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So I dipped my wheels when I got new winter tires back in November. I haven't parked my car outside in months, but today I did. I caught sight of it out my window just now and I'm laughing like an idiot all over again. The picture doesn't really do it justice. In direct sunlight you practically need sunglasses. 10/10.
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Brilliant, neon RC car wheels are the best
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Mar 15, 2021 22:17
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Need to add a silly tall antenna.
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Mar 15, 2021 23:13
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well now I need it
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Mar 15, 2021 23:42
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um excuse me posted:Need to add a silly tall antenna. Center trunk magnetic CB whip
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Mar 16, 2021 00:08
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GramCracker posted:There is lots of competition between companies, which leads to a reasonably deep aftermarket platform for this car. Which is great for you if you want to go fast, but horrible for your wallet. Fantastic stuff, appreciate the insight. I was not aware that APR doesn't allow you to flash the car yourself, so that reason alone makes total sense to go with Unitronic.
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Mar 16, 2021 14:43
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dk2m posted:Fantastic stuff, appreciate the insight. I was not aware that APR doesn't allow you to flash the car yourself, so that reason alone makes total sense to go with Unitronic. Happy to help! FWIW, I work with Nemesis Autosport for 99% of the mods that I purchase; unmatched customer service and the level of knowledge they have across an extremely wide spectrum of brands is really reassuring. Ben and Miranda are great, and if you end up deciding to go with Unitronic, I'd suggest reaching out to them.
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Mar 16, 2021 16:39
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Fifty Three posted:So I dipped my wheels when I got new winter tires back in November. I haven't parked my car outside in months, but today I did. I caught sight of it out my window just now and I'm laughing like an idiot all over again. That stuff is meme tier but also magical. I did a satin black just to protect my stock wheels but next time I might do bronze or copper. I'll take suggestions on what to put on a yellow car though. I've also wanted to do the RC car whip antenna for a long time, but it almost needs to be a silly neon PVC pipe with a coax cable hanging out the tip to look right.
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Mar 16, 2021 21:28
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Ranzear posted:I've also wanted to do the RC car whip antenna for a long time, but it almost needs to be a silly neon PVC pipe with a coax cable hanging out the tip to look right. Whichever auto manufacturer redirects partial regen braking energy to produce sparks off the radio antenna as a replacement for decel fuel overrun will be getting my business for life. Double if the antenna makes it look like an RC car.
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Mar 16, 2021 21:44
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I'm still waiting for the theme park ride that is just a giant slot car track including the peg on the cars and turning the wheel lets you drift all the corners while it blasts eurobeat.
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Mar 16, 2021 23:22
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There's a karting place that we (used to  ) go to which runs standard karts and some with plastic pipe over one of the rear tyres. This in combination with the surface which is reasonably polished concrete means you can be arse out all over the spot. Highly recommended if you can find somewhere that does it. Racing sucks, big skids are loads more fun.
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Mar 17, 2021 00:43
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Ranzear posted:That stuff is meme tier but also magical. I did a satin black just to protect my stock wheels but next time I might do bronze or copper. I'll take suggestions on what to put on a yellow car though. Panther or fierce pink for maximum weird looks. Also could do yellow or white if you love brake dust. I did a blue car with blaze orange, it ruled. 
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Mar 17, 2021 00:48
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GramCracker posted:Happy to help! FWIW, I work with Nemesis Autosport for 99% of the mods that I purchase; unmatched customer service and the level of knowledge they have across an extremely wide spectrum of brands is really reassuring. Ben and Miranda are great, and if you end up deciding to go with Unitronic, I'd suggest reaching out to them. Second this. And man, your car looks fantastic. Can't go wrong with a Uni tune, or all those parts to let her breathe, either! Yesterday I dropped my VFF-103s to get powder coated. Going with Prismatic Powders' Electro Gold -- the closest finish I could find to match Porsche's/BBS' Weissgold. Hoping to have them come out looking something like this:  We'll see in a couple weeks! TenaciousTomato fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 01:32
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Suburban Dad posted:Panther or fierce pink for maximum weird looks. Also could do yellow or white if you love brake dust. Might go with Green Gold Metallic Pearl over Bronze Gold just for raw wackiness while still being fairly dark. I blacked them out because of brake dust, lol. Still gotta pony up for the carbotech ceramics.  Still needs more chrome delete too. The headlight squirters are bullshit to remove.
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TenaciousTomato posted:Second this. And man, your car looks fantastic. Can't go wrong with a Uni tune, or all those parts to let her breathe, either! Thank you! Very excited to see how your car comes out with the VFF's in Gold, should look super sharp. In other news, like a money hating idiot, I now have up-rated injectors to run the E85 tune 
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At the tender age of 39 I have purchased my first car it is a fully loaded 2004 Volvo S60 2.5T AWD It has 249,374 miles on the odometer. It has some minor cosmetic damage. The heated seats don't work. BUT IT IS MY loving CAR gently caress YEAH. 
