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Former Everything posted:I'm a lurker in AI, but we recently picked up a 2024 GR Corolla, which seems very AI and made me want to post here. Just about 1000 miles on it so far, but it's a really fun little AWD car. I'm hoping to take it to a local road course this spring in Bowling Green and see what that's like. come rep your house in the hot hatch thread we were just debating whether or not the new CTR/ITS supplanted the GR Corolla in the minds of the automotive internet
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I’m glad you’re alive dude. Did the person who picked you up/dropped you off at the hospital not leave any identifying information with you or the hospital/cops? I don’t mean to impugn a probable Good Samaritan but you ending up with a near-total absence of information strikes me as really shady. Presumably you got some kind of witness statement, etc from them if you ended up with a police report, right?
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Jan 19, 2024 09:02
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la vida te da sorpresas sorpresas te da la vida
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Darchangel posted:loving Christ, dude. What did you do in a previous life? Are you Job? the parable of the wandering goon
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Jan 19, 2024 20:58
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cannondale still makes mountain bikes. At least they’ll keep doing so until they go under. hopefully the frame can be saved. You may not be able to find a good condition period-correct fork in your budget (and you prolly can, eBay’s always got tons of bike stuff) but there are new options out there, even if it means going to a rigid fork or a temporally-incongruous suspension fork
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Jan 20, 2024 00:46
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randomidiot posted:It's a fully rigid mid 90s bike anyway. I'll be hunting ebay for as long as it takes to get the right fork if the shop gives the frame a clean bill of health (been wanting a different front crank set anyway). The paint on the bike is (well, was) MINT (and I'd expect no less from the person I got it from, they're extremely meticulous with everything they own). Despite being rigid, it's very much worth saving simply because it's such a well preserved, drat near factory condition bike, despite me catching LOTS of air with it on a few trails near me (Suburban Ninja is tits, even after the fire; a lot of the offshoots of Brushy Creek Trail are good too). I found the Walnut Creek BMX trail by total accident once too - literally - flying down a trail by my old place, and OH gently caress I'M NOT ON THE BIKE ANYMORE WHERE DID IT Goh it just landed in that berm aw gently caress this is gonna hurt what is it, a steel 26” MTB? Yeah there’s a bunch of new rigid forks out there, some really nice ones too for that matter. https://www.jensonusa.com/Dimension-26-260mm-Mountain-Fork-en.aspx I think Surly makes some too, but those might be 27/29”
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randomidiot posted:Yeah almost positive it's a 26" (been a few years since I had to order anything for it), it'd just be nice to find one with matching paint and stickers. Though worst case I can get it painted. Post that poo poo (and post about it in the bike threads), we live for helping fix old wheeled things There’s a whole cottage industry around replicating old decals and mfg labels for vintage bikes too. There’s a billion dudes online making aftermarket Reynolds stickers and whatnot for all of your rebuild needs We’re gonna make this bike so pretty that you won’t want to ride it anymore and you’ll have to get a brand new one because the “classic bike” is too nice. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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kastein posted:I lived in Massachusetts my entire life until 2021 and then started splitting my time between Washington and Massachusetts, at this point I have been fully in Washington since last year and you know what gently caress the rust belt I am never going back for more than a week or two at a time on vacation. counterpoint: you have an excuse to have “summer cars” and “winter cars”, and if you’re really sharp you promote the fun keeper winter cars to summer cars and
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kastein posted:I don't do rotaries. I'm happy for people who enjoy them but not for me. Yeah I bet New England actually does suck poo poo for cool cars 
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RIP Paul Walker posted:YouTube can kiss my rear end for making this a short instead of a video, but I was looking for content on YouTube to passively show off this 32:9 monitor and one of the options was a gameplay video of Stray. My wife captured this adorable video. put that horrible Oliver Tree song edit over it and send ‘er to tiktok
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I really wish iOS would let you film wide while holding the phone vertically
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His Divine Shadow posted:My coworker drives a big ugly BMW SUV and says it gets 6l/100km which comes to 39mpg. I highly doubt this. How old of an SUV? I would be shocked if it got more than 25 mpg. My mom’s old Mercedes ML350 SUV from 2007 with a V6 got like 16-19. The incoming Tacoma with a turbocharged four cylinder hybrid tops out at like 26-29 mpg and people are thrilled.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Mileage is one of the most important factors because it absolutely matters to how much the vehicle will cost me and if I can even drive it as much as I want or if i have to decide to stay home or not. I mean, is his SUV diesel?
