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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Vote to agree with Olympic it's wrong thread or Zil right thread. First to 10 wins.
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Feb 16, 2023 11:46
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Wrong thread
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Feb 16, 2023 13:19
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Absolutely the wrong thread
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Feb 16, 2023 13:23
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Zil posted:I am beginning to think I have bad taste in cars. 
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Feb 16, 2023 13:23
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Wrong thread
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Feb 16, 2023 13:47
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Feb 16, 2023 14:08
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Zil posted:I am beginning to think I have different tastes in cars. We all have bad taste in cars here. The trick is embracing it. Hell, I just bought a Honda Element again. The SAME Honda Element I bought the first time. I guess at least I know the service history.
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Feb 16, 2023 14:10
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nadmonk posted:We all have bad taste in cars here. The trick is embracing it. HAHAHAH. Someone work that into a thread title.
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Feb 16, 2023 14:19
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This feels like the right place: Big deal you say, an old Subaru with a bad end link, so what? Except I just replaced this end link last year. Apparently I didn't torque it down enough. So I get to do it again.
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Feb 16, 2023 14:22
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nadmonk posted:We all have bad taste in cars here. The trick is embracing it. After my xB got totaled I got another one exactly like it, same color and even had the wheel covers custom painted like the old one lol
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Feb 16, 2023 14:28
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nadmonk posted:This feels like the right place: Are you saying that you're the terrible car stuff?
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Feb 16, 2023 14:39
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Terrible Car Owners
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Feb 16, 2023 14:42
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fridge corn posted:Are you saying that you're the terrible car stuff? Sometimes, yes. Thankfully nothing I haven't been able to recover from....so far.
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Feb 16, 2023 14:51
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Applebees Appetizer posted:After my xB got totaled I got another one exactly like it, same color and even had the wheel covers custom painted like the old one lol bless you
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Feb 16, 2023 15:35
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It's OK buddy.
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Feb 16, 2023 15:57
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Guinness posted:Wrong thread, cool as gently caress
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Feb 16, 2023 16:31
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Yeah Wrong thread that thing owns bones.
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Feb 16, 2023 17:05
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It looks like a sock puppet, but in a good way. Wrong thread.
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Feb 16, 2023 17:12
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Wrong thread. Bet it's hot as gently caress in that greenhouse of a cockpit, though.
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Feb 16, 2023 17:45
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Darchangel posted:Wrong thread. Depends when you were driving it. It raced once, at Spa - unfortunately when it was raining and it let in all the water. They drilled holes in the floor to drain it during the race and carried on driving until it soaked into the electricals, eventually killing it  It's a gloriously flawed British car but it looks so cool. *edit: is this bad? https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a42940931/tesla-recalls-362000-cars-in-us-over-full-self-driving-tech/ quote:Tesla issued a recall for 362,000 cars in the U.S. over its full self-driving tech, according to a a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recall filing dated Wednesday. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Feb 16, 2023 |
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Feb 16, 2023 17:54
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No. No, that's very good.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:44
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Olympic Mathlete posted:
100% wrong thread 
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Feb 16, 2023 21:10
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Tesla cars equipped with the software could "exceed speed limits or travel through intersections in an unlawful or unpredictable manner which increases the risk of a crash." They have explicitly stated in build notes that the cars are programmed break the speed limit and roll through stop signs, lol. There is also a setting called Mad Max Mode that causes the car to automatically pass every vehicle it comes up behind. C'mon NHTSA go go go
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Feb 16, 2023 21:32
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From another forum, this is for replacing the clutch and some gearbox bearings on a 15 year old Fit. And also sway bar links that the OP didn't ask for.
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Feb 16, 2023 21:52
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OK BAD
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Feb 16, 2023 22:12
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mobby_6kl posted:From another forum, this is for replacing the clutch and some gearbox bearings on a 15 year old Fit. And also sway bar links that the OP didn't ask for.
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Feb 16, 2023 23:50
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wesleywillis posted:What is the labour charge? The first number in the total bill is half cut-off. The labour works out to $1,142.71
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Feb 16, 2023 23:54
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It's 2407 up top. Ok, I didn't really do the math because I'm stupid. That doesn't seem that bad? Garages around here charge 100+ per hour. Removing a transmission, opening it up to replace bearings, reassemble and reinstall ? I don't know where they live, and I've only ever had one clutch replaced, that was in like 2007 or so. And that was 1100$ Canadian at the time. E: the garage should have asked the op about the sway bar links, but we all know drat well the old ones had to be cut off.
