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If you saw my Jen car blazing it’s yellow driving lights you wonder why they don’t do it here oh I know why bc BS. But I don’t think this adds to the convo but I have the first year C which is 100% the Jen aqua but lhd and the led lights are INSANE. Like light up the city but perfectly balanced and focused.
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After 23 years of black cars I did this a couple of months ago.
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Nov 18, 2022 04:33
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A gray car? Nice.
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Sagebrush posted:I also learned that some motorcyclists are against DRLs, but only on cars -- because in about half of US states, motorcycles have long been required to burn the headlamp any time the engine is running. (Since 1978 in California, for instance). The argument is that if motorcycles are the only vehicles running headlamps during the day, they will stand out more against the cars, which an obvious safety benefit. My issue with car headlights being insanely powerful these days is cyclists become even more invisible when the sun goes down (and especially so in the wet). If you have a bike heading towards you followed by a newish car they just disappear, eclipsed out of existence by surface of the sun headlights whether they're lit up with lights themselves or not. And car drivers whine about bright bike lights but if you're whining about it, you noticed something was there (this goes the same for motorbikes running high beam at all times too).
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Nov 18, 2022 08:07
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Midjack posted:After 23 years of black cars I did this a couple of months ago. That car looks awesome in black though lol
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Nov 18, 2022 08:38
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Porsche does give you unlimited options but that gives you a lot of rope and lots of people have fuckall taste. I've seen quite a few pictures where people have specced the "Santa" Taycan option of bright green paint, green painted interior trim, red leather and gold accents. 
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Nov 18, 2022 10:38
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Midjack posted:After 23 years of black cars I did this a couple of months ago. Is it as good as all the auto journalists make it out to be? It looks like a fun little car.
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Nov 18, 2022 11:37
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I'd rather see more paint and interior abominations on the road than not though...
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My cars official color is Dark Maroon Metallic which, according to the cars documents is brown. It looks like this:  Yeah no Volkswagen, thats just another dark grey.
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Nov 18, 2022 13:14
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Volcano Grey here
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Nov 18, 2022 14:52
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Guinness posted:If I made the rules, car on = headlights, tail lamps, and markers on. You have to go out of your way to turn them off. yessss! i've been advocating (to nobody, nobody cares what i have to say) for this for a long time
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Nov 18, 2022 17:09
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BraveUlysses posted:yessss! i've been advocating (to nobody, nobody cares what i have to say) for this for a long time You know what really grinds my gears? GM/GMC/Chevrolet cars that turn on their reverse lights when you lock or unlock the car with the key fob. It makes me think people are about to back up in a parking lot. You have no way of knowing what's going on because the brake lights and reverse lights are on full blast. I hate it so much.
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Nov 18, 2022 17:16
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I’ve been meaning to ask but Chevy/gmc trucks I constantly see with just one DRL on, even newish models. Thus can’t be by design or they can’t be that shot to always have one burned out?
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everdave posted:I’ve been meaning to ask but Chevy/gmc trucks I constantly see with just one DRL on, even newish models. Thus can’t be by design or they can’t be that shot to always have one burned out? Could be fog light or some kind of tow light to be used when backing the truck up to see a hitch? No idea, but I think I've seen it too.
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It's common practice to shut the single drl off when the respective side's turn indicators are in operation.
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Nov 18, 2022 17:41
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MetaJew posted:You know what really grinds my gears? GM/GMC/Chevrolet cars that turn on their reverse lights when you lock or unlock the car with the key fob. And they've been doing that poo poo for YEARS. My mom had a '96 Bonneville that did it. I kinda get why they do it, but man it's loving annoying when it's not your car.
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cursedshitbox posted:It's common practice to shut the single drl off when the respective side's turn indicators are in operation. I think it's actually required if the drls are optically combined with the turn signals or within a certain distance of them. Turn signals have to go on-off, not yellow-white.
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cursedshitbox posted:It's common practice to shut the single drl off when the respective side's turn indicators are in operation. I agree but this is just driving down the interstate I see it all the time, no blinkers on Edit: google image search shows the ones I see with this are 2000s decade everdave fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Nov 18, 2022 |
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Nov 18, 2022 18:21
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just another ill maintained shitbox op
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Midjack posted:After 23 years of black cars I did this a couple of months ago. that is a beautiful combo drat
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MrYenko posted:My buddy has a Chevy Colorado with the 2.8L Duramax. It’s had no non-routines since he’s owned it, and threw the first code after the power train warranty expired. I don’t recall the code number, but it’s the DEF level sensor fault, which indicates replacement of the sensor/DEF heater unit. If possible, I'd suggest to your buddy to try another dealer. DEF, and all diesel emissions equipment to some extent, can be finicky, and has the added benefit of potentially turbofucking whoever screws with it if it fails again. For a couple years at the Dealer I worked at we had a policy that everything was a package deal with emissions, because if a part fails soon after we touched it and then the customer had a scheduled emissions test and it failed, it could potentially mean a ~50k or whatever fine for the dealer. As an insurance, if anything in the DEF system failed, you got everything or nothing. If the EGR valve failed, you get all new pipes and sensors and EGR valve and everything. Some dealers operated this way, some didn't care and would do half jobs just to make the customer happy and not be scared of the EPA. Not saying that exactly what's going on here, but it could be. The dealer also could just not want to do it so they threw a huge estimate instead of just turning down the work.
