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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Old people. But I thought it took quite a bit of agility getting in the i8? lovely page snipe - have some rolling probable cause (if the wisco plate wasn't enough) 
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NoWake posted:But I thought it took quite a bit of agility getting in the i8? Naw, it's easy as hell to get in to. The hard part is getting out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37kVzZJaJ1M
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Dec 18, 2018 16:06
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Spend the money you save by going Ryobi on the big batteries. My blue Ryobi kit worked okay on the OG NiCds, and Mom's green set works good on the Li batteries.that came with it, but boy howdy the Li battery the size and weight of the NiCd is a game-changer. I've got non-branded 4.0 Ah replacement batteries for my Ryobi set, and have had good results with them versus the 2.0 Ah that came with the drill. The rest of my set I bought blue tools, used, from eBay, and just didn't ever bother to use the NiCads or charger. Very forward thinking of Ryobi to make the newer (green) Lithium batteries the same form factor as the NiCads. Unlike my Black and Decker Firestorm set, which is useless because NiCads are garbage, and they changed form factors (and voltage!) when they went to Lithium.
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Dec 18, 2018 19:57
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Yeah, I originally asked Santa for the Ryobi kit because it was cheap, I stayed with Ryobi because they made the better batteries backward-compatible. I can slap that 4ah Li into my blue tools, and they run great.
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Dec 18, 2018 20:44
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Powershift posted:The hard part is getting out. Left hand on door sill, left leg hanging out. Push body up with left arm and try to reduce the amount of how you look like an idiot while you try to regain balance on the left leg while evading the stupid door, while doing a rolling motion like a pole vaulter over the door sill. Only takes a couple of tries until you master how to get out of an i8, still looking like an idiot. The true test is getting in an i8 with bright leather without having the front left part of the dashboard look like poo poo. They started putting a plastic cover there, but it's too small. No wonder the car doesn't sell.
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Dec 18, 2018 21:09
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If you aren't in your i8, how will people know how great you are? Getting out of one is for the undeserving. 
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Dec 18, 2018 21:51
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Memento posted:
thank you for this - gott send to my friend thar just rented one of these on her roadtrip
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Dec 18, 2018 21:57
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Jonny Nox posted:If you aren't in your i8, how will people know how great you are? Getting out of one is for the undeserving. But how will you tell everyone how great hybrid sports cars are? That's the point of the i8, to tell everyone how you are better than the other idiots who pay too much money for a car.
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Dec 18, 2018 21:57
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I saw an i8 with nitrous tanks in the back. No joke.
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Dec 18, 2018 22:03
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Powershift posted:Naw, it's easy as hell to get in to. Is it just me or did he need to take a breather in the middle of his efforts there?
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Dec 18, 2018 22:06
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:I saw an i8 with nitrous tanks in the back. No joke. On a 1,5l three cylinder? Wow.... Also, I can only assume how much that fucks up the whole hybrid mode. I mean, the i8 only starts to shine/feel like an actual sports car either once you push comfort mode or go right into sports mode, when the eDrive and the combustion engine work together in perfect tune. Start it a bit too sporty on a wet road, and of you go with spinning front tyres until the eDrive ESP kicks in, same if for some reason the back can't get the same traction as the front. What I'm trying to say: the car is busy enough to keep the two drives in harmony (allthough it does a pretty good job at that), I don't even wanna know what happens if the rear engine suddenly has two times or more of the expected power.
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Dec 18, 2018 22:15
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Has this been posted yet? it features such nuggets as "The emergency door release is the most broken part on the car" and "There is no reason to open the hood unless its in the workshop" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxe_b2GRwok
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Dec 18, 2018 22:16
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Well....you also can't/aren't suppose to open the hood on a Porsche 918, McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari etc..... But here's a funny thing I noticed on the i8 couple weeks back: the latch to fill wiper fluid is open to everyone (and it only takes a very, VERY small amount of wiper fluid). Since you are not supposed to remove the hood, and they didn't bother to put the latch somewhere were it could be locked, everyone can fill up an i8's wiper fluid reservoir with whatever they want to. Even if the car is locked.
