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Cop Porn Popper posted:You're smoking some good poo poo man. 5/16s heater hose is not $10 a foot. Rediculously marked up still? Sure. But not 5/16 hose ranges from 1.49 to 10.39 at my local store.
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More of a horrible owner failure, but hey https://i.imgur.com/tuCb7AA.gifv
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`Nemesis posted:More of a horrible owner failure, but hey Shock-news headline: "Aged Audi A3 Strong Enough to Rip B4 Passat in Two!"
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I fixed a bumper with that technique back in high school, when vehicles still had bumpers. Never had to admit to dad I ran into a snowbank. 
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xzzy posted:I fixed a bumper with that technique back in high school, when vehicles still had bumpers. I had a family of enterprising people next to me who pulled rad supports straight with a very young decorative tree in their front lawn and that technique on the reg, until the tree uprooted and they backed into traffic.
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`Nemesis posted:More of a horrible owner failure, but hey What was that person even trying to do?
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Cojawfee posted:What was that person even trying to do? Get his car towed, but instead of attaching to the tow eye they attached to the plastic bumber
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CommieGIR posted:Get his car towed, but instead of attaching to the tow eye they attached to the plastic bumber And I'm guessing the normal brakes were inop, so he was slowing for the intersection with the handbrake.
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Nov 9, 2017 19:02
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A slight amount of handbrake allows you to keep the rope taut and avoid jerking.
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Nov 9, 2017 19:09
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You'd think someone with an old Passat would be an expert at tow techniques
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InitialDave posted:A slight amount of handbrake allows you to keep the rope taut and avoid jerking. Growing up with a bunch of cheap cars this knowledge is passed on p quickly; using hand signals you instruct the vehicle being towed to do all the braking for the reasons above (because you have working brakes on the car you're towing right?). Also make sure the key is in the ignition so the wheel doesn't lock up on you like so many towing videos. Maybe youll go so far as to attach your tow-strap/chain/extension cord to an actual tow-point, too! Armed with those details you can somewhat safely move your junk around now. stone soup fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Nov 9, 2017 |
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Nov 9, 2017 19:34
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Wally Joyner posted:Growing up with a bunch of cheap cars this knowledge is passed on p quickly; using hand signals you instruct the vehicle being towed to do all the braking for the reasons above (because you have working brakes on the car you're towing right?). Also make sure the key is in the ignition so the wheel doesn't lock up on you like so many towing videos. Maybe youll go so far as to attach your tow-strap/chain/extension cord to an actual tow-point, too! Armed with those details you can somewhat safely move your junk around now. When I was 14 i had a 16 year old abandoned Renault my Dad had found to make the 20 mile trip to school in and I hate hate hated that car (I was young and stupid, I would kill to have it now, it would be hilarious). When I turned it off, I normally threw the keys on the dash and that got to be a habit. After it ran out of gas one evening 8 miles from anything while still indicating half a tank, I got paranoid about running out again and at the top of a several mile slow downgrade, I turned off the engine to get MAXIMUM COASTING and of course when I turned it off, I pulled the keys out and tossed them on the dash and when I got to the bottom of the hill there was a sharp turn and you can see where this is going. Fortunately, we both survived that kerfuffle and Le Car lived another two years before it got killed by a tornado dropping an airplane on it.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I had a family of enterprising people next to me who pulled rad supports straight with a very young decorative tree in their front lawn and that technique on the reg, until the tree uprooted and they backed into traffic. I did this earlier this year using a roll off dumpster behind my office.
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Nov 10, 2017 01:51
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Hell yeah, I used to 'fix' my old Geo Metro that way, but with a tree in the backyard.
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The Twinkie Czar posted:I did this earlier this year using a roll off dumpster behind my office. 98-02 Accord EX, or 98-02 Accord EX-L?
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TotalLossBrain posted:Hell yeah, I used to 'fix' my old Geo Metro that way, but with a tree in the backyard. Did you crash it a lot?
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:98-02 Accord EX, or 98-02 Accord EX-L? What would the L denote?
