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My coworker didn't know how to change a tire and asked me to do it for him so he could go home. When we popped his trunk there were bilingual, laminated, full-colour pictorial and text explanations on how to do it included with the jack. Thanks, Ford! I've told this story before, but a few winters ago I was heading home on an 80kph road and came up behind a CR-V that was going slowly in the left lane. I started to pull up alongside it and then noticed that the right front tire was sticking out at about, oh, 30-45 (oscillating) degrees of camber. I decided to stay way, way back and drive cautiously waiting for the wheel to separate and the car to roll over. The next day I was heading home on a different road, traffic was massively backed up. When I got to the front, there was a CR-V of the same colour and year missing its entire front right hub assembly, impaled on a Jersey barrier in the left lane. I also saw a CR-V of the current generation a few months ago missing its entire left front hub assembly (wheel and tire included), lower control arm, strut/springs, left front axle and fender liner sitting stuck in the middle of the road when I was driving to work. The tow truck guys (yup, 2 trucks) were just showing up when I left. A former neighbor had the ball joint fall out on his 929 and ended up stuck in the entrance to the gravel alley behind his place with the car looking like a Back to the Future hover car. He put a note on the windshield: "DO NOT TOW CAR IS SICK  " with frowny face included. The police station is just up the road, so they towed it pretty quickly. I believe he got soaked for over five hundred bucks by Canadian Tire. He replaced it with a brand new shortbox Silverado which, after a few years, he started with starting fluid in the middle of the winter instead of replacing the battery.
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Nodoze posted:Having someone tailgate the hell out of you leading up to an on-ramp and get visibly upset that you aren't going fast enough, only to fall way behind you going around it and you end up like a mile ahead of them on the highway when you see them coming out is pretty amusing Usually I don't even need to accelerate out of the turn as much as I just maintain the speed limit through the turn. Has the same effect. I must admit that I think I made a ricer Civic that was weaving through traffic and passing on the shoulder poo poo his britches when a tiny gay convertible started the corner while he was at the apex and was on his rear bumper before he had finished turning. Maybe you'd be faster if you put both hands on the wheel? Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:gently caress, I passed the googlemaps car on a double yellow because the rear end in a top hat was doing 45-50 in a loving 70. You'd think they'd want to make it harder for people to tailgate them the entire time so their exposed dick and middle finger ends up in every Streetview panorama.
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Geoj posted:The stupidity of ricers never ceases to amaze me. Who the gently caress not only chases someone down for flashing their highbeams, but then proceeds to follow someone onto private property to defend their early-2000s Kia's honor? Was it this guy? Maybe he got a new Korean car. http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=994095&binId=1.1203428&playlistPageNum=1
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metaxus posted:I must be the polar opposite of that... I get on quite well with the dealer I bought my motorbike from (they've only got 5 staff), and last time I dropped it off for a service, I got their shitheap of a loan bike, took it home, and killed a few hours washing it, cutting all the scratches out of the paint, polishing it, and waxing it. I also replaced several blown globes, polished the windscreen and instrument cluster faces, adjusted and lubed the chain, and adjusted the clutch.
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8ender posted:I always find the biggest problem with other drivers on a bike is that some have a hard time estimating my speed with just one headlight. If I'm riding down the rode and get the spidey sense tingle about someone waiting to pull out ahead I'll usually move the bike from one side of the lane to the other, back and forth. I've seen some people pop their brakes when I do that so I have to assume it works sometimes. I sometimes find it difficult to determine the exact distance to me of bikes with only one headlight. I find it hard to do the same for the many, many domestics around here missing their right headlight from last weekend's DUI. At least the latter sometimes have a dangling corner light on the opposite side that you can use to figure out how close they are in the dark. I usually wait until I'm 100% sure but I can definitely see how it can happen if you're impatient trash.
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So she was trying to do a hill start while drunk out of her mind and then proceeded to compound it with some fractures? Nice.
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Me and my dad both found out what 4-Lo does when I got my permit and learned to drive in a snowy parking lot. Hint: It's loving great.
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Someone like that, it might be better to light his gas furnace for him rather than trust him to do it... http://abcnews.go.com/US/indianapolis-house-explosion-suspect-charged-murder-hire-plot/story?id=18837371
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Local public transit told everyone to stop waiting for buses in the middle of hills when it's icy, even if there's stops, because the bus might not be able to stop in the middle of the hill. On my commute to work that day I saw buses not stopping in the middle of the hill as instructed and people, who were still waiting in the middle of the hill, jumping out onto the street and running after the buses, then slipping on the ice and almost sliding under the rear wheels. It happened at two different stops so I wonder how many people overall can't understand the concept of "sometimes a bus won't stop for you, don't do anything stupid about it."
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I see that all the time, usually near the truck stops. They're just parking in a giant parking lot so snow has plenty of time to fall and they don't necessarily take the time to clean it off. What's really bad are the daycabbers who show up for work and then don't do the same, and especially the dump truck operators who neither secure their loads nor clear snow and ice. It's one of those things I think where if more people lived here, someone would have developed a piece of standard equipment to fix it by now.
