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DrPain posted:You'll have to excuse me if I sometimes don't have the same technical understanding that some of you do, I'm a salesman by trade, but I'm smart enough to admit what I don't know, and I've always been a quick learner.
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"No, it's not intentionally water-cooled."
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Mar 12, 2014 18:22
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Huggable Bear King posted:I lost about 1000 man points having to explain this to the mechanic, who then advised me never to work on my own car again.
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Mar 13, 2014 23:51
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Logically, wouldn't it be the second one? If it were the first one, wouldn't the second flag finding the broken bolt, so they can't be blamed for it?
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Mar 19, 2014 00:05
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DrPain posted:We've installed the bulletproof EGR cooler upgrade kit in the past, but they are not cheap nor easy. On his truck he'd be looking at about $6-7k installed, and he didn't bat an eye at that number, but when he needs to spend $2500 to get the loving thing running right he squealed like a stuck pig.
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Mar 25, 2014 23:52
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DrPain posted:Diesel poo poo is mondo expensive dude, I don't know what else to say. I'm not saying you're overcharging or anything, it's just that the idea of that kind of level of expenditure being apparently on the verge of necessity to prevent your engine eating itself makes me go  . Why on earth would anyone buy a truck like that out of warranty?
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Mar 26, 2014 00:40
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You could get ZJs with manuals, it's the WJ that was auto or nothing. The 42RE is the really crap one though, I thought the others weren't so bad.
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Mar 27, 2014 19:27
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Slavvy posted:"Hey so have you got the stuff to lift this?" It's not their 200 grand CNC.
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Apr 9, 2014 08:23
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Phone posted:My incoherent post earlier was trying to wrap my head around why a front engine, rear wheel drive car would have shift linkages.
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Apr 24, 2014 21:34
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With a diesel, you can have a lever to dump compression (holding the valves open, for example) to help you spin it. No compression, spin it up, kick it back in and it starts.
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May 2, 2014 22:24
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DrPain posted:I am absolutely transparent and up front with everyone I do business with. I expect the same in return. The skill is in knowing which customer you're dealing with at the time. With a garage/workshop/supplier etc I use regularly, goodwill or a favour is often a lot more useful to me than money. DrPain posted:With regard to buying at Carmax...  "Oh, a '14 Mercedes? Well, hopefully things will pick up for you a bit in the future."It's all a bit of a moot point, though. If your wife deals with accountancy for a living, she should be able to work things pretty well with the taxes etc to hammer down the out-of-pocket cost for the car over her period of ownership.
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May 10, 2014 13:23
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KozmoNaut posted:Of course, there are drawbacks to using tubes.
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May 30, 2014 20:22
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Yeah, I'm coming at it from a car perspective, it's an issue that can cause headaches for people with classics or more truck-like vehicles.
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May 30, 2014 21:52
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Slavvy posted:If you don't like congestion, ride public transport!
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Jun 4, 2014 17:52
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rscott posted:Weird, the owner of the indy shop I take my car to lets me get underneath the car on the lift and everything. On the other hand he used to own the car I drive so maybe he makes an exception? In general, I've found that walking in somewhere like you belong there will mean no-one says anything unless they've got a proper top-down security policy.
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Jun 12, 2014 19:33
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I saw a thing the other day, and while it seems a little over-the-top, I can see the benefit of it: Taking videos of the work required on a car and sending it to the customer so they can see what you're talking about without coming in. Being able to do the "workshop walkaround" for the customer remotely seems a good idea, and I think I agree with the logic that it makes it easier to justify the work you are trying to sell them, while also showing that you are transparent about what you do. It could be really helpful to customers who can't get out the office to be shown what's wrong on the car itself before agreeing the work, and covers the business if there's trouble by showing why it was required to be done. May not get the  types on it, but maybe worth a trial run with one of the younger guys and a couple of likely customers?
