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Even the flag is made in china. Judging by the caliber of people ive encountered my few times inside a harbor freight, as much as i hope their naming schemes like "Chicago electric" "pittsburgh steel" dont fool anyone as to their true origin, I have a sinking feeling people walk away thinking they got a smokin deal on some quality american made tools. (im aware milwaukee and dewalt are also MIC, but we all know the difference) Edit: holy poo poo, that is the least effort worst mad max car ive ever seen.
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Aug 27, 2012 07:08
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http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/us/2012/08/27/stuck-accelerator-help.kcci So some stupid lady talks about her accelerator getting stuck and being unable to slow it down. SHIFT IT INTO NEUTRAL CHRIST
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Aug 27, 2012 14:31
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 Being driven by exactly the type of guy you'd think.
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Aug 27, 2012 14:48
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astrollinthepork posted:http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/us/2012/08/27/stuck-accelerator-help.kcci  Or don't put the handbrake on and be surprised when, presumably due to overheating, your brakes won't work. Stand on the footbrake as hard as you can as soon as you realise things are going a little tits up. And I love the whole "ZOMG 110MPH! 120MPH!!!"  .
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Aug 27, 2012 14:53
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There is NO way in hell she couldn't have nudged the shift lever into "N" there is a reason you don't need to push the button to do that from "D" Luckly she didn't kill anybody, but she should have slammed into a bridge abutment.
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Aug 27, 2012 16:01
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Man, if I ever decide to have a high speed police pursuit I'm totally using this excuse. I'm somewhat impressed a Sportage can do 115mph over a highway median.
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Aug 27, 2012 17:00
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Mighty Horse posted:There is NO way in hell she couldn't have nudged the shift lever into "N" there is a reason you don't need to push the button to do that from "D" Let's just say for simplicity's sake that this wasn't possible (yeah loving right). Regardless... "And still, she can't shut the vehicle off." ...Really? On a relatively straight and open highway, I'd rather lose power steering and brake assist than careen down the road at "120" miles per hour in a giant SUV. There's nothing preventing the ability to turn the engine off while the car's in Drive, although a lot of transmission damage will probably occur. Of course, that wouldn't happen if it were in Neutral, which we all know she could have shifted to. I hope she gets ticketed. Seat Safety Switch posted:Man, if I ever decide to have a high speed police pursuit I'm totally using this excuse. If she doesn't, then someday I'm going to "accidentally" unbolt my clutch pedal from the master cylinder piston and go for a joyride in fifth gear, claiming the throttle shaft jammed open.
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Aug 27, 2012 17:11
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MiniFoo posted:giant SUV. Kia Sportage. Anyways, she couldn't shift into neutral because she was too busy using her right hand to hold a cell phone so she could cry at 9-1-1 dispatch.
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Aug 27, 2012 18:01
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Nocheez posted:Anyways, she couldn't shift into neutral because she was too busy using her right hand to hold a cell phone so she could cry at 9-1-1 dispatch. That's what I don't get. I've been in a situation where the best option was to drive my rear end off (passed a guy on a two-lane road at night, oncoming traffic suddenly was a lot closer than I thought it was, he decided I cut him off) and as much as I'd have loved to call police on the guy...I was kind of busy.
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Aug 27, 2012 18:23
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MiniFoo posted:Let's just say for simplicity's sake that this wasn't possible (yeah loving right). Regardless... "And still, she can't shut the vehicle off." To be fair, the button was probably also on the right and couldn't be hit while taking one hand off the wheel and holding a cellphone to your ear with it. Is the emergency brake on a Sportage (Sorento?) a pedal or a handbrake lever?
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Aug 27, 2012 18:50
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why do people call 911 while their car is going too fast? It's not like the police are going to catch up and jump through the window to help or something, all they can do is try and figure out where the crash site is going to be if you're that stupid. The "oh no call for help instead of helping myself" mentality just doesn't make sense to me. PUT IT IN loving NEUTRAL
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Aug 27, 2012 19:20
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This should be part of driver training and on the written test. Force the car to run away and make them figure out what to do. It surprises me the insurance industry doesn't lobby for better training and stricter test requirements and re-tests. Fewer claims mean more profit right? Insurance is mandatory so it's not like they'll lose business.
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Aug 27, 2012 19:26
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Do some cars not have a physical link between the transmission and shift lever anymore? If there's a bug in some software or an electrical short, can you not shift out of drive? That seems unsafe if you can't simply disengage the engine from the transmission...
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Aug 27, 2012 19:26
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Viggen posted:NEVADA.JPG. I couldn't have staged this any better if I tried. Is painting the top half of your car black a thing? I saw three different cars (separately, in different places) driving around the other day with one half red and the other half black. Couldn't figure it out at all.
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Aug 27, 2012 19:27
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Do some cars not have a physical link between the transmission and shift lever anymore? If there's a bug in some software or an electrical short, can you not shift out of drive? That seems unsafe if you can't simply disengage the engine from the transmission... I'd bet that the newer Jaaaaaaaags with the rotary shifter fall into this category. I seem to remember a story from some normally non-automotive publication about one getting stuck in park. Likewise, the Prius - the shifter seems to be just a collection of switches, not an actual linkage.
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Aug 27, 2012 19:30
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'd bet that the newer Jaaaaaaaags with the rotary shifter fall into this category. I seem to remember a story from some normally non-automotive publication about one getting stuck in park.
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Aug 27, 2012 19:55
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Wolfsbane posted:Is painting the top half of your car black a thing? I saw three different cars (separately, in different places) driving around the other day with one half red and the other half black. Couldn't figure it out at all. In this case, it was that style. The rear even had gothic "THE JUDGE" script. I was laughing too hard to try to focus on that picture. It would have shown off how bad this paint was missing everywhere, though.
