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My parents had a Trans Sport when I was a kid, it had an automatic door which was the coolest. Then my dad blew the transmission because he was always hauling bricks and lumber and other crap. Then the whole 90's mid life manliness thing took over where everyone was buying Dodge Rams and growing goatees like Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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Sappo569 posted:What's that little display on the top left ? That's a digital compass, actually. GM used that same display in many of their vehicles around that time. Pretty cool as long as they were calibrated properly; most weren't.
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Nov 8, 2015 18:29
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Root Bear posted:That's a digital compass, actually. GM used that same display in many of their vehicles around that time. Pretty cool as long as they were calibrated properly; most weren't. 
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Nov 8, 2015 18:32
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KingPave posted:Terrible car stuff: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-07/stolen-ferrari-worth-2-milllion-found-burnt-out-in-melbourne/6921168 At least it died how all Ferrari's die, on fire.
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Alighieri posted:At least it died how all Ferrari's die, on fire. Also almost assuredly they will fix that car.
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Nov 8, 2015 20:04
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How does that work anyway? If you repair a car that's been on fire, the heat from the fire will most likely have annealed the steel. Car panels are obviously not heat treated, but the welding and stamping processes do harden the steel to some extent, adding strength. If that is lost due to heating will the chassis even be safe to drive anymore, assuming they can repair everything else?
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:How does that work anyway? If you repair a car that's been on fire, the heat from the fire will most likely have annealed the steel. Car panels are obviously not heat treated, but the welding and stamping processes do harden the steel to some extent, adding strength. If that is lost due to heating will the chassis even be safe to drive anymore, assuming they can repair everything else? They basically Ferrari of Theseus away the damaged parts, retaining just enough that it can be legally called the same vehicle (basically the serial number plate).
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Nov 8, 2015 21:11
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FogHelmut posted:My parents had a Trans Sport when I was a kid, it had an automatic door which was the coolest. Automatic doors are truly terrible car stuff in my book. Newer Honda Odysseys have them standard. Let me just flip this switch and wait forever for these doors to open when I could have just opened them manually in 1/10 of the time. Or how about I change my mind halfway through opening; I can just hit the switch, wait 1 second for it to stop, hit the switch again, it keeps opening because I hit it again too fast, hit the switch, wait 3 seconds for it to stop, hit the switch, wait for it to close. But the best is that there's a remote switch, so I can hit the switch at the same time the driver hits the remote switch as a courtesy, the door starts opening and then stops after 1 second, and then I have to hit the switch again and hope that the driver hasn't hit their remote switch again as well, wait for the door to close, hit the switch again for it to open... On the other hand, the automatic hatch is the best thing and that's only because you can still operate it manually. Hikaki fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Nov 8, 2015 |
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Nov 8, 2015 22:44
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I've never seen an automatic car door that you can't operate manually. Sometimes they complain half a sec, but that's it.
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Nov 8, 2015 23:40
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Unreal_One posted:I've never seen an automatic car door that you can't operate manually. Sometimes they complain half a sec, but that's it. The hatch on our Escape is automatic, and I hate it. If you lift it or lower it manually, it makes the most horrible god drat noises. But I can open it with my arms full just using a foot, so I got that going for me.
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Nov 8, 2015 23:51
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Unreal_One posted:I've never seen an automatic car door that you can't operate manually. Sometimes they complain half a sec, but that's it. Trust a German to make it as complex as possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxe_b2GRwok
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Nov 9, 2015 00:07
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xzzy posted:Trust a German to make it as complex as possible. Not only complex, but missing things we've had in cars for the past 50 years Truly the future of automobiles
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Nov 9, 2015 00:14
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Sappo569 posted:What's that little display on the top left ? Late but its volume. Faded by 20+ years of hand lotion obv.
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Nov 9, 2015 00:57
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Parked in front of a vape shop, because of course it was. Pardon the photo quality, I took them through my side window. 
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Preoptopus posted:Late but its volume. Faded by 20+ years of hand lotion obv. You have left and right mixed up. Somebody pointed out it's a digital compass.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:46
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Night Danger Moose posted:Parked in front of a vape shop, because of course it was. Pardon the photo quality, I took them through my side window. This is particularly funny because I think of that as a Toyota ist, favourite ride for elderly Asian women.
