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Friar Zucchini posted:Sure, as long as I'm fighting one with the 8.1 or a V10 Excursion My uncle and I rented a 16ft box truck from Penske to get some motorcycles back from NC and with the 6.0 on my leg of the trip I was able to squeeze 14mpg out of it. The GenIII engines are amazing.
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Rust Into Pieces.
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 03:16 |
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El Scotch posted:Heated underground parking means I lose by default. It's ok, we don't have any snow out here in the great frozen northwest above the 45th parallel either. It was in the 60s this past weekend. I suppose I could put a couple ice cubes on top of my car and take a sympathy pic for all the posters whose cars will be replaced by a pile of iron oxide by next week.
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 04:13 |
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HotCanadianChick posted:
Goddammit, I was going to do this on the Miata tomorrow
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HotCanadianChick posted:It's ok, we don't have any snow out here in the great frozen northwest above the 45th parallel either. It was in the 60s this past weekend. It was seventyfuckingtwo yesterday in Denver. My car has been clean for almost a week at this point. It's crazy out here.
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 17:58 |
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Does that snowfoam stuff work well?
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:08 |
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veedubfreak posted:It was seventyfuckingtwo yesterday in Denver. My car has been clean for almost a week at this point. It's crazy out here. There are cars here parked near relatively quiet, residential corners where the drains are - those drains are clogged (with ice, leaves, random debris, and more dog poo poo) and even if only 3 cars an hour drive through that puddle, that parked car is turning a horrid shade of dark grey, regardless of the paint colour. I feel bad for the owners, you can't get into a car like that without getting that slime all over your clothes, too.
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:35 |
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Can I play? Yes I know the wire nut is janky, wanted to be street legal before I drove back to school. Anyone have a good idea where to put my license plate so the campus cops get off my nuts?
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:55 |
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Do you have to have one on the front? Just grab some zip-ties and hang it somewhere.
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:56 |
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ziptie it to the axle.
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 18:59 |
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Hang it from the holes on the bottom of the pushbar
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 19:03 |
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track day bro! posted:Does that snowfoam stuff work well? It seems to work okay. Tbh all it is is a lazy pre wash
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 19:29 |
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BigFuzzyJesus posted:Anyone have a good idea where to put my nuts? Put some truck nuts on the front and tie the plate to the nuts.
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 21:18 |
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BigFuzzyJesus posted:Can I play? Yes I know the wire nut is janky, wanted to be street legal before I drove back to school. Here, with 3M Dual Lock velcro.
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 23:29 |
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I think that's where the winch is supposed to go.
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# ? Jan 28, 2015 23:32 |
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BigFuzzyJesus posted:Can I play? Yes I know the wire nut is janky, wanted to be street legal before I drove back to school. neighbor's huge pushbar jeep has it wrapped around one of the bars, had never seen that done before.
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# ? Jan 29, 2015 00:00 |
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Motronic posted:I think that's where the winch is supposed to go. Hence the velcro, and he doesnt have a winch anyway [edit] those tires look like they would be terrible in the snow
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# ? Jan 29, 2015 00:09 |
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D C posted:[edit] those tires look like they would be terrible in the snow They look bald. They'll be terrible on anything.
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# ? Jan 29, 2015 00:29 |
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I'm gonna figure out some sort of fixed mount, would just weld tabs but I don't want to fudgup the powdercoating. And velcro or clips makes me weary of somebody stealing it. Yes a second hand 8000lb poly winch goes there, haven't had time to mount it. Yes the tires are terrible but I live in Iowa where we have seen a grand total of 11" of snow over the whole winter so I'm going to just wait till this spring when I will have saved enough to do the tires and necessary re-gear when I can also afford a locker since it would make the most since to put in when I have the carrier out and am setting it up for different gears.
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# ? Jan 29, 2015 01:26 |
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My '14 Fiesta ST in the NYC "Blizzard" on Monday, thought the headlights looked dope.