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Dec 18, 2018 22:22
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tuo posted:On a 1,5l three cylinder? Wow.... I’m really not sure what this guys angle was. He had an i8, DB9, f350, rubicon, and a GLA. Presumably another car as well because he wasn’t home and I was viewing his house for a showing. As far as I could tell there were only 2 occupants of the house. Absolutely massive gun safe in the basement as well. Bank vault door and everything. What’s strange is you hear all this and expect a multi million dollar house. It was $309k.
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Dec 18, 2018 22:26
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tuo posted:everyone can fill up an i8's wiper fluid reservoir with whatever they want to. Even if the car is locked. valet drivers rejoice
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Dec 18, 2018 22:31
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Eh. I know owner accessibility to mechanical bits is going ever down, but requiring two persons to do a very specific procedure to fix a dead battery is dumb. That happens often enough, and especially with exotics that may sit a lot. Looks like you will gently caress the paint or hood if you do it even slightly wrong. An i8 isn't nearly in the same league as P1s etc. Some jokers had filled the wiper reservoir of a rental my brother had a few years back with milk. You can bet that smelt great after sitting in the Italian sun.
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Dec 18, 2018 22:33
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:I’m really not sure what this guys angle was. He had an i8, DB9, f350, rubicon, and a GLA. Presumably another car as well because he wasn’t home and I was viewing his house for a showing. As far as I could tell there were only 2 occupants of the house. Absolutely massive gun safe in the basement as well. Bank vault door and everything. You'd be surprised how many people drive expensive cars and live rather normally. i8, DB9, f350 etc. of course is off the charts for a typical "I spend too much money on cars, but else I am rather normal"-person....but I met someone who owns both a Lambo Diablo and a Ferrari Testarossa who struggles to keep their tanks topped up. Of course both are not even insured like they should be. Cars can become a drug on their own, I guess.
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Humbug posted:Eh. I know owner accessibility to mechanical bits is going ever down, but requiring two persons to do a very specific procedure to fix a dead battery is dumb. That happens often enough, and especially with exotics that may sit a lot. Looks like you will gently caress the paint or hood if you do it even slightly wrong. An i8 isn't nearly in the same league as P1s etc. I agree that the i8 is far away from the cars I mentioned, but you actually don't need to access the hood even if the low-voltage battery dies, as the car will run anyway as long as the high-voltage battery is powered. At least that's what BMW told me. Even if the remove the battery, the converter is able to power the low-voltage parts of the car to get it started. In regard to the flimsy hood: it's stupid, yeah, but the i8 is all about saving weight as much as possible (=> no powered steering pillar etc.). It is a show car, a mass produced prototype, if you will. A showcase of how to save as much weight as possible, while producing a "green" sports car (carbon fibre mixed with recycled plastic, all interior leather beeing untreated, no wood or colored leather even if you beg BMW Individual and throw money at them etc.). It's a cool, stupid car, that is a major failure. e: I just realized BMW, after firing the guy responsible for the i-series, now offers the i8 roadster with colored leather. 
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Dec 18, 2018 22:44
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also: yeah, wood trim in a sports car owns
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Dec 18, 2018 22:49
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tuo posted:But here's a funny thing I noticed on the i8 couple weeks back: the latch to fill wiper fluid is open to everyone (and it only takes a very, VERY small amount of wiper fluid). Since you are not supposed to remove the hood, and they didn't bother to put the latch somewhere were it could be locked, everyone can fill up an i8's wiper fluid reservoir with whatever they want to. Even if the car is locked. I want to piss in it
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Previa_fun posted:I want to piss in it You can
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Previa_fun posted:I want to piss in it
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Humbug posted:Eh. I know owner accessibility to mechanical bits is going ever down, but requiring two persons to do a very specific procedure to fix a dead battery is dumb. That happens often enough, and especially with exotics that may sit a lot. Looks like you will gently caress the paint or hood if you do it even slightly wrong. An i8 isn't nearly in the same league as P1s etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKobwz7wJso I found it an interesting watch. Before you start, have a guess how man drain plugs a Veyron has? 1, 2, 3 or 4?
