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The Door Frame posted:The 05 style was sold as new up until 2015 That particular nose only lasted until 09, later S197s had different looking noses.
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PainterofCrap posted:You beached the frame on the curb. The little air dam under the radiator on my Crown Victoria just scrapes almost every parking berm, shortly before the tires touch. It doesn’t make much noise going forward into the spot, but oh boy it sounds horrible backing out. No damage, but what a noise! So I tend to back in a lot - which is actually easier to line up and get as close in as possible because I have a reversing camera and actually adjusted the lines to approach reality. wesleywillis posted:I've never driven a Kei truck, but I've driven a few cab over hinos and while I can vouch fir the forward visibility and turning radius, I can tell you that every other pick up truck I've been in, from gmc 25-3500s, various Toyota tundra, rangers, fords of the f 2 and 350 variety has been infinitely more comfortable both loaded and unloaded, anywhere from marginally (single cab) to way more ("four door" but not crew cab) spacious and was much faster also loaded and unloaded. Which is nice for merging safely on the highway and fuel economy for the cab overs was worse because keeping up with traffic, going up steep hills while loaded and merging pretty much required the pedal to be glued to the floor. So much so I actually had problems with my right Achilles tendon for a while because I had to keep my foot at a weird angle to keep the poo poo floored just to get anywhere. God help the poor bastard who g The solution to the merging problem there is the NPRs that had a Vortec or LSx V8 in them from the factory! Midjack posted:25 year rule in the US, anything newer than April 1999 is federally illegal for road use. And some states even that’s not good enough, which boggles my mind.
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Q_res posted:That particular nose only lasted until 09, later S197s had different looking noses. this argument is terrible car stuff
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I will defend this. This is in no way good, but I will defend it. We need occasional madness like this.
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now i want to see a youtube video of the builder taking it to various volkswagen and/or mustang meets
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I will defend this. Modifying the front of bugs was a cottage industry in the 60s and 70s. Some of them were really good, or at least really fun. 
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Deteriorata posted:Modifying the front of bugs was a cottage industry in the 60s and 70s. Some of them were really good, or at least really fun. That Beetle rules.
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Deteriorata posted:Modifying the front of bugs was a cottage industry in the 60s and 70s. Some of them were really good, or at least really fun. This should be posted in the other thread. Not trying to invoke anything by saying this, I know you're posting it as an example only.
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Deteriorata posted:Modifying the front of bugs was a cottage industry in the 60s and 70s. Some of them were really good, or at least really fun. There was a company, Wunderbug, that specialized in these front ends. They fit really well. My neighbor had a '37 Ford grille on his '71. Rolls-Royce eventually told them to knock it off.
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Gives me an AI vibe
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Deteriorata posted:Modifying the front of bugs was a cottage industry in the 60s and 70s. Some of them were really good, or at least really fun. Giant, empty front trunk
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Major contradiction. It thirsts for crowds, but it’s so slow that they can all easily get out of the way.
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Needs a whale tail, but still wrong thread.
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So they were billing this as something you could drive on another planet, a car fit for the apocalypse aaaaaand it breaks if you take it to a car wash. I LOVE THIS STUPID CAR SO MUCH! ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT! https://twitter.com/StonkKing4/status/1780306557538050532?t=x8668nqlD7DWbjMt8qhz1A&s=19 *edit: can we talk about the invention if something called car wash mode for this special snowflake of a vehicle? I just fire water at my car and it's fine, it's not even supposed to be a tough car, it's a little shitbox and yet it somehow doesn't die because it gets wet. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Car wash mode is because they didn't include "Neutral"
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I have no idea what a car wash mode would do on a vehicle other than turn off any rain sensors and make sure the windows are closed all the way. Unless it's a snitch mode to secretly rat you out E: oh yeah, there isn't a shifter
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Olympic Mathlete posted:So they were billing this as something you could drive on another planet, a car fit for the apocalypse aaaaaand it breaks if you take it to a car wash. That first caution is  Can someone explain that to me?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:That first caution is You really shouldn’t wash any car in direct sunlight due to the potential of the soapy water drying on the paint, but the CyberDumpster is stainless steel, and will literally stain if you do it.
