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What we should focus on here is how dope it is to work on and fix your own car. It owns. Unless it involves the electrical system, which I absolutely will never gently caress with, fix your own car.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:An ironic joke was performative you say? backing down when challengedly An ironic joke was performative you say?
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No Irish Need Imply posted:What we should focus on here is how dope it is to work on and fix your own car. It owns. Unless it involves the electrical system, which I absolutely will never gently caress with, fix your own car. I am not sure changing a tire even counts as fixing it. It's just like, putting on a tire. Takes 10 minutes tops.
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May 2, 2017 15:21
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:If those drivers want other jobs they should hit the pavement and hand out their
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May 2, 2017 15:23
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I am not sure changing a tire even counts as fixing it. It's just like, putting on a tire. Takes 10 minutes tops.
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May 2, 2017 15:23
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No Irish Need Imply posted:Just because it's easy doesn't mean it doesn't count. The subtitle of my sex life
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No Irish Need Imply posted:What we should focus on here is how dope it is to work on and fix your own car. It owns. Unless it involves the electrical system, which I absolutely will never gently caress with, fix your own car. yeah I am about to get some stands for my car so I can rotate my own tires and also swap out my brakes and rotors 
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May 2, 2017 15:26
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nobody ever taught me how to fix cars ♫ cats and the cradle and the silver spoon ♫
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May 2, 2017 15:30
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Ehud posted:yeah I am about to get some stands for my car I really recommended Star Platinum Then again Crazy Diamond could do the job for you instantly
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May 2, 2017 15:32
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:nobody ever taught me how to fix cars everything is on youtube
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May 2, 2017 15:31
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Time is money. I'm more than happy at this point in my life to pay someone than to waste a weekend of my life figuring out how to install new brake pads and rotors.
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May 2, 2017 15:35
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:nobody ever taught me how to fix cars
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May 2, 2017 15:36
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Phobeste posted:backing down when challengedly An ironic joke was performative you say? Don't forget the irony asterisk for when you need to backpedal hard
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No Irish Need Imply posted:Me, neither! The internet has a surprising amount of good information on fixing your own car, though. That's how I do it. The first time I decided to go for it on my own, I didn't want to pay labor fees on changing my brakes so I Googled it. It was pretty intimidating at first but most issues are fairly straightforward. When my tire popped I never had to before and had a youtube video tell me
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May 2, 2017 15:39
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Can't you end up voiding the warranty on your car if you start loving around with it and mess something up?
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May 2, 2017 15:38
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:Time is money. I'm more than happy at this point in my life to pay someone than to waste a weekend of my life figuring out how to install new brake pads and rotors. 2 hours of your time is worth over a hundred dollars? drat.
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May 2, 2017 15:39
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Best YouTube car advice I ever got was how to remove a rusted wheel using another wheel
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May 2, 2017 15:40
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SHOAH NUFF posted:Can't you end up voiding the warranty on your car if you start loving around with it and mess something up? Warranty? Sorry not all of us can holler at the butler to swing the rolls by the dealership to have them swap it out with a new one
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May 2, 2017 15:41
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SHOAH NUFF posted:Can't you end up voiding the warranty on your car if you start loving around with it and mess something up? Depends. Routine maintenance is legally protected after dealerships tried to force people to get it done at the dealership and there was public backlash. Anything that you repair that a warranty would cover, and you gently caress it up, thats on you.
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I have "slightly high" ldl cholesterol. Guess it's time to change up this diet to the max.
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LDL is the "good" cholesterol so it's not as bad as it seems
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May 2, 2017 15:48
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Volkerball posted:2 hours of your time is worth over a hundred dollars? drat. If you grew up around cars, or had someone to show you and you already have all the equipment and tools needed, I totally understand why you would do your own car maintenance. But guess what, you can't be a master of all trades. And it's pretty glib to just tell someone they can easily replace their brakes in a few hours when they have no idea what they're doing, don't know if they have the right parts and probably don't have the right tools to begin with. It's like nerds telling people "just build your own pc!" Simple enough if you already know what you're doing.
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:If you grew up around cars, or had someone to show you and you already have all the equipment and tools needed, I totally understand why you would do your own car maintenance. It's like 3 pieces. Taking off the tire is half the work.
