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I like 4x4/offroad trucks and this is still an abominable thing that should be nuked from orbit. Also, on the thread consolidation derail - I was fine with: terrible (terrible stuff people say/put on their cars/you took pictures of, terrible cl listings, etc go here) awesome (see above) horrible mechanical failures (because they are awesomely horrible, they kinda don't fall in either category) but I rarely look at the cl thread, so I don't really care either way.
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MadScientistWorking posted:Its a near instantaneous oxidation meaning that you can't actually find a chunk of aluminum that doesn't have a layer of oxidation. we here in the rust belt have more words for rust and oxidation than eskimos have for snow. There are many kinds of aluminum oxide... the shiny kind that you're talking about, which is an invisible thin layer of oxide that protects the base metal, the crunchy white powder kind that jams steel bolts into aluminum parts so badly the heads twist off, the slightly greasy feeling white growth kind that appears on a cast aluminum part left out in the rain. The list goes on.
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MadScientistWorking posted:You actually are right there are multiple forms of corrosion. Though why the hell would anyone be stupid enough to join steel parts with aluminum. well, I hear aluminum engine blocks and transmission housings are the bees knees, but at some point you need to bolt them to a steel frame somehow... or for that matter bolt them to anything! Proper e-coating the bolts with something can help (iirc, subaru uses cadmium plated bolts, and those seem to come out quite nicely) and using improper coatings can really make things worse (like whatever they use on the bolts holding an air conditioning compressor down on a jeep, based on color I'm guessing regular zinc plate.)
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As usual, we have a useful chemical (mercury, asbestos, lead, cadmium) with many awesome properties that solve problems and make things way better, but also suck health wise. Where do you draw the line? Me I'm fine with a thin coating of cadmium on bolts I'll be threading into aluminum and trying to get back out. Why? Because apparently it's only really released when they are ground, and... I don't have to grind them, because they come out so easy when coated in cadmium. You know something works well as a corrosion preventative coating when it means I can pull bolts out of cast aluminum, in the rust belt, 15 years after they were last touched. Some terrible stuff. Got stuck behind this guy doing 15 under the limit on one of my favorite roads. When a Jeep Cherokee with a completely thrashed stock suspension and a broken swaybar link can out-drive you on your CA vehicle (do trikes count?) by a huge margin, you are doing it wrong.  Saw this turd at the junkyard. Note the windshield markings... my only question is WHO THE HELL STEALS SOMETHING LIKE THIS?  
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why do people call 911 while their car is going too fast? It's not like the police are going to catch up and jump through the window to help or something, all they can do is try and figure out where the crash site is going to be if you're that stupid. The "oh no call for help instead of helping myself" mentality just doesn't make sense to me. PUT IT IN loving NEUTRAL
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Aug 27, 2012 19:20
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OHGODTHEBEES.jpg Note that it's completely untouched by the usual junkyard hounds. No minivan ever lasts more than a few hours to a day without being pillaged there. It still hasn't been touched as of the last time I went there.
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Aug 28, 2012 02:44
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Dodg...9#ht_824wt_1165 I would copy the images over but my web dev skills are lacking and they pulled some kind of a trick that means I can't get a url to rehost. It's a ten foot tall "show truck" with a truly useless rear suspension.
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Aug 28, 2012 18:58
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Octopus Magic posted:You act like that guy actually drives it. Think again. 
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Aug 28, 2012 21:38
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If I had to hazard a guess, it involves climbing onto the roof of his singlewide.
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Aug 28, 2012 21:45
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DropShadow posted:Whenever I see that, I assume the car has been in an accident and whoever rewired the rear taillights had no idea what they were doing. I usually figure that the NSS is completely gunked up and/or shorted out or badly misaligned.
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Aug 30, 2012 05:26
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Sep 3, 2012 19:05
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veedubfreak posted:Also, I got my first chance to run Boomer off the road on Friday, but he was 2 lanes over and I couldn't get to him before the 225 exit. Careful, if he scratched the paint you would be hearing from Leonard J Crabs pretty shortly.
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I always wonder why anyone would ever think that looks good.
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Not sure if this belongs in this thread or not.
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Sep 5, 2012 14:06
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Wow, someone went and found a way to make the blind spots on an FJ Cruiser... bigger.
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Product placement: godlike
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yikes, I did not mean to start that big a derail. I should note: gas where I lived in the late 90s/early 00s hit 99c/gallon. milk cost around 1.29/gallon. gas now: high $3 to low $4 range. milk now: $4.29-4.59/gallon. Honestly I say it's more an issue of inflation that various governments try to sweep under the carpet by changing the makeup of the consumer price index. That's more of a D&D subject though, so...  Spotted on rt20 east at the traffic light for the Home Depot right by 395/290/20 in Auburn MA. Yes, that's either hay or straw in the back seat.
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Das Volk posted:This would only really be funny if he made it believable and recorded the conversation for our entertainment. I know just the guy. https://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanPride1234?feature=CBQQwRs%3D
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Rorac posted:No picture (didn't have a camera nor the time to take a shot even if I had) but today I saw... spinner rims. I used to see this all the time in lawrence and the crummy end of haverhill. Basically it is what happens when people who like spinners fail to use birth control. A common cause of the two dubs/spinners, two steelies effect is a speedbump or series of potholes... or the owner being too poor to buy all four at once, in some cases. For your enjoyment: http://www.rent-n-go.com/
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I dunno, somehow I like it, though the roofline needs to be higher at the back and those headlights look incredibly dumb.
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On that note the Nissan Cube can burn in hell.
