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slidebite posted:One nice thing about all the layoffs happening, anytime now there is going to be a glut of toys being listed on kijiji from guys that make $200K a year but so badly in debt and financed out the rear end they still live paycheck to paycheck. I heard a story about a camp site with guys in tears because they can't afford the note on their Rams anymore. Couple years ago when the AB government was tooling up to fight payday lenders there was an article in the paper from some guy in the sands who was not only living paycheque to paycheque but was actually living payday loan to payday loan at 35% interest compounded weekly. He was at least one paycheque ahead at all times. They asked him why, and he was just like "oh I like to party." e: vvv I'm already seeing a depression in post-08 STI prices which is unusual for this time of the year. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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1500quidporsche posted:My favorite part of working at Pick-n-Pull were the guys that would buy some low mileage lexus or other 00s luxury car from us for a grand then would come marching back in 10 minutes later ranting that they require an immediate refund and how morally reprehensible it was that we try and sell them a car with broken power steering/spongy brakes and that they did not know how we could sleep at night. Were you the guy I talked to at Pick Your Part about a decade ago who had a modified JDM and was pouring junkyard-drained gasoline into it and topping it up with enough octane booster to kill a dog?
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Jan 17, 2015 22:55
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slidebite posted:If I was in the market for a sofa on wheels, I'd be on this. Man that would be a ridiculous car to swap something potent into.
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Jan 20, 2015 21:52
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1500quidporsche posted:Besides what I really find insane about this budget thing is that a sales tax is on the table but not a progressive tax system. God forbid we ask Oil CEOs to give an extra 4% above $250k, how will they live? Ding ding ding ding.
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Jan 20, 2015 23:10
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DrakeriderCa posted:Also we have that but it doesn't stop the provincial government from burning our infrastructure and service provision to the ground so their CEO bros can get another yacht Hi I'm Premier Jim Prentice, and I own a Thunderbird. We just can't keep paying the public sector so much money. Never raise royalties. If you'll excuse me, I need to drive to a cocaine orgy at the AHS board meeting.
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Jan 21, 2015 21:52
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kastein posted:You say that like any of the money is still in the province, it's all in banks or spent on 19 skidoos, an ATV, a 400k mcmansion and a 50k diesel truck with 25k in chrome garbage and grasshopper lift bolted to it. Phy posted:In 2005 Yeah you can't even buy a 2br condo for 400k here. McMansions start in the million dollar range. Personal-use diesel trucks start at maybe 60-70 in the packages I'm seeing.
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Jan 22, 2015 00:26
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There are a lot of people calling shots right now that were in Ontario or the US during the 80s oil bust. They don't know how deep the problem can go, but they also don't have the balls the 80s guys did. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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Jan 22, 2015 05:17
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UnFriendly Fire posted:We're already getting told at work that the "satisfaction of working for the public good" is part of our compensation. Christ. I would actually like to work in the public sector. But of course it's overrun by dillweeds like this.
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Jan 23, 2015 21:46
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The Canadian Rally Championship exists if you want to go full on big balls stage rally. There are a number of regional TSD road rally events, which are what Powershift is describing. They are still fun as hell. There are a series of small rallycross events, mostly centered around Ghost Lake these days.
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Jan 29, 2015 21:30
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1500quidporsche posted:I'm not sure if I'm doing [TRAIL OF THE MOTHERFUCKING GNUUUUU] though as its entirely dependent on me bandaging the damage inflicted on my shitbox from the last one. What are you running? I had a great time on the Loop a few years ago with my old '97 Impreza (RIP). I'd love to try it again with a more gimmicky car in the near future.
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Jan 29, 2015 21:55
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Are you the STF guy with that white Mk2 Rocco, #333 that cocks a rear wheel on absolutely any steering input? Because if so I'm the guy with the black ES Miata whose signs keep falling off.
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Jan 29, 2015 22:05
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Congratulations, I love your car (and I think I've told you that I do). I should have probably guessed you were a goon.
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Jan 29, 2015 22:08
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Nah, he just smelled the potential of sweet jumps and wandered in here.
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Feb 2, 2015 21:05
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8ender posted:The biggest thing about RWD winter driving is to accept that your rear end is going to do strange things and just make sure you're heading in the direction you want. First year driving my E34 I was fishtailing and tank slapping everywhere. By the second year I had grey hair and was the northern tofu delivery drift champion. Also tight cornering with throttle steer never gets old. It doesn't matter what the drivetrain is: look where you want to go, and things will work out for you. Target fixate on a pole, and your day is going to get a lot worse very quickly. Assuming you've had enough practice getting loose and catching it, the rest should all be body memory.
