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Applebees Appetizer posted:It's had over 60k in MODS and we all know the mod rules don't apply to German cars because......I have no idea. That one has been for sale for a looooong time on consignment. It’s frankly not that special other than having low miles, and no, I wouldn’t pay more than mid-high 50s for any 2014 wagon. It will never sell. Mine has had similar levels of mod cash ~*~invested~*~ and because the seller clearly had done this dance before, he knew he wasn’t going to get any return on them and was cool with that. I would be perfectly happy buying more of this dude’s cars when he gets bored. He’s currently DDing a brand new Raptor with I’m guessing similar $50k+ levels of cash dumped into it, and told me he’s paying for his brand new R8’s custom twin turbo build with what I paid him for the wagon.  He said the truck has white paint. Tremek fucked around with this message at 03:45 on May 22, 2019 |
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Tremek posted:That one has been for sale for a looooong time on consignment. It’s frankly not that special other than having low miles, and no, I wouldn’t pay more than mid-high 50s for any 2014 wagon. It will never sell. At least you have a solid upgrade path to a twin turbo R8 when he's done with it!
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I spotted a new Ford Edge ST on the way to work this morning. That's the old one, the new one is even better looking.   And the US is getting it! in 25 years when it becomes legal to import.
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Powershift posted:That's the old one, the new one is even better looking. Isn’t there a path to getting LHD cars imported into the country if they’re the same model as available here without having to crash test 10 of them?
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:Isn’t there a path to getting LHD cars imported into the country if they’re the same model as available here without having to crash test 10 of them? Like he said, in 25 years. There is no legal way to get a Focus ST wagon here in USA, we never got a Focus wagon let alone an ST here so you would have to federalize it.
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KakerMix posted:Like he said, in 25 years. There is no legal way to get a Focus ST wagon here in USA, we never got a Focus wagon let alone an ST here so you would have to federalize it. rip
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May 22, 2019 05:53
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A Ford Edge is JUST AS GOOD what are you some sort of millenial?
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May 22, 2019 05:53
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honestly i swore im not going to buy an american car until they get their poo poo together so far none of the non-big three have needed to do any layoffs so gently caress them
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I just bought a very cool Eezi-Awn brand roof rack for the Lexus and I am very excited about it. Since the supplier is local to me and doesn’t need to ship it they do the install for free. It’s getting put on Tuesday. Then comes the finding of a roof tent. Our group of friends goes car camping a couple times a year (usually at a campground with the main draw of having a river to float down and drink for a few hours) and one of us has a truck bed tent for their F150. Without fail, he'll set it up attract a crowd of dudes standing around with their hands on their hips asking him about it while he's setting it up, and then a couple more will approach him throughout the weekend if he's ever standing around it. We all remain in the distance and giggle as he has to beat all of the boys 
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this 20 year old truck is a lot of fun! Not 700HP German wagon fun, but still fun.
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Anyone else having issues with their Imgur account? I hosted two photos and when I went to my Images there's a punch of porn and poo poo in there among the stuff I've uploaded.
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T-Square posted:Our group of friends goes car camping a couple times a year (usually at a campground with the main draw of having a river to float down and drink for a few hours) and one of us has a truck bed tent for their F150. Without fail, he'll set it up attract a crowd of dudes standing around with their hands on their hips asking him about it while he's setting it up, and then a couple more will approach him throughout the weekend if he's ever standing around it. I didn't know that was a thing and would definitely be one of those guys standing around harassing him
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May 22, 2019 17:39
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Sup Ska buddy 
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Still waiting on the Fourth Wave 
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Rhyno posted:Anyone else having issues with their Imgur account? I hosted two photos and when I went to my Images there's a punch of porn and poo poo in there among the stuff I've uploaded. #rhynosbedroomantics
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The Door Frame posted:Still waiting on the Fourth Wave While you're waiting there are plenty of good "right side of '96" bands still active. BossTones, Streetlight Manifesto (although they're more of a genre unto themselves these days), The Slackers, The Pietasters and Mephiskapheles (yes, they're satanic but in a fun way) are all farily prolific tourers for bands from a "dead" genre. Just saw the Streetlight orchestra show in Chicago two weekends ago, and caught The Slackers in Brooklyn last weekend. e: I'd also suggest checking out the international ska scene, lots of other good third-wave bands out there I've never heard of. I've been listening to Panteón Rococó from Mexico lately...don't speak a lick of Spanish but drat if their music isn't good. Kind of reminds me of old-school Rx Bandits with latin influences. Geoj fucked around with this message at 23:35 on May 22, 2019 |
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I don't really do Ska anymore, but I saw Streetlight Manifesto for the first time a couple of years ago at Riot Fest in Chicago and it was a wild rear end show.MomJeans420 posted:I didn't know that was a thing and would definitely be one of those guys standing around harassing him It's pretty slick, but guess what happens if you need to go anywhere? Gotta pull the tent out of the bed first.