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Drunken Lullabies posted:I wish I could find that video of one car hitting something like 10-20 parked cars on cap hill in one go that king5 aired a few years ago. This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmaRQ75hc8
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atomicthumbs posted:we already had this discussion It snows a lot here.
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Nov 19, 2013 23:12
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The Germans really shouldn't be criticizing other people for having queues.xzzy posted:Is it true that some places in Europe (UK maybe? I'm going off a fuzzy memory here) that failure to properly allow a zipper on a merge will get you ticketed? We don't have it as a law but several of our worst-designed collectors have signs that say ALTERNATE RIGHT OF WAY DURING CONGESTION.
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FogHelmut posted:Dunkin Donuts is the bane of my commute. Their parking lot entrance is such that people have to come to a complete stop to make the right turn to enter it. The Tim Hortons outside my old office was so popular that it backed up people through their entire parking lot out onto the street and then almost onto the highway before the police started an active campaign to break it up by ticketing people blocking the driveways and intersections.
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The local police started a crackdown on distracted driving where they have a cop dress up as a hobo/undercover and just sit around waiting for people to be dongmasters. While the local CBC affiliate was interviewing an undercover cop, someone right behind them decided to pull an illegal u-turn and start driving the wrong way up a one way street while talking on their cellphone. When the cop lit them up, the driver was also found to not be wearing a seatbelt with the whole thing filmed and live-tweeted by the reporter. Now that's an expensive morning. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Nov 26, 2013 |
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I'm really worried because they're building a highway flyover near one of my favorite backwoods driving roads, and I know it's only a matter of time before I have to contend with more than just bicyclists and the occasional Camry driver on it.
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Nov 26, 2013 18:55
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Michael Scott posted:Hey now! I'm a performance Camry driver. I'm being generous. Last time I was on it (in my '97 Impreza rust bucket - RIP) I had to wait behind a 911 turbo because he was afraid to go over 40 in a 60 on it.
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MrYenko posted:
Because we come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow. The hammer of the gods will drive our comfortable economy cars (ideally with heated seats) to the work parking lot. Seriously though, it's a lot of fun to watch morons on all-seasons (or worse, summers) pinball their way down an icy hill or find out from the morning news that yesterday your provincial capital had a 40 car accident because despite the fact that everyone drives around with their fogs on 24/7 nobody knows how to drive in ice fog and the exact same thing happened last year too. Last year we had a chinook wind that melted a bunch of snow at the end of my driveway and I found half a Neon bumper encased in the ice. That's value. My insurance premiums are, uh, large.
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Phy posted:What area of town was this, I've lived in the deep southeast most of my life with a couple years close to city center and I don't really recall snowbanks deep enough to hide a bumper in. I know the north end gets a lot more weather than the south in general. Deep NW. It was a big pile of frozen snow left from my neighbor's shovelling. I used to live in the deep SE too. It's like living in Edmonton up here, poo poo is crazy.
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Drunken Lullabies posted:On another note I had a plastic bag stick to my car for 30 miles. THESE ARE THE BAGS YOU SHARE THE ROAD WITH. Have fun in Seattle, little bag. Ugh, every time I drive near a plastic bag blowing in the wind I freak out momentarily about having to pull it off my driveshaft and exhaust in the next few kilometers. That's why I always tie mine off before I throw them in the recycle bin.
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xzzy posted:Speaking of stop lines, what about asshats in giant trucks/vans/suv's who creep forward in the left turn lane when I'm trying to turn right? Last week I was turning right and had to look left across this giant lifted SUV that was waiting to turn left. Whenever I would pull forward because he was blocking my view, he would pull forward because he couldn't look over the roof of my short station wagon or something. Repeat half a dozen times and he ended up blocking the intersection from just creeping forward through the crosswalk. That's when I turned right and made my escape. Thanks rear end in a top hat! 
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InitialDave posted:Never heard of it. It's something to say that the accident was properly recorded, right? I can see why it makes sense for a some stuff, but surely there must be people who have a repair needed that isn't an accident the police would get involved in? $1000 isn't a huge amount, you could probably do that scraping your own driveway gatepost or something. I believe in Alberta they recently raised the amount to $2000 or thereabouts. Regardless many shops do expect you to have the accident reporting sticker.
