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I finally have one! This one's not so much a failure but a failure waiting to happen. This is the pedal cluster bracket from my Porsche 944 Turbo. Not only is it split in two places, it was held in by about half the number of bolts it was supposed to have. Thanks PO, just another one of your fuckups!  
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Oct 18, 2013 00:30
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JayKay posted:Ever wondered what would happen if you sent a tire off a ski jump? Well this was a recommended link off that video.
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Oct 18, 2013 00:49
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If I owned an alignment shop, I'd do this on purpose 
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Oct 18, 2013 01:54
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sharkytm posted:Why is this 4 runner misfiring? Don't run Bosch plugs in a 4Runner. At least with mine, it runs like dog poo poo with anything but OEM NGK/Denso twin-tip plugs. The 5VZ is really picky about plugs and wires, for some reason.
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Oct 18, 2013 03:28
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Don't run them in a Subaru, either (for that matter, only use NGK in a Subaru). Anyway, I didn't know better, and this happened within about 2 weeks. gently caress Bosch plugs, they seem to suck in everything...
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Oct 18, 2013 03:40
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The Midniter posted:When I was around 13, I was walking from a video rental store that my dad dropped me off at to the CVS he was at across the street. An 18-wheeler took a right turn too sharply and squeezed one of the tires against the sharp curb, and the tire proceeded to explode. This was about 50 feet in front of me, and not only was it the loudest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, but it propelled sand and dirt right into my eyes. I'm surprised I didn't have a heart attack that day. I was working at a bulk storage terminal (where the tankers get gas) and when I was up by the road, a passing tanker blew out a tire. I hit the deck and expected to be blown to bits in the next nanosecond. When you hear an explosion and you are surrounded by 500k-1mil gallon gasoline tanks, your life does indeed flash before your eyes. Apologies for the double post, I had some catching up to do with this thread.
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Oct 18, 2013 03:48
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I think my turbo qualifies for this thread... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtfmlQiMd_E      
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Oct 18, 2013 05:49
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bandman posted:Don't run Bosch plugs in a Fixed.
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Oct 18, 2013 07:23
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Hey, I had a Bosch plug in my Enfield. Wait...it was like six Bosch plugs, because they kept fouling or breaking. Now I have an NGK B8ES and it has been fine for over a year (3-4 Bosch equivalents).
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Oct 18, 2013 14:01
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I am dumbfounded that Bosch still exists as a company. Every experience with a Bosch product (both electrical car components as well as non-electric parts) has ended with my throwing up my hands and vowing to never buy Bosch again. It all started with a vw coilpack.
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Oct 18, 2013 14:09
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Hilariously my old Sachs Dolmar chainsaw has a Bosch plug in it and its been in there for drat near 20 years- Still running the original plug and its so old it still says "Made in West Germany" on it!
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Oct 18, 2013 14:09
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I have literally never had a problem with a Bosch O2 sensor, fuel pump, or airbag controller. My vehicles don't use any Bosch sensors that I'm aware of though (aside from the O2s.) Hell the fuel pump in my 91 is now over 250k miles, and still going strong. I bought a brand new fuel pump for it when I swapped the tank and sender, then realized it was an Airtex and decided I'd rather trust the 230k stock fuel pump than one of those. It was the right decision... I didn't even replace the sock, just left it on the pump, because the one autozone gave me was nowhere near fitting properly.
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Oct 18, 2013 14:18
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:I am dumbfounded that Bosch still exists as a company. Every experience with a Bosch product (both electrical car components as well as non-electric parts) has ended with my throwing up my hands and vowing to never buy Bosch again. Their dishwashers are decent
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Oct 18, 2013 14:20
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xp67 posted:If I owned an alignment shop, I'd do this on purpose If Motronic was in the neighbourhood it would drive them insane.
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Oct 18, 2013 14:27
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Farking Bastage posted:Their dishwashers are decent I'm reasonably satisfied with their electric drills, as well.
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Oct 18, 2013 15:08
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I've never had a problem with Bosch sensors (barring swap-meet CIS-E poo poo) or fuel pumps. I really like their wiper blades too. NGK plugs are all I run though. I'm only dimly aware that other brands even exist. The best part about NGKs is buying them for an old Japanese car, getting NOS left over at the warehouse and thus having the retro 70s packaging on some of them. 
