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PCOS Bill posted:Do you really trust your $20-70k car to a parking pawl?
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Sep 20, 2014 14:16
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I put it in gear, engage the parking brake, use wheel chocks, and attach it with a tow strap to a nearby tree.
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Sep 20, 2014 14:37
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FogHelmut posted:I put it in gear, engage the parking brake, use wheel chocks, and attach it with a tow strap to a nearby tree. WHEELS TO THE CURB YOU UNSAFE BUFFOON
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Sep 20, 2014 14:53
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PCOS Bill posted:Do you really trust your $20-70k car to a parking pawl? Parking what?
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Sep 20, 2014 16:17
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Captain Trips posted:Parking what? 
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Sep 20, 2014 16:39
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Captain Trips posted:Parking what? PARKING PAWL
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Sep 20, 2014 18:25
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PARKING PETCOCK
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Sep 20, 2014 18:57
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Captain Trips posted:Parking what? Just in case you don't actually know (because you know, goons), its a bit of metal as thick as a quarter and half the length of your pinkie that pops into one of many slots on a drum inside the transmission when you throw your (sic) automatic transmission in "Park". I'm still amazed at how many slushboxes don't roll into the car parked down hill from them because the owner ignores the existence of the lonely little pedal or lever thats actually meant to fully arrest the motion of their parked vehicle.
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Sep 20, 2014 19:24
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- Hand operated mechanical parking brakes are correct - Foot operated parking brakes are wrong - Electric parking brakes are wrong - Using a handbrake for a hill start is correct, doesn't mean you can't do it without - Dash-mounted light switches are not rare at all, and I have no opinion on whether they are better or worse than stalk-mounted ones
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Sep 20, 2014 19:41
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I think most if not all Euro Fords for ages had the Dash mounted headlight dial. My Focus and Mondeo both did. It makes sense, it's not a control you need constant access to while driving. The only thing that was on the stalk was the Full beam/dip switch, which you do need to use a lot while driving sometimes.
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Sep 20, 2014 19:58
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I've never owned a car with a dial for the headlights. Stalk mounted lights or nothing 
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Sep 20, 2014 19:59
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Agree with the InitialDave. Foot operated parking brakes just wrong, and very rare here, even in the era of bench seats and column shifters. Ford Au had the 'umbrella' handbrake on their older cars, a pull out a bar under the dash. GM/holden Aus went even weirder in the past with bench seats and column shifters. They put it between the seat and the door on the HQ ute, it flops down so as to not be in the way when on entry/exit. The floor was reserved on older holdens for high beam headlight or windshield washer switches. Headlight switches on the dash are not abnormal, my old Falcons had it (EA, EL, AU), though they put it on a stalk like most Japanese vehicles I'm used to on the 2004 BA Falcon ute I have. But Holden put it on the dash for the 2005 VZ commodore I have. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Sep 20, 2014 |
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Sep 20, 2014 20:02
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Fo3 posted:Ford Au had the 'umbrella' handbrake (seen Japanese vans similar), a pull out a bar under the dash. Some vans (renault master or traffic I think) have them on the door side of the driver to further confuse things. But I think Landrover Defenders take the cake for "gently caress ergonomics, that'll do".
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Sep 20, 2014 20:16
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Noeland posted:Just in case you don't actually know (because you know, goons), its a bit of metal as thick as a quarter and half the length of your pinkie that pops into one of many slots on a drum inside the transmission when you throw your (sic) automatic transmission in "Park". I'm still amazed at how many slushboxes don't roll into the car parked down hill from them because the owner ignores the existence of the lonely little pedal or lever thats actually meant to fully arrest the motion of their parked vehicle. Yeah really shocked and amazed here that a purpose built part has done it's job for decades worth of cars except when you manage to gently caress it up and then your car just rolls like 6 inches when you out it in park.
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Sep 20, 2014 20:21
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Noeland posted:Just in case you don't actually know (because you know, goons), its a bit of metal as thick as a quarter and half the length of your pinkie that pops into one of many slots on a drum inside the transmission when you throw your (sic) automatic transmission in "Park". I'm still amazed at how many slushboxes don't roll into the car parked down hill from them because the owner ignores the existence of the lonely little pedal or lever thats actually meant to fully arrest the motion of their parked vehicle. Maybe they don't all break the pawls because that little bit of metal is pretty damned strong and you don't understand math as well as the engineers that designed those millions of cars.
