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Ferremit posted:Speaking of truck related terrible things... 
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Rhyno posted:I'm confused, are they claiming the Holden and Chevy Cruzes are not the same car? Yep, much like how the Holden Barina is definitely not a Suzuki Swift (or a Vauxhall Corsa or a Daewoo Kalos depending on how old it is) and a Ford Laser is definitely not a Mazda 323 and a Holden Captiva is most definitely not a Daewoo Winstrom 'Aussie' Ford/Holden buyers get weird about the rebadges and over the years there's been a hell of a lot of them.
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Oct 9, 2017 09:25
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dissss posted:'Aussie' Ford/Holden buyers get weird about the rebadges and over the years there's been a hell of a lot of them. There's a trend of people replacing their Holden badges with Chevy ones. It's a tiny thing that really irritates me. The CRX with a Kompressor badge though was a hilarious sight when it used to get around my home town.
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Oct 9, 2017 09:31
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angryrobots posted:They wouldn't put squeal strips on there if they didn't intend you to use them The pads that came with my car didn't have them (no idea what brand they were, but they came off with less than ~10% wear.. rotors were pretty hosed, I elected to swap the pads and rotors together). Neither did the cheap Raybestos ceramics that went on when I replaced those. Nor do the Carquest Gold ceramics that it currently wears.  I guess the upside is I have factory alloys, so I can do a visual inspection easily. (also it needs rotors again... and the carquest pads are barely worn... this time it's getting only rotors)
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Oct 9, 2017 09:37
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Ferremit posted:Speaking of truck related terrible things... When I bought my van, I found not one, but two sets of vise-grips in the undercarriage and honestly, I have been too afraid to remove them.
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Oct 9, 2017 10:06
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Ferremit posted:Speaking of truck related terrible things... Wait.. if the rear brakes were 'clamped off', and the front brakes were inoperable... how did he stop for the police? Hmm?
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Oct 9, 2017 15:26
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Letting the brake pads on my tow vehicle get this low is terrible car stuff. I had squealing start on my front left corner when I wasn't pressing the brakes. I could see the outer pad and it had some meat on it, but when I got the tire off and looked at the inner pad I noticed it was almost out of material. I thought wear indicator squeals were supposed to make noise when you pressed the brakes, not when you were off the pedal. Anyways, I replaced the pads and the squealing went away after a few miles.
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Oct 9, 2017 15:48
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Dannywilson posted:When I bought my van, I found not one, but two sets of vise-grips in the undercarriage and honestly, I have been too afraid to remove them. Hopefully they're only structural clamps and not operational clamps like these were.
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Oct 9, 2017 17:27
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Dannywilson posted:When I bought my van, I found not one, but two sets of vise-grips in the undercarriage and honestly, I have been too afraid to remove them. I thought we pulled one set off because it was impeding us from lifting the rear and fitting the giant tires on the back?
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Oct 9, 2017 17:32
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Nocheez posted:... one pad wearing faster than the other ... Isn't that usually indicative of a stuck caliper pin or something like that? I think I have the same thing going on with my right rear caliper.
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Oct 9, 2017 17:44
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Or a bade brake hose. Or a stuck piston.
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Oct 9, 2017 17:47
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The Locator posted:Wait.. if the rear brakes were 'clamped off', and the front brakes were inoperable... how did he stop for the police? Hmm? I'm guessing the trailer brakes were working? I'm not sure why he clamped off both rear brake hoses though. It's odd to me seeing what looks like hydraulic brakes next to a diff that size. Are air brakes less common on large commercial vehicles in the upside down? Or was this just a medium size truck?
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Oct 9, 2017 19:22
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Garage2Roadtrip posted:I thought we pulled one set off because it was impeding us from lifting the rear and fitting the giant tires on the back? I think you're right, and I think that pair was guiding one of the parking brake runners.
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Oct 9, 2017 19:59
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Nocheez posted:I had squealing start on my front left corner when I wasn't pressing the brakes. ....... I thought wear indicator squeals were supposed to make noise when you pressed the brakes, not when you were off the pedal. That's exactly what they're supposed to do. If they only made noise while braking, a lot of people would think "oh, I just have noisy brakes" instead of "why is my car squeaking when I'm not touching the brakes". I mean a lot of people still ignore that too, but....
