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Linedance posted:Continental ContiPremiumContact 2 can be had in 195/60-14. Hth That poster was getting all pissy over the exact size for no reason and there's a reason he's on probation, honestly compromises have to be made with cars like that. I can't get summer tires in 175/70-13s so I chose a different size and got some rims. Suprisingly the universe didn't come crashing down cause the odometer was 1.15% out.
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A local car DUDE is trying to avoid having his car repossessed so he's decided that a coat of plasti-dip and swapping out the badges to another brand will throw the repo men off his trail. He's rolling around in a late 00's BMW and he's upside down on the loan so I'm really hoping this brings some serious entertainment. My friends and I are fully encouraging him to do this and have been making other suggestions like "Hey man, swap out your plate for some random car at work so they can't ID you that way!"
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Sep 1, 2015 03:26
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MrChips posted:I think you and I have different definitions of terrible - that BMW is so ridiculous that it's nothing but awesome. I think it is exactly the right amount of ridiculous and I would drive that exclusively for the rest of my life.
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Sep 1, 2015 03:41
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Rhyno posted:A local car DUDE is trying to avoid having his car repossessed so he's decided that a coat of plasti-dip and swapping out the badges to another brand will throw the repo men off his trail. He's rolling around in a late 00's BMW and he's upside down on the loan so I'm really hoping this brings some serious entertainment. My friends and I are fully encouraging him to do this and have been making other suggestions like "Hey man, swap out your plate for some random car at work so they can't ID you that way!" haha he better plastidip the car a different color and also park in a different zip code because those guys are BRUTAL edit I didn't read your post that well but my point stands.
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Sep 1, 2015 03:55
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Rhyno posted:My friends and I are fully encouraging him to do this and have been making other suggestions like "Hey man, swap out your plate for some random car at work so they can't ID you that way!" You were being funny up until this point. This is lovely advice and bound to screw over someone else who doesn't need to deal with that sort of poo poo.
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Sep 1, 2015 04:06
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MetaJew posted:You were being funny up until this point. This is lovely advice and bound to screw over someone else who doesn't need to deal with that sort of poo poo. He's not trying to help, and anyone dumb enough to follow through with advice to literally steal someone's license plate and drive around with that plate on their car deserves to have everything bad happen to them.
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Sep 1, 2015 04:17
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MetaJew posted:You were being funny up until this point. This is lovely advice and bound to screw over someone else who doesn't need to deal with that sort of poo poo. Terrible Robot posted:He's not trying to help, and anyone dumb enough to follow through with advice to literally steal someone's license plate and drive around with that plate on their car deserves to have everything bad happen to them. Yeah TB gets it.
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Sep 1, 2015 05:02
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I know he's not trying to help, but if the dumbass has all these other great ideas to avoid the repo man, he might just listen to you.
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Sep 1, 2015 05:54
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MetaJew posted:I know he's not trying to help, but if the dumbass has all these other great ideas to avoid the repo man, he might just listen to you. And?
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Sep 1, 2015 06:24
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It's a pain in the rear end for the innocent person who parked near him at work and ends up with the wrong plate. Do you like dealing with the DMV?
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Sep 1, 2015 06:51
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Seriously? And he steals someone else's license plate. Where are the goons who say "Don't gently caress with another person's car" when I need them?
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Sep 1, 2015 06:52
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MetaJew posted:Seriously? And he steals someone else's license plate. Where are the goons who say "Don't gently caress with another person's car" when I need them? Hi Don't gently caress with anyone else's car, are you a loving retard or something?
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Sep 1, 2015 07:08
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All this cash for clunkers talk reminds me of a fun story dating back to around that time. I was interning for a United States Senator's office at the time, which meant taking phone calls from all of our lunatic constituents. This was in spring-summer 2009, so GM was trying to sell off Saab, Hummer, etc during its bailout. I got a call from this one constituent who was furious that GM was thinking of selling Hummer to the Chinese. I don't have the quote handy, but he didn't want them to get their hands on all the military technology that Hummer had. Usually I just wrote down what was being said, thanked the constituent and proceeded to weep after they got off the phone, but I knew that the Hummer brand vehicles had nothing to do with the military trucks and I decided to inform this man of the fact. I had, up until this point, prided myself on never getting into a fight with a constituent on the phone. He did not want to be told that he was wrong. He did not believe that the H2 has more in common with a Chevy Blazer than a military vehicle. He was uninterested in the distinction between AM General and General Motors. He didn't want the drat Chinese getting the technology to build 30 year old outdated American military trucks from General Motors Hummer brand in the year 2009. After this call I took a break from the phones for a while. Goddamn, people are dumb as gently caress.
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Sep 1, 2015 07:59
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I personally would've gone the other way and furthered his fears by going on about all the advanced jet plane technology Saab had.
