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Do you guys all have cars with wierdo expensive oil filters or something? The OEM filters with the actual car maker's stamp on the side is usually cheaper or the same price at the dealer as the orange FRAM ones from Canadian Tire. Why would you use anything else? An oil filter for me is like $5 at the dealer, even if the FRAM one was half the price at $2.50 why would you bother? I'll slurge on the extra $2.50 in case I have to sell the car to some rear end in a top hat like Godholio.
Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Dec 30, 2012 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 20:10 |
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Compared to a contemporary Cadillac Cimarron or Chevy Citation they probably weren't that bad. Once the Japanese started to move in on the market with the first gen Integra and LS, it got a bit iffy. Instead of trying to make vague generalities based on stereotypes of national character it's a lot more useful to just track the changes in the currency markets. The Deutchmark to USD exchange rate from the 1970s-80s was around 2.5, reaching as high as 3.3 in the middle of the 80s. From that point on it went down to 1.6 in the 1990s and was converted to Euros at ~2, with the Euro being introduced at par with USD. So there's your history of relative quality of the German car industry.
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# ¿ Jan 1, 2013 23:02 |
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CommieGIR posted:You really have it out for ze Germans don't you? People say the Cimarron and Citation weren't good cars but all this was before I was born so I really have no idea. vv EDIT: What I am trying to say is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sblq-CwzEY Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Jan 2, 2013 |
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jamal posted:Well, a bit under the speed limit probably means something like 60 in a 65 on ice. I was in a situation once where two dumbshits stopped in the middle of a snowstorm at night in the middle of nowhere in utah. I barely stayed on the road avoiding them and couldn't have been going much more than 35. I'm kind of curious what car has a swaybar endlink going underneath the lower control arm.
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# ¿ Jan 12, 2013 03:07 |
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Slavvy posted:Once again, every single non-exotic modern car has a plastic valve cover (magnesium is still superior in some ways) and the only time I've seen a broken one was when the owner took it off himself and dropped it vv Valve cover? As in the thing that covers the valves?
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2013 09:23 |
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Is the car on the right a tiny European subcompact with the front wheels from a Grand Cherokee SRT8?
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2013 00:59 |
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jamal posted:
What? The weakest point along the entire intake tract was this part made of solid 1/2" thick cast iron?
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# ¿ Feb 1, 2013 11:17 |
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cursedshitbox posted:
So where is the failure? Everything looks like it's fine?
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2013 13:09 |
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I don't understand how automatic transmissions work but isn't the torque converter itself basically a vaned pump? It would still be circulating fluid if the engine is idling even if the pump is on the output shaft and not spinning, although maybe there isn't enough pressure to shift gears?
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2013 05:31 |
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Geirskogul posted:You...answered your own question? There....are several questions in my post which I still don't know the answer to?
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2013 05:36 |
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How did they even get it on there? With a forklift?
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2013 01:43 |
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Farking Bastage posted:I wish I had gotten pictures of what came out of it, maybe next time. I'm not a farmer or anything but letting 6 year olds play around unsupervised with what sounds like farm equipment seems like a really bad idea.
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2013 03:04 |
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Along similar lines, a pink Micra loses control and tbones another car in a gas station.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2013 15:54 |
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There is a steel unibody (aluminum in the case of the C6 Z06 and ZR1). On a normal car the weight of the car sits on the suspension which goes to the springs and shock towers and the body. Corvettes don't have normal springs or shock towers though, they have a transverse leaf spring which becomes the stressed member instead of the body, so the weight of the car isn't resting on the body in the same way. So when the car gets hit in the wheel (I guess) the force is going into the leaf springs instead of the unibody. I guess you could call the leaf springs and the drivetrain tunnel running down the middle attached to the engine and rear end the "frame". Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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I just want to know whether a bottle of nitrous will do the job.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 15:39 |
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These are the people who drive Nissan GTRs. This is terrible because I know there are good posters on this forum who drive them but it's kind of hard to take anyone who drives a GTR seriously after reading that poo poo. In a related vein. These are the people who drive MINIs. How do they actually have the gall to write this kind of flippant poo poo after delivering a car without remembering to install the shift paddles? I guess I am just not the target market for these things because if I had hosed up something like that at my job then well, I wouldn't be laughing.
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# ¿ May 11, 2013 07:20 |
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InitialDave posted:Why don't they have a setting where you can put the suspension on the lowest height for the punctured wheel and the one diagonally opposite, and the highest on the other two? Then all the jacking needs to do is pivot the car on the two extended wheels as opposed to lifting it proper. I think most air suspension requires you to disable it when jacking the car up so that it doesn't think the car is driving on 3 wheels and pump itself to death. http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?2230724-How-to-change-a-flat-tire-on-a-Phaeton It's sort of like your idea except instead of being helpful it's more of a high-stakes test of your loyalty to the glories of air suspension and ability to follow the user manual instructions to the exact word. Mercedes SLs I think had an additional test where you must also put the ESP into jacking mode because otherwise the car thinks it's going to roll over and will detonate the explosives that deploy the rollbar. IN the same vein of the Mercedes automatic brakes that will cut your fingers off if you tried to change the pads without using the OEM scantool to put the computer into brake pad change mode first.
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# ¿ May 14, 2013 00:37 |
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Geirskogul posted:Also isn't ATF usually red? I think that's gear oil from the differential.
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# ¿ May 17, 2013 13:20 |
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Splizwarf posted:Not sure what it's for but it's off a big rig. Maybe DPF bullshit? Do big rigs use DPF? I thought that was just for bro trucks.
