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The terrible is coming from inside the thread, and it ain't even about cars. Lets go back on topic, tia.
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Guinness posted:I always feel weird about buying/selling used cars to friends (term used broadly). Just too much risk of guilt of something going wrong with the car despite no intentional malice or deception. At least when you sell it to a stranger it is out of sight out of mind. I get this man. I tried to give a car to friends who desperately needed one and they insisted on paying me something. It was a basket case but it ran and drove well enough. About 9 months later they sold it on to another mutual friend for $500 and that person came at me because of all the problems and expected me to fix them since it was "my" car. She hounded me for a week over it until she decided to sell it for scrap.
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Edward IV posted:
I was waiting for this. As with all the AITA threads , once the OP has gauged the audience sentiment favours the other person, OPs dump a big post trying to make the other person seem like hitler and spending probably an hour writing up a list of poo poo perceived to be wrong with the person. Get help. Let Smash dude live his best life. EDIT: Imagine working 80 hours and coming home to someone that isn't loving you judging you. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Jan 7, 2021 |
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Jan 7, 2021 09:56
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Terrible car stuff is getting a cheap or "free" car from a friend/roomie/family member that proceeds to burn several holes in your wallet. Smash bro made the right choice.Invalido posted:I dunno. While suboptimal, at least there's a child seat, presumably with belts to restrain the child. This alone is well above and beyond what is common in most of the world when it comes to child traffic safety. A few years ago I vacationed in SE Asia with my family. Due to bad planning I had failed to bring booster seats for my kids (3 and 5 at the time) from home. When I asked the car rental agency people if they could provide such things they looked at me like I was crazy. Seats could not be bought so I ended up building some out things I could buy, including plastic laundry baskets, rope, zip ties and lots of duct tape. Much fun was had at the hardware store where nobody spoke any English. The best I could do was probably better than nothing was my reasoning. Given how some folks in SE Asia and elsewhere consider it NBD to put a family of five on a 50cc scooter, the idea of a booster seat might seem a bit absurd.
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Jan 7, 2021 10:15
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Rhyno posted:I get this man. I tried to give a car to friends who desperately needed one and they insisted on paying me something. It was a basket case but it ran and drove well enough. About 9 months later they sold it on to another mutual friend for $500 and that person came at me because of all the problems and expected me to fix them since it was "my" car. She hounded me for a week over it until she decided to sell it for scrap. Pffft... in what universe does that ever work? In what other transaction can you buy something used and expect it to not be as-is? I don't understand where people get these ideas. I tend to not sell stuff to friends, especially cars, because even at the best, they'll ask about it when something breaks. I can tell a stranger to gently caress off with no harm done.
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Jan 7, 2021 20:20
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It didn't. I found out she hadn't even fully paid the other party for the car so I just ignored her. She later married a friend of mine and ruined his life.
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Jan 7, 2021 20:36
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Yeah, sounded like a winner from the start.
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Jan 7, 2021 21:16
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Darchangel posted:Yeah, sounded like a winner from the start. Oh there's so many stories. She called the police because he was on her front porch trying to kick the door in. Except that he was out with us for the post wedding extra party until 2am with a dozen witnesses.
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Jan 7, 2021 21:21
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Edward IV posted:I haven't even told you all the most egregious thing he does. Whenever I play Pokemon and he sees a Pokemon on my screen, without any prompting from me, he will make an awful fake Pokemon cry I stopped reading after this Guinness posted:I always feel weird about buying/selling used cars to friends (term used broadly). Just too much risk of guilt of something going wrong with the car despite no intentional malice or deception. At least when you sell it to a stranger it is out of sight out of mind. Yeah me too, unless I'm REALLY confident in the car. I sold our LS430 to a buddy of mine but I wasn't worried because that car is an over engineered tank.
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Jan 7, 2021 21:42
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Car stories are always really people stories
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Jan 7, 2021 21:44
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If I know the person, and I wasn't giving it away, I'd basically only sell if they really wanted it.
