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Clearly the solution America needs is the Affordable Tire Care Act.
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bull3964 posted:The best way to keep unsafe vehicles off the road is to
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Apr 26, 2017 19:03
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xzzy posted:Clearly the solution America needs is the Affordable Tire Care Act. Make America Grip Again
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Apr 26, 2017 19:04
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This topic is old and tired can we move on
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Apr 26, 2017 19:05
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Elsa posted:This topic is old and tired can we move on I think we need to retread the discussion a bit more.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:38
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spog posted:The best way to keep unsafe vehicles off the road is to invest in good and inexpensive public transportation.have regular inspections, a proactive traffic police force and confiscation penalties for non-compliance I hate poor people, too 
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Apr 26, 2017 21:17
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tactlessbastard posted:I hate poor people, too Your bank balance - or lack thereof - is no excuse for endangering other road users. Emissions testing etc, fair enough, that's kind of "eh", it's not actively harming anyone directly, but tyres, brakes, lights, and poo poo that's important to vehicle control? You will make sure it's in serviceable condition, or you'll get off the road, and I absolutely do not care what your excuse is not to. It puts the usable tyres on the rims, or else it gets the hose again.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:07
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I'm guessing that was directed at the dismissal of public transit. America seriously needs reliable subsidized public transit. In most cities living within walking distance of work is very expensive and in rural areas work is often 20+ miles away. I live in an area without inspections and would be happy to have them.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:24
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It's a nice thought, but until it's easy to get from place to place in the country, or even just around a city/town/region without a car, it's really just going to gently caress people over. "oh, sorry, your tires are down to 2/32nds, we're impounding your car. Good luck getting your kids to school tomorrow and then to work." Meanwhile drunk and distracted driving are killing way more people on the roads every year.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:29
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Bibendum posted:I'm guessing that was directed at the dismissal of public transit. America seriously needs reliable subsidized public transit. In most cities living within walking distance of work is very expensive and in rural areas work is often 20+ miles away. I live in an area without inspections and would be happy to have them.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:30
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Bibendum posted:I'm guessing that was directed at the dismissal of public transit. America seriously needs reliable subsidized public transit. In most cities living within walking distance of work is very expensive and in rural areas work is often 20+ miles away. I live in an area without inspections and would be happy to have them. If that's my post, then to clarify: I was glibly suggesting that cheap, reliable public transportation will not stop people from driving dangerous shitbuckets on the road since the people driving on bald tyres are doing it because they are assholes, not poor. I totally agree that the geography of the US means that the financially disadvantaged get screwed by the lack of public transportation.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:33
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slothrop posted:People mock me for my 2002 grandma Corolla. Guess what, I can afford it. And the service costs. Sup cheap rear end, give no fucks car buddy.  My Grandma Corolla is a 2000. Is yours beige? Mine is Beige. Or as I like to call it "Old Man Tan"Tighten up the throttle cable slack and the transmission kickdown cable and you can make it move pretty decently. http://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/topic/112409-a-guide-to-adjusting-the-throttle-cable/ be glad you don't have a 98 or 99. Those don't have the Variable Valve Timing or Coil on Plug ignition yet. How often do you have to put oil in your shitbox Corolla? Stupid 1ZZ-FE. :/ Vanagoon fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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Apr 26, 2017 22:35
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jamal posted:Wait, really? I need some fresh summer tires and those came up on tirerack. Hmmm. Probably going to get the tirerack branded te37 knockoffs too. That's what I've heard from a few places (GRM/MiataTurbo, iirc). I have a set of 255/45 to go on 17x9 RPF1s for the S2000 tomorrow. They run wide. Really wide. Like I measured a set of 255/45 RA1s and they were the same width.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:42
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tactlessbastard posted:I hate poor people, too gently caress off. Unsafe cars dont belong on the roads, no matter your bank balance. As much as NSW loving sucks for modifying cars, they have the "Get that heap of poo poo off the road" completely right. Too poor to fix it? Don't care. You ain't endangering yourself or other road users. Car not registered? You walk immediatly from the spot you got caught. Car not roadworthy? Refused rego OR get canaried and you walk from the spot you got caught. No excuses on this one. Public transport isnt good either here but it's not an acceptible excuse. quote:it's really just going to gently caress people over So does having a blowout from a to the canvas tyre and hitting an innocent party. It's harsh but come on, unroadworthy cars are a danger to everyone on the roads for obvious reason. Unregistered cars means no insurance in an accident.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:44
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Unregistered cars means no insurance in an accident.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:48
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:gently caress off. Unsafe cars dont belong on the roads, no matter your bank balance. As much as NSW loving sucks for modifying cars, they have the "Get that heap of poo poo off the road" completely right. Too poor to fix it? Don't care. You ain't endangering yourself or other road users. Car not registered? You walk immediatly from the spot you got caught. Car not roadworthy? Refused rego OR get canaried and you walk from the spot you got caught. No excuses on this one. agreed. and it'll be *my* fault when someones ill maintained piece of poo poo kills me on a moto. Can't afford to keep up the maint? loving sell it and get a bus pass.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:49
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Public transport isnt good either here but it's not an acceptible excuse. PT in every eastern Australian state is loving leaps and bounds ahead of the vast majority of the US my man.