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xzzy posted:There's a two lane chunk of road I used to use on my commute, has an enormous 20 foot easement on either side that's kept clean cut. One spot has a gentle uphill grade to a crest, then dives fairly steep right into a stop light. 50 mph speed limit so people tend to try to cruise pretty fast. It backs up a bit during rush hour to the point you can only see cars and no stop light.. this habitually surprises people who expect to be going through at highway speeds and find a line of not moving cars in front of them. I think at least once a week I'd hear tires squealing going through there, when I'm the last car in the line I'd always watch the mirror for potential problems. When I first got my license and was driving to work for one of the first times I was rounding an onramp onto a low-speed freeway outside my parents' place. There's a big hill on the right side of said road because they were trying to build a cloverleaf but ran out of money. It was spring, but it was early in the morning so the dew was still freezing on the road. The road that feeds into the exit is a popular drag racing spot for rich kids/ricers, so much so that they built a police station on it and people still have street races on it. I had to stop abruptly because the guy in front of me misunderstood the concepts of "merge" and "yield." Traffic is dead stop in front of me. I glanced at the rear view and saw a dude in a Civic flying in behind me. He couldn't stop in time, swerved and jumped the curb. His Civic launches up the hill sideways and gets stuck at the top. Since at this point I am stopped on a freeway onramp, I didn't know what to do so I looked to make sure he wasn't dead and took off at full speed as soon as the traffic in front of me opened up. I'm glad he didn't hit me because based on how far he flew when he crested the hill... I check my rear view mirrors a lot and leave myself room to try and wiggle out of the way now. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:followed by reading a licence plate at a distance.
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davebo posted:Does anyone here watch Canada's Worst Driver? I've been enjoying this season where they've brought back some of the "winners" from previous seasons so it's really a worst of the worst scenario. I watch on youtube since I'm not Canadian but I just can't fathom how bad these people are. I wish the state could step in so that the loser actually lost their license. Or just have some patrol cars wait outside the facility to tail them home and catch their first mistake. It's a fun show but there needs to be more schadenfreude. It's brutal. The final episode airs tonight, but I don't know how they can top last week's running away from the event, breaking into your own motherfucking home and slashing your hand tendons wide open. Then again, they are going to be driving on city streets this time and the drivers have gotten pulled over and ticketed for infractions before.
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Brigdh posted:Tire rack street survival course? Probably not the same as Bounderant, but it atleast something... Local sportscar club goes out to a frozen-over lake and does some ice driving survival skill drills. A lot of guys from the club bring their wives/scared coworkers/children and it seems to go a long way - the club racer guys get a chance to play on a new surface and everyone else is way more confident. I've seen people who are terrified to turn the key in winter go to being able to lose and regain control at high speeds on ice and that's a valuable skill here. Unfortunately the locals are trust-fund retards who want their precious lake homes to remain unthreatened by the exhaust noise of bone stock commuter cars so who knows how long that'll stay.
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xzzy posted:I have never seen a blinker bulb burn out, even old style filament bulbs were good for thousands of hours. You're gonna have to drive a car for decades before the blinker goes.. corrosion is going to kill it before it burns out. I killed a blinker bulb in my old Cavalier after only about seven years. GM says you have to pull the bumper to swap the bulb but I was able to pry the fender liner and do it through the crash structure in the rad support. It was -30 and I was convinced it was somehow completely essential that I replace the bulb that night for the drive to work the next day.
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The Citroen DS4 has a customizable turn signal sound. Some of them are pretty obnoxious, much like the space retards who don't use their signals before major turns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2sz61tNkU
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Speaking of fire trucks I saw this on the GRM forums and it scares the poo poo out of me. Yeah those are portable lifts. I'm assuming the truck is as empty as it can be, but oh man.
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Deeters posted:I'd love to fortify my mailbox, but it surprisingly hasn't been hit since then. The other mailboxes take the hit, or the car goes into the telephone pole. My dad and I took the In Canada, we are just making individual mailboxes obsolete. This is the superior option because the community mailboxes are more burly and cause more damage to today's larger, more armored vehicles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsLt783_J0U
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PT6A posted:If you're driving an SUV or truck and not backing into parking spots the majority of the time, you're probably doing it wrong. Or cars, for that matter. Backing in is just so much easier and safer once you get used to it. Yeah my dad always taught me that the first motion of any truck should always be forward. Whenever I drive a truck, I back in. I try to back in with a car as well when it's convenient because it greatly reduces my stress leaving a crowded lot.
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I get courtesy flashes from city buses. Your daycabbers are boiled poo poo.
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some texas redneck posted:So I'm taking an online defensive driving class. They state you should signal lane changes and turns "one full city block before your turn". They taught us to kick it off as soon as it wouldn't cause confusion, so as soon as you're past the turn/driveway before your destination put the signal on. That might be like a block or on the highway several kilometers, so I don't think they even followed their own advice.
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I was giving a city bus enough distance to be able to see the traffic lights still when a Fit cut in between the two of us with about an inch to clear between him and the bus, the light went red and the city bus practically locked 'em up. Never seen a Fit spin in place before, I gave him a healthy dose of my horn to remind him that I can always stop slower next time. When the light went green he waited a very long time for the bus to leave before getting started again.
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xzzy posted:Drivers were really bad at avoiding bodies of water in those days, huh? No guardrails probably, just pedestrian railings. All of the public infrastructure to protect bad drivers didn't exist because we generally assumed that people knew they were operating a dangerous machine in public. It's crazy how much some of those frames crumpled considering the relatively low speeds they were travelling at. The one with the hydrant is scary.
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