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"Spicy Sedan" is great. The Civic SI is on my short list for my next vehicle as well as the Accord 2.0T because I've heard it's a great drive too. My only concern is being able to afford them even used because I'm a poor and poo poo is getting ridiculously expensive. A shameful snipe.
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Darchangel posted:Huh. Is it Canuckistan only? Hard to tell. AFAIK its canada only, yes. I don't think USA has the touchscreen kiosks everywhere
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Here's the cool thing about owning a stupidly fast and fun car: You can always buy another car that's shittier and less good if you want to punish yourself.
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gently caress those kiosks. McDonlads has them around here and I've seen them at my local Taco Bell too. Even ignoring the fact they're designed to put people out of work they suck rear end to use. I could spend a few minutes using an unresponsive touch screen to browse pages and pages of menu items to find what I want to order or I could just verbally give my order to an employee trained to use the POS system who can ring me up in seconds. I'm a weirdo who is also anti self checkout but I haven't met anyone else who likes the fast food kiosks.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Here's the cool thing about owning a stupidly fast and fun car: You can always buy another car that's shittier and less good if you want to punish yourself. Its stupidly fun and fast sometimes. But otherwise it's a 464 HP track monster that goes 15mph down a freeway at rush hour. I haven't run the numbers, but I assume it will be a terrible financial decision to sell the car after 8 months and like 5k miles.
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May 4, 2019 05:14
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Previa_fun posted:I haven't met anyone else who likes the fast food kiosks. Hi
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Sab0921 posted:Its stupidly fun and fast sometimes. But otherwise it's a 464 HP track monster that goes 15mph down a freeway at rush hour. My recommendation is a) Just stop going in to work, I did that last June and now I work remotely as much as I want, which cuts down on those 15mph freeway frustrations. b) If that isn't possible, buy a '92 Miata. Then your thrills come from how close you come to dying everytime a 11-seat SUV with one person in it tries to drive over you but you can still have fun going 14mph.
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Beverly Cleavage posted:The best lie. I bought the car because my wife told me I needed 4 doors. The rear facing car seat fits wonderfully in the car, it's just that the novelty of the thing has worn off. I had an RSX for 12 years and an old Scion TC for the 4 years after that. High revving 4-cylinders seem to be what I'm about. I never got bored or tired of the RSX.
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Ether Frenzy posted:My recommendation is What does the Miata say to the God of death?
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The Miata says not today! As for your high revving, car-seat needs: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2011-bmw-m3-48/
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I received the paperwork for a couple of vehicles I'm waiting to be delivered to port from Japan and a part of that process is sometimes owners manuals and extra keys get mailed with the paperwork. The HDJ80 Land Cruiser packet contained the owner's manual, the entire stack of inspection reports back to new (always nice) but it also included this:   
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Do what I did, buy a Capri. It's a FWD Miata with a back seat Don't do it, the transmission is terrible and not fun
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FWIW the Miata is even more irritating to drive in slow traffic than the M3 is, but it also has a lot more fun on twisty roads at 30mph with olds/tourists in front of you. Because 30 is as fast as you need to push it through hairpins before the fronts start to get a little less certain about continuing to turn. Yay for bicycle tires. Also if you're inclined to tanning easily, the hour a week I drive it keeps my california glow going
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Galler posted:Amazon's own delivery people do not give a single gently caress though. They leave everything at my apartment door, even if it's signature required, despite having delivery instructions with my address in my Amazon account telling them to leave it at the office. Yesterday they left a package in front of someone else's door (they have a picture of it sitting on a welcome mat and I don't have one of those.) So now I have to convince the Amazon chat bot that my package is in fact gone forever and I would like something done about it. There doesn't seem to be any 'package is missing' option just 'this single item wasn't included' so that's obnoxious. I might have to have them call me. I guess everything from Amazon will be going to a storage locker now. Also for some reason Amazon can deliver stuff to my apartment in a day but it takes two days to deliver stuff to one of their lockers which seems backwards. Have them call you, tell them you didn't get your package; they'll create a replacement order. Then ask to speak to logistics customer service (you may have to go through a few different CSRs before you get one that understands that yes, AMZL does have customer-facing CSRs). (a) you'll get someone that's a native English speaker when you speak with logistics CS, and (b) you can express your frustration with instructions being ignored, and it WILL count against the drivers doing that. everdave posted:Yes it sucks but really the only way to sell all the excess junk I get in my store, no one locally is buying 15 