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OBAMNA PHONE posted:I wish the cops would actually enforce the license plate fuckery that is getting worse by the day. Fake plates, expired temp paper plates, expired tabs, covers to make your plate illegible Oh hey, I've seen that plate frame before.  Straight-on you can make out the #'s, but from an oblique angle and some glare, not so much (which is probably the point)
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Powershift posted:The horns are probably why the picture was taken. I didn’t even catch the horns! The plate is probably because it’s on a tow hook mount, and that’s just where it tightened up. They probably thought it looked cool anyway. Safety Dance posted:It's offcenter because it's screwed into the towing eye, and it's diagonal probably as a holdover from body kits in the early 2000s. There you go. The fix, of course, would be a jam nut. BuckyDoneGun posted:Funny, I thought similar, obvious it would have to stick out way less, but this kinda sprung to mind: gently caress yeah, it’s the XJ-R! I love that truck. The fact that they not only clearance the OE straight front axle, but put a 10-degree vee in it for camber just tickles me.
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"I need a new hood for my Toyota I could build you one "do you do bodywork?" no, i build stoves. "...."  
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CaptainTofu posted:Wrong thread and I'll gladly take a sixxer for it if thread disagrees. Minus the license plate mount, of course. I have a BRZ and love it but the horns and plate and decal... It's not the worst but it's not awesome car stuff either.  Is that a vote?
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Funny, I thought similar, obvious it would have to stick out way less, but this kinda sprung to mind:  seriously though what a perfect box
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kastein posted:I had no idea average dingus size was so small Making guys think their dick is too small sure seems to be effective marketing.
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I'm sure many of us have deviated slightly from the correct way of doing things but holy gently caress...  https://twitter.com/wrenching_wench/status/1649052640905670660?t=PfeDPwG2VqAzrB5TkdNlAQ&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I'm sure many of us have deviated slightly from the correct way of doing things but holy gently caress... so IRL I volunteer fixing up donated bicycles and giving them back to people in the community who need them. the attempt at repairs I have seen boggles the mind, and bikes are a hell of a lot simpler to work on than a car.
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Watching The Sopranos for the first time and lolled at the scene where Tony gets a flat and changes a tire by just ... wrenching off the lug nuts with the car still on the road, not jacked up or anything All that real-world research and a whole episode about verisimilitude in scriptwriting, and nobody on set piped up about how to change a tire?
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Data Graham posted:Watching The Sopranos for the first time and lolled at the scene where Tony gets a flat and changes a tire by just ... wrenching off the lug nuts with the car still on the road, not jacked up or anything Just wait till you see him try to avoid hitting a deer
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Data Graham posted:Watching The Sopranos for the first time and lolled at the scene where Tony gets a flat and changes a tire by just ... wrenching off the lug nuts with the car still on the road, not jacked up or anything How the hell do you get the lugnuts off your wheels??? Without an impact wrench if you try and break the lugs loose with the tires in the air you just spin the wheel on the axel?
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Data Graham posted:Watching The Sopranos for the first time and lolled at the scene where Tony gets a flat and changes a tire by just ... wrenching off the lug nuts with the car still on the road, not jacked up or anything It's been a long rear end time since I have seen Sopranos but I would like to think it was on purpose to demonstrate that Tony isn't really a practical person when it comes to real world problems.
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You can do it with air suspension right? I don't remember which car this was on but at least some Cadillacs of the era did have this.
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I feel like the new "Civic with fart cannon" is a Golf GTI/R with a fart cannon and crackle tune. Is this a euro thing or is it the same in the US/elsewhere?
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Cached Money posted:I feel like the new "Civic with fart cannon" is a Golf GTI/R with a fart cannon and crackle tune. Is this a euro thing or is it the same in the US/elsewhere? Golf r already has a fart cannon and crackle tune hth
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Hell yeah bro!! Make it sound like my car isn't running right, fuckin sykk!!
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Its so god damned annoying.
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Love when they have it set so it pops and bangs with the car not even hitting 3k RPM. It's the best thing ever.
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TheBacon posted:How the hell do you get the lugnuts off your wheels??? Without an impact wrench if you try and break the lugs loose with the tires in the air you just spin the wheel on the axel?
