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8ender posted:Fix lovely fasteners with this one weird old Canadian trick 
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nm posted:VW had a pretty simple system. They ran a wire through the brake pad at like 15% pad life. They sent a small electrical charge through it. When the wire wore through, you'd get a light on the dash. 15% is generous, the factory pads on my 2013 GTI wore through the wire at about 50% (extra points, it triggered the warning 36 hours before the car was going back to the dealer for the end of the lease).
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Nov 6, 2016 15:41
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Niven posted:15% is generous, the factory pads on my 2013 GTI wore through the wire at about 50% (extra points, it triggered the warning 36 hours before the car was going back to the dealer for the end of the lease). The ones on my 2007 GTI lasted nearly 100k miles (though 50% highway) before the light came on. When I took them off, one of the pads disintegrated. So, definitely more than 50% worn.
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Nov 6, 2016 15:58
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so it works like everything else on a VW.. varied
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Nov 6, 2016 16:09
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New set of cheating software discovered in VWs. http://www.autonews.com/article/201...ng+News+Feed%29 quote:FRANKFURT -- A U.S. regulator found software in some Audi vehicles that lowered their carbon dioxide emissions if it detected they were being used under test conditions, Bild am Sonntag reported. SO basically it sounds like the transmission loaded a different shift program if it detects no steering angle, like on a test dyno. Not the same thing as the diesel cheat which concerned NOx emissions, this one would just be for fuel economy (i.e. CO2 emissions), it's not clear if it neccesarily violates any laws.
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Nov 6, 2016 16:33
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Engineers "it's um designed to be more efficient on highway drives where you don't need the same gearing as city driving.. um.. yeah that's it!!!"
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Nov 6, 2016 19:18
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If it's a permanent part of the software and it would behave exactly the same way if driven in the same manner on the road, it's not cheating, it's just optimising to pass the test, and CARB can suck it.
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Nov 6, 2016 19:47
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Raises an interesting question though, how many VW owners are out there right now loving with their tie rods to get 'more power' after reading about this? I would 
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Nov 6, 2016 20:07
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I wonder: Does it disable the CARB mode for the duration of the drive once the steering wheel is turned more than 15 degrees, or does it have different maps for "driving straight presently" and "not driving straight presently"? I got the impression from the article that it was the former. So, in the real world, once you turned your wheel to un-park, the fuel map changes until you shut it off. That's pretty clever 
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Nov 6, 2016 21:26
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Raluek posted:I wonder: Does it disable the CARB mode for the duration of the drive once the steering wheel is turned more than 15 degrees, or does it have different maps for "driving straight presently" and "not driving straight presently"? I got the impression from the article that it was the former. So, in the real world, once you turned your wheel to un-park, the fuel map changes until you shut it off. That's pretty clever That'd do it; presumably, the car is set up on the dyno, turned off, optionally let to soak to lab temperature, and then started into the test cycle c.f. the "Test Details" tab on http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/fe_test_schedules.shtml No steering input means the program stays active, while one of the first things most people do in real-world driving is crank the wheel to make a turn.
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Nov 6, 2016 22:19
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There are only two ways to produce less carbon dioxide: produce more incomplete combustion products (carbon monoxide or soot), or burn less fuel. The carbon has to go somewhere. Either VW defrauded their customers big‐league. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Nov 7, 2016 07:00
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Alarbus posted:BMW does this, but the wire/sensor is a separate $15 part that clips in the middle of the pad. If you're cheap and really, really lucky, you can get the sensor out in one piece and put it into the new pads, assuming it hasn't worn through yet. I've always managed to break it, so I just replace it. True, but it's only in one pad per axle so if you have uneven wear it's useless. I've thought a lot about just shorting the circuit at the junction box and be done with it.
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Nov 7, 2016 10:15
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Platystemon posted:There are only two ways to produce less carbon dioxide: produce more incomplete combustion products (carbon monoxide or soot), or burn less fuel. The carbon has to go somewhere. Does not compute.
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Nov 7, 2016 13:30
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bolind posted:True, but it's only in one pad per axle so if you have uneven wear it's useless. The suggestion on E90post was to ziptie an intact sensor up and out of the way. 
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Nov 7, 2016 13:38
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sidewalk gum posted:Does not compute. You know what I meant. If they produce more carbon dioxide on the road than in the EPA test cycle, they must be burning more fuel.
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Nov 7, 2016 21:44
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Alarbus posted:The suggestion on E90post was to ziptie an intact sensor up and out of the way. I'm so gonna do that when it's time for brakes next. If I don't borrow my brothers 30.06 and drag the loving thing out behind the barn first, that is.
