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My wife laughed at me / hates me for roughly guessing the ID on the cars on a house plan drawing of a garage: 80's 911 and a BMW e31 is my guess. What are your guesses?
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Apr 25, 2024 20:18
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I guessed the cars before reading your post and came up the same. I thought F body on the left at first before really looking at it.
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Apr 25, 2024 21:01
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I think you're 100% on the money
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Apr 25, 2024 21:24
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I had same guesses before scrolling down too lol
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Apr 25, 2024 21:25
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I didn't notice the vents at first, so I was wrong on the Porsche, but I'll be able to clock an OG 8 Series anywhere. The 850csi is one of my favorite cars
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Apr 25, 2024 21:31
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The Door Frame posted:I didn't notice the vents at first, so I was wrong on the Porsche, but I'll be able to clock an OG 8 Series anywhere. The 850csi is one of my favorite cars There was one for sale for $6500 near me a few years back and I really wish I had the money at the time to buy it. Fuel economy be damned, that car is beautiful.
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Apr 25, 2024 21:33
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MrOnBicycle posted:My wife laughed at me / hates me for roughly guessing the ID on the cars on a house plan drawing of a garage: I would love to have a 850i manual one day, so gorgeous
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Apr 25, 2024 23:46
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850 manual is the Sreten Special lmao
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Apr 26, 2024 00:13
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I got to drive an 850csi 6-speed about 20 years ago at the tire shop. We were putting all four new tires on it and I haven’t even seen one in person since. Plenty of 840’s and 850’s in auto but that one manual stayed with me.
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Apr 26, 2024 00:52
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Oof. 850 chat sent me shopping for one. Couple of nice ones, including one very close to me, and an even nicer 840 if I wanted to avoid the V12 money pit, but "you might also like" showed me one of my other highly prized BMW dreams:  '94 540i 6-speed, 150k km, clean as a whistle. "1 of 3 Avus Blue E34 540i/6 - RHD of the 249 HE52 ever made and only one with Light Silvergrey leather" asking NZ$28k. All the M5 speed, none of the M5 bills. Some real nice 635CSi's too.
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Apr 26, 2024 04:43
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Every couple of years I wistfully look at 8 series and watch the prices on them tick farther away from comfortable attainability, especially the manuals
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Apr 26, 2024 05:58
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I like the e31's, and wouldn't say not to one. But I don't know if I like them enough to fork out the ~$40k that a manual one with 180k km goes for around here. I have a stupid dream car I'd rather get my hands on... an AMC Eagle.
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Apr 26, 2024 06:28
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lmao the only manual E31s on Autotrader are all over $100k
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Apr 26, 2024 06:54
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MrOnBicycle posted:I like the e31's, and wouldn't say not to one. But I don't know if I like them enough to fork out the ~$40k that a manual one with 180k km goes for around here. Yeah, after for them looking nationwide on autotrader.ca I'm even more sad in retrospect.
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Apr 26, 2024 06:57
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I could have bought a running & driving E30 M3 for $12,000 about 15 years ago and didn't.
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Apr 26, 2024 07:33
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Oof. 850 chat sent me shopping for one. Couple of nice ones, including one very close to me, and an even nicer 840 if I wanted to avoid the V12 money pit, but "you might also like" showed me one of my other highly prized BMW dreams: I'll never be a fan of grey leather, but god drat that's a nice vehicle.
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Apr 26, 2024 07:51
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Ether Frenzy posted:I could have bought a running & driving E30 M3 for $12,000 about 15 years ago and didn't. that and pretty much all 911s (even the 996s are appreciating now). I blame Top Gear getting put on Netflix at the end of the 2000s/beginning of the 2010s
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Apr 26, 2024 08:02
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bolind posted:I'll never be a fan of grey leather, but god drat that's a nice vehicle. Regular grey, I mostly agree, but this very light almost white looking one is great with the blue.
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Apr 26, 2024 09:12
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There is something truly magical about a big gently caress off V12 GT car with a manual box.
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Apr 26, 2024 10:39
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speaking of e31s, this is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F15Nd59Hds
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Apr 26, 2024 21:28
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Best automotive content on youtube.
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Apr 26, 2024 21:33
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As an owner of one, watching him tear down the BMW S65 engine was fascinating. Clearly not something you want to do with your own, but amazing to see someone that knowledgeable do it. I'm "relatively handy" but I need to take photos of everything I disassemble every 45 seconds or I am definitely not putting it back together right.
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Apr 27, 2024 05:23
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trilobite terror posted:Every couple of years I wistfully look at 8 series and watch the prices on them tick farther away from comfortable attainability, especially the manuals I've wanted a CTS V wagon or 540i wagon with a manual for some time now, the autos are still somewhat affordable but the manuals are selling for more than they did new. I've kinda given up on my rocket wagon.