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Darchangel posted:You really shouldn’t wash any car in direct sunlight due to the potential of the soapy water drying on the paint, but the CyberDumpster is stainless steel, and will literally stain if you do it. They should come up with a new name for it, then.
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Speleothing posted:Car wash mode is because they didn't include "Neutral" l m a o
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This is obviously some strange meaning of the word “stainless” that I wasn’t previously aware of
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Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
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Do not wash happy fun ball.
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Theres several grades of stainless and musk slammed his face on the one common grade that rusts because it can be hardened. The delorean solved this 40 years ago and that only gets pitting corrosion, not huge rust stains, because its made from a sane grade of stainless. There are stainless steels with great corrosion resistance and are able to be hardened but those are expensive and the processes needed to work them and harden them also expensive. I am impressed at the depths of denial about musks grifts and how these total marks keep falling for it VV because he keeps getting rewarded for his mistakes and praised by sycophants and when he does face material consequences theyre so tiny to him relatively it doesnt matter Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Because Musk refuses to do lessons learned and wants to reinvent the god damned wheel all the time for no reason.
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CommieGIR posted:Because Musk refuses to do lessons learned and wants to reinvent the god damned wheel all the time for no reason. dude doesn't know how the wheel works in the first place
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KakerMix posted:dude doesn't know how the wheel works in the first place Which is why he thinks it's so easy
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Data Graham posted:This is obviously some strange meaning of the word “stainless” that I wasn’t previously aware of It stains less. Unless it’s a Tesla. Then it stains more.
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Has any person in the history of humanity ever fully exposed what a know-nothing dipshit they are faster and in a shorter time span than Musk?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:*edit: can we talk about the invention if something called car wash mode for this special snowflake of a vehicle? Car Wash mode is a thing on all Teslas. What it does is disable all of the stupid automatic features that might be triggered by the brushes and then break, like the automatic windshield wipers, automatic trunk opening when you stand in front of it, automatic charge port door opening when you touch it, etc.
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Sagebrush posted:Car Wash mode is a thing on all Teslas. What it does is disable all of the stupid automatic features that might be triggered by the brushes and then break, like the automatic windshield wipers, automatic trunk opening when you stand in front of it, automatic charge port door opening when you touch it, etc. The amount of bad engineering in this post hurts.
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Look, just because you have to disconnect the negative from the battery every time you get out of the car in order to avoid getting an electric shock, that's simply you being overly critical about a feature that many people enjoy.
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Again: Tesla is now (since Musk bought it) a computer company that makes huge (occasionally) self-propelled computer enclosures. The CYbertrvvcks (which I believe are Musk's vanity project) are not motor vehicles as defined by how they have been designed and built for 120-years, and come to be known by the public; they remain a giant rolling X-Box and fail the same way when used as a motor vehicle outside in the world.
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Speleothing posted:Car wash mode is because they didn't include "Neutral" Re: what Sagebrush noted, "free roll mode" is an entirely other stupid thing you have to do to go through a car wash.
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Why are plastic retaining clips not standardized in any way? I want to be able to go to autozone and replace the ones that inevitably break, not have to go to a dealership and hope they have a weird shaped clip in inventory, and then pay $3 apiece so I can finish working that same day
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The Door Frame posted:Why are plastic retaining clips not standardized in any way? I want to be able to go to autozone and replace the ones that inevitably break, not have to go to a dealership and hope they have a weird shaped clip in inventory, and then pay $3 apiece so I can finish working that same day i think you just explained yourself why clips aren't standardized
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The Door Frame posted:Why are plastic retaining clips not standardized in any way? I want to be able to go to autozone and replace the ones that inevitably break, not have to go to a dealership and hope they have a weird shaped clip in inventory, and then pay $3 apiece so I can finish working that same day 
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maybe find a bag of 500 of them on ebay
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KakerMix posted:dude doesn't know how the wheel works in the first place excuuuuse me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpa8fLQe7O0
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