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Darchangel posted:To be fair, I hate and distrust ball joints that don't have zerks. I've installed zerks on all my balljoints and tie rod ends on my old Audis to make them last longer. I usually keep a magnet on the metal while I drill to catch any debris. Usually comes out pretty clean. I even took a broken one apart and tested for metal shavings from drilling and really didn't find much of anything.
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CommieGIR posted:I've installed zerks on all my balljoints and tie rod ends on my old Audis to make them last longer. I usually keep a magnet on the metal while I drill to catch any debris. Usually comes out pretty clean. I even took a broken one apart and tested for metal shavings from drilling and really didn't find much of anything. That's what I was thinking. A little grease on the drill and tap, and a strong magnet should work well enough.
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By the time a ball joint is making that sound, it's been run dry for a bit. Metal shavings aren't going to hurt much more than that.
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Dec 28, 2016 21:01
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Don't mix new Fords and car washes, apparently. http://www.hotrod.com/articles/drive-carwash-causes-6000-damage-new-ford-f-150/
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Dec 28, 2016 23:51
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Why are antenna masts (retractable or not) still a thing?
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Cojawfee posted:Why are antenna masts (retractable or not) still a thing? Or at least why is that antenna not unscrewed?
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Dec 29, 2016 00:12
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Standard equipment should be no CD no radio, just usb and bluetooth audio from a smartphone. If you want all that old dumb poo poo you should have to pay extra to install it. 
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Dec 29, 2016 00:28
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I didn't know our escape even had a CD player for the first year. I have a 200 CD changer at the house that's mostly loaded, but I can't remember the last time I used it. I'll throw an LP on before I think about a CD.
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Dec 29, 2016 00:54
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Thats more horrible owner failure... What kind of idiot drives straight past the sign that says lower or remove antennas?
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xzzy posted:Standard equipment should be no CD no radio, just usb and bluetooth audio from a smartphone. Most people still listen to the radio, but yeah this is what I want to put into my own car. But I haven't figured out a solution that isn't just a cheap regular car stereo with an aux input. Actually what would be nice is a phone dock in place of the dash, so the phone charges and I have a display screen to play music and also a mic for hands free stuff. But no actual standalone radio/headunit/music player thing. jamal fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Dec 29, 2016 01:52
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"media player" stereos are a thing. No CD, just BT, USB, and radio. They're also very shallow, so you can install them in vintage cars.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:"media player" stereos are a thing. No CD, just BT, USB, and radio. They're also very shallow, so you can install them in vintage cars. Yeah you can get previous-generation digital only mechless players for under a hundo and they're quite nice (even though the UI is often very 1990s Japanese-y) I have one (JVC KD-X-something-BT) in the Subaru and am waiting for Boxing Day sales to fart one into the spare parts supply for the next project. Bonus is that the JVC wiring pinout is almost identical to the 90s Subaru stereo wiring pinout so you can cut the pigtail off a broken stock head unit and make it work. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Dec 29, 2016 02:02
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What's cheap that will do that? Actually I don't even need the radio part, just an amp with a volume knob and aux input/bluetooth, and a charger. Doesn't need to do anything at all on it's own.
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Dec 29, 2016 02:06
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You can have a perfectly fine radio without an external antenna anyway.
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Dec 29, 2016 02:10
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Yeah FM works in town, but as soon as not really close to a transmitter or in trees or a valley or something not so much. But I removed the broken antenna entirely.
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Both of mine are also JVC kdx xx BT things. 80? I use an external amp for the subwoofer anyway. They're like 4 inches deep, and awesome.
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Now that I'm looking, I guess yeah for 70-80 get whatever deck has bluetooth or what you need. Stuff here for example: https://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Car/Digital+Media+Receivers The 290 is like $73 on amazon. jamal fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Dec 29, 2016 02:19
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Ferremit posted:Thats more horrible owner failure... What kind of idiot Fixed. If you care about your paint's finish stay away from non-touch free automatic washes.
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Alarbus posted:Don't mix new Fords and car washes, apparently. http://www.hotrod.com/articles/drive-carwash-causes-6000-damage-new-ford-f-150/ When I worked at Avis in the early 2000s our horizontal roller in the car wash would tear the wiper arms right off grand ams. We had hit the gas to "bounce" the roller up over the wipers. I swear they were made with melted down craftsman wrenches, it sheared the arms and left you with a little stub.
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Dec 29, 2016 05:40
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Reminder that many Japanese and German cars have had the shark fin antenna or one that is hidden, and neither will be ripped apart in a car wash. American Cars In The Year 2016.
