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remember the pinto almost every passenger car has the tanks tucked under the back seats now. SOP for fuel pump replacement these days is step 1: remove rear seat
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the only reason we ever put them under the trunk was just mass production convenience. with body on frame cars we could just put a big rectangular tank between the rails and run little brackets in to hold it down. handling wise it sucked b/c its 100 lbs of poo poo sloshing around on the extreme rear end end of the car. now we build with unibody construction and its easier and safer to put that poo poo basically dead center in the car
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Jonny 290 posted:its 100 lbs of poo poo sloshing around on the extreme rear end end 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I think there might be a problem with your car if the tank is under the rear seats and if fuel is pumped anywhere but to the engine. Did you piss off someone at your dealership or something? vw used to sell cars with gasoline-fired heaters in the front
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not tech buble but this thread talks about all sort of california public policy poo poo and this story is long as hell but reall y fuckin good https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust
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Sagebrush posted:it's fun to slag on tesla but i don't know exactly how much i would trust the objective judgment of a "detroit-based engineering consultancy." they know who pays their bills. his consultancy is related to reverse engineering cars and selling that data to other companies. it would be in his business interest to loudly proclaim that the Tesla is the best car ever, here buy my report for $texas
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:vw used to sell cars with gasoline-fired heaters in the front in fairness that's still not as deadly as the standard heater design on the air-cooled vws (heat exchanger on top of the exhaust manifold/collector), which turned the car into a gas chamber after about 50,000 miles, i'm sure entirely accidentally.
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didn't the original beetle have an option for a removable auxiliary gas tank that fit under the driver's seat?
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 there's teh VW Thing heater. yep thats a fuel line and a spark plug and a blower and an exhaust pipe
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FrozenVent posted:didn't the original beetle have an option for a removable auxiliary gas tank that fit under the driver's seat? Bonus points if it drained first, leaving the driver sitting on a literal tank of fuel-vapor?
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the grovercar
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Jonny 290 posted:
the most frightening things in this picture
whyyyy the correct method of restoration is to remove the thing and patch all the holes
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my bitter bi rival posted:not tech buble but this thread talks about all sort of california public policy poo poo and this story is long as hell but reall y fuckin good https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust yes to both points
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I think there might be a problem with your car if the tank is under the rear seats IIRC, the fuel tank for a Honda Jazz/Fit hatchback is under the rear seats. edit: wow, I was a little late with this post
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muckswirler posted:Hi I'm the rear end in a top hat stuck in the car in the Austrian alps for four hours because the first responders need to wait for a Tesla CS rep to tell them how to specifically chop the c pillar with a saw to get at a fuckin wire hope they got cell service where you die https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2017_Model_3_Emergency_Response_Guide_en.pdf my fave part is that it will literally take 3000 gallons of water and waiting 24 hours for a battery fire to extinguish, and that even then you should store it away from other things. dc3k posted:so all I need to rob a tesla trunk is a 12v battery? nice
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i thought the tesla was now the car of choice for what used to be bmw assholes. not sure why you'd want to prevent them being incinerated in a chemical fire?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:in fairness that's still not as deadly as the standard heater design on the air-cooled vws (heat exchanger on top of the exhaust manifold/collector), which turned the car into a gas chamber after about 50,000 miles, i'm sure entirely accidentally. i'm reminded of the ww1 fighter plane with radiator mounted in front of and above the pilot if it took one bullet, it would spray boiling water all over said pilot
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Sagebrush posted:it's fun to slag on tesla but i don't know exactly how much i would trust the objective judgment of a "detroit-based engineering consultancy." they know who pays their bills. neutral evaluations are more valuable; just saying this poo poo sucks is a less viable product than this is what they do better than you (and can rip off) they fell in love with the i3 during their tear down for example (bmw is not a client). http://leandesign.com/pdf/Munro-BMWi3_Prospectus-Rev-web.pdf https://vimeo.com/123284450 etc
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:i thought the tesla was now the car of choice for what used to be bmw assholes. not sure why you'd want to prevent them being incinerated in a chemical fire? lol. i dig this silver lining thinking. very positive.
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President Beep posted:i used to like to be a pedant about the constituent states of The Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but most people don’t give a poo poo, and just call it whatever, so i just kind of stopped. UK out of Cornwall!
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eschaton posted:UK out of Cornwall! the cornish can take their lovely shin-kicking game with them.
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PCjr sidecar posted:neutral evaluations are more valuable; just saying this poo poo sucks is a less viable product than this is what they do better than you (and can rip off) Makes sense: i3 is honestly an insane car that should not exist. They straight-up took a concept car and mass-produced it. BMW figured out how to mass-manufacture a carbon-fiber car almost a decade ahead of everyone else and not have it cost a comical amount of money. The battery pack thermal management system is apparently even ahead of Tesla. Related: US-spec i3's have all the hardware in them to do low-speed lane-keeping so that your car can mostly take care of itself when traffic is poo poo. It's just not turned on because of legal concerns. To enable it you essentially edit a config file and hook a dongle up to the CAN bus that tells it 'yep, this is a euro-spec steering wheel and someone is totally touching the cap touch sensor' and it will take care of driving in rush-hour traffic on I-280 for you.
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and when you get into a traffic incident your insurance finds out and sodomizes you with a lamp
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infernal machines posted:and when you get into a traffic incident your insurance finds out and sodomizes you with a lamp 
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:vw used to sell cars with gasoline-fired heaters in the front if i had $5000 i could buy the option kit to have the dealer install that in my '98 volvo V70. apparently there are a couple of them left in the united states in NOS parts inventories i wish i had an absurd amount of money to blow on my car
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my bitter bi rival posted:not tech buble but this thread talks about all sort of california public policy poo poo and this story is long as hell but reall y fuckin good https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust sounding the rotor signal
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im the global dildo database with unprotected PHPMyAdmin exposed like it was set up by 14 year old me 
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Luigi Thirty posted:i'm reminded of the ww1 fighter plane with radiator mounted in front of and above the pilot well, it’s not like engineers could actually predict the effects of a design before any sort of real world use
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ate all the Oreos posted:im the global dildo database with unprotected PHPMyAdmin exposed like it was set up by 14 year old me man you started setting up global dildo dbs pretty young
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:man you started setting up global dildo dbs pretty young yeah im a real pro dildoer or as we call it in "the biz", dilpro
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:man you started setting up global dildo dbs pretty young horny teenagers are who i'd expect to do something like that, tbh
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ate all the Oreos posted:or as we call it in "the biz", dilpro you'll be hearing from scott adam's lawyer momentarily
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gently caress it
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goddamnedtwisto posted:in fairness that's still not as deadly as the standard heater design on the air-cooled vws (heat exchanger on top of the exhaust manifold/collector), which turned the car into a gas chamber after about 50,000 miles, i'm sure entirely accidentally. the first heaters in cars were just exhaust pipes diverted around the cabin
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Sagebrush posted:from windshield wipers that drain the air from your spare tire wait, what??
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Elder Postsman posted:wait, what?? we need a  for vw
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Elder Postsman posted:wait, what?? in the original bug the pressure for the windshield washer fluid was provided by the spare tire
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