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Collateral Damage posted:I think it's just common courtesy to blank out the plate whenever you're posting a stranger's car on the internet.
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Grakkus posted:I was under the impression that boring everyday stuff was actually a preferable theft target as it's harder to track it down afterwards? If someone posts your wheels and a bunch off RX7 parts in your cars colour for sale then its pretty obvious what's going on. preferable if the intention is to turn a profit, yeah but plates on camry tier stuff get stolen for temporary usage pretty often and when it comes to stealing something like an RX-7 they are most likely joyriding it before abandoning it
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shy boy from chess club posted:I live in the same area and I just heard about that. What are they stealing for cars? Anything in particular? I heard they were stealing wheels. um excuse me posted:There's one big ring doing both. There are separate groups focusing on each. The police told me that the wheel people are all under 18 so they don't actually go to jail. They told me, based on intercepted stolen goods, that they stay in town less than 24 hours before they're transported to the other side of the country where they are sold. The stolen car folks are still young, generally under 30, and take the cars into Hartford where they are stripped and sold for parts or moved into NY where they are sold whole. I don't know that it is that elaborate, if you'd like to see where it all goes fire up "OfferUP" and search "Accord Sports" or "Toyota Alloy" in WMA or the tri-state. These are the same old crooks streamlined by the cross-compatibility of modern modular-automotive design. My boss recently had a couple motorcycles get stolen from his house in Bloomfield. The cops warned him of a similar cabal only to discover them slowly start to trickle onto CL, from various parts of the state, all from owners who bought them in the north end of Hartford.
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Huh. I'm not sure what's going on here. 
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Darchangel posted:Huh. Mental illness.
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I'm just going to assume there's a sovereign citizen statement on there somewhere, but there's also a license plate...
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Nov 6, 2018 22:54
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It looks like they tried to build a faraday cage to keep out the evil wifi signals.
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Nov 6, 2018 22:57
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I like the rollcage/folding walker
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Grakkus posted:I was under the impression that boring everyday stuff was actually a preferable theft target as it's harder to track it down afterwards? If someone posts your wheels and a bunch off RX7 parts in your cars colour for sale then its pretty obvious what's going on. See your point as well, I'm not trying to open a big debate or whatever, But a lot of "exotics" or rare whatever the fucks go over seas. Or get jacked solely for a few parts and then the rest gets dumped/burned. My uncle bought a brand new mustang in 69 with a 428 or 429 (the oldsters in the family forget), brought it home, yanked the engine, "had it built the gently caress up" (TM). He drag raced the poo poo out of it for a few years, and won a lot of money, before it got jacked, engine removed, and the rest dumped. Again, anecdotal and all that, please don't think I'm trying to be all "WELL WHAT ABOUT THIS SCENARIO?!?!?!" or some poo poo. I guess I kinda am, but my intention isn't to start a huge debate.
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oregon.txt right there. Probably spend their days pillaging garbage bins at rest stops looking for soda cans to turn in.
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xzzy posted:oregon.txt right there. haha I didn't see the plate at first but yes, yes it is
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Powershift posted:It looks like they tried to build a faraday cage to keep out the evil wifi signals. The real faraday future.
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My brother totaled his S2000. He’s ok, but the car was wrecked. Insurance gave him $11,500 for it even though he only paid $9000 for it about 10-12 years ago.
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Didn’t get a picture, but today I saw an E350 van in a 4x4 configuration. Maybe it was on an F350 chassis? Whatever, it looked odd. Can’t really see anyone off-roading an econoline
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LongSack posted:Didn’t get a picture, but today I saw an E350 van in a 4x4 configuration. Maybe it was on an F350 chassis? Whatever, it looked odd. Can’t really see anyone off-roading an econoline Sportsmobile
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LongSack posted:Didn’t get a picture, but today I saw an E350 van in a 4x4 configuration. Maybe it was on an F350 chassis? Whatever, it looked odd. Can’t really see anyone off-roading an econoline Isn't that just a Quigley van? When I used to be into jetskis (standups), it seemed they were very popular with the beach crowd - lockable cargo space and 4WD.
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LongSack posted:Didn’t get a picture, but today I saw an E350 van in a 4x4 configuration. Maybe it was on an F350 chassis? Whatever, it looked odd. Can’t really see anyone off-roading an econoline That's a popular thing here in the Pacific Northwest. Look for Adventure Vans. http://vanhausconversions.com/desert-sand/
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LongSack posted:Didn’t get a picture, but today I saw an E350 van in a 4x4 configuration. Maybe it was on an F350 chassis? Whatever, it looked odd. Can’t really see anyone off-roading an econoline A shall we say fairly common sight. Makes more sense compared to the IROC 4x4 Camaro conversions.
