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meatpimp posted:On that note, a question -- everyone that I've ever known that has seen an orthopedist for anything leg/foot related has been prescribed orthotics. Is that an easy revenue stream, or is it true that feet deformities drive many/most leg/foot problems? Or is my experience outside of the norm? Huh, I honestly have no idea. My ortho experience (other than emergecy stuff, obviously) is limited to a rotation when I was a student, and I never heard anyone mention orthotics to anyone even once.
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BlackMK4 posted:I'd say the only real downsides of it (that I have experienced) are that ALL of the mirrors are very small so blindspot mirrors are basically required and they really do not like to sit, you will go through DEF parts because the urea will crystallize in the system. The throttle is kind of weird from a stop if you don't run it in sport mode all the time, also. It also takes 0w-30 euro diesel oil iirc, which should be fun to find. And like 8-9 quarts of it. $100 diy oil changes hoooooo.
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The Prong Song posted:Yeah but I'm not interested in a 12+ year old car. I can pick up a 2016 Cayenne at the same price as I can a 2016 V8 tow package F150 - both will suit my towing needs, but I have a feeling the Pepper will be a lot more nice to live with. Depends how heavy your racing trailer setup is when loaded, too. Don't fall into the trap of buying way more towing capacity than you need if it compromises other things for you.
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Goober Peas posted:I'm running two 4-bay QNAPs with 36TB each in JBOD. One backs up the other locally, syncing every night and holding 10 days of changes/deletes. I also do a monthly off-site delta backup. I chose QNAP because it's super flexible. I can do basic maintenance with their Android apps, full maintenance through the web interface. I can access the data as a network drive when I'm at home, and the media files both at home and away via Plex. HDD pricing here in Australia is a bit stupid and I don't like spending money. Saw a 6TB for $189 and went to get it this afternoon, turned into $229 overnight. The retailer has a price match guarantee, even from ONLINE stores. Whelp - I tried my luck with an Amazon link for the same SKU for $119. It. loving. Worked! Time to retire a few drives to an archive!
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Humphreys posted:HDD pricing here in Australia is a bit stupid and I don't like spending money. Saw a 6TB for $189 and went to get it this afternoon, turned into $229 overnight. The retailer has a price match guarantee, even from ONLINE stores. Whelp - I tried my luck with an Amazon link for the same SKU for $119. uhh care to say which retailer that is? I'm going to be needing some new drives soon...
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slothrop posted:uhh care to say which retailer that is? I'm going to be needing some new drives soon... Officeworks
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Humphreys posted:Officeworks mad thanks, I'll have to see if I can abuse that policy too. Plex is filling up my existing 2TB drive very quickly
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Jan 3, 2019 13:07
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Elmnt80 posted:It also takes 0w-30 euro diesel oil iirc, which should be fun to find. And like 8-9 quarts of it. $100 diy oil changes hoooooo. Why did you send me down this rabbit hole? It looks like Mobil 1 ESP meets the euro spec. You're right that it's gonna be a $100 oil change but I would expect someone purchasing a newer Porsche as a tow vehicle to be ok with this. Also not particularly hard to find, just expensive.
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Ninja-ish EDIT: ^^^ Yeah, my weekday mileage is around 4. I bought a used car as my DD in April of 2017 with 27K miles on it. 30K miles in Oct of 2017; it has 35K now. $100 oil change is more than a "normal" oil change, sure, but acceptable.InitialDave posted:I didn't realise they were that old now. Time flies by without you noticing... I've done some guesstimating but I don't actually know what the trailer will weigh. The trailer I'm looking at buying would be a 20'-er weighing 3500lbs with 7200lbs payload capacity. I expect the car to weigh 2500 lbs wet, and (the weakest part of my guess) there to be between 400 and 800 lbs of tools, accessories, and race equipment - jack, pancake air compressor and tank, hand tools, spares, pop-up, seat. That brings me up pretty darn close to 6800 lbs towing needed with my very-shaky guesstimate. The Prong Song fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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Jan 3, 2019 13:59
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I needed a loving ice scraper this morning. I do not own a loving ice scraper. 
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IOwnCalculus posted:I needed a loving ice scraper this morning. A couple years ago, a family of Americans moved in. We all crowded around, gawping at the foreigners, and then forgot about it immediately. They can pass for Canadian very well, you know. In October the snow began to fall and the patriarch of the family was confronted with a problem: ask his neighbours for a snow brush, or try to royally gently caress things up. According to neighbourhood scuttlebutt, my neighbour came out, and saw the dude going to town on the windshield of a lifted Tundra with an old credit card.
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Jan 3, 2019 15:51
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Do you own any old CDs? Because if so, BAM! Ice scraper.
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Queen Combat posted:Do you own any old CDs? Because if so, BAM! Ice scraper. Credit cards work better. Seat Safety Switch posted:According to neighbourhood scuttlebutt, my neighbour came out, and saw the dude going to town on the windshield of a lifted Tundra with an old credit card. No shame in that game. It works.
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Nah but a credit card has some value of worth, negative or positive. A CD is less than worthless, it's entirely neutral in existence. Fight entropy. Give that CD a reason to exist again.