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I went ahead and sent my Skyline I bought recently to mechanic in Japan to tidy up a few things (mainly he did the clutch, and then thoroughly checked EVERYTHING mechanical). Now in storage at port waiting to get legal to ship.
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May 22, 2019 20:11
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Ship it to me, I'll take care of it until it's 25.
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Fermented Tinal posted:Ship it to me, I'll take care of it until it's 25. Only has a month until it can ship...
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Rhyno posted:Anyone else having issues with their Imgur account? I hosted two photos and when I went to my Images there's a punch of porn and poo poo in there among the stuff I've uploaded. Everything looks fine on my account,
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T-Square posted:Our group of friends goes car camping a couple times a year (usually at a campground with the main draw of having a river to float down and drink for a few hours) and one of us has a truck bed tent for their F150. Without fail, he'll set it up attract a crowd of dudes standing around with their hands on their hips asking him about it while he's setting it up, and then a couple more will approach him throughout the weekend if he's ever standing around it. You are probably right, but dude I am at a point in my life that I can enjoy the outdoors and not have to sleep on the ground! They are common enough around here that I don't think I will get too accosted about it. Bonus is that I am looking for a used one which will mean it will be slightly weathered so I will not come off as too much of a poseur.
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everdave posted:Only has a month until it can ship... I fail to see the problem.
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everdave posted:I went ahead and sent my Skyline I bought recently to mechanic in Japan to tidy up a few things (mainly he did the clutch, and then thoroughly checked EVERYTHING mechanical). Now in storage at port waiting to get legal to ship. Did they only make those things in that color and white? I swear, those are the only colors I ever see them in.
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I’m not an expert, I’ve seen a red one that looked stock (I think it was an 89) but no way to know if it was factory. Mainly see white grey and black.
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Thoughts so far from my annual Flight in was a bit rough at the end. One of my ears decided it wasn't going to pop and was getting so stuffed up that when it finally did release, it squeaked like a loving balloon deflating. Landing was probably the roughest I've experienced either. Got a free upgrade to "whatever you want" on the rental car since they were pretty picked over. Ended up in a 2019 Santa Fe with 690 miles on it (nice) and holy poo poo this thing is actually nice. The last Hyundai rental I had was probably six years ago and while it wasn't a bad car, it had some glaring design flaws, like patchy blue LED backlighting on everything. This one the closest thing to a flaw I've found is that it seems to be really lazy on purpose when you mat the throttle, but once it decides to actually give you WOT it's not bad. I'm a bit blown away by how well the lanekeeping and adaptive cruise work, given that I've never driven anything with them before. It'll hold adaptive cruise all the way to a stop, when it finally requires input from you to go again. The lanekeeping feels a bit like encountering bump steer when it kicks in, so it's easy to override if you're exiting a freeway or something of the sort. I guess the auto stop/start on the engine is rough, but then again it's rough in every non-Prius I've experienced it it. Honestly I expect this thing to eat up the miles from Chicago to Indy tomorrow like nothing. I'm never buying anything "nice" without at least adaptive cruise and Android Auto ever again. And this is in the base less-than-$25k trim. I think the only thing it's going to be way off on my CR-V on is mileage, which makes sense because it's considerably larger and has AWD. Finally, holy poo poo I have never experienced drivers (and pedestrians) as awful as Chicago. Red lights, crosswalks, green lights, lane lines, all mere suggestions that can be remedied by just loving sending it and laying on the horn.
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We flew to Vegas for the day for a wedding a couple weeks back. We were just going to Uber around but a one way trip from the airport to wedding destination was going to be over $20. I rented a full size Hyundai (Elantra I think) through Costco for $28. It had AC that absolutely cranked. Reasonably appointed and comfortable seats. Big back seat. It was slow as balls but to its credit the range was unstoppable. At full tank it was over 520 miles. That is wild. I assume it ran on the idea of gasoline rather than actual gasoline.
