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KillHour posted:I was helping my friend fix his girlfriend's sister's beater of a 90's E-Class Merc. After cutting the rat's nest of random wires leading to the improperly-installed aftermarket stereo (she was wondering why the battery would drain when the car was off It wasnt the stereo, it was the car screaming "KIILLLL MEEEEEEEEE"
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Hey, I fixed the dead battery issue. You don't have a stereo any more.
That's fine
Wait... what? When's the last time you changed the oil?
And... how long have you had the car?
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Drunken Lullabies posted:I know what regenerative braking is, I should have gone into a bit more detail. Most of these people will, say, be doing 40 in a 35, slam their brakes until they're doing 20-25, and then slowly accelerate back up to 40, repeat. Regenerative braking is not as efficient as not slowing down in the first place. The best thing you can do in a hybrid or an electric is to set the cruise control. The people you're describing are just loving braindead, don't pay one iota of attention to driving the car, and shouldn't have drivers licenses; it has nothing to do with their vehicle choice. I like when they can't get up an overpass hill within fifteen miles an hour of their baseline cruise speed, so I go around them, and then they honk, flash their highbeams, etc, when they accelerate on the downslope, twenty seconds later, and aren't happy with the speed I just passed them at... 
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CannonFodder posted:I was going about 70mph and someone in a generic midsize passed me. They had a donut spare on the right front tire. I got passed a few weeks ago by a guy in a FWD shitbox, with a FLAT doughnut on the front left, sparks flying, wheel screaming, death wobbling, etc. I was doing maybe 60, he was doing at least 70. ON HIS CELL PHONE. 90% of people shouldn't be allowed to drive.
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Oct 23, 2013 19:02
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Are there any dash cams that work like an airplane CVR, and record on a loop, or do I have to fiddle with the damned thing to delete data periodically?
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Oct 25, 2013 19:56
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angryhampster posted:I don't really see anything abnormal about this. Just needs a wide load banner on the back end and some load-edge marker flags, IMO.
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Oct 31, 2013 13:17
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There's a reasonably large intersection (SR7/441 and Commercial Blvd for any SoFla goons) near my parents house that was bad for YEARS, because there is a turnpike entrance/exit just west on Commercial, and both roads are 3+ lanes each way, and busy. They put up do not block signs. No change. They redesigned and rebuilt the entire intersection and changed the signaling. No change. They finally fixed it by putting a couple cops at the intersection every rush hour for a month. Not only is it (mostly) better now, but they probably paid for their own time with fines. 
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Oct 31, 2013 16:13
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Krakkles posted:My jeep doesn't have a rear wiper. It does, however, have a rear sprayer. Cherokees are best for this. Double points if you fill the reservoir with motor oil.
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Nov 25, 2013 20:21
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At least around here, all school zones do is lulls kids into complete obliviousness to traffic, and allowing them to do blatantly dangerous poo poo around moving vehicles. I'm constantly annoyed by having to slow to a crawl in a school zone, surrounded by kids old enough to know better, stepping directly out into traffic without even looking around.
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Nov 25, 2013 23:32
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gileadexile posted:This happenes this morning on my ride home.  As a native Floridian, I have to ask... Why even go to work?
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Delivery McGee posted:One time I was doing 80 in a 65, and following rather too close to a Highway Patrolman. This was back when I had the boxy Jeep SJ, so I kinda blocked the view. Some jackass was riding my rear end, so I tapped the brakes -- not a brake check, just flashed the lights to let him know I knew he was there -- so of course he changed lanes without signaling and floored it, then swept back into the right lane (again without a blinker). The Trooper lit him up immediately, and I changed lanes (with blinker) and continued on my way. Baiting people into doing stupid poo poo in front of traffic enforcement is an age-old tradition. My favorite is initiating street races in places you know there are cops, and then just rolling softly up to the speed limit while the other guy launches, and gets tagged almost immediately.
