|
 I think I might have a 911 Turbo on my hands. German, loud, difficult to control, and tends to oversteer into the coffee table.
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 02:10
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 16, 2024 08:55 |
|
|
God loving dammit phone, you scared away STR with that title.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 02:16
|
|
|
NitroSpazzz posted:I was just out there for a week for an install. Will be back late May I think. Nice. If you're around for a Saturday morning and there is a Cars & Coffee venue sorted out we could meet up with the BMW crowd. We've got a pretty good enthusiast group out here. We have cancelled C&C because it got huge (like 200 or 300 cars big) this spring, and with more people came the idiots that couldn't be arsed to throw away their garbage and were doing donuts/burnouts ruined it for everyone.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 02:22
|
|
|
Cat Terrist posted:Not just cute but can be persuaded to go indecently fast up to the point that the recycled tin cans it's made from can be torn apart and the front chassis rails seperate from the rest of the car. I have a very hard head so I'm ready for it. I just want a tiny little quick car and would rather not have to build a BP swapped Festiva to get one.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 02:29
|
|
|
Rhyno posted:I have a very hard head so I'm ready for it. Aside from "quick" I know exactly what you need. Actually, put a turbo the size of a cat food can on it and it's quick too. 
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 02:33
|
|
|
T-Square posted:YESSSS raging rear end in a top hat Service Manager that nobody likes and everyone has to walk on eggshells around didn't show up for work today, and sent a mass text to all of the service advisors that he's "resigned." Some gently caress went and grovelled to him and he loving came back. I love my job, but I've been with this company before in a different position for several years, and I still wonder what the gently caress these people are thinking. This is a service manager who SCREAMS at his employees in the middle of the service drive while multiple customers are literally standing right loving there, screams and THROWS poo poo in his office (which is a fish-bowl, customers can also see him in there), and according to all of the Service Writers is just plain lovely at his job and doesn't know what he's doing. On top of all of that, he was once fired from the very same position he currently holds for being lovely at his job, and then they hired him back. So he doesn't show up Monday without notice, leaves a loving note to the owner of the dealership that he's had enough of this poo poo, and now he's loving back again. Talking with the Service Writers, I asked them why the gently caress no one told the General Manager that they loving hated him, he was terrible, literally everyone is ecstatic that he's gone, etc. Turns out they ALL said that to the GM in some way shape or form, but NOPE GOTTA HAVE DUMB SHITBIRD BACK ASAP TL;DR 
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 02:46
|
|
|
Oh poo poo a new Sheep Game just appeared! Follow the sheep in the truck to find the thread!
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 02:49
|
|
|
triple clutcher posted:
I have one of those too. Gets temperamental and doesn't want to run when it's hot out:  My wife named him Edsel while looking for obnoxiously German names to give a doberman without knowing the back story behind the car. It's very fitting for his personality. Geoj fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Apr 2, 2015 |
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 02:54
|
|
|
NitroSpazzz posted:I also didn't know I needed this game Here, let me entice you further with gorgeous screenshots from the Monte Carlo stage!     Seriously, the game is gorgeous when you run it at 1080p maxed out. Complete edition is currently like, $24 I think? Well worth it.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 03:39
|
|
|
So I apparently let some meth heads into the building a week ago and they stole $13000 worth of stuff out of various units. Feel pretty lovely right now.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 03:55
|
|
|
