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I often heard Saabs explained as being like what you would get if you described a car to a Martian over the phone; but I always thought that was just about the styling (and maybe ignition key placement). No idea it extended that far under the hood.
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She's broke her back. She'll never jump again.
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Dec 10, 2014 15:23
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Beat their kids? You know those things never have more than one person in them.
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Dec 11, 2014 19:48
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People are funny. They'll fly or work in skyscrapers their whole lives, never hearing of an incident where a skyscraper fell the gently caress over or a plane flexed in half during takeoff; but show them evidence of slight movement (that is carefully designed in) and all of a sudden they think it's totally unsafe and THEY PERSONALLY must never do X again.
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Dec 12, 2014 13:37
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That's an awesome story. And all you have to do is glance at the stilts layout and you realize how it's the quartering winds you have to worry about, whereas in every other building they're a non-issue if you've built it for perpendicular ones. Guy was too close to his work to step back and question first principles. E: Also "doing the right thing" is an interesting call to make, considering that what they did was perform all the shoring-up welding in secret, without informing the Citicorp employees. Data Graham fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Dec 12, 2014 17:11
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Does everyone refuse to start calling it the Willis Tower?
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Dec 12, 2014 18:00
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You can see bolts this size on pretty much any city lamppost.
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Dec 15, 2014 22:01
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My first car was a '99.5 Jetta VR6. I loved that little car; it never let me down, even when I drove it to Alaska and back. All it asked of me in seven years was a couple of O2 sensors and a shifter linkage whose plastic ball-joints had split.
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blakeg posted:Sticky tires, anti lag, good surface Ooh yeah, got two of those. Hadn't yet seen one inside out. (Soon, I'm sure.)
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Jan 16, 2015 07:27
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I always sort of assumed Tauri were the preferred car of the kind of people who tended to cram all their heaviest worldly possessions into the backs of their cars and drive around with four or five passengers at all times, but
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Jan 31, 2015 02:59
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My guess is that's a G.
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Jan 31, 2015 05:30
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ExplodingSims posted:Past Transgressions Cruiser is now my new favorite name for this shitbox. I ended up renting an HHR once. I decided that HHR was the noise you make while driving it. A sort of heavy, resigned, back-of-the-throat sigh of disgust.
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Feb 2, 2015 06:52
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To be fair a bulldozer doing landscaping shouldn't be able to dislodge a freeway bridge piling. E: from the photo it looks like that whole riverbank was set to pack up regardless. Data Graham fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Feb 3, 2015 |
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Feb 3, 2015 14:43
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Saga posted:Good thing you've (apparently) never driven the previous generation Mustang then. Extremely poorly built, low-cost car with a gigantic (yet surprisingly uncharismatic) engine and terrifying handling. On the supercharged cabrio you could literally feel the chassis shudder and flex when you accelerated. I mean in a straight line. You talking about the one prior to the mid-2000s retro redesign? Because this is my '06 Roush, after 25 minutes hanging off the back bumper of that Gallardo, whose fairly hardcore driver was like  
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Feb 5, 2015 16:40
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Oh yes, "sinuous" is one of the first words that comes to mind when looking at that thing
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Feb 6, 2015 18:05
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It's the bushingdo code
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Feb 13, 2015 14:02
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Not this? 
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Feb 22, 2015 03:50
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In Soviet Russia, joint confuses U.
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Mar 12, 2015 04:30
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She sounds like that car made a gearhead out of her. 
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Mar 14, 2015 14:57
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Yeah, I always wondered why a phillips head driver was a tapered point and not just a flat plus-shaped rod end.
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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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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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Apr 6, 2015 12:41
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Looks like Thailand.
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dissss posted:None of the current Chinese models that have made it to NZ are in any way worth buying, but the Geely LC managed to surprise me with just how terrible it is. 
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Apr 17, 2015 13:24
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What, it got osteoporosis and broke both hips?
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Apr 19, 2015 13:21
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Yeah. It's well and good to design a cheap but critical part as a "fuse" for the system, so when it fails the whole thing just stops working. But it's missing the point if when your "fuse" fails the rest of your house bursts into flames.
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Apr 20, 2015 13:19
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That's a load-bearing poster!
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CommieGIR posted:"We want to make it illegal for vehicle owners to work on their cars. Let's make it harder to change the oil and check the fluids" - Auto Manufacturers To be fair, if there are any auto manufacturers who are sponsoring this, they're sure as hell not saying so. Sounds more like it's the university that is trying to patent it and will be facing an uphill battle getting anyone to bite, including the manufacturers.
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Apr 22, 2015 18:55
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They need some kind of iron-fisted ruler to step up and set everything to rights or something
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Apr 25, 2015 05:21
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Good for what ails ya, don'tchaknow.
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Preoptopus posted:Car And Driver did a piece on the 2016 CTSV I am having a bastard of a time seeing where the jesus clips/circlips are in these photos. Mind pointing them out? E: never mind, guess it's on that oil fitting. Data Graham fucked around with this message at 00:48 on May 2, 2015 |
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May 2, 2015 00:45
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Every year, a new and even more gigantic Canyonero-like Ford SUV beginning with "Ex". When the Excursion came out I did that Seinfeld gif in real life.
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xzzy posted:I wonder if the owner of that vehicle is blaming the road conditions for their lovely ride. That's the Tappan Zee Bridge, it'll eat rally car suspensions for lunch. So, y'know, I'd give him points for trying that excuse.
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Same phenomenon of going home for Christmas and being greeted with "Oh yeah, we had a power outage in March, would you mind fixing all the clocks that are blinking 12:00?"
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Horrible mechanical failure averted: Left bank belt should not be deflecting this much, should it   Always a good feeling when you catch something just in time.
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BlackMK4 posted:I'd imagine maintaining one is reasonable if you're someone that already does all of their own work anyway. Yeah, that's the funny thing. Everything else in the car is in spiffy shape and easy to deal with. The job was primarily a clutch replacement, which is surprisingly inexpensive, and the flywheel had a little scoring but no dishing, so no need for any four-figure sad times there. "Engine out" sounds like  , but really it's not that bad. The whole subframe just drops out. And look at those plates that hold it to the chassis, nice flat things in a wide-open bay with plenty of room to work: It was a more beautiful time.
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Slow is Fast posted:You didn't even talk about the funnest part about the ammeter firing all the electricity space magic through the jeep and burning it down. Oh yeah, this was a good one. Spiffing up a '57 Bel Air with a giant blower sticking out of the hood for a cross-country speedrun. Let's see if there's a current on the horn! OH poo poo THE ENGINE'S CRANKING WTF 
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rainwulf posted:But the sedan.. holy crap. When you walk up to it with the keys in your pocket.. it ONLY unlocks the door you are closest too. You just get in, press start and off you go. It has every drat amazing thing you could ever expect, all the fantastic radar things, the line following cameras, hell, the rear seats have their own music and air con console. Its just loving nuts. Does this mean "only unlocks the driver door", or literally if you walk up to the passenger-side rear door with the key then that's the one that opens? If the latter, I wonder what technology they're using to detect proximity. But more importantly, I wonder what use case that is solving. Who is getting into a non-driver door with the key?
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