cars

[misty imp]

any german cars and "posh wankers"

Tesla and idiots

synonyms

we're learning in the cars section today boys

[stoic ledge]

Used UK cars aren't worth much as there's no export market really

[deep zealot]

but it’s fast so i forgive it

[wraith rivet]

when you’re coasting down a hill foot off the gas, is there any fuel being injected still? Or is the engine turning completely on its own from the wheels

[civic spoke]

Zero fuel should be used when engine braking. Injectors don't inject anything.

[wraith rivet]

Interesting ty

I wonder how the car knows when you’re for example coasting up to a light

when to add the fuel back in and stop engine braking

[civic spoke]

I mean. If you're not giving it a load. Then it just won't try to add power.

The accelerator is a pedal that requests power.
If it isn't being pressed down, then you're not requesting any power from the engine.

[wraith rivet]

wouldn’t it just stall out then?

I mean when it transitions from using no fuel to just enough to idle yk

[civic spoke]

If you're just coasting in gear, then you would stall eventually. Yes.

[wraith rivet]

in a manual you would, but an automatic?

it doesn’t happen so there’s got to be some way for it to recognize “below x speed maintain y rpm with z fuel” idk

[civic spoke]

In an automatic it would downshift. And still have enough torque to keep itself from stalling.

[wraith rivet]

gotcha

it’s probably once in 1st it stops any kind of engine braking

I could probably watch the little mpg display to see when it goes from “99.99999” to a lower number when it starts injecting fuel again

[misty imp]

however, please do note that the highest gear isn't always the most efficient

don't be a dimwit and try to accelarate from 5th gear

you're wasting gas

[wraith rivet]

true

is the rpm range that gets you the most power the most efficient though?

when I go up this one hill going to work the car starts slowing down in 4th more than I’d like it to

so I downshift to 3rd and it sustains the speed but the current mpg drops even though I have the gas pedal in the same position

[stoic ledge]

Mine actually starts injecting again under a certain rpm when coasting in gear to prevent it from getting to low

As it runs on LPG, and those injectors are a bit louder .. it's easy to hear 😛

[stoic ledge]

Depends on the load and other factors

But for fast acceleration, yes

[vocal mural]

@stoic ledge

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/tech/volkswagen-wont-bring-car-road-again-thousands-problems?fbclid=IwAR39SfdCi42y6WrsCS1QmvVyYTXQLIwLyTbtO7nbBIPqqNTnn6WEU2yKJ4E

April fools joke?

[misty mantle]

A bit late for one of those lmao

[vocal mural]

Although old VW were pretty reliable.

[stoic ledge]

Well they're not wrong

[misty mantle]

Yeah. Old VWs were the more reliable ones. New VWs toss that reliability out the window

[stoic ledge]

It won't even reach the road

It'll break down before reaching it

[misty mantle]

It'll probably break the moment it leaves the factory

[stoic ledge]

Guess-O-Meter in the E-Tron is very accurate tho

Range anxiety what's that

6km remaining range gg ez

(left with 90km, driven 82.6km so not bad)

[stoic ledge]

Exactly

[stoic ledge]

Also, reading the charge value through OBD, it actually had 10% ~ 8.7kWh left displaying 6km

So they're using a massive buffer

Also, at that charge level they're limiting you to 25% power

So I was driving a 2500kg car with 100hp

[misty mantle]

The get up and go got up and left

[stoic ledge]

I could barely keep up with an Aygo

[wraith rivet]

gotcha that’s what I was thinking

[wraith rivet]

do you always have the dash like this?

so many numbers and words

seems cluttered to me lol

[stoic ledge]

Usually I have the driving assistant stuff there

Although I don't really look at it too much

It has the heads-up display

Most required stuff is in there

[misty mantle]

Same, tbh. I prefer a tach, speedo, fuel, and temp guage

[stoic ledge]

Also, not too bad I think?

Well there's no temp on an EV "Fuel" is on the left but tbh I only look at the range

And the speedo on the right, and a "tach" (power meter) on the left

Also, there are 2 more screens in the car, besides the 3 screens this car came from the factory

Too many screens so I don't really focus on the driver display

Love the beeping vibes

[wraith rivet]

😳

sounds quite unhappy

[charred depot]

back on the road for another year

[wet summit]

so my gmc has 4 full range 6.5" speakers, 2 1 inch tweeters, and 2 8 inch subwoofers. none of it is factory. should i replace the front 2 speakers with woofers to get a better sound stage?

