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InitialDave posted:It's really not a problem unless you're grinding them. Huge numbers of the bolts we make are cad plated on the shanks or journals. That doesn't mean it's a good idea though. I've never even heard of this phenomena til now, but I guess if it allows manufacturer's to probably save money coating a non-ideal bolt then it's going to continue even if it kills some poo poo.
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Aug 24, 2012 03:12
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So do a lot of things before they kill you. Like mercury, those little spitting dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and women.
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Aug 24, 2012 03:35
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Tell me more...
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Aug 24, 2012 08:39
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Paul Boz_ posted:Paiyng $3.87 for 93 octane All at the dire cost of having to live in LA though.
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Sep 10, 2012 17:58
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InitialDave posted:not being allowed to shag until they're 18 What?
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Oct 7, 2012 18:29
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Is that the GTO equivalent with a hitch on it? Or just some other Holden?
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Oct 12, 2012 07:47
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Hmm looks close enough. Not something you'd see very often on this side of the world on a car like that (if that is the V8 LS version anyway.)
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Oct 12, 2012 07:53
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Ok so just a V6 family car? I just noticed the Toyota has a hitch mount too. Is this super common in Australia?
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Oct 12, 2012 08:40
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dissss posted:Is that to get extra room for big tyres? If so wouldn't it be easier to buy a base model without the flares? Is this one just the small-ish wheels? Doesn't seem completely ridiculous if you've ever seen bro-trucks with tiny rear end stock tires.
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Oct 16, 2012 07:14
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Better hope you have plenty of time to gently caress around with a car to try an entire janitor's keyring full of keys on the car. Pretty sure I'd go with a wedge and coathanger to get into some old van or truck and be inside in about 30 seconds max.
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Oct 18, 2012 02:24
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Thank god VW's don't have any reliability problems like that cheap rear end Honda poo poo.
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Oct 18, 2012 17:10
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veedubfreak posted:I said nothing about reliability. It was just slow, couldn't stop for poo poo, dented too easily and had no A/C. Well it's not a problem anymore when transitioning into the greener pastures of VW ownership. Count yourself lucky!
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Oct 18, 2012 19:37
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EightBit posted:He's too busy paying the mortgage on that truck to put good tires on it I love seeing some of the dumbest people I've met own a King Ranch truck that probably cost them $70k. They're always clean too - they may tow a boat every now and again but god drat they've never even seen a dusty road. It's pretty bad here in TX. Kids either have King Ranch's, farkled out F250's or they have Raptors. I feel like their parents would never buy them a $50-70k car but they don't mind shelling out that cash for a crazy expensive truck.
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Nov 9, 2012 08:07
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VikingSkull posted:I work at an auction, the worst thing ever is a blizzard on sale day. We've never missed a sale in the 14 years I've worked there. Cleaning 3 feet of snow off of 5,000 cars really sucks. Good thing you absolutely destroyed a car just to be a loving idiot. Quality employee right there. You honestly can't work a shovel?
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Nov 30, 2012 17:23
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lovely car or not it's not owned by him and it's a dick move to gently caress it up just for some internet e-cred. It doesn't make you look cool it makes you look like a 16 year old.
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Nov 30, 2012 21:09
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Holy gently caress. The rear isn't great but it's alright. That front end though. God drat. It'd look probably really good if it was a stock front end.
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Dec 7, 2012 00:38
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Viggen posted:"I like that paint job", in other words? It's not the stock rear end.
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Dec 7, 2012 01:38
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Viggen posted:I was just trying to get you to qualify WHAT you liked; that is the least hatcheted part of the car. List of Likes: Nothing on the front end Mostly all of the car behind the front door to the taillights Long walks on the beach
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Dec 7, 2012 02:03
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I would never wave at a scooter.
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Dec 12, 2012 00:58
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ElMaligno posted:I would wave at scooters, because gently caress the haters. I'd wager 90% of the scooters I see are kids wearing flip flops, gym shorts and a t shirt with no helmet. Maybe the last 9% have a harley style brain bucket on with the same attire above. The last 1% are the old men on the mondo-big scooters with maybe a ragtag collection of gear. I'd happily wave at those in at least a little bit of gear. I do the same to harley's and such, if you're going to be an idiot with no helmet and a sweet cutoff you probably won't mind me not waving back anyhow.
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Dec 12, 2012 01:14
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I rode one once. Most of the 50cc ones will barely do 45 with a tailwind. They're sketchy as gently caress too, I can't imagine hitting a bump on one of those things topped out. The fact that you don't need a license for most of them makes the owners even more of a liability in my eyes.
