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When I had my E34 crawling my car forward a foot or so with the starter was a thing I did every month or so after driving our other automatic car for a few days.
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Honda Goldwings use the starter motor and some transmission wizardry to reverse the bike with the engine running.
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Don't you all have an 'Accessories' setting? No need to start the car. EDIT: For the window controls etc I mean. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Aug 29, 2016 |
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Aug 29, 2016 10:06
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I was taught in driving school that if you stall your car on a train track and the car won't start again you use the starter to roll the car off the tracks in 1st gear.
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Aug 29, 2016 11:13
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Humphreys posted:Don't you all have an 'Accessories' setting? No need to start the car. Probably, but we aren't the ones who need to protected from ourselves with a clutch safety switch*. *: Lots of other things, probably, but not that.
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Aug 29, 2016 14:13
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Enourmo posted:I've heard that as an unironic argument, actually. Like if your engine dies in stop-and-go traffic or whatever, you can use the starter motor to sort of crank your way over to the shoulder. I did it just a few weeks ago to back my dead-ECU Civic up the driveway. Defeating the clutch safety switch is not hard. Later, when the ECU was in and I had reconnected the switch, I tried to start the car with my right foot on the clutch, got my feet mixed up and hit my garage door by popping the clutch so uh e: I just came back and read this again, what argument am I trying to make here? ee: Yup back again. "Clutch safety switches are a thing that exists, also I shouldn't be allowed to operate a motor vehicle?" Good one. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Aug 29, 2016 |
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Enourmo posted:I've heard that as an unironic argument, actually. Like if your engine dies in stop-and-go traffic or whatever, you can use the starter motor to sort of crank your way over to the shoulder. My grandfather has actually done this when his car died in the middle of the road. Granted, this was probably 30-40 years ago.
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I saw a Crosscabriolet in the flesh Why God
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Top Hats Monthly posted:I saw a Crosscabriolet in the flesh Top up or down?
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If you depress the clutch before the engine oil has circulated enough you are putting pressure on the crankshaft thrust bearings while they aren't lubricated and causing unnecessary wear and eventually crankwalk. This is reason every DSM owner gives for crankwalk, it's definitely not caused by their shoddily upping the turbo boost, 1000lb aftermarket clutches or generally beating the poo poo out of their 20 year old cars.
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Goober Peas posted:Top up or down? Does it really matter? They're hideous either way....
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reddeathdrinker posted:Does it really matter? They're hideous either way.... I've yet to see photos of that new convertible Evoque with the top up. I can only imagine what that looks like. Edit: haha  Look in the tunk! (He must mean trunk) 
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Clutch-Safety-Switch chat: I had the clutch cable on my '88 Subaru Leone break in rush hour traffic, the only way I got it home was to put it in 2nd until it died at stoplights and then when the light turned green, hit the starter and give it some gas, and away you go.
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I realize everyone is in different financial situations, but these all sound like reasons to get a tow and mechanical help immediately.
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The Ferret King posted:I realize everyone is in different financial situations, but these all sound like reasons to get a tow and mechanical help immediately. Yeah I was living off of $1500/month in a town/state that has a cost of living 1/3-1/2 higher than the US average with no way of moving anywhere else. It was a $150 car. I drove it to the parts store and bought the clutch cable. My life is better now.
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Aug 29, 2016 18:54
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Enourmo posted:I've heard that as an unironic argument, actually. Like if your engine dies in stop-and-go traffic or whatever, you can use the starter motor to sort of crank your way over to the shoulder. Clutch safety switches have their place but having an override switch is really nice. A coworker's '13 Tacoma has one, I believe. The Ferret King posted:I realize everyone is in different financial situations, but these all sound like reasons to get a tow and mechanical help immediately.  I mean, if you want to bring it to a shop anyways, and lose your car for several days while someone else is working on it, by all means call a tow truck. Me, I probably already figured out what went wrong with it, I'll limp it to the nearest parts store, fix it, and be the same hour late to my destination that you were waiting for the tow truck, getting towed home, and taking another car.
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Dannywilson posted:Yeah I was living off of $1500/month in a town/state that has a cost of living 1/3-1/2 higher than the US average with no way of moving anywhere else. This is me right now. Except I keep throwing money at stupid old cars.