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Oct 18, 2013 15:20
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Seat Safety Switch posted:NGK plugs are all I run though. I'm only dimly aware that other brands even exist. The best part about NGKs is buying them for an old Japanese car, getting NOS left over at the warehouse and thus having the retro 70s packaging on some of them. Retro 70s packaging? Do you mean the yellow boxes? Because those are, hilariously, definitely still current packaging. And when it comes to broken spark plugs, it's really the center electrode breaking off that ends up causing damage. The ground electrodes are small enough that they can make it past the valves. The center electrode, though, tends to cause problems if it goes, as it's a much bigger piece. That said, the center electrode doesn't break off unless there's already something seriously wrong with the engine and/or calibration. The only time you'd ever want to run Bosch +4s is if you cannot get your car to stop fouling AND going to a hotter heat range will cause pre-ignition. Someone mentioned NGK and Denso "Twin tip" plugs. From what I've seen, then Denso plugs basically form the ground electrode "tip" by punching the ground electrode material. NGK plugs have a platinum pin (kind of like the one on the center electrode, though that material is an iridium alloy) welded onto the ground electrode, which is better for durability. Depending on the engine, the wear on the ground electrode can be pretty severe, and especially in those designs, as the tips have smaller surface areas and thus more gap growth.
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Oct 18, 2013 15:31
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My VW came from the factory with Bosch "super 4" plugs and only ran properly on them to fart out 50 blisterng horsepower, but every other car gets NGK spark or glow plugs and I'll swear by them all day every day. The retro packaging is adorable. I've never had a problem with Bosch either, but I'm too young to ever have touched a K-Jetronic system. My whole car's engine management is Bosch parts, you've got me worried now. 
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Oct 18, 2013 16:21
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:I am dumbfounded that Bosch still exists as a company. Every experience with a Bosch product (both electrical car components as well as non-electric parts) has ended with my throwing up my hands and vowing to never buy Bosch again. I've never had any major issues with a single Bosch component, and I run both their turbodiesel parts (injection pumps, sensors, injectors, etc.) and their gas parts (CIS Fuel Injection, etc.) I do run NGK spark plugs though. Bosch is on the forefront of a lot of technologies, so honestly you are being a little unfair.
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Oct 18, 2013 16:23
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I don't even know where the failure is here, suspecting a fuel filter, but I know carb needles should _prrrrrrrrrobably_ not look like this.
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Oct 18, 2013 16:43
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bandman posted:I was working at a bulk storage terminal (where the tankers get gas) and when I was up by the road, a passing tanker blew out a tire. I hit the deck and expected to be blown to bits in the next nanosecond. When you hear an explosion and you are surrounded by 500k-1mil gallon gasoline tanks, your life does indeed flash before your eyes. I'm driving from Durham to Philly, it's about 3:00am, I'm passing an 18-wheeler on I-95. He has a blowout just as I'm passing that particular tire. I swore someone just fired a gun at me. When I looked over and saw the sparks I started to calm down but it still took about 30 minutes for the adrenaline to wear off.
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Oct 18, 2013 18:59
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CommieGIR posted:I've never had any major issues with a single Bosch component, and I run both their turbodiesel parts (injection pumps, sensors, injectors, etc.) and their gas parts (CIS Fuel Injection, etc.) I can understand where the frustration comes from though. My 2 largest experiences with bosch parts are the VP44 injection pump out of the 24v cummins, a $1,100 part that only lasts 100k kms, and the MAF in my BMW which with a BMW part number is $600, with a VW part number is $170, when the parts are the same down to the plug.
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Oct 18, 2013 19:05
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Powershift posted:I have a camera with LEDs that plugs into a laptop that would fit through that hole. I think i paid $40, it's a seriously good investment. I have this same one. Do not discount the usefulness of this cheap device. Not every person wants to buy a professional tool. It has a long USB cable I have used mine to look: inside combustion chambers of engines with large enough spark plug holes at the top of pistons in engines with spark plug holes too small for an obstruction in a household heating system to inspect a chimney deep into an inner fenderwell attached to a magnetic tool to retrieve a lost tool into a bathroom sink roof vent (it is water resistant)
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Oct 18, 2013 20:03
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This is currently in the middle of the road blocking traffic outside my apartment....  There is nobody in it, it's just sitting there. 
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Oct 18, 2013 20:51
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It's a VW product working as intended. What's the big surprise?
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Oct 18, 2013 20:55
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Maker Of Shoes posted:It's a VW product working as intended. What's the big surprise? Hey now.. Don't be sayin thing like that about VW's.. its not on fire Veeb0rg fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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Oct 18, 2013 21:06
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So the dude came back in a cop car with a can of gas. Filled it up and drove off. In the last two months there's been a 30's ford coupe, jetta, full size chevy truck, and that. Run out of gas in the exact same spot. Although most of them make it into the parking area in front of the apartment building rather than just stopping in the middle of the road...
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Oct 18, 2013 21:13
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Veeb0rg posted:Hey now.. Don't be sayin thing like that about VW's.. No, car fires belong to Ford and Lamborghini, you can't beat em.