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Aug 27, 2012 20:24
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Viggen posted:NEVADA.JPG. I couldn't have staged this any better if I tried. I knew I forgot the sidewalk sale this weekend.
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Aug 27, 2012 20:38
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Do some cars not have a physical link between the transmission and shift lever anymore? If there's a bug in some software or an electrical short, can you not shift out of drive? That seems unsafe if you can't simply disengage the engine from the transmission... Worked on a Ford Expedition that didn't have any sort of physical linkage and that was like 2007 or 2008 I think? It's probably pretty common these days.
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Aug 27, 2012 20:53
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Mighty Horse posted:There is NO way in hell she couldn't have nudged the shift lever into "N" there is a reason you don't need to push the button to do that from "D" Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Do some cars not have a physical link between the transmission and shift lever anymore? On some PT Cruiser I rented (I protested when I got it, and rightly so), something happened physically so that I couldn't shift out of D. I felt like it might have been the shifter button jamming. When that happened, I also couldn't get the key out of the ignition. So only then could the rental office find a Sentra for me. Because of that incident, I have a little more respect for the possibility of a physical jam on the shifter.
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Aug 27, 2012 21:00
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Saw this yesterday.. You obviously have some sort of brake light voltage already at the back of the car, since you wired in the trailer lights.....why not just fix the lights that are there already? 
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Aug 27, 2012 21:06
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kastein posted:PUT IT IN loving NEUTRAL
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Aug 27, 2012 21:16
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Me too. It's a race to see which happens first; Valley Metro becoming useful or I finally move out of this poo poo hole. Irony: Today they announced a bus service for far enough east that I could actually avoid driving the first leg of the trip. It'd still be two hours each way, when I spend less time than that round trip even in the worst of rush hour.
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Aug 27, 2012 21:42
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All of these were spotted around the Boston area over the past couple of months There, I fixed it. (East Broadway, South Boston)  Pretty! (Brighton)   Sweet 'clipse dude. (Microcenter parking lot, Cambridge)   Why? (Stop & Shop parking lot, Woburn)  Badd rear end girlz drive badd-rear end toyz (in the parking garage at work, Waltham) 
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Aug 27, 2012 21:48
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GutBomb posted:Why? (Stop & Shop parking lot, Woburn) I saw these on a newer Beetle a couple of years ago...asked myself the same thing, although it worked better on that car than this Jeep.
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Aug 27, 2012 22:10
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IOwnCalculus posted:Irony: Today they announced a bus service for far enough east that I could actually avoid driving the first leg of the trip. I'd put up with the extra time if it was the light rail. 
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Aug 27, 2012 22:20
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InitialDave posted:
My Driver's Ed teacher would flip his top when someone called it an "e-brake". Which makes sense because if you pull it in an emergency, you're probably even more screwed than you were before.
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Aug 27, 2012 23:23
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astrollinthepork posted:SHIFT IT INTO NEUTRAL CHRIST
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Aug 27, 2012 23:27
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Does this happen elsewhere? I've never heard about it happening in Germany, although most cars here aren't automatic, so the chances of it happening are stasticially smaller. Right now, I can only remember cases from the US but I'm not sure whether that's faulty memory, selection bias through media consumption or an indicator of just how terrible American drivers actually are.
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Aug 27, 2012 23:42
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parrhesia posted:indicator of just how terrible American drivers actually are. We only need to take a written and then behind the wheel test to drive. I think I passed it with like 20 hours behind the wheel. I had no loving clue what I was doing, and passed with flying colors.
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Aug 27, 2012 23:52
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Subverting the dominant phallocentric paradigm. I like it.
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Aug 28, 2012 00:17
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Mighty Horse posted:You obviously have some sort of brake light voltage already at the back of the car, since you wired in the trailer lights.....why not just fix the lights that are there already? Maybe he'd seen the benefit of rain lamps for motorway use and wanted a set to call his own, then decided that all that extra wiring was a PITA so he'd activate them Lincoln driver style?
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Aug 28, 2012 01:03
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Just your average 7-Lug Dodge Intrepid:  Yes, all four wheels looked just like this.
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Aug 28, 2012 01:23
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GutBomb posted:Massholes 
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Aug 28, 2012 02:10
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OHGODTHEBEES.jpg Note that it's completely untouched by the usual junkyard hounds. No minivan ever lasts more than a few hours to a day without being pillaged there. It still hasn't been touched as of the last time I went there.
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Aug 28, 2012 02:44
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Warner Bros. has announced that the Confederate flag will no longer be present on "future incarnations of the General Lee," whatever that means. Actually, it refers to future movies(lolwhat?) and toy cars. All the movie car club Facebook pages are currently erupting in a shitstorm of southern pride/slavery apologists and impotent fanboy nerd rage. However, this isn't a new issue. The screen-used General Lee that resides in the Warner Bros. transportation museum has appeared like this for at least the last four years.  Of course, builders will keep building classic Generals, there are no plans to go all George Lucas on the old show, and Dukes of Hazzard isn't really a current licensing goldmine, so hopefully the crying subsides soon. edit: Now I know that the "General Grant" is actually a thing.  Boomerjinks fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Aug 28, 2012 |
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Aug 28, 2012 04:16
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The Antipop posted:Salem, MA When those apartments were built we called them Deadbeat Heights for all the recently divorced men there. Glad to see it's classy as ever.
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Aug 28, 2012 06:30
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Boomerjinks posted:Now I know that the "General Grant" is actually a thing. This concept is amazing. Content:  
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Boomerjinks posted:
Never really been a muscle car dude but this is a concept I could get behind.
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