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Yeah, I originally asked Santa for the Ryobi kit because it was cheap, I stayed with Ryobi because they made the better batteries backward-compatible. I can slap that 4ah Li into my blue tools, and they run great. I've got no complaints on the quality of the tools for home/hobbyist use, either. spog posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKobwz7wJso 6. edit: OK, I thought I was being facetious. And gently caress the engineer that designed that thing. Here, remove all this fragile, expensive poo poo to change the loving oil. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Dec 19, 2018 00:26
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tuo posted:You can I will
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci5NK_feVCo Also gonna steal the little plastic cover.
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Darchangel posted:I've got no complaints on the quality of the tools for home/hobbyist use, either. Is this one of those deals where this was actually the prescribed method for an oil change? Or is it more likely that they'd use some kind of pump to suck the old oil out and replace it? I imagine finding an FSM for a Veyron is not a thing, but I'm really curious to see Bugatti's manual on this sort of maintenance.
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MetaJew posted:Is this one of those deals where this was actually the prescribed method for an oil change? Or is it more likely that they'd use some kind of pump to suck the old oil out and replace it? My wild guess is that a dry sump consists of multiple baffled stages and you need to drain them all to get all the old oil out. So they just put one drain plug in each stage, good to go. A VW-style dipstick oil extractor probably wouldn't get it all unless you could also dry-run the engine oil pump at the same time (which is probably bad for it anyway).
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Seat Safety Switch posted:My wild guess is that a dry sump consists of multiple baffled stages and you need to drain them all to get all the old oil out. So they just put one drain plug in each stage, good to go. Yeah, it crossed my mind that it was most likely a a dry sump system, but I didn't know that dry sumps had multiple baffled stages or whatever. Is that also true for oil changes on the dry sump Corvettes?
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Darchangel posted:I've got no complaints on the quality of the tools for home/hobbyist use, either. Heh, yeah you were off by a tad. I'm actually a little confused by the video. To me it looked like once that bottom panel is off you would be good to go. It is weird it doesn't have a normal hood though.
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MetaJew posted:Is this one of those deals where this was actually the prescribed method for an oil change? Or is it more likely that they'd use some kind of pump to suck the old oil out and replace it? Will the service intervals for a McLaren F1 do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsKDGdcb6BQ
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Leno has a good one on his F1. He said the wiper blade needs to be replaced and it costs $1,000. He said screw it, it doesn't rain in LA.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Leno has a good one on his F1. He said the wiper blade needs to be replaced and it costs $1,000. He said screw it, it doesn't rain in LA. His fuel cell also needs to be replaced like every 6 months, and doesn't understand why they can't just upgrade the thing so it never needs to be replaced like other fuel cells.
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Dec 19, 2018 14:50
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Somehow it's satisfying to know that rich people get shafted by bullshit like this even more than us poors.
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Yeah, there was another interesting article where there is just one guy in the US that runs a shop qualified to work on the F1. https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a14453949/the-only-mclaren-f1-technician-in-north-america/
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The adage "if you can afford two ferrari's you can afford one" needs to be updated to apply to any exotic. 
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Somehow it's satisfying to know that rich people get shafted by bullshit like this even more than us poors. Then again the F1 is an asset at this point and if they maintain it correctly it will just go up in value
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wargames posted:His fuel cell also needs to be replaced like every 6 months, and doesn't understand why they can't just upgrade the thing so it never needs to be replaced like other fuel cells. That's actually mandatory on an F1 if you want to upkeep official support for the car, allthough IIRC it's like two years??? I can't remember where I red it, so take it with a grain of salt, but IIRC they imposed this restriction after a couple of F1s went up in flames, so the easy fix was "bring us the car so we can replace the fuel tank every couple of years". Then again, Ferrari sells cars that you never get. You pay for them, and you can arrange track days where they bring the car, and you can drive it a bit, and then they take it away from you again. If i'd be super rich and money is of no concern, I'd rather have a lovely supercar where I have to replace the fuel tank every now and then, instead of a car I can't look at when I feel like it.
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BraveUlysses posted:Then again the F1 is an asset at this point and if they maintain it correctly it will just go up in value Yeah, until the bubble bursts. The F1 might be safe but the lower hanging fruit (think like a Countach or a Testarossa) is going to plummet.
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Leno changes whatever he wants to on his older classic cars to make them more usable/driveable every day, he obviously has a specific interest in keeping the F1 100% stock and perfectly maintained.
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