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I'm going to assume the Fallout vault reenactor didn't consider things like fire safety or how much ventilation you need in a place like that, and the city wasn't looking forward to the "Hundreds dead in home built shelter fire" headlines.
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drgitlin posted:Might possibly be one of the press cars. One of which Volvo have said they'll get down to DC at some point so I can drive it. There's at least one Polestar wagon in DC. He lives on Lincoln Park. I drool every time I drive by in my inferior also blue station wagon.
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Just a few pictures from work. The Esprit is pretty much my all time favorite car.   We just got a new 911 R in. Silver with matte green stripes and accents. Actually looked really good but sorry I failed to get pics. Also just want to add how much fun it is to drive the Audi RS7, just did a 25k service on one on Saturday. Luv ma job Edit: grammar interwhat fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Aug 28, 2016 |
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Aug 28, 2016 17:05
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ishikabibble posted:
 
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VacaGrande posted:There's at least one Polestar wagon in DC. He lives on Lincoln Park. I drool every time I drive by in my inferior also blue station wagon. I think I've seen that at Cars and Coffee.
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Aug 28, 2016 19:58
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interwhat posted:Just a few pictures from work. The Esprit is pretty much my all time favorite car. The RS7 might be the best car Audi makes right now. Adore it, but the thought of its maintenance costs terrify me.
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Each front rotor is $1000+ each. If I remember right, a front brake job is around $3000. And I'm not even sure if those were ceramic. If you were real conservative on the braking, you could probably stretch them to 50k miles. I don't know how you could though.
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Aug 28, 2016 21:57
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Just don't stop, ever. Then the brakes last forever. 
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Aug 28, 2016 22:00
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interwhat posted:Each front rotor is $1000+ each. If I remember right, a front brake job is around $3000. And I'm not even sure if those were ceramic. If you were real conservative on the braking, you could probably stretch them to 50k miles. I don't know how you could though. How could you have just serviced this car and not known if it had ceramic brakes or not???????? 
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Aug 28, 2016 22:22
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Ceramic pads and rotors are like $10k in parts alone so it probably wasn't it.
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VacaGrande posted:There's at least one Polestar wagon in DC. He lives on Lincoln Park. I drool every time I drive by in my inferior also blue station wagon. There's a white one that street parks near me. Just a paint color away from perfection. Seriously, who buys a polestar wagon in white?
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Just don't stop, ever. Then the brakes last forever. 
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Aug 28, 2016 23:14
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Too much carbon fiber and too many aero details. And the mirrors look weird. 
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ishikabibble posted:Too much carbon fiber and too many aero details. And the mirrors look weird. agreed, 0/10 wouldn't drive ugh gross
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MY MOMMY has an rs7, and it does not have ceramic rotors, FYI. They do offer ceramic as an option, but hers has the standard steel "wave" rotors, which are still fuckoff huge. I doubt she's gone over 75mph, anyways.
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amenenema posted:I think it may have to do with the fact that there are potentially going to be 2,000 people inside it. boxen posted:Well, it's for preppers, right? At the point where they're trying to shove 2000 people in there, the county likely has bigger problems. If some idiots who think the end of the world is coming and want to spend their time masturbating about it, subsequently dying underground in a structural collapse of an underground bunker made of old schoolbuses, let 'em.
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eyebeem posted:MY MOMMY has an rs7, and it does not have ceramic rotors, FYI. They do offer ceramic as an option, but hers has the standard steel "wave" rotors, which are still fuckoff huge. I doubt she's gone over 75mph, anyways. Yea the aforementioned brake job I did two years ago was not a ceramic, in fact I've never replaced or seen the ceramic option. We have an RS7 performance (605 hp) on the new car lot, I want to check to see if they have the crazy wavy edges. Is ur mom single?
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fridge corn posted:How could you have just serviced this car and not known if it had ceramic brakes or not????????
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eyebeem posted:MY MOMMY has an rs7, and it does not have ceramic rotors, FYI. They do offer ceramic as an option, but hers has the standard steel "wave" rotors, which are still fuckoff huge. I doubt she's gone over 75mph, anyways. what a waste of an insane car
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BraveUlysses posted:what a waste of an insane car BMW have issues with the N63 twin turbo V8 motors eating oil at prodigious rates (2qts/service @ 20k miles on the clock) because of all the people who buy them and never go full throttle during the wear-in period All these highly turbocharged high power motors need a workout to live, dangit!
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Aug 29, 2016 19:40
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A redline a day keeps the mechanic away.
