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cakesmith handyman posted:I'd be pissed if any car I owned got that treatment, new or old. Doing ok, partaking in a little  and giving my xB it's first wash. Holly poo poo the wheels under the covers are disgusting, does nobody wash under the covers once in a while anymore?
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Lost the tire battle with the Tracker. They are from 2004 and we thought we'd tried driving up 41 but pretty quickly the tread started separating from the tire, at a Goodyear getting all four tires replaced. The thing is rad otherwise, super small, direct and just a solid great little vehicle. Reminds me a lot of my Acty. I get that people have a hard time with the power these things have but it's double what my van has so it feels quite peppy.
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Anybody know if anyone's going to be streaming Sebring tomorrow? Looks like FoxSports1 will be airing it on TV, but no cable.
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Beverly Cleavage posted:edit: responded after leaving the screen static for awhile. helloooo old conversation. I feel your pain man!
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Anybody know if anyone's going to be streaming Sebring tomorrow? Looks like FoxSports1 will be airing it on TV, but no cable. Download the FoxSports1 app and you should be able to watch it.....Idk if you gotta be a cable subscriber or not tho.
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Sorry about the car everdave. If it makes you feel any better, my wife sent me this picture, of her washing the truck with our little one right after we got it. It also had a fresh pretty decent paint job. A week later I noticed both rear dually fenders were covered in light scratches. Pretty sure it was the same thing that happened to yours. My wife didn't like it any better than yours when I pointed out out, and I wasn't mean about it either. The culprit  Then a few months later, my wife backed the truck into my tractor loader bucket, in her words "I knew it was there but I couldn't see it so I thought it was good". Nice long scrape, forwards and back on the fiberglass fender. At least it won't rust I guess.
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the spyder posted:You know what's fun? Getting alerts at 1am that your 40kva UPS is overtemp'ing and the output relay shut off. I can't even. The contractor we hired to audit our power distribution in the DC mislabeled the circuits. My tech just took half my storage offline... 
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the spyder posted:I can't even. The contractor we hired to audit our power distribution in the DC mislabeled the circuits. My tech just took half my storage offline... That'll be a fun mess to sort out / sue the gently caress out of them for.
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At least your possession ruiners are cute kids that can learn from this. My rear end in a top hat cat wrecks poo poo and don't give a gently caress.
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Mar 17, 2017 22:55
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Adiabatic posted:Holy poo poo you jerks let the guy vent a little Yeah, this. Applebees Appetizer posted:Yeah post some pics of the paint, maybe meatpimp can tell you if it's salvageable or not. Yeah, this. I've always been paranoid about kids helping wash cars. Hell, I usually still just give my kids a microfiber mitt and let them go on the wheels while I hit the paint... and I have old cars. ANY new car that gets the scratch treatment hurts.
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Rhyno posted:At least your possession ruiners are cute kids that can learn from this. My rear end in a top hat cat wrecks poo poo and don't give a gently caress. and the irony of that is, you can actually get rid of your lovely cat pretty easy
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jamal posted:Pros ride it, they have more power than you, it's not going to break. Unless you're nm.
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That's likely going to need touching in and wetsanding, but should be possible to get mostly disappeared to the casual viewer.
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everdave posted:not sure how to embed in posting from phone
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Or long-click the image, open image in new tab, copy URL.
