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big crush on Chad OMG posted:3m buffing compound is incredible if you can find it locally. Purple bottle stuff. If there's one thing I learned from my inability to keep mirrors safe from parking garages, it's actually this. In my defense it all happened when the I had just bought my current car and I was still used to driving my prelude.
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You don't even need buffing compound, that looks like plastic/rubber transfer and would come out with a microfiber and light elbow grease.
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Apr 4, 2019 16:15
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Take a quick piss on that, it’ll lick right off
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Brolander posted:Take a quick piss on that, it’ll lick right off I’m trying this one first
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I've seen less safe flatbed loads, honestly.
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Not that there's really a right way to pull that particular combination, but I feel like having the truck on the trailer is probably worse than if they had used one of the front wheel dolly rigs or towed it four-down. That way the fifth wheel's tongue weight would be directly on the truck axle to the road instead of basically turning the (presumably overloaded) middle trailer in to a teeter-totter that's trying to escape its ball hitch every time the rear trailer loads it up.
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What Uhaul should do is take that picture and plaster it all over their vans as a mural from hell with the tagline "Adventures in moving."
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Colostomy Bag posted:What Uhaul should do is take that picture and plaster it all over their vans as a mural from hell with the tagline "Adventures in moving." They could do a whole series. A struggle and a glint of steel in a New Mexico IHOP parking lot. Crossing the centre line in a fit of sleep deprivation. Daughter gets caught looking up abortion clinics in the new town. Spending all evening in a tire shop in Port Angeles WA because the DOT-illegal Chinese tires U-Haul slapped onto this thing delaminated. Dad is done doing what the pigs want. Mom falling through the dry-rotted front porch stairs of the new home. Quick, which box did you pack Grandpa's pills in?! The word "divorce" accidentally said out loud for the first time while gearing down to climb Donner Pass. Finding out the first night that the new house is the start point for street racing tournaments. Disapproving stares at the grocery store, their clique invaded. Neighbours showing you the photos of the murder scene that used to be in your basement. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Apr 5, 2019 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:They could do a whole series. Heh, I crap on Uhaul but I will give credit when it is due. They aren't death traps mostly anymore. Of course now they are pulling more shenanigans to maximize margins. A couple decades ago when you rented one you expected to be in a deathtrap from hell and hope to hell you knew how to mow through a manual truck gearbox with a granny gear. Then the headlights wouldn't work after you unloaded furniture and were beat to hell. They would get pissed off about it acting like it was some self-imposed inconvenience. Rent a pickup? Play the game of filling the 5/32 fuel gauge they left you with back to that original amount in order to dodge a penalty. Last time I did that much math was in college.
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These are the people you share your Eurofighter with... https://twitter.com/Jalopnik/status/1114215824951214080
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Dick Trauma posted:These are the people you share your Eurofighter with... No way, he had to have pushed something
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Solar Coaster posted:No way, he had to have pushed something Probably panicked and reached for something to hold onto during liftoff and grabbed the eject handle.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Probably panicked and reached for something to hold onto during liftoff and grabbed the eject handle. And is now a good inch or two shorter for it. Jet ejection seats do not gently caress around and being in one is a good way to end up with a lifetime of back issues. They're designed to be more survivable than a jet crash and it turns out that being launched with enough force to compress the soft tissues in your spine is generally more safe than being in a speeding, out control ball of volatile jet fuel and unspent munitions. Being ejected at that speed also has the added bonus of getting you away from the disintegrating mess ASAP.
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Alkydere posted:And is now a good inch or two shorter for it. Jet ejection seats do not gently caress around and being in one is a good way to end up with a lifetime of back issues. They're designed to be more survivable than a jet crash and it turns out that being launched with enough force to compress the soft tissues in your spine is generally more safe than being in a speeding, out control ball of volatile jet fuel and unspent munitions. Being ejected at that speed also has the added bonus of getting you away from the disintegrating mess ASAP. Well the dude was 64 so at least he doesn't have to live with it for THAT much longer.
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According to the Hitman reboot, he just survived an assassination attempt, because the ejector seat control should have been switched off and routed to the pilot's module
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PT6A posted:I look forward to someone used to a 6-speed making a 5-speed transmission poo poo itself after attempting to shift to R at highway speed I have a slight paranoia when driving a rental that this is precisely what I'll do, confuse the cars 6th with reverse at speed. Would the transmission allow to be shifted into reverse when going forward at speed?
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Dick Trauma posted:These are the people you share your Eurofighter with... That's clearly a Rafale 
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The article is about a Rafale. It's the goon who misidentified it as a Eurofighter
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Lord Stimperor posted:I have a slight paranoia when driving a rental that this is precisely what I'll do, confuse the cars 6th with reverse at speed. Would the transmission allow to be shifted into reverse when going forward at speed? Most 6 speed cars either have a special thing you have to do to get into reverse (pull up a collar, push down the knob) or lock out reverse if you’re not going at it from 1st gear.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Most 6 speed cars either have a special thing you have to do to get into reverse (pull up a collar, push down the knob) or lock out reverse if you’re not going at it from 1st gear. This, and/or a solenoid locking it out at speed.
