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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 28, 2012 23:52
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Sorry, too subtle. Reverse lights were on at all times, car sure wasn't going backwards though
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Aug 30, 2012 02:54
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You can't ignore demand - its higher than its ever been. Speculation or not, when demand goes up but supply doesn't increase as fast or by as much, prices go up. They're working over the oil sands in Canada for a reason.
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Fog machine, we have the technology When I was a stupid teenager some friends and I put a fog machine in a car and ran it full blast while cruising the area where all the other stupid teenagers cruised on Friday and Saturday nights. We'd crack the windows at stop lights and let the smoke billow out, it was actually pretty awesome from a stupid teenager point of view and was a big hit.
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Oct 27, 2012 02:09
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 Not pictured: the diamond plate hood.
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Nov 15, 2012 07:29
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VikingSkull posted:When you work for a rather large auto auction that sells tens of thousands of cars a year, stuff like this happens. I've seen cars totally destroyed in far more careless ways than this. My old boss was standing in a Manheim lot on auction day near the exotics/high end vehicles. A Maserati rolls past him, no driver, door partially open, in gear at idle. No one notices, no one cares. It would have just rolled on into a Porsche except he jumped in it and stopped it. An employee comes over looking for the car and he tells the employee what happened, and the guy was just like "oh", hops in and drives it off to the auction lane. Auction day is sheer madness and a couple grand in damage to a car is not something they worry about too much from everything I've heard.
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It depends entirely on each state's own laws....IOwnCalculus posted:I think red flashers like that aren't illegal to possess, but they are illegal to actually use on a public road. For example, in Wisconsin it is illegal to display red lenses if they face the front of the vehicle. Even if they do not illuminate, it is still illegal. Red lenses faceing rearwards are fine, but they must operate with the brake lights or hazard flashers, or in a manner similar to them. (Two red lights flashing simultaneously would be fine, but flashing right/left would be illegal).
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Tusen Takk posted:I understand that when you pound on the brakes it locks all four wheels and that pulling the ebrake did diddly squat. Despite your cat like inhuman reflexes, any activity that took concentration away from applying the brake pedal and modulating the amount of force applied to it so that you apply the maximum amount of stopping power while not locking the wheels up (threshold braking) actually significantly increased your stopping distance and the speed at which you hit the idiot in the other car. The point is don't do that poo poo again you're not helping the situation.
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Mar 5, 2013 18:48
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Pretty sure they're speaking spanish in that video, so guessing this is from Mexico or South America... I think cops in Spain would have shown up to this kind of thing.
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Jun 3, 2013 05:29
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Those protege5s rust worse than any other car in recent memory. Turns out the Protege sedan isn't much better  2003 - everything is rusting. Trunk lid has rust in the same spot as that 5, rear wheel arches, all four doors are rusting out from inside, and I just spotted a bubble on the leading edge of the hood too.
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Jun 11, 2013 00:27
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It also probably checks to see if the plate/car was reported stolen and flags it for a sworn officer to respond
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Jun 20, 2013 23:43
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Is that a projector screen under the hood? What the hell
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Jun 27, 2013 22:55
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Spotted at the local grocery store.... A little old lady who could barely walk was the owner of it.... sad
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Devyl posted:I just noticed the window is open. How bad was the smell? I've noticed hoarders' houses range from 'slightly skunky' to 'sticking a pound of ground beef under the sink in a small trashcan, adding a cup of water, leaving it covered for a month, then taking a huge sniff'. Don't know, pretty sure I was up wind.... But a lot of that garbage looked like food wrappers and other disgusting mess so I assume it has to be horrible.
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Somewhere in Minnesota... cop cars don't need plates in that state. The Minneapolis cop cars all have plates that simply say POLICE on them. Plus the silver GM SUV has a Minnesota plate.
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 Nice car, why is this posted here?  What the gently caress? Found outside a bar, it sat there for a few hours like that.
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Aug 12, 2013 16:56
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BoostCreep posted:I wish they would have left the engine and transmission in the 59 so it would be an actual worthwhile test. The people in the Bel Air would be dead regardless, but it sure would have done a lot more damage to the Malibu. The test ended up being more like "here is what happens when you put some thin sheet metal in front of a full weight 2009 Chevrolet at speed" The car had it's engine and transmission intact and was in drivable condition. http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/more-details-about-1959-bel-air-crash-test/?_r=0
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Kill-9 posted:
Get a small zip tie and just zip tie the key somewhere under the truck. More secure than the magnetic boxes and you can still twist the key off the tie with the small ones
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Terrible political stuff not related to cars is boring. Full Album: http://imgur.com/a/LJCTi 
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Oil changes look easy at least. 
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Dr.Smasher posted:I was looking more at the red puddle by the window. Kinda freaking me out. That actually (probably) is blood... that's exactly where the fire department hauled the driver out of the van before stuffing him in the ambulance. Are you more freaked out now?
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Oct 18, 2013 03:39
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davebo posted:So, I know it looks like a Beetle now that it's all squished in but is that a Cavalier in the intersection that managed to knock him upside down and 50+ feet away? Because that's pretty A.I. I think. Good eye 
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Oct 19, 2013 02:00
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OH HELL NO MY RIMS! gently caress! poo poo!! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f9f_1382587962
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Oct 25, 2013 03:30
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Well you're absolutely right I guess
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Oct 25, 2013 04:09
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exempt posted:Ken Block owns DC Shoes, so it's not like they're forcing him to wear it. Block hasn't owned DC Shoes since 2004 - Quiksilver owns DC now.
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FogHelmut posted:This was my car last year That's my car every winter. It's also going on 11 years old and every single body panel is rusting away
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Ulfhednar posted:On the topic of town's over-salting the roads, I drove back to Chicago today, and snapped a pic of an intersection I had stopped at. They don't really do this intentionally - the flow rate out of the dump box to the spreader was set for whatever speed the truck was traveling, which is going to be very excessive for an intersection. For a momentary stop like a stop sign it's probably not worth loving with the controls to change the flow rate for one second. Salt is cheap so it's also probably not cost effective to have better controls for the system either.
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Nov 28, 2013 20:35
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You would think people who live in Wisconsin would be fairly good at driving in snow..... NOPE http://bcove.me/mu9yo09a
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Speeding helps on long trips, but is pretty pointless on short ones. 300 miles at 65 mph, 4 hrs, 37 minutes. 300 miles at 75 mph, 4 hrs. 20 miles at 65 mph, 18 minutes. 20 miles at 75 mph, 16 minutes. Throw in traffic, stop lights, etc, and it's just not worth speeding in town. Considering he is using a 17.8 mile commute as his example, it supports his example. I'm the same way... getting somewhere a minute faster isn't worth a ~$300 ticket. Different story on the freeway where you can usually spot cops pretty easily, especially if there is other traffic ahead of you and you consider random braking to be a warning sign of a speed trap.
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Ulfhednar posted:It came from tumblr Of course it's a Scion
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 Yea those are classic plates
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