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Jan 7, 2021 22:13
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Guinness posted:I always feel weird about buying/selling used cars to friends (term used broadly). Just too much risk of guilt of something going wrong with the car despite no intentional malice or deception. At least when you sell it to a stranger it is out of sight out of mind. I feel that too, but I also kind of feel like if I saw them driving around town in the back of my mind I'd be like that's my car. Like what if they put a dent in it, or put fake chrome hubcaps on it or some other poo poo I don't like I'd still feel like they were defacing MY CAR. I once sold a very, very clean 1991 Camaro RS, 305 V8 with a manual transmission, to a guy who's plan was to basically hack it up and take poo poo out of it to put in another project Camaro he was working on. He had a similar aged Z28 I think but it was an automatic and had some lovely panels on it so he wanted mine as donor and I really didn't want to sell it to him because it was just so rust free and couldn't think of it rotting and being cannibalized it some guys yard. Like I know that '91 Camaro with a 305 and about 170hp is not exactly desirable but to sell it to somebody who's solution was not to put a better motor in that car but to take everything but the motor and put it on another car was annoying to me. I'm by no means like a Camaro purist or superfan or anything, I actually have no brand allegiance what so ever, so I don't know why that bothered me so much but it did.
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Jan 8, 2021 00:45
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I sold my 1-ton Kingswood ute to a friend of mine's older brother, decent dude, had his poo poo together, I knew he would take care of it, and he did, pretty well. Then he got rear-ended by a 4.5 ton rental truck when that driver was checking their big Melways street directory and didn't realise my mate's brother had stopped for a pedestrian crossing. Completely totaled, chassis cracked in several places, diff housing smashed open, etc. He sold the 350 chev engine to another friend to use in a speed boat, but it was hard to see something I had spent a long time and a lot of money crunched like that.
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Jan 8, 2021 00:57
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My dad had a Mach 1 Mustang back in the early 70s but sold it when the embargo hit. He saw it around town after some kid bought it and put Cherry Bombs on it, and shortly afterwards rolled it into a ditch. 
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Jan 8, 2021 01:32
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I bought a very old motorcycle from a friend in college and proceeded to slam it into the back of a Maxima three months later. Surprisingly, he never gave me any poo poo for it and let me borrow a different very old motorcycle for a group ride later that year.
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Jan 8, 2021 02:36
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My father had a 76 Monte Carlo, silver with a burgundy Landau top and matching interior. Put a 454 bored .040 with an aluminum intake and dual 4 barrels in it. Sold it and had this guy come to buy it for his daughter who just got her license. My Dad begged this guy not to buy it, tried to explain why it was such a bad idea. Bought it anyway and came back mad when she totaled it in less than a month.
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Jan 8, 2021 02:41
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I sold my rust free and completely fixed-everything Forester to my friends brother and he money shifted it and jumped the timing belt like less than a month later. I had just got done dropping the entire rear subframe and everything to rebush, paint and swap an LSD into it like a few weeks before. It had the altimeter/compass on the dash too. I really regret selling that car even though they made me an offer I couldn't refuse, seriously.
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Jan 8, 2021 06:15
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I sold my beloved but clapped out VR6 Passat wagon to a guy who pulled up in another VR6 Passat wagon. I'd owned the car for 10 years, and this instance made the 2nd time I'd seen another one on the road. I had it listed for a few bills above scrap value to keep the vultures away, but honestly would have just given it to him knowing at the very least, some of the good bits (motor and trans ran STRONG, still some good body panels & OK interior) would find their way back onto the road.
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Jan 8, 2021 08:33
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I ummed and ahhed about buying a co workers cheap bmw 116d a while back, someone else snapped it up while i was thinking about it, it did expensive BMW engine things about 2 days later. Massive bullet dodged.
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Jan 8, 2021 13:07
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I still regret the loss of my Sera. I saw a blue one like mine passing on a freeway down south a while ago and I looped back and hunted that thing down hoping it was my old one. Nope, but they did know the owner of it though! Now thanks to MCM, value has gone up a lot. Used to be able to get them for $1500 but now unobtainium. EDIT: I say that then immediately find a baby puke yellow with lowish KM in my state for $1500 with a roadworthy cert.... gently caress. https://www.boostcruising.com/advert/2922764-1991-Toyota-Sera-for-Sale.html?utm_source=Lifull-connect&utm_medium=referrer Humphreys fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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Jan 8, 2021 14:40
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cakesmith handyman posted:I ummed and ahhed about buying a co workers cheap bmw 116d a while back, someone else snapped it up while i was thinking about it, it did expensive BMW engine things about 2 days later. Massive bullet dodged.
