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BlackMK4 posted:ya, cuz we don't buy poo poo cars Yeah we do.
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BlackMK4 posted:ya, cuz we don't buy poo poo cars *gazes around AI* 
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spog posted:Have you got 30mins spare to watch a couple of videos? I promise you it is worth it. Wow the fix seems sketchy as gently caress. Also, that much heat and UV can't be good for the coolant and brake fluid reservoirs, right?
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A couple of interesting comments:quote:TheBerlinbaer quote:LumenEtTempus Could obviously be a 12 year old posing as R8 owner, but still. Thankfully more comments telling him how bad the repair potentially is now than yesterday. I have no idea why he does it on his own though. I kept waiting for the jack stand to slip and fall. MrOnBicycle fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Which reminds me, I need to renew my TÜV next week for the E31. It's always the same procedure: take the wheels off, fit the stock wheels, let the TÜV guys give you new TÜV, remove the stock wheels, fit the nice wheels. (for a car I drive maybe 500km per year) Now, you may say "well, if 20 inch wheels never were certified for this car, bad luck, you shouldn't get TÜV". The funny thing is, 20 inch wheels were certified for the facelift as well as for the same car, modified by Alpina and the M GmbH. tl;dr: German TÜV is really, really strict on what you can do, and what you can't. Fit a wheel that is certified for the exact same car, but only for the facelift (which simply had a slightly different engine, and some chrome applied, everything else is the same)? No you don't, no TÜV for you. (unless you spend couple of hundred of bucks for a TÜV guy to certify it, which I did with another car, and he basically looked through a database and said "oh, yeah, that size has been certified somewhere in Hamburg by a similar idiot like you, here's your very own certificate".
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At least you can do engine swaps and get other poo poo certified if it's pretty reasonable. Here in Tschechien you can't put a roll bar in a miata without the inspectors crawling up your rear end, let alone put an engine in a car that didn't belong there. Oh theoretically you could get Mazda to confirm that they approve of you putting an LSX in but lol good luck with that. Of course that doesn't completely stop people who have friends among the inspectors or the cash to substitute for friends but still. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Man how I wonder they would do a 4x4 truck chassis swap on a sports car.
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mobby_6kl posted:At least you can do engine swaps and get other poo poo certified if it's pretty reasonable. Here in Tschechien you can't put a roll bar in a miata without the inspectors crawling up your rear end, let alone put an engine in a car that didn't belong there. Oh theoretically you could get Mazda to confirm that they approve of you putting an LSX in but lol good luck with that. I bet with like 100% certainty if you call the miata designers in japan they'd give a full throated hell yeah motherfucker
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tuo posted:Which reminds me, I need to renew my TÜV next week for the E31. It's always the same procedure: take the wheels off, fit the stock wheels, let the TÜV guys give you new TÜV, remove the stock wheels, fit the nice wheels. (for a car I drive maybe 500km per year) On one hand, being that strict is annoying for sure. Especially for an old niche collector car. But on the other hand, have you seen the pieces of poo poo that commonly roll around most of the US? A lot of states have no inspections at all, and even the ones with inspections these days are mostly just "can it get here under its own power and is the CEL on". And if you can't even hit that low bar, you can almost certainly find a shady mechanic to "fix" it for you. Given the sheer number of rolling death traps (for the occupants and those around them), I think I'd lean toward something too strict rather than too loose.
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I think the low quality of drivers is more of a concern, and *way* more a cause of accidents, deadly or otherwise, than questionable cars in the US. The vast majority of cars rolling on the roads are probably newer than 20 years, since no one can be arsed to fix or maintain "old" cars.
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Darchangel posted:I think the low quality of drivers is more of a concern, and *way* more a cause of accidents, deadly or otherwise, than questionable cars in the US. The vast majority of cars rolling on the roads are probably newer than 20 years, since no one can be arsed to fix or maintain "old" cars. I started binging Canada's Worst Drivers and they all have new cars. The oldest I saw was like 5 years behind when the show was shot 20 accidents in 10 months of driving... what the gently caress are these people?
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if thats the cheapest way to own an R8 that you're only going to drive to a mcdonalds drive thru then thats actually kinda cool lol couldn't he even part something like that out to other audi/cw owners and turn a profit?
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Guinness posted:
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I don’t think it’s significant or anything, but seeing “Page 1111” down there is pleasing. It’s so symmetrical. Also, holy heck, 1100 pages of this bull. I love it.
