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Nidhg00670000 posted:Most cars made today are dipped but zinc is not rust protection, only a rust retardant. Do you live under the sea?
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Sweden. Basically, the same thing, considering how much salt they use on our roads.
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Is there actually anything you can do to stop cars just disintegrating after a decade or two over there? I used to drive my ute on the beach fairly often and spent ages washing and flushing it out afterwards, seems like that would be impractical in a place where you get salt thrown all over it every day and also it's too cold to wash your car.
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Buy a Saturn I guess
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ili posted:Is there actually anything you can do to stop cars just disintegrating after a decade or two over there? I used to drive my ute on the beach fairly often and spent ages washing and flushing it out afterwards, seems like that would be impractical in a place where you get salt thrown all over it every day and also it's too cold to wash your car. Of course!  But seriously, you can apply oils like fluid film or krown, avoid parking it covered in salt in a heated garage, and just generally keep the car clean. You can't stop rust but you can slow it down. Mr. Wiggles posted:Buy a Saturn I guess Saturn's plastic body panels only hide the structural rust eating them all from within. https://i.imgur.com/A64EyR5.mp4
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ili posted:Is there actually anything you can do to stop cars just disintegrating after a decade or two over there? I used to drive my ute on the beach fairly often and spent ages washing and flushing it out afterwards, seems like that would be impractical in a place where you get salt thrown all over it every day and also it's too cold to wash your car. Not all cars here rust out like that Passat. Most makes have figured out rust protection by now. For some reason 2010-era VAG products are not among them. Classic cars rarely get driven in the winter here though. Salt will absolutely destroy them, plus it's hard to keep anything clean unless the conditions are really cold and dry.
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"why do they call us stealerships?" https://twitter.com/TakuroSpirit/status/1763675585216151663?t=CCuAPRgKHtMAZOeLEQzcFg&s=19
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ili posted:Is there actually anything you can do to stop cars just disintegrating after a decade or two over there? I used to drive my ute on the beach fairly often and spent ages washing and flushing it out afterwards, seems like that would be impractical in a place where you get salt thrown all over it every day and also it's too cold to wash your car. Get a good undercoating and go to a car wash where they have the sprayers you drive over to rinse the undercarriage off like once a week. Then there are certain year ranges of cars that are just straight up garbage, such as the aforementioned VWs and the 90s Mercedes C class. At least in the past, cars that were sold in places like Scandinavia got extra rust proofing from the factory/dealer.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:"why do they call us stealerships?" For those who don't want to click twitter, or can't figure out the joke, is that lighting is an electric vehicle. But hey $500 to protect your catalytic converter! What a deal!
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world’s most trustworthy car dealer
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Would it kill cat thieves to know what a jack point is? They broke the plastic rocker cover off of my scion
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is there anything roughly equivalent to a cat on an ev, in terms of valuable and easy to steal quickly? obviously there's shitloads of copper and expensive batteries but those all seem pretty locked up, at least more than "sawzall two pieces of thin wall steel tube"
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Im sure someone eventually will porsche headlight their way into leaving an expensive bit easy to steal, but no not really. Theres nothing as value dense as a cat.
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"Whoops we forgot to engrave any of them!" I'm sure the shady bulk metal dealers who accept clearly stolen goods from roving methheads holding sawzalls check every single cat against the police database before giving cash payments.
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You could probably wrestle an entire $10k Tesla rear subframe/drive unit loose after removing about 10 bolts and cutting some coolant/brake/electricity lines, but then you’ve got to fence it to someone who wants it, and you’ve got a pretty big problem if you let the electricity out.
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Powershift posted:You could probably wrestle an entire $10k Tesla rear subframe/drive unit loose after removing about 10 bolts and cutting some coolant/brake/electricity lines, but then you’ve got to fence it to someone who wants it, and you’ve got a pretty big problem if you let the electricity out. PM me if any of you do this. https://www.holley.com/products/ev_conversions/swap_brackets_and_accessories/parts/HEV002-001
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Oh man: to convert my Econoline to electric would be a fun project
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Powershift posted:You could probably wrestle an entire $10k Tesla rear subframe/drive unit loose after removing about 10 bolts and cutting some coolant/brake/electricity lines, but then you’ve got to fence it to someone who wants it, and you’ve got a pretty big problem if you let the electricity out. A 450v DC arc flash is way brighter than the butane torch at the end of a pyrex and way louder than the gentle crackle of sublimating amphetamine crystals
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WTFBEES posted:PM me if any of you do this. I mean I do, and I even have a broken frame that could use some upgrades. But the best way to finish one vehicle project is by starting another.
