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neogeo0823 posted:Does anyone know if there's a thread for buying dashcams? Or maybe just a couple of recommended models? I've been meaning to get one, but I've been waffling on it because I have no clue what to look for. You're in luck https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3597215&pagenumber=163&perpage=40 If I recall correctly, vofio makes a well regarded dash cam.
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$166 is mostly paying rent on the square footage those stamping dies take up on the shelf, I imagine.
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I had to jump my mother-in-law's Honda Crosstour today. Is this carbon pile load tester sufficient for figuring out if she has a bad battery or just did something to drain it by accident? https://www.amazon.com/Alternator-Voltmeter-Indicator-Alligator-Motorcycles/dp/B0BK7SHH82/
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How do core charges work with RockAuto? Do they expect me to ship the old battery back to them? Is there any problem if I choose to eat the $18 and drop it off at the recycling center instead?
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I sincerely doubt you hurt a wheel at 5-10 mph. There's a slight chance you might have knocked the car our of alignment, but it seems unlikely. If your tires are holding air and your car tracks straight, I wouldn't worry about it. The next time your car is in the shop, ask them to throw it on the alignment rack.
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DildenAnders posted:If a car needs different equipment to meet California emissions, then there can be differences. I'm only aware of there being more O2 sensors, but there might be more spefialized equipment depending on the car. From the factory, I think all 2014 ES350s were california emissions-compliant. Where you might run into trouble is if the Catalytic converter has been replaced at any point. There are many third-party catalytic converters which are not California emissioms compliant. I think this will only get OP into trouble if they want to move the car back to California. If they're buying a California car and want to keep it in the Northeast, I don't think there's any reason they'd get in trouble for having an aftermarket cat as long as it was legal in their state.
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Steve French posted:Took delivery of a new car What sort of car is it? Different monitors have different, and wildly specific, drive cycles that are required to set them. Start by telling us what kind of car it is, and maybe someone can look up the drive cycles.
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Steve French posted:
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Annath posted:I never really understood what alignment was and assumed that was something done when you bought new tires. Alignment controls how well your tires are lined up with "forward" on your car. There are three degrees of freedom: toe, camber, and caster. Toe controls whether the front of a wheel is pointed slightly in or out relative to forward. Camber controls whether the top of a wheel is pointed in or out relative to straight up and down. Caster rotates the wheel hub about the center of the wheel, like the front wheels of a shopping cart. Your car is designed to operate with specific toe, camber, and caster angles, but they're adjustable to compensate for a little damage or bashing around your car might get. It's a good idea to get your alignment checked periodically. It can lead to tire wear or your car handling weird. Rotating your tires means swapping them front to back and left to right. This balances wear between all four of your tires Just judging by what I see, it looks like that tire has been under inflated and possibly suffering from too much toe in angle.
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To get a high end, I'd look at the last ~year or so of Bring a Trailer auctions that actually sold, and look at the floor of those. Those are all going to be in unnaturally good shape. Then look at your local Craigslist / Facebook marketplace for the real poo poo rusted out ran when parked examples. The real number will fall somewhere in that range. https://bringatrailer.com/nissan/z32-300zx/ Looks like some decent examples are going for sub-$20k Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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kastein posted:I should also mention that this is a Drive Deviant event. It is an explicitly pro LGBT, leftist car club. Straights welcome, right wingers absolutely not. This is right up my alley. How can I find out more about the Washington chapter?
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kastein posted:I'll send you an invite on the FB group. I think I've got you on FB at least? I can never remember who I do and don't. They also have a discord, a telegram, an Instagram, etc but I am only on the FB group. I deleted Facebook a few years back but I made a new one for sailing and Alcan stuff. Same name. I can look you up if you can't find me.
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phosdex posted:I am moving from NM to MN, have 2 cars, not sure if I'll drive 1 myself yet. Does anyone have a recommendation for somebody that would transport 1 or 2 of these for me? Shoot an email to Ryan at ADKOS -- rbarrett@adkos.com. They did an excellent job moving my car from NC to WA.
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In theory, what would happen if bawfuls cut the dealer out and paid the lienholder directly? "Hey, FYI, I own that car now, here's my name on the title, hand over the keys please."
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This leads me to my own stupid question: I know you should use a torque wrench and tighten your lug nuts to the torque specified in the service manual. But, before I had "thirty bucks at harbor freight" kinda money, I put tens of thousands of miles on lug nuts I tightened by feel. On the other hand, a friend of mine had a wheel fall off his rx-7 on the interstate in rush hour traffic one day, so I know what improperly torqued lug bolts can cause. So: Under what conditions are improperly torqued lug nuts/bolts most risky?
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Colostomy Bag posted:
Tighten until the lug stud yields and then back it off a few percent, gotcha
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Crossposting from my TSD thread: Is there any salvaging this, or should I start unwrapping and butt splicing?
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Yeah, I'll take better pictures of the connectors in the morning.
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sleepy gary posted:Oof, good lord. That was my reaction, more or less. kastein posted:That's done. It said bake until flaky. The 6-pin connector:   Some quick googling reveals that it's probably made by Tyco-AMP-TE Connectivity. I don't see good matches on the 964961-1 part number, but there are some things labelled 964960-1 that look very similar. The 2-pin connector:   8bux on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/166218358625, but I'm not sure about the individual pins. The fact that the 6pin connector has square holes while the 2 pin connector has cross-shaped holes makes me wonder if they're not made by different manufacturers.
