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Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Boomerjinks posted:


I think it's cool...

So do I. Does anybody have details on this?

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Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Exactly what am I looking at here?

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Bondematt posted:

A true American ankle

Thanks. I was truly confused for a few minutes.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Motronic posted:

It's terrible, and I'm a terrible person for being an enabler. To my credit, I at least try to talk them out of that crap.

Actually you're not a really dedicated terrible person, Sir Motronic. You've always provided reasonable and sound advise.

I'm a tad ahead of you regarding bans and probations, but I'm pretty sure you'll eventually catch up.

You're one of the very few people (about 12-15) that keeps me coming back to this forum.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

Not exactly a Mechanical Failure, not exactly a Cycle Picture. Not all that exciting, but pretty weird, a pretty bad idea, and I'd never seen it before.




Homemade motorcycle tire retread. At least that's what I think it is. The carcass of the tire was thin as hell, more pliable than a Pilot Power.

I've actually seen morons do this before. More than once. It's a sad, sad thing.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Fermunky posted:

Being that I've lived in Florida since I was 4, I have no idea what this means for a car after something like this. Does this usually immediately gently caress a car up? I would imagine the weight of all that alone would be enough to damage something...

That's dry snow. It'll probably just clean up the interior a bit once you brush it out.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Linedance posted:

There used to be a Ghia trim level at Ford UK that was the deluxe model, so you had Focus Ghia (and maybe others? thinking about it I think I've only seen Focus Ghias) 1.6 or 1.whatever diesel which allowed you to differentiate trim level from engine spec. I can see this not being necessary in North America where the top trim level always has the biggest engine and vice-versa.

There's Capri, Cortina, Granada, Scorpio, Fiesta, Sierra, Orion, Escort, Focus and Mondeo Ghias. It's from the design firm Carrozzeria Ghia that Ford bought in the early 1970s.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

dissss posted:

They used it on Australian model Fords too like the Laser/Telstar/Fairmont/Territory

Just realized that there's even a Ford Ka Ghia. What the gently caress?

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

GutBomb posted:

As far as I know that's a standard mazda thing right? The dipstick in my RX-8 is yellow.

I've never seen a Mazda dipstick that wasn't yellow.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

KozmoNaut posted:

On some cars, different color dipsticks supposedly signify different types of oil needed. For instance, on Peugeots AFAIK a yellow dipstick means it takes mineral oil, an orange dipstick means semi-synth minimum and a red dipstick means fully-synth only.

I'm not sure how reliable this is, though, as I've never been able to find any written documentation, it's all hearsay from my mechanic.

I think that's completely bullshit. Even for PSA cars. PSA does use handle color codes for oil capacity between engines within the same model though (actually I think the color code really identifies dipstick length).

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

grumplestiltzkin posted:

I hate to tell you this, but your car...


... is silver:negative:

I hate to tell you this, but your eyes need some adjustment. That, or you're color blind. If that's the case I apologize.

Let's test you. Does this car look silver to you?

Sir Cornelius fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jan 6, 2013

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Carteret posted:

125cc is a Chinese Motorswap that's pretty popular.

edit: google GY6 motor. comes in 125 and 150cc varieties.

You could always do a custom swap... or go insane with a Silver Wing Swap:





Impractically long, but 600cc is stupid fun. Rode this thing once in KC and it was a monster.

I feel tempted to do a FEA on that spine, but I'd rather stay out of this and pretend I've never heard of it.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

parrhesia posted:

That truck owns.


I'm pretty sure that Audi isn't art, at least not purposefully so.

It's from Bulgaria, so it's probably just a unusually weak mafia warning.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

kastein posted:

None of those Hummers have the ridiculous oversize bulldog hood ornament BS going on. I'm not sure who thought that was a good idea, it's the same "oh that's cool? let's run this poo poo into the ground!" thing.




Besides the lack of spikes on the doors and panels, I see nothing seriously wrong here. Ohh, I think I get it now. Yes, gently caress those people that drives around with fake pitbulls.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

KozmoNaut posted:

I totally want a DS5 Peugeot 508 SW. Anything related to it really doesn't belong in this thread.

Better

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Throatwarbler posted:

What do you use such a thing for? Wikipedia says it has a GVWR of 14,000lbs and a tow rating of 16,000lbs which sound really low - that's like half what a Ram 2500 is rated for, and they want $90,000 for it?



You should install it further in the front for better cooling. You also might want to shave it a bit for better airflow.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

That's actually brilliant.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Linedance posted:

Stuck on, more like... It's tape.

To be fair, I think it's plasti-dipped duct-tape.

Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

Pham Nuwen posted:


:barf: seats from a loving 2004 Sebring and dragon floormats!

What's your problem with the seats?

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Sir Cornelius
Oct 30, 2011

some texas redneck posted:

I'd specifically asked the cops "are you absolutely sure there's no drugs in the car?"

Calling bullshit.

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