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# ? Jan 29, 2015 01:37 |
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ExecuDork posted:It's weird to me that a warm spell in winter means your car is clean. Every car here has been utterly filthy for a week because the melted slush on the roads means all of the dirt and grime and poo poo (literally - dog poo poo doesn't get picked up in winter, for some reason) is splashing all over. Clean is a relative term. Compared to how it looked last Friday before I ran it through the carwash it's still "clean". Sure it has some splashes up the side, but the roof and hood are still clean. And I can actually read my license plate
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# ? Jan 29, 2015 17:12 |
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Honda Civics are different different in Europe - All 5 door hatchbacks now, but its my first brand new car; And adding to the winter photos here's a very lovely picture of it being snowed on;
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 21:30 |
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How do you open the back door(s) from the outside? Are they trying out some TRV-esque kinda thing?
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 21:52 |
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Motronic posted:How do you open the back door(s) from the outside? Are they trying out some TRV-esque kinda thing? I think there is a handle on the C pillar rear door.
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 21:55 |
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Motronic posted:How do you open the back door(s) from the outside? Are they trying out some TRV-esque kinda thing? That black triangular portion at the rearmost corner of the door is the handle, you don't get as good amount of leverage as a standard handle but the doors are light. How it looked on the previous gen; Cancelbot fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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Cancelbot posted:Honda Civics are different different in Europe - All 5 door hatchbacks now, but its my first brand new car; How's the ride on the new ones? I have the previous gen, and it's pretty drat bumpy, it's one of the few complaints I have.
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 22:08 |
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Cancelbot posted:Honda Civics are different different in Europe - All 5 door hatchbacks now, but its my first brand new car; Its so pathetic that Honda doesn't bother selling these things here
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 23:12 |
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5 door Civic mmmmmm.
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 23:13 |
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Motronic posted:How do you open the back door(s) from the outside? Are they trying out some TRV-esque kinda thing? You are obviously not familiar with the Nissan Juke, which has handles in the same place.
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 23:16 |
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meatpimp posted:You are obviously not familiar with the
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 23:25 |
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And the Nissan Pathfinder has had the REAR doors in a similar place since the '90s. The FRONT door high-mounted door handles were almost exclusively GM's bad idea and the broke frequently. The Juke / 5-door Civic blend in, but seem to be a solid place for a rear door door handle.
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 23:51 |
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Yeah I forgot to mention the passenger side didnt work when I sold it. Still pretty cool though!
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# ? Jan 30, 2015 23:55 |
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meatpimp posted:The FRONT door high-mounted door handles were almost exclusively GM's bad idea and the broke frequently.
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# ? Jan 31, 2015 00:02 |
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Sounds like they should design cars with low, but very strong doors and maaaaaaaasive side windows. I'm a genius.
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# ? Jan 31, 2015 00:04 |
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El Scotch posted:Sounds like they should design cars with low, but very strong doors and maaaaaaaasive side windows.
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# ? Jan 31, 2015 00:11 |
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ExecuDork posted:GM engineers probably went through a too-much-Dukes-of-Hazzard phase, and ended up trying everything they could to convince their customers to weld the doors and just dive in through the missing window. That also explains the ease with which plastic interior components like the door cards ...oh gently caress!
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# ? Jan 31, 2015 00:14 |
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AirRaid posted:How's the ride on the new ones? I have the previous gen, and it's pretty drat bumpy, it's one of the few complaints I have. Vastly improved. They're like two different cars and I have the rare privilege of having the matching model of the previous generation through my sister-in-law; over the same roads the 9th gen glides where the 8th would crash about. But you don't lose much in terms of handling either. It's also much quieter; even on those 17" wheels which are standard now on anything above the poverty spec. If you weren't ~170 miles away you could have a go, but you could always be cheeky and blag a test drive The only lesser part about it would be that the 1.8 VTEC seems less urgent in the 9th, but I've only got 300 miles on this so far vs. her 60,000.
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# ? Jan 31, 2015 00:45 |
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The night I picked it up from the detailer: The next day after a trip to London...
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# ? Jan 31, 2015 00:58 |
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meatpimp posted:You are obviously not familiar with the Nissan Juke, which has handles in the same place. I happily admit to that.
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mrk posted:The next day after a trip to London... Good man rolling with the top down in winter. I like that.
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