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Guinness posted:If I made the rules, car on = headlights, tail lamps, and markers on. You have to go out of your way to turn them off.
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MetaJew posted:You know what really grinds my gears? GM/GMC/Chevrolet cars that turn on their reverse lights when you lock or unlock the car with the key fob. You can actually gently caress with that in the settings, in some Chev and GMC trucks or full sized vans, at least. On/off, door open or door shut (for connecting a trailer with the door open/walking up to the vehicle after unlocking it, respectively) and shut off delay. It's nice to have reverse lights on when the driver's door is open, to hook up a trailer in the dark. GM is actually good about giving you options like that, even if they're buried in menus within menus.
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Z owners have such a lovely reputation and it's entirely earned. https://twitter.com/gapple_bees/status/1593341393438547969?t=tS9q0oVwoeD8HN0-lj-x1Q&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Z owners have such a lovely reputation and it's entirely earned. The camera work is the worst part.
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Blue cars rule.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Is it as good as all the auto journalists make it out to be? It looks like a fun little car. It's been a lot of fun so far. I'm coming off of a Civic Type R and I give the Honda the edge out of the box in a few ways (spreadsheet numbers, size of cargo area) but Hyundai has a lot more real buttons for things that Honda banished to the touchscreen. Handling and performance have been comparable to the Honda, and I like that it's a slightly smaller car. I got it with the DCT (another first for me, I've only ever owned manuals) and I haven't confused the shifting computer yet. I really like it, and I'm glad I could snag one now that they aren't being made anymore.
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afen posted:Blue cars rule.  
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Why are blue cars in the terrible thread I think they are great. I just got a Jen diesel land cruiser two tone light and dark blue
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Reviewer picked up an Alpine and is tootling around in it: https://twitter.com/sionhudson/status/1594263785547743233?t=IgrOIlM1Flx8Hj1XLd6ZLQ&s=19
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intheflesh posted:If possible, I'd suggest to your buddy to try another dealer. DEF, and all diesel emissions equipment to some extent, can be finicky, and has the added benefit of potentially turbofucking whoever screws with it if it fails again. For a couple years at the Dealer I worked at we had a policy that everything was a package deal with emissions, because if a part fails soon after we touched it and then the customer had a scheduled emissions test and it failed, it could potentially mean a ~50k or whatever fine for the dealer. As an insurance, if anything in the DEF system failed, you got everything or nothing. If the EGR valve failed, you get all new pipes and sensors and EGR valve and everything. Some dealers operated this way, some didn't care and would do half jobs just to make the customer happy and not be scared of the EPA. Not saying that exactly what's going on here, but it could be. The dealer also could just not want to do it so they threw a huge estimate instead of just turning down the work. Thanks for this. I kinda suspect it’s the dealer only having a single “diesel mechanic” who is saturated with work on $150,000 Denali 3500s and lifted Silverados.
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Midjack posted:After 23 years of black cars I did this a couple of months ago. Why is the license plate like that?
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Because despite 50% of the US and probably a similar percentage of the entire planet requiring a front plate, designers refuse to plan cars around having one.
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yeah when I bought mine they gave me some hardware for it but I would have had to drill through the bumper and ohio was like 6 months from no longer requiring front plates
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bad_fmr posted:Why is the license plate like that? I got a mount that goes in the tow hook hole so the plate blocks less of the inter cooler air flow. They drilled the bumper for the OEM mount at the port but the holes are invisible from five feet away.
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I have the same thing on my WRX. There are holes drilled in the front bumper, but they're sized for japanese plates, so I just got some color-matching plugs for them and stuck the license plate onto a holder from the tow hook hole.
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ssb posted:I have the same thing on my WRX. There are holes drilled in the front bumper, but they're sized for japanese plates, so I just got some color-matching plugs for them and stuck the license plate onto a holder from the tow hook hole. There was a lady on a Forester forum who sold adapter blocks that popped into Japanese holes and mounted a bar with US spacing. I had one for my sti and it was nice. No idea if she's still around though, this was like six years ago.
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I have a guy who bought a van from me that 3D prints me Japanese to us adapter things with my logo on them. He sells unbranded ones on Etsy but I’d have to look up his shop name, great guy
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I saw a very bad car today, so now you have to see it too. A non-functional roof scoop is bad, but not the worst thing. We can put that aside and instead focus on this wing.  Wing? Maybe?  Seriously what is going on here? I kept staring at it trying to make sense of any of what this was supposed to be. Did they accidentally mount it backwards? Upside down? I have no idea but somehow it looked even dumber in person than it does in these pictures. On the plus side, there were way more good cars at the Good Guys show, so those'll go in the other thread.
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