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The Ferret King posted:I realize everyone is in different financial situations, but these all sound like reasons to get a tow and mechanical help immediately. Eh, this was after the tow truck dropped me off in my driveway. I had to move it up the driveway to make room for another car to park.
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The Ferret King posted:I realize everyone is in different financial situations, but these all sound like reasons to get a tow and mechanical help immediately. If it still moves, drives and brakes I don't see the issue. I may be jaded and warped though, brake issues or a wheel detaching with no easy way to reattach is pretty much the only reason I'd tow at this point. Or buying a certain RX7 three hours from where I live 
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Powershift posted:And that's why you always leave a note. Thank you.
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Powershift posted:And that's why you always leave a note. God. Damnit. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of this immediately.
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Aug 29, 2016 21:08
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Linux Nazi posted:God. Damnit. Being in england, there's a good chance she'll be all right.
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"I don't understand why my wiper isn't getting rid of this streak on my windshield.
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Plenty of spare parking in this campus lot, but it's at odds with their desire to also be within 50 ft of the front door. They decided to make their own front row space, so a friend and I obliged by making their spot even more special. 
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Aug 29, 2016 23:59
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davebo posted:I've yet to see photos of that new convertible Evoque with the top up. I can only imagine what that looks like. All it needs is a roll bar where the b-pillar used to be and it becomes the Bitch Basket of the 21st century.
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Coydog posted:Plenty of spare parking in this campus lot, but it's at odds with their desire to also be within 50 ft of the front door. They decided to make their own front row space, so a friend and I obliged by making their spot even more special. Sir, I believe you've made a mistake. That is a corvette, they go vroom vroom. Mazdas go zoom zoom!
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Rhyno posted:"I don't understand why my wiper isn't getting rid of this streak on my windshield. There's this old ute that comes into work where one of the wiper blades is missing and instead of buying a new blade for a couple of dollars and a few minutes work, they have tied chuxx wipes to each of the mounting arms so it doesnt scratch the window when they use it.
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The Tacoma's have had a clutch start cancel for a while, my 00 has one. Apparently my first drive experience was around age 1 in my folks Rabbit when I turned the key while it was parked and I lurched it a few feet. The cancel switch is great the once a decade when you need it.
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Aug 30, 2016 01:24
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Coydog posted:Plenty of spare parking in this campus lot, but it's at odds with their desire to also be within 50 ft of the front door. They decided to make their own front row space, so a friend and I obliged by making their spot even more special. That's great. If they do that again you should do it up like handicapped parking -- a sign that says something like "cool guy fast car parking only" and those big diagonal buffer/caution bars on the street filling in the extra space. edit: maybe draw in a red carpet?
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Coydog posted:Plenty of spare parking in this campus lot, but it's at odds with their desire to also be within 50 ft of the front door. They decided to make their own front row space, so a friend and I obliged by making their spot even more special. No passive aggressive sticker or card, no car damage..... this is how to correctly respond to idiot parking. Great work, cant wait to see more 
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The flip side of this.. not-passive-aggressive display of sidewalk chalk ownership is that your amateur lanemarkings have just okayed everyone else to start parking in that slot like that. Nice work.
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Ether Frenzy posted:The flip side of this.. not-passive-aggressive display of sidewalk chalk ownership is that your amateur lanemarkings have just okayed everyone else to start parking in that slot like that. Nice work. You're the guy who intentionally farts at the bar when some other guys are talking about how much they like a beer, aren't you?
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That's a weird leap to make over me observing that people will now start parking in those new slots now that they've been made officially sanctioned by existing, but no, I don't even really know what that means.
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Aug 30, 2016 02:17
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I'm really stupid and love to poo poo in my pants.
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Aug 30, 2016 02:43
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Yes. The official sidewalk chalk markings. Legally binding road signage.
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You heard it here folks, if you draw chalk lines on pavement that makes it okay to park there!
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Hm yes I definitely said it made it now legal to park there and not "give idiots a suggestion about new ways to be idiots and they'll take it". Carry on.
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Aug 30, 2016 03:09
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You seem fun.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:No passive aggressive sticker or card, no car damage..... this is how to correctly respond to idiot parking. The proper response would be to have a tow truck dispatched to the parking lot so the offending vehicle can be removed.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Hm yes I definitely said it made it now legal to park there and not "give idiots a suggestion about new ways to be idiots and they'll take it". Carry on. You're a big dummy.
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