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Not even kidding when I say even if I had a hundred million dollars, I wouldn't buy that. Nope, I'd have exactly the same set of rusty jalopies, I'd just have everything I need to fix and fully build/upgrade them on order for overnight delivery and the cement pad for a 3 bay garage curing in the yard 
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  nearly had a horrible mechanical failure. U-joint cap spit out as I was accelerating up an entrance ramp onto the highway, fortunately I recognized the bang and lurch for what it was and pulled over immediately. Put a few layers of aluminum foil tape around it to keep the axleshaft from flopping about and then very, very slowly and carefully limped it to the nearest hardware store to buy tools to repair it properly. No worries, the tape did not have to handle actual torque loads, just had to support the inner axleshaft and keep it centered in the steering knuckle so it wouldn't smack into things.
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I saw a guy driving an altima with a sheet of cementboard (literally, 1/2" sheet of cement with fiberglass mesh embedded in each face) tied to the roof with a single loop of twine through the doors... and a beach towel to keep it from damaging the paint. It was flapping up and down wildly at the front edge and beating the roof senseless. Just as I passed him it finally snapped and the front half folded over, tore off, and slammed down on the hatch lid. I can only imagine what that did to his paint, hell, it probably dented the sheetmetal.
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Sep 18, 2012 20:56
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No reason to add handholds, that's what the condenser coils on the back of the refrigerator are for 
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Sep 19, 2012 16:32
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Hashal posted:He should buy a headlight restoration kit. That yellow really kills the look hes going for... Nonsense, they match the horns perfectly. 
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I've been making pretty decent money recently doing side jobs for people with lovely cars who ignored all advise I and everyone else gave them, so I can't knock it too much. Did a head and head gasket replacement on a friend of a friends cadavalier a while ago. Mutual friend had told him to get either an XJ cherokee or a forester, and that he'd help him fix it for free/parts cost, he ignored it, tried to buy like 3 different busted-rear end ZJ grand cherokees with horrible drivetrain issues, then ended up buying this stupid hacked up (fan wiring running on a fuse double overrated because it kept blowing, CEL on, exhaust in tatters and supported by hoseclamps and bits of random steel rod, rust holes, in general just a turd) 01 cavalier from the shadiest dealer in town for approximately 4-5 times its worth because the mutual friend was not answering his phone when he called to ask about it. The kicker? it sat for around 4 months because he wanted nothing to do with fixing it ("I told you so, why did you buy this piece of poo poo" didn't work either) and... they are still making payments on it  it cracked the head and/or blew the head gasket before the 7 day return period was up, they brought it back and instead of insisting on a full refund as they should have, they allowed themselves to be blindfolded and accepted a new thermostat and water pump. Yep, it went right back to being a POS a few weeks later when whatever magic in a can they pumped it full of leaked out.Also just did a CV shaft, plugged a tire, and front rotors/pads on an Audi for another friend, but I can't really fault him for that one, because it's a fairly clean silver A4 Quattro Avant with a manual and a 1.8T, that he got for a decent price.
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You had me wondering if that was serious or a troll, at least until that last sentence.
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MrChips posted:If it was a real Jalopnik comment, my name would be "MrChips shifts into Sixth Gear because Top Gear is copywrited" and I would be making an overly-self-aware attempt at the Commenter of the Day by writing a largely unfunny story about how a Mustang is literally the only car anyone should ever own. But no one would know, because the page won't load right since they joined the web2.poo poo crowd.
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veedubfreak posted:As much as I hate the DPF on my car eating a solid 20hp and 5mpg, the fact that douchebags can't run smoke tunes on their trucks anymore almost makes it worth it. they just do a DPF delete. At least, that's what I was hearing a few years ago, not sure if the ECUs on the modern trucks will allow that. DocCynical posted:I don't think this person understands how the box of a truck works. I completely agree, but I'm not sure the box of that truck really counts. In fact I think less hangs out of the cab window than would hang off the tailgate if he tried to put that in the back... that's why I don't even consider anything under a 6 foot bed, it makes it pretty difficult to pick up a load of lumber or plywood on the way back from work. kastein fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Sep 29, 2012 |
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Friend of mine found this on ebay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-POINT-4PT...5e3313d&vxp=mtr JDM (fits anything) 4 point harnesses... for $9 each. What could possibly go wrong? I'm half tempted to pick up a set to do destructive testing on, just to see if they actually hold up.
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More pics from the junkyard crawl. Graffiti on a VW.  More graffiti on the same VW.  Whitetrash interior job on a Jeep XJ.  Great job painting, buddy!  
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IOwnCalculus posted:Found while getting groceries this morning, on a nearly completely bedlinered 4Runner: ijustam posted:Is that 4Runner painted in bed liner? I don't think so.  
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Rednecks from the shallow end of the gene pool will attach ANYTHING to a truck frame to make a "mud truck". Usually with a carbed 350 with fave hunnert horsepowah in between.
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There also appears to be no steering and no tires. And for that matter no suspension.
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I got really confused for a second because a lot of the things from the last two pages simply don't belong in this thread.
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Rugoberta Munchu posted:My older brother's first car was a 1985 se-i with that identical interior and exterior, but with a sunroof, manual transmission, and hail damage. My first car also was an '85, but with the 3-barrel carburetor and automatic transmission. The fuel system itself began corroding, causing it to eventually run on 3 cylinders. Then the brake master cylinder blew, which would then suck all of the air out of the engine, killing it when the brakes were applied. That was "fixed" with a vise grip on the brake hose. I sort of miss it all these years later. That sounds like the brake booster vacuum hose - had that happen on my truck, pushrod seals went bad and it would create a massive vacuum leak when touched, so the engine would get way too much air and almost stall. It was a good excuse to upgrade the booster and master cylinder.
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that At least it doesn't have duallies on the front. But still, it's definitely a show truck / compensationmobile and utterly useless. e: I really wonder what's going on with the insulation on that wall, too. Holy poo poo.
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