[charred depot]

I have windscreen cover but I think they would writeoff my car heh

would have to pull out the moulds just for me

[wet summit]

dude if they did inspections in kentucky like that all of my vehicles would fail

rust rust rust

and more rust...

[charred depot]

you just get a massive plate weld it and forget about it till next year : )

I remember seeing a E39 where like half the underside was just plated with thin steel

[wet summit]

the bed rust isn't bad but the frame rot

unbelievable

[charred depot]

nothing cut out just massive plates stuck underneath

[wet summit]

my cavalier has had the front and rear subframes break due to rust

[charred depot]

alot of manufacturers seem to just forget that subframes need proper rust prevention I dont get it

[misty mantle]

That front fender is suprisingly clean for a 10 year old salt belt truck

[wet summit]

i really wish i would have painted the replacements now that i think about it🤦

[charred depot]

especially when they are just pressed sheet metal

[wet summit]

if i had pics of the dakota without the fender flares i'd send them

[charred depot]

By the time a 305 subframe rusts through the car is gone 8 times over

[wet summit]

she is rotted on the bed

[misty mantle]

I can tell just by the rust on the bedside.

[charred depot]

Never buy a white commercial vehicle heh

[wet summit]

actually no it's not hardly, my dakota has pretty ok bed rust

[charred depot]

the rust ooze just makes them look tragic no matter what

[wet summit]

2 years ago

[charred depot]

like every slightly aged transit van here just oozing with rust on white paint

[wet summit]

it's a hell of a lot better than i remembered

[misty mantle]

Not bad

Can def tell its there, but not bad

[wet summit]

it looks good with the flares

only rust is next to headlight

[misty mantle]

Cab corner looks intact too

[wet summit]

i'll get you some pictures later. it has rust that breaks my heart

small spots on the door inside, cab corner has some rot

[charred depot]

I dont mind the inspections but its annoying when you fail on a finger size hole affecting nothing you have to pull the entire interior out to weld

[wet summit]

zero ZERO frame rot

[charred depot]

or risk setting your car on fire

[wet summit]

i bet ohio would probably fail my gmc

it's got holes on the frame. i don't know if they care about rust though.

[charred depot]

id say in a way we are more leanient on emissions than you

[misty mantle]

If its a safety inspection, they're gonna care

[charred depot]

but one rusty hole naaah get to fuck

[stoic ledge]

Sounds like an ambulance if you ask me

[stoic ledge]

How much did it cost you to bribe the MOT inspector?

[charred depot]

£45 standard price

[stoic ledge]

[charred depot]

even my dodgy MOT's are £45

but this was a legit one

[wet summit]

there's good trucks and bad trucks out here. 2016 with bed rust and 1998 1500s with no rust

[stoic ledge]

Standard price for the MOT or standard price for the bribe

[charred depot]

never bribed they just love them that much

[misty mantle]

Then you have the newer alluminum F-series pickups

[charred depot]

nah the guys pissed off because a friend of mine took him some hot garbage which had no chance of passing.

like he is fair but dont push it to the extreme

[wet summit]

they're going to corrode eventually

and you can't fix aluminum

[misty mantle]

Just not as fast.

[wet summit]

the new chevy trucks somehow are rusting

2020

[misty mantle]

Frame will be gone before the alluminum starts rotting away

[wraith rivet]

definitely don’t do it in the doors

can’t stand that in my car

[misty mantle]

They aren't even making it off the lot before they start rusting

[wraith rivet]

so much vibration

[charred depot]

We've had really old cars with like aluminium boots and stuff and they are mint while the rest of the car is falling apart

[wet summit]

it's not a subwoofer, just midrange

[wraith rivet]

I know, but aren’t you saying you’re considering doing that?

or are you talking about the dash speakers

[wet summit]

sorry was on reddit

my cavalier has midrange door speakers and they sound amazing, but my gmc has 200$ of kicker 6.5s full range and i'm considering replacing the front 2 with mid range woofers

i may replace all 4 with woofers and add tweeters in the rear. i'll have to think about it

[wet summit]

doing more research and i think i'm going to get 3.5 inch tweeters to replace the 1 inch ones, get foot woofers and put the 1 inch in the c pillar

[fathom socket]

ewww

thats the new clio thing

[tight cypress]

em all been lookin the same for few years

[fathom socket]

true

they ruined them all

[tight cypress]

havent seen anythin good from renault since 5 turbo

[fathom socket]

the old ones looked better imo

[fathom socket]

what will happen if we see this combo in f1

3 rotor hybids vs v6 hybrids

i mean remove all of the bullshit just the engine the transmission the wheel the driver

They are 1000hp this season

[stoic ledge]

I don't mind it?

