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Dizman posted:'Vette-wave'  
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If it's anything like the AS Tronic transmissions our buses use, you have to kind of guess when the computer is going release the clutch on you when you're making parking moves. In a way, the gas pedal controls the clutch, kind of nuance on nuance to do two things at once with one pedal. Particularly embarrassing when you've got 50 people on the bus, half of them standing up even though you told them to stay seated because you'll be trying to park. Usually goes like this: Slide into a spot, stop and get ready to make your reverse move. Select reverse, big hold on the air brakes so they stick a little when you let off. Throttle 20%, clutch 0% Not moving. Throttle 40%, clutch 0% Not moving. Throttle 60%, clutch 0% Still nothing and also you're starting to roll forwards. Throttle 80% clutch 100% WHOOOAA gently caress! The bus lurches backwards and everyone is complaining because they've now fallen on the floor. (Told you to stay seated!) Instead of crawling back at 1mph, you're now rocketing back at 10 so you'd better hit those brakes real quick. Rinse, repeat until parked successfully.
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Dec 21, 2012 11:23
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Taken about a month ago  It's a bit of a stretch.. but I'd have asked for another plate.
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Jan 5, 2013 10:29
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Sagebrush posted:Head up to Sedona -- the main drag up hwy 179 there has like ten of them in a row for no apparent reason (other than how people from Sedona have to be different and special). One of the jeep tour guides told me the traffic backups used to be horrendous before they were put in. None of the intersections had a dedicated left turn lane, so anybody turning left would back the traffic up behind waiting for a chance to go. I drive a tour bus out there every summer, and let me tell you, those roundabouts get old after the 5th one you go though. Gorgeous drive indeed! The section north of Sedona is probably the crookedest road I've ever taken my bus on.. 
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Jan 10, 2013 11:56
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/!\ Posting terrible car stuff in the terrible car stuff thread /!\  Some of the treasures that aren't readily visible: - Rusty wire holding the - 85% of the rocker underneath the rear door is rotted away. - They're rolling on a spare tire, which they've also painted gold. - The 2012 Corolla behind it looks just as ugly
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Feb 1, 2013 06:56
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I took a trip to Japan to visit a friend over new years' last year, and he took me to a bosozoku meet out at some highway rest stop. Words cannot describe the sound... and apparently my lovely camera phone can't describe it either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXaT1UP_R5U Imagine 200 cars and bikes with the equivalent of straight pipes, getting the piss revved out of them all night while cruising at 3mph. Automotive Insanity defined. Japan has such a polite population though, you pretty much won't see/hear these cars driving around on a daily basis being obnoxious. Show cars always get a pass from me.
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Feb 15, 2013 11:22
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I'd like to believe that was one huge Fresnel Lense covering the back window, like the kind people put on motorhomes for rear visibility. Although if that were true, anything behind it would be  in an instant.
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Feb 20, 2013 18:38
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The meet I went to was held at a rest stop off the highway near Nagashima Spa Land (southwest of Nagoya), word was that people were going to meet in the park's parking lot but security ran them out. It was kind of like an informal cars & coffee meet held at midnight, except 10x bigger and a hell of a lot louder! Language barriers abound for me, but I took it that it's held each year the night after New Year's Eve.
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Mar 14, 2013 16:42
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Track gage, profile and alignment for US railroads is measured in inches and fractions thereof, which makes measuring for defects by hand a royal pain in the rear end. Perfect track gage is 56 1/2", but can range from anything between 56" to 58" with allowable track speed stepping down as the gage gets wider. All other measurements aside; gage up to 57 1/2" - 80mph max gage up to 57 3/4" - 40mph max gage up to 58" - 10mph max gage 58"+ - walking speed, you ain't s'posed to have trains runnin' on this poo poo anyway! What the hell!! When's the last time you looked at this? By god the next train through here woulda needed mud tires! Track gage is measured between the insides of the tops of the rails, plus any evidence of tie plate movement on the tie (pushing), plus any gap between the base of the rail and the outer lip of the tie plate, plus any overflow of material built up on the rail if you can't get your tape under it, plus an allowance for rail cant (rails tilting outward as trains pass over). So let's say you bend down and take a measurement of 56 3/4" ball to ball along a straight section of particularly lovely main line rail. Good for 80mph, right? But you've got 1/8" of overflow on both rails, they're pretty worn. The tie plates have been pushing 1/4" on each side, could use some new ties or spike goop. You've got a 1/8" gap between the base and the tie plate on one side, and 1/4" on the other. Quick, what speed are we good for through here? Ok, now take a measurement every twenty paces or so. I feel like switching to millimeters would be so much more straightforward, it's so easy to make mistakes when you're doing mental math with fractions. You do get better with repetition, but it's such a pain in the rear end not to mention time consuming and a potential liability. Ah well, it's the way things have been done for 150 years so we might as well keep it up and never change. Answer: 40mph you tucked the dumb end of your tape under the overflow when you took your measurement, which puts you at 57 1/2" dead nuts. But then there's rail cant to add in (1/16th each side usually) and the fact that conditions will deteriorate with time and traffic. NoWake fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Mar 25, 2013 |
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Mar 25, 2013 09:00
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Poing posted:If you work in the industry, shouldn't you know how to spell "gauge"?  You can use a gauge to read a measurement of track gage!At least that's how it's spelled in the FRA handbook. Also, they do have test cars that take multiple measurements per foot as they run, but they only really come out 3-4 times per year on the main lines. Most all yard track and industry tracks get walked.
