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Dielectric posted:What's going on there? The bed is like nipple-high for me on the new F-150. gently caress lifting stuff that high, if I were in the market for a truck-o-mobile I'd want a Colorado, probably a fleet version without any monster truck cosplay crap on it. I actually saw one of the new Honda Ridgeline pickups the other day & was surprised at how low it sat & how small it was compared to "normal" full size pickups nowadays. Looked about the size of a 90s S-10, too bad that front fascia looks horrible on it.
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It's gotten to the point they are getting to high for goosenecks. You know let's alienate the people that use their truck for actual truck purposes.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:I actually saw one of the new Honda Ridgeline pickups the other day & was surprised at how low it sat & how small it was compared to "normal" full size pickups nowadays. Looked about the size of a 90s S-10, too bad that front fascia looks horrible on it. I'm probably weird but I like the boxy original Ridgeline
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Nah you ain't the only one, I kinda liked the original Ridgeline design too - only gripe was the short bed that didn't look like it could fit much in it. If they'd retooled or shrunk the front grille for the new one, it might not be so bad, it was just nice seeing a pickup that wasn't lifted like 8 feet off the ground.
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You can tow more weight than the bed can carry. But if they were worried about weight distribution, the gravel would have been at the front of the trailer instead of the back. So the answer is a combination of lazy andPowershift posted:Probably didn't want to scratch the factory bedliner
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Nah you ain't the only one, I kinda liked the original Ridgeline design too - only gripe was the short bed that didn't look like it could fit much in it. If they'd retooled or shrunk the front grille for the new one, it might not be so bad, it was just nice seeing a pickup that wasn't lifted like 8 feet off the ground. Ridgeline gets a bad rap. Yeah, suspect drivetrain I guess but for 99% of people that need a truck it does things quite well.
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Colostomy Bag posted:It's gotten to the point they are getting to high for goosenecks. You know let's alienate the people that use their truck for actual truck purposes. lol they're a captive audience which is why theyre going to keep jacking trucks up and giving them names like 1776 COME AND TAKE IT LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT Edition
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Colostomy Bag posted:It's gotten to the point they are getting to high for goosenecks. You know let's alienate the people that use their truck for actual truck purposes. Pickup truck lowering kits for those who actually need to use it for work.
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I am sorry to everyone who shared the road with me yesterday. I have sinned! I ran a red light while making a turn. It surprised me greatly that pedestrians and bikes had a green light and were crossing, since this intersection only had protected turns.
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Saukkis posted:Pickup truck lowering kits for those who actually need to use it for work. They'll just have a fold out rope ladder from a hidden compartment in the doors so people can climb in. Or comedy option, have the doors fold down like Airstairs 
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BOOTY-ADE posted:They'll just have a fold out rope ladder from a hidden compartment in the doors so people can climb in. Or comedy option, have the doors fold down like Airstairs There's a disabled old guy at my old gym who drives some brodozer GM truck. The entire driver's side - both doors - is welded together and lifts like a Lambo door. Stairs similar to those on that airplane drop out. It's quite something.
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Make sure you watch the sound version!
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lmao holy poo poo
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What the gently caress
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That is an amazing amount of ability to "make it work" without understanding why it shouldn't.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-25/monash-freeway-crash-causes-delays-for-melbourne-motorists/11344868 Pretty brutal car accident on one of the main freeways for Melbourne Australia this morning. No one was killed, which is amazing when you see the condition of some of the cars
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I wonder how many times this guy said "yep, that's not going anywhere" while fastening and tightening bits of this rolling physics lesson.
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snugglz posted:cross-posted from the OSHA thread: I shared these pictures with a bunch of people and for every "Oh god why?" I got back I got a "I don't see what's wrong?" I know which people I should never ask to help me move now.
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the only way that stupid thing even "works" to the extent that it does is because the truck is centered-ish over the trailer wheels, and even then it's still visibly dipping the back of the truck "works" until you hit a pothole and it wobbles itself off the road, anyway
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Colostomy Bag posted:Ridgeline gets a bad rap. Yeah, suspect drivetrain I guess but for 99% of people that need a truck it does things quite well. I've been able to do more work with a hatchback than the average truck owner actually does with his compensator
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snugglz posted:cross-posted from the OSHA thread:
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Venting into the void. This guy. Watched him park, no reason whatsoever to do this other than being an rear end in a top hat.  And another thing! Lane splitting is legal in California. I have no issue with it. All but a very few riders are courteous and safe about it. They know the difference between a quick blip of the throttle so that you know they are there and a redline tantrum. Saw a redline tantrum the other morning. Nondescript white sedan in the carpool lane minding their own business but apparently not hugging the K rail to the satisfaction of sport bike boy. Pegs the throttle, engine bouncing off the limiter, car scoots over. As he passes he shakes his head in disgust and flails his left arm, pointing to the left. --- A few days before this: Sport bike enters the freeway, traffic is slow but not quite jammed up. Rider weaves between cars working his way left, drat near perpendicular to the direction of travel, headed for the same gap a car is changing lanes to the right, a safely executed lane change. Car is about 2/3rds of the way into the lane when the sport bike swerves in, he swerves right. Head shake and flailing arm like he wasn't the dickhead.
