Terrible Car Stuff - Im sorry but in this thread we measure cargo capacity in shrimp

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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Sudden Infant Def Syndrome posted:

http://www.edmunds.com/car-loan/four-square-basics.html

I've never bought a new vehicle from a dealer before, and I work at a bike shop where I sell bikes some of the time. We put almost no effort into the sales. Just answer questions and spend 2 minutes haggling if necessary usually. Partly because the bikes are not worth a lot anyway so it doesn't help us to spend a lot of time pushing them. Had a few customers tell me they liked our sales style. Now I know why. Man. What a bunch of annoying poo poo.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2014 02:22

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 22:07

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Fucknag posted:

Are you guys saying that there are modern cars which have open paper oil filters like this? This is irritating 1980s technology even on bikes, which lag behind cars in technology. That's just offensive.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2014 02:26

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Everyday Lurker posted:

Can you imagine being the poor fucker who has to write the service manual for those?

# ¿ Mar 25, 2014 04:05

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

DJ Commie posted:

They could never package anything without insane complexity.

There's an indie mechanic near me, Ferrari trained, he works on lots of weird poo poo and normal poo poo. Alfas, Lancias, Saabs, Subarus. He flat out refuses to work on Audis.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2014 19:17

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

CommieGIR posted:

No, the current HEMI is an actual hemispherical piston and head. So its an actual HEMI, but the pistons are not nearly as hemispherical as they used to be.

This is kinda funny to me because I recently read a fun book about some old and new racing engines. A good half of the book mentioned or explained in detail how high dome pistons and heads are bad for performance engines. And this was figured out back in the 60s.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2014 02:25

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Galler posted:

Tow the Miata with the bike.

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# ¿ Apr 21, 2014 15:25

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

veedubfreak posted:

The best part is, I bet he tried to claim insurance on it.

Wasn't the story on that video that the guy actually sued Ford because he thought the Raptor could safely do that?

# ¿ Apr 26, 2014 00:24

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Panty Saluter posted:

Jesus, that poor car. I'm amazed no one was hurt. I'm also amazed the race officials didn't toss Kogay out on his ear.

The body language from his crew when he parked it too far away from the fuel hose was hilarious. "Come on, again?"

# ¿ Apr 27, 2014 22:12

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Post terrible web forum stuff in this thread

# ¿ Apr 28, 2014 04:41

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

That's why the Tesla interior controls (one huge touchscreen) look like a horrible idea to me and I'm amazed no review has ever mentioned them. Aren't there literally no tactile feedback buttons on the console at all? What are the chances that will work intuitively and reliably for years to come? You'd need the combined UI powers of Google and Apple just to design the software right.

# ¿ May 23, 2014 19:46

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

mobby_6kl posted:

How the hell do you mount tires like this anyway? I have enough trouble with ones that are designed to fit the rim.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 14:46

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Root Bear posted:

Oh this is the finished repair? That's not confidence inspiring.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2014 14:31

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

VikingSkull posted:

there's a backstory here and if you know it, holy poo poo

I just read this book a couple weeks ago and it mentioned this ad. Interesting thing I think I gleaned from the book is that the safety situation at Indy was way better than at any F1 track back then. Prize money like 50x as much at Indy too. Weird.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2014 13:11

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

VikingSkull posted:

Haha, guess what prompted my post, that same passage in that same book. It's a great read, ain't it?

Yeah I enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm finishing this one up right now too. Also very interesting. I'm on a motor race disaster bender at the moment.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2014 20:08

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

About to finish season 2 of racing that sidecar rig. We're still one of the few rigs on the circuit who have not cracked a frame.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2014 00:05

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

It's all made of mild steel so it's all fairly flexible anyway.

And you're required not to have suspension on the side wheel because that was normal before 1973.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2014 03:50

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Shampoo posted:

The classic "that's the way we've always done it" argument.

It's a vintage bike racing club.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 01:27

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:

Oh thank god I can't wait for BMW to follow suit and start suing people for putting M3 logos on their budget BMWs

BMW has already been doing this forever. A few years ago the Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners club had to change all its logos because it was using the old style bronze lined roundel with serif letters from pre-1961. Can't do that, it has to be the modern logo. And the logo has to be in a square white box with a black edge and a black line through the middle and has to say "BMW CLUB" in the top half next to the modern logo and then underneath that you can say Vintage Motorcycle or whatever. I'm not making this up.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2014 03:26

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Is hoonigan actually a thing that exists? Like a car-with-no-suspension club or a lovely-shift-lever manufacturer? Or is it just a phrase that's sold on stickers for no other purpose than selling on stickers like [what I assume] metal mulisha is?