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Feb 5, 2015 18:38
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jonathan posted:I'm going to Vancouver all the time anyways, but I don't want to do it in a small car because, really do you want to travel hwy40 at night in a Ford Focus ? Or drive in Richmond?
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Feb 14, 2015 04:16
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Anyone in Calgary got an M12x1.25 tap and die they could loan me?
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Feb 14, 2015 23:14
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Bajaha posted:Canadian tire has that in the smaller tap and die set, the bigger set surprisingly is missing it. Yeah, only one of the sets had it - and surprise, it was full price today. $140  I already had the biggest possible set - bought it on sale years ago for fifty bucks, thinking it would contain everything else. I took real good care of it though, and bought it from the ghettoest Canadian Tire. I'm going to just return it tomorrow morning and wait for it to go on sale. Near as I can see, CT owes me for the last decade of buying poo poo from them, plus the tap handle already had a bunch of paint missing from it from the previous use-and-return  Went through eight of my Subaru friends, 6/8 of them had the exact tap and die but were out of town for the long weekend. Dudes at Subaru Calgary hooked me up with replacement bolts, even though they couldn't order in new ones or had new ones in stock - ended up rooting through the mechanics' private bolt repositories until we found an M12x1.25 that might work. I will have to take back a lot of the mean things I said about that entire dealership. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Feb 15, 2015 02:19
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1500quidporsche posted:Subaru Calgary did a good thing? Did you have to trade your first born's soul or something? I'm still a little bit in shock, honestly.
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Feb 15, 2015 02:43
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1500quidporsche posted:Anybody have experience shipping stuff to Sweetgrass Montana and driving down to pick it up? Ordering some suspension stuff and most of it appears to ship by UPS from the states, I'd sooner hang myself than pay their brokerage fees again. Yeah, I've done it about half a dozen times. Do you have any specific questions? One thing that most people miss is writing down the country of origin of the poo poo they are importing. You also want to make sure everything is in the same currency when you go to declare it. I usually put together a spreadsheet, and staple it to printed-out copies of all of my receipts with the totals highlighted and the currency written on the receipts. If you're going to buy suspension from the US, try Shocks.com and its sister site JustSuspension - RockAuto sometimes beats them by a few bucks after shipping, but only when you order a kit.
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Feb 19, 2015 16:49
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Yeah, you have to manage the economics. I don't go for less than filling an entire Dodge Caravan with stuff to the roof. I'm talking like multiple Tire Rack orders. I'm currently saving up for the next spurt.
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Feb 19, 2015 16:57
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^^ Link! I can't believe Concept 1 is cheaper than anything. There is a lot of loving variance with customs agents though. I have had ones that are like "COOL CAR poo poo LET'S TALK ABOUT CORVETTES OKAY YOU CAN GO," but the last border agent I had, she interrogated the poo poo out of me about oil-spill mats and charged me full freight for everything. I ended up eating a hundred bucks in duty on a US-built seat because I couldn't show the country of origin which (along with some other incidentals) very nearly made the trip underwater. That said, on that trip a bunch of people in front of me got hauled out and had their poo poo seized, there were screaming matches and one guy got arrested and deported, so maybe she was just on edge. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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Feb 20, 2015 17:33
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Yeah they don't ask for more at the door. Totally pleased with rockauto so far. About to do the first return they haven't paid for shipping for so hopefully my opinion doesn't change.
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Another point is that they do their own brokerage, usually you'll see it arrive with a series of very well done customs forms that have been handled by someone in the RockAuto international shipping department or one of the regional offices (they have one in Calgary and one in Edmonton at least). They have one hell of a slick operation. I think if they could start asking Amazon-level shipping costs for things they could basically break the back of AutoValue permanently.
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Feb 20, 2015 22:33
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SubaruGenuineParts gives you parts for good prices. They hose you on shipping, but at least it's because they're buying flat rate USPS boxes so their shipping cost is predictable if you can guess how heavy/big the stuff you're ordering is. You can't even get that with the Mazda guys, who just seem to assume Canadians are rich and can afford $33+ shipping costs for $5.36 in parts. The Mazda online parts ordering racket is so bad that all my rotary enthusiast friends tell me to just go to the dealer and put up with their incompetent bullshit (never answering emails or phone calls and telling me they also can't process walk-ins because their computer is broken). I feel like even setting up a corporate FedEx account for personal use may be justifiable at this point. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Feb 21, 2015 20:07
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Edmonton has donair poutine available. I've contacted the mayor and my councillor many times in order to attempt to close the donair poutine gap.