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Oct 18, 2013 21:14
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CommieGIR posted:No, car fires belong to Ford and Lamborghini, you can't beat em. Aircooled VW's had quite the reputation of catching fire. The brass fitting would work loose on the carb and start spraying raw fuel all over the engine/exhaust.
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Oct 18, 2013 21:21
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KozmoNaut posted:I'm reasonably satisfied with [Bosch] electric drills, as well. We had a Milwakee cordless drill at work. I don't know how old it was, but since it was there when I got hired it had to be at least 12 years old when someone decided they needed it better at home, never had any problems with it (except that it was heavy enough to euthanize cows with). Since then we have to get a new one every year since the Bosch we get now breaks like clockwork. And they're all those "professional blue power tools" too.   Oops.
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Oct 18, 2013 21:31
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Veeb0rg posted:Aircooled VW's had quite the reputation of catching fire. The brass fitting would work loose on the carb and start spraying raw fuel all over the engine/exhaust. Isn't there a bit of magnesium in the engine bay as well? That likes to burn.
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Oct 18, 2013 22:17
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rscott posted:Isn't there a bit of magnesium in the engine bay as well? That likes to burn.
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Oct 18, 2013 22:27
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rscott posted:Isn't there a bit of magnesium in the engine bay as well? That likes to burn. Everything else would have burned by the time the magnesium ignites. It takes a lot of heat to light large chunks of magnesium. e:fb
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Oct 18, 2013 22:30
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Haha yeah, either the engine blocks, heads, or both are made of a magnesium alloy. At the last VW meetup/campout I attended, a guy caused a bunch of drama by throwing old VW engine blocks into the campfire. Magnesium burns white hot and neither water or CO2 will put it out, and gives off UV radiation while doing so. (Mg actually burns better in CO2, while water will flash to steam and fling metal everywhere in the process) The organizers were pretty pissed and called a fire truck to the campground, although honestly there's not much you can do besides watch it burn (behind sunglasses) and keep people away.
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Oct 18, 2013 22:39
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Nidhg00670000 posted:We had a Milwakee cordless drill at work. I don't know how old it was, but since it was there when I got hired it had to be at least 12 years old when someone decided they needed it better at home, never had any problems with it (except that it was heavy enough to euthanize cows with). Since then we have to get a new one every year since the Bosch we get now breaks like clockwork. And they're all those "professional blue power tools" too. Chevy NP241C? Not entirely sure but it certainly looks like it. Either that or a '94 and later Dodge fullsize case, but I believe the front output yoke is different on those. Never seen that particular failure but I'm betting on a shoddy SAS, front driveshaft didn't have enough slip joint and suspension fully compressed and shattered the case?
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Oct 18, 2013 22:41
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MadScientistWorking posted:If you actually create a fire hot enough to ignite magnesium the magnesium is the least of your worries. In cars, yes. But sometimes the wrong people decide to use a bit too much magnesium in their barbecue burner alloys, and this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp4ucQCjNvU
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Oct 18, 2013 23:51
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chrisgt posted:This is currently in the middle of the road blocking traffic outside my apartment.... As the Vanagon Goon, I have to say "that happens". It's air cooled (no lower rad grille) so it's not the miserable wasserboxer blowing up. I've done that exact traffic blocking thing with the blue 84 that I had, except it was Highway 51 in Millington, and on Union Ave in Memphis. Regarding the subject of Fire - on a van there's a little plastic fuel coupler that is held to the firewall with bolts and is terrible to break and puke fuel all over the engine resulting in your van burning down.  This plastic piece of garbage couples the fuel lines in the engine compartment to the line leading up to the tank. When the hose busts off the end of it it's angled to shoot pressurized fuel right at the exhaust. This one piece has resulted in more fires than anything else. You can see this thing in the photo on the wasserboxer wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserboxer Vanagoon fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Oct 18, 2013 |
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Oct 18, 2013 23:52
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kastein posted:Chevy NP241C? Not entirely sure but it certainly looks like it. Either that or a '94 and later Dodge fullsize case, but I believe the front output yoke is different on those. You are correct. Running a 241 with 46s. Too much heavy poo poo causing spring compression to essentially make the driveshaft too long (compressed most of the way). Hit a big bump, tires actually came of the ground, shoving the shaft back into the TC. Something had to give and the cast aluminum half of the TC was it.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:We had a Milwakee cordless drill at work. I don't know how old it was, but since it was there when I got hired it had to be at least 12 years old when someone decided they needed it better at home, never had any problems with it (except that it was heavy enough to euthanize cows with). Since then we have to get a new one every year since the Bosch we get now breaks like clockwork. And they're all those "professional blue power tools" too. Mine's green, corded, cost $35 and has taken everything I've thrown at it so far. It's probably all plastic gears inside, so it will break someday, I guess. Though from the nose it makes, it does sound like metal gears, so I dunno.
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