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I'm glad we got the CL and Mechanical Failures threads back (because they are awesome) but in addition we now have this thread which means my terrible car-related mishap enjoyment has been effectively doubled! Christmas came early, thanks Papa Calculus!
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winter.mute posted:on my way home last night I saw this gem sitting at one of the local "Buy Here, Pay Here" used car lots. Holy poo poo. Is that a real GT40? Kit car? Did it have a price on it? Also I totally would have peeked under that mat.
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Aug 21, 2012 19:00
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I had a friend who had an automatic gt, but he wanted to make it handle better so he bought the IRS from a cobra. He never swapped it in or anything, it just spent numerous years in pieces in the garage, but that meant that he could brag about having a rear setup from a cobra. Yes, we made fun of him a lot. He eventually sold it, but I think he still has the cobra stuff. 
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Sep 10, 2012 13:26
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IOwnCalculus posted:Mine did too, until I told her how small it is on the inside (I think it's actually got a smaller interior than our Mazda3 hatch). At a glance it appeals to the I-want-a-crossover crowd but it is really, really small for a crossover. My gf refers to them as "that hamster car." The first time she did it, and mentioned she thought it was a nissan, I instantly knew what she was referring to.
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Sep 12, 2012 21:27
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SaNChEzZ posted:
He's just got the optional air-cooled version. Gotta keep the airflow up!
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Sep 19, 2012 19:59
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I recently had a conversation with a friend thinking about replacing her Jetta with something not so failure-prone: "You should be looking at Toyotas, Nissans, maybe Subarus if you need AWD, Hondas although the more recent ones don't seem quite as good quality for the money." "Well, ok, but there's this sebring down the street for sale...." 
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Sep 23, 2012 01:15
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wrong thread! -snip-
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Oct 8, 2012 13:46
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Most of us have to wait in line. But why the heck does it matter that it's a diesel? Special diesel plates?
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Oct 30, 2012 20:07
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Yesterday I was sitting at my desk which overlooks the road outside when I saw a tow truck drive by towing an almost mint mid-90s Oldsmobile 88. Why was it not completely mint, you ask? Well, there seemed to be some sort of V8 engine sticking straight up out of the windshield. I was too slow pulling my phone out to get a picture but it was easily one of my more WTF car moments ever. I imagined the guy at the junkyard first trying to fit it into the trunk, then studying the car for a moment before having the brainstorm of "just drop it into the windshield!" wilfredmerriweathr fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Nov 4, 2012 |
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Nov 4, 2012 14:13
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I used to drive a mkiii jetta which I got rid of at 170k miles because it was nickel and dime-ing me to death with typical VW poo poo, and the output seal in the tranny was shot and leaking gear oil. I got $500 from some mexican kid whose buddy owned a shop. My best friend had the same car, except he had been running lovely rear end low-pro tires on some stupid rims, had 200k on his and struts that had been blown for 5+ years that made it bounce around so bad on the freeway that it was downright dangerous. He sold that jetta for $2200 to some dad that was buying a car for his son (and he sold it with steelies on it, not the rims). Part of me is pissed that I didn't get more for mine, but then I just imagine the kid that bought my friend's going over his first pothole on the interstate and bouncing into the median.
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Nov 14, 2012 14:43
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Seriously? I've never needed it while riding but I've always felt extra comfortable on my longer rides that if something went wrong I have AAA. I don't think I like how this makes me feel... I mean, for a year I only had a bike (no car) but I kept my AAA just in case. I guess I would have been SOL?
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Dec 11, 2012 17:14
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Honestly that is exactly the type of behavior I expect from people who would engage in a truck tug of war.
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Dec 16, 2012 23:58
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mutt2jeff posted:National Geographic channel covers L.A. Street Racers for an episode, and it is terrible. Oh god this is awful. "FIVE HUNDRED HORSEPOWER!" *heavy metal guitar riff*
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Dec 20, 2012 00:23
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Seat Safety Switch posted:They did one about Seattle street racing that I watched last night. I haven't checked out the LA one. Jesus christ this one might even be worse than the Compton one. Gotta love that cop talking about how "all the street racers just use 4 cylinder so, you know, I can catch up to them with my charger.  "At least the LA one had cool cars.
