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Is there some new rule about 3-spoke wheels in modern cars? I swear they all look the same with the bottom spoke having the exact same gap and the button placement being identical. I guess it's a solved problem and this was the solution?
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May 24, 2016 22:04
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If by 'rule' you mean fashion trend then yeah. Every car has to have the same buttons on the wheel nowadays to keep up with the joneses and there's only so many ergonomic possibilities offered by two meatgrabbers and one circlehoop. Citroen are still doing crazy poo poo FWIW.
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May 24, 2016 22:26
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3 spoke wheels look a lot better than 4 spoke wheels, by a long shot.
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May 24, 2016 22:36
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My girlfriend just offered to hold on to her old civic through the winter so I can drive it if I get a boxster spyder. Fuuuuck.
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May 25, 2016 00:43
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BraveUlysses posted:3 spoke wheels look a lot better than 4 spoke wheels, by a long shot. Yep.  
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May 25, 2016 01:07
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Residency Evil posted:My girlfriend just offered to hold on to her old civic through the winter so I can drive it if I get a boxster spyder. Marry that woman.
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May 25, 2016 01:32
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Residency Evil posted:My girlfriend just offered to hold on to her old civic through the winter so I can drive it if I get a boxster spyder. Put a ring on it.
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May 25, 2016 01:49
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15k: Ring or boxster downpayment? 
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May 25, 2016 02:24
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Residency Evil posted:15k: Ring or boxster downpayment? Does it have to be an expensive ring? Just give her a piston ring. You'll need some anyways.
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May 25, 2016 02:28
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Wooh nothing takes the wind out of your sails like finding out a good friend died yesterday. Then realising you haven't seen her in almost three years. 
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May 25, 2016 02:37
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On a scale of 1 to gently caress this junk the car, how hard is it to replace a tie rod on a 2001 Accord coupe?
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May 25, 2016 03:00
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Anybody else watching the NBA? Man it looks like OKC is gonna take out the Warriors.
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May 25, 2016 03:16
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Residency Evil posted:15k: Ring or boxster downpayment? Wife leaned over to shout "Boxster Spyder" at my internet-screen, if that's any help. I concur with her vote.
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May 25, 2016 03:18
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Rhyno posted:On a scale of 1 to gently caress this junk the car, how hard is it to replace a tie rod on a 2001 Accord coupe? Isn't a tie rod like, super basic maintenance? Except for the alignment of course.
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May 25, 2016 03:23
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Goddamn car's been giving me fits with hot starts, gonna need to go find my multimeter and check voltage drops on cables. I just replaced the battery last August so it better not be dead already.
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May 25, 2016 03:25
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Wedding industry is a scam, gently caress spending that kind of money on a ring. Get something that looks pretty. Spyder all the way.
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May 25, 2016 03:25
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Wrar posted:Wedding industry is a scam, gently caress spending that kind of money on a ring. Get something that looks pretty. What he says. Don't spend a lot on a wedding. Or a ring. If its for love, you want to save that debt for a later date when you'll actually need it.
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May 25, 2016 03:27
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Geirskogul posted:Isn't a tie rod like, super basic maintenance? Except for the alignment of course. Just want to make sure there's not some sort of weird poo poo I should be prepared for. I did both sides of a 1990 Escort 5 years ago with no issues. The car doesn't even need to be aligned after, it just needs to move a few blocks.
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May 25, 2016 03:30
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Yep, we went into debt for a nice house instead of the wedding.
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May 25, 2016 03:31
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Truth. We used the money we could have wasted on a huge wedding for a down payment on a house instead. Had a small intimate cheap wedding that was awesome.
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May 25, 2016 03:31
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Bringin' it back to construction/contractor being annoying chat: They've been replacing the water mains under the streets, and other road updates in front of my apartment (read: small historical downtown area, so RIGHT in front of my windows) since the middle of winter. Once they woke me up at 3AM in subzero January temperatures because they started working and operating loud, heavy machinery. Or they were still working from the night previous. I was so confused and baffled at the scenario and was CONVINCED that my phone was just being retarded and not displaying the correct time. That only happened once, so I'm assuming that was a big no-no and they got in trouble.
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May 25, 2016 03:37
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I've never lived in a city where it's legal to do any kind of construction near a residential area at 3am, unless it's an emergency (broken water main, downed power lines, etc). Dallas restricts construction to 7am-7pm Mon-Fri and 8am-7pm Sat (no work allowed on Sun, but a lot of people ignore that).
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May 25, 2016 03:45
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Wrar posted:Wedding industry is a scam, gently caress spending that kind of money on a ring. Get something that looks pretty. We got boss wood rings from Northwood Rings. My coworker got a set five years ago and they're still holding up OK. He crushed the ring (with his finger in it) between a clothes washer and a wall stud, and they took the ring back, fixed the crack, and threw an extra layer of wood and clear over top of it to strengthen it in the future. Plus if you bridge a battery with this ring it won't take the finger off. Would absolutely go with these things again. I pocket mine when I'm working on a car or with hard tools, but I would probably do the same with a metal ring. The only additional maintenance is an occasional (weekly) treatment with wax that they give you.
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May 25, 2016 04:24
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Residency Evil posted:15k: Ring or boxster downpayment? Don't spent fifteen grand on a compressed piece hunk of carbon.