It's one of the best looking cars in the segment imho

[fathom socket]

The rotor would crack that very easily too

[wet summit]

didn't they have well over 1000 in the 70s?

[fathom socket]

I mean the Mazda 767 was 650hp

In 1989

[wet summit]

i don't watch f1 but they should ditch the v6 hybrids and go back to v8s

turbo v8 f1 cars i would watch

[fathom socket]

If they put the rotory engine

[wet summit]

not a rotary guy

[fathom socket]

It will be better than the v8

[wet summit]

not as cool

[fathom socket]

Smoother

Better sounding imo

[wet summit]

no

well, american v8 no foreign v8 yes

i hate foreign v8 noise

[fathom socket]

Oh and more reliable

The rotory engine has 3 parts that move

[wet summit]

y'all ever watch the drive by videos

v12 10 8 6

[fathom socket]

The dorito, the exsentic shaft and the bearing

Ultimate f1

V10 vs 4 Rotor vs the new stuff

Old vs new

Oh the rotory is really cheap to make

If that v6 costs 18mil

That thing is barely going to cost 5

[wet summit]

i want to put itbs on my cavalier because it's hilarious

little horns

[fathom socket]

Ye

Different tech

Probably Haas going to be buying from ferrari

[brittle totem]

https://youtu.be/tY91HkdpVS4?si=U1fjo6MX3tgaZ08Q 👀

[wet summit]

do people say mega car? @fathom socket

a mega car is an excursion.

a turbo diesel excursion is the only mega car

hyper car is what i imagine he meant

i don't really understand why they have to be classified to be honest. it's a car either way, super car works for al of them

car works for all of them

[brittle totem]

1341hp = 1 megawatt and that is why Koenigsegg calls the cars megacars nowadays 🤓

[fathom socket]

In the love of god I will never buy that

Even tho it's cool even tho it's fast

I won't buy it

[halcyon grotto]

how many hp do I need to get a gigacar

=1.34?

nvm me me dumb

only kilocars for us poors

[stoic ledge]

Atleast 4

[severe flame]

Oh my God this is so frustrating right now!

It's pretty clear to me that we need to sell this and move on. (Ignore June it was in the shop)

But we have to find something to replace it.

The budget is 50k-ish (+/- 10%) USD and we need to see costs per month reduced

Trailer weighs basically 6k lbs. If we upgrade will be staying under 10,000 pbs

Any suggestions? Truck is worth 20k-ish. May need to sell at 15k to get it gone quickly.

(@ me, I am on mobile)

[severe flame]

https://tenor.com/view/mark-wahlberg-crickets-crickets-chirping-silence-awkward-silence-gif-10849163

[wraith rivet]

..wat

[severe flame]

yes for the 2006 Duramax

but i cant keep spending this much knowing the value isnt increasing. $24k a year to drive a 2006 truck is crazy

I mean at this point it honestly doesn't matter we just need something that makes sense.

Because if these values fall this truck that I could sell today for $15,000+ could be worth $6k and we arewell over that in parts in just 12 months.

Combine that with the fact that we're right around that mileage where they become ticking time bombs and a replacement engines starts at $12,000 like it's just a really really bad bubble to be involved in.

Like we did the what if right. What if we just said screw value and we just continue to replace parts of this truck ages.

Well it'd be $25,000 for a motor and transmission. So now we have a $45,000 truck 😬

No.

We ended up with it because it was a deal that we simply could not pass up. We originally were going to just sell it because I knew that we were in it substantially less than it was worth.

But then somebody totaled my 2003 8.1L that had basically EVERYTHING from front to back new.

No we have to stick with new because of fine print and warranties and just the fact that people think these things are worth way more than they were when they were brand new.

But I'll take a peek let me see what I can find.

That's about the same fuel mileage that we currently get. And that seems awfully overpriced for a 5-year-old truck.