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Mar 18, 2021 04:25
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 I hope you got a good deal on it, because it will hunger mightily for your wallet.
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Mar 18, 2021 04:49
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Terrible Robot posted:
Show us on the doll where you have been touched by an S60/70  As I said in IRC, i have driven those a lot and they're really comfortable, so long as it doesn't bankrupt you, it's a good little car... Does the loldex AWD actually work on this one? Also, check when the timing belt was done last, if you can't find that, DO IT NOW. It's kind of a painful job, but it's cheaper than rebuilding the engine when it breaks.
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Mar 18, 2021 12:22
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chrisgt posted:As I said in IRC, i have driven those a lot and they're really comfortable, so long as it doesn't bankrupt you, it's a good little car... Does the loldex AWD actually work on this one? Yes, and with the last oil change 2500 miles ago. Mechanically it is in great shape for a car with as many miles as it has.
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Mar 18, 2021 12:55
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Try out the AWD tomorrow night in a parking lot when it’s supposed to be slick out. From the outside it looks really well taken care of. Those the leather seats in there too? Nice find. There are a few specialty shops in town that are great with Volvos (and Saabs) that I can point you to if you have problems; the dealerships around here are pretty bleh.
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Mar 18, 2021 13:38
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Kilonum posted:At the tender age of 39 I have purchased my first car Hell yeah first car!! Congrats.
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Gigi Galli posted:Try out the AWD tomorrow night in a parking lot when it’s supposed to be slick out. From the outside it looks really well taken care of. Those the leather seats in there too? Nice find. yeah, leather seats, front passenger is cracked, wheels and driver's seat where taken from a totaled S60 last year according to the old owner. He was selling this because he found a good deal on another Volvo. Apparently his nephew is a Volvo mechanic and did most of the work on this one. Hoping I can get the seat heater fixed before winter. Unfortunately, Not going to be able to drive it until Thursday due to not being able to register it until then. And the rubber I left during the test drive proved the AWD works, got a tad enthusiastic testing the acceleration. EDIT: Fully on the Volvo bandwagon now, next time I fire up American Truck Simulator my entire fleet is being converted to Volvo VNLs (ETS2 fleet is already all Volvo FHs because POWER) Kilonum fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Mar 18, 2021 |
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Mar 18, 2021 16:27
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Kilonum posted:At the tender age of 39 I have purchased my first car Welcome to the club! 
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Mar 18, 2021 19:12
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Kilonum posted:At the tender age of 39 I have purchased my first car Good car. Checking my post history in this thread I posted my own 11 years ago, but it was just the 2.0L (the image has since disappeared). I drove it many years and it was good, only reason I changed was a sizeable dog necessitating an estate.
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Mar 18, 2021 20:01
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Hughmoris posted:Welcome to the club! Yes welcome 
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Mar 18, 2021 20:44
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Kilonum posted:yeah, leather seats, front passenger is cracked, wheels and driver's seat where taken from a totaled S60 last year according to the old owner. He was selling this because he found a good deal on another Volvo. Apparently his nephew is a Volvo mechanic and did most of the work on this one. Hoping I can get the seat heater fixed before winter. Unfortunately, Not going to be able to drive it until Thursday due to not being able to register it until then. And the rubber I left during the test drive proved the AWD works, got a tad enthusiastic testing the acceleration. This isn’t a dig or anything but serious questions because I’m legitimately curious: How did you manage to go til 39 without a car? Living in a city? Borrowing from friends and family? Did you have a license earlier but just not the car? Again, not being snarky, just wondering.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:This isn’t a dig or anything but serious questions because I’m legitimately curious: How did you manage to go til 39 without a car? Living in a city? Borrowing from friends and family? Did you have a license earlier but just not the car? Again, not being snarky, just wondering. Did not really need one until the pandemic hit. Since the age of 13 I have lived in Massachusetts, and mostly in the catchment area of the MBTA. I lived in a location for 10 years where I was pretty much across the street from my job which was also a grocery store in an area with adequate public transit. The last 5 years I have lived in a place with... practically non-existent public transit, but I was usually able to get rides from friends when needed as I live a mile from work. Pandemic hit, and suddenly I'm isolated and getting extra money. Also didn't have a driver's license until 29 days ago.
