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IOwnCalculus posted:That car would've been scrapped anywhere else. Yeah, that car was for sure totaled by western standards. Probably by Russian ones too in all honesty. Still very impressive work but I'm not sure it would hold up the same but it does look pretty sturdy.
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IOwnCalculus posted:That car would've been scrapped anywhere else. Wishful thinking, that's a standard insurance repair in the US. front wing flexing posted:Yeah, that car was for sure totaled by western standards. What makes you think so? Not particularly expensive compared to some cuts, and it's a relatively new car.
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Splizwarf posted:Wishful thinking, that's a standard insurance repair in the US. Depends on the value of the car and cost to repair but I think in most cases it would be totaled.
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Jun 28, 2012 21:16
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front wing flexing posted:Depends on the value of the car and cost to repair but I think in most cases it would be totaled. Even if insurance repaired a car like that, I would sell it immediately afterward.
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Jun 28, 2012 21:24
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150T Crawler crane arrived on site last week. Guys finished rigging it up and dropped the counterweights on and were moving it so they could feed the ropes and attach hooks. Pop! One of the track drive units had shat itself and lunched the massive cast ring that the planetary gears rotate on. Pretty impressive, one of the old geezers reckons he has never seen or heard of it happening before.  
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Splizwarf posted:Wishful thinking, that's a standard insurance repair in the US. It's a Focus. Replacing 3 body panels will almost total it in the States. That's so far from a "standard" repair in the US that I'm genuinely confused.
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Jun 28, 2012 23:48
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No poo poo, bodywork / panels / painting in the US is not cheap. The fender-bender (literally) in my Miata ran about $2k to repair and that couldn't have amounted to much more than a new fender, headlight, some plastic clips, and a tie rod or something similar. Nothing needed to be welded and only the fender needed to be painted.
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IOwnCalculus posted:No poo poo, bodywork / panels / painting in the US is not cheap. My mom's Pontiac Vibe was struck in the front passenger quarter panel by a guy who failed to stop at a red light. Panel, suspension and frame damage. I was shocked the insurance didn't total it. Somehow the bill only came out to $7500. Which shocked me even more because I didn't think the car was worth more than $5,000. Edit: My perception of the car's value is probably colored by it's propensity not to start in the morning, something the insurance company won't have in their books. Aurune fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Jun 29, 2012 |
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Paul Boz_ posted:One of my younger brothers snapped both intake cams at the gear last weekend in his N/A z32 because he apparently had some mildly bent valves that bound the cams at 6500 rpms. How would bent valves bind the cams?
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Budget Monty posted:How would bent valves bind the cams? If the stems jam in the guides the cams will encounter too much resistance and snap.
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IOwnCalculus posted:That car would've been scrapped anywhere else. Yes, but that's just a matter of value. If it was a brand new A8 or something else similarly expensive it would have been repaired pretty much exactly the same way. I didn't see anything particularly nonstandard about the equipment, method or parts used.
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Jun 29, 2012 21:19
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That inner b-pillar repair panel is the second most common supplied repair part. (Not counting plastics)
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So in this thread we post catastrophe, sometimes involving engine blocks. But, after said catastrophe, what do we do? We rebuild it. Stronger, Faster, More Powerful. But most importantly, with a buttload of pictures, ostensibly to make sure we put it back together right, but sometimes, we make something beautiful. This is one of Those Things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME
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Jun 30, 2012 16:45
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Holy poo poo, that is incredibly awesome
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Jun 30, 2012 17:13
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 Oh, that's why my steering wheel was shaking over 50mph.
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BlackMK4 posted:
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Beach Bum posted:This is one of Those Things.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:That was beautiful. What was the car? Something British? Triumph Spitfire.
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^^^^^  Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:That was beautiful. What was the car? Something British? I'm almost 100% sure it was a Triumph spitfire of some generation. MK3 spitfire seems to have the same compartment layout -  Side profile matches too:  e2: its a MK1 or MK2, based on the two smaller lights on the front. TrueChaos fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Jul 1, 2012 |
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Tire started seperating and wore through where the belts pulled themselves apart. Usuall presents itself as a single spot getting soft, wearing much faster than the rest then that happens.