A base model one too.

Yeah that doesn't make sense to me that truck's worth like $19k

So the fuel cost for my will be the same as what we currently have so I won't really help that much there.

And then we're spending $40,000 to get it so that just seems a bit silly

Especially without the lack of bumper to bumper warranty which means you're looking at having a loan and repairs it just doesn't seem to pan out.

*Stares at differential failures. *

That's why I was like there's no way I'm just going to have to buy new.

cuz there's no way I'm paying these numbers for these bubble cars.

That's why we're looking at new only.

I think we're just going to have to go electric.

That's the only way to get price stability when it comes to fueling.

Because for instance fuels gone up 50% since August 1st. If electricity was to go up they have to announce that at least 90 days in advance giving you plenty of time to sell.

Well at 55,000 there is really only one option that can tow.

Arizona

Was $3.20 now $5

Model X can't really do it. Technically it can but you're talking about $90,000.
Rivian in theory... Is $75k but that's before options.
And that leaves lightning at $49.9k

You could try with a model y. ($50k)
Both the X and the y would be overloaded the problem is the Y doesn't have air suspension so it's going to be dangerous dynamically.

🤷 it's dumb. Shot up and now it's not coming back down.

3.20 is wat I paid for diesel Aug 1st

$50k

Anything over that's going to put us at $800 a month or more on payment

Glares in $2,000 payment

So the thinking is is currently the average $400 a month in maintenance parts. But that doesn't include any major assembly failures.

And our average cost per mile is $.33/mile in fuel however I managed to avoid paying the high fuel prices because I filled up my 100 gallon tank for LTX. (Which is basically empty at this point)

So if we had a payment of $300 more than we are paying in parts that SHOULD balance out IF we can keep the cost per mile down.

• granted we are basing all this on what I know for a fact I've put down today ($10k). Not what I COULD potentially put down once I sell stuff.

But I would prefer minimum payment as possible (with a realistic interest rate)

I.e I don't want to buy a Hummer EV just because it's the same payment but I put down $30,000.

So here's the thinking behind the lightning.

Assuming we only DCFC (because that's all we're guaranteed to have access to) here is the costs.

Most owners are reporting an average of around 2 mi per kilowatt hour. It puts us at $.24 cents a mile.

Currently we're approaching $.40/mi on the current truck.

Now that is the absolute worst case scenario that the vehicle only ever sees DCFC. There's a number of free level 2 charges around so it'll drastically reduce the cost per mile.

[hexed kayak]

diesel colorado

brand new

[severe flame]

Uhh no. I drove an empty ZR2 and it took 3/4 a mile to get to 80 miles an hour with three people in the truck.. no way.

Floored it from a stop and was going to get on the highway we looked down and realized we're only doing 40 at the beginning of the up hill ramp and was like NOPE we have to hit 80 by the end of the highway ramp. And took the frontage road and stayed floored.

Will we using Tesla network next year. That's one of the clauses of that $5 billion dollar charging infrastructure bill.

[wind peak]

sigh, another day of trying (and failing) to convince this yard in my hometown to sell me some of the cars that have been parked there for ages. "They'll be fixed and listed on the sale lot next door eventually, just keep checking the website!" (they've been saying this for five years)

[severe flame]

Do you know of any diesels ZR2 Colorado's that are currently for sale? Maybe I drove got one that was bad from the factory?

I know I have one on order since May 1st... It's still not built. ($55k)

Yep

https://www.chevrolet.com/byo-vc/tiny/bywA50igOoO6

thats the build im still waiting on arriving. meanwhile intrest rates keep increasing....

[vocal mural]

@brittle totem What is the diesel price now in Sweden? 25Kr per liter??

[brittle totem]

Yeah its a bit over 25kr/liter now 😢

[timber oar]

Oh shit get that 2nd Gen firebird

That's like an 80 or 81 from the hood

[subtle bolt]

My first thought was “how could you tell the car came from the hood?” 😂

[grand shadow]

New gokart

[charred depot]

heater hose split bloody french cars

[misty imp]

Smash or pass?

[misty mantle]

Pass.

[misty imp]

I kinda fuck with it ngl

imagine if it's built like the ariel atom

[severe flame]

Solved my conundrum.

