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jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Fucknag posted:

Also, they're a pain in the dick to line up in the best of circumstances. I had to do a rotation on one of my coworkers' Mk IV GTI a while back. He's missing the screws that hold the rotors in place on the hubs, so due to the lag of wheel studs they can spin independently. You have to line them up, then keep them in place while you put the wheel on (again, no small feat with no studs to hang it from) and try to stick a bolt through all 3 holes and thread it in without bumping something out of place.

The trick with that, as I've learnt with both my old VWs, is to wait for the rotor to rust itself onto the hub so it can't rotate, and then fit the wheel. Works like a charm. :eng99:

I didn't realise how much of a bollocks wheel bolts were until I bought my Miata and had a :aaa:

moment at how much easier studs are.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2012 13:13

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:08

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

KozmoNaut posted:

It's the same everywhere. Silver, black, gunmetal, charcoal are the 'safe choices' if you want the best resale value. Dark blue and other muted non-attention-grabbing colors are reasonably safe choices as well. Cars and car buyers today are just too uptight, conservative and serious to even consider anything else and in most cases, wild colors aren't even an option. At least you can order most cars in plain white, which I find a lot more interesting than silver or black.

These days, wild colors are pretty much only for tiny city cars and outrageous super cars. Would you buy a bright purple family sedan? I know I would, but most people disagree.

My car is silver, and I wish it was any other color. Unfortunately, the rest of it was way too good to pass by, so now I'm part of the silver sedan brigade as well

Basically this, my current car is silver but the paint choices that year were all boring as hell, the best was probably dark red. Similarly I lust over blue & yellow MX-5's, but mine is BRG because more interesting colours are rare as rocking horse poo poo over here.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 19:06

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

EightBit posted:

That block of snow is also likely to blow off on the highway in one big explosion once he gets enough speed to break it loose. Sucks for the people behind him when it goes.

I was about to post that I'm impressed this hadn't happened already if they're already up to motorway speed. I got hit by huge chunks of snow blowing off cars twice last year in my MX-5 and in a car that small it feels like you've just driven headlong into a snowdrift.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2013 00:34

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

To stop you dropping poo poo down there. I guess the shop is too high class for rags or balls of blue roll.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2013 16:25

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

88h88 posted:

This is the bit I don't understand. Everything else I use interchangeably depending on who I'm talking to and what it's about.

It works well enough as a comparative value. Even if nobody knows exactly how many litres it equates to, I know that a car that gets 60mpg should go twice as far as one that gets 30mpg. If I need to I can convert it into some godforsaken mile/l units.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2013 09:35

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Exit Strategy posted:

Couldn't that be simplified into ml/km, just to add confusion?

My car gets 5.43x10^-3 m^3/km :haw:

# ¿ Mar 25, 2013 16:42

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

That honestly looks pretty good for having been rolled.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 19:33

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Are we still complaining about awful junctions in here?

Check it out, traffic coming off the ring road from the north west has around 40m if I'm being generous to get off the off-ramp, whilst also turning right and fighting with people trying to get onto it. Then you can either go for another lap if you're trying to escape north, or dive diagonally left across two more lanes to make your exit, now fighting with more traffic coming off the next junction around.

I could post the entire Coventry ring-road to be honest. It was a neat idea and it keeps the city centre free of traffic, but it's basically an automotive thunderdome zooming about above the pedestrian's heads.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2013 08:12

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Rhyno posted:

One of them is possibly violating a directional parking law.

A who's his whatsit? I think it's that the Miata driver has gone out of their way to leave as much room as possible, which has been filled by one tiny badly-parked Micra.

# ¿ May 14, 2013 21:11

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Best part is it's a 1.4. :laugh:

Also did you take that today? Somebody's tax disk expired at the end of March.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 11:24

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Holy poo poo that looks like when Massa got clocked by a spring a few years ago, guy's lucky to even be alive. :stare:

# ¿ Jun 19, 2013 00:58

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

General_Failure posted:

What in the hell am I looking at there?