year old wireless laptop cards for $10 each Got a laptop 5 GHz card by chance, or at least 802.11n @ 2.4 GHz? My laptop only does 802.11b/g @ 2.4 GHz, and uses a typical mini PCIe card. I know "15 year old" kinda defies 5 GHz, but figured I'd ask. Previa_fun posted:"Spicy Sedan" is great. The Civic SI is on my short list for my next vehicle as well as the Accord 2.0T because I've heard it's a great drive too. My only concern is being able to afford them even used because I'm a poor and poo poo is getting ridiculously expensive. The V6 Accord is considerably quicker, though obviously you have to go with the last gen instead of the current gen. Previa_fun posted:gently caress those kiosks. McDonlads has them around here and I've seen them at my local Taco Bell too. Awhile back at Taco Bell (one I'm in regularly for delivery orders, so the GM knows me at least by face), I customized a double decker taco a little bit at the kiosk. A couple of minutes later I hear "what in the gently caress does that even MEAN?! what the gently caress is DDFL?!" from the kitchen. I start laughing and go up to the counter, because I knew exactly what he was looking at (I worked for another Yum brands restaurant that used the same make screens, and the letters sounded like what i'd ordered). Oh, and I was the only customer in there at the time. GM didn't realize I'd heard him and was embarrassed as hell when I asked if it was my order. "Double decker with the fiery loco shell substituted". He said he never even knew that was an option. The next time I tried using the kiosk, it wasn't an option anymore. It also disappeared from the mobile app.  It was a 10 cent substitution that was actually kinda tasty (for Taco Bell).And Taco Bell doesn't even have counter staff anymore except for dinner rush - someone will eventually wander up to the register if you stand there and look annoyed long enough. The kiosks at least give you options that you didn't know existed...
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STR posted:Have them call you, tell them you didn't get your package; they'll create a replacement order. Then ask to speak to logistics customer service (you may have to go through a few different CSRs before you get one that understands that yes, AMZL does have customer-facing CSRs). (a) you'll get someone that's a native English speaker when you speak with logistics CS, and (b) you can express your frustration with instructions being ignored, and it WILL count against the drivers doing that. I did this when I got home today and it pretty much went like you described. Of course like 10 minutes after I got my refund (~30 hours after the package was delivered) the person that got my package showed up and gave it to me. I haven't decided if it's worth the hassle to contact Amazon again to try and give back the refund.
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Powershift posted:The later Mercury Colony Parks had a very lincolinish look to them, and it got me dreaming about a suicide door continental wagon as the ultimate camping car. 
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Galler posted:I did this when I got home today and it pretty much went like you described. Of course like 10 minutes after I got my refund (~30 hours after the package was delivered) the person that got my package showed up and gave it to me. I haven't decided if it's worth the hassle to contact Amazon again to try and give back the refund. They didn't create a new order? That's... different. If they had, you could just go to your order history and cancel it. The driver's still got a strike against them for a missing package either way at this point. Also, they never get the same route - it's a random route every day (regardless of if it's an independent contractor [like me] or a 3rd party courier service leasing Amazon vans).
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Sab0921 posted:I bought a pretty sweet performance car about 8 months ago - an ATS-V - it was certified pre-owned for around $40k. It was expensive, but fulfilled a lifelong dream of having an unfathomably fast car. I now feel like I scratched that itch, did some track days and took a driving class, and now I am kind of over it. Wife still out of town, prepping the M3 race shell for sale and pick up Monday morning. Have the Lola down to the frame, now I've gotta find a shop to update the cage.
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Very angry at cars at the moment, the squeal that cause me to pit on my trip last Friday came back yesterday, I can't find a damned thing wrong but it squeals when warm going straight, definitely the front left. Brakes look good and move freely, no bearing play, new control arm looks good, can't shake any movement out of anything but it's still there. Goes quiet when cornering even slightly, or braking. Shoot me now
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Took the Versa in to get a safety yesterday at work. Mechanic comes and gets me after about ten minutes going "What the gently caress did you do to this car?" Amongst other things, there are parts missing from the front subframe and the entire front end rocks forward and backwards by about a quarter inch. At least one of the mounting bolts is broken and everything flexes way too much. There were a handful of things I'd argue were debatable as to whether or not they needed to be done, but basically there's not much holding the front end together.  E: Basically someone had it all apart once before, and didn't install all the parts when they re-assembled the car, and kludged some other stuff while they were at it. Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 12:09 on May 4, 2019 |
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Thrashed it for an hour, got nothing but the slightest wheel-speed squeak when turning slightly right with no load. gently caress it, I'm going to keep driving it until something fixable actually breaks.
