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Guinness posted:My only beef with the LED stuff is that nearly all the cars have LED running lights as well which have to turn off any time the turn signal is activated, which makes it look like your fancy 60k car has burned out bulbs constantly. Also LEDs look horrible if anyone ever takes video of your car.
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Soarer posted:This is truly terrible car stuff How about a "Common Japanese Vehicle" 10, 12, 14, 17, 19
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Sep 15, 2016 05:49
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Add an 8 mil ring spanner for bleeding brakes and there's basically no job you couldn't do on a 1980-2005 Mazda with that set. Edit: one more, a 21mm socket for wheel nuts and crank pulley bolts.
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Sep 15, 2016 05:55
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It must be because I own a Ford and a Chrysler (Jeep), but I can't remember the last time I used a 12mm. 10mm, 13mm all over the friggin' place. Not 12, though.
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Sep 15, 2016 05:59
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jamal posted:Speaking of HID's I went on a trip with my aunt in her A6 a few years ago, I guess something was loose and the headlights would shake a bit over bumps and stuff. I did not really feel like trying to take apart the headlights to try and figure it out. Probably coolant got in there or something
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Sep 15, 2016 06:01
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LEDs are positively blinding. Something about them needing huge lumen numbers for any kind of usable throw distance. I don't know how it works, but gently caress Acura.
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Sep 15, 2016 06:01
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Krakkles posted:It must be because I own a Ford and a Chrysler (Jeep), but I can't remember the last time I used a 12mm. The 10s and 12s in my toolbox are a disorganised mess, but every 13 is as clean as the driven snow.
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Sep 15, 2016 06:09
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Memento posted:The 10s and 12s in my toolbox are a disorganised mess, but every 13 is as clean as the driven snow. The Mustang I know only because I keep breaking poo poo, so it's slightly less precise, but I still can't think of a single 12mm on it. What car(s) do you have that don't have 13s?
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Sep 15, 2016 07:04
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My boss, who until recently owned a pristine unmodified '98 turbo Supra, wanted a cheap daily driver and fell into a relatives' 2000 V6 Mustang, which he promptly had painted blurple and put HIDZZZ on.
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Sep 15, 2016 07:54
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iwentdoodie posted:I have like ten 12mm sockets and even more wrenches but gently caress if I can ever find a goddamn 10 when I need one. I painted all of my 10, 12 and 14mm sockets bright colors so I don't lose them and can easily pick them out of the set. Matching colors on the wrenches.
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Sep 15, 2016 07:55
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And regarding stupid lights, today on campus I saw a kid driving a 90s Nissan with green marker lights inside the headlamp housings. Pretty sure that's 100% illegal.
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Sep 15, 2016 07:58
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Krakkles posted:What car(s) do you have that don't have 13s? Japanese cars, and almost exclusively Mazdas. Small stuff like valve covers are 10mm, things like water pump bolts are 12mm, brake caliper bolts or head bolts are 14/17 depending on model, suspension is 17/19, crank pulley and lug nuts/bolts are 21. Seat rails are 14, seat belts are 14, etc etc. I have seen the occasional 10mm brake bleeder screw on things like import RX-7s, but the vast majority are 8mm. Those 7 sizes (8/10/12/14/17/19/21) in various depth sockets and box/ring spanners will let you disassemble the entire Mazda catalogue until about the mid-2000s. Edit: ^^if you're running a colour other than white or yellow facing forward then chances are excellent you're breaking the law. Memento fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Sep 15, 2016 07:59
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Yeah, my Honda motorcycles can be pretty much entirely taken to the ground with 10, 12, 14, and 17mm sockets, and 4, 5, 6 and 8mm hex wrenches. e: ah except for the rear wheel on the Hawk, which uses a single-sided swingarm and so is fastened with a 35mm locknut. I use a 1-3/8" socket, which turns out to be off by less than 1%. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Sep 15, 2016 08:18
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For terrible mechanical stuff, my motorcycle has a 13/64ths 12 point bolt for the brake calipers.
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Sep 15, 2016 08:26
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Fuckin' commie metric crap.  I think all my vehicles can be taken 90% apart with a 9/16", 1/2", 5/8" for the big stuff.Oh yeah, except for the bolts that hold the radiator into my truck; those are 12mm for some stupid godforsaken reason. At small sample size, seems like American companies that have lost their way and started using metric fasteners use 10, 13, 15, 17mm whereas foreign stuff seems to use 12 and 14 a lot more often. The terrible car stuff is where you have a fastener with a standard thread but a metric head (or potentially the other way around). I got some nuts from the hardware store for a 5/16" thread (to hold my aircleaner on) and didn't notice 'til I got home that they fit a 12mm wrench, not 1/2". What.
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Sep 15, 2016 08:45
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davebo posted:My boss, who until recently owned a pristine unmodified '98 turbo Supra, wanted a cheap daily driver and fell into a relatives' 2000 V6 Mustang, which he promptly had painted blurple and put HIDZZZ on.
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Sep 15, 2016 09:21
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Raluek posted:Fuckin' commie metric crap.  That's how I felt when I was tearing down the Nova. I could grab those three sockets for just about any job I was doing and be fine. Of course, now that I've thrown a bunch of modern GM parts on it and will continue to do so, I'll have a wonderful mix of metric and SAE and I'll probably have to run to the socket set at least twice for every job. 
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Sep 15, 2016 14:16
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Sappo569 posted:
I think it's amazing that even when BMW does the presentation, BMW drivers are assholes. (at 2:00)
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Sep 15, 2016 15:06
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New car took a good scratch from somewhere the other day. This is how I feel about it 
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Sep 15, 2016 15:17
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I had a co-worker get his car shot up by a bb gun about a month after he bought it. Prior to that he had been driving the same car for 10 years with no issue. Brand new ride? Enjoy a handful of dings that broke the paint! 
