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For comparison the longest drive I did in a single sitting was the Townsville to Brisbane run.  Things to note: - I never left my state - Brisbane is my nearest capital city - I will risk life and limb so I don't have to spend a second longer than necessary in a car with my sister in-law.
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What's in Townsville? Sounds made up.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What's in Townsville? Humidity, mosquitoes, bogans, umm... that's about it.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What's in Townsville? Army guys and bogans? Its a major port for shipping coal, cows and cane sugar as well as being home to the largest army base in Australia. I'm often in traffic with APC's and Bushmasters.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsville
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Memento posted:bogans This needs to be said, no body likes a bogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8gJoT5yl4
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What's in Townsville? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTqkCMZBf4
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What's in Townsville? 
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Meydey posted:With a varying amount of solid traffic, and might as well be on the moon nothing. That'd just the CONGRESS CREATED DUSTBOWL. There are also some mountains when you get far enough north.
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No one posted this. Why. So disappointed in you, Goons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yufEeJ6mni0
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Missoula, mt to Fargo, nd is 955mi, and they are neighboring states. I have done it in a car way too many times. Or most of the Canadian provinces n to s.
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It once took me 6 hours to get from Uttoxeter to Stoke on Trent, that's 11 miles. I ran out of biscuits.
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jamal posted:Missoula, mt to Fargo, nd is 955mi, and they are neighboring states. I have done it in a car way too many times. I did that on a bike (well kind, I was a bit north of Missoula). And it was a pretty small fraction (<1/4) of my trip. I kinda want to do an end to end ride in the UK, but it seems to short too really brag about and that is why anyone really does type II fun. cakesmith handyman posted:It once took me 6 hours to get from Uttoxeter to Stoke on Trent, that's 11 miles. I ran out of biscuits. Seriously though, when I lived in SoCal, driving 60mi to a concert in Hollywood or whatever from redlands, and then driving back home when it was over was really NBD and fairly typical. SoCal is just so goddamn huge. And it is literally one coninious suburb until you get close to DTLA when it becomes more urban. nm fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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tobu posted:For comparison the longest drive I did in a single sitting was the Townsville to Brisbane run. Good effort. That was on some of our countries worst highways too. gently caress all dual carraige and you have to battle lovely roads full of potholes and roads that go directly through the heart of cities/towns on the way. No freeways there! Some terrible car related stuff from a stretch of that trip currently is the town of Rockhampton. It floods quite often after cyclones and built a big bridge/dual carraige system of roads on the southern (from memory) side to 'flood proof' the place. I'm getting reports from friends in the area that a part of the highway 10-15 minutes out of town on the south is blocked due to water over the road, and a bridge an hour north is restricted to 5ton max load. The town hasn't even flooded yet and they are cut off. The council facebook account was boasting how the town was flood proof yesterday. I try to find the posts now but they seem to have been taken down due to the comments. Now this is a part of the country where there is ONE highway to take and any ocountry roads to bypass will have flooded over before the Bruce Highway. I fear for those bogans, it's a two-fer: 1. They will be stuck with limited supplies (beer) 2. The XXXX factory (their favourite beer) in Brisbane caught on fire a week ago. Also the Bundy Rum factory in Bundaberg which is south is flooding too. It's gonna be a mad max style apocalypse there soon.
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From Richmond (at the north end of San Francisco Bay) to Alvizo (at the south end) is over 60km if you went in a straight line over water to give you an idea of scale. People commute the road distance of 80 km or so between Berkeley and San Jose every day in East Bay traffic. I know people that commute from the Fremont area to Sacramento (160+km) and have been doing it for years.
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Bape Culture posted:Lmao Glad it wasn't just me that found this amusing.
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Similar to other metro areas, the cost of living in DC makes a lot of tradesmen commute crazy distances so they can have the sort of house they want, etc. The GC for the last little project at my building commutes every day from Solomon's Island on the Chesapeake Bay into DC, a 150 mile round trip and 3 hours total with no traffic problems. That is sane compared to an electrician I once worked with who commuted the 240 mile round trip 4 days a week from Richmond, Va. I-95 traffic just makes that unimaginable to me.
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Fort Lauderdale to Gainsville (A touch over 300mi,) in 2:55. Trust in your radar detector is mandatory.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:From Richmond (at the north end of San Francisco Bay) to Alvizo (at the south end) is over 60km if you went in a straight line over water to give you an idea of scale. People commute the road distance of 80 km or so between Berkeley and San Jose every day in East Bay traffic. I know people that commute from the Fremont area to Sacramento (160+km) and have been doing it for years. Who uses km to measure distance in the Bay Area?
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Once I drove from one place to another place. It took an amount of time!!!!!!
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sandoz posted:Once I drove from one place to another place. It took an amount of time!!!!!! Also how many mpg does your car get?