# ¿ Nov 29, 2014 04:15

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

fakeaccount posted:

90% of the people I see driving mopeds here in the U.S. are people in their 20s, 30s, and above who have lost their license to multiple DUIs.

People who own mopeds, putting aside "moped enthusiasts", are the worst people. College aged guys who think they can get reliable motorized transportation from a 30 year old vehicle with 0 maintenance cost.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2014 17:49

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

I still can't believe that goddamn fan was enough to cool that thing. Can you imagine how much heat that thing must put out at WOT?

# ¿ Dec 19, 2014 02:38

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Slavvy posted:

When wankel saw the revised design he said 'You've turned my thoroughbred into a pack mule!' or something to that effect.

IIRC his original design required disassembling almost the entire engine to replace the spark plugs.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2014 20:33

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Uthor posted:

Germans had a problem with that?

No everything was perfect until the Japanese ruined it.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2014 03:27

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

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# ¿ Jan 21, 2015 04:43

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

I've heard tubed dirt bike tires blow up from over inflation, sounded like a shotgun going off. I can't imagine what a tubeless car tire blowing would sound like.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 18:06

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Sudo Echo posted:

It looks like an 80s Nissan with those wheels, good lord

Looks like that even without the wheels

# ¿ Jan 26, 2015 15:25

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

88h88 posted:

Ignoring the stupid roof, this is a real car? One that you can actually buy? It looks like it's 4' to the bottom of the pointlessly tiny rear window and it's not even a 4x4. What the hell is going on here? This thing is loving hideous.

Seriously, is this a stock Cadillac body? This isn't some custom thing? The rear end really looks like a joke.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2015 02:30

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Linedance posted:

Somewhere along the way we lost sight of the true villain here: snowmobile companies making road vehicles.

Snowmobile companies are making American motorcycles now, no less.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2015 03:36

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

InitialDave posted:

Why would you go to the work of doing that, using an Explorer... and not use the right Explorer?

Boomerjinks made a Ghost Busters car out of a Subaru.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2015 01:46

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

The article was written by a woman. But we can consider it a triumph of aspergian men's rights culture, battling its way back from the brink of demasculization at the hands of the gynarchy, that finally females are referred to by their scientifically accurate attributes.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2015 20:44

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

I know a guy who drives an A7 and he's a really nice guy.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 19:21

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

I've seen 5 of those movies. None of them were fun. Not like Days of Thunder.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2015 00:22

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

InitialDave posted:

Even covered in that and with a girl in the passenger seat...

Good lord, I didn't notice that was a girl. I looked at the car and just assumed two nerd guys.
I feel bad for that girl.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2015 15:16

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

CommieGIR posted:

What blind dyslexic designed that gauge? "mph" is prominently in the middle of the kph numbers (nowhere near the mph numbers) with "kph" hidden well off on the end of the kph numbers, and "miles" is also right near the kph numbers when it should be below the odo display it presumably refers to.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2015 23:13

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Fucknag posted:

Actually IIRC F1 engines use pneumatic valve springs only, they're sill actuated by a camshaft AFAIK.

This blew my mind when I found out. Just remove the valve springs and you can run a normal engine to 20k rpm. Insane.

Also on the topic of crazy valves, I saw this one mentioned not long ago on one of Jay Leno's vids. Sleeve valves:

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# ¿ Apr 22, 2015 18:59

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Rhyno posted:

I just really, really, really hate Melissa McCarthy.

Thank you for agreeing with me. Do you also hate Chris Farley? Can we be bros? I just found out everyone I work with loves her and Farley and I feel so alone.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2015 15:57

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Powershift posted:

I would say any chrysler where the windows roll all the way up, blower motor works and blend door gives you a choice is still well ahead of the pack.

My dad recently upgraded from a 2000 Caravan to a 2006 T&C and roughly the same number of switches/solenoids/motors on it are not working.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2015 21:24

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 22:07

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

SaNChEzZ posted:

I really like how trees just don't give a single gently caress about cars hitting them.

Seriously. Trees are like indestructible unless you use a saw.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 00:50

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