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1500quidporsche posted:I've got the same thing with that Lancia Beta up in edmonton. Its $4,000 though and I just need the price to come down a bit. I am almost certain that guy posted somewhere (Jalopnik?) about getting it for under a grand. Maybe there's some room for negotiation. At the very least he should know people are interested. I wonder how sophisticated the harness is and if you can just rewire it with several hours and a trip to the junkyard to strip down a Camry.
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Feb 28, 2015 16:54
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1500quidporsche posted:It couldn't be any worse then jetronic wiring, which I still have nightmares about. Its in incredible shape for its age and I really want to justify being able to buy it but the reality is it would just be an overweight underpowered alternative to my Scirocco. I think the US specs were something like 2,800lbs and 85hp. I think you should absolutely buy it, then come by and we can get tiny cappuccinos and adopt hilariously bad Italian accents when we call AMA for a tow.
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Feb 28, 2015 22:39
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That's a better deal than Crown Vics.
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Mar 1, 2015 06:18
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slidebite posted:I was in Redcliff today and had to do a double take as I was leaving town. I saw a hoarder with about 15 Fieros in his compound in various states of disrepair, including a 1988 GT. Why? This is how I'm gonna go out.
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Mar 6, 2015 18:10
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Yeah, but people will claim my last year was the best one.
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Mar 6, 2015 18:43
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Not the insurance inspection, in my experience - OOP certainly (since they can make some serious money from it). Insurance inspection is laughably bad in this province, and - judging from the people I see selling used cars crowing about how they passed the insurance inspection with flying colours - potentially dangerous.
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Mar 8, 2015 18:28
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Let me know when I can come by with the forms.
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DrakeriderCa posted:I'd be stunned if that swearing bylaw survived a charter challenge. Although I'd be more stunned if anyone ponied up the cash to get a lawyer to fight a charter challenge over a municipal ticket. I know that both Calgary and Edmonton have by-laws about swearing on public transit. I would expect those would get challenged much earlier than Taber.
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Sorry, jonathan. I really hope you land on your feet.slidebite posted:The do have a drug problem in that town though, courtesy of the Mexican Mennonite cartels. Which is who this act is apparently pointed at, according to some editorial: http://www.tabertimes.com/blog/2015/03/11/think-for-yourself-question-authority/ quote:I’ve heard a lot of people say this bylaw is a tool which law enforcement would like to use in their efforts to curb the big, secret problem in Taber. We all know which one, but do you think I can get someone to say it on the record? quote:You know who else will not be getting a ticket? Anybody drinking and making a bunch of noise at Cornfest this year. I was in the beer garden all night last year, and it would be easy to hand out a couple hundred tickets. Instant funding for whatever you want, be it 50th Street roadwork or an indoor sports complex.
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iv46vi posted:Welders are paid much better than drivers. Get a pressure vessel ticket for something that's not oilfield. How are you doing in your new home? I still have to send out the rest of your AISS gift, it's sitting on my coffee table.
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Powershift posted:
Was the new Miata there?
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Powershift posted:Basically if you haven't gone yet it's too late. I'm going for the Renegade so anything else is icing on the cake. Weekends are always hell but that's how it worked out this year. Can't wait to wait behind brodudes exclaiming to each other that one day they hope to afford the base model WRX and competing to see who can point out the turbo inside the engine bay of the XV first. Top three things I want to see:
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Amos Moses posted:I'm thinking of selling it and trading up but I have no loving idea what the thing is worth. Let alone what its worth now with the poo poo in the oil. Change the oil and sell it immediately. It's what a dealership would do to you. Metro-Tech, by the airport, does a pretty decent cheap oil analysis. Lots of my friends have used them though I haven't. $2.50 per sample bottle, $22 per analysis. AGAT in the same general area will do the same.
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Slung Blade posted:I just got elected mayor of my small town. So what you're saying is that we need an Official Vehicle.
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It's the Supreme Group's steel and they provided the girders for a lot of other bridges in Edmonton, including the Henday. If they've been cutting corners on quality, I have no words. I think it's probably just inept craftsmanship like the Calgary pedestrian bridge that ended up not fitting on its pillars.
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