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kimbo305 posted:Having heard all the cars that are getting water damage totaled by Harvey, I started thinking of having a bugout plan for my car specifically. Like if I know bad weather is coming, how quickly could I store my car somewhere else. That's an interesting thought. Trailer/drive them to a storage unit/friend's house on higher(hardened) ground?
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I think the only disaster I'd face is a forest fire (almost happened last fall). That'd be a tough one unless you had some sort of fire-rate structure. You'd really have to remove them from the area in that case.
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Aug 31, 2017 18:21
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Darchangel posted:My wife filled up Thursday morning with no problem, but by afternoon, her coworker was only able to get 3 gallons. There was no actual shortage, until people started panicking and made a run on the gas stations. One of my coworkers who commutes a ways rode his motorcycle to work, and then found he couldn't buy enough gas to get back home. Fortunately another coworker who lived locally gave him her lawnmower gas. At least you're in Texas, which to me makes sense that there would be some logistic problems. Any time there is any kind of issue, the governor here (NC, Asheville specifically) declares a state of emergency and gas prices skyrocket and people make a run on the pumps. In 24 hours the price went up 60+ cents. Last year: http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2016/09/19/asheville-gas-shortage-leads-panic-people-freaking-out/90688134/ This year: http://wlos.com/news/local/gov-cooper-declares-state-of-emergency-over-possible-gas-shortage
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Sep 1, 2017 14:26
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Darchangel posted:I hate plumbing. Ugh, yeah. Talking about poo poo we'd outsource, this is my big one. I hate that poo poo too. Good luck with whichever direction you go. Mine would be 'nuke from orbit'.
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Sep 2, 2017 23:59
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I saw that embedded in a Mirror article earlier, and was going to post it and say that cam was a beast while it lasted!
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Sep 6, 2017 19:20
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Seminal Flu posted:You know, that does match what I was feeling... it felt like it was Left Front... See if you can grab it and move it outside of the normal plane of CV motion. In-out, and up-down left-right perpendicular to its normal rotation. There should be effectively none in any of those directions. If it was me, and I was suspect of that component I'd pull it right quick and check it out. e: post #3 here is your instructions, apparently. http://www.benzworld.org/forums/w163-m-class/1940274-front-axle-removal.html
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Sep 7, 2017 20:07
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The Door Frame posted:Why not live in a hot place with near by mountains? Get snow on demand! This. Wife wanted to move from AK because it was too cold, I grew up in Vermont so I didn't know any better. She's from the RDU - NC area, too fuckign hot and flat there. Asheville = perfect.
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Sep 7, 2017 20:13
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mekilljoydammit posted:I love me some Flukes. Kinda wish I could justify an 87 for personal use, though I do have one of the lesser ones. Same. Used 87V's at previous job religiously, when I became a contractor I settled on the 115 for my needs.
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Sep 14, 2017 22:01
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Ford was doing it through the 90s. '97 T-bird had the crotch vent and it was glorious. My AW11 has these two little aimable ball warmer/coolers under the column 
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Sep 15, 2017 15:02
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Darchangel posted:
That doesn't sound like fun at all. The city part of that made my eye twitch a little. Unrelated - At what price point (if ever?) is it worth buying a b6/b7 S4 and just settling in for the long engine pull and insane timing chain r2? Found this quasi-locally and it's talking to me.... https://charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/d/20055-b7-audi-s4-sprint-blue/6299349868.html
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Sep 15, 2017 20:30
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Beverly Cleavage posted:never, unless someone does it for you prior to purchase. Parts alone for timing chains is 3k+ last I heard. drat, I had no idea on the replacement parts costing that much. It's just some guides, adjusters and chains - what the hell. I'm almost positive the S5 4.2 is the same motor.... Edit: It'd be a silly side project if the parts were cheaper since the B8 S4 is my daily. Even for <$5k with just pulling a motor and replacing the stuff I'd be okay with it price and time-wise. Edit 2: http://australiancar.reviews/Audi-S5_CAUA_Engine.php - Wikipedia says the 1g S5 has the CAUA engine. I think just the 08ish and earlier A8's had the belts, as well as the RS6 4.2biturbos? Garage2Roadtrip fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Sep 15, 2017 |
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Sep 15, 2017 20:36
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So glad that Audi didn't go the way Volvo did with headlight adjustment. My S60R dynamic lights were controlled by rear suspension ride-height (to the point I had to make custom bellcranks for the sensors when I lowered it), luckily the S4 has good old fashioned plastic hex screw adjusters on the dynamic lights.
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