[misty imp]

I might sound abit off

but why do people buy pick up trucks in america?

most of the people I've seen driving it doesn't even need it

[wispy cloak]

They're the new luxury vehicle

[misty imp]

it's a driving blindspot of a car

[wispy cloak]

I don't like a lot of new trucks

[misty imp]

I was gonna say it must be a pain in the ass to park that thing

[wispy cloak]

So many crew cabs are only offered with 5.5ft beds

[misty imp]

but america is like a big parking lot

[wispy cloak]

Trucks aren't that bad to park honestly

But that might just be me speaking from what I'm used to doing

[misty imp]

I drive a small ish 4 door hatch back

life is good

[misty mantle]

I drive a American "SUV" from the 80s.

[halcyon grotto]

always smash a twizy but also price is a bit steep

couple years ago you could get one starting at 3k

that's pretty good value for the greatest car of all time

[severe flame]

Me personally it's because I tow my trailer

[wispy cloak]

I drive an a4 b5 and an f350

[severe flame]

They drive them because they handle the potholes at speed better and they like the commanding driving position.

It's the same reason why really tall hatchbacks that they call crossovers have taken off.

[severe flame]

But that's most cars nowadays Even when I get into Civic some like wow you can't see anything out of this.

Blame rollover crash testing.

They are engineered now to survive the crash not necessarily prevent it in the first place.

[severe flame]

Yeah... I'm not going to be happy going from my 8-ft bed and my three trucks before having a 6.5 bed back to a 5.5.... I hated it in my RAM.

[wispy cloak]

My dakota has a longer bed than my grandpa's new f150

[severe flame]

Depends on where you are in the country in Alaska It was nice and easy

Even here in Arizona it's a bit of a pain. Especially as we're reaching the point where there's 6.4 ft wide.... Or more 🤨

With my 157-in wheelbase trucks you just learn to swing really right wide getting into the space.

Or if you're brave enough back in but without a backup camera it gets kind of hard to judge where your bumper is that sits 10 feet behind you.

[severe flame]

Yep.

The issue for me though is the cabs have gotten huge.

I debated on getting a super cab 8 ft bed F-150 because it ticked all my boxes.

Until I realize it had 164-in wheelbase. 😬😲 Like damn! I thought 157 was bad!

To give you an idea it's 250 in long. That's basically 21 feet long.
OR
6.35 meters.

[wispy cloak]

I think my truck is like 262" long

What is a cuv

I could not drive a yaris

[charred depot]

Sending property values to the moon

[wispy cloak]

My a4 is about as small as I could go for a daily

[misty imp]

fml

the pings are insane

[wraith rivet]

lol

[wraith rivet]

does your a4 have the 2.0t?

[hexed kayak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb_2Yk_mAfA

i really need to import an octavia to canada

[wispy cloak]

2.8

[fathom socket]

+6358

+63

.0

why do you have the name of a p0renstar

[wraith rivet]

Oh interesting

how’s that one in terms of reliability?

ik the 3.0 is good but I’ve heard 2.0 is horrendous

[charred depot]

mfw you complete a journey without head gasket failure

[wind peak]

Yeah that Firebird is in great shape, I've asked about that one specifically more than a few times but every time they either tell me it's not for sale, or that it'll get fixed and listed on the website eventually, which they've been saying for years now

That lot technically belongs to a towing company, so most of the cars there are customer cars, but there are a bunch of 30+ year old cars that have been sitting there for the better part of a decade that never seem to move but they still don't wanna sell

[wispy cloak]

It's fine but I would much rather have a 1.8t

The 1.8t is a lot easier to work on and actually can be modded

[hidden bough]

anyone else into kei (or kei-like) cars?

[fathom socket]

I really like the Kia Soul

[carmine summit]

just get a jetta its the same thing

[hexed kayak]

thats a no from me

[carmine summit]

my engine has 509,000 km on it

gonna open it up sometime in the next few months to see what it looks like and put better rods in lol

its a diesel and it will start in -10 weather with no glowplugs pretty quickly

[hexed kayak]

i want to import a bunch of weird shit from europe

[carmine summit]

dont get an octavia then

thats basically a jetta

[hexed kayak]

that i didnt get in canada

[carmine summit]

get an ibiza or a fabia

[hexed kayak]

i already had a seat

[carmine summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0K3bufWCOjg

[hexed kayak]

i had an 04 cupra r when i lived in costa rica

[carmine summit]

ok but consider

PD130

[hexed kayak]

wagon

[limber pine]