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Nov 10, 2017 04:27
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On the 6th gen, leather. That damage is pretty similar to what I did to my 01 Accord, except the intake resonator got crushed. Went right past the drat bumper beam 
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Nov 10, 2017 04:29
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Cojawfee posted:Did you crash it a lot? Not really, no. I bought it with front-end damage from a family friend for cheap. That required fix #1. Two weeks after I fixed it and had it re-inspected, a dude turned left in front of me at a light, demolishing the front end again*. That required fix #2. The bumper was never the same after that, occasionally departing the vehicle in difficult parking lots. After that second fix, I drove it without crashing for a few more years before I got rid of it. *The upside of this: guy's insurance paid me more for the crashed Geo than what I had paid for it initially AND the buy-back combined. A few years later, the junkyard even paid me $200 for it. The car made me more money than I paid for it. TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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tactlessbastard posted:it got killed by a tornado dropping an airplane on it. 
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:On the 6th gen, leather. still does actually speaking of failures, why do auto makers lock features like adaptive cruise control and heated leather seats behind automatic-trans only trim levels rhetorical question obviously
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Nov 10, 2017 15:01
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To be fair, it was parked at an airport.
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sandoz posted:still does actually Don't know about heated seats, but adaptive CC may be related to not being able to control the gear if a downshift or upshift is necessary to maintain the distance. My car has heated leather seats and manual transmission, btw.
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It’s a coupe but he put a sedan bumper cover on it! I will not stand for this unholy merger! I think the reason Honda makes you buy higher models for nice features it because gently caress You That’s Why. If you don’t buy that particular car/trim package they’ll have no trouble finding someone else who will. berth ell pup fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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Nov 10, 2017 16:18
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Deteriorata posted:Don't know about heated seats, but adaptive CC may be related to not being able to control the gear if a downshift or upshift is necessary to maintain the distance. i think you get ACC on the golf R with manual transmission.
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It seems with more performance oriented, or more premium brands/models the ability to a la carte options gets easier. My S4 (prestige) was optioned with high feature 3G+ MMI, a 6 speed manual, and de-optioned with no dynamic body, no active diff, but with added cold weather, warm weather, sunroof, 19" wheels, and the upmarket seats and interior. My parents just picked up their 2018 Q7 3.0t (Premium Plus) and the window sticker looks like a long arithmetic problem with + options and - options from the std. package. It has adaptive CC and semi-auto pilot, but also an 8? speed auto.
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I’ve driven a couple manual passats with adaptive cruise. It doesn’t disable cruise when you change gear which is pretty cool.
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InitialDave posted:A slight amount of handbrake allows you to keep the rope taut and avoid jerking. I have once "towed" a car that had no functioning brakes by having it at the front of the rope and a functioning car behind to slow it down. only at 20-30km/h and for a few km in almost no traffic
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ionn posted:I have once "towed" a car that had no functioning brakes by having it at the front of the rope and a functioning car behind to slow it down. Eh, if you throw the car behind in reverse and get your timing just right, you're basically doing the same thing they do to land an airplane.
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berth ell pup posted:It's a coupe but he put a sedan bumper cover on it! I will not stand for this unholy merger! Guilty, and I am remorseful for my sin. The coupe bumper is cool and I like that there are real styling differences between the coupe and sedan. However that bumper cover was $7.50 at the awesome local junkyard's monthly half-price day. The hood was $30 at Pick 'n Pull during a half-price holiday weekend. I spent about $100 on the front including resonator and filter boxes. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:On the 6th gen, leather. Same here, the resonator was held up by zip ties; it and the filter box were both busted. A lot of the dumpster work was pulling open the hole they connect through. The last inch of the bumper beam that extends past its mount was flattened by whatever the previous owner slid into. Interestingly, there's a dampener hanging from that beam in 4-cylinders but not in the V6. The failures were in the previous owner's stereo installation. The amp was grinding into the frame behind the backseat. Instead of getting its signal from the matching head unit the amp was connected to this gizmo that was poorly spliced into the rear speaker wires. The gizmo and amp were connected by a ten foot RCA cable, about eight feet of which were crammed behind the trunk liner. I rotated the amp 90° and reran that same cable under the carpet along the tunnel.
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Literally every single aftermarket stereo ever installed in a motor vehicle belongs in this thread. I’ve never seen an install that didn’t have some level of fuckery.