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Powershift posted:that 6 pin looks identical to BMW audio plugs. Good eye. Same manfacturer. wesleywillis posted:If none of those work you can usually find weatherproof connectors at Napa and the like. In my experience they come with pins and all you do is crimp the wires to the pin, insert in the right hole and done. If this is a huge boondoggle, I might just desolder the pigtails from the sunroof controls and make my own pigtails with deutsch connectors. I've already got them and the associated criping tools, etc.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I dunno what kind of car this is, but I just watched a youtube about a car catching fire and the reason was that the insulation had degraded in the wiring harness, because for those particular years (84-86) of that particular car the manufacturer experimented with a different type of wire insulation that was biodegradable. It was just falling apart by then. So based on that I would be a bit worried if the rest of the wiring looked like this. It's a 2006 Porsche Cayenne. Adjacent wires look fine, weirdly enough. It's just the control wires for the panoramic sunroof that look like this. The next time I get a chance, I'll take a look at the main harness but I'm less concerned.
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kastein posted:Return home victorious after hitting the closest taco truck, glizzy stand, or Chinese buffet, as our religious traditions require. Oh dang you're right, there's a Touareg and a Q7 at my local that I've been meaning to hit up for parts, I need to include trailer tacos in this plan.
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I'm going to poke around in the sunroof area and see if they have similar wiring harnesses to the Kentucky-fried insulation in mine. Might also take a look at the washer fluid reservoirs while I'm in there. I have to wake up at 04:30 on Monday for a call with a co-worker from Paris, so I think I'm justified in a lunchtime junkyard run.
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kastein posted:You too? I have to be at the southworth ferry dock at 550 for goon and car shenanigans. Why do we do this to ourselves It's gotta be done. kastein posted:We demand forbidden catte pictures Domestic catte facing off with a forbidden catte through the back door a few mornings back. 
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D-Pad posted:Just noticed on my '21 highlander that the AC blows much harder when I go above 52mph. I first noticed it seemed to not be blowing as hard as I expected on the setting it was on then noticed when I go above 52mph it blows harder at the speed I would expect. I know there is an expected voltage difference from the alternator that can affect fan speeds but this is new behavior and very noticable. Does the quantity of air coming through the vents change, or does it just get noticeably colder? Is your AC set to fresh air or recirculated air?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:if you're trading it in almost certainly not You're gonna list the V60xc and not the Subaru Outback? 
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Pollyanna posted:
Important thing to note: a car isn't a PC. You can't swap a motor as easily as you can swap a graphics card. If you have, say, a 2014 Honda Civic, all the parts you could easily replace will be designed for a 2011-2014 Honda Civic. If you want to upgrade the suspension, you'll have to find companies that specifically make suspension parts for a 2011-2014 Civic. You can't decide you want Mercedes suspension and a big Ford V8 and the all wheel drive system out of a Subaru WRX without doing significant custom fabrication and probably dropping six figures on a four figure car. If you want a modular buy-it-for-life car, your best bet is something they made a billion of. Toyota Corolla or Ford F-150 or something like that. There will be parts available for decades.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Yeah but it looks wank on an actual modern 86 so rules out the window, do whatever you want to your car. I saw a range rover with tofu livery once and it rocked. Al-Saqr posted:Would it be super tacky if i bought a new white camry, two tone it and add paint/decals/wings to make it look like ae86 trueno / Hachiroku? Would it be tacky? Yes, but in a good way. How expensive? Probably four figures. Less if you used black vinyl wrap rather than paint. You (and an artist?) might want to sit down with reference images to figure out exactly what a modern "Panda Camry" would look like (I think it would look better on the Corolla Hatchback, but you gotta work with what you have). Then find a vinyl installer who can do the work for you. You could install vinyl yourself, but it would be a try and try again process to get it looking right. White is one of the most forgiving colors. Wash it every couple of weeks, wax it periodically. Detail the wheels. If you want to spend some money, apply a ceramic coating. Follow your bliss! 
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I like it better than my mockup, but I don't have any skin in the game. This is why it might be worth spending a few hundo to sit down with a graphic designer for a few hours going back and forth before you commit to a design.
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strangehamster posted:I got a $2000 estimate to change the front struts/alignment on my Grand Caravan. Can I do it much cheaper if I buy parts from Rock Auto and spend a weekend in my garage? I have intermediate mechanical skills. The struts are probably pretty straightforward. Be advised that suspension components tend to use larger fasteners and are more likely to be rusted / a real pain in the rear end unless you have big wrenches or an impact. Look up instructions / videos to see if you need to buy/rent/borrow any specialized tools. Alignment is best left to the professionals, and is necessary basically whenever you make changes to your suspension.
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Can you remove the spoiler as is? That would make it a lot easier to cut new pieces of tape. I'd use goof-off to clean the residue, let it dry really well, and then use 3M VHB tape. If you can remove the spoiler, apply the tape to the spoiler with the backer still on it, use an x-acto knife to trim it neatly, and then remove the backer and stick the thing in place. If you can't, I'd slip as much tape as I could under the spoiler with the backer still in place (facing down toward the car), trim, and then remove the backer. Any body shop should be able to tackle it if you don't feel comfortable.
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I think at that point I'd clean under the spoiler as best I could with some q-tips and paper towels soaked in goof-off, slip some VHB tape under there, and call it good for the next 5-10 years. If q-tips don't remove the residue, maybe try flossing underneath the spoiler with some sandpaper in the ~120 to 180 grit range?
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bird with big dick posted:When I have the room I'm going to buy a C4 with the digital dashboard just because I spent so much time looking at it in Test Drive Oh wow I didn't realize the C4 would do ∂8° KM/H MPH while redlining at 8800 RPM. You should upshift for best economy.
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