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Mar 25, 2013 17:16
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nurrwick posted:Somewhere under this is a CX-7. Raiders!!    
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May 29, 2013 05:00
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I used to drive tour buses, and it was quite often that we'd have 4-5 buses following each other for the same trip. Our entire fleet was governed to varying shades of 65mph, so it was next to impossible to catch up to the group if something slowed you down. There's no real point in following nose to tail outside of a police escort, but the lead driver feels better when he can see or at least radio everybody in his convoy. (our radios were lovely and we'd often lose reception behind hills or over a mile) We often had coaches, chaperones, helicopter parents, etc. join our convoy in cars, and they just LOVED to jump between our buses during the trip. Each time they slowed down in the middle of our pack, we'd either all have to slow down or just deal with having a big gap in our lineup, which would then fill with traffic and drive us further apart. One of the idiots tailgated me for a few hundred miles of the OH Turnpike, I was able to leave him him at the Westgate when he followed me into the EZ-Pass lane. He didn't have a transponder. Bye Bye!
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Jun 18, 2013 11:51
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DropShadow posted:
There was a bigass Lincoln MKZ parked like this over the weekend at my complex, the open spot next to him being the corner spot along the curb. Two dick moves make a right, so I crept into that corner spot leaving an inch of clearance from both the curb and my car and between our side mirrors. There was no possible way he was going to get in the driver's side of his car, and mine is a beater so I gave no fucks. As I've come to find out, the Lincoln belongs to the State Trooper who lives in my complex.  He was in the wrong more than I was, but I didn't exactly do myself any favors.
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Jul 17, 2013 08:14
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Wooden hood? Decently executed. That is, the front passengers after rear-ending somebody. Crumple zones, what are those?  
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Jul 18, 2013 07:53
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 Saw something ugly today..  I honestly cannot tell if they're trolling or not.
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Aug 29, 2013 05:10
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KoRMaK posted:Are those extra-long hot-dogs with uncooked spaghetti sticking out of them? It looked like lengths of old fuel hose with zip ties poked through them. 
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Aug 29, 2013 14:46
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The parking lot across the street has been a real treasure trove lately.. I guess this guy really likes broccoli?  
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Sep 18, 2013 07:32
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Not only are the Transit Connects terrible as panel vans but they're terrible as passenger vehicles as well. A company I worked for used a number of them as company cars, and I had the displeasure of riding in the back of one between Cleveland OH and Nashville back in March. Since the majority of the vans coming from overseas will have their interiors ripped out and discarded*, the back seat is hard as a rock and there is virtually no body insulation or ventilation in the rear. There were three of us on the trip, two in the front and myself in the back. The guys up front stripped down to their t-shirts and complained of the heat while I huddled shivering in the back under a coat, sweatshirt and blanket, begging them to at least keep keep the windows closed for me. *Ford imports these from an assembly plant in Turkey, but due to the 25% "Chicken Tax" tariff on foreign trucks, they come with windows and a rear seat so as to be classified as a passenger vehicle. These seats and windows are removed and thrown away once they hit the US.
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Oct 2, 2013 02:12
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I found myself saying "dude, just stop" at each one of those VW pictures. ..and this comes from someone who drove this 5 years ago:   The turning point was when my sister described my car as having "clown wheels and an underwear interior". I've had a steady recovery since then.
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Oct 9, 2013 06:53
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I found a nice looking $1,500 Fiero for sale locally, "Rad with greg interior" with no shot of the interior. I called the seller tonight and we chatted for a good 2-3 minutes about the car, what type of transmission it had, how the engine ran, tire condition etc. Sounded like a good runner. It wasn't until I asked about a time to meet up that he told me he'd sold the car two days prior, I guess the man just enjoyed talking about the car. 
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Nov 6, 2013 08:09
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It looks like the city blocked off parking to put up christmas lights
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Dec 4, 2013 05:13
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88h88 posted:I seem to recall this particular Rolls was designed around you having a chauffeur (and he was sat open to the elements). This makes me think of something along these lines:  Chauffeur deviates from the normal route to Southeby. "........?" from the passenger compartment. Chauffeur enters the Silverstone Racing Circuit. "........!!" from the passenger compartment. Chauffeur amuses himself, turning several hot laps this day "%@%^@#!!!!" from the passenger compartment.