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Dec 1, 2013 19:00
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West SAAB Story posted:I take one of these DDIs almost every day (now). It used to be one of the busiest intersections. It's still busy, but nowhere near as much. People are afraid of it. v I'm still waiting for a Miami driver to actually stay in the inside lane in a roundabout. The outside lane to go straight is only there to keep insurance rates up, as far as I can tell.
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InitialDave posted:Or those moments where you think "Yeah, I probably should've stopped for that one" - and three people come through after you. I live in Miami, so it's more like three cars, a county-owned tractor trailer, and a pickup truck with the bed stacked eight feet over the roof with scrap/lawn debris/new furniture, without a tie down strap or danger flag in sight, going thirteen miles an hour.
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Toucan Sam posted:As someone who has driven a Uhaul i can't imagine how slow this thing was driving when it got pulled over. I have an acquaintance that lost his second food His first venture was an airstream he converted, and mounted two big commercial-sized propane tanks to an improvised platform on the aft end, and didn't adjust the trailer CG, so it only had like 20 pounds of tongue weight. That one got squirrelly and smeared itself all over the turnpike as well. Did I mention that after the first time he miraculously didn't loving kill anyone, he used kickstarter to fund his second
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Dear every driver in Miami: Use your loving cruise controls, you god damned twats. Signed: MrYenko
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trouser chili posted:I'm catching up with this thread, and a ways back we were talking about overloaded trucks. We get these guys everywhere in St. Louis. They're common here too, but with the added bonus of the truck generally having its frame clearly broken, dog walking at like a fifteen degree angle, multiple bald tires, sometimes all at once.
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devmd01 posted:Set up a livestream. Re-set your mailbox in six feet of concrete, and set up a live stream. 
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Ferremit posted:I was in one of our work vehicles a few years back, which has the full compliment of ARB armor on it- Bullbar, side rails, sill protectors. Sitting in a shopping centre waiting for the other guy in the crew to get back from subway and a woman pulled up beside us and just flung her door open into the side of the work truck. Theres a special place in hell for people who don't loving pay attention to the edges of their doors.
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kuffs posted:I feel you, dude This is amazing. Amazing that the Toyota owner hasn't stabbed themselves to death with their own fingers yet.
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Snowdens Secret posted:I've been pulled over in weird spots and asked the cop when they came to the window if they'd prefer if I moved. They've never said yes, even when we were obviously obstructing traffic. Then again, none of them ended up giving me a ticket, either. I have a friend who was a police officer, and is now a highway patrol reservist, and he echoes every other cop I've ever asked: The officer is choosing to light you up there, and that's his decision. Do not keep going to get under an overpass if it's raining, or to a more attractive piece of shoulder, that's HIS call. If he wants to stay dry, or doesn't like the idea of stopping where you are, he'll just pace you until he's happy with the location, and light you up after that. Just smoothly, and safely pull the car over, and do everything kastein says above. Do NOT go looking for your wallet or registration.
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Galler posted:Jesus christ you're not kidding about the last one. My dad is 65 now and the AARP mail never stops. I'm 31 and the AARP mail never stops... I got one this week wishing me a happy 65th birthday. Someone's data is hosed...
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Motronic posted:It used Prest-o-lite tanks, but common welding tank sizes B (40 cu ft) and MC (10 cu ft) designation relate to "Bus" and "Motorcycle" and are still used today as designators for acetylene tank sizing. Thanks. I used to have an empty piece of brain, and now I don't.
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fingerling posted:Not instilling good road habits to your children is a totally foreign concept to me. Related: at some point in the past, parents stopped telling their children that you don't walk down the middle of lanes in the parking lot. It's rampant down here, you'll be trying to move through a parking lot, and some mom-beast with three screaming kids will be slowly creeping towards the store, down the center of the parking lot movement lane. If I had done that as a child, my mother would have, and did several times, slap the living poo poo out of me.
