend and I just did a TSD Rally in the Scirocco this weekend and had Prince blasting the majority of the time.  Don't you just love prince? More than life itself. ...Vivian, I have a business proposition for you...(I loving hate Prince but I love Pretty Woman)
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I always admired the Festiva. It was the plucky little car that almost always got overlooked or was assumed to be Korean.
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1500quidporsche posted:I always admired the Festiva. It was the plucky little car that almost always got overlooked or was assumed to be Korean. It is literally a Kia though. But it was from the era where Kias were direct knockoffs of Mazda products- it wasn't until Kia started loving around with Mazda's blueprints to make them their own that they got terrible (like my Sportage: mostly a Mazda Bongo Van but literally every part not common to the van is terrible)
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Yeah my understanding was that it was a Mazda design, assembled by Kia and sold as a Ford. I do remember the interior having a distinct Kia feel though.
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1500quidporsche posted:Yeah my understanding was that it was a Mazda design, assembled by Kia and sold as a Ford. I do remember the interior having a distinct Kia feel though.
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I had a '97 Kia Sephia which I bought for $800 because it was a BG chassis and had a BP, ran like a top and was a really fun car but the interior was poo poo, and Kia felt the need to make the brakes and suspension their own which was 3x times the cost of the Mazda stuff so I couldn't really justify putting any money into it since the interior was basically disintegrating. So I sold it and got a Miata 
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1500quidporsche posted:Yeah my understanding was that it was a Mazda design, assembled by Kia and sold as a Ford. I do remember the interior having a distinct Kia feel though. Yep. And being basically the most readily available, cheapest and lightest '90s Mazda they're by far the most fun thing to play Mazda legos with. I barely even scratched the surface of the sort of crazy poo poo you can accomplish with these things (mainly because I went about it the hard way). And with a few simple tricks they can be ridiculously competent on the track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFOtP0wnXVY This car has a stock Capri XR2 B6T, making a thundering 130hp. Car the camera's in is a C6. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Sep 22, 2015 |
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T-Square posted:Tonight I went on an awesome date, with an awesome chick I've never met before, and we just drank beers and talked for like three hours and it was awesome.  Sleep and soberness are over rated. Had an awesome date Thursday night drinking cocktails and talking. About half way through the night she looked at me funny and asked if I had heard of Something Awful...shes a goonblk posted:Lawnmower shopping - Consumer Reports really likes Honda but all the user submitted reviews from people who have owned them 6 months + say they used to be good but are unreliable poo poo now. Anyone have experience in this area? InitialDave posted:To find that it's just, well, a switch, effectively, that runs a different map? That's a disappointingly simple solution, and as both Germans and engineers, they should feel bad. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:gently caress 2015. Day two on site...I still don't have accounts, training or permission to get on any of the systems 
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NitroSpazzz posted:No, it's too early in the year for this poo poo. You ok man? its september
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NitroSpazzz posted:I bought a Husqvarna this spring, it's been great. Runs great, starts right up and mows grass. Lawnmower man chiming in here to agree with this. I just got one two years ago for work and its an insanely great mower. It has a Honda engine but they make a great engine, starts on one pull every time and uses just a tiny amount of gas compared to my old briggs powered mower.
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