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CarForumPoster posted:Ford stopped making all sedanesque passenger cars. At first they just stopped selling them in the US as a response to Trump removing Obama's rule--they were literally selling the fiesta here to counter balance the trucks and SUVs. They stopped making them a bit later.
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carolina squat gets some cool factor just for the complaints about usefulness and safety imo but god drat thatd be a pain in the rear end to drive without airbags or hydraulics or something
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Cactus Ghost posted:carolina squat gets some cool factor just for the complaints about usefulness and safety imo I appreciate your trying to be inclusive due to the "rebel spirit" but you do not, in fact, gotta hand it to em. They can't see what is in front of them due to *everything* which means that the normal likelyhood of a lifted truck rear ending or running over a human goes way up. The thing they are emulating is actually cool and has actual suspension. These people run a rigid setup most times. I see em rolling around town with a bunch of losers piled up at the lowest point in the back, trusting the latches with their life, all the time.  It's literally, morally, wrong to do this to your death mobile.
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Here’s something terrible I just saw on FB: 
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I shall get to the tag requests this evening, thanks for joining in the fun  (Still open tho till 11:59pm in Hawaii)Regular rules now apply
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Am I too late?  Edit: can’t read Edit2: penance of a Challenger that looks like a coffee flavored Monster can.  
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Apr 22, 2024 15:26
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Very sorry your family got slaughtered at this junction but they weren't carrying the little red flags. https://twitter.com/MilwaukeeAvBike/status/1782435698538082394?t=QYTszR4zwViHHEQN0Avs_A&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Very sorry your family got slaughtered at this junction but they weren't carrying the little red flags. I like how the intersection of roads named after generals from both sides of the civil war have safety flags that look like they came from Confederate OSHA.
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Dr Rocksalt posted:Am I too late?
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Donut bought a brand new LSX and have taken it apart to show people. And in doing so found some pretty worn crank bearings and one of the pistons didn't have a wrist pin lock...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkNNLiob2ho
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Very sorry your family got slaughtered at this junction but they weren't carrying the little red flags. I prefer the Vancouver version of this: https://youtu.be/ZJ0HBd_u-Fs?si=uUeskZolYBIpNGmd
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Donut bought a brand new LSX and have taken it apart to show people. And in doing so found some pretty worn crank bearings and one of the pistons didn't have a wrist pin lock... The unfortunate thing with stuff like that is that if some poor SOB bought that motor and installed it and threw a bearing or wrist pin, it's an uphill battle proving it was defective from brand new, not the least of which all your time and labor.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Donut bought a brand new LSX and have taken it apart to show people. And in doing so found some pretty worn crank bearings and one of the pistons didn't have a wrist pin lock... jesus, that came from GM?
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Holy poo poo, I guess it's a cautionary tale to tear down every "new" crate motor you get lol
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Jesus they owe him a refund at minimum.
CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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CommieGIR posted:Jesus they owe him a refund at minimum. They're getting a whole new long block, and they get to keep this one
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and they're paying for the necessary repairs for this one
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Dr Rocksalt posted:Am I too late? Screw it I'll allow it. Gimme your AI tag u want
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I would be more impressed if instead of just trying to wallpaper over this problem by fixing it and giving them a new one, GM would explain exactly how they got scored bearing surfaces in an engine that has never been run, and how that got through QC, and what they're doing to prevent it in the future.
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Yeah 100%. There's no way to meaningfully say they won't let that happen again if they don't know how it happened in the first place.
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at least you know they'll make it right. you just have to tear down the whole engine first
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I'm assuming they are put together by hand, so probably just human error. Forgot the C clip and somehow got something on the bearings that scored them maybe a small piece of metal that was on the builder's hands or something.
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I wonder how many performance shops installed crate engines into customers cars and then had to eat the loss after what could be less than a thousand miles. Because at that point the burden of proof would be on the user
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Bajaha posted:This one's from my personal collection of terrible car stuff. Change your filters when you buy a new-to-you car. https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7285514724530212139 (needs sound)
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Terrible rotary exhaust stuff: Quoting where I'm up to for title change requests
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Jonny Nox posted:I prefer the Vancouver version of this: quoting this with the video link because superb.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:quoting this with the video link because superb.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Screw it I'll allow it. Gimme your AI tag u want Cat or black thumb, and thank you.
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Don't get your digits too close to the Cybertruck frunk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOaGBdnlGIw
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Why does every loving door and hatch and panel have to be powered now. Why can't they just put in some gas struts like in the old days
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Perfecto indeed. Applebees Appetizer posted:Don't get your digits too close to the Cybertruck frunk! Seems like BMWs are a little bloodthirsty, too. Sagebrush posted:Why does every loving door and hatch and panel have to be powered now. Why can't they just put in some gas struts like in the old days People are lazy, and the doors keep getting bigger along with the car.
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Powered hatches are amazing if you play recreational hockey.
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Sagebrush posted:Why does every loving door and hatch and panel have to be powered now. Why can't they just put in some gas struts like in the old days Because it's 2024 and we invented powered door technology, grandad. Also it's awesome. More expensive and more stuff to break? Yes, that too. But awesome, it's a door that opens and closes at the press of a button!
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Because it's 2024 and we invented powered door technology, grandad. Also it's awesome. Fundamentally, people will pay money for it. Manufacturers sell more cars at higher profit.
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Some people simply cannot reach a fully open hatch, people like my mother. And if that's solvable with a push of a button, then she could actually buy the car she likes.
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I really enjoy powered sliding doors on minivans. Maybe other brands are different, but Chrysler/Dodge/VW lets you pop the door handle, press a button on the ceiling, one in the back, or use the key fob to intiate power opening/closing. It's a little thing, but those vans were meant to be used, and I've used them for work. Just walk by the thing, yank the handle, and the van does the rest. Need to get out of traffic or let someone enter the parking space next to you? Get in the front and press a button, get in the back and press a button, walk away and press a button. Whatever works for you.
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Deteriorata posted:Fundamentally, people will pay money for it. Manufacturers sell more cars at higher profit. thats the root cause of most things that blow rear end about cars of any given era it does kinda suck that you can't easily option something simple and doodadless. but people who want something simple and doodadless can, at least for now, buy basically any used car from 10+ years ago. as that dries up some maybe that'll change e: i think this is at least partially the cause of the bizzare swings in the used car market in the last five years
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Cactus Ghost posted:it does kinda suck that you can't easily option something simple and doodadless. This is also why you have stuff like software activated features. The manufacturer wants to have different feature levels so they can appeal to a broader segment of buyers, but it's much cheaper to build all the cars to the same spec and disable things in software for the cheaper version. The difference in component cost between a model with parking sensors, adaptive cruise and heated steering wheel and the same model without them is insignificant, but there's significant extra costs in having to maintain multiple different production lines and inventories.
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