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Dec 7, 2013 22:37
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veedubfreak posted:So that's what the noise is. I thought it had a bad CV joint. Only 2 more days of this shitpile. It also sucks down gas like that's its loving job. The assholes at Enterprise gave me the car at 1/4 tank and after the 10 mile drive home and 18 mile drive to work it was sitting on E already. I can echo this, took a rental 4-banger 200 with maybe 4,000 miles on it from Albany > Cleveland > Albany and got an abysmal 21mpg ...cruising at 75mph. I hesitate to say cruising because the thing did NOT want to be pushed that hard, it felt and sounded like I was wringing its neck with my foot at >3/4 throttle to maintain my speed for the entire trip. Try to accelerate from 70 to 75 in under ten seconds? You bet that transmission is gonna kick down. I know the 6-cylinder would have been better suited to the car, but I had no idea a brand-new car of any spec could be so abysmal in twenty-freaking-twelve.
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Jan 29, 2014 16:15
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I'm totally okay with this car being what it is as long as it never rolls under its own power on public roads. The tire stickers give me some hope that it's a show car/trailer queen. Go nuts and build the car of your dreams, but don't make your contraption everyone elses' problem.
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Jan 30, 2014 15:40
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 This CRX has a look on its face like "Why Me?"  Crazy to see stuff like this still on the road 15 years after the tooners started chopping them up. Even more miraculously, it made the trip to Chicagoland from Tennessee without much of the bodywork flapping off.  Another classic honda from the 90's, this one might still be saved..  Make your own caption!
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Apr 1, 2014 03:48
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I'm 2,000 miles away and know nothing about the area, but my guess is the underpass was constructed specifically to connect the neighborhoods on either side of the tracks. The pavement, bridge, landscaping and concrete all look like they were recently placed. The shallow underpass is good for bikes, people, cars and sane pickups, everything else should just use the state route one block to the west. There had to be a reason the cut for the road couldn't have gone deeper, maybe existing sewer lines or proximity to driveway. Also, the powers that be must have wanted to connect the neighborhoods badly enough that a "nope, can't be done, bridge would be too low" from the county engineer wasn't an acceptable response.
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Apr 26, 2014 04:37
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I had a coolant hose split in my 90's Passat and of course none of the 7 parts stores around here nor the dealer have it in stock. 4 of these stores tried to tell me my hose didn't exist, VW parts department wanted $35 to have it here Friday. $11.00 gets it to my door Thursday from an online retailer.. better, but I need my car back on the road NOW, DAMMIT so I grabbed two feet of fuel hose off the reel at the McParts store and made it work. Here's how I'm keeping the hose from kinking while I wait:   It's working for now, got the engine up to temp for 20 minutes and had zero leaks. I guess it's really only terrible car stuff if I never get back in there to replace it.
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May 14, 2014 04:53
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I remember reading a story ~10 years ago where a guy had imported a Mk2 VW Golf Rallye from Canada, unsure if he ever had it registered or what, but he'd tried selling it to someone who could with no success. The feds found out he had it and ordered him to hand it over to be crushed... and he did, but not before sawing off the rallye-specific body panels (basically 3/4 of the car) to swap onto another legit shell. http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?2963211-Here-is-what-is-left-of-my-Rallye.............. NoWake fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Jun 6, 2014 02:42
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Or you can have a VW from anywhere between the 60's and early 90's with an un-switched hot lead as the only power to the deck. Convenient to be able to turn the radio on whenever you feel, but if you let a dumb idiot borrow your car, chances are they'll leave you with a dead battery the next day.
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Jul 11, 2014 05:03
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I've owned 5 VWs from a '74 through '93 and none had switched power, even the last one with the "premium audio" package tied into the security system. I just figured it was a thing across the board until the MK3's came out.
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Jul 11, 2014 05:19
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Instead of those guys justpushing it from behind, they should be running a steam engine 
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Aug 9, 2014 16:13
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Windmill generators mounted to the hood, trunk and roof (along the same line of reasoning as the electronic turbochargers)
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Aug 16, 2014 04:45
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xzzy posted:Turned out to be a comically bad picture but you can still see the primary fail.  This guy just won the loving game.
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Aug 22, 2014 01:24
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A little late to Oldsmobile chat, but my neighbor's got a Firenza entombed in his half of the garage. No idea how long it's been there or what the deal is, but it's pretty assuredly terrible car stuff. 
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Oct 16, 2014 21:48
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I'd like to think this is the charming couple from the "Why did you turn? Why did you loving turn?" video.
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Oct 23, 2014 02:09
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It looks like a potato in that color, and it doesn't sound like it handles much better than one too.
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Nov 10, 2014 07:24
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rarbatrol posted:I "To ensure your citation is being issued by a human and not a robot, please first complete this Captcha challenge"
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Feb 6, 2015 03:26
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veedubfreak posted:
I think you're giving these guys too much credit, more likely they're the balding summer tires left over from before they pimped their ride, and their  at only replacing the ones that got bent from a chuckhole. Rimmmzzz and lo-profile rubberband tires might work in LA or Miami, but they can't handle more than a few months of the roads up here before getting bent to poo poo.
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Feb 20, 2015 19:36
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veedubfreak posted:tl:dr - treat texting the same as dui. Along the lines of an ignition interlock for DUI, they should require anyone caught on their phone while driving to have a Faraday cage installed over their car.
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veedubfreak posted:All i keep thinking is that her jacket and pants are ruined after laying down on an asphalt parking lot. something something... take off her pants and jacket 
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