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I like that the Japanese are the only ones to bother clearing right down to the road, whereas everyone else is like "gently caress it, we've carved through fifteen feet of this poo poo, the last inch is their own drat problem".
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Its so dry too, I don't understand!
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Apr 6, 2015 00:44
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Because that spot in Japan gets 20 meters of snow regularly and so it is a tourist destination, hence the buses.
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Eh to be fair, that's more "owner that ignored bad noises for a long time".
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Apr 6, 2015 02:50
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Poor thing looks so drat tired.
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Apr 6, 2015 03:20
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BlackMK4 posted:Jesus, I don't know how you guys live in areas with weather like that. stump posted:near Glenlivet (where the whisky comes from) Worth it.
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ExplodingSims posted:Chrysler_build_quality.jpg Reminds me of the Intrepid I had to fix a while back:    Owner knew it needed a ball joint, now it needs a CV axle, a brake hose, and an ABS sensor wire as well! 
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Huge_Midget posted:Yup. Substitute WI, IL, MI, IN, etc. for Minnesota. We're just as loving miserable as outsiders during the winter, but we just internalize it into anger and hatred and continue to revel in each-others misery. Only reason to bitch about the snow in Iowa is because the idiots coming in on I-35 and I-80 don't know how to drive in it and turn the main arteries across the state into bumper cars every time it really snows. :/
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Ok, Buddy. There's got to be a pic from friggin Norway or something with walls of snow taller than that. Well played, Sir.
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This is a decent gallery and breakdown of what happens after a "lightning strike" (in reality it probably had jumper cables hooked up backwards).
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ausgezeichnet posted:Ok, Buddy. There's got to be a pic from friggin Norway or something with walls of snow taller than that. I've seen some photos from the Coast Ranges of British Columbia that give it a run for its money, actually.
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Hats off to the tech who posted that, he knows his poo poo when it comes to automotive electronics. Valid reasoning for every module replacement he did, understands how CAN bus works, etc. I would have electronic repairs done on a vehicle by that guy anytime. Most mechanics? Hahah, no. It's not the "brain box", buddy, learn to diagnose stuff. (Like, for example, the second shop he mentions, which replaced the ECU and another module again for no reason.) E: would not be surprised if a nearby lightning strike caused that, it doesn't always have to hit the vehicle in question, voltage gradients on the ground can be in the thousands of volts per meter range near a strike, and the magnetic fields are intense as well, which can induce large voltages in wiring harnesses. You can design to handle induced voltages and ESD pretty well but nothing will handle a direct strike really, except a very good faraday cage and incredibly tough hardware. A backwards set of battery cables could do it too if they were lazy about module design, a good design will have back diodes to prevent this. I would expect that to just nuke all the MCUs though rather than destroying multiple CAN bus transceivers so I would lean towards nearby lightning strike. kastein fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Apr 6, 2015 |
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ExplodingSims posted:Chrysler_build_quality.jpg SIK STANCE BRO! 
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ExplodingSims posted:Chrysler_build_quality.jpg So happy i finally got around to doing my ball joint the other day to avoid exactly this.
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some texas redneck posted:This is a decent gallery and breakdown of what happens after a "lightning strike" (in reality it probably had jumper cables hooked up backwards). I read that via reddit, and jeez. I cannot believe he had someone fix all that. He's got to have paid more to fix that thing than he paid for it at auction at this point.
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I'd probably jam it in the back of the yard and set up a row52 search notification for donor vehicles, then wait until one showed up and get all matched, preprogrammed modules for like $400 total out of it, then update everything at once.
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nitrogen posted:I read that via reddit, and jeez. I cannot believe he had someone fix all that. He's got to have paid more to fix that thing than he paid for it at auction at this point. The technician said it would have been much cheaper to just replace every computer module, including the window module, from the outset with brand new pieces, as with his diagnostic hourly costs, plus the weeks in-between, his final bill was something like $4500.
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some texas redneck posted:Eh to be fair, that's more "owner that ignored bad noises for a long time". Maybe so, but I'd like to imagine it got parked there and then just fell apart, Bluesmobile style.
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ExplodingSims posted:Maybe so, but I'd like to imagine it got parked there and then just fell apart, Bluesmobile style. It has to have happened that way. How else would it have ended up in the parking space?
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ExplodingSims posted:Maybe so, but I'd like to imagine it got parked there and then just fell apart, Bluesmobile style. 
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Nearly had a horrible mechanic failure. I'm swapping my summer tires onto the car. Because my garage is narrow, I did the two on the driver's side, backed the car out, and turned it around for the passenger side. I took a break for dinner and came back without the key for the wheel "locks". Turned out I left on one of the wheels and it was laying out in the street. Oops! Good thing no one drove over it and I just backed up and back in. On the plus side, I tightened my wheels on with a torque wrench and they are coming off after a season of snow with moderate force.
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Full story here. Can't find any followups on what caused the failure after some cursory searching.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Can't find any followups on what caused the failure after some cursory searching. I'm going with Don Quixote on this one.
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Tommychu posted:I'm going with Don Quixote on this one. No no, see, the man is supposed to tilt, not the windmill.
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Holy gently caress.
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I wouldn't have expected those to go full banana like that.
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ExplodingSims posted:I wouldn't have expected those to go full banana like that. The little plastic tabs you're supposed to aim the straw at probably weren't cut all the way through, it happens. Just get another straw and open the hole up with a finger first.
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ExplodingSims posted:Chrysler_build_quality.jpg
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Full story here. Wind speeds over 25m/s. Dude who died pitched all three blades to full run position then either the brake failed or was released. With no load on the generator the turbine turned into a helicopter for a split second as the rotor over sped. There was a brief hop as the nacelle tried to lift then the tower buckled. The injured party was near the top on the ladder. Rode it down to the ground. There's a memorial where W1 was. Depressing spot.
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I lived in Valdez AK, I got nothing. That is Boss.
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That's because in Alaska when the snow gets that deep, they're smart enough to just leave it be until breakup.
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Terminus Est posted:Wind speeds over 25m/s. Dude who died pitched all three blades to full run position then either the brake failed or was released. With no load on the generator the turbine turned into a helicopter for a split second as the rotor over sped. There was a brief hop as the nacelle tried to lift then the tower buckled. Was pitching the blades to full run part of the inspection? Are there control systems that prevent this now? Or is it purely a over ride situation?
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Don Baylor posted:I lived in Valdez AK, I got nothing. That is Boss. I was in valdez for three weeks last year in the national guard for a tsunami prep drill (we set up a hospital in the school). The picture is what I felt like driving around there.
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the spyder posted:Was pitching the blades to full run part of the inspection? Are there control systems that prevent this now? Or is it purely a over ride situation? Yeah, you can't do that anymore. The software does not allow it. Never was a normal part of an inspection either.
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Old Japanese Best Motoring/Option Video/etc. videos are a treasure trove of ridiculous poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKJHkm_Piv0
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 Gearbox failure from work. other dude stripped the drain...slowly drained itself till boom
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cursedshitbox posted:
About how much of your day is spent fixing problems caused by Methy McWrench, would you say?
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