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Oct 9, 2017 20:47
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Terrible car stuff is the original owner of my 118i who decided to chuck in an extra £500 worth of extras, and instead of adding lumbar support and heated seats, opted to add 18" wheels instead. While they do indeed look extremely nice, they've increased the cost of replacement tyres by over 70%.
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Oct 9, 2017 20:56
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:The pads that came with my car didn't have them (no idea what brand they were, but they came off with less than ~10% wear.. rotors were pretty hosed, I elected to swap the pads and rotors together). The pads that were on there, as well as replacement pads I got didn't have squeal strips for the front, but did for the rear.
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Oct 9, 2017 21:03
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Ludicro posted:Terrible car stuff is the original owner of my 118i who decided to chuck in an extra £500 worth of extras, and instead of adding lumbar support and heated seats, opted to add 18" wheels instead. While they do indeed look extremely nice, they've increased the cost of replacement tyres by over 70%. I never understand people doing this.
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Oct 9, 2017 22:59
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InitialDave posted:Just buy a set of smaller standard wheels you like when the tyres are part worn, selling on the 18s should see you come out ahead. I would but I've got the car on PCP and I'm intent on part exchanging it in a couple of years or sooner. I do take some comfort in that these tyres do last far far longer than the ones on my Mini did. On a more positive note, modern BMW runflat setups are no longer terrible car stuff. They've really come a long way.
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Oct 9, 2017 23:10
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angryrobots posted:I'm guessing the trailer brakes were working? I'm not sure why he clamped off both rear brake hoses though. It's odd to me seeing what looks like hydraulic brakes next to a diff that size.  Its a little 7.5 tonne or so Hino? truck? loving concreters. They only found out because he was coming down the hill at 90kph (wonder why?) and the limit for all vehicles over 4.5T on that piece of road is 60kph
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Oct 10, 2017 14:30
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:That's exactly what they're supposed to do. If they only made noise while braking, a lot of people would think "oh, I just have noisy brakes" instead of "why is my car squeaking when I'm not touching the brakes". You learn something new every day. I've never had pads get low enough to hear it before. I always thought here was a different metal in the pad itself that caused the squeal, not that little metal piece hanging off the back of the pads. I've done dozens of brake jobs 
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Oct 10, 2017 16:21
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Nocheez posted:You learn something new every day. I've never had pads get low enough to hear it before. The thing is...once the tabs starts squeaking (which of course usually occurs during the worst possible time) for the average person the rotor will be toast by the time someone looks at it. But rotors are usually cheap for a daily commuter. Around here it is drat near impossible to get rotors turned and I'm at the point where it is a lost cause. You want pads to bed with a clean surface. As for uneven pad wear happens all the time. I've never really seen even pad wear. One is shot the other might have some life on it. Floating calipers do it as well. On my car, I was pleased they include an electronic wear sensor that pops open when burned through triggering a light. Those crazy Germans.
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Oct 10, 2017 17:24
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I ignored those uneven pad posts. It's not like it was completely full while the back pad was empty.
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Oct 10, 2017 18:05
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Colostomy Bag posted:The thing is...once the tabs starts squeaking (which of course usually occurs during the worst possible time) for the average person the rotor will be toast by the time someone looks at it. But rotors are usually cheap for a daily commuter. Around here it is drat near impossible to get rotors turned and I'm at the point where it is a lost cause. You want pads to bed with a clean surface. So that's how it works! Just had a first brake job on a new-to-me car and when they said they needed to replace both sensors I was like "how did it die to throw the code" I never thought I'd get the answer just skimming AI but hey
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Oct 10, 2017 18:37
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Those suicidal electronic brake pad sensors are pretty sweet and are a great idiot light. And fortunately they're only like $5 aftermarket or $20 OEM, and you only need one front and one rear, which is downright reasonable for the Germans.
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Oct 10, 2017 19:01
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Humphreys posted:There's a trend of people replacing their Me every time I see a Chevy SS sporting Holden badges. Irritating as gently caress.