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Sep 15, 2016 15:33
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Mercury Ballistic posted:New car took a good scratch from somewhere the other day. My brand new WRX got scratched like that in the passenger quarter panel about a week ago. gently caress idiots.
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Sep 15, 2016 18:17
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Mine is also a 16 wrx.  
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Sep 15, 2016 18:22
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Raluek posted:The terrible car stuff is where you have a fastener with a standard thread but a metric head (or potentially the other way around). I got some nuts from the hardware store for a 5/16" thread (to hold my aircleaner on) and didn't notice 'til I got home that they fit a 12mm wrench, not 1/2". What. In my garage I call that "interchangeable". 
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Sep 15, 2016 18:48
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Haha I was rear ended a month into my WRX ownership. I'm part of the reason your insurance is so god drat expensive.
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Sep 15, 2016 19:01
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um excuse me posted:Haha I was rear ended a month into my WRX ownership. I'm part of the reason your insurance is so god drat expensive.
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Sep 15, 2016 19:54
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quote:The 30.5 m or 100 ft long limo with 26 wheels has many features including a swimming pool with diving board and a king-sized water bed.It is specially designed to drive as a rigid vehicle or it can be changed to bend in the middle.Even it has two driver’s compartments one at each end to help while reversing. Helipad? Pool? Water bed?   Why is it terrible?  Because it's been left to rot.  Sagebrush posted:And regarding stupid lights, today on campus I saw a kid driving a 90s Nissan with green marker lights inside the headlamp housings. Pretty sure that's 100% illegal. Depends on the state. In TX, green isn't really regulated - you sometimes see it on ambulances and fire trucks, but you also see it on security vehicles and tow trucks. If you put blue lights on, or red on the front, you're gonna have a bad time. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Sep 15, 2016 20:08
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angryrobots posted:12 mm and 1/2 in are less than 1/32" apart. 19mm and 3/4" interchange superiority. 50 microns out baby!
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Sep 15, 2016 20:25
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angryrobots posted:12 mm and 1/2 in are less than 1/32" apart. All I know is that a 1/2" wrench barely catches the tips of the nut, and will start to slip if I put any real force on it, whereas a 12mm wrench feels "correct" and will actually tighten down the fastener.
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Sep 15, 2016 21:04
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some texas redneck posted:Helipad? Pool? Water bed? Anything but red(aside from the rear) and blue is fine in TX. Underglow is technically illegal, but there's a Dallas Stars(not team owned) truck rolling around that's lit up in green and yellow on the top, front, and in the exterior door panels.
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Sep 15, 2016 21:12
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Raluek posted:All I know is that a 1/2" wrench barely catches the tips of the nut, and will start to slip if I put any real force on it, whereas a 12mm wrench feels "correct" and will actually tighten down the fastener. A 1/2" wrench should not ever work fine on a 12mm nut/bolt. But it's closer than a 13mm wrench!
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Sep 15, 2016 21:17
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some texas redneck posted:Helipad? Pool? Water bed? It's terrible because it was made out of plywood and dreams: http://www.jayohrberg.com/American_Dream_100ft.html
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Sep 15, 2016 21:26
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Krakkles posted:You're not wrong, his claim of interchangeable is. 12.7mm is 1/2". A 13mm wrench will generally work fine on a 1/2" nut/bolt. A 1/2" wrench may work on a 13mm nut/bolt, sometimes. It was mostly a joke in the terrible car stuff thread, but if we're being literal here, the tolerances on non-pro sockets and wrenches are often awful, and I have observed all kinds of mixed up stuff fitting (and not fitting) that should (or shouldn't fit) in my assortment of crappy tools and crappy cars. Carry on in the literally terrible thread.
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Sep 15, 2016 22:04
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Krakkles posted:I'd be curious to see the actuarial justification for how a WRX is more likely to be rear-ended. I guess maybe if you have a tendency to tailgate and brake at the last minute? I'd think that would still be on the other driver behind you. The way insurance stats work, at least in CT is that is doesn't matter who hit who when making rates. Only when people submit claims.
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Sep 15, 2016 22:08
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I've got a cheap 1/2" spanner around somewhere that actually measures out as dead on 13mm, I just stamped a new label on it and threw it in the car kit after the first 13mm went missing.
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Sep 15, 2016 22:18
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Mercury Ballistic posted:New car took a good scratch from somewhere the other day. I came out of the grocery store to one of those a couple months ago. The loving shopping cart was left up against my car. I know poo poo happens but you rail a cart against someone's car leaving at least a foot long scratch across the fender and don't even have the decency to take it away? It's like somebody just pushed it away and let it go and gently caress whatever it hit to stop it. I wasn't even parked next to one of those parking lot cart return things.
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Sep 15, 2016 23:42
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davebo posted:he promptly had painted blurple Holy poo poo, an image search for 'blurple' is a goldmine of terrible car stuff.
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Sep 15, 2016 23:53
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some texas redneck posted:Helipad? Pool? Water bed? I'm surprised the "after" shot isn't in the same place as the "before." That thing must have had a turning radius similar to small ships.
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Sep 16, 2016 00:04
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 It breaks apart into 2 pieces.
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Sep 16, 2016 00:06
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Lifted Truck? Check. American Flag? Check Not a sign of mud? Check Tiny rear end tires for the lift? Check: 
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um excuse me posted:The way insurance stats work, at least in CT is that is doesn't matter who hit who when making rates. Only when people submit claims.
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