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I just want to thank the idiot that somehow scraped the corner of my front bumper and broke the corner lens (on the bumper) a few days ago that I only spotted today. Started my weekend off with a bang.
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Colostomy Bag posted:I just want to thank the idiot that somehow scraped the corner of my front bumper and broke the corner lens (on the bumper) a few days ago that I only spotted today. Started my weekend off with a bang. Wife noticed a scuff and a divot on the rear bumper of her car the other day. No note of course, people are loving trash.
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I don't even know where this car came from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiICHpvneis
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xzzy posted:Wife noticed a scuff and a divot on the rear bumper of her car the other day. No note of course, people are loving trash. I have an unpopular opinion: Bumpers should have a purpose other than being decorative. I'm not suggesting we go back to steel girders capping the ends of cars, but we had a whole decade plus in the late 80s-90s where bumpers could handle normal city parking scenarios and look good.
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That's probably true, though I think with the attention given to aerodynamics and pedestrian safety the days of extruded bumpers are over. But even if we still had old school chrome bumpers a decent human would still leave a note on the car they hit.
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xzzy posted:That's probably true, though I think with the attention given to aerodynamics and pedestrian safety the days of extruded bumpers are over. That and modern standards which require bumpers to absorb a 5mph impact without any real structural damage to the car.
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How about putting a thick plastidip or some other coating on the bumpers to protect them. I can also imagine the wailing about ugly bumpers if there were new 5mph regulation, even if the ugliness was unrelated to the rules.
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Someone needs to designate car that looks good with unpainted plastic bumpers. What are they even paying designers for?
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Cockmaster posted:That and modern standards which require bumpers to absorb a 5mph impact without any real structural damage to the car. Structural is a loose term. Doesn't include cosmetic.
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Those American style bumpers forced onto European cars look like complete garbage. Except the ones on the Porsche 911
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You Am I posted:Those American style bumpers forced onto European cars look like complete garbage. Makes it easier though when you spot a 944 and know right away based on the bumpers on whether it is a turbo or not. e: Of course the most hideous ones were on the Countach. Colostomy Bag fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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I've determined I have an insane co-worker. Case in point, a couple weeks ago I was in my car over lunch, and I saw a coworker pull in, they sat in their car a bit, and then opened their door and slammed it hard into a new pickup beside them. This wasn't like a young teenager, this is an older lady, I would guess probably at least 60 or older, old enough that she should know better. Whatever, maybe it was an accident, except she didn't get out of the car or anything, just closed the door and stayed still. A little bit later she opened her door again, exactly the same really loud slam, except this time she got out and left their door rubbing on the pickup as she looked at the spot. She just kept staring for a bit, then closed her door and started rubbing the pickup with a Kleenex or something from her purse. Then she got right back in her car with another big slam, sat and waited a bit, then slammed into the pickup once more before going into work. Maybe accidents happen, maybe she really was just stupid and careless, but she slammed the side of the pickup hard 4 times and knew she caused damage and just didn't seem to care, but I don't know her name or the owner of the pickup so I assume she might have done the right thing. Fast forward to yesterday, the second time I have ever seen this co-worker outside of the building. I had left work, I was sitting at a stop light, after a few seconds a car pulled up behind me. It was the door slam lady, and she started honking and flipping me off and waving her cell phone at me because she was going to take a picture of my license plate. I was just sitting at the light, never even saw her car on the road before, it was impossible that I could have done anything to piss her off by driving. She followed me through the light around the left turn, then passed me in the right lane while flipping me off before cutting in front of me and brake checking me. In a way, it feels good that I actually know where she works, I have no idea what her name is or what she does or anything, I only occasionally see her in the halls. The best part is I only have one more day at this job so I really don't care about her bat poo poo crazy behavior.
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The first day at my first job out of college, when my Fit was all of three days old, I parked at the rear end end of the lot, deliberately alone. I came out at the end of the day to find it still alone...aside from a Saturn with pop rivets holding both bumpers on. It was parked directly next to me. Sure enough, there was a down-to-the-primer ding on the driver's side door. What the gently caress is wrong with people?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The first day at my first job out of college, when my Fit was all of three days old, I parked at the rear end end of the lot, deliberately alone. I came out at the end of the day to find it still alone...aside from a Saturn with pop rivets holding both bumpers on. It was parked directly next to me. Sure enough, there was a down-to-the-primer ding on the driver's side door. What the gently caress is wrong with people? Bring back stocks in the public square.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The first day at my first job out of college, when my Fit was all of three days old, I parked at the rear end end of the lot, deliberately alone. I came out at the end of the day to find it still alone...aside from a Saturn with pop rivets holding both bumpers on. It was parked directly next to me. Sure enough, there was a down-to-the-primer ding on the driver's side door. What the gently caress is wrong with people? I want to be woke and civilized, but I hate door dings so much. If I thought I could get away with it I'd vandalize the poo poo out of that car. Snap off mirrors, break the windshield, etc. It bothers me that I'm that primal over a material possession. Fortunately all my dings aren't so clear cut, I find them long after they happen. I did witness a teenager mildly sideswipe my previous beater, (paint transfer on trim and nothing more) but since it was a beater it didn't bother me. If it was my current non-beater car I'd run after them, screaming and ranting like a loony.
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