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Apr 26, 2017 22:50
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Hi don't D&D in here
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Apr 26, 2017 22:52
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Platystemon posted:Make America Grip Again 
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Apr 26, 2017 22:55
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So would retreads (is that still a thing) be the boob job of the tyre world?
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Apr 26, 2017 23:18
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Captain Hair posted:My personal Worst spare wheel location award goes to: Peugeot 306. Hah! I'm so glad someone else has had to deal with this bullshit. It really is the worst, even if they put a proper hex head on top it would be so much better, but that weird oval flat-head abomination is about the worst shape possible. I can't even remember how I got it undone the one time I needed to lower the cage, but I dumped about half a tub of heavy grease on the threads before doing the cage back up. gently caress that noise.
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Apr 26, 2017 23:27
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I was driving a friend's Kingswood home for him many years ago, as he had gotten drunk the night before and broken his leg. Anyway, he was notoriously cheap, and had retreads all around ("mate they were $200 for all four corners! Can't beat that!"). The front left delaminated on the highway, and started smacking the gently caress out of the wheel well as I shat myself and pulled over. Crawled home at about 20km/h and told him to stop being so loving stingy.
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Apr 26, 2017 23:30
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Vanagoon posted:How often do you have to put oil in your shitbox Corolla? Stupid 1ZZ-FE. :/ Our 2005 with the same engine never consumed any oil.. at least not that I could see. I could never get a straight answer about whether that issue had actually been fixed or if we were just lucky. Also that color is officially known as "Desert Sand Mica", thank you very much 
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Apr 26, 2017 23:36
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Vanagoon posted:Sup cheap rear end, give no fucks car buddy. Mine is Old Lady Silver. I call her Beryl. Manual, natch so she gets about ok. Doesn't seem to use much, if any oil. I've seen a lot of people complaining about the 1ZZ-FE but they all seem to be in the wrong hemisphere?! Might be she's only done 110k km so the issues haven't set in
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Apr 26, 2017 23:44
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DethMarine21 posted:Also that color is officially known as "Desert Sand Mica", thank you very much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rPC-yK959s
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Apr 26, 2017 23:49
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So how much of a dangerous thing was the refurbished tire shop we used to go to? Only $20 a tire and they'd y to match tread patterns!
