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Contraband please post your dad's destroyed engine ITT. Thanks.
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Kotaru posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5fFh31Ejmk
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Oct 31, 2009 17:17
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tv talk is nice guys but at least the soda can chit chat was related to something failing mechanically. blowed up poo poo is cool to look at and watch so can we not derail the thread into being closed for going way off topic?
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Jan 31, 2011 08:21
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that thing was in an old corolla? naaaaaasty
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May 11, 2011 01:26
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if its still in the shop tomorrow I'll have a picture of a Passat wagon with a seized water pump. The owner lucked out though because instead of snapping the belt it just wore half of it down to the wires and split the pump pulley clean in half.
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May 17, 2011 01:31
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You say the check engine light is flashing in your VW? Looks like your water pump seized.  This person doesn't have any idea how lucky they are that belt held and managed to split the pulley in half rather than snapping. We still had to pull the front bumper to get in and fix it though.
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May 19, 2011 01:34
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so your car won't start? Oh, sounds like it jumped timing. *work work work* *crank crank crank* *crank crank* BOOM  Scared the poo poo out of and deafened me from two bays over and brought everybody into the shop, even the store guys.
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May 25, 2011 02:33
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CommieGIR posted:What the hell happened? Backfire? Gas in the muffler? Or someone clog it? The car was a mess anyway. Somebody else put in a new timing belt and got the timing wrong to begin with and coupled with an old tensioner it must've gone even more off when, according to the owner, it backfired one day when he went to start it. I'm amazed he was able to drive it to the shop at all.
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May 25, 2011 02:41
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my1999gsr posted:Passat or A4? Passat wagon, forget the year. That blown up muffler was on a Jetta. Third times the charm so the next Volkswagen product to come in is probably gonna be a real doozy.
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May 29, 2011 05:52
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Root Bear posted:The valve cores like to strip out on them as well if the caps have been left off. You might be amazed at how much business those tpms dash lights can bring into a shop.
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Jun 3, 2011 05:24
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Toucan Sam posted:Mostly loving old people that i'm amazed are still alive due to how annoying and stupid they are. Old people using new fangled technology is the reason i will someday snap and end up in prison. Or normal-aged people that say "hey find out why my tire light is on and make it go away." then you end up finding not only a nail in one tire but the rest are bald or cracking, they've got loose tie rods, an air filter made of dirt, no oil on the dipstick, both headlights out, metal on metal brakes and a rotted out valve stem that requires a new sensor to fix. i like that idiot light.
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Jun 3, 2011 06:27
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Toucan Sam posted:I guess i should start taking advantage of my customers also. If it's dumb TPMS with just a light i check the pressure in all the tires to find the low one, inspect it for damage, patch/plug the hole, and send the customer out ten dollars poorer. I think i'm doing it wrong. Ferremit posted:So just how much lead do you have to throw on a tyre to balance it if you have that hunk of crap stuck in one spot? I'm used to 100+ grams to balance 4wd tyres, but they would have to weigh a bit on their own? BeastPussy fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jun 4, 2011 |
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Jun 4, 2011 05:16
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Toucan Sam posted:Did you turn the tire 180 to make sure you didn't accidentally mount the tire on the wheels high spot? If it was me i would turn the tire to try to drop the weight. If that didn't work and it was my tire i would put a different tire on it and let the manufacturer eat the cost of a defective tire. I regularly put on retreads that balance out at less than 4oz's so there is no reason to let a car roll out the door with that much weight. yeah i turned it when i remounted it and it got better but all the wheels except one were terrible. all the tires had different DOT batch numbers so it wasn't a single bad run of them causing the problem. we showed the customer and explained it to him and he said he didnt care, just to balance them as best we could so he could leave. two others needed 3+ oz and one only needed 1.5 total so we put that on the LF and the bad one on the RR.
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Jun 4, 2011 06:54
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InterceptorV8 posted:Your lack of a poo poo, I mean shift, key has to be a failure of some means. i spilled a drink on the keyboard yesterday and can't find my backup keyboard, sorry.
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Jun 4, 2011 07:00
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Lowclock posted:At least just say you suck at posting instead of bullshitting. Found it. Thanks for the tip.
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Jun 5, 2011 00:44
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a friend just shared this picture and it would fit nicely here. this is what happens when your mechanic insists that you need a new strut mount but you decide not to listen to them.
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Jun 14, 2011 04:21
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:Totalled? Not on his watch. You're got a pit at your Firestone? Is it a big shop? We don't have one but it'd be nice.
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Jun 19, 2011 02:50
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your car has a flat tire? sure, i'll look at it.   sorry, can't fix it.
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Jun 25, 2011 01:22
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good side bad side   "I don't know what I could've hit to make that happen."
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Jul 9, 2011 04:07
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grover posted:My god, what the hell did that car hit to put a huge divot in the tire and tear up the suspension that bad, yet have no apparent rim damage?