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Jan 8, 2021 15:30
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You know it.
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Jan 8, 2021 15:41
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cakesmith handyman posted:I ummed and ahhed about buying a co workers cheap bmw 116d a while back, someone else snapped it up while i was thinking about it, it did expensive BMW engine things about 2 days later. Massive bullet dodged. Going to wager the timing chain exploded.
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Jan 8, 2021 15:45
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Sold my Fit to a guy on Nextdoor who needed a car for his daughter who just got her license. Great first car choice, upgraded with wireless carplay even. It was really tough selling it after 11 years, but I still wanted to upgrade while it was in great shape. Coworker saw it a week later, driven by a young woman with her friends getting drinks at a 7-11. Seems likely it will become someone else’s fond memory as well.  Roll on tiny Honda. And for some actual content, this exhaust pipe:  A bit hard to see since I’m lined up with it, but the thing juts out from behind at like a 45 degree angle.
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The only reason to get an N47 is the 123D and then you just set 2000€ aside for the inevitable timing chain dilemma. The M47 was the best 4 cylinder common rail diesel ever made in germany (bar, maybe, the mercedes 220) The M57 was the absolute best 6 cylinder diesel to ever grace the earth. Their Nxx successors were nightmares.  look at this. Duplex Chains, easy cams, Vacuum EGR that can be defeated with a screw or some hot glue. Literally all you ever need is to remove the swirl flaps (20€ ebay plugs) and change oil and filters and deactivate the EGR if you wanna drive the thing for over a million miles. Even the cranc case ventilation can be easily serviced. show me a german car that can do that today. Combat Theory fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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PirateDentist posted:Sold my Fit to a guy on Nextdoor who needed a car for his daughter who just got her license. Great first car choice, upgraded with wireless carplay even. It was really tough selling it after 11 years, but I still wanted to upgrade while it was in great shape. It's a "Shakotan Exhaust";  Pretty weird to see on a Rav4 but W/E.
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Jan 8, 2021 16:35
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Victory pipes if they're just massive/multiple. Takeyari (bamboo spear) is specifically the oblique slash cut iirc Content: https://twitter.com/wrenching_wench/status/1347465245854457856?s=20 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCasVhuqz0M can recommend his other videos too.
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Memento posted:I sold my 1-ton Kingswood ute to a friend of mine's older brother, decent dude, had his poo poo together, I knew he would take care of it, and he did, pretty well. I sold my '95 2-door Cherokee to a friend when I picked up the Crown Vic, who unfortunately attracts idiots on the road. The poor thing got merged into, and rear-ended twice, and then he neglected to replace the coolant temp sensor when it failed, so was unaware that he had blown a rad hose and lost all his coolant until the poor little 2.5 gave up. It still runs after cooling down, but seems to have lost a cylinder. He still has it, but currently doesn't have a job, so it sits. Even if he fixed it, the rear of the chassis is bent pretty bad from the last rear-ender.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Victory pipes if they're just massive/multiple. Takeyari (bamboo spear) is specifically the oblique slash cut iirc I think I know which one they're supposing is which in this photo, but really it could go either way.
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PirateDentist posted:Sold my Fit to a guy on Nextdoor who needed a car for his daughter who just got her license. Great first car choice, upgraded with wireless carplay even. It was really tough selling it after 11 years, but I still wanted to upgrade while it was in great shape. It's a great car in general, but especially as a first car. And if you fold down the rear seats you can easily stuff a dorm room of stuff in there.
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cakesmith handyman posted:You know it. 