So I've had my NA MIata one month shy of a year and learned that I'm leaking coolant from the head gasket. My second replacement AC compressor has also failed and I should probably replace that to keep the wife happy on summer road trips. I don't have the time or qualifications for either job and am looking at $1800-$2000 for the combined jobs at the local Miata/performance shop, who do good work and who I trust. I'm already about $6-7k into the car: $4350 purchase price plus a new bumper cover + paint, the AC work with the past two compressors that failed, and a timing belt/water pump job. The car is at around 73500 miles now and the exterior, interior, top, wheels and (lovely all season) tires are all in pretty great shape. The owner of the shop I go to sees a lot of Miatas and races them; he comments on my paint everytime I've been in and says mine may be the nicest he's seen. He hinted at interest in picking it up for himself if I decide to sell it (he's not the kind of guy to compliment a customer car as a way of getting them to buy the work), and I got two other compliments running errands in the subsequent hour (I frequently get them every time I take it out). TLDR: it's visually in better shape than 99% of NAs out there. I'd feel stupid being $8-9k into a stock Miata, though, even if it is a really nice example. Part of me is wondering if it's time to jump ship and pick up an S2000, but that doesn't make much sense either. It could be that I'm over the hump and this is the last big money I have to spend on the Miata until the next timing job. It could be that whatever S2K I find would also need lots of work. I do know I didn't have much fun the last time I drove an S2000 at city/DD speeds compared to the Miata, but I didn't spend a lot of time with it. I don't know what to do here; the situation sucks either way. I'm going to look at an S2k this week and see if I genuinely like it as much around town. If not I guess I'll be the guy with the most expensive NA ever.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 03:57
|
|
|
 Hades the Shiba gives no shits.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 04:24
|
|
|
This isn''t a late april fools post, I found out today one of my exes from California is about a half hour drive away from me on a trip  I havent talked to her in two years, she's the girl I proposed to when driving Lowered Expectations who wound up banging a half dozen of my friends. Looked her up on facebook and discovered in the past couple years she either discovered One Wierd Trick that Dieticians Hate, or has been hitting the glass dick for god knows how long. She looked absolutely wrecked. And yet, somehow, way, way hotter than she's ever been. So I've been spending the day contemplating why my dick has decided that skinny batshit crazy tweakers with dead hollow eyes are totally its thing. Like there is a direct proportional relationship between how broken somebody is and the level of desire I feel for that person. The closest I can describe the feeling is that brain is trying to talk to his coworker dick, saying 'Hey man, this doesnt look so hot so why don't we sit this one out okay?' And what brain doesnt realise is that dick stopped taking his pills like two weeks ago and has just entered the Messiah phase of full blown mania and is entirely too busy planning out to the exact second when he's going to need to tuck and roll out of the burning helicopter that happens to be on a collision course with the local nuclear power plant.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 04:37
|
|
|
What's that? Dogs? I can't hear you over all the fluff  Here, so it's AI-related:  And a turtle: 
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 04:45
|
|
|
Oh LloydDobbler, I saw your post in the tail end of the last thread about enjoying the name changes, that's pretty much the whole point to shake the cobwebs out and put on a new face and a new gimmicks to play with. I actually spend a lot of time at work hammering out ideas, but I'm starting to run dry. But occasionally I get flashes of inspiration. A couple that will be coming up soon as I feel like it probably include HP DICKCRAFT and 14 INCH DICK LLC (brought to you by Time Warner). I'm less enamored with 14 INCH DOGGY DICK although it gives me a good avatar idea for (red) ROCKET MAAAAAAAN , EVERTHING IS GONNA BE ALL RIGHT
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 04:57
|
|
|
Over the course of the last four near 20 hour days, the wife and I have: Yanked down over 500 sq ft of wood paneling Moved power outlets Moved coaxial and phone outlets Hung, taped, mudded, sanded 18 sheets of drywall Scraped popcorn off near 2500 sqft of ceiling Mudded, sanded near 2500 sqft of ceiling Tomorrow is cleaning every floor, wall, and ceiling of said 2500 sqft house with sponges and tsp Friday is priming said drywall and ceilings Saturday is painting of said ceilings and den with new drywall Sunday is cutting, priming, painting of trim and crown molding Take the week off from home renovation, then hang trim and crown molding, finish putting in new fans and lighting, then move in. Then we take a break, then commence to working on the rest of the house. I figure at that point, we'll work on one room every couple of months. Proud of the wife. She's been a trooper. Almost there...