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Jul 10, 2011 01:46
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Two Ton 21 posted:Is that the loving subframe? yup
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Jul 10, 2011 06:24
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NOTinuyasha posted:sweet rake on that
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Jul 10, 2011 23:33
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IOwnCalculus posted:Somewhere, someone is looking at this and going "Yeah, that'd look awesome if it wasn't damaged." it looks like one of the old hot wheels cars where you flipped the back wheels down and slipped some plastic drag slicks over them to look badass
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Jul 11, 2011 00:09
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The Scientist posted:What does this sentence mean? he forgot the word "on" in between brakes and modern
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Jul 11, 2011 02:13
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:I don't know. Batterys disconnected and its a bad day all around. I've been stuck on a phantom shake since 8am and someone else got hosed over ona passat hard. The gods have forsaken us this day. Managers on the warpath, no pics for now. Bad day for us too. Packed all day with the regular work, theres an overheater that just got new headgaskets and had the heads machined, and then this clutch job came in on an 02 Altima that wouldn't shift out of first. 
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Jul 17, 2011 00:29
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by the way the airbag not deploying is a system failure and the damage done isnt an inherent safety issue with toyotas, its physics and crumple zones doing their work. big pickups and suvs have a lot of momentum at 30-40 mph and ride much higher than a 3rd or 4th gen corolla so its no surprise that the back of that car got reamed. while impressive, there isnt any mechanical failure there, just an accident. McDeth posted:Apparently he was taking a swig out of his coffee while cresting a slight hill on a freeway on-ramp. CalTrans had just installed a brand new metering light (this was the first day it was up and running) and the car in front of him had just got the green when he cleared the crest. BeastPussy fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jul 23, 2011 |
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Jul 23, 2011 04:23
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mcdeth just tell your friend to put the coffee down more often. it wouldnt hurt for him to get a more reasonably sized vehicle too but i figure you should start with the easy stuff.
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Jul 23, 2011 04:49
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my factory original fuel filler neck has been leaking during fillups since last December. Over the last month it turned from a decent drip into a steady stream of gas which pooled behind my rear tire every time I put gas in. today after work was over i brought the car in and replaced it with a new one.   16 years of rust, no wonder it was so bad.
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Jul 24, 2011 02:11
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bidikyoopi posted:Also, having been back in MA for the last two weeks visiting my folks, gently caress MA drivers and their "Boston Half-out" or "Revere Merge" or whatever kitschy name your dad thought up for that jerkoff move. I've had people pull in front of my lane while I'm barreling down on them at 50-60mph and just look at me smugly like "What, ya gonna broadside my cah?" YES YOU rear end in a top hat I AM
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Aug 9, 2011 00:59
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bidikyoopi posted:Haha, I know that spiteful driver, but I'm talking about the douches that pull fully into the oncoming lane when making a left turn. If someone lost their brakes or wasn't paying attention, they would go right into the driver's side door. And yeah, don't be a pushover, but you don't want to be that guy that's so afraid of getting traffic-goosed that they drive like a straight-up retard.
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Aug 9, 2011 01:35
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:You really can't turn left anywhere without a signal inside of 128 without doing that though. You could always just wait for an opening since one, even a small one, will eventually show up. I've learned to use those waiting times as lessons in being patient, something that comes in very handy when in traffic.
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Aug 9, 2011 04:42
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Kotaru posted:Houston, just saw that one the news. How did the signage support that sort of impact and not turn into a pretzel? triangles are very cool things.
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Aug 10, 2011 15:27
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Geirskogul posted:The Chrysler Neon is simply the worst car in the entire world, nothing more. I mean, Hitler didn't hurt me personally, but I still loathe the guy, so I can see why he rages on the Neon. Its cool that you guys hate a small, light car with the wheels at the corners which has proven to be a very effective track car in ACR and homebuilt-modified trim.
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Aug 21, 2011 04:17
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Geirskogul posted:Unless you modify them with a full-body rollcage, they'll apparently also kill you if you're simply in the vicinity. It might just be me but I don't give a poo poo about crash ratings and think they alone don't make a car a bad car.
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Aug 21, 2011 05:29
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Sponge! posted:
boost in---> <---hinges out
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Aug 30, 2011 17:37
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Viggen posted:What kind of cheap rear end job do you have that they still set you in the server closet? Even if your car is running fine you still check the fluids every now and then right? Somebody should be checking the UPSs every once in a while too. No need to live with the server.
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Sep 9, 2011 01:09
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A run flat ran flat. Congratulations Toyota Sienna driver on destroying a tire built to avoid exactly what you've done.
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Oct 4, 2011 22:45
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ratbert90 posted:Did I just gently caress myself? Earlier today I started smelling serious gas smell coming from my Maxima (VQ30DE). When I got home I saw the injector under the intake manifold was leaking quite a bit, so 30 minutes later I had a injector o-ring kit and I went to work.
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Oct 22, 2011 06:24
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CaptBubba posted:So an entire crankcase filled with fuel/air mix would have a nice open pathway to spark, possibly at several thousand feet?
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Nov 18, 2011 04:37
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A cool way to fix your tire is by using duct tape [img-I_forgot_to_take_a_picture_with_the_tape_still_on.jpg] to cover up the wood glue  thats holding the wadded up duct tape sticking through the hole in the sidewall.   After going through all these steps you will still need to buy a new tire and let everybody at the shop laugh at you behind your back.
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