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Powershift posted:You could probably wrestle an entire $10k Tesla rear subframe/drive unit loose after removing about 10 bolts and cutting some coolant/brake/electricity lines, but then you’ve got to fence it to someone who wants it, and you’ve got a pretty big problem if you let the electricity out. Residential charging cables, followed by charging ports. Wreck enough charging ports, vehicle or house side, and it pays for itself x2.
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does the drive unit not have a plug? how do they service it? shutoff at the battery?
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The high voltage disconnect usually isn't accessible from underneath, they are either under the hood or rear seats, and most of the other connections aren't things you want to touch while live. Edit : it's not too much of a problem for people trying to steal your poo poo tho, electric cars have emergency disconnects for firefigthers, you can get at them easily if you are willing to smash poo poo. Kafouille fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Mar 3, 2024 |
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If you dropping the rear cradle on model s, you will have enough space to disconnect the main plug, once the subframe is low enough. But nobody's doing it on the street, maybe inside a chop shop
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coupedeville posted:A 450v DC arc flash is way brighter than the butane torch at the end of a pyrex and way louder than the gentle crackle of sublimating amphetamine crystals Hell yeah
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CMD598 posted:
I feel like the ridiculous grilles are a good start for a Warhammer 40k car.
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Speaking of ridiculous grilles Fort Nine is a motorbike channel on youtube and they're very good, their stuff is well researched, thoughtful, funny and presented really nicely. This one is a short video on why more people are dying in the US than elsewhere in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpuX-5E7xoU Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Not just a YouTube channel with a pretty face, they’re a motorbike gear/accessory retailer. It’s crazy that their YouTube channel is this good and they don’t spend every few minutes shilling their site.
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Frank Dillinger posted:Not just a YouTube channel with a pretty face, they’re a motorbike gear/accessory retailer. It’s crazy that their YouTube channel is this good and they don’t spend every few minutes shilling their site. It's like when NCIX (Rest in Piss) created Linus Tech Tips. A strange coincidence that both channels are based out of Vancouver
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Except Ryan doesn't constantly try to get you to buy underwear with his face on it. I've watched their videos occasionally despite not being a motorcyclist and had no idea they were a gear store at all.
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Revzilla is the basically the opposite, most of their videos are reviews but then occasionally they throw out cool videos like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNgYW5N95z8
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mobby_6kl posted:Except Ryan doesn't constantly try to get you to buy underwear with his face on it. Have you not been getting my PMs?
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ryanrs posted:Have you not been getting my PMs?  Anyway if you were playing at home thinking these weren't going to be poo poo, more fool you I guess? https://twitter.com/ChiarelloERISA/status/1764357938070626653?t=XEPbD6vKx79pQfmvPWIbUg&s=19
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 ryanrs posted:Have you not been getting my PMs? Olympic Mathlete posted:
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Olympic Mathlete posted:
lol you can see the spots on it already on the top R panels
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mobby_6kl posted:Love the truck though! God they are such loving SIMPS.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:
And THIS is why steer by wire is a huge HELL NO for me
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Tesla simps will tell you to trust the software and OTA bug fixes for things that should be caught in QA are cool/good.
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I hate the disingenuous argument about airplane fly by wire safety whenever people suggest it in cars. Those systems are inspected when the plane lands and before it takes off, how many times will the drive by wire system be inspected in its entire life on the road? Probably less than 10, even if you're doing all of your maintenance at the dealership
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The Door Frame posted:I hate the disingenuous argument about airplane fly by wire safety whenever people suggest it in cars. Those systems are inspected when the plane lands and before it takes off, how many times will the drive by wire system be inspected in its entire life on the road? Probably less than 10, even if you're doing all of your maintenance at the dealership Also how much redundancy is there in said systems and training if said system glitch? What problem are they trying to solve by removing the physical link anyway when EPAS exists?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:What problem are they trying to solve by removing the physical link anyway when EPAS exists? Not enough money going into elons bank account.
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