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May 2, 2017 15:55
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Lol if you actually buy cars and don't lease them
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It sounds like you just don't want to, which is fine. It's not for everyone. I like doing it. I grew up with public transit and didn't drive until I was 21, nobody taught me how to fix cars. I just got tired of getting screwed by mechanics so I went out and bought some tools and learned how. I love cleaning, it makes me zen as gently caress. Doesn't mean I don't occasionally hire a maid.
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May 2, 2017 15:58
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Eli Wiggum posted:LDL is the "good" cholesterol so it's not as bad as it seems LDL is bad cholesterol, not as bad as VLDL but still bad. HDL is the good cholesterol and you should want that above 50. Changing cholesterol through diet is extremely difficult to the point where diet alone is no longer a recommendation. If you want to reduce your LDL and raise HDL, workout and drink a beer afterwards. Working out promotes HDL synthesis (thereby reducing the substrates for LDL synthesis) and alcohol reduces LDL production (which means more substrate is shunted to the HDL pathway).
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:Time is money. I'm more than happy at this point in my life to pay someone than to waste a weekend of my life figuring out how to install new brake pads and rotors. yeah but all service places suck and mess things up for on my car and also I like to pretend my Fiat is a race car and do all sorts of unnecessary things to it
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swickles posted:LDL is bad cholesterol, bot as bad as VLDL but still bad. HDL is the good cholesterol and you should want that above 50. Changing cholesterol through diet is extremely difficult to the point whete diet alone is no longer a recommendation. If you want to reduce your LDL and raise HDL, workout and drink a beer afterwards. Working out promotes HDL synthesis (thereby reducing the substrates for LDL synthesis) and alcohol reduces LDL production (which means more substrate is shunted to the HDL pathway). Thanks doctor sausage fingers
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Volkerball posted:2 hours of your time is worth over a hundred dollars? drat. lol is it not for you
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Also all I caught out of that was drink a beer, which I'm going to do at the behest of my pediatrician.
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Eli Wiggum posted:LDL is the "good" cholesterol so it's not as bad as it seems No that's HDL. LDL is the one with excess lipids Edit: beaten by the doc 
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LET ME JUST CUT OFF THE BAD POSTS NOW--THAT JOKE NEEDED AN IRONY ASTERISK AND I FORGOT IT You can edit your posts (Edited) Schizophrenia
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Mel Mudkiper posted:No that's HDL. LDL is the one with excess lipids. FUCKFACE MORON fucked around with this message at 16:11 on May 2, 2017 |
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swickles I have a medical question how come in the Bible (which is god's truth) people lived to be over 900 years old but now life expectancy is much shorter?!
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swickles posted:LDL is bad cholesterol, not as bad as VLDL but still bad. HDL is the good cholesterol and you should want that above 50. Changing cholesterol through diet is extremely difficult to the point where diet alone is no longer a recommendation. If you want to reduce your LDL and raise HDL, workout and drink a beer afterwards. Working out promotes HDL synthesis (thereby reducing the substrates for LDL synthesis) and alcohol reduces LDL production (which means more substrate is shunted to the HDL pathway). I can get down with post workout beers.
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Blitz7x posted:Lol if you actually buy cars and don't lease them *Looks into the distance and sees a stormcloud of shitposts on the horizon*
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Ehud posted:swickles I have a medical question how come in the Bible (which is god's truth) people lived to be over 900 years old but now life expectancy is much shorter?! Because the sun used to revolve around the earth so years were shorter before our sins condemned us to heliocentrism
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Ehud posted:swickles I have a medical question how come in the Bible (which is god's truth) people lived to be over 900 years old but now life expectancy is much shorter?! less carbs back then
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Ehud posted:swickles I have a medical question how come in the Bible (which is god's truth) people lived to be over 900 years old but now life expectancy is much shorter?! Paleo
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I used to work on my car a bunch when I had a roommate who was a huge gearhead, and wanted to get me into cars too. I hated working on my car, and I'm just not mechanically minded enough to get into it. It didn't help that literally everything on my car was near broken, and was / needed to be replaced. I could probably list the things that I never needed to replace: - chassis (lol) - rear and side windows - driver door - engine (it was actually replaced by the previous owner) - seats - real axle Pretty sure I replaced everything else at least once, or had planned to. I did a 3 day suspension job, which was probably the worst. Then my car got totaled by a semi in my last year of college, just before I could start making money to finish it up I eventually bought a new car and let dealers / mechanics do it now. Much less stress in my life and I don't fear as much that I cut a corner and my life will be ruined.
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