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Oct 11, 2017 00:06
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Guinness posted:Those suicidal electronic brake pad sensors are pretty sweet and are a great idiot light. And fortunately they're only like $5 aftermarket or $20 OEM, and you only need one front and one rear, which is downright reasonable for the Germans. When I did my rear brakes I found it somewhat funny that 2 sensors were included with the pads but the car only requires one.
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Oct 11, 2017 00:38
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Domestic Amuse posted:Me every time I see a Chevy SS sporting Holden badges. Irritating as gently caress. Somebody bought a Chevy SS?
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Oct 11, 2017 07:23
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Domestic Amuse posted:Me every time I see a Chevy SS sporting Holden badges. Irritating as gently caress. People in the US do this? gently caress, might as well put a Vuaxhaul badge on.
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Oct 11, 2017 08:42
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it's just a badge, maybe you should calm down
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Oct 11, 2017 12:23
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Colostomy Bag posted:On my car, I was pleased they include an electronic wear sensor that pops open when burned through triggering a light. Those crazy Germans. The OEM pads on my b6 a4 always failed with like 80%+ of the pad remaining. It's a neat feature, but I was thankful that I could fab a simple shorting plug for the car side of the sensor wiring to defeat the circle of doom taking over my mfd. 
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Oct 11, 2017 13:13
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And I thought my Altima lighting up both the alternator and brake warning lights when the alternator took a poo poo was annoying. (apparently this was a feature, at least on the 98-01)
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Oct 11, 2017 13:39
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:And I thought my Altima lighting up both the alternator and brake warning lights when the alternator took a poo poo was annoying. This is a feature, actually. The battery light indicates low voltage, both indicate no charging is happening. That usually means the alternator, though it could be a fusible link is burned out as well.
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Oct 11, 2017 15:16
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Nocheez posted:The battery light indicates low voltage, battery != brake light though?
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Oct 11, 2017 15:19
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Terrible badge stuff... A younger me owned a couple of different Mustang Cobra's. I would get irrationally angry when I saw V6 Mustangs sporting SVT or Cobra badges, and for a while that was a really huge thing, so I was mad a lot. These days, I don't even look at badges unless something in particular draws my eye, or I'm just trying to figure out what a car is that I don't recognize.
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Oct 11, 2017 15:19
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:And I thought my Altima lighting up both the alternator and brake warning lights when the alternator took a poo poo was annoying. How else are you supposed to know when the alternator is braking? 
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Oct 11, 2017 15:23
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The Locator posted:Terrible badge stuff... A younger me owned a couple of different Mustang Cobra's. I would get irrationally angry when I saw V6 Mustangs sporting SVT or Cobra badges, and for a while that was a really huge thing, so I was mad a lot. Yeah, with age comes wisdom. Or death before wisdom which will probably be my case. I can't recall the last time I saw obvious badge mishaps around here. Probably the biggest mistake was done by GM. Slapping those stupid GM square things on the front fenders for a while during the Waggoner era.
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Oct 11, 2017 16:40
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You should see urban China, like half the BMW's there are badged 2-3 lines up. Can't count the amount of 3's I saw badged as 7s, fuckin shameless
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Oct 11, 2017 18:20
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The "All diseases are computer" one just kills me. We have a nano-computer embedded in us that causes diseases, and have had for 100 years? Despite nano-computers not actually being a thing yet, and (electronic) computers themselves being only 70 years old? Amazing. (I know, I know - that's just what *they* want you to think! The slidebite posted:I am the super agent That, too. Memento posted:Couple of choice cuts from the OSHA thread JESUS CHRIST get it away get it away get it away! Humphreys posted:People in the US do this? gently caress, might as well put a Vuaxhaul badge on. Absolutely. On G8s and GTOs, too.
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Oct 11, 2017 18:40
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thechalkoutline posted:You should see urban China, like half the BMW's there are badged 2-3 lines up. I've never understood people who do this, it's like the old 318i's I sometimes see around here with an M3 badge on the back. If you're that insecure about the model of car your have just debadge it completely.
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Snowy posted:Almost related, I just learned that the line I thought went "out in the streets they call it murder" is actually merther, which is like a stoned trance or something. This just blew my mind
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