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Jun 12, 2014 23:29
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There are upsides to an independent shop, though: (That's an MOT certificate  )
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Jun 18, 2014 21:53
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rscott posted:If we sell Spirit bad parts that wind up getting installed on an airplane or a larger assembly and have to be removed we definitely have to pay for it. The last time that happened it ended up requiring Boeing well over a thousand man hours of labor to repair the faulty poo poo. Total fine ran into the 6 digits
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Jul 3, 2014 23:41
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I'm all for such in-depth legislation until: 1) Approval is only ascertained by testing at their designated facilities. Give me a spec to work to, tell me what I must do, and confirm I did that if you want to? Fine, not a problem. Insist that I can only do this if I submit samples to your test lab, and pay you several grand to do testing which I have facilities available to do myself - for something that's a one-off for me, not something I want type approval for selling - then that's just cuntish behaviour. 2) It descends into "well we're engineers and we say so". Yeah? Well, I'm an engineer, and I say otherwise. Bring it. Tell me what the spec I need to meet is. gently caress your appeal to authority poo poo, put numbers on paper. I don't mind rules and regulations over what may and may not be done, but I expect them to be based on actual facts, and be applied as a standard you must meet, not a process you must go through. It's the difference between having an exhaust sniffer test you have to pass at a given level, and being told you can't change certain things in case they affect the emissions, but not actually testing the emissions to check.
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Jul 24, 2014 23:42
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Munin posted:Teachers don't let you mark your own homework either. There's a difference between a redneck looking at something and saying "yup, that'll do" and an engineer with a NADCAP-certified test lab to play with. Imposing requirements and expecting them to be met is one thing. Saying "I do not accept this proof because reasons" is quite another, and it's the latter that annoys me.
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Jul 25, 2014 16:29
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Safety Dance posted:If the whole world was nice and honest, you'd be right, InitialDave. Unfortunately, the real world is filled with cheats and liars out to make a quick buck, lives of strangers be damned.
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Jul 25, 2014 16:48
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Mmm, we have similar things with similar limitations/workarounds here, and again, I'm fine with that. I'll explain a situation I had which is the kind of problem I'm talking about. I wanted a US-style 2" receiver hitch on my Jeep. Easily available to order from the US, would bolt straight on. The car was new enough that towing equipment must be type approved. This type approval can only be carried out by the government agency responsible for it, at their designated site, at a cost of about £3,000. No parity with US testing standards, has to be the full UK test even if it's rated in the US to a higher capacity. All the specs to be met were available, so you could (if you have access to load testing rigs etc) check whether you meet them - but no, that's not acceptable, the only permitted solution is to pay them to test it for you. I can use this equipment to prove compliance of flight-critical ENSIP parts for commercial aircraft, and yet apparently there is absolutely no way I could possibly be able to evaluate a loving towbar against a fairly simple set of requirements. It's why I disagree with things like the CARB certification for engine modifications in CA - if you don't want people modifying things to output more than X of something, that's fine, but at least let them prove compliance rather saying only stuff you yourselves have tested (at great cost to the builder) may be fitted. I guess the equivalent in your case would be someone telling you that only brands A, B, and C of coilovers can be fitted, and when you say "but this brand of coilovers is functionally identical, meets all the same requirements, and I am qualified to say that", the answer being simply "nope, tough". I'm all for approval processes and making sure people are modifying cars safely, but these discussions should be technical ones amongst people who understand what they're doing, not "computer says no" top-down dictation of what you may do, controlled by a monopoly/quango. Yes, I understand the need to stop idiots doing something stupid and lying about compliance, but I am not them, they do not matter, and I should not be dragged down from doing what I want properly because of an inability to catch/control the chancers. It's a very specific application of "rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men". Unfortunately, it's how things are and will generally continue to be, but that doesn't mean I have to like or agree with it.
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Jul 26, 2014 07:43
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You used to be able to sand down the back of Ford badges and re-colour them however you wanted, not sure if they've changed in that respect.
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Jul 31, 2014 19:15
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Geirskogul posted:Some of that stamped/pulled mesh is pretty amazing for Bondo filling work. The PO on my beetle literally laid down an inch or more bondo over a fairly large area when doing some work. I cut that poo poo out, molded some mesh to the body shape, and my bondo is 3-4 mm thick at the thickest. On monocoques.
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Jul 31, 2014 22:00
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piss boner posted:Whoosh. You lost me.
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Aug 1, 2014 13:16
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13 doesn't get trouble with that, and I don't think Goatse Guy did either (though she's now moved). We're mostly normal.
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Aug 5, 2014 21:40
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Wow, and I thought the hydraulic fan on my Jeep was a pontlessly complex design.
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DrPain posted:They're not so much annoying as they are free spirit artsy types.
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