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Wild EEPROM posted:Reminder that many Japanese and German cars have had the shark fin antenna or one that is hidden, and neither will be ripped apart in a car wash. I have a Ford and have one of these, go through car washes ever once in a while and it's still attached.
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Dec 29, 2016 09:39
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2001 200sx had the antenna and rear window de-mister overlay work as the same thing. loving ingenious.
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Dec 29, 2016 10:27
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Got to have a really, really good isolated power supply for that, I guess. But that's cool. *Listening to radio, turn rear defogger on* *Radio tuner preamp pops*
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Got to have a really, really good isolated power supply for that, I guess. But that's cool.
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jamal posted:What's cheap that will do that? Actually I don't even need the radio part, just an amp with a volume knob and aux input/bluetooth, and a charger. Doesn't need to do anything at all on it's own.  mini amps sound like what you need, perhaps coupled to a cheap Ebay bluetooth dongle.If you want it to be a single DIN fitting, I think most manufacturers have made cheap no-optical-drive headunits in the recent past, if not at present.
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Ferremit posted:Thats more horrible owner failure... What kind of idiot drives straight past the sign that says lower or remove antennas? I followed the link in the article to the guy's post on the ford forums, and he claims there wasn't any warning signage of any kind. It was also a very  post.And really, I'm not surprised that things broke, I'm more amazed at how it broke.
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Wild EEPROM posted:Reminder that many Japanese and German cars have had the shark fin antenna or one that is hidden, and neither will be ripped apart in a car wash. The shark fin is for Sirius XM reception. You still need an AM/FM antenna somewhere.
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Built onto the rear window like a civilised country  EDIT: Not technically part of the rear demister. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Or like I said previously, dispense with antennas completely because radio is dumb.
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xzzy posted:Or like I said previously, dispense with antennas completely because radio is dumb. Also euthanize all radio hosts.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Built onto the rear window like a civilised country The Audi B3s have it built into the front window.
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CommieGIR posted:The Audi B3s have it built into the front window. poo poo, Chevy was doing that 45 years ago. two wires up the windshield and then out across the top. Looks nice but I fear ever needing a replacement.
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Wild EEPROM posted:Reminder that many Japanese and German cars have had the shark fin antenna or one that is hidden, and neither will be ripped apart in a car wash. Sharkfin antennas do work if properly built, but they cost a lot more to do right because 1/4-wave for FM broadcast freqs works out to a lot longer than fits in a sharkfin properly. RF is basically condensed black magic, btw. My 01 Forester has it built into the rear driver side window pane with a preamp module. A lot of cars are going to glass or sharkfin antennas these days despite the extra engineering and cost needed because a cylindrical radio antenna is about the worst case for aerodynamics there is. The same length airfoil TEN TIMES THICKER has the same drag coefficient, for example. So when you go to a 2-3 inch tall airfoil that's like 20 times wider instead of a couple feet of round radio antenna, it actually improves fuel economy.
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I wonder how F1 engineers feel about those little antennas sticking out of the hood of their cars. They got this machine that cost tens of millions of dollars to develop the perfect aerodynamic flow, and then someone had to come in and gently caress it up by drilling a hole right in the middle and poking a metal pole through it. Given none of the body is metal I would think they could conceal antennas somewhere else but maybe regulations don't allow it?
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Powershift posted:Also euthanize all radio hosts. I don't know about all hosts, but schock jocks need to go. Also morning zoo shows should be considered a war crime. I forgot how terrible terrestrial radio was until I got a work van with no aux inputs of any kind
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Powershift posted:Also euthanize all radio hosts. Counterpoint: http://cjsw.com/program/radio-free-transylvania/episode/20161114 yeah CJSW doesn't really count being public and all, but I'll take any excuse to link this guy, especially the post-Trump-win show Also, the tie rod end that got drilled out in that video a page back is US$3. You'd spend at least that on a Chinese tap if you didn't already have it, and zerks aren't cheap unless you're buying a few dozen. Not much of a value proposition for the type of person who'd need to watch a video to learn how to do that. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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Wild EEPROM posted:Reminder that many Japanese and German cars have had the shark fin antenna or one that is hidden, and neither will be ripped apart in a car wash. I'm surprised the F-150 still has a full size antenna. I really thought all Fords had switched to sharkfin-style. Even the base Fiesta has one.
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Something, something, stagnation in the domestic truck market. The real Horrible Car Stuff is the Chicken Tax
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xzzy posted:Or like I said previously, dispense with antennas completely because radio is dumb. How else will I listen to Michael Savage?
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PCOS Bill posted:How else will I listen to Michael Savage? Doesn't he have a podcast by now?
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