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# ¿ May 21, 2013 18:57 |
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Das Volk posted:^^^^ All I see in that is the headline... Here's Allpar http://www.allpar.com/news/index.php/2013/06/behind-the-nhtsa-request TL;DR: 2 people died in the back seat of a parked 20 year old Jeep that was rear ended by an 18-wheeler at 65mph(driver and 2 other occupants of the vehicle survived). NHTSA now wants Chrysler to recall millions of Jeeps built in the last 20 years. Chrysler says the Jeeps are no more likely to catch fire/cause fatality in a rear end collision than any other car built during that era and in any case they met all applicable safety regulations at the time of manufacture, we're not going to recall a 20 year old truck to retrofit it to some new standard that you just came up with today.
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2013 07:12 |
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I really don't get all the hate for the VAG V8, yes it has a timing chain? That Ford Cologne V6 they put into every single thing in the 1990s had timing chains on both sides of the engine, it's not really that uncommon.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2013 03:36 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:SRT's aren't worth much to be honest. My 2003 KBB's in at $4k and a lot of the body parts aren't shared with regular Neons which jacks up the repair costs quite a bit. Even the stupid poo poo like the fog lamp bezels and the plastic hood scoop insert run hundreds of dollars. 10 years later I'm loving terrified of even a minor incident that causes body damage is going to cause her to be written off. My childhood dream gets more and more attainable every day.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2013 02:43 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm pretty sure that's wheel bearing grease. I have a big jar of it that I use from time to time for purposes. "for purposes."? You mean other than put them into wheel bearings?
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2013 16:50 |
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Measly Twerp posted:It could probably have six normal sized doors instead of two. I haven't read anywhere that it was ever called a coupe, I think the uploader of the video just mistitled it (the footage is dubbed in German, appropriately enough). That thing would have been called a 2 door hardtop. The old American taxonomy for sedan and coupe was based on interior volume not the number of doors.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2013 06:50 |
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A moose weighs as much as a Honda Civic, those...bits of metal look a bit too thin to have any effect.
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2013 03:27 |
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A Rover with a BMW engine would have been from what the late 1990s early 2000s? It's like a $9k car at this point. One doesn't have to be rich to afford one, although maintainance is probably another issue.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2013 01:25 |
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Huge heavy rear end iron block engine from a super rare expensive sports car can make some power with forced induction? Meh. It's almost as good as a rusty $500 SBC from a base model truck in a junkyard. http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/hrdp_1109_stock_gm_ls_engine_big_bang_theory/
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2013 01:55 |
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Speaking of which, here's something very easy to locate and replace. The battery on the C5 Audi RS6! Can you guess where it is?
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2013 14:08 |
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Powershift posted:Failure mode for the ford is locked, which is what happened to my f-150 resulting in seriously terrible fuel economy. In my dodge, the failure mode was unlocked, which is bad because the entire assembly on the dodge is mounted on the back of the front axle, and is prone to getting removed by deep mud. I don't see how that's bad because the failure mode was unlocked? The two seem to be unrelated issues.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2013 12:46 |
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If the mud has already removed your front axles from the car I don't think it matters whether the failure mode is locked or unlocked, or maybe I'm misunderstanding what is failing here.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2013 13:02 |
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Splizwarf posted:Can we get a on that. Thanks. I did a GIS and it appears to be a still from a movie called Star Wars.
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# ¿ Dec 26, 2013 17:17 |
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Safety Dance posted:"I paid $40,000 for this car, it had better go until I tell it to stop!" The punchline here is that the cheapest cloth-seats-handcranked-windows 5er starts at $50k.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2014 04:37 |
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The best part about ceramic brake pricing - $10k is what they charge after deducting the cost of the steel brakes that you didn't get. The actual stand alone cost is significantly more. On the other hand they do last a long time.
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2014 18:42 |
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"Stolen Viper found in parking lot stripped" No doubt to feed the burgeoning market for fiberglass fenders and bumpers.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2014 16:27 |
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Preoptopus posted:To put it in perspective for those not in the know, my coworker nearly quit when asked to do a water pump/timing belt on one of those. An unbelievable pile of poo poo. But you can see right in the picture that it has a timing chain?
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# ¿ May 7, 2014 04:21 |
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So I guess now is a good time since the spotlight is on GM, but Ford has just announced that the fuel economy ratings on half their cars are basically pulled out of their rear end. http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2014/06/ford-c-max-gets-second-mpg-rating-downgrade.html
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2014 11:07 |
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jamal posted:I'm not really sure what you mean by that. It sounds like you are saying the ES is not as safe as it could be because it is just a fancy Toyota. The camry is one of the safest cars in the world. I guess the 2014.5 model is all right after they revised it. It's no Volvo or Subaru though. In any case the current ES isn't based on the Camry anymore, it shares a longer wheelbase with the new Avalon to sell better in China.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 10:04 |
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Isn't that e-cig stuff just elaborate talking-in-code about marijuana vaporizing?
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# ¿ Sep 23, 2014 02:20 |
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How could all of that poo poo be cheaper than just buying a new truck? I don't think the Barrett Jackson market for numbers matching Ford Rangers will be taking off any time soon.
Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Nov 7, 2014 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 20:10 |
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CommieGIR posted:Is it just me, or do Evo's tend to have a poo poo ton of problems? Specifically the 8 series, seems like the 10 series they've fixed a lot of stuff. It's mostly the nut behind the steering wheel.
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2014 15:37 |