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maybe he's just rolling coal passive aggressively. gently caress man, I dont know. Why do you have to ask all these questions I don't know the loving answers to?
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that seal just crawled over yellow snow.
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Captain Candiru posted:Basically OP they aren't driving their car but they don't know how to actually take care of their car so they just run it for an hour because they know that it does SOMETHING to prevent things from getting bad but they don't know what. It's also really low effort. this is actually true. in reality, the dude is probably just keeping his battery charged in the most wasteful way possible and justifying it in his head with "its good to let it run every once in a while". well, it is mostly, but im going to go ahead and guess its really about his battery
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if he actually drives the car other times during the week then he is just some dumb rear end who thinks he is doing good. he also probably had an unhealthy obsession with his car and a very boring personal life. if he wants to keep the battery good he should use a battery tender. if he wants to keep his poo poo oiled up he needs to drive it so it revs higher than idle, otherwise he is probably gumming it up. the only reasonable reason to do it is if your a/c leaks, cause it can sometimes be prevented if you blast the a/c every few days to keep the seals lubed (since your a/c health isn't dependent on higher than idle rpms like your engine)
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Aug 8, 2014 22:57
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there is an old guy next door to me who will just come outside and inspect his car with great detail every day (including looking in his trunk for a good 10 minutes). I just assume he has no life and wants a reason to see his neighbors
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Aug 8, 2014 23:00
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I had a neighbour who did the same thing, but he'd hold a wrench while doing so. He had some Camaro or something and he liked to pretend to work on it. Sometimes he'd get under it and drain the oil. I later learned through another neighbour that the only thing wrong with that Camaro was a cracked oil pan, but for nebulous reasons the guy didn't want to replace it. So he'd patch it with RTV or JB weld, drive it till the hot oil ruined the patch and then he'd park it for a few weeks again. In short, your neighbour is an idiot.
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Aug 8, 2014 23:19
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can all your posts in the future be in this format thanks nigga
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Aug 8, 2014 23:21
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i start the motorhome and run it for a half hour every week. you dont want your seals drying up or anything like that
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Aug 8, 2014 23:22
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my old subaru had a stubborn air bubble in the coolant last winter and i basically had to do what ur describing until i was sure that it was out and the temp gauge wasnt going to spike the next morning when heading to work...so maybe it was that
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Aug 8, 2014 23:51
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i think ur neighbour is gay its a gay thing like a mating call
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Aug 9, 2014 00:00
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car culture is a weird thing. it's full of idiots. professionally I'm stuck dealing with them all the time but outside of work I pretend to know nothing just to avoid them
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Aug 9, 2014 00:20
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Lufiron posted:car culture is a weird thing. it's full of idiots. Yeah, that's unique to car culture.
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Aug 9, 2014 00:34
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Running the car in park idling it may not actually charge the battery - it depends on the idling output of the alternator whether it produces enough to charge the battery (on top of what is being used to generate the sparks to keep the motor running). So possibly all he's doing is running the battery down (when he starts it) and then it runs off the alternator but doesn't charge the battery (at all, or much) while it sits there idling. A ten or fifteen minute drive at speeds of like 30-40mph or more will put way more charge on the battery than just idling it. And as others have said, also put less wear on the engine. A car that is just sitting for a long time should be raised off the tires (to avoid developing flat spots), have a full gas tank with fuel stabilizer (avoid water vapor in the tank by having it full, stabilizer keeps the fuel from breaking down), disconnect the battery terminals from the car, and hook the battery up to a trickle charger/battery tender. You can store a car like that for quite a while without much degradation.
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Aug 9, 2014 00:37
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Neighbor have kids? They could be playing with the buttons and remote starting it and it just shuts off after a given amount of time. Friend of mine found has car on 4 or 5 nights in a row before he figured out how it was being turned on.
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bitchtard posted:Yeah, that's unique to car culture. let me elaborate, car culture is consider cool by the average person, yet full of idiots. everyone's got a fav car. everything else is nerdy horse poo poo, still full of idiots but not likely to get you laid like a fast flashy car would even so called enthusiasts know nothing, they just wanna be down, unlike every other hobby Lufiron fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Aug 9, 2014 02:34
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Ask him for some duck butter
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Aug 9, 2014 02:42
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lol
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Aug 9, 2014 02:43
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while you are looking out the window watching your neighbor's car your neighbor sneaks in your back door and bones your wife. i'm sorry you had to find out this way 
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Aug 9, 2014 02:45
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He is just a loving idiot.
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How long is too long for a car to sit without running? Sometimes I rideshare to work and kick back on the weekend, my ultra manly 2001 cavalier sometimes doesn't run for a week or two. Am I doing bad things to my steel horse? e: VVV Thanks, but I meant like without running at all, not just idling. What Fun fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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What Fun posted:How long is too long for a car to sit without running? Sometimes I rideshare to work and kick back on the weekend, my ultra manly 2001 cavalier sometimes doesn't run for a week or two. Am I doing bad things to my steel horse? a few minutes is ok, but try not to let it go longer than an hour
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What Fun posted:How long is too long for a car to sit without running? Sometimes I rideshare to work and kick back on the weekend, my ultra manly 2001 cavalier sometimes doesn't run for a week or two. Am I doing bad things to my steel horse? A week or two in temperate weather should be A OK. Personally I'd invest in a battery disconnect switch if I were to leave a car parked for more than a week. If you have winter, you will want to run your car every 2-3 days for a few minutes, unless you have both a battery maintainer and a coolant heater.
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Aug 9, 2014 03:14
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oh poo poo turn off this engine a piston busted up through the head
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Aug 9, 2014 03:24
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friend has a super modded 300zx that's just been sitting for 10 years, I hate to think about what kind of shape it's in now
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Pookum posted:He is just a loving idiot.
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Aug 9, 2014 03:29
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just parked. Nothing drained. probably everything rubber is toast. rust? Dried up fluids? idk but it probably won't be pretty.
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Aug 9, 2014 03:32
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ReptileChillock posted:A week or two in temperate weather should be A OK. Personally I'd invest in a battery disconnect switch if I were to leave a car parked for more than a week. If you have winter, you will want to run your car every 2-3 days for a few minutes, unless you have both a battery maintainer and a coolant heater. Thank you sincerely. Very rarely a full week goes by without me using the car, I'm trying to run this thing into the ground so if that was going to hurt it bad I'd want to avoid that. I'll be more on top of it during winter now for sure.
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Aug 9, 2014 03:35
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What kind of car is it, OP?
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Captain Candiru posted:Basically OP they aren't driving their car but they don't know how to actually take care of their car so they just run it for an hour because they know that it does SOMETHING to prevent things from getting bad but they don't know what. It's also really low effort.
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