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Dec 21, 2012 13:57
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opengl128 posted:Ok finally found an answer, for the Porsche 7 speed anyway. 7th is blocked from any gear other than 6th. Is that... a german with a shaved head, wearing FUBU, reviewing a brand new Porsche? That was weird.
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Jan 15, 2013 14:57
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pylb posted:Here's something that I saw last year. Dazzle paintjobs are pretty sweet... and maybe it's an attempt to fool speed cameras?
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Feb 18, 2013 23:51
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"You should do it!" "I'm pregnant, otherwise I would!" 
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Apr 2, 2013 13:31
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Fatty_McLumpkin posted:I stared at the decal on the back window for a solid 10 minutes.. it was some kind of helicopter or some stupid bullshit. I'd also like to note the glossy finish on the rear diff with the bald eagle painted on that had an american flag overlayed. HOLY poo poo that diff is  .Also what the gently caress does that plate mean? I keep seeing "empty diaper."
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Apr 3, 2013 15:34
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some texas redneck posted:Meanwhile, at WalMart.. You know, I don't think her kids actually feel that way about Mom's smoking ("We don't eat where Mom can't smoke!")
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Apr 7, 2013 20:28
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Welp I just learned something today! I always thought they were the same company, and I'll admit I even wore a fox racing shirt once or twice. But I've also owned plenty of [mountain] bikes with Fox suspension components.
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Apr 9, 2013 20:22
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He went from the Tail to the Mouth of the Dragon. Complete with fire-breath. But its ok, he had his kevlar gloves on 
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Apr 15, 2013 12:58
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Snowdens Secret posted:On a Focus It seems like that's exactly what's going on. Plenty of people spend all their money on bikes and end up with a crappy focus or whatever dd.
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May 1, 2013 00:30
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Those protege5s rust worse than any other car in recent memory.
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Jun 10, 2013 15:45
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Love those lil' michigan gumball lights. So old school! And yeah, no emergency vehicles in MN need plates as far as I can tell. Sometimes they have an actual MN plate but it just says "POLICE" instead of any actual plate number.
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Jul 17, 2013 16:50
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Whenever I see an old avenger, stratus, 300m, or sebring, I just get irrationally angry that someone would buy one of them. At least this guy is proud of his purchase?
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Jul 18, 2013 20:33
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BoostCreep posted:Here's a really terribly designed rally stage I found on YouTube: Those spectators are so polite. I would have been maniacally cackling after the first few slid off.
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Aug 6, 2013 17:52
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So is paying someone else's hospital bills because you hydroplaned into them on the freeway. (I have a friend like this, I refuse to ride in his car)
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Sep 8, 2013 14:34
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G-Mach posted:Finally got the video of Ken Block being dumb and almost hitting spectators/marshals/photographers at the rally this weekend. Holy gently caress. I usually go to the LSPR but I skipped it this year due to scheduling conflicts. That is some gnarly poo poo for sure. Kinda upset I didn't get to see him roll though!
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Oct 21, 2013 14:37
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I drove cross-country to do some backcountry hiking in western montana and the panhandle of idaho this past summer, while I wanted to take two cars the rest of my group decided we'd be best off taking a chevy venture that was "totally good to go and up to date on maintenance." First our A/C compressor seized after blowing metal shavings all over the engine bay. No biggie I guess, coulda happened to anyone... Then 18 hours later at 1 am on a windy switchback I noticed that the brake pedal wasn't really doing anything much except going to the floor... so I geared down and started braking with the ebrake (this is hard to do on a pedal-type ebrake), which apparently was also on its last legs and had two settings: "off" and "lock the back wheels up while we keep going forward." When I found a level spot (in front of a sign warning us about the upcoming 7% grade) for us to pull over and camp for the night, nobody else seemed at all bothered about the fact that we had no brake fluid left, brake lines had burst and the ebrake cable was literally hanging loose under the car. So basically non-car people have no appreciation for "almost died" incidents.