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jamal posted:In a really hot environment you could even use less than 50% coolant. The downside is that you lose some of your anti-corrosion and lubricating properties. Any time I do a coolant flush myself, I use straight distilled water and two bottles of RedLine Water Wetter. It drops coolant temperatures ~10-20F in the summer time. That said, I'd have to re-flush the system if I wanted to leave the state, and I don't go out of my way to do coolant flushes myself, of course, but it's been known to happen.
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I'd like to take a moment to thank FLDOT, the FHP, and Miami-Dade Police for not using any of the myriad of information signs, installed at enormous taxpayer expense for just such a circumstance above the turnpike to mention that the southbound lanes were closed for construction, and instead, I'd like to thank them for parking two cruisers and some road flares across the road, and not making any effort to streamline all three lanes worth of traffic off onto a tiny two lane surface street. My thirty minute drive home took an hour and twenty minutes. Thank you all very much. Assholes.
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Das Volk posted:I had a similar experience except with a master tech at a Mitsubishi speed shop showing me how to baby the fragile synchros in my Evo transmission. He was the one who taught me that if you want to go faster, don't try to make it up with shifting, because you'll only break things. Instead, add power, within reason. There's some sort of cosmic justice about a Mitsubishi tech talking about transmission weakness. 
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rcman50166 posted:It's more dangerous in automatic cars. I thought you would have known that since you seem to know everything. Pieces of straw men loving EVERYWHERE, though.
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Speaking of assholes, I saw an e92 M3 yesterday with the parking light headlight halos replaced with red lights. So now the dipshit has red lights on both ends of his car. I don't understand how anyone with taste that bad can afford an e92 M3.
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In a perfect world, every time three lanes has to merge down to two, or two to one, there would be three warning signs. At the first one would be a giant flailing arm inflatable tube man, to draw attention. At the second one would be a thirty foot tall grim reaper, holding the "Right Lane Closes, Merge left" sign in his bony hands, out over the lanes. At the final, scrolling-lamp erectable traffic sign would be a tractor trailer full of RPGs, and a single man standing in the back. Any car that he witnesses diving right, because the line is shorter, gets a godamned RPG through the windshield.
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Motronic posted:Do you realize that it's most efficient for everyone who's already in that lane to use basically all of the lane that is closing and people in the lane next to it behave properly and zipper merge? I'm not talking about people trying to zipper merge. No one here knows what that is. I'm talking about the people that will dive to the right of already-zipper-merging traffic, trying to be the absolute first one through the bottleneck. They'll use the shoulder, whatever it takes to be first. I saw one last night go through the cones, inside the closed area, and get stopped by highway Patrol for being a giant flaming toolbox. It was a rare moment of justice.
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Dear Everyone-in-Miami: Four way flashers are not for rainstorms, you ignorant, incompetent, useless, assholes. gently caress off and die. Signed: MrYenko
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Crankit posted:Having your traffic lights turn off at night seems really stupid. Am I misunderstanding, or is that what's happening? It's common in commercial and industrial areas that are super-busy during the day, but have very little traffic at night. The lights will go to four way flashing red, and you treat it like a huge stop sign, or two way each flashing red and yellow, where yellow is "HEY rear end in a top hat PAY ATTENTION" and red is still a stop sign. (There would be flashing yellow on the major road, and flashing red for the smaller cross street.) As mentioned above, a four way stop is simply several difficulty steps above the ability level of 90% of the driving public, let alone a four way stop with more than four lanes, so it doesn't always work. Its supposed to keep the intersection from holding one or two cars at a red light for a full traffic cycle at intersections with no traffic sensing equipment, when there is literally no traffic in the perpendicular. In Miami, most of them seem to click over at 11pm or midnight, and go back to normal at 6am. My favorite in that video though was the Cherokee rollover that turned INTO the incipient spin. 
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The Volt has a "low gear" setting, that essentially changes the regenerative braking curve to be more aggressive, and lets you mostly drive with just the accelerator pedal. It's great for heavy traffic, but it still doesn't light the brake lights, which means it's great for causing people to panic-brake, because they're following too close, and the idiot lights didn't come on.
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