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Dropped a bookshelf on my foot earlier. Woke up to a throbbing pain and a blue toenail. So one hot needle later and SPLORCH. Gross.
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Rhyno posted:Dropped a bookshelf on my foot earlier. Woke up to a throbbing pain and a blue toenail. So one hot needle later and SPLORCH. No video? What a tease.
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I think I got probated when I posted pics of my thumbnail that I drilled through to relieve the pressure.
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:honestly i swore im not going to buy an american car until they get their poo poo together They never do layoffs. They close entire plants as redundant after ending production on lines of vehicles.
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Liquid Communism posted:They never do layoffs. On the white collar end they lay dudes off every year Ford is laying off 7k worldwide lol
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I'm hoping this interview went as well as I think it did. 3pm interview, interviewing manager is very much a no bullshit guy; definitely the type of person I like working for. Got a little cocky with the 5 year question everybody asks ("I'll be sitting in your chair after you've been promoted" was my answer - which he was prepared for, with a "and who do you have to blame if you're NOT in this chair?"... answered "nobody but myself"). The 5 year was the only stereotypical question. He asked what I was doing tonight, I somehow managed NOT to blurt out "well it depends on how drunk you get me" and instead said "I can rearrange my schedule". Got to meet another manager at 10pm with a few other possible hires. I got the idea they might be looking to hire 2 people; there were 4 others for the late night meet and greet. But the second manager was basically talking to us like we already work there; I kinda get the feeling that you don't make it to that point unless they're trying to trim the hiring pool down a little. I'm supposed to wait for a phone call for yet another interview now.  The starting pay on this is about what I make after self employment taxes and fuel, and tops out significantly higher. Team leads make what I currently make on a REALLY good night (before factoring in taxes and vehicle expenses). Moving to full time is apparently merit based after 3=6 months.randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:11 on May 23, 2019 |
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Everyone needs to do themselves a solid and watch Chernobyl. It is bloody amazing to say the least
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IOwnCalculus posted:2019 Santa Fe with 690 miles on it (nice) and holy poo poo this thing is actually nice. drat. I've been looking for a replacement for my wife's Juke and the Santa Fe has been high up on the list. I keep dropping back to 2018s, since they are previous generation and a bit cheaper, but man, I may look for a 2019 closeout in the next couple months. The only thing is that sunroofs are a requirement, and Hyundai is very stingy with them, only available on the top tow trim levels. That takes the car to over 30k sticker and it's just more than I want to spend, because that makes it the same price as a 2017 Lexus NX200T... and I go back and forth.
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:On the white collar end they lay dudes off every year Absolutely untrue. This year has been rough but there haven't been regular layoffs since 2009. Sucks for those guys. I had some friends let go recently and it's never fun seeing that happen. Suburban Dad fucked around with this message at 12:51 on May 23, 2019 |
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STR posted:I'm hoping this interview went as well as I think it did. Good luck! Nothing like a slightly scary new job to help you grow (and hopefully grow your income). Just remember - everyone else is making it up as they go too!
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STR posted:"and who do you have to blame if you're NOT in this chair?" Different strokes, but I would have gotten up and walked right out of the interview if a hiring manager ever asked me that. That's an unacceptable attitude for a manager.
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meatpimp posted:drat. I've been looking for a replacement for my wife's Juke and the Santa Fe has been high up on the list. I keep dropping back to 2018s, since they are previous generation and a bit cheaper, but man, I may look for a 2019 closeout in the next couple months. The only thing is that sunroofs are a requirement, and Hyundai is very stingy with them, only available on the top tow trim levels. That takes the car to over 30k sticker and it's just more than I want to spend, because that makes it the same price as a 2017 Lexus NX200T... and I go back and forth. If you pay anywhere near sticker on a Hyundai you are doing it wrong. I not sure about Santa Fe but no more 6 speed auto real transmissions starting 2020. CVT in everything starting then. I love Hyundai I have an 18 Elantra I paid honestly $14k for (before taxes) on a $22 sticker. Car Play, blind spot warning, cross traffic warning. Big trunk. Highly recommend (at mucho $ off sticker). Wanted a Toyota badly but I’d have been paying 21+ and no Car Play. It makes a difference.
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