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Any car tuned to make noise is certainly driven by a complete fuckwit
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Cached Money posted:I feel like the new "Civic with fart cannon" is a Golf GTI/R with a fart cannon and crackle tune. Is this a euro thing or is it the same in the US/elsewhere? BMW 335 with straight pipes and a pop map that downshift from 5 to 1 every light for maximum effect. It used to be 350Z's with giant single cans and really explosive flame tunes, but I'm wondering if those guys all blew up or crashed as I haven't seen many loud VQ motors as of late. weg fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Love when they have it set so it pops and bangs with the car not even hitting 3k RPM. It's the best thing ever. My mustang will overrun a bit if I downshift when it's not up to temperature but that's about it, once it's warm and changes to closed loop it doesn't burble or pop or anything. It is a little fun to give it just a bit of gas and then let off and listen to it do it when you pull away from a stop or going down a hill. By the time I've hit my 2nd stop sign in my neighborhood the block is warmed up anyway and it stops as long as it's above 60f outside. orange juche fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Humphreys posted:It's been a long rear end time since I have seen Sopranos but I would like to think it was on purpose to demonstrate that Tony isn't really a practical person when it comes to real world problems. Not that it matters but it was immaterial to the scene, there was no plot point around whether he successfully changed the tire or not, it was just a backdrop for the conversation he was having with his kid. A couple of camera cuts showed him moving the wrench and then the scene was over. If the purpose was to show he was doing stuff badly I'd think it would have ended with him struggling to yank the wheel off the hub with the entire weight of the SUV on it or something else with equal slapstick value
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Fifty Three posted:Depends on whether that wheel is driven or a parking brake is set and the car is in gear/park my car's parking brake only locks the rear wheels, which is kind of annoying when I swap the summer/winter tires out and I get to the fronts. Not world ending or anything, just drop the car slightly so it's touching enough to stop wheel spin, but still annoying compared to the rears.
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:my car's parking brake only locks the rear wheels, which is kind of annoying when I swap the summer/winter tires out and I get to the fronts. Not world ending or anything, just drop the car slightly so it's touching enough to stop wheel spin, but still annoying compared to the rears. ... and now I'm remembering I should probably swap the summers back on (to my car that I've driven less than 1,000mi in the last year). 
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Fifty Three posted:... and now I'm remembering I should probably swap the summers back on (to my car that I've driven less than 1,000mi in the last year). I put my summers on last week when it was hitting the 80's. Snow fell two days later.
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Uthor posted:I put my summers on last week when it was hitting the 80's. same
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Uthor posted:I put my summers on last week when it was hitting the 80's. Same here, but I decided to wait. Was 90 a few days last week, and we have a chance of snow this weekend. Probably going to wait until first week of May to be safe.
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TheBacon posted:How the hell do you get the lugnuts off your wheels??? Without an impact wrench if you try and break the lugs loose with the tires in the air you just spin the wheel on the axel? I put the 4 way on the lug, hands at like 11 and 5, give it a hard quarter spin clockwise, then suddenly jerk counterclockwise as my hands reach roughly 10 and 4. Repeat for each lug. Basically use the inertia of the wheel and tire as an impact wrench in reverse. It'll break free all but the most stuck lug nuts. You can do this tightening them most of the way as well if you're careful accelerating the wheel CCW since the lugs start out fairly loose. Just put a knee against it, tighten them gently in a star pattern, then repeat the previous inertia trick accelerating gently with the rotation directions reversed.
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You're assuming a lot about my ability to remember to do that here. Normally I do, but sometimes I don't feel like fiddling with the jackstand and jack I already absentmindedly put under the car before breaking the lugs free.
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Jonny Nox posted:or just break the nuts with the wheels on the ground
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ethanol posted:i got chewed out in the shop for doing this and was told to lift the vehicle enough so the weight is off but the tire is still touching then loosen, something about bending studs. but I never listened to that on my own vehicle and just loosen them before i lift lol. I never do that because there's a center extrusion that fits into a corresponding space where the center cap is on the rim; and going by what a ballbuster it was to get each wheel off that, it's handling all the load. Speaking of that center extrusion, is it kosher to grease that so I don't give myself a hernia trying to get the wheel off next time?
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Anyway the scene started with him spinning off an already-loosened nut in his fingers, and then starting on another one, so I'm not buying any "dis is how we do it back in Sicily, home of the best cars, ya marone gabbagool"
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:I never do that because there's a center extrusion that fits into a corresponding space where the center cap is on the rim; and going by what a ballbuster it was to get each wheel off that, it's handling all the load. That's a hub centric wheel. And yes, not only is it okay you SHOULD put something on it. Make sure the surfaces are clean (wheel and hub) and spray it with something like fluid film. You want to make sure rust isn't building up there because it will screw with lug torque and cause problems down the line in addition to making it so you have to cow kick the wheels off every time.
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Motronic posted:That's a hub centric wheel. thanks
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