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Darchangel posted:I think the low quality of drivers is more of a concern, and *way* more a cause of accidents, deadly or otherwise, than questionable cars in the US. The vast majority of cars rolling on the roads are probably newer than 20 years, since no one can be arsed to fix or maintain "old" cars. My girlfriend knows a guy who manages a BrakeCheck or some place like that. Apparently, so the story goes, he had a woman come I to the shop about a CEL. He apparently suggested an oil change since the service light was on and the oil looked old. She said, "Why do I need to change the oil. Oil doesn't degrade." Then he apparently showed her a small container of fresh vs used oil. She must've thought he was patronizing or mansplaining and dumped the oil on his shirt and stormed out. That's my terrible car stuff story.
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That Works posted:Buncha jealous non-R8 owners itt 
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That car doesn't rate though
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MetaJew posted:My girlfriend knows a guy who manages a BrakeCheck or some place like that. Apparently, so the story goes, he had a woman come I to the shop about a CEL. He apparently suggested an oil change since the service light was on and the oil looked old. She said, "Why do I need to change the oil. Oil doesn't degrade." Then he apparently showed her a small container of fresh vs used oil. She must've thought he was patronizing or mansplaining and dumped the oil on his shirt and stormed out. She was sort of correct...it is usually the additives that break down  .
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Darchangel posted:I don’t think it’s significant or anything, but seeing “Page 1111” down there is pleasing. It’s so symmetrical. Come get me when we reach page 8008 E: Jesus florida, the fact that the official government forms for submitting what work was done in the process of rebuilding the vehicle has "Homemade" as a checkbox is telling. Having friends who rebuild and having done a few rebuilt vehicles in Manitoba, just wow. No wonder you guys are so against anything with a rebuilt status, its anarchy in the US when it comes to rebuilt it seems like. 
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Bajaha posted:Come get me when we reach page 8008 I propose a new game. ODBII codes based on page. So P1111... Looks like this one is some fault purge control valve.
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Colostomy Bag posted:I propose a new game. ODBII codes based on page. So P1111...
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 is this real?
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Thief posted:
What does your heart say?
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it's gotta be photoshopped, right?! 
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Thief posted:
Business up front, party in the back.
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It's real and there's more than one of them. A couple pics of the same one and another:   Build pics for the last one: https://www.carscoops.com/2010/08/what-pruck-toyota-prius-and-subaru-baja/
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donut posted:It's real and there's more than one of them. A couple pics of the same one and another: In awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit. I'm honestly amazed at this thing...it's got the build quality of a one-off pile of poo poo but yet there appear to be a few in existence, none better than prior efforts.
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How on Earth does something like that come about? Is there somebody out there who just absolutely loves the Prius and the Baja and has been feverishly burning the midnight oil to try and combine them into one ubercar? Or was it just someone who parked their Baja next to a Prius and noticed that the roofs lined up and suddenly a light bulb went on?
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Make everything a ute, but you also need a backseat still
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I'm honestly more curious as to why that parking space is so insanely long..
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Grakkus posted:I'm honestly more curious as to why that parking space is so insanely long.. Have you even seen a silverado 3500? crew cab, full tray? I have because there's a few in Australia; They are giant and long. USA goons, what do they cost over there? Here they are about au$150k (so US$105k) E:  they're US$40k over there. Too many cunts with too much money over here.
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Fo3 posted:Trucks. You can get a 3500 for $40k for a super base gasser to over $70k for a Duramax
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My question is why are those uber cars always left unfinished They go through all that effort and then leave a giant unpainted section in the middle
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Blue On Blue posted:My question is why are those uber cars always left unfinished Nobody making one of those type things has ever considered aesthetics in anything, ever, and is possibly unaware of the existence of the word, or even the concept of the word.
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Speaking of people with no concept of aesthetics, I just came across this post in yospos:NoneMoreNegative posted:lol I was just reminded by: And also this https://i.imgur.com/dKj7nsg.mp4
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Meet Joe Black, deer edition
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shy boy from chess club posted:Meet Joe Black, deer edition Quite the luck there. Never realized they made a "luxury" version of the Robin. Although I know the "car" was rigged in the show that was quite an entertaining Top Gear episode.
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Haha, this is loving brilliant: Because based on that street sign, they're on their way to Curborough...
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InitialDave posted:Haha, this is loving brilliant:
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david_a posted:please explain for the rest of us It will be some British humor/humour we can't comprehend.
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