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Jan 3, 2019 15:55
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My back yard is across the street from a big school field and I have to scrape my car practically every morning 
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Jan 3, 2019 15:59
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Definitely used a credit card in a pinch. Maybe that American was using an old insurance card. 
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Jan 3, 2019 16:00
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Queen Combat posted:Fight entropy. Give that CD a reason to exist again. I do, by *gasp* playing music from them. I know, phone, Bluetooth, yadda yadda, but I literally have no idea how to transfer them.
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Jan 3, 2019 16:05
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I have an emergency scraper that is the size of a credit card. It's super thick though.
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Rhyno posted:I have an emergency scraper that is the size of a credit card. It's super thick though. 
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Rhyno posted:super thicc Oh whatup girl?
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Queen Combat posted:Do you own any old CDs? Because if so, BAM! Ice scraper. I use the CD case because that poo poo is stiffer. I can't remember where my CDs are since I moved house though and the only CDs in my main car are cardboard cased... Must remember to grab the Bowie CD from the other car if only to scrape with it.
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I also bought one of those dumb ice scraper cones and it works really well on side windows but the curved portions of the windshield render it useless.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I needed a loving ice scraper this morning. It was -18°C last night and this morning it was 0°C, the roads are a slushy swamp. Why is it so hot?  Other times we get hoarfrost and the world gets covered in this 
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Jan 3, 2019 16:43
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Rhyno posted:I also bought one of those dumb ice scraper cones and it works really well on side windows but the curved portions of the windshield render it useless. I have one of those too and it worked great at first even on the windshield, but I guess it got dull because it doesn't work for poo poo anymore.
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To tell the truth, I'm a lazy rear end when it comes to scraping. A minute of blasting the heat with it on defrost and then a liberal application of windshield sprayers usually does the trick.
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Elmnt80 posted:It also takes 0w-30 euro diesel oil iirc, which should be fun to find. And like 8-9 quarts of it. $100 diy oil changes hoooooo. Not really different price wise for any modern Porsche or BMW
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Bajaha posted:To tell the truth, I'm a lazy rear end when it comes to scraping. A minute of blasting the heat with it on defrost and then a liberal application of windshield sprayers usually does the trick. I tried this. My washer fluid froze. 
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IOwnCalculus posted:I tried this. lol Information you'll never use: there are "summer" and "winter" formulas, the latter being rated for -30F.
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Oh right, warm climates likely aren't going to have ethanol/methanol in the washer fluid. All of our stuff is usually rated to at least -40°C for the winter fluids.
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Queen Combat posted:Nah but a credit card has some value of worth, negative or positive. I use my moviepass card as a multitool for opening phones/scraping poo poo, whatever needs to be done with a tool I don't care about since it's belly up with my subscription anyway. I don't live in a climate with any ice, but I suspect it'd be the perfect tool for that too.
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-30/-35c stuff is more common here in the west, but we had a new driver demand that we give him -40 fluid or he wouldn't drive the truck. In spite of the washer reservoir being 9" from the exhaust manifold and the trucks having a 'never gets cold' automatic idle cycling program, we have more problems with the poo poo boiling off, crystallizing in the lines and clogging the nozzles than anything else. He eventually called our fluid acceptable but he didn't last long anyway.
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Dagen H posted:lol Yeah I'm aware of it, but it's pretty much non-existent here. Thankfully that should hopefully be our one truly cold night of the year. Five years ago when I took the Jeep into the snow for the first time, I had the washer fluid freezing in the lines anytime I was moving faster than about 10mph.
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BlackMK4 posted:Not really different price wise for any modern Porsche or BMW Eh, gold bottle castrol edge full synthetic is usually a couple bucks more spendy through us than the normal black bottle stuff. We're also one of the only places in town that stocks it outside of a dealership. Mostly its just entertaining watching someone go "wait, you have 0-30 euro diesel spec oil? Give me all you have."
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I'm accustomed to using 15w-40 in diesels. 0w-30 is quite a leap, can someone give me a technical breakdown on what makes Euro diesels special?
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IOwnCalculus posted:I needed a loving ice scraper this morning. Credit card or similar works in a pinch.
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Fermented Tinal posted:Credit card or similar works in a pinch. Yeah but you can also use a CD
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NumbersMatching320 posted:Yeah but you can also use a CD Lol physical media, amirite
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My mum used to make me run outside with boiling water and pour it on the windows. Somehow we always got away with it. I have an ice scraper with a foam bit on one side. I was feeling impatient whilst the inside was misted once so I decided to use it despite knowing better and now have lots of lovely streaks every time the sun hits at just the right angle.
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freelop posted:My mum used to make me run outside with boiling water and pour it on the windows. This reminds me of when I learned how to drive my rear end in a top hat step dad took full advantage and made me get the car ready every freezing cold morning, get it started and warmed up, cleaned off etc. But when it was time to ask to use it nope!
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Yeah, I used to let the car warm up for ten minutes, but now with the heated seats and steering wheel I want to be able to drive now.
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