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IIRC RCR got like 32/33 MPG on the highway somewhat recently in an early 2000s Z06 (it was one of their giveaway cars) obvi we should all be driving Corvettes, especially since we’re all middle aged as gently caress here
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SpeedFreek posted:Does that mean I need to start using hair dye to hide the grey? lol I am fully bald
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Feb 13, 2024 01:15
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SpeedFreek posted:And approaching middle age? Sounds like you need a Corvette and a toupée. I'd advise against a convertable. I already have a convertible
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His Divine Shadow posted:I notice the speeds you're talking, doing 80mph (129kph) and 90mph (144kph). Those are not common speeds here. In fact there's nowhere in Finland you can drive 140 on a public road and not instalose your license and get hefty fines if caught. yeah mpg definitely drops by a lot if you do much/most of your driving at technically-illegal-but-colloquially-acceptable American highway speeds, which many goons do everyday myself included
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Advent Horizon posted:In doing some route research for my upcoming vacation I learned that Caltrans has started a $148 million project to fix the intersection James Deen died at. the porn star?
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Mashallah the auto transmission on my dad’s Cabrio is fixed up and now it drives butter smooth again. Turns out it was the fluid pan gasket perishing and cracking and losing all of the transmission fluid plus some of the radiator hoses. With the level and speed of fluid loss I was convinced it was a crack in the housing or something along those lines and was mentally preparing to explain the costs associated with finding a replacement automatic transmission for a mk3 golf/jetta/cabrio (impossible) or doing a manual swap ($1200 in parts kit plus like another grand in labor), so $475 all in and done in a day is a welcome surprise
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Galler posted:Bought my first ever new vehicle (and most expensive by like 4x) a 2023 Honda Ridgeline RTL. It's so smooth and quiet compared to my 08 Fit that I don't know if I'm going to keep dailying the Fit as I had planned. The 2024s have a few upgrades, the only one I really care being wireless android auto, but the 2023 was a fair bit cheaper and 0.9% financing. The dealership tried to force me to pay $800 something for paint sealant "we do that for every vehicle we sell, and it's already been applied we can't do anything about it now" but when I said 'ok then let's cancel all this' and got up to leave they were suddenly able to drop that charge. The Fit could probably benefit from some fresh bushings, engine mounts, and shocks to restore smoothness and quiet.
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Vegas, but you trade the underclass of undocumented workers for passport hostages
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woke up this morning, got yourself a passport
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wesleywillis posted:How the gently caress did I know? Marlon Brando
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Odd Look w/ a pre-fame Weeknd on vocals is the superior Kavinsky track to both of those, but it’s not about driving or carsDanTheFryingPan posted:I Drove All Night by Roy Orbison for actual contribution ahem actually I think you mean Celine Dion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDcOOoDqcto Throttle House accidentally jumped a new Land Cruiser
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I wanna make a thread of just driving music/what songs are you driving to/etc
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I had some kid troll me when I was selling some fishing stuff, lowballing and trying to be funny asking dumb questions so I played along for a bit before deleting it that kid rules
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think about your dad wanna troll that dad
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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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lmao the only manual E31s on Autotrader are all over $100k
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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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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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RIP IDB, thought of engine repair and died
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The Door Frame posted:2024 AI Chat Thread: pooped so bad that I almost passed out, but had to keep on pooping but jokes aside I 100% empathize. I started getting mysterious IBS and painful, painful gut inflammation symptoms in my mid-20s that still haven’t been properly diagnosed. I’ve been endoscoped from both ends, put on various meds, and I still have to drop what I’m doing and find a toilet when it happens. Can’t even eat beef or pork or anything particularly fatty anymore (yes I’ve been tested for various protein and animal fat allergies) without expecting a bathroom emergency literally within the hour.
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“Oh no, here comes this dangerous biker to Mad Max me”
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If they total it maybe buy it back and make it a naked/frankenbike. Maybe buy a ZX4RR or gsx8r or some flavor of aprilia
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