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Sep 1, 2015 16:02
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Co-Workers auto-folding side mirrors stopped working. Apparently this requires replacing the transmission for some dumb reason. Nissan is the worst, but its under warranty at least.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:13
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Alighieri posted:Co-Workers auto-folding side mirrors stopped working. Apparently this requires replacing the transmission for some dumb reason. Nissan is the worst, but its under warranty at least. What? I'd love to see the book procedure on that.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:16
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Maker Of Shoes posted:What? I'd love to see the book procedure on that. Seriously. How is this even a thing?
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Sep 1, 2015 17:21
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Seriously I'd expect that sort of thing from an automaker like Citroen. That's all kinds of hosed up. I guess Renault is trying to close the stupid engineering ideas gap with their national rivals.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:25
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Obviously the sensor the car uses to know when it's safe to fold the mirrors is in the transmission.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:27
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Autofolding mirrors are basically proof that the car is too drat wide.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:37
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Obviously you've never tried to get a bag of hockey equipment through a parking lot at an ice rink. 
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Sep 1, 2015 17:38
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veedubfreak posted:Autofolding mirrors are basically proof that the car is too drat wide. It's a good feature that should be much, much more common.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:46
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Apparently they fold in when in park, when in reverse they point the mirror part down a bit so you can see the lines to park in, when in drive they go back to normal. Why all this is done in the transmission I have no clue, but pretty certain its a cost savings reason somehow.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:47
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AlmightyPants posted:All this cash for clunkers talk My family listens to NPR for the morning commute, and our local station is downright absurd about this program. I like to joke they're being held captive by Truckasaurus.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:48
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Alighieri posted:when in reverse they point the mirror part down a bit so you can see the lines to park in, when in drive they go back to normal. That's cool, too bad it's implemented in such a retarded way that requires replacing the transmission when it dies
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Sep 1, 2015 17:54
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Knowing Nissan parts catalogues they probably say something like "mirror transmission" to refer to the motor or plastic geartrain that actually folds the mirror up. It probably isn't literally the car's motive/drivetrain transmission but is a Franco-Japanese bullshit terminology repeated verbatim from some idiot service writer.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:55
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An Angry Bug posted:My family listens to NPR for the morning commute, and our local station is downright absurd about this program. I like to joke they're being held captive by Truckasaurus. Are they talking about the vehicle donation program, an ongoing program for listeners to donate their old cars to help fund public radio, or the car allowance rebate system (colloquially called cash for clunkers) than ended over 6 years ago?
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To change the bulbs on my Renault's high beams, you need to remove the front bumper completely 
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wayfinder posted:To change the bulbs on my Renault's high beams, you need to remove the front bumper completely New WRX requires fender liner removal for the parking lights. Not even the fogs, parking lights.
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Sep 1, 2015 20:36
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wayfinder posted:To change the bulbs on my Renault's high beams, you need to remove the front bumper completely There are several GM products that require this, as well. It's not a rare design flaw.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:04
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SaNChEzZ posted:New WRX requires fender liner removal for the parking lights. Not even the fogs, parking lights. NC Miata requires this for the headlight bulbs. Or bumper removal. Or impossibly tiny hands.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:07
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wayfinder posted:To change the bulbs on my Renault's high beams, you need to remove the front bumper completely My Renault era Nissan Skyline was the same.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:10
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I walk by this when I walk my dog and it makes me sad  front bumper is hanging off on the passenger side too
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neckbeard posted:I walk by this when I walk my dog and it makes me sad Such is the fate of the 80s performance car.
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Sep 2, 2015 01:32
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MRC48B posted:There are several GM products that require this, as well. It's not a rare design flaw. I'll never understand why...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzSnd50oKNw
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Sep 2, 2015 01:48
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Root Bear posted:I'll never understand why... I don't get why cars are designed to make the simplest job so loving complicated. I don't think the average Joe would have the nerve to do this.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I don't get why cars are designed to make the simplest job so loving complicated. I don't think the average Joe would have the nerve to do this. Well that's pretty much why, isn't it? Make a few more people come down to the dealer for overpriced service.
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RillAkBea posted:Well that's pretty much why, isn't it? Make a few more people come down to the dealer for overpriced service. I guess it comes down to "if you can afford the car, you can afford the service". It's like when lottery winners go nuts and buy supercars and then keel over when they have to get the thing serviced for the first time.
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joat mon posted:Are they talking about the vehicle donation program, an ongoing program for listeners to donate their old cars to help fund public radio, or the car allowance rebate system (colloquially called cash for clunkers) than ended over 6 years ago? Towing away your old car and selling it to help your local station. With your permission, of course.
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SaNChEzZ posted:New WRX requires fender liner removal for the parking lights. Not even the fogs, parking lights. not true, i've done it without removing the fender liners, need to remove the airbox and move the battery a bit, not a big deal.
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