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Rotary powered drag racing wagon tells its flywheel to get the gently caress out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR90pDzWu2A
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Terrible Robot posted:No oil, no coolant, upside-down, full of sand/water, pick any two, and the 4.0 will probably still get you home later. As far as I know the engines that can take abuse like this are the 4.0, GM 3800, and Nissan VQ. The Ford SPI 2000 gets an honourable mention for being unkillable but also focusing that neglect back at the owner in the form of vibration and noise.
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Jul 2, 2014 07:24
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"Three 737's crash landed in a river at the same time and we've got EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE"
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Jul 6, 2014 08:04
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G-Mach posted:This is more of a horrible electrical failure than mechanical. I just love mopar products. My fathers Caravan started doing something like this on me. I was flying down a country road at dusk with a zillion bugs hitting the windshield and it decided to completely lose all interior lights and start up the windshield wipers. This created a massive bug smear completely obscuring the windshield. I was giggling at how lovely the situation was as I hung my head out the window and tried to see down the road while bugs hit my face, moving at some unknown speed because I couldn't see the gauges.
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Jul 7, 2014 05:52
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MrYenko posted:Don't even loving joke about that. You might give them an idea. Looking forward to future alternator cam failure recall
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Jul 16, 2014 23:51
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I had a SPI powered Escort and it was unkillable. Sold it with 275k on it and the next owner took it to 300k and beyond. As far as I know it's still clattering away being harsh and lovely. I guess some SPIs were better than others.
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Jul 24, 2014 05:59
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Sagebrush posted:Likewise -- the one we had was a 97 Escort wagon, and I think we sold it with around 220,000 miles. Still running and still on its first clutch :iamafag: Mine was also a 97' Escort wagon. Maybe that was a great year for the Escort. (It wasn't, all the years were bad for the Escort)
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Jul 24, 2014 06:51
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I don't have any pictures because its all internal but I got to witness a Porsche 911 GT3 go horribly wrong on the track today. Makes a horrible warbling noise with revs cluch in or out, occasionally something thumps inside the transmission. Starter has stopped working entirely. We bump started it to verify the noise and its oddly drivable but the owner didn't want to risk doing more than park it. I have no idea what would cause this combination of symptoms. It was absolutely cooking before it happened. What a majestic car 
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Jul 26, 2014 05:12
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At least my first track day went well aside from some catastrophic understeer out of the A3. Now I feel compelled to modify it and ruin it as a daily driver. I passed a Civic SI, Trans Am and NC Miata on a round of lapping and felt like a god.
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Jul 26, 2014 20:36
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TrueChaos posted:Which bridge is this? I'm from TO but can't place it. The Burlington Skyway. Between this and Gardiner being worked on Toronto is slowly being bottled up and will eventually be a lawless dystopian 24 hour traffic jam.
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Aug 1, 2014 05:35
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SouthsideSaint posted:There is no way you got that sway bar link off that easily. I have yet to do one on a car around Chicago that didn't require oxy or destruction of the link itself. My routine for sway bar links now is to just use the air chisel right off the bat.
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Aug 3, 2014 16:43
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Car work in the rust belt starts with at least three different types of hammers, a set of pry bars, and a giant can of penetrating oil. Doesn't matter the year of car. Every. Single. Job.
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Aug 3, 2014 18:57
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Unless you're Sockington and somehow get away with using a small off brand electric impact and just willing the bolts off. He's the rust whisperer.
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Aug 3, 2014 18:59
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If that's a 4.0 then there's been a disturbance in the force and kastein is probably already on his way
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Aug 9, 2014 14:55
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Jonny Nox posted:But didn't Kastein post that? gently caress. I blame the SA app for me not being good at reading
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Aug 10, 2014 03:06
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I assume anytime a 4.0L fails Kastein looks up from what he's doing and a single tear rolls down his face.
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Aug 10, 2014 18:43
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What the gently caress is that
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Aug 10, 2014 19:24
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Powershift posted:
I found a corolla like this at the yard this weekend. Front and back end just completely pulverized, engine trapped against the windshield in this bundle of twisted metal. Inside the cabin was totally normal. The only indication that something had happened was the blown airbags everywhere.
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Aug 12, 2014 02:49
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DJ Commie posted:Shutting off the ignition to my 78 Subaru while pumping the gas makes for an awesome fireball out of the exhaust. This also made one of the most AI photos. Post the photo of the fireballs.
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Aug 23, 2014 04:19
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Tactical Bonnet posted:I'm not in anything, but a friend of mine is, and since I "know about cars, right?" I was the person he asked. Holy poo poo your friend is the wrong person to own an RX7
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Aug 23, 2014 06:35
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First thing I thought was wether or not my car could jump that
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Sep 1, 2014 15:36
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It's beautiful, in a way. That's right up there with the Japanese earthquake warning chime for things that sound pleasant but actually mean horrible things have happened.
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Sep 1, 2014 19:38
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Sagebrush posted:
The storms in Costa Rica were like this. Goes from "oh look, rain" to "holy poo poo water flowing all around my car why didn't anyone tell me about this" in about a minute
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Sep 5, 2014 06:07
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Father in law had a 60 gallon air compressor tank burst in his shop. Went through the roof like a Saturn V rocket and according to the neighbour, a fairly high distance into the air before cratering into the earth. Apparently it sounded like dynamite going off.
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Sep 27, 2014 16:47
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revmoo posted:How old was it? This was back in the eighties and I think it was like 20 years old then. He did purge the water regularity but yeah, it was ready to pop.