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Oct 25, 2013 22:40
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Yeah. I didn't get any sleep that night. I actually noticed the brakes because we had some amazing aurora borealis going on, so I pulled over to shut the lights off and check them out for a sec. Then when we started rolling again I attempted some emergency stops and didn't stop. The rest of the group wanted to continue on to our scheduled campsite, which was about 2000 vertical feet lower in elevation than where I actually stopped. I'm glad we saw the northern lights.
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Oct 25, 2013 22:48
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Yeah this is where you loving floor it and not give a gently caress about the crossing arm.
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Nov 8, 2013 14:48
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Is there a website that catalogs various fiero "mods" into cars that claim to be something other than a fiero? Because there should be one.
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Nov 17, 2013 00:49
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Ror posted:Those terrible parkers remind me of a guy from reddit who posted pictures of his office's lot that has no lines. It's a wonderful look at order versus chaos. This reminds me of my high school's lot in the snow. Rows of cars would start off normal but converge to a single mass by the back of the lot, often leaving 10+ people parked in.
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Nov 22, 2013 03:09
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Yeah the preemptive salting is exceedingly annoying. They just dump it all over as soon as it starts dipping below freezing, even though it's undoubtedly going to rain a bit when it's above zero and all that salt is going to just wash right into the rivers. Then when it actually snows, they've wasted half the salt budget on poisoning the gulf of mexico.
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Nov 26, 2013 04:10
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Brining works great for the first 6 hours of a snowfall, then it is worthless.
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Nov 26, 2013 16:47
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I get it, sort of, because I used to run a [stock] mkiii with a roof rack and both a thule box on it in the winter and a couple bike racks in the summer. But all the "dubber" dudes I knew would seriously find bikes on craigslist, paint them with a rattlecan to make them match their vw's paint scheme, and then toss them on a bike rack. Not to use, mind you - just to accent their vw with a hint of "I do things other than be a smug dubber rear end in a top hat." It really bugged me. They literally never took the bikes off, they just sat up there all summer long.
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Nov 30, 2013 02:45
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I think one of the funniest car related things I have ever seen was an old friend who went to school in Arizona coming back to the upper midwest with his brand new IS 250 RWD on summer performance tires. Watching him try to navigate my neighborhood's ice and snow covered streets was nothing short of hilarious (as long as I wasn't in the car with him). He maintained that "traction control and patience" were all he needed. Yeah right, buddy. And a healthy insurance policy.
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Dec 9, 2013 15:21
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some texas redneck posted:I'm kind of surprised at how they refer to it as if a counterbalance isn't something in common use today. The idea was used pretty regularly back in the streetcar days, too, but often it would involve waiting for a streetcar going the other direction and just hook the two together to act as each other's counterweight.
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Dec 11, 2013 14:27
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M42 posted:Is there anything you can even do in that sliding-down-the-icy-hill situation? Downshift, take your foot off the brake, try to point it straight down the hill and hope your tires have enough grip to slow you down via engine braking. Or steer into a wall.
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Dec 11, 2013 15:41
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I used to live in a triplex and at the time I only had a motorcycle, so of course I was commuting on it every day. The girl in the upstairs unit had some sort of parakeet or parrot-like bird and it would loving tweet day in and day out, which could be heard throughout the house. This girl would regularly run outside when I was getting my gear on and chastise me for firing up my bike in the morning. At 8 am. It was on stock exhaust, not loud at all. I attempted to placate her by riding it down the driveway into the street before firing it up, but to no avail - she would continue to complain whenever she was given the chance. Eventually I gave up and started firing it up right next to her window, because gently caress you if you can't handle a small amount of noise at 8 am on a weekday. This girl would also regularly park us in by parking at the very beginning of the driveway, which at that point is only one car width wide, while two or more people were parked in the parking spots behind the house. This happened to me once during a snow storm which occurred the day before I was supposed to leave for a road trip. Solution? After banging on her door to no avail, I called a friend with a jeep and we simply dragged her Geo Prism halfway into the street so that I could get around her.
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