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Feb 17, 2023 00:00
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wesleywillis posted:It's 2407 up top. Ok, I didn't really do the math because I'm stupid. There is between a 100 and 1000% mark-up on the parts. The $37 sway bar bushings are $8.72 for the pair from Honda. It's par for the course with modern mechanics. Horrible but not abnormal.
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Feb 17, 2023 00:08
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Now I got ya, I never considered the mark up on stuff. poo poo, now that I think about it, today I brought one of our drills to get rebuilt, and the shop offered me the option of " we can order parts and mark them up, or we'll tell you the part numbers you need, you can call the manufacturer, pay for them, have them shipped here and pay no mark up". That'll probably save about 20k so gently caress yeah.
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Feb 17, 2023 00:20
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I would be delighted to come back to a mechanic and find out he worked on one of my cars for 8-11 hours and only charged $2400 tbh.
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Feb 17, 2023 03:19
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Ether Frenzy posted:I would be delighted to come back to a mechanic and find out he worked on one of my cars for 8-11 hours and only charged $2400 tbh. For real, garages around here charge labor rates nearing $150/hr with commensurate parts markup. Getting out with an under 4-figure bill for real repair work is a rare blessing. Not at all shocked that a clutch job and other "while you're in there" incidentals plus some minor suspension work runs $2400.
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Feb 17, 2023 04:00
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Depends when you were driving it. It raced once, at Spa - unfortunately when it was raining and it let in all the water. They drilled holes in the floor to drain it during the race and carried on driving until it soaked into the electricals, eventually killing it "Full Self-Driving Software May Cause Crash — oh so the software crashes?" "Uhhh ... well"
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Feb 17, 2023 04:10
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Lord Ludikrous posted:I find Sport Mode really useful for country roads constantly having inclines and declines, but for everything else it just makes you feel faster but burns a ton of extra fuel in the process. Cadillac handles this a lot better on their performance models. Sport mode does hold gears a bit more aggressively but prioritizes economy at steady speeds just like touring mode. If you brake, accelerate or turn particularly hard though it goes into full agro mode holding lower gears and downshifting aggressively when braking until you drive normally for several seconds.
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Feb 17, 2023 05:48
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Powershift posted:There is between a 100 and 1000% mark-up on the parts. The $37 sway bar bushings are $8.72 for the pair from Honda. Guinness posted:For real, garages around here charge labor rates nearing $150/hr with commensurate parts markup. Getting out with an under 4-figure bill for real repair work is a rare blessing.  but w/e maybe that's fine in Manhattan) that makes sense. But there needs to be some sensible way to keep affordable cars on the road imo.
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Feb 17, 2023 10:02
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Yeah, that would be ordering your parts from RockAuto and doing the work in your driveway.
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Frank Dillinger posted:Yeah, that would be ordering your parts from RockAuto and doing the work in your driveway. Really is the only affordable way to do it at this point. Going to the mechanic has become a luxury for a lot of people in the age of inflation and razor thin cost cutting.
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Feb 17, 2023 14:54
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Going to the mechanics I trust if I can even find them has become impossible. They have too much work to tackle big jobs I don’t want to or can’t do. The shops who would do it or either horrible liars or would charge so much and take so long it doesn’t make sense to do.
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Feb 17, 2023 15:04
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everdave posted:Going to the mechanics I trust if I can even find them has become impossible. They have too much work to tackle big jobs I don’t want to or can’t do. Yeah there's only one mechanic I trust and they are 15 miles away, and its hit or miss if I can get in for work.
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CommieGIR posted:Really is the only affordable way to do it at this point. Going to the mechanic has become a luxury for a lot of people in the age of inflation and razor thin cost cutting. Yeah, if you can't work on cars yourself buying a used car with deferred maintenance could be a financial nightmare for some people especially if they buy the wrong car. We had to get rid of our LS because it was getting to the point where it needed all this expensive work done (Lexus parts and labor is not cheap), so it was more sensible to just get a new hybrid, save a poo poo ton on gas and have a brand new car with a warranty.
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