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slothrop posted:well I hate to interrupt weather chat, but I've got A SONG RECCOMENDATRON Nice. That is entirely in my wheelhouse. Biodome posted:I would be pissed but once I got over it it would be so less stressful to not have to worry about dinging my car anymore because it's already hosed up. Still sucks, though. Sorry. Maybe you work that way, but I would just get ticked every. time. I. looked. at. it. (imagine clenched teeth.) everdave posted:http://m.imgur.com/gallery/tbkRukp Ouch. A few years old, eh, but 3 weeks? This is why we can't have nice things. edit: Toundra's other stuff is in the same vein, apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwXZ3kZGq3A
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Or long-click the image, open image in new tab, copy URL. Will edit when the little troublemaker goes to bed
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everdave posted:
Tough one. A detailer can get 90% of those out. A wax made for black cars will make the rest of the scratches mostly disappear. It's bad, but the good thing is that "black waxes" are perfect to hide the damage. Edit: on that note, if you have a medium-colored car that has a nasty white-showing scratch that stands out, a "black wax" will hide the scratch really well. The white just seems to jump out at you, but getting a darker color hides well. I tried that on my beater Avalon that has a number of bad scratches, and it made a really stunning difference. meatpimp fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Mar 18, 2017 |
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Forgot to mention: yesterday, I had a phone interview for a position, since my hot company still seems to want me out for whatever reason (I'm doing Knowledge Transfer with another guy already), and frankly, I'm done with working for an outsourcer or any kind of contracting. That one was the one with the company's recruiter, and seemed fine. Basic stuff, making sure that I was who I said I was, etc. Second technical one was supposed to be today, set up by the recruiter, but the guy never called. I hope it's just a miscommunication, but it really took the wind out of my sails that I delayed lunch, scheduled time to be out of the building (for privacy and to not be doing that poo poo on current company's time/space) and got nothing out of it. I really want out of here. 17 years is enough, and luxury retail is going nowhere. In fact, the host company is about to be sold to yet another investment group (which will probably tell you exactly who it is.) I'm going to go home and drink while playing Minecraft. It's almost Zen.
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Seminal Flu posted:Tough one. A detailer can get 90% of those out. A wax made for black cars will make the rest of the scratches mostly disappear. It's bad, but the good thing is that "black waxes" are perfect to hide the damage. Thanks, will do some checking around this coming week. What should be a fair price?
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everdave posted:http://m.imgur.com/gallery/tbkRukp At first I thought you were being an OCD hysteric over a few light surface scratches, but now I understand why you're an unhappy bunny. Did the offspring wash the car with a bucket of rocks?
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Seminal Flu posted:Tough one. A detailer can get 90% of those out. A wax made for black cars will make the rest of the scratches mostly disappear. It's bad, but the good thing is that "black waxes" are perfect to hide the damage. In this respect, I'm kind of glad for the defective Ford white on my P71, where there are patches of paint just *missing*.
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everdave posted:Thanks, will do some checking around this coming week. What should be a fair price? I'm assuming that the scratches are only on the bottom half (where a 2 year old can reach)? I am not really worried about the dishwashing liquid or even the Scotchbrite pad, but the gravel... yeah, that's bad. I'd say $200 at a detailer would be ballpark. Or, for the same $200 you could buy a Porter Cable orbital buffer, some pads and some product and have a bonding time with your wife... and get some microfiber cloths and let your devil spawn help to wipe off.
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Darchangel posted:In this respect, I'm kind of glad for the defective Ford white on my P71, where there are patches of paint just *missing*. Okay I thought I was crazy for this on mine but now that I know it's standard I'll live with it. Huge swaths just gone.
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Everdave, that's a great car regardless of what people think. I bought my Prius C in 2014 as a leftover 2013. It's got ~100k on it now and has probably saved around $10k in fuel vs the Duramax Silverado and F150 I had at the time. It's also the least maintenance intensive car I have ever owned. Yeah, it's not a sports car, but neither is a Mazda 3, Civic, Corolla, etc regardless of what people think. It's the best choice for an A to B car that I can think of. Mine is also at the body shop right now. That 3 stage Toyota paint is expensive as hell to fix. Yours should buff to the point no one will notice.
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Ok thats not rough side of the sponge bad, thats washing your car with rocks bad. Im sorry I take back everything I said.
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Seminal Flu posted:I'm assuming that the scratches are only on the bottom half (where a 2 year old can reach)? I am not really worried about the dishwashing liquid or even the Scotchbrite pad, but the gravel... yeah, that's bad. I'd say $200 at a detailer would be ballpark. Or, for the same $200 you could buy a Porter Cable orbital buffer, some pads and some product and have a bonding time with your wife... and get some microfiber cloths and let your devil spawn help to wipe off. Thanks for info! I seriously might try to tackle myself, there is nothing I hate more than paying someone to do something that I could have done myself. About to begin a massive fence building project because I refuse to hire anyone after seeing the "quality" of the $7k fence my friend just had Lowes put up.