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Kilonum posted:Did not really need one until the pandemic hit. Since the age of 13 I have lived in Massachusetts, and mostly in the catchment area of the MBTA. I lived in a location for 10 years where I was pretty much across the street from my job which was also a grocery store in an area with adequate public transit. The last 5 years I have lived in a place with... practically non-existent public transit, but I was usually able to get rides from friends when needed as I live a mile from work. Pandemic hit, and suddenly I'm isolated and getting extra money. Makes total sense. I’m also 39, but I grew up pretty much the opposite - in suburban NJ where you kinda need a car to do anything even though there is occasional bus service to some places (mall, etc.) but at irregular intervals. I can’t remember a time where I haven’t loved cars. Even as a tiny child in Brasil my parents say I would name every car on the road, even the exotics like Porsche. I got my license on the day of my 17th birthday and I’ve been mobile ever since. 60+ cars and a dozen or more bikes. I moved to rural PA for college and stuck around. There’s basically no option to not have a car here unless you live in a town with a grocery store and that’s also the town in which you work. I did know one guy who didn’t get his license until almost 30 but he was hugely reliant on his aging mother for rides everywhere. When he was getting married to my wife’s cousin, one of her conditions was that he get a license. Once again congrats on joining the AI gang. Good luck with the Volvo.
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Kilonum posted:Did not really need one until the pandemic hit. Since the age of 13 I have lived in Massachusetts, and mostly in the catchment area of the MBTA. I lived in a location for 10 years where I was pretty much across the street from my job which was also a grocery store in an area with adequate public transit. The last 5 years I have lived in a place with... practically non-existent public transit, but I was usually able to get rides from friends when needed as I live a mile from work. Pandemic hit, and suddenly I'm isolated and getting extra money. A friend of mine is your age though and never had a car. So there are many people like you and they are fairly normal. Let's hope the Volvo doesn't make you ride the bus again
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Mar 19, 2021 12:24
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Yeah, don't need a car for commuting to work and grocery shopping, but I do need one for literally everything else. Work is a mile from home, there's a Trader Joe's next to work, and a different grocery store practically across the street from me. Honestly, probably still going to walk to/from work on nice days when I'm not closing because I'm 6'1" and 330lbs (186cm/150kg), down from 400lbs (181kg) 2 years ago.
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Mar 19, 2021 14:00
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I moved to the US when I was a teen, middle of nowhere Maine. Got my license the week after I turned 16, not only is there no public transport, everything is 10 miles apart.
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Mar 19, 2021 14:31
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chrisgt posted:I moved to the US when I was a teen, middle of nowhere Maine. Got my license the week after I turned 16, not only is there no public transport, everything is 10 miles apart. Same, but TX.
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Mar 19, 2021 16:08
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14 1/2 in Montana. Jesus I've had a license longer than not.
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Mar 19, 2021 16:18
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I bought my first car at 35. I grew up in a place where public transport was really good (even if buses decided not to turn up sometimes) and then moved somewhere with equally great buses and trains. There was a 5 year period I had a work van and a fuel card and a boss that encouraged me to use it to drive us both everywhere to go mountainbiking, often with someone sat in the back on a bouldering pad  I didn't need one when I bought one either, I just wanted one. Now I've moved miles away from anything I actually require one to get to work but pandemic times have proven that's pretty much all I need one for.
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StormDrain posted:14 1/2 in Montana. Look at these young whipper-snappers. I've had the same job at the same company for more of my life than not.
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I had literally zero interest in even getting my license and had to be pushed to do so in 06. Didn't care what kind of car I had at all until 08, then it all went to poo poo... 08: 1 car 10: 2 cars 10: 3 cars 10: 4 cars (XJs, mj, 5 ton) 11: 4 cars and 2 parts cars 11: 5 cars and 3? 4? Parts cars 12: more parts cars. I stopped keeping track of when I got them at some point 14: 6 cars 15: 8 cars 16: 9 cars and a motorcycle 16: 8 cars Been cutting back more since then and hopefully I'll be down to 3 soon. Maybe even 2 but I'm torn on selling the Justy, I should but I'm unmotivated.
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Mar 19, 2021 17:13
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chrisgt posted:I moved to the US when I was a teen, middle of nowhere Maine. Got my license the week after I turned 16, not only is there no public transport, everything is 10 miles apart. On the flip side, my cousin who's lived in Maine his entire life waited until he was in his late 20s to get his license because he got rides from his lobster boat captain/co-workers for over a decade 
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If I had gotten my permit at 16 and license at 16.5 (as governed by MA law, and would have been in 1998), I would have learned on a 1982 Ford F150 4x4 with a manual, a 1987 Ford Econoline conversion van with a wheelchair lift, and a 1989 Dodge Diplomat.
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Kilonum posted:If I had gotten my permit at 16 and license at 16.5 (as governed by MA law, and would have been in 1998), I would have learned on a 1982 Ford F150 4x4 with a manual, a 1987 Ford Econoline conversion van with a wheelchair lift, and a 1989 Dodge Diplomat. Sounds fun, though.
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Learning on the Econoline would have been an adventure. Huge, heavy, 0-60 time of "maybe", and a massive blindspot to the rear. Actually not sure if the F150 would have happened, as it was registered as commercial. Also it would have all happened in Medford and Malden, MA
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