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Its funny how even the car forum gets into nerdy detail posts too  Does the grey car forum have an alternate color forum like yospos does to sh/sc?
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Who uses km to measure distance in the Bay Area? People making a post to provide information to people who don't live in the United States. I use standard and metric equally at work. Also... Why God Why?
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You might be interested in my recent investigative piece, 5 Facts and a Lie about : Mitsuoka. quote:Mitsuoka, an infamous Japanese coachbuilder, produces exotic cars that look weird based on cutting the bodies off other people’s cars. The following are five facts and a lie about the manufacturer.
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Nice tolerances for the hood gaps.
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quote:One of Mitsuoka’s more affordable cars was a three-year-only special that converted a Nissan Cube to look like a London black cab. It was never sold in England, nor was it approved for taxi usage.
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MrYenko posted:Fort Lauderdale to Gainsville (A touch over 300mi,) in 2:55. Carrollton TX to El Paso TX. ~640 miles, done in 7 hours once, including stopping to get lunch. .... and 18 or 19 hours another time (gently caress ice storms).
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VERY COOL GUYS NOW HOW MANY CYLINDERS DO YOU HAVE IN TOTAL ACROSS ALL YOUR CARS AND ALSO WHAT ARE YOUR PC SPECS AND WHAT DREAM DID YOU HAVE LAST NIGHT
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Sagebrush posted:VERY COOL GUYS NOW HOW MANY CYLINDERS DO YOU HAVE IN TOTAL ACROSS ALL YOUR CARS AND ALSO WHAT ARE YOUR PC SPECS AND WHAT DREAM DID YOU HAVE LAST NIGHT Last night I dreamt that I drove 1000 miles in 13 hours, using 6 of my 137 cylinders, to bring you some nice, calming, chamomile tea.
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Colostomy Bag posted:I'd be curious on run times on passing through Ohio. Need a big nutsack for those. I did DC-Columbus and back in about 7 hours each way a couple of months ago. Adaptive cruise control (set to 80) and lane keeping worked perfectly considering I was on 3 hours sleep.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You might be interested in my recent investigative piece, 5 Facts and a Lie about : Mitsuoka. Fairly certain those are all true. I got deep into this stuff this morning, and you can get S13 Le Seydes for around $13k canadian. Foxbody zimmers and z31 spartans are $30k here. And god drat if those taillight pods don't do somethin to me. http://www.goo-net-exchange.com/usedcars/MITSUOKA/LE_SEYDE/700080237830161003001/index.html  Doing a little eyeball math, trim the front bumper and lift it about 2 inches and it should take 33x12.5s Powershift fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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drgitlin posted:I did DC-Columbus and back in about 7 hours each way a couple of months ago. Adaptive cruise control (set to 80) and lane keeping worked perfectly considering I was on 3 hours sleep. I neighbor OH. Every time I come or go from it I chuckle at the state patrol sitting 40 feet from the border. Is it still true they don't have unmarked cop cars in OH? Or was that some urban legend?
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Collateral Damage posted:Well at least it's hard to make a Cube uglier. Cubes are very kawaii (cute). At least the second gen is.
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That poor MX-5. Someone take it out the back and put it out of its misery.
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My friend's car is hosed. She described some shuddering and hesitation when driving so I swung by and ran the codes. Came back misfire in cyl 4. So we figured it's either plugs or the coil. I was already heading to the JY today so I found a coil ($9) and then went to her house to swap it out and see if it helped. Didn't even get that far. Pulled the #4 coil.  Oil. Covering the entire plug. Pulled #3, then #2  More oil. #1 was bone dry  Googling tells me this is a valve cover gasket failure? Seems a bit extreme for that. Any thoughts?
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I've had it almost that bad on a couple cars before. Just soak up what you can around the plugs with a paper towel. Pull the plugs and clean the oil off of them and throw it back together. See if it's leaking a lot of oil or just a little bit of oil over a long time. Spilling oil between the cams when doing an oil change can cause that as well.
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th vwls hv scpd posted:I've had it almost that bad on a couple cars before. Just soak up what you can around the plugs with a paper towel. Pull the plugs and clean the oil off of them and throw it back together. See if it's leaking a lot of oil or just a little bit of oil over a long time. Spilling oil between the cams when doing an oil change can cause that as well. I sopped up as much as I could but she had no paper towels. Should I replace the VC gasket?
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There may be separate seals around each of the sparkplugs too - there were on my old Integra which ended up looking just like your pictures when they failed.
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dissss posted:There may be separate seals around each of the sparkplugs too - there were on my old Integra which ended up looking just like your pictures when they failed. I looked up the gasket set, there's one for the cover and three small ones. cyls #2 & 3 share a seal. It's $10 for that so I just ordered it.
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