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Sep 27, 2014 20:52
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Powershift posted:babby steps. How about a license to pull a trailer first. The US doesn't require a license until your vehicle weighs 8 times what the average vehicle weighs. Or somehow prevent the elderly from piloting massive RVs without training.
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Oct 10, 2014 05:35
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Wasabi the J posted:The small truck is dead; Ford kill the ranger, the Colorado and Canyon are as big as an Expedition. I've had hopes that the japanese automakers might step in with a small truck again but its increasingly looking like the segment is dying. Maybe Hyundai would do it.
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Oct 10, 2014 15:22
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Huggable Bear King posted:it's mesmerizing. How does a tire get that hosed up? I don't know but I see at least one a week in that state on the highway. Owners of the demon tire just oblivious to it hopping up and down getting ready to blow out.
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Oct 18, 2014 07:40
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CarForumPoster posted:To be fair being depreciated into the wrecking yard is a good thing for this Cobalt. It is literally the worst car I have ever driven and just falling apart horribly despite only being 8 years old and having ~120K. A 1997 Ford Escort base model is a better car to drive. I've owned that Escort and you're wrong. Not about the Cobalt being a piece of poo poo but the Escort being better.
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Oct 19, 2014 07:10
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Co-worker took his perfectly functioning Tercel in for a check up and opened up pandoras (Sockingtons) box.
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Dec 2, 2014 08:09
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ZincBoy posted:To forestall the rust comments by not blessed by the salt gods of Ontario every winter, this is a 2007 car. I live in Ontario and had pretty much dated the car based on the picture alone. Looking good for an 07!
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Dec 7, 2014 07:49
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To add to the photos of "i just wounded myself" I also have a few like this that start with "this part is hosed!"
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Dec 23, 2014 06:24
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The current worst GM rental car is the Malibu with the 2.5L engine. It weighs only 3300 lbs but feels like a small bus. The engine is supposed to produce 197hp but has trouble with small hills and the automatic will fight you to the point of revving the engine up but producing no power like a petulant child. After you've trained it the power is better but often it still just revs to the moon with no power like some sort of retarded CVT or a hosed Ford AXOD. The onboard infotainment system UI looks like a deviantart skin designed by someone who just stumbled upon photoshop while chewing on a few grams of mushrooms. Handling is like a rock tumbler wherein everything inside the car will eat window as it lurches around corners. All the interior fit and finish is trying hard to be premium but nothing quite lines up correctly. The stalks are massive cylindrical posts invented by someone with gigantic hands and no concept of ergonomics. The key is like a cargo cult version of an Audi key expect the actual key is thinner and shittier, and the fob itself is this massive thing that has no real feel between buttons so I can't tell what that gently caress is going on in the dark. The sound system is not all about that bass. Turning up dat bass does nothing. It will spin the tires on every spirited left and right hand turn from a stop and then the traction control will LOSE ITS poo poo and take away all power from the wheels as it gulps a valium and does its breathing exercises, fluttering its hands up and down chanting soothing words. The headrests can't be removed so your carseat will just dig right in and can never be properly tightened. It chews through fuel like the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet the movie as the onboard display tries to convince you its doing 35mpg. 8ender fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Geirskogul posted:Can I steal this? Go for it. I hate this car so much. gently caress the lady in the Mercedes SUV who hosed up my hatch and put me in this hell.
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Wild EEPROM posted:I enjoyed TTAC's assessment of the new malibu. Yeah this pretty much echoes my own experience. I'd also like to add that the engine sounds like a bleating cow and the stop start feature feels/sounds like the car is being restarted with a gunpowder shell. My rental also has a thermostat issue at only 30k kms and won't fully heat up. The bodyshop that fixed my car managed to make it throw about 10 trouble codes after the repair so I'm stuck in this semi-permanent hell while they figure out how to fix an Audi. 8ender fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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kastein posted:You say that like it's a bad thing. Ok thats super cool but if the engine stop start feature feels like this at 30k kms then at 100k kms when the motor mounts get soft I assume the engine is going to tear itself out of the bay.
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Dec 29, 2014 18:33
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Computer viking posted:Over here in euroland, a friend of mine used to joke that he should start robbing banks in his late-90's dark red Toyota estate, since nobody would notice what he was driving. That thing was so nondescript it was almost impressive. I'm pretty certain I could rip by a cop at 100 over the limit in our Corolla and they'd just wonder why it got so windy. Corolla's are completely invisible to police until they're over 15 years old and run down. Then you're getting pulled over constantly for suspicions of being black or dealing drugs.
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dissss posted:So if you actually maintain your vehicles then there is no appeal? They make a cool clickity clickity clickity sound when you're on the gas and are smooth as hell
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Geirskogul posted:Smooth? Bitch it's a 90 degree v6 derived from cutting two cylinders off of the Fireball V8, attached to a 60 degree bellhousing, and has the biggest loving harmonic balancer I've ever seen on a passenger car to compensate for its roughness. The result is still smooth even with the planet sized balancer. They also had amazingly polarized fuel economy. It would chew gas in the city and turn 30+ mpg on the highway.
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My dads 3800 in his Buick LeSabre also too a dive onto the pavement. However in his case the mechanic concluded post mortem that both A arms had partially detached from the car as well as the subframe in a spectacular rust fuelled failure. Somehow none of this came apart at speed until he pulled into a parking spot and the final brake ended with a thump.
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