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Ugh (Crosspost)
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grover posted:How did this happen? Shifted belt/weave. Had it happen on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the '74 Fury III I had in 1983 as I was returning home from a semester. Car was wandering all over the road like a lost puppy & the wheel had a nifty shake. It didn't ever come apart like that, though - mine developed an odd wrinkle in the tread.
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Dr 14 INCH DICK Md posted:Tire started seperating and wore through where the belts pulled themselves apart. Usuall presents itself as a single spot getting soft, wearing much faster than the rest then that happens.
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 I never thought of that, guess I'll be under the car today.
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TrueChaos posted:^^^^^ Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME Anyhow, this is more of an ownership failure, kind of like never getting a brake job or never having your steering checked. Anyone here remember seeing a youtube years ago of a 4runner splashing around in the waves on a beach. It then gets swamped and carried out to sea. The driver has to swim for his life? I wonder somehow if this is related.  I actually curse this upon anyone I see digging under the tires of a stuck vehicle. CURSE THEM!
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B4Ctom1 posted:Have you seen this? That's the video that prompted this discussion
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 This was a Z1 Star Spec at one point. The moral of this story is to not waste your money on drugs and booze when you need to buy tires.
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Statutory Grape posted:
When the cords start showing we just grab black Sharpie or shoe polish to pass tech and then run them for one more event 
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Got a call from my workmates on friday last week saying "we were winching in, stopped to rest the winch, then it wouldnt go again- solenoids were clicking but it wasnt going back or forwards!" Winch is an old Warn M10,000 Checked it out today- Got power to the field terminals when the solenoids were energised, everything is going right, but the motor still wont turn! So pulled the winch out of the bar and cracked open the motor. And all this crap fell out!  Tried to work out WTF it was, so I pulled the armature.  Oh- Thats not good...  Well that explains the chunky bits I found- they were the brushes! Ive never seen this before- theres nothing else in the motor assembly thats loose- so its not like a wayward chunk of metal bent the armature up like that- its the brushes that have done that!  Looks like we're up for a new motor And in OTHER news... Mates 2006 Subaru Liberty 3.0R (Legacy in the US)died last night- horrid nose, no power steering, no alternator. Cold hard light of day revealed:      And the best bits- Dealing with Subaru Australia... He's in Adelaide with me for reference. The chewed up bracket: $220 and has to come from Sydney The Idler pulley: $107, In stock in Adelaide The belt: $61, from Melbourne The bolt and washer: $4.50ea from JAPAN Chasing wreckers now, but unfortunately the EZ30 motors nowhere near as common as the 4 cylinder motors! Ferremit fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Jul 2, 2012 |
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Ferremit posted:And in OTHER news... That's a very common failure on those. I've seen a bunch of them do that. It's even more fun when the threads in the bracket get hosed up. Replace those loving idlers early and often.
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yeah, Brackets completely munted- its chewed the alloy to pieces and subaru australia wants $220 for one- Looking at ones from the US for around $80 now, cos even with express shipping it couldnt be more than $140 to freight the fucker. I've heard that 50,000km is about the max life for them. Fortunately, bearings are under $10 each and easily replaceable!
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I think this wins the "rotors worn into the vanes" subthread. "Yeah, the brakes sounded pretty terrible for about 25k miles but they got real quiet and smooth a little while back so I forgot about them."
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You'd better tell me that rotor went on the wall. It's a thing of beauty that is meant to be displayed.
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meatpimp posted:You'd better tell me that rotor went on the wall. It's a thing of beauty that is meant to be displayed. no idea, but yeah it is indeed very pretty.
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Ferremit posted:
How was that not whining like a cat caught in a loving wheat thresher? Almost every tensioner/idler on its way I've seen usually picked up a high pitched whine before it goes.
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MadScientistWorking posted:In theory you can fix that because it wasn't as horrible as you think it was. Those pieces generally are replaceable. You'd need a new armature and brushes, and depending on the cost of those parts / condition on the case and bearings of the motor, it may just be cheaper to replace the entire motor.
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