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May 25, 2016 05:32
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Might be an unpopular opinion but I think diamonds are really cool and good looking. That being said the car is the correct choice.
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May 25, 2016 05:40
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Ring chat: I'm pretty sure we spent a hair over two thousand for my wife's engagement+ wedding rings, and around 3 or 4 hundred for mine. We want to replace her engagement ring's stone (currently tourmaline) with green sapphire (much more durable) some time down the road, but that's an expensive proposition.T-Square posted:Bringin' it back to construction/contractor being annoying chat: They've been replacing the water mains under the streets, and other road updates in front of my apartment (read: small historical downtown area, so RIGHT in front of my windows) since the middle of winter. Once they woke me up at 3AM in subzero January temperatures because they started working and operating loud, heavy machinery. Or they were still working from the night previous. I was so confused and baffled at the scenario and was CONVINCED that my phone was just being retarded and not displaying the correct time. That only happened once, so I'm assuming that was a big no-no and they got in trouble. My money's on something went wrong and they had to get something functioning at 3am or else people wouldn't have water. No one in their right mind would be doing utilities work at that hour unless it was an emergency (or the work had to be done in the middle of a major interstate).
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May 25, 2016 05:43
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leica posted:Anybody else watching the NBA? Man it looks like OKC is gonna take out the Warriors. Didn't get home until it was over, checked the interwebs for the score, and was pretty surprised. Not at all how I expected this series to go.
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May 25, 2016 05:50
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Wrar posted:Wedding industry is a scam, gently caress spending that kind of money on a ring. Get something that looks pretty. Couple I know did something like that. Her brand new (right after the wedding) Miata has the license plate "MY RING".
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May 25, 2016 05:51
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My wife got to pick her ring. She bought a $35 fake diamond off eBay. "I'd rather go into debt beyond a house and car payment". God drat I love this woman. She then let me get my motorcycle endorsement and barely make money by working on them.
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May 25, 2016 05:58
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It's time to stop wrenching for the night when your wondering why there's no fuel pressure and the tanks empty....
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May 25, 2016 06:43
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The Locator posted:Didn't get home until it was over, checked the interwebs for the score, and was pretty surprised. Not at all how I expected this series to go. Crazy that OKC's rookie coach seemed to be the missing piece they needed. They destroyed Golden State and made them look just plain bad. Speculation is that Curry is still hurt but it doesn't seem like it would matter much anyway. Golden State's record regular season won't mean all that much without a championship.
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May 25, 2016 06:44
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El Jebus posted:My wife got to pick her ring. She bought a $35 fake diamond off eBay. "I'd rather go into debt beyond a house and car payment". God drat I love this woman. She then let me get my motorcycle endorsement and barely make money by working on them. Marry that wo... Oh, right. That's the way to do it, screw those stupid expensive-rear end rings. My parents went with basic no-frills gold rings when they got engaged, and they used them as wedding rings, too. There's absolutely no sense in going into debt for jewelry.
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May 25, 2016 08:56
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Always go cheap on the rings. Go use the money for something worthwhile. Cycling chat : Just backed up 140km yesterday with 141 km today https://www.strava.com/activities/587217782 - high ave speed surprised the gently caress out of me as I've done 656km in the last 7 days, let alone backing up from 140km the day before. Started this week hot with 287km so I'll have a good go at seeing how close to 700km for the week I can get. Still, 656km is pretty drat good and 100km a week more than I have done before. (124.4, 52.7, 140.4, 51.2, 143.3, 143.8)
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May 25, 2016 08:59
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Always go cheap on the rings. Go use the money for something worthwhile. In my parents' case, that was me. So it's not always something worthwhile 
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May 25, 2016 09:01
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I've done 656km in the last 7 days That's more than I've driven this week. 
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May 25, 2016 09:13
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Wife and kids are going on holiday with the in-laws next week so I went to book an hours flexi for every day, discovered I'd actually booked the whole week off back in September so I can poo poo loads done
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May 25, 2016 10:05
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the spyder posted:It's time to stop wrenching for the night when your wondering why there's no fuel pressure and the tanks empty.... I stranded myself this way
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May 25, 2016 11:29
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A co-worker gets to kayak across a river today pulling cable for a 400' span. He brought his fishing pole. How much is stainless steel scrap going for nowadays? Our shop uses so much stainless steel lashing wire for telephone poles and so much gets thrown out. Super Aggro Crag fucked around with this message at 12:48 on May 25, 2016 |
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May 25, 2016 11:58
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I intend to make the ring. Actually, I should finish reading up on precious metal casting sometime. We are pretty much set on debt (my house and our 9 cars are paid for, her student loans are half gone and I'm about to nuke my last) and she thinks expensive weddings are silly. Will probably never go into debt unless we decide to build another house. Now that I have replaced the rear struts in the Justy and Forester, I kinda want to do the front ones in the Forester and the rear shocks in the Roadmaster. They sure need it and I bought the parts long ago for the Roadmaster, just been putting it off because she hasn't ever driven it with good struts and keeps saying they are fine. Should be a bit of a surprise when they suddenly work great.
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Learned today that the sysadmin at my new job has honest to god teddy bear wheels on his car. I have to go see them, I've only ever seen pics of those.
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