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Uh.. maybe they had the amp (and I assume sub) before they replaced the head unit? I had mine set up like that originally, with the speaker level to line level converter (.... which I need to remove someday). ... but when I did finally get an aftermarket stereo, I ran the RCAs to the head unit. I never noticed the difference between the coupe and sedan bumpers on the 6th gen.. I thought they were the same from the dash forward. 
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sandoz posted:still does actually A good adaptive CC means you dont need to touch brakes or throttle. Automatics and CVTs are faaaaar better suited to this or even straight out not possible depending on how good it is
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:A good adaptive CC means you dont need to touch brakes or throttle. Automatics and CVTs are faaaaar better suited to this or even straight out not possible depending on how good it is It can't be that hard, my 93 manual Capri that was based on the 89 Mazda 323/Familia has "adaptive" cruise control on a 5-Speed. It's not great, but it is cruise control that doesn't need me to touch the peaks E: adaptive is in quotes not to mock your point, but because it's nominally adaptive, only it is painfully slow The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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I wish I had more pictures of the stereo wiring because there sure was a lot of fuckery. The blue wire from the amp didn't go to its matching wire at the head unit, it went to the fuse box where it was soldered to the side of a fuse. The grounds were crimped into a ring terminal that they drove a sheet metal screw through, into the frame behind the back seat. And then added a couple more screws at the sides to be sure. That was easily relocated, with the same ring terminal, to a bolt a few inches away. The adjustable line output converter has four speaker wires but they twisted the negative and positive pairs together and only connected it to one speaker. They made these connections by stripping a small section of one wire, untwisting it so the strands opened up, and passing the stripped end of the other wire through. But it was an $800 car that's easy to find parts for. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I never noticed the difference between the coupe and sedan bumpers on the 6th gen.. I thought they were the same from the dash forward. Not all coupes got them but mine did have the bumper with a pair of fake intake grills. I had to make another trip to the junkyard after discovering that the support bracket and foam block have to match the bumper. Even the front fenders are different but so slightly I didn't figure it out until I was trying to bolt on the sedan fender I had bought.
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And I thought I did a poo poo job on my amp wiring. The blue wire on mine runs to the power socket in the back seat; at the time, I had the factory head unit, which had no provision for an amp remote, and the socket in the back seat is switched with the ignition. I never bothered fixing it properly when I threw in a proper head unit. At least I used an existing bolt for the ring terminal (think I stuffed it behind the latch for the fold-down back seats) (obviously this is a different car, I got rid of the Accord 7 years ago) Also, uh, $800 Accord, interference engine... so when's the last time the timing belt was done? 
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MrYenko posted:Literally every single aftermarket stereo ever installed in a motor vehicle belongs in this thread. I’ve never seen an install that didn’t have some level of fuckery. I take exception to this. Here is the install I did on my 2003 BMW 330CI. It had the factory H-K system but most of the speakers were blown. First you print adapters for the after market speakers to mount in the factory locations using the factory mounting screws:    Next, a printed connector adapter to plug into the factory amp location and re-use all of the signal and speaker wiring:  Finally, mount the amp, crossovers, and baluns to the factory amp bracket  And install.  I still need to install the DSP sound correction but have not had time. Now you might complain that I didn't replace the head unit, but I will try to find the pictures from when I installed a Pioneer DEH-880PRS in my Forester with a 6 channel amp installed above the spare tire. The amp is on an aluminum plate which can be removed easily by unplugging a Minifit-SR connector and all wiring is routed using factory wiring locations. This system has been running flawlessly since I installed it in 2007. The only issue with that setup was that the door speakers were installed using machined HDPE spacers and didn't use the factory mounting points.
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The downside of barn finds... Heater blower wasn't working, ended up being completely full of mouse nest. Wipers are next and that's probably just locked up arms.  
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NitroSpazzz posted:The downside of barn finds... Heater blower wasn't working, ended up being completely full of mouse nest. Wipers are next and that's probably just locked up arms. My current car was parked for many years before I got it. I found 4 mouse nests inside the dashboard. There's at least one more within the heater box. I've been meaning to take it apart and deal with it, but haven't gotten the chance. I got the car in 2011. I've been driving with mouse-piss heat for 6 years
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