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KakerMix posted:Fresh off the heels of getting that Lexus and still looking for a Samurai for my wife I found a 1991 Geo Tracker (aka Suzuki 36000 miles is insane. Do you know what the story is?
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everdave posted:My wife decided for the first time in 8 years of being married to hand wash a car. The brand new Prius. With my 2 year old. With dishwashing liquid. With the abrasive dish washing sponges. And just let the 2 year old have free reign in the gravel driveway dropping and picking up the sponge (thus acquiring tiny rocks stuck to it). Hahaha holy poo poo I feel so bad for you. I don't think I could prevent myself from having a bit of a freak out about something like that.
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everdave posted:http://m.imgur.com/gallery/tbkRukp Those are nasty but I bet fixable. As everyone knows, being that it's black it'll be a million times tougher to get rid of all evidence of it but I bet it's possible or at least mostly possible. My mom closed the garage door when she had the hatch open on her 4 month old dark blue Forester and a metal crossbar on the garage door scratched the gently caress out of her hatch as it came down trying to force the hatch shut. I got 95% of it out with mild rubbing compound and elbow grease. I probably could have gotten 100% but I wanted to leave a small reminder of her shame.
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So I finally decided to clean the cargo bed on our utility cart, of all the crap that collected on it during our last fencing project. Got unloaded and...why is it still leaning heavily to one side? Ducked my head under the back and, yeah I don't think the leaf spring should be higher in the middle than the ends. ...Ten minutes and $140 later, heavy duty springs, extended u bolts, and bushings/hardware is on the way from Amazon. So that's fun, I need more unplanned projects. Probably going to look at this F450 sometime this weekend. Crew cab fully loaded Lariat, which is pretty weird for a 450. 7.3 powerstroke of course.
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scrubs season six posted:Those are nasty but I bet fixable. Thanks for some hope! Even with all the brown/gold metallic in paint?
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Safety Dance posted:I'll email a guy that I'm pretty sure is on a team and get back to you. Awesome! Thanks!
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everdave posted:Thanks for some hope! Even with all the brown/gold metallic in paint? Get a PC buffer, hard pad and Meguiars Ultimate Compound and go nuts. You'll be amazed.
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scrubs season six posted:36000 miles is insane. Do you know what the story is? The story is some old lady retiree bought it new, then in 1995 sold it to Marie, who had it since then. Them being the high-end snowbirds, the kind that live in Florida and then go somewhere else in the summer, meant that they had it parked underneath a closed-in carport and it served as a second car for driving around town. There is this weird inverse of rust where the underside and body is spotless, including the fuel lines, bolts, all that stuff. The inside of the car though has rust hazing on things like the seat rails, the stick shift stalk and the rear view mirror bar. the interior is mint, door cards are perfect and the only age related anything is the top layer of the climate control labels is peeling and coming up from the labels beneath and the stick shift knob is all chewed up from exposure. In line with that the tires separated from their treads in short order once we hit the highway and as we got into town and on the final streets to home it started having intermittent issues with running, the exact same way that a clogged fuel filter makes a car behave. Considering this is probably the first time it's been at the speeds and for as long as we had it going at I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's clogged, or if the fuel screen on the pump is all gunked up too. Going to dig into it tomorrow and I'll post some pictures in the post your ride thread as well.
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Seminal Flu posted:Get a PC buffer, hard pad and Meguiars Ultimate Compound and go nuts. You'll be amazed.
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InitialDave posted:As I said before, I'm more concerned with durability/wear than outright strength. Some of the narrow-wide chainrings I hear wear out a little more quickly but for the most part it's not an issue. 11s cassette is wider so the gears and chains are only slightly thinner than 10 speed.
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