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Night Danger Moose posted:Parked in front of a vape shop, because of course it was. Pardon the photo quality, I took them through my side window. For a second I thought that was a PT Cruiser
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Nov 9, 2015 03:47
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iwentdoodie posted:The hatch on our Escape is automatic, and I hate it. If you lift it or lower it manually, it makes the most horrible god drat noises. I tolerate the auto hatch, but there's just no way to use it manually. I hated it until I gave up and accepted it was a fully hands off affair.
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Nov 9, 2015 04:37
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The power sliding doors in my Grand Caravan have an on/off switch that allows you to open them manually (while still activating them from the keyfob) it is never set to "on" on my vehicle. It also has a power lift gate that I thought you could manually override, but since the drive chain is hanging outside of the wall panels because it broke I may have been wrong about that.
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Nov 9, 2015 05:48
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Jonny Nox posted:The power sliding doors in my Grand Caravan have an on/off switch that allows you to open them manually (while still activating them from the keyfob) it is never set to "on" on my vehicle. I have a Town and Country, and I don't think the sliding doors care if you open them manually, whether that switch is on or off. Best part is that if you slide them closed and only half-rear end it, they'll cinch themselves the rest of the way in. As for the rear door, I think it opens on just the gas strut when you pull it by hand, which is way slower than just using the button. I'm way too paranoid to try and force it to go faster. I like the power doors because I just park and hit all the buttons, so all the doors are open by the time I get out and get to them.
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The newest T&C I've ever been in was an '03-'04ish, whichever one just got the stow and go seating. No power doors, no power hatch, stow and go seats, OEM 6-CD in-dash, captains chairs first two rows... It was basically perfect aside from being a Chrysler (its air conditioner failed by the time it was 3 years old and everything else was following)
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Nov 9, 2015 16:42
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Night Danger Moose posted:Parked in front of a vape shop, because of course it was. Pardon the photo quality, I took them through my side window. I want, no, need to see that thing try to go over a speed bump.
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Nov 9, 2015 20:39
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The other day I saw a lifted ford escape on big offroad tires. And it was FWD. Almost took a picture.
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Are you saying that FWD cars can't handle unpaved roads?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXVRdSbKDT8
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Nov 9, 2015 22:07
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With all that racket I expected it to come tearing around the corner with a lot more gusto.
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Nov 9, 2015 22:12
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Someone says something to that effect every time that clip gets posted, it's hilarious.
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Holy poo poo that thing is slow. And yes I understand that you don't need 4wd for a lot of stuff but I'm taking about what is basically a focus on like 31" tires.
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jamal posted:Holy poo poo that thing is slow. And yes I understand that you don't need 4wd for a lot of stuff but I'm taking about what is basically a focus on like 31" tires.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I want, no, need to see that thing try to go over a speed bump. It's probably just on bags and parked at its lowest setting. I test drove a bagged WRX and when it's parked it's completely slammed.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I want, no, need to see that thing try to go over a speed bump. I have a feeling it would be very expensive...
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Crosspost from General Bullshit 2: On The Move › Millennial.jpgVic Boss posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os8V1EZNI8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os8V1EZNI8A&t=710s I'll let you all discover the terrible car stuff slowly...
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Sappo569 posted:Crosspost from General Bullshit 2: On The Move › Millennial.jpg It took me a second.
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jamal posted:Holy poo poo that thing is slow. And yes I understand that you don't need 4wd for a lot of stuff but I'm taking about what is basically a focus on like 31" tires.  I'd drive the poo poo out of that
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Sappo569 posted:I'll let you all discover the terrible car stuff slowly... What the hell?
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jamal posted:Holy poo poo that thing is slow. And yes I understand that you don't need 4wd for a lot of stuff but I'm taking about what is basically a focus on like 31" tires. It's actually more like a Mazda 626.
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Sagebrush posted:
Its got a kind of modernized baja bug thing going on, I kinda like it.
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Sagebrush posted:
Daihatsu Fourtrak/Rocky/Rugger chassis underneath, I approve.
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Nov 10, 2015 11:45
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 On a colleague's car.
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Ormy posted:
Would be better on an MR2 Spyder
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Safety Dance posted:Would be better on an MR2 Spyder Passed 
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