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 05:32
|
|
|
Shorter dick, how much have you had to drink tonight? And you need the William Shatner version of Rocket Man. "I'm a.. Rock..et... man..." Dog chat: a regular customer has a schizo boston terrier. The dog always snarls at me, then runs up to me and licks my hand, runs back inside and starts snarling at me from behind the owner, runs back out and licks me again, etc. Rinse, repeat. Still fresh on my mind since he was one of my last deliveries of the night. Bostons are awesome, but holy poo poo are they hyper. Our collie is a little dumber than a rock. Almost 8 years old, still not fully housebroken, he sees the dining room as his personal poo poo station. Walks into tables, chairs, etc. Toss him a piece of food or a treat and he snaps madly at the air before it's even left your hand, then looks confused when it bounces off of his face, and keeps looking up in the air for it (... when it's now on the ground). His vision is definitely not great, but he's one of the... specialist... dogs I've ever seen. The cat (The Dude), however, is too smart for his own good. He's figured out how to open a few doors in the house. Always looks really angry too, even when he's curled up and purring.  Work chat: ever since our route started getting served by a different driver (for our own food shipments from our distributor), he shows up hours late.. sometimes over a day late, the record being a little over 2 days late. With the last driver, he showed up every Tuesday at 1:30pm, +/- about 15 minutes. The new guy has shown up 2 days late before (which caused us to actually have to shut the restaurant down - ran out of cheese, dough, pepperoni, and boxes). Today he showed up less than an hour before close (around 9:15pm Wed, when he was supposed to show up Tuesday at 1:30pm). The staff consisted of me, a very small female manager, and a female driver that's roughly Lana's size (from Archer). I got to put up about 1200 pounds worth of cheese, while having to rearrange the entire walk in because he dumped all the cheese directly in front of the shelf it goes on (which means I had to move all of that cheese just to get to the shelf, then rotate the cheese that was already there). They're 55 pound cases.  I don't get why he's consistently late. I realize we're the last stop on his route, but he has the same number of stops that the last guy had, drives from Houston just like the last guy, and we're constantly getting shorted on tons of stuff (and plenty of other stuff is damaged - bags of flour are ripped open when we get them, or they show up wet, that kind of crap). We only got shorted one case of cheese this time; last week we got shorted nearly $800 (wholesale) of food. I know he's not the one loading the truck, but we've yet to have a delivery from him that hasn't had some sort of issue. I'm glad I wasn't the one closing, I noped the gently caress out of there once the super heavy poo poo was done. Yeah I'm a dick, but I was scheduled off at 9:30, and left at 10:30. We weren't even supposed to accept the truck if it showed up after 8pm.  Phone posted:Jokes on you, there's no Foreword by STR I don't even do foreplay, much less forewords. piss boner posted:God loving dammit phone, you scared away STR with that title.  It's nice to be loved.
randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Apr 2, 2015 |
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 05:50
|
|
|
Doctor Teeth: We adopted him a week before I picked up our Nissan Leaf, The Electric Mayhem. Doc is fully grown in that photo; we think the time he spent starving in the woods after being dumped at a month old stunted his growth. He's currently sacked out after a good hike this afternoon; he has a thing for carrying 'sticks' that weigh nearly what he does. Today's log was around 40 pounds and he carried it about a mile and a half. Today at work an F-150 was parked next to me with at least 6 yappy terriers in the cab. I don't know how that person can stand the noise at home, let alone while driving...
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 06:11
|
|
|
We have a slightly inbred JRT cross, he's the nitro methane 2 stroke drag bike of the dog world, he can go from coma to redline in under a second, consciousness normally kicking in around 10 seconds later. Scared of something? Best attack it full bore auto!
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 07:13
|
|
|
I have a blue heeler. No steering or brakes to speak of, gobs of torque and goes like a rocket in a straight. Your basic old V8, currently sleeping off clipping the corner of the shed door because he thought there might be a visitor. There wasn't, now I need to straighten out the door enough that I can shut it. Doesn't help that hes oversize, about four inches taller at the shoulder than any other heeler I've come across.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 07:51
|
|
|
Adiabatic posted:I used to live in Flint and my roommate got a great dog from a shelter there. You should have zero problems finding a good dog on the cheap at a shelter in Auburn Hills. Where/when did you live there, we might know some of the same people. I peaced out in 2006 but a lot of my friends still live in the area
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 12:41
|
|
|
rscott posted:Where/when did you live there, we might know some of the same people. I peaced out in 2006 but a lot of my friends still live in the area I went to Kettering from 2009 until 2012. I can honestly say I miss the most violent city in America.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 13:10
|
|
|
Somewhat Heroic posted:Nice. If you're around for a Saturday morning and there is a Cars & Coffee venue sorted out we could meet up with the BMW crowd. We've got a pretty good enthusiast group out here. MrChips posted:Oh poo poo a new Sheep Game just appeared! Follow the sheep in the truck to find the thread! T1g4h posted:Here, let me entice you further with gorgeous screenshots from the Monte Carlo stage! Lawnmower shopping this afternoon or tomorrow...not excited. I hate the lawn maintenance aspect of having a house. I'd pave or gravel the whole front yard if I could. Thought about going the pawn shop route but I think I'd rather pay the bit extra to get an engine I know isn't hosed. Brother's stupid parts car is still in the driveway but now he's paying $5/day for 'storage'. I had someone lined up to take it away for free last week but he changed his mind at the last minute. I might go through it today and grab all the fuses, relays and easy to get nuts/bolts/fasteners. 
NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Apr 2, 2015 |
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 13:59
|
|
|
NitroSpazzz posted:Need to look into if my laptop will run it and if it will work with my steering wheel that I have yet to unbox and setup. I really need to motivate my rear end and build a mid range gaming PC and driving setup. Go on Dell's Refurbished website and pickup a Dell Precision laptop for under $1000 (a lot of them are around $800) You'll thank me.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:01
|
|
|
blk posted:So I've had my NA MIata one month shy of a year and learned that I'm leaking coolant from the head gasket. My second replacement AC compressor has also failed and I should probably replace that to keep the wife happy on summer road trips. I don't have the time or qualifications for either job and am looking at $1800-$2000 for the combined jobs at the local Miata/performance shop, who do good work and who I trust. I have an AC compressor from a 92 you can have if it will work for you. It worked fine when the week I drove it.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:24
|
|
|
1.4 INCH DICK posted:A deep and introspective look into the mind of a "little head" that seems deeply troubled to the point of wanting things that it knows are not good for it. Also This is so descriptive and esoteric that I feel exactly what you're talking about. That is a gift. Your dick's apparent attraction to broken tweakers who look like they jumped out of the wrong end of Fresno, however, is more of a curse. epic bird guy fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Apr 2, 2015 |
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:31
|
|
|
Quite A Tool posted:Was that the snow one with the oil pipelines and the last point up on a hill? That one was badass. I don't think there was a point on a hill but it was a snow one. The map was basically a pristine village with a whole bunch of houses that you could hide in or blow apart, and the center flag was right between two three-story houses and could be captured from either. By the end of a round half of the map would be leveled. It was great. They really need to remake that level.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:37
|
|
|
This is the year I'll do autocross in my Focus ST. Right now sitting in a shop getting my tires swapped and an old man is adamant about putting his super worn out tires that are unevenly worn because of crappy alignment. It's also pouring rain out here. I await disaster.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:39
|
|
|
You can buy all the tools to do a good job of refilling the system for like 250-300, too. Read motronic's thread, it is nowhere near as hard as you would think. Also, you can probably get all the tools to do the head gasket job and do it five times over before you have as much money into it* as you would pay the mechanic. I didn't know what a pinion seal was or how to change one in 2008. And had to read an online writeup to figure out how to change the radiator in a jeep. You can totally learn how to do anything you want on a car (except for maybe rotating assembly, transmission rebuild, steering box, and ring/pinion setup, those are super fiddly and require extreme attention to detail and patience some simply don't posess) and do it cheaper than a mechanic, if you want to. Hell, if it weren't for the fact that I want a warranty on it since glass is a pain in the rear end to ship and costs a lot, I would be doing the windshield in the Justy later today. Instead I called a glass company that a friend works for and he is doing it the $100 difference between materials and shop price is worth the warranty and not having to take the old one out myself.* yes I am ignoring time spent. I consider learning that stuff a life skill, it is incredibly empowering to realize you can do repairs that would cost most people thousands for $150 in parts and an afternoon, and opens the door to buying ever cheaper and more broken project cars. Gotta do something with the money you save, right?