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Colostomy Bag posted:A shall we say fairly common sight. Makes more sense compared to the IROC 4x4 Camaro conversions. Debatable
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angryrobots posted:Debatable No it's not. 4x4 IROCs are cool because they don't actually make sense. I'd dd a 4x4 car before a 4x4 van any day.
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Jonny Nox posted:No it's not. 4x4 IROCs are cool because they don't actually make sense. I'd dd a 4x4 car before a 4x4 van any day. It's wrong thread and want one. Ford XY factory 4x4 
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Humphreys posted:It's wrong thread and want one. Ford XY factory 4x4 The factory XY 4x4 was an ute, not a sedan
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You Am I posted:The factory XY 4x4 was an ute, not a sedan Haha 'an ute'! But seriously...Really? Well drat, I've only ever associated it with that specific photo! OMG the ute is even better! 
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Darchangel posted:Huh. Must be a work in progress, only the back is wrapped in foil and there's only a few screeds pasted to the back. I want to ask him his opinion on circumcision then run away.
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Nov 8, 2018 12:32
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Have you got 30mins spare to watch a couple of videos? I promise you it is worth it. Backstory: Samcrac is a very amiable Youtuber who buys crashed cars at auction and repairs them in his backyard. It is fair to say that his enthusiasm outweighes his mechanical skills somewhat. He manages to win his dream car at auction that was an insurance write-off, but he didn't know why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOlvG1QbCDU (skip to 7mins to see the reason) and here he is him fixing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIsW_oNLZjM
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Nov 8, 2018 22:08
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Yeah, I was pretty disgusted watching that yesterday.
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spog posted:Have you got 30mins spare to watch a couple of videos? I promise you it is worth it. HAHAHA. Well there goes $1200+ "Oh nooooooooooooooooooo..."
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Nov 8, 2018 22:23
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spog posted:Have you got 30mins spare to watch a couple of videos? I promise you it is worth it. This seems like a gag - that his whole "fix" is a slapstick routine that ends up with the car destroyed. If he actually drives this car afterward 
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Nov 8, 2018 22:49
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He's in Florida. That's far from the most dangerous thing on the road there.
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Not gonna lie. If i lived somewhere where you could just drive a salvage title car on the road, i'd probably drive dangerous garbage. uhh, even dangerouser garbage.
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I'm not a big city welder guy but is there anyway that entire fix just doesn't just explode the second the car goes over its first speed bump? Also something in me cringed when he hooked the chain for his frame puller up to the jack stand holding the car up Wouldn't that be a potential catastrophic failure if the jack stand pulled loose
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Welding a crack like that doesn't really solve the issue that caused it. If it's an underdesigned section like he suggests in the video, a new crack will just propagate around the weld. Also I skipped through the video a bunch but I did catch that he used 6 ton jackstands because the winch was capable of 4 tons.
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um excuse me posted:Welding a crack like that doesn't really solve the issue that caused it. If it's an underdesigned section like he suggests in the video, a new crack will just propagate around the weld. Maybe my understanding of physics is off or something But if the car is sat on the jack stand. And you attach something to the jack stand and then apply force pulling it at an angle away from the car = bad times Maybe I'm over thinking but it looked like he hooked it to the leg of the stand , and it wasn't pulling straight up but at an angle away slightly I just expected the jack stand to get yanked out and the entire car to come crashing down
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Nah, he had it set up all retarded with a 2.5 ton jack at first (not that it really got any better, holy gently caress).
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Nov 9, 2018 00:25
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Well from experience you can tip a jackstand at capacity pretty far before it collapses. 
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um excuse me posted:Welding a crack like that doesn't really solve the issue that caused it. If it's an underdesigned section like he suggests in the video, a new crack will just propagate around the weld. That's why they plated the cracked area, though I'd have gone with a larger plate more like the factory fix.
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Maybe a physics dork could chime in, but would annealing the area help relieve some ~5000lbs of stress the welds are holding in or would it just weaken the aluminum?
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Nov 9, 2018 00:55
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It isn't a strut, so he is somewhat fortunate for that but... this can't end well
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Nov 9, 2018 02:23
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Buncha jealous non-R8 owners itt
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