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Ah hahahaha. Sorry, I'm all out of sympathy because *gestures at everything*. Sucks though, I like the format of the early 1 series, they remind me a little of the reliant scimitar.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:If you have pieces of poo poo like you describe running about, you dont have safety inspections. I dotn know what they should be called but they aint safety inspections. Yeah they basically drive it through the parking lot, hit the brakes, check the lights, check the horn, and check how much tread you have left on your tires. Also make sure there's seat belts of some kind, and wipers. That's it. The safety part takes all of 5 minutes if they have a helper to watch the lights, otherwise they pull into a garage with mirrors on the corners. Only the newbies or someone busted for passing someone for cash bothers to check to see if there's a catalytic converter or bother measuring all 4 tires, unless the car is obviously modified. In over 20 years of driving I've only had them look under the car twice to make sure there was a cat. They don't care how many warning lights you have on (airbag light could even be on) so long as it's not a check engine light. But this is what it takes to get some people to finally put new tires on their cars. Or replace the metal backing plates that had brake pads attached at one point. If you live in a smog county (which is only the major metro areas - except for San Antonio, no smog there), it takes longer for them to smog it. And smog here at this point is literally make sure the CEL works, plug in their computer, and wait. Computer just checks to make sure there's no codes stored and that all of the readiness monitors are set (you're allowed 1 not ready - it used to be 2 for 96-99, now it's 1 across all years). Anything 25+ yrs old is smog exempt, so there's absolutely no tailpipe sniff here anymore. We all know it's impossible to tune out catalytic converter codes.....  Guinness posted:I always feel weird about buying/selling used cars to friends (term used broadly). Just too much risk of guilt of something going wrong with the car despite no intentional malice or deception. At least when you sell it to a stranger it is out of sight out of mind. I've never sold a running/driving car private party before. I did sell a wrecked car for $200 one time to a guy that needed an engine (it ran fantastic, even with >200k on it), everything else has gone to scrapyards. I've traded two cars that needed a bunch of work in to dealerships (99 Altima and 06 Saturn - Altima had a badly rattling timing chain and dying AC compressor, Saturn was a rust heap). On the Saturn, since it was a mom and pop lot and they actually gave me an okay deal on Brokeback, I was up front about what it needed, and loaded up the trunk with the parts waiting to go on. They were giving me a little more than scrap value despite it barely running and spraying gas from (as it turned out) 3 different holes in the main fuel line. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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Humphreys posted:I still regret the loss of my Sera. I saw a blue one like mine passing on a freeway down south a while ago and I looped back and hunted that thing down hoping it was my old one. Nope, but they did know the owner of it though! Now thanks to MCM, value has gone up a lot. Used to be able to get them for $1500 but now unobtainium. Well you've got a couple of days to think about it, I doubt with the lockdown anyone's going to be looking at it this weekend.
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Midjack posted:My dad had a Mach 1 Mustang back in the early 70s but sold it when the embargo hit. He saw it around town after some kid bought it and put Cherry Bombs on it, and shortly afterwards rolled it into a ditch. My first car was a white VW Mk2 Polo (the later model with ugly square lamps and a terrible gutless 1.1l engine), and my GF drove it off a bridge and all the wheels were at very, very wrong angles. It was supposed to be scrapped but I guess someone bought it and repaired it for some insane reason (it was not the greatest car ever, and I can't imagine it was an overly easy fix to make) so I kept seeing it around for ages. Was definitely the same car because it still had the bad paintjob(s) I did to cover up whenever the local youth thought it would be funny to tag my car. Street parking a white car in a bad area is just asking for it tbh.
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Memento posted:Well you've got a couple of days to think about it, I doubt with the lockdown anyone's going to be looking at it this weekend. I really hate that colour though.
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Had similar on a few cars, having to disassemble something else entirely to get a bolt out. https://twitter.com/Spottyroo/status/1348689310858371073?s=20
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Can the bolt go in the other way?
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I did this to one of my lower control arm bolts. Hit the brake caliper. I managed to put it in backwards on previous assembly when servicing my struts. The entire arm was drooping past it's normal travel because I had removed the shock which gave me enough clearance to absent mindedly install the bolt in backwards without touching the caliper.Wasabi the J posted:Can the bolt go in the other way? According to the comments yes you can install it the other way and yes it was confirmed to be installed the way in the video from the factory.
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