Impending death. :unsmigghh:

# ¿ Jul 22, 2013 00:17

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

veedubfreak posted:

What the hell did that start life as? A Kia?

The greenhouse shape and that crease along the door is screaming Ford Escort.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2013 22:36

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

BraveUlysses posted:

These are terrible bit still nowhere as bad as a Juke.

This is blatantly honk. The Juke looks awful in still photos, but in person they're completely different and look pretty sharp. Every Infiniti looks like yhey've gone out of their way to make an unattractive vehicle.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2013 22:17

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

InitialDave posted:

No, I mean for the basic one, instead of taking up the same space as the full-house system with the big display etc, why not just make a unit that fits in the same slot but incorporates a storage tray etc?

Because you can't have a poverty spec vehicle with a feature that a more expensive model lacks. :pseudo:

# ¿ Oct 13, 2013 09:27

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

dissss posted:

That's standard on the Japanese market cars (at least the non-turbos)

As far as I remember my parent's old one it was standard on UK cars too, which makes sense.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2013 11:04

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Baller Witness Bro posted:

"After grinding a little bit of unnecessary metal off the calipers and making custom spacers, they finally fit and spun over my brakes! By now it's 11:30 at night before the rallycross that I wanted them for, just in time. The clearance between the brakes and the rim was next to nothing, we'll see what happens in the stamp sand.

The previous year to mine's Formula Student team made a slight mis-calculation going from 13" to 10" rims, and so we inherited 4 Wilwood calipers with bits filed off. Turned out some ape had bled them last, stripped the bleed screws out of two of them and tried to seal them up again with instant gasket. It's a good thing the engine never ran right or the damned car would have killed somebody.

We bought a pair of new calipers instead.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 20:57

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Polymerized Cum posted:

Mitsubishi is the Peugeot of Japan

Crap, Peugeot still sell cars.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 22:33

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Bajaha posted:

The blurriness is saving your eyes from a terrible contraption

Are those MG stickers on the back?

# ¿ Feb 26, 2014 21:18

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

I've been there, except it was a fishing umbrella to keep the rain off as I changed a wheel bearing.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2014 15:23

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Seen in Coventry:

The RS green really helps bring out the non-functional vents and rear drum brakes.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2014 17:43

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Falken posted:

911 GT3 rear wing wall shelf.

Yes, it's �3000. No, I am unable to understand why.

I wanna see what sort of damage years of being stood on two corners on a curvy shelf does to nice expensive hardback books. :allears:

One advantage: round objects will always roll to stay onto the shelf.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 13:49

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

InitialDave posted:

Holdup fellas, these are 300-series Volvos we're talking about.

You have wet roundabouts and cheap tyres.

A friend at uni had this exact setup and almost span us into the wall on Coventry's illustrious ring road. He wasn't even trying to break the back end loose. :catstare:

# ¿ Aug 10, 2014 21:49

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Excuse me while I go check if my Peugeot's spare is still there. :ohdear:

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 12:26

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Smoke posted:

On my car(Peugeot 2010 207 99g diesel) it's in the trunk, but it was apparently an option that's included in my edition. Other editions come with a simple patch kit in the spare tire space.

It's a good reminder that I need to check the pressure on my spare though, it's been in there for four and a half years now.

On my 106 it was mounted underneath the trunk but the bolts were probably rusted in place since it was never used and the car was from 1993.

Mine's definitely under the boot, I've seen it a bunch of times. There's a screw you turn under the boot carpet that's supposed to lower the cage it lives in but the mechanism seems to be rusted solid. :shepface:

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 21:03

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

I see 5GTs in the UK with alarming regularity. They look like an X5 trying to wear a regular 5 series' skin like the alien from MIB.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2014 12:41

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Plus it's far cleaner than the gutter I used to have to use.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 18:55

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Gorson posted:

If you have directional wheels and tires you absolutely have to watch the person who is changing them because they will get it wrong every time, even if you point it out beforehand.

