Progressive JPEG posted:

The offset/floating licence plate looks a little weird, is that common in florida/elsewhere?

I think the color looks good, though I like how the toyobaru looks in general.

joat mon posted:

Artist.
On the other hand,

http://www.jruiter.com/entry/1962-lincoln-continental/

ART posted:

The restoration / alteration consisted of everything. Paint, motor, trans, interior, wheels, rims, exhaust, on, and on, and on…

Ringo Star Get posted:

Posted this in the "These are the people you share the road with", but here's a car club that shows that not only will people nearly fully smoke their taillights, but drive summer tires during a snowstorm and give terrible excuses.

http://imgur.com/a/X94zq

If anyone is looking to pick up a Focus ST that's been totaled, keep an eye out for one in Craigslist in Illinois.

rear end in a top hat Bicycle posted:

Saw my first real-life Murano convertible tonight at Best Buy. It was just as bad as I'd hoped!! I especially liked the stupid little window above the rear window.

DropShadow posted:

Remember this guy?



Some poor soul just paid $450k for it: http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/17/barrett-jackson-2014-gene-simmons-1956-ford-f-100-snakebit-cus/

Tekne posted:

Listen to the M4 sing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlrxGjZ1eA

surebet posted:

I still don't like the fact that people rely on them solely when going backwards like I see so often.

I rent a bunch of different cars over a typical year for work, and usually I just take whatever's available now, so I end up driving a lot of random stuff. Rear view cameras are really cool since I'm never perfectly sure of my size, so sometimes parallel parking can be hit or miss.

Otherwise if I'm doing stuff like backing into potential traffic you can be sure I actually look around and cover my angles.

xzzy posted:

They give you whatever the previous renter left in the tank. They tell you to return the car with the same amount of gas as you started with, or they charge you gas at an inflated price to refuel it.

As you can imagine the needle tends to drift closer to empty the more times it's rented as people always try to put the bare minimum amount of gas in.

8ender posted:

I've driven the all time worst rental car and it was a PT Cruiser convertible in burgundy. There is nothing worse than that car. Every rental car before and after that car was or will be better across the entire universe till the end of time.

Dammit_Carl! posted:

Go Bubb Rubb on them and get some of those "whistle tips," from a few years back....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5K7uh0iVDs#t=30 for smooth woo-woo mix

veedubfreak posted:

I still have fond memories of the time I got lost and wandered into 5th ward.

Holdbrooks posted:

nice! almost as good as this one

Guinness posted:

What tires does the FR-S come with? Some sort of summer tire right? I just saw a moron in an FR-S at Stevens pass who was proper hosed trying to drive/get pushed at the end of a day of skiing during which 8 inches of fresh snow fell on the already snow-covered parking lot, and it was continuing to snow heavily. And the highway was snow covered for like 15-20 miles coming down the mountain.

It just had to be on summer tires because he had zero traction even on pretty evenly packed snow. I also drive a RWD coupe in the snow, but with Blizzaks so it is totally capable. But even all-seasons wouldn't have been this worthless.

I wonder what happened to that dumb guy.

drukqs posted:

Turns out this was trolling thank God.

I was new to the group and... I mean... these are the same people who would pay thousands for ratty economy cars with no racing pedigree other than the fact that this model was featured in Initial D so it caught me off guard.

CharlesM posted:

Speaking of Japanese air fresheners though, i seem to recall that cabs in Tokyo have some kind of air freshener built into them on the rear deck, about the size of a box of tissues.

Niven posted:

How mad were the people that managed to dodge the madman driving the wrong way down the highway towards them, only to have the police throw spike strips directly in front of their cars.

Also what's with all the unlocked doors? Just about every car I've driven in the last ~10 years auto locks the doors above ~5 kph, is this not a thing in the US?

Goober Peas posted:

Here's a terrible thing from Renault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXaV41zMA60

I...just don't know. It solves a problem with a whole host of other problems, and still doesn't manage to solve the problem.

Goober Peas posted:

Downforce!

Cakefool posted:

As someone who works for Toyota, thanks, and sorry.

DefaultPeanut posted:

Oil changes on motorcycles suck more than you could think. Most of the time sport bikes need to have the mid or lower fairing removed to access the filter. After that, you get about 6" between the engine case and hot exhaust header. The filter wrenches are stupid expensive too - $70 OEM Honda/Yamaha/Kawasaki filter wrench, $40 OEM Suzuki wrench. Universal ones are garbage - incorrectly sized to fit on or pop off easily or have the nut / 3/8" drive break off.

Big loving cruisers are just as annoying. Honda VT750's come to mind. The drain plug is hidden in a recess in the case, behind a coolant hose that you can't move to fit a socket past, on the left side of the engine. If the bike is on its side stand, a regular length wrench won't fit the angle to grab the drain plug and leave you with room to break it lose. The Yamaha XV1900 is just like that, but with less room between the drain plug and frame. Oh, and there are two of those for the engine and one for the oil tank. 0.5 hr flat rate for an oil change on those. Kill me.

Safety Dance posted:

My Husqvarna had two oil drain plugs within inches of one another. One required a 12mm socket, and the other required a gigantic hex driver for reasons known only to

Boba_Fettish posted:

Saw this shiny gem yesterday at the grocery store, had a blue/greenish pearl on the upper half that doesn't come out on my cell phone.

surebet posted:

Seat Safety Switch posted:

I was poking around trying to get an idea of what cavity waxes are available in Canada, and stumbled across this thread:

http://forums.nicoclub.com/my-s13-was-built-on-a-friday-restoration-t580792.html

A 240SX that was built on 4-20. This should be high quality, and it is. Lazy seam sealing (in the middle of panels a mile from the weld), bad welds, missing spot welds, and loose floorpans.

On page 2, they show that the weld quality is so poor that the A-pillar of the unibody was never e-dipped.

Seatbelts posted:

it's holographic vinyl wrap!


Also! Not terribly expensive.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Roll-24-X-10ft-Silver-Holographic-Sign-Graphic-Cutting-Vinyl-Film-/321223266601

8ender posted:

Wrong. Previa is mid engined and RWD and now it's more awesome.

kastein posted:

Do you know how hard I had to argue to not have this in a certain vehicle I work on? Everyone wanted it "because everyone else is doing it and it's cool."

1. you realize how expensive and how much engineering time this is going to take to get right, right?
2. put a touchscreen in your car, use it for a while and tell me you really, truly believe you want this for HVAC controls you're going to have to try and use on the road and in turbulence.
3. try and use it while keeping your eyes on the road. I double dare you.

People see shiny things and their magpie brain kicks in immediately rather than thinking things through all the way. I got in my one and only at-fault wreck because I dared to take my eyes off the road for a fraction of a second in traffic just to get my finger on the "next track" button on my traditional tactile button stereo, no loving way will I ever put a touchscreen in a car in any capacity that will mean it's used while in motion. Simply not happening.

Larrymer posted:

Funny you say this as my car is a Chevy Sonic that I posted about liking just a couple posts above yours. The HVAC is NOT on the touch screen on any model, there are 3 knobs below it and buttons for defrost and all that.

Bajaha posted:

This would be really cool for first 5 minutes before it gets dirty/dusty. Then have fun taking off the wheels every time you want to clear the back face.

Motronic posted:

Every time I see this I can't bring myself to believe people have done it on purpose but got it that way because it was hail damaged.

Throatwarbler posted:

Just kidding! We never lost faith in Chrysler and would have bought another one, but Chrysler doesn't make a Honda Fit competitor so eh.

nm posted:

You may be correct, but he was not treating the yellow flag properly.