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Sep 20, 2014 20:22
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The Multipla has the handbrake on the door side of the drivers seat, I keep reaching for it there when I get back in my e46.
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Sep 20, 2014 20:25
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wallaka posted:Maybe they don't all break the pawls because that little bit of metal is pretty damned strong and you don't understand math as well as the engineers that designed those millions of cars. Don't forget that your fellow planet dwellers aren't as smart as you, the engineers didn't. wikipedia posted:
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Sep 20, 2014 20:38
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Ghost Farts posted:It has a warning light to warn you of malfunctioning warning lights.
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Sep 20, 2014 21:10
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The fire is a pretty good warning of that.
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Sep 20, 2014 21:15
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Cakefool posted:The Multipla has the handbrake on the door side of the drivers seat, I keep reaching for it there when I get back in my e46. Not that it was so much in the "wrong" place, but my dad had a scooter back in the day where the reserve fuel tap was somewhere in the vicinity of the pillion's thigh. Apparently desperately trying to do something about running out of fuel halfway round a roundabout is made even better when a girl in a miniskirt is screaming in your ear about exactly what the hell you think you're up to. 
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Sep 20, 2014 21:34
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Coming up on this weeks episode of Unsolved Mysteries:
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Sep 21, 2014 02:46
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Money doesn't buy taste.
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Sep 21, 2014 02:56
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ALL OF YOU FUCKERS posted:READ THE loving TITLE ASSHOLES Post terrible car poo poo, not terrible parking brake arguments. 
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Sep 21, 2014 04:08
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Sep 21, 2014 13:14
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SaNChEzZ posted:I've never owned a car with a dial for the headlights. Stalk mounted lights or nothing Plebes. I haven't owned a car with manual headlights since 2001. I don't even think I know where the headlight controls on my car are.
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Sep 21, 2014 14:11
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SaNChEzZ posted:I've never owned a car with a dial for the headlights. Stalk mounted lights or nothing My first car had a pull switch on the dash for the lights and a floor mounted high beam switch. This, except white with a black vinyl top:  
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Sep 21, 2014 15:04
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Front subframe bolt from a 97 Buick LeSabre. Coulda been worse, I suppose...
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Sep 21, 2014 17:11
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Root Bear posted:Front subframe bolt from a 97 Buick LeSabre. Coulda been worse, I suppose...  How did that not snap in half at the slightest touch of a wrench.
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Sep 21, 2014 19:10
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Terrible Robot posted:
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Sep 21, 2014 19:25
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I'm just gonna leave this here for you fellas.      The workmanship look pretty good. I don't know how to feel.
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Sep 21, 2014 23:24
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It was an SSR, nothing of value was lost.
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Sep 21, 2014 23:26
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that's actually a huge inprovement over the styling of a regular ssr
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Sep 22, 2014 01:08
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It kind of reminds me of Frankenstein's car in Death Race 2000
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Sep 22, 2014 01:41
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Sep 22, 2014 03:15
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Cubes are always terrible. I cannot stand those, xBs, or Kia Souls.
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Sep 22, 2014 03:22
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That one took a second. I was like "why the gently caress would the license plate on a Cube have the formula for glucose...ohhhhhh." Should be C12H22O11, but I suppose that wouldn't fit the plate format.
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Sep 22, 2014 03:35
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 Saw a Jetta treated in a similar fashion earlier in the day but I was driving at the time. My GF's area seems to be a Mecca for this crap. Sadly I didn't get his long thin upward thrusting tailpipes in this shot, they must have stuck out at least 6" from the rear bumper, it was almost a weak attempt at bosozoku. Edit: Changed giant robots to holy land. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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Sep 22, 2014 04:27
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Mecca, but yeah. I'm seeing more and more of that
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Sep 22, 2014 04:41
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Don't lie; you whispered sweet nothings in it's rear window. Also tear off the winch and send it to me because they don't deserve it and I can't afford it.
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Sep 22, 2014 06:07
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I'm going to give this a pass for the subtlety and for it being a white car. Here in Utah the plates are now a mix of letters and numbers. It used to be 3 numbers (space) 3 letters. Bonus points if it's a science teacher.
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