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Dec 12, 2012 01:31
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Why is this dumb? If you were placed into a company that was having middling sales the first business tactic would be to differentiate your product from those old poorly selling models (even if they're the same). I doubt the guy is concerned with what random internet goons think. His primary thought is "well, BMW does this kind of thing, why can't we??".
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Dec 18, 2012 09:32
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Chickenbisket posted:This poor poor NA Miata. This is the last car I expected to ever see with lambo doors. I really wonder if the odometer is even hooked up, the trip and overall both show all 0's. It's kind of illegal to sell it like that right? Yellow dipstick? You plebs on here don't even understand the SPEED and CLASS that this thing has.
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Dec 19, 2012 18:03
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I guess noone remembers the mad tyte miata :-(
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Dec 19, 2012 21:30
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Yellow signifies Maximum High Performance (MHP) engines, of which that Miata posted above contain.
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Dec 19, 2012 22:47
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"This mustang will go from 0 to 241 KMH ...in 10 seconds." Who the gently caress decided KMH was the best method to report the speed here?
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Dec 20, 2012 00:48
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They do the same thing telling them about how much rubber is on the road by saying 18 meters. I guess they're just trying to be culturally friendly while they show every loving idiot in Compton dumb enough to televise their street racing area.
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Dec 20, 2012 00:53
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Eh I'd buy that if it wasn't repeated throughout.
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Dec 20, 2012 01:12
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You know in Texas we don't really have vehicle inspections which is very convenient / cheap however idiots like this make me really wish that rule was reversed....
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Jan 2, 2013 21:40
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KozmoNaut posted:Somehow, this doesn't surprise me. No really, when you get inspected here they get in your car, drive 10 feet and hit the brakes, honk your horn and pull it in to replace the sticker. It's a joke and takes maybe 5 minutes TOPS including registering the sticker and scraping the old one off.
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Jan 7, 2013 18:47
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shoopeach posted:they didnt even drive mine, just plugged in the OBD2, checked for faults and then print sticker. CEL's don't even matter here. It's all visual.
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delpheye posted:I must be doing something wrong. Even the Mexican used tire place that only accepts cash checks checks everything, including the license plate lights and connects to the OBD port. I had a bad fuel sending unit and didn't have the desire to drop the gas tank to replace right then and thought I could get away with clearing the code. Queue the 10 minute broken english on their part and broken spanish on my part trying to figure out why he kept telling me "no bueno." In TX? I know all counties aren't the same but here we have what are called Quicker Sticker's. You literally roll up and they get you out ASAP. I took my motorcycle there and they wouldn't even allow the employee to touch it since they didn't wanna be liable for a drop. They had me ride it the 10ft and hit the horn, turn signals, etc. 15 bucks is all it costs and you're out in less than 10 minutes unless it's crazy busy. Then you're out in 15 minutes.
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I refuse to believe "locked wheel" isn't more prevalent. Layer Dan is the most common excuse I hear from every idiot with a bike who crashes.
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Willfrey posted:This truck brings up so many questions. Like, how to you intend to steer the bastard? Is the column going to have a spring too? TX is pretty awesome for how many ridiculous trucks you see running around. I usually see either F150's with a mild lift and some blacked out rims or I see ridiculous jacked up F250/350's with a crazy lift and massive tires, smokestacks, etc. The nice thing is these are owned by rich kids so they just pay to have someone do all the work and I don't typically see janky rear end lifts. Of course the more rural you go the more sketchy poo poo you start to see, like the one shown above.... It's at the point where a totally stock F150 sticks out to me now as opposed to a lifted one with a giant rear end Browning logo on the back window and "Salt Life" stickers plastered all over the glass.
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Octopus Magic posted:that is the worst "watermark" or whatever I have ever seen He just said it was to cover up his thumb being in the picture.
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Jan 29, 2013 21:47
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some texas redneck posted:Does downtown Dallas really look that much like DC? If you showed me that pic with no background info I probably wouldn't ever imagine that'd be Dallas to be fair.
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Jan 31, 2013 23:36
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poo poo, the fact that there is water in the picture will automatically remove TX from a list of possibilities for most people I'd imagine.
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Jan 31, 2013 23:47
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Try telling that to anyone outside of TX. Everyone pretty much imagines this place looks like Big Bend across the entire state.
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EightBit posted:Houston and the area east of it are I agree. Is there something seriously wrong with me for thinking that black mustang with fenders looks incredibly sexy? I'd drive the hell out of that thing.
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