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tuo posted:Speaking of turn signals: am I the only one who hates the gimmicky animated LED turn signals many cars have nowadays? Yup. Not only looks like an affectation, I am sure they are less effective than a single flashing light. Elmnt80 posted:Almost any modern car uses some form of body control module to do das blinkin lightzen. Its most likely down to some obscure law restricting what can be used for blinkers. Relating to the above, I am sure I read somewhere those animated turn signals are legal because they are considered a cluster of individual lights, each of which blinks according to the rules. Which does mean that if a single LED fails, then it counts as a traffic offence/test failure.
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Blue On Blue posted:Are those.... halogen headlights?? They are even developing new halogens, like the H18 bulb.
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68 tbird had animated signals. It is hilarious to see how complicated that system is.
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Colostomy Bag posted:68 tbird had animated signals. It is hilarious to see how complicated that system is. What, this? 
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On the Nissans, they used a little cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChH--ndoofc I assume the t-bird does something similar because it says "turn signal flasher and motor."
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wallaka posted:What, this? Heh thanks. But can't touch the vacuum diagram on a FD RX-7. Where in the middle the engineer basically said "gently caress it."
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Sometimes, I get a bit frustrated with AI I don't know what arbitrary over-complicated poo poo is loving awesome to us and what arbitrary over-complicated poo poo is abhorrent.
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Dec 7, 2018 22:03
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It doesn't matter. It is what just suits us at the time.
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Dec 7, 2018 23:14
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It goes whichever way the first few replies go
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AI always talk about cool manual brown wagons or personal equivalents and I'm always like "that car sucks though?". I've had people oggle stupid poo poo like a Plymouth Voyager, which I rode around in for years, and laugh at how completely wrong they are about how cool they would be to own.
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um excuse me posted:AI always talk about cool manual brown wagons or personal equivalents and I'm always like "that car sucks though?". I've had people oggle stupid poo poo like a Plymouth Voyager, which I rode around in for years, and laugh at how completely wrong they are about how cool they would be to own. Nostalgia is a helluva drug.
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BlackMK4 posted:It goes whichever way the first few replies go And then swaps sides on the next page
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Wasabi the J posted:Sometimes, I get a bit frustrated with AI Is the end result something that goes fast, is loud or explodes? If the answer to any of those is 'yes' then it is awesome. Indicators do not do any of those, so they are abhorrent.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Nostalgia is a helluva drug. I was marveling at a first gen Honda Odyssey the other day. It seemed so antiquated to see a reasonably sized minivan in 2018
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BraveUlysses posted:I was marveling at a first gen Honda Odyssey the other day. It seemed so antiquated to see a reasonably sized minivan in 2018 I think most of us would stand in awe of a 1st gen Honda Odyssey.
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Dec 7, 2018 23:44
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I think the sequential turn signals on my Mustang are cool and I don't care what that says about me. The puddle lamps that shine a pony logo on the ground however are embarrassing as heck and I want to disconnect them.
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Dec 8, 2018 00:35
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Swap in a batman symbol.
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Cock and balls.
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I just wish I could get some plain puddle lamps but noooo the endless aftermarket of chrome red white and blue horseshit for this car can't support something like that.
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spog posted:Cock and balls. One side the sac, other side the head. Run pink lights connecting them under the car. "The gently caress is that?", they ask. "Look down", you reply.
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Dec 8, 2018 01:00
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in the future we'll all be riding around like morohoshi
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But look how cool a sequential turn signal motor is! Clever innovation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ox_1lC_5K8
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StormDrain posted:But look how cool a sequential turn signal motor is! Clever innovation. Imagine if Volkswagen designed something like this.
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Dec 8, 2018 03:29
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16 computers all of which would be full of coolant after a few years?
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Galler posted:16 computers all of which would be full of coolant after a few years? You're making a big claim about the plastics not disintegrating thereby allowing the coolant to drain.
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StormDrain posted:But look how cool a sequential turn signal motor is! Clever innovation. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OVmF6Nsf77Q Wait for it (couldn't find the Chinese multi-hammer version).
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Otteration posted:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OVmF6Nsf77Q Seems.... quiet.
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Grakkus posted:It's possible to go too far the other way though. My 80's french car has no temp gauge at all, just a warning light that is known in enthusiast circles as the "you're hosed" light, as if it lights up you're already in engine damage territory. Fun! Behold.  You get only a speedo and fuel gauge. Everything else has a dummy light. 1970s Ford Granada (U.S. version) is terrible car stuff.
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um excuse me posted:AI always talk about cool manual brown wagons or personal equivalents and I'm always like "that car sucks though?". I've had people oggle stupid poo poo like a Plymouth Voyager, which I rode around in for years, and laugh at how completely wrong they are about how cool they would be to own. I drove a Voyager from junior year of high school through graduating college. People made fun of me, but I could carry more passengers than any of my friends and had a couch for my dorm room. Some days I miss that car. Because I have brain damage.
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Behold. I used to have an '86 Delta 88 in high school, much like the below example. Speedo, fuel gauge, and acres of idiot lights. 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I could carry more passengers than any of my friends That sounds terrible, more chance of actually having to drive people around. Much better for someone else to own the practical car.
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dissss posted:That sounds terrible, more chance of actually having to drive people around. But like being the kid with the hot sibling, you'd be included socially if just for that and no other reason.
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Imagined posted:But like being the kid with the hot sibling, you'd be included socially if just for that and no other reason. I had a Chevy Astro with no rear bench. That thing would hold at least six kegs, ten if you wanted to get silly and start belting them into the captain's chairs. And nobody pulls over an Astro driving around, unlike a pickup truck with ten kegs in the tray. It was absolutely the most practical and least sexy car I've ever owned. When the motor blew up, I "upgraded" to a same-model-year S10 with a camper shell. All of the same benefits, with two fewer seats and no ability to actually put other humans inside legally if that had ever come up.
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I had a Ford Aerostar as my first car because I wanted to use it for my side gig as a building super while going to college. In retrospect that thing sucked and was the death of my social life. I should have bought a Camaro or something
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dissss posted:That sounds terrible, more chance of actually having to drive people around. I've never had any trouble saying no and my friends knew it. 
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Colostomy Bag posted:I think most of us would stand in awe of a 1st gen Honda Odyssey. What's really fun is seeing a first-gen CR-V next to a new one. It's almost literally doubled in size, and is almost the polar opposite in terms of simplicity.
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Darchangel posted:What's really fun is seeing a first-gen CR-V next to a new one. It's almost literally doubled in size, and is almost the polar opposite in terms of simplicity. Yeah. Hell today's "mid-size" trucks dwarf the big ones back in the day.
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Found something far too terrible for just the craigslist thread. https://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/d/1980-volvo-242dl-sport-2dr/6735254611.html     SEVENTY-FIVE HUNDRED REAL AMERICAN DOLLARS
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