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Happy Cinco de Cuatro!
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Well... this is fun. Couple of weeks ago my Instagram account got stolen and password changed etc etc so I did the full recovery, changed EVERY password on everything (which has broken my email smtp settings) and thought all was golden. Until this morning when I get notified my Instagram account has been deactivated for breech of terms. There’s nothing on there except for cat and car pics! So now I’m having to do the whole “take a photo of your face with this code” bullshit. And my email still doesn’t work on my phone properly!
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Powershift posted:Happy Cinco de Cuatro! Oh gently caress, every bar is going to be jammed with every tourist under the sun tomorrow.
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Safety Dance posted:Oh gently caress, every bar is going to be jammed with every tourist under the sun tomorrow. Not if you destroy the bar today!
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Can anyone suggest a way to keep cats out of my garden? Almost every neighbour has one (and one crazy cat lady has 5 of the loving things) and since my old dog died they're roaming around wrecking flowerbeds and clambering all over my cars. I left the garage door open for a while the other day and went in there to find muddy pawprints over my garaged cars as well. Failing that, what species of dog is really good at hunting cats?
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How about a Cat-apult  
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Grakkus posted:Can anyone suggest a way to keep cats out of my garden? Almost every neighbour has one (and one crazy cat lady has 5 of the loving things) and since my old dog died they're roaming around wrecking flowerbeds and clambering all over my cars. I left the garage door open for a while the other day and went in there to find muddy pawprints over my garaged cars as well. If it's anything like our area you're free to trap cats and turn them into animal control. Animal Control also rents out traps for free for this purpose, but once we trapped 5 or so cats within a couple of weeks we went and bought our own. Ended up catching over 15 cats within a couple months before we stopped getting them making GBS threads in our yard and terrorizing our actual cool and good indoor cat.
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STR I messaged you Sweet keychain Kaker! My vans just unloaded at Savannah I should have them this coming week at the house
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You can get those high pitched whistling things that cats can hear but humans supposedly can't (I can and they hurt like a bitch)
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That might be something that you're allowed to do, and letting your cats roam the neighborhood is lovely and irresponsible, but that's not going to stop your neighbors from burning your house down for trapping their pets.
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KillHour posted:That might be something that you're allowed to do, and letting your cats roam the neighborhood is lovely and irresponsible, but that's not going to stop your neighbors from burning your house down for trapping their pets. We didn't hide that we were doing it and had about half of our neighbors on our side. What else could we do? Ask them nicely? lmao They could always go get their cats back from animal control, if they didn't then they weren't much of a pet now were they? 
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meatpimp posted:It has cleaned up a lot of the spam crap. good move by CL, imo. Yep. Got rid of the shady dealerships posting every car on the lot six times a week. KillHour posted:That might be something that you're allowed to do, and letting your cats roam the neighborhood is lovely and irresponsible, but that's not going to stop your neighbors from burning your house down for trapping their pets. They don't want to keep their animals on their property, they can pay the 'retrieving them from animal control' tax. Let 'em bitch at the city, how was he supposed to know that roaming animal was theirs and not a stray? Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 23:35 on May 4, 2019 |
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Liquid Communism posted:Yep. Got rid of the shady dealerships posting every car on the lot six times a week. I did it for awhile and had neighbors coming to my house to bitch about it. It’s against the law here gently caress off, don’t let it out if you do t want it trapped. It continued tho and the pet cats that were fed got used to the traps and avoided them, only cats I caught were hungry strays. I gave up after awhile cuz it was a pain anyway. Still have cats to this day pissing all over our cars and everywhere else. Irresponsible pet owners suck.
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Previa_fun posted:"Spicy Sedan" is great. The Civic SI is on my short list for my next vehicle as well as the Accord 2.0T because I've heard it's a great drive too. My only concern is being able to afford them even used because I'm a poor and poo poo is getting ridiculously expensive. The new SI is seriously awesome but yeah they are getting pretty crazy. I got quoted 26k for a 2018 pre-owned fully loaded SI (it only had 1000 miles on it but still).
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Maksimus54 posted:Same place you put that requirement. This is tight for rear facing. Two kids and you're hosed, ain't no way that's fitting unless you're only 5' tall. Me, I'm buying a van. meatpimp posted:Welcome to automotive sanity. Everyone ends up here, eventually. 
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