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Platystemon posted:You know what I meant. The problem is that they did it by fiddling the tests. The correct method is by bribing politicians so that the test standards are unreasonably generous, or create exemptions for your particular vehicle type. The end result is the same amount of pollution, but one method means that the politicians personally benefit and so is the 'correct' method.
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Nov 8, 2016 10:40
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Subaru club member had a bit of control arm rot. This is the model that was recalled twice. We love salt on our roads, why do you ask?
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Nov 8, 2016 21:34
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Uthor posted:The ones on my 2007 GTI lasted nearly 100k miles (though 50% highway) before the light came on. When I took them off, one of the pads disintegrated. So, definitely more than 50% worn. This was at 33,000 km, 1/3 highway and little aggressive driving. That car also went through two calipers, two rotors, a wheel bearing, a strut and an hvac blower in four years. Why no, I didn't buy out the lease. Why?
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Nov 10, 2016 03:09
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I've had my AC go out twice (once under warranty, once recently and me not fixing it), had the intake flap motor replaced (later reimbursed under a recall), and the MAF sensor wiring had like three breaks in it (I think mice or squirrels got to it cause I found corn kernels under the hood). Otherwise, perfectly fine! Other than all the recent electrical gremlins I'm pretending aren't there, of course.
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Nov 10, 2016 03:30
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A friends FRS with forced induction. The FB post said 19 lbs of boost. 
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Nov 11, 2016 03:07
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Fire ejection system
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Nov 11, 2016 05:42
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Lightbulb Out posted:A friends FRS with forced induction. The FB post said 19 lbs of boost. Ive always heard good things about high compression motors with fairly high boost.
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Nov 11, 2016 17:08
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Just stretching out some head bolts. No big deal.
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Nov 11, 2016 18:02
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Lord of Garbagemen posted:Ive always heard good things about high compression motors with fairly high boost. You just need to run them with low octane fuel because octane = energy, and too much energy is where you get in trouble. start the clock
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Nov 12, 2016 11:50
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19 pounds? I guess he wanted a new motor ASAP because that's just stupid.
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Lightbulb Out posted:A friends FRS with forced induction. The FB post said 19 lbs of boost. Did 14 work on it?
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Nov 13, 2016 12:19
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mazda-Rx7-Elford-Turbo-mk1-1983-restoration-project-spares-or-repair-/272447991263 That's, uh, in need of a little work.
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InitialDave posted:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mazda-Rx7-Elford-Turbo-mk1-1983-restoration-project-spares-or-repair-/272447991263 The engine sitting in the drivers seat 
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Nov 13, 2016 22:01
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The car version of "walk it off bro" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ0pEYaUeTA&hd=1
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Nov 13, 2016 22:41
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Nov 15, 2016 05:39
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iwentdoodie posted:
perfectly usable for throwing at co workers. OR for coating with alot of grease and sticking it in odd places. I take it this is from your sweet lowered dakota? That thing is cool. And true to that gen dakota it is gonna eat wheel bearings if you dont tighten them correctly.
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clam ache posted:perfectly usable for throwing at co workers. OR for coating with alot of grease and sticking it in odd places. I take it this is from your sweet lowered dakota? That thing is cool. And true to that gen dakota it is gonna eat wheel bearings if you dont tighten them correctly. Yeah, this race was the only one that was stuck in the rotor. The outer came out with finger pressure. The sad/scary part is a shop did these bearings. The cage for the inner bearings looked like wire zip ties. Oh well, bearings are swapped in and I'll try to install them Wednesday. Duty tomorrow otherwise it'd be tomorrow.
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Horrible mechanical design failure Ultra-minimal Ultra-useless Literally everything is wrong http://schneidersarto.com/wrench-aesthetics/ Bulk Vanderhuge fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Nov 16, 2016 00:44
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This poo poo frustrates me because I don't claim to be a creative person but I do think I have a certain eye for aesthetics and if I did carry the view that the wider population is completely stupid I think I could come up with garbage like those wrenches.
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Nov 16, 2016 00:48
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If they were box instead of open, I would carry that
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Nov 16, 2016 00:49
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So now you don't have to finish a job with just bloody knuckles, you can get sore edges in your palms.
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Nov 16, 2016 00:53
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xzzy posted:you can get sore edges in your palms. Sorta like using a Craftsman ratchet.
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I want to fill that guy's rear end in a top hat with his lovely wrenches.
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Horrible mechanical design failure The only aesthetics for a tool is how well it does the job it's designed to do. Tools that aren't designed to be used aren't tools.
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