Last time I went my favourite garage put my tyres on back to front and rattle-gunned the wheel bolts on so tight I had to get a 2nd garage to bust them loose for me. Come on guys. :sigh:

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 17:11

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Ludicro posted:

Also the insurance for one of these things for a 16/17 year old is like �2000.

I dunno how recently you were 16 but that's like the bottom end of the price range for anything. Guess how much it cost 17 year old me to insure a 1.0L one of these:

�2,300 in 2007 money.

*E* And that was in a sleepy part of Sussex at the time. Car insurance is terrible car stuff.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2014 10:01

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Unless somebody's forgotten to put paper in the thing and your letter is trapped in document purgatory for a month.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 13:08

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

MrYenko posted:

I had to submit receipts for travel-related reimbursement at a previous job, which I did with some scanning software on my phone. I asked the travel contact if I should send them as jpegs, or convert them to pdfs first, and she replied that she could only accept scans if they were embedded in a word document.

Hah, we have to raise the reimbursement form in SAP and then print it out, sign it, staple all the receipts to it, carry it upstairs and hand it to finance who will go back into SAP to approve/deny the claim. For reasons nobody knows the form gets 'Simulation' printed across the top when you print it.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 16:05

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

This is so nerdy, but I swear the i3 looks exactly like a car being advertised in the last Deus Ex game and make the association every time I see it. It's like somebody traced it.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 22:34

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Uthor posted:

Every time I see a Miata in the snow, the driver has a huge grin on their face. Makes me want to get one as a winter beater.

A Miata with proper snow tyres is pretty much unstoppable in any sane amount of snow, and is exactly as fun as it sounds.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2014 19:43

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

My big Peugeot is the first car I've owned that has ABS (what up no TC/ABS MX5 buddies) but I discovered the other day it's either broken or poo poo-tier because it sure let me lock the rear wheels while still grinding away and keeping the front wheels turning. :psyduck:

# ¿ Dec 30, 2014 22:08

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

I gues their muffler bearings really did need replacing.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 16:25

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

mustard_tiger posted:

Try going in to get version 7 engine parts for your swapped WRX.

Parts guy: Do you have a VIN?
Me: Yes, but this is a swapped engine so the parts code will be different.
Parts guy: I need a VIN in order to look up the part.
Me: I have the exact part number right here. If you need a VIN here's mine.
Parts Guy: This part never came on your car.
Me:

I have to give props to a VW parts guy who helped me get bits for my SEAT engine after the SEAT garage themselves failed. I straight up explained the situation, gave him the the engine code and he just smiled and said it wasn't the first time he'd had to do this.

SEAT themselves were adamant that my car never came with that engine despite my offer to show them the code on the block casting. :argh:

# ¿ Jan 21, 2015 13:21

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

kastein posted:

haha, yeah, especially fun on split years. Like say the mazda 626 I helped a dude fix at my last apartment in 2010. There were three loving part splits for a single auto trans cooler line assembly for a single production year / drivetrain combo. Guess what year/drivetrain his was?

Fortunately I have the factory parts catalog and I know my splits, so I just tell them what part number I want and that's that.

This is what I had with the SEAT, it was one of the very last of an old body shape and I think somewhere in the great all-knowing VW parts catalogue the VIN got misplaced. The car did seem to be a basket case though, the rear brakes for example were off the newer shape car which of I didn't discover till after I'd ordered new drums and shoes.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2015 19:55

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

My company dual-dimensions everything in inches and mm, it's like the worst of both worlds because almost nothing rounds exactly and every dimension takes up extra space on the drawing.

The place I did my internship had a requirement to put the absolute biggest threads that would fit on some components. So there were MJ7 and MJ13 threads all over.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2015 15:06

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

Were they some insane hypermiler? drat.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 16:53

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:08

jammyozzy: Dec 7, 2006; Is that a challenge?

My 306 2.0 HDi is herniating combustion charge out of one of the injector ports. I'd fix it but at this point that would require a new cylinder head.

*E* 90 HP. :shepface:

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 08:32

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