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Apr 26, 2017 23:53
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slothrop posted:Mine is Old Lady Silver. I call her Beryl. Manual, natch so she gets about ok. Doesn't seem to use much, if any oil. I've seen a lot of people complaining about the 1ZZ-FE but they all seem to be in the wrong hemisphere?! Might be she's only done 110k km so the issues haven't set in Our 1ZZ-FE 'rolla (white, my wife calls it "Lilly")has double that mileage and is still dandy. Only ever had routine maintenance. I keep looking for excuses to get something more "interesting" but then I remember all the money I don't spend keeping it around as a DD and think better of the idea. Wife is supplied a new Outlander as part of her package, so we are doing pretty well in the car running cost stakes these days.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:02
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You Am I posted:So would retreads (is that still a thing) be the boob job of the tyre world? Boob jobs are bolt ons so that would be outlandish body kits.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:02
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DethMarine21 posted:Our 2005 with the same engine never consumed any oil.. at least not that I could see. I could never get a straight answer about whether that issue had actually been fixed or if we were just lucky. If I remember correctly only a certain year range has the piston ring issue because they eventually changed/upgraded them.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:13
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I had a dark blue '98 5MT Corolla that didn't lose a drop of oil. That thing ran so clean the oil came out almost the same color it went in after 5000 miles. i miss that car, it was the total opposite of this thread.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:37
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From the last page but driving around severed halves of cars is a time-honored youtube tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftI4Zj1hpc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1IVSBBQIjA Apparently even Top Gear has gotten in on the action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObY5eaK9e6w
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Apr 27, 2017 03:17
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InitialDave posted:Don't forget, in America, comedy minimum coverages means even being hit by an insured driver can leave you hosed over financially. I know car ownership is seriously expensive in Germany but im really really glad that you can't even register a vehicle without proof of insurance. Even my cheap as gently caress basic insurance covers 100 Million Euros worth of damage. Its also nice that every car has to get a serious TÜV inspection every two years. I once failed one because the ball joint on the control arm had a bit of play. Of course you bitch and moan and complain when you fail an inspection because of something like that but knowing that every car you encounter has to have at least a basic level of maintenance is kinda reassuring.
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Apr 27, 2017 12:19
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Shai-Hulud posted:I know car ownership is seriously expensive in Germany but im really really glad that you can't even register a vehicle without proof of insurance. Even my cheap as gently caress basic insurance covers 100 Million Euros worth of damage. Too bad people still get their shitheaps through by going to disreputable places doing the inspections.
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Apr 27, 2017 12:24
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SEKCobra posted:Too bad people still get their shitheaps through by going to disreputable places doing the inspections. Texas used to have two stickers on the windshield of cars. One was your registration, which required proof of insurance to renew, and the other is your annual inspection sticker. They would both have the month and year they're due so that officers can look at them quickly to see if you're current on both. Now they have the 'Texas Two-Step' which is a quaint, Texasy way of requiring a passing mark on an annual insection to renew registration, and only one sticker. In the past, disreputable shops would get paid a few bucks under the table and give you a new sticker for inspection. Now you have to have your results put into a system that will get pinged when you want to renew registration. Before this, you could just get a fake sticker and be on your way in your horrible hazard to everyone on the road. Now, if you don't pass inspection, you don't get renewal. What people do now is scrape the registration stickers off and print out a fake paper tag and tape it to the back of their heaps. I've seen tags that say 2011 ford fusion on the back of those banana shaped mercedes cars (CLS?) I've seen fake paper tags taped to license plates. TX law states you have to take your tags off the car at sale, so there you go. You know when a car has a check engine light that makes it fail inspection because you'll see paper tags on ancient shitheaps like early 2000's hyundai accents with 4 different body panel colors.
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Apr 27, 2017 12:37
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Well yeah theres always ways around the TÜV if you know a guy who knows a guy. But its also not THAT hard to pass the inspection.
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Apr 27, 2017 12:40
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Enourmo posted:From the last page but driving around severed halves of cars is a time-honored youtube tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8utZ6zCVu9U
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Apr 27, 2017 15:08
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Enourmo posted:From the last page but driving around severed halves of cars is a time-honored youtube tradition: Don't forget James Bond! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvQK4TqkeRM
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Apr 27, 2017 17:11
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Enourmo posted:
That's not exactly what I meant by 'drag race'. Did someone already post in here about the F-16 crash in MD? http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/military-says-mechanical-failure-likely-cause-of-f-16-crash/428956746 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-aircraft-down-20170405-story.html
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Apr 27, 2017 19:18
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Enourmo posted:From the last page but driving around severed halves of cars is a time-honored youtube tradition: David's Farm had one that he actually put a single strut and wheel in the back so it was pretty functional. Still did reverse wheelies, but not as painful on the landings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktlvQgngq90
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:That's not exactly what I meant by 'drag race'. Probably not engine related or I probably would have heard something at work about it by now.
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