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interwhat posted:Is ur mom single? Her husband drives a beat to hell 2002 tundra on its last legs. He bought it to replace his mid 80s toyota truck that just up and caught fire one day after slogging it out for 400,000 miles. His shitbox tundra is parked in the garage while her rs7 sits in the driveway. He's hilarious and awesome.
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eyebeem posted:Her husband drives a beat to hell 2002 tundra on its last legs. He bought it to replace his mid 80s toyota truck that just up and caught fire one day after slogging it out for 400,000 miles. He sounds pretty great. EDITED FOR CONTENT Found on the streets of Chicago last weekend   Turbo Camaro that came to C&C on Saturday. 
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Aug 29, 2016 23:27
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Rhyno posted:He sounds pretty great. I see that truck all the time and when i do the owner is never around. would love to see whats under the hood of that beauty.
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interwhat posted:Each front rotor is $1000+ each. If I remember right, a front brake job is around $3000. And I'm not even sure if those were ceramic. If you were real conservative on the braking, you could probably stretch them to 50k miles. I don't know how you could though. Oh, heres a couple pictures of it. Click to make big!  
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SouthsideSaint posted:I see that truck all the time and when i do the owner is never around. would love to see whats under the hood of that beauty. She was sitting inside when I took the pictures, I didn't even think to go talk to her.
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Falken posted:He didn't tell me the price of each (carbon ceramic) brake disc, but he did say that they cost significantly more than the calipers. AIUI half the point of carbon-ceramic brakes is that you pretty much never need to replace the discs anyway.
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literally a fish posted:AIUI half the point of carbon-ceramic brakes is that you pretty much never need to replace the discs anyway. That's supposed to be the idea. When Porsche first offered them on the 996GT3 and GT3 RS lots of people took them to the track where they turned out to be easily damaged with stones from gravel traps etc and it turned into a big fiasco.
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Aug 30, 2016 03:05
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Rhyno posted:She was sitting inside when I took the pictures, I didn't even think to go talk to her. Crap. There was a lady who talked to me about it before. I assumed it belonged to a mustached trustafarian. Thanks I will now hunt that thing down just to nerd about the truck.
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SouthsideSaint posted:Crap. There was a lady who talked to me about it before. I assumed it belonged to a mustached trustafarian. Thanks I will now hunt that thing down just to nerd about the truck. We saw it just as we got off the bus for Lincoln Park Zoo, so maybe that neighborhood?
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Aug 30, 2016 03:26
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List price for OEM wheels always tends to be pretty crazy. You could get some really nice HRE's or something for much less than 2500gbp ea.drgitlin posted:That's supposed to be the idea. When Porsche first offered them on the 996GT3 and GT3 RS lots of people took them to the track where they turned out to be easily damaged with stones from gravel traps etc and it turned into a big fiasco. Plus once you get them past their max optimum operating temperature they wear very quickly. So driving around on the street and canyon roads or whatever they'll last forever. But get them cooking on track and it's like, oh, poo poo, my 10k brakes are toast. I remember hearing about it being better to switch back to steel rotors for track use.
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drgitlin posted:That's supposed to be the idea. When Porsche first offered them on the 996GT3 and GT3 RS lots of people took them to the track where they turned out to be easily damaged with stones from gravel traps etc and it turned into a big fiasco. It seems like that's something Porsche might've tested.
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The solution seems simple. Don't suck at driving on a track and you won't go in the gravel trap. 
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On the subject of unnecessarily costly upgrades, if you go to the Range Rover website and build your own Range Rover, there are two engine options. The two petrol ones are V8s, one being a naturally aspirated one, and the other being the same engine, but supercharged with +40hp. This upgrade bumps the price up £40,000 or so, somehow. Rather than making a big stupid lump of a vehicle faster, why not take that 40k and buy a... fast car?
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Falken posted:On the subject of unnecessarily costly upgrades, if you go to the Range Rover website and build your own Range Rover, there are two engine options. The two petrol ones are V8s, one being a naturally aspirated one, and the other being the same engine, but supercharged with +40hp. Yeah thats rediculous I can't imagine them selling many of those 
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People have paid ~$200,000 for a Range Rover think about that
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Godholio posted:It seems like that's something Porsche might've tested. "Vell, if you are drivink on track, you buy GT3 Cup car and drive your GT3 RS to track to meet your transporter and crew, ja? No problem."
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So if it's just surface rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8q3DZB_l6M
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Coolest part to me is the wall of smoke in the laser's beam. I wanna see slow mo video of what's going on in there.
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I wonder if that thing keeps chewing through rust until it hits the metal behind or if it just is surface level. I bet it's just surface 
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