kastein fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Apr 2, 2015 |
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:40
|
|
|
I'm having bad ideas about picking up a Grom. Like checking my credit and looking at the MSF bad. I have 2 race cars and I'm basically out of CC debt and my checking account is looking healthy. gently caress gently caress gently caress
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:46
|
|
|
Phone posted:I'm having bad ideas about picking up a Grom. Like checking my credit and looking at the MSF bad. Considering I bought a house almost 4 months ago now, my savings is returning to normal, I have no CC debt, I have 3 motors in the garage and a race car to build. Somethings not right 
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 14:51
|
|
|
Phone posted:I'm having bad ideas about picking up a Grom. Like checking my credit and looking at the MSF bad. Dude the Grom is amazing. I'm debating getting my motorcycle license so I can have one.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 15:22
|
|
|
Finally! Got an interview setup for tomorrow. If I get this it'll be almost 80k a year.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 15:42
|
|
|
CommieGIR posted:Considering I bought a house almost 4 months ago now, my savings is returning to normal, I have no CC debt, I have 3 motors in the garage and a race car to build. I have like 6k on the note on the Mazda2 (I'm above water on it), but I'm trading it in on an ND this year. I think I have about 22k combined in student loans (12k technically isn't in my name). I have a few zeroes in the bank account even after going to Japan (flight was paid for a few months ago, only used 1k in cash for about 125k yen). CCs are in a way better spot and almost paid off. I'm not in a great place with 6 months of savings etc, but it's much better than the past few years. I can definitely make it work, but I want a MS3 for the Miata and I need to buy tires. I need to keep myself occupied and finish a lot of things around the house and whatnot. I do think I'll make it happen, though. Work blocked CL so I can't hunt for Honda Cubs/Passports. 
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 15:50
|
|
|
Phone posted:I have like 6k on the note on the Mazda2 (I'm above water on it), but I'm trading it in on an ND this year. This is the only one up I have on you: I owe nothing on any of my 5 vehicles, regardless of their state or condition.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 15:52
|
|
|
CommieGIR posted:This is the only one up I have on you: I owe nothing on any of my 5 vehicles, regardless of their state or condition. I own the Miata, the Lexus is 1/4th ownership. I don't have a house and housing prices (rental and buying) are loving ridiculous. If you want to live anywhere remotely close to either downtown Raleigh or Durham, it's 300k to play. Want a garage? Get hosed. I think I have another year of renting before I can consider grabbing a mortgage. This year should be interesting and hopefully it'll pan out OK.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 15:56
|
|
|
1.4 INCH DICK posted:The closest I can describe the feeling is that brain is trying to talk to his coworker dick, saying 'Hey man, this doesnt look so hot so why don't we sit this one out okay?' And what brain doesnt realise is that dick stopped taking his pills like two weeks ago and has just entered the Messiah phase of full blown mania and is entirely too busy planning out to the exact second when he's going to need to tuck and roll out of the burning helicopter that happens to be on a collision course with the local nuclear power plant. Holy poo poo this is the most amazing thing I've ever read.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 15:57
|
|
|
1.4 INCH DICK posted:This isn''t a late april fools post, I found out today one of my exes from California is about a half hour drive away from me on a trip I'm agreed with Dan, this is an incredible post that deserves hall of fame status, even out of the glorious thread you usually weave.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 16:01
|
|
|
Senior Funkenstien posted:Finally! Got an interview setup for tomorrow. If I get this it'll be almost 80k a year. Good luck! AI is getting on the up and up! Bunch of home owners and out of debt and whatnot, we are getting too level headed in this place. I just found out my neighbor buddy that is runs the service center at the local BMW dealership is getting an Austin Yellow M3 in June. Envy is an understatement and I am hoping that I won't talk myself out of my E90 M3 I plan to find in ~2 years. My wife has green lighted the idea as long as we get the basement finished in the house (which is looking like it will be 50 grand) and getting a newer family car first. Being responsible is hard
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 16:06
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 16, 2024 08:55 |
|
|
T-Square posted:Some gently caress went and grovelled to him and he loving came back. I love my job, but I've been with this company before in a different position for several years, and I still wonder what the gently caress these people are thinking. This is a service manager who SCREAMS at his employees in the middle of the service drive while multiple customers are literally standing right loving there, screams and THROWS poo poo in his office (which is a fish-bowl, customers can also see him in there), and according to all of the Service Writers is just plain lovely at his job and doesn't know what he's doing. So, I guess it's time to video him surreptitiously, preferable from somewhere a customer would be, and then post the videos on YouTube, including the dealer's name, etc. Once he's publicly embarrassing enough, maybe they'll wise up. 1500quidporsche posted:So I apparently let some meth heads into the building a week ago and they stole $13000 worth of stuff out of various units. Feel pretty lovely right now. How did that happen? I more pleasant news, I checked the option codes on my P71, and confirmed that I have a limited slip. And 3.55 gears! That explains why it scoots so well, V8 aside. Still waiting on the guy my cousin bought it from to release the lien, though. Not going to do anything major to it until then.
|
|
#
?
Apr 2, 2015 16:53
|
|