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Apr 27, 2024 13:54
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Can be yours for 17k CAD 
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Apr 28, 2024 00:21
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man, m-pars really do look good on almost anything 
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Apr 28, 2024 03:01
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Pics from Radwood Austin 2024! Still a drat good show, worth the trip even 5 years in
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Apr 28, 2024 22:56
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Raluek posted:man, m-pars really do look good on almost anything The OEM Ford copy of M-pars on my old Crown Vic Sport were probably the best thing about the entire car lol I miss that land barge 
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Apr 29, 2024 02:21
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And then another $17k CAD when the 350,000 km engine goes kaput. Still would if I had the money.
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Apr 29, 2024 02:29
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Kazinsal posted:Still would if I had the money. Yeah I hate to be like “given the market realities this looks like a screaming deal on an E31” but…. FWIW I don’t know anything about the 12 cylinder in there, but if it’s anything like the M50 in my E36 I wouldn’t necessarily be terrified of it blowing up or failing catastrophically within the 200-300k mile range.
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Apr 29, 2024 03:03
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you're buying a grenade, but what a grenade it is
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Apr 29, 2024 23:26
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Replace lovely coolant pump. Proceed to lose coolant a few weeks later again. Not the pump, guess this VE is getting to that age where multiple things that have multiple points of failure happen at once. Rad cap not regulating pressure, then a hose, then the heatercore shat itself dumping coolant into the interior floor.
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Apr 30, 2024 11:27
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While looking up what the normal coolant temp for my 996 should be, I discovered that since it’s a ‘99 I can actually access a “secret” option and see the current/actual coolant temp in °C instead of guessing what the needle reads just by pressing a couple of hvac buttons.
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Apr 30, 2024 20:49
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My BMW had something similar, but it was a seventeen button press dance and it had to be done at every start. EU and Federally mandated nerd mode requirements can't come soon enough.
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May 1, 2024 07:43
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bolind posted:My BMW had something similar, but it was a seventeen button press dance and it had to be done at every start. A fun thing is that when I use my OBD to check things with the Torque app. It does SOMETHING and then the car flags a stability control issue on the dash. NEVER when the app is not in use. I keep the OBD plugged in at all times (Bluetooth)
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May 1, 2024 09:48
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Humphreys posted:A fun thing is that when I use my OBD to check things with the Torque app. It does SOMETHING and then the car flags a stability control issue on the dash. NEVER when the app is not in use. I keep the OBD plugged in at all times (Bluetooth) Torque pro shuts off powerstrokes when it tries to connect, although most regular code readers do too.
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May 1, 2024 15:44
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I just realized more about the 911’s secret menu. It can display 32 different parameters and you can scroll through them. Not bad for a 25 year old car.
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May 1, 2024 15:49
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I don't know how much you guys care, but if nobody mentioned or if you weren't aware, EPA released their final rulemaking a little while back. LDV gCO2/mi annual reductions from '26 (ref) to '32. These reductions in fleet include HEV/PHEV and ZEV. Total Fleet ..................................................... 168 170 153 136 119 102 85 EPA's central analysis case has BEVs at 56% at '32, 29% ICE, balance HEV/PHEV The high HEV/PHEV case is 35% BEV, 17% ICE, 13% HEV, 36% PHEV. And a bunch of other changes that make it more strict. Just something to look forward to in the future for all you petrolheads.
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May 1, 2024 16:14
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I just realized more about the 911’s secret menu. It can display 32 different parameters and you can scroll through them. Not bad for a 25 year old car. My Jetta had something like that on the climate control, when it broke and I replaced it I lost that feature.
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May 2, 2024 03:52
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May Day last night, went into town and they had a parade of classic cars I almost got stuck in it with the 900. I am constantly surprised at just how many old american cars there are here. There were hundreds of american cars fråm the 40s and onwards. These were far from the only ones:  e: some examples not all american either, there were about 500+ cars out and about :         
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Gonna go look at a 2011 Volvo S40 T5 tomorrow. $3200. Can anyone give a quick rundown of why this is a good/ bad idea?... https://york.craigslist.org/ctd/d/york-2011-volvo-s40-t5/7742698619.html  The situation is that my Legacy is hosed. I plan to get it sorted out eventually but I need a decent daily ASAP. I don't know a lot about these but after a very, very cursory amount of research I'm not seeing anything about these cars that screams RUN AWAY. I've always liked the look of them. Definitely my style. The price is right and from the photos it looks to be in fairly nice condition. Cosmetically anyway. If the listing is truthful and they aren't excluding anything horrifying I'd be inclined to take a chance on it. I know what to look for as far identifying the big red flags but I'd appreciate the help if anybody with more intimate knowledge could point me towards the less obvious particulars that I might otherwise overlook.
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