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I've been in Rhode Island for about the last month and have noticed what seems to me to be an oddly high number of people who drive around with their high beams on during the day. If I was back home in Florida I would assume its confused olds or the occasional rando who thinks the blue headlight on their dash means normal headlights, but there seems to be way too many people for this to be the case. Any New Englanders who can tell me if I'm crazy or people up here just do it as a matter of course (I assume they're paranoid about getting hit by distracted drivers or something). On the other hand, the city (Middletown) has finally put in some loving protected left turns so every green is less of a clusterfuck of people trying to beat oncoming traffic into the Shaws/whatever. Progress!
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sleepy.eyes posted:I've been in Rhode Island for about the last month and have noticed what seems to me to be an oddly high number of people who drive around with their high beams on during the day. If I was back home in Florida I would assume its confused olds or the occasional rando who thinks the blue headlight on their dash means normal headlights, but there seems to be way too many people for this to be the case. Any New Englanders who can tell me if I'm crazy or people up here just do it as a matter of course (I assume they're paranoid about getting hit by distracted drivers or something). Not a New Englander but its getting more and more common here in California too. Even if you disregard the incorrectly aimed and outright extra bright aftermarket HIDs and LEDs out there. The latest gen Accord seems to be a big offender.
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sleepy.eyes posted:I've been in Rhode Island for about the last month and have noticed what seems to me to be an oddly high number of people who drive around with their high beams on during the day. If I was back home in Florida I would assume its confused olds or the occasional rando who thinks the blue headlight on their dash means normal headlights, but there seems to be way too many people for this to be the case. Any New Englanders who can tell me if I'm crazy or people up here just do it as a matter of course (I assume they're paranoid about getting hit by distracted drivers or something). Haven't been seeing that here in MA. I've been seeing people here riding the lines between lanes up here.
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sleepy.eyes posted:I've been in Rhode Island for about the last month and have noticed what seems to me to be an oddly high number of people who drive around with their high beams on during the day. I did this on purpose once driving Miami->Chicago (for at least the Florida segment, anyway), trying to haul rear end back home after a trade show. It kinda worked to wake people up who'd fallen asleep in the left lane, and yeah it's annoying, but figured I wasn't blasting anybody's night vision during the day.
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The police broke up a meet of street racers on the weekend and in addition to the expected BMWs and 350zs they impounded a Buick Roadmaster!
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Fornax Disaster posted:The police broke up a meet of street racers on the weekend and in addition to the expected BMWs and 350zs they impounded a Buick Roadmaster! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFWD5w6pXA
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cormorant posted:I've been able to do more work with a hatchback than the average truck owner actually does with his compensator My grandfather was a house painter. So buckets, dropcloths, brushes, rollers, chemicals, paint, torches, ladders, rags. His work vehicle was a Plymouth Reliant station wagon.
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Fornax Disaster posted:The police broke up a meet of street racers on the weekend and in addition to the expected BMWs and 350zs they impounded a Buick Roadmaster! hell yeah state sponsored theft owns
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Previa_fun posted:hell yeah state sponsored theft owns Civil asset forfeiture is state theft. Seizing evidence of a crime to present at trial is just seizing evidence of a crime.
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Just down the road from me https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/114553802/two-people-arrested-and-two-injured-after-serious-steamrolling-incident-in-wellington ‘Car enthusiasts’ steal diesel and do skids in a new industrial park. The contractor working on the place turns up, jumps in a roller and proceeds to roll over a some of the cars (after having more than a couple of drinks of course). Idiots all around.
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Phanatic posted:Civil asset forfeiture is state theft. Seizing evidence of a crime to present at trial is just seizing evidence of a crime. They impound cars for seven days for stunt driving in Ontario, the owner will get it back - after paying the storage fee.
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That's definitely attempted murder, right?
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Seik posted:That's definitely attempted murder, right? In America? Attempted murder In Russia? Just another day
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Phanatic posted:Civil asset forfeiture is state theft. Seizing evidence of a crime to present at trial is just seizing evidence of a crime. You're assuming a lot here. An unmodified Buick Roadmaster getting swept up in a street racing sting sounds a lot like "cops rolled into a parking lot where some street racers were congregating and impounded literally every car in the lot whether they had evidence of wrongdoing or not." Also given most states allow the police to take a cut of the proceeds of CAF it becomes increasingly difficult to determine what is civil asset forfeiture and what is "seizing evidence" when the police have a financial incentive to do one over the other. Also the evidence standards are wildly different - they don't have to prove poo poo with CAF (the onus is on the property owner to prove it wasn't obtained with the profits of or being used in the commission of a crime.) In short, the reality we live in is not the same as the one you were taught about in civics class.
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Geoj posted:You're assuming a lot here. Talk about assuming.
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