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echoplex posted:Speaking of Minis with louvres, this made me laugh:
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Fermunky posted:"Drift charm"... the gently caress? Thats what that is? I thought it was some import version of truck nutz or similarly dumb idea.
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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.
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Aug 24, 2012 00:32
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Rujo King posted:Because having a blue steel Subaru would be absolutely bitching, theoretically speaking of course.
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astrollinthepork posted:http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/us/2012/08/27/stuck-accelerator-help.kcci  Or don't put the handbrake on and be surprised when, presumably due to overheating, your brakes won't work. Stand on the footbrake as hard as you can as soon as you realise things are going a little tits up. And I love the whole "ZOMG 110MPH! 120MPH!!!"  .
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kastein posted:PUT IT IN loving NEUTRAL
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The Rocket Salad posted:something about it screams "Will.I.Am"
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Even if it stays right there, I can't imagine it'd do your legs any favours in a crash. It doesn't even seem like it would be that easy to access. Why not have it on the side of the centre console?
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I've pretty much wallpapered above my desk with Hotwheels and Matchbox cars.
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Rawrl posted:Psssh, I'd kill for $3.79 gas. Up here in Chicago it's still $4.49 a gallon. And again, as usual,  
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Anarchist Mae posted:$5.87 a gallon 
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BoostCreep posted:I only paid $4.49 yesterday for premium (91 octane) here in Los Angeles, but I also pay $165 a month for the privilege to see a doctor if I'm sick. (and then have to pay more once I'm actually there, for all medications, etc.) So it all works out in the end. I also don't really understand the issue some people have with tax-funded primary healthcare. If you take the cost of the NHS and set it against the number of people actually employed in the UK, it's something like $6,000 per worker. That really isn't that bad, when you consider it's funding the same level of healthcare for the other 53% of the population (all the under-sixteens and non-working adults) as well. Not sure what the average employee health insurance package costs in the US (for equivalency, you have to include the ones with spousal/offspring cover as well as the freewheeling singles, and both employer and employee contributions), but I'd be surprised if it were significantly below that. FatCow posted:I wonder how race gas prices compare across countries. In theory they should be fairly similar since they aren't taxed (in the US). A more apt comparison is diesel, as we can get that duty-free ("red" diesel for agriculture etc) - this costs $4.40 for a US gallon, compared to $8.90 for the road stuff. Google tells me the US average for diesel is $4.13 a gallon, so your assumption was quite astute. Edit: Fixed stupid typo. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Sep 10, 2012 |
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rscott posted:The US pays about twice per capita of any other OCED country to provide inferior service to 5/6ths of the population. I'd trade spending 9 bux a gallon on gas for UHC any day. Edit: Yeah, this'll turn into a derail if we're not careful, let's talk about car stuff.
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Why not phone up the DMV yourself and rant about how offensive and homophobic the plate is to you?
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rscott posted:Obviously the solution here is transparisteel
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KozmoNaut posted:If I was that rich, I wouldn't give a drat about other people's opinions on my good taste (or lack thereof).
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Safety Dance posted:There should be a service called "My Friend Who's Good With Cars," where, for like $20 a month, a car-knowledgeable person will come by once a quarter and take 'er for a spin, perform a basic inspection, provide recommendations and note the mileage. They'll call you up and remind you about oil changes, and you can call them up and ask even the most retarded car-related question and receive an honest answer with no judgement. I'm getting fat again.
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lamborghi...=item337766ea63 *~*~LAMBORGHINI~*~* combi boiler. gently caress it, at least it'll probably ignite properly.
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If I had the free capital, I'd have a crack at doing the same thing for coil-sprung Land Rovers to the US.
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BoostCreep posted:Now if an original '63 Continental was being crushed in a new movie today I'd be all up in arms over it.
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Sep 27, 2012 23:41
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IOwnCalculus posted:I once worked with the dumbass who had this plate in AZ, or at least had it at one point. He actually had RU18SXY first but someone complained to the MVD and they took it back.
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Collateral Damage posted:On the other hand people solo commute to work in big rear end station wagons, because once a year they need to haul their family and everything they own on the state-mandated camping trip that contributes to a third of all the divorces in this country.
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Then I strongly suggest you never come to this side of the Atlantic in spring or summer. Limit on single carriageways is fifty. On a motorway or dual carriageway, it's sixty. You occasionally forget and find yourself doing more, or put on a spurt to pass someone. Speed cameras aren't able to differentiate that you're towing, so if there's no actual police around, sitting at seventy or so isn't really an issue.
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He obviously had a Tyco Hi-Jacker as a child.
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 Can someone please tell me what's going on with this Fester's rear suspension? It's a good couple of inches too high at least. Note: that's the owner in the background, who apparently wasn't in the least bit suprised to see someone photographing his car.
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Cakefool posted:Ooh I can answer that one I think - a uni buddy had one a little older  That would make a certain amount of sense. The underpinnings are pretty much the same from '89 to '02.
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Oct 16, 2012 06:25
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Isn't it tied into some stupid Aussie rule about percentage increase in tyre size? Paging Ferremit...
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"Cow tipping? Son, let me tell you how real men do things..." 
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Octopus Magic posted:Sorry guys, I'm not towing 4500 pounds with a Combi van.
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grover posted:And, there have been some attempts at other alternatives...
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The thing about the Juke-R, to me, is that you could just have one built for a lot less than the official product, including making it better in every way. A brand new Juke, GTR, and a thousand fabrication hours would be less than half the price.
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You know they're not actually built by Nissan, right? Or "tooled for production" in the way the base cars are? They're handbuilt by a company called RML here in the UK. The process is on a par with building a production-based race or rally car - expensive, yes, but you could bring it in for well under the £400k they're charging. That's about how much a WRC car costs. They actually proved during development that lopping the length out of a GTR and stiching it back together, well, works. You really could commission someone to do that and put the resultant floorpan under a Juke shell and not be so far away from what they built. This isn't a "build something in your garage for £15k" argument, but a "get a specialist fabricator to build something for £250k" one, and I think that's perfectly realistic.
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Godholio posted:Definitely the wrong thread.
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EightBit posted:I would roll around in this with
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Get some of the newer flat type. They're a little more, but work really well.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What did the throw-out bearing look like?
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Bullshit like that is why they banned clamping on private land in the UK. Unfortunately, the same act that enforced that came with a clause that got rid of the contract loophole on parking fines, meaning they can claim them from the vehicle owner, even if they don't know who the driver is (as it's the driver who they have a contract with for parking within their stated rules).
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Yeah, but before it was a case of them not actually being able to define who their contract was with, which is what has now been tweaked. The one that pisses me off is disabled badge holders not being ticketed for parking on double-yellows. It doesn't magically stop being inconvenient/dangerous to have a car parked there just because of the driver's status.
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Stay away from tranny prostitutes, they spend all day neutral dropping for anyone with  . Leave foul-smelling sticky crap all over the drat place, too.
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