I love kei trucks

[carmine summit]

Seat Leon

[hexed kayak]

only if i could import the exact one i had

[carmine summit]

its like a wagon with the back cut off, still bigger than a hatchback but not a sedan

its weird and amazing

[hexed kayak]

if i could fill a shipping container or 2with cars to bring it would be a p2 volvo v70 d5 turbo,a first gen octavia 1.9tdi , a honda acty, honda odyssey absolute rb1, a VE gen commodore SSV ute, and a 22re rhd hilux

all of these are old enough to be imported to canada i just need to get a bigger garage

[carmine summit]

volkswagen LT diesel 4x4

I want one

D24, same as the engines they sold to Volvo

most powerful one was a whole 101hp

[tame plover]

anyone know about bmw ecu's here??

specifically for models using the N52, M54, or S54 engines

I'm a big idiot when it comes to ecu tuning and programming, I'm very much a hardware man

gonna run ITB's on a M54B22 engine and want to know beforehand if that needs a piggyback ecu or not

can't run a standalone cuz I drive it off track

blah blah blah thanks in advance and whatever

[tame plover]

ever see those Czech 8x8's?? they make some wacky shit

[wraith rivet]

rather have a 1.8T over the 2.0T? or the 3.0T?

[wispy cloak]

2.8

[fathom socket]

went to this parking lot and every damn car was a SUV or truck NA needs smaller cars

[wraith rivet]

rip

tf happened there

[misty mantle]

Breaker bar living up to its name

[carmine summit]

1.8t and 2.8 v6 are the only options in a B5 in some markets

no TDIs sadly

I know someone with an imported B5 Avant TDI, might wind up tuning it for him someday

[severe flame]

now im upset.

[dull cedar]

today you have learnt to not use socket adapters.

[wraith rivet]

😔

at one point I was planning on getting an impact at a weird size thinking “oh I can just use adapters”

I am glad I didn’t

[dull cedar]

only ever use adapters on low torque things

so on a ratchet

never on a breaker bar or impact

[wraith rivet]

gotcha

[dull cedar]

and uh... don't use cheap braker bars to do really high torque stuff

destroyed a couple last year

was a good excuse to buy a nice teng bar

[severe flame]

but impact adapters MINT
also just buy harbor fright breaker bars, but make sure teh screw doesn't back out (loctite) they are lifetime warranty.

[dull cedar]

I'm not american

[severe flame]

ahh

[charred depot]

mine starts pretty quick for a idi but smokes out the entire street heh

[misty imp]

no more restarts for u

[misty imp]

never have never will

[dull cedar]

??? that's literally an adapter in the pic

[misty imp]

magnuson 40pc on top babyyyy

[misty imp]

you do realize that's not my image right?

[dull cedar]

you said absolutely nothing that would've indicated that

[misty imp]

stop being a mouth breather please

[dull cedar]

lol what

[misty imp]

taking this shit more seriously than anyone else

doing the fucking most

[dull cedar]

this isn't a meme channel

[misty imp]

it's almost as if it's a car channel and I've posted something related to cars

since when tf did motaworld start charging for taking in batteries

[charred depot]

Nice hot air intake, gotta get those charge temperatures up

[patent basalt]

I need another $2500 car, Something German or Japanese this time

I don’t know why but a 1998 maxima is speaking to me or I get back into old bmws

[timber oar]

That some bs alright

[timber oar]

The harbor freight breaker bar i have has tolerated me jumping on it with my full weight lmao

[timber oar]

Well you post a picture like that with no context people, including me, are going to be thinking that's your tool that you broke lol

[dire bison]

Agreed

[charred depot]

Ive broken a decent breaker bar but I had like a 4m pipe on it and 2 people.

305 lower balljoints always a joy to change, probably more a issue with the age of the cars.

Impreza I had was quite a decent design so much so that it advised like unbolting the balljoint rather than splitting the tapered section as it was actually easier.

[hexed kayak]

ive broken 3 in the last year and its making me feel really stupid

all trying to take the wheels off my volvo

i broke 2 when i first got it and said fuck it ill take it to a shop and get them to install my snow tires and then the bolts will be cracked loose. and then i got the car back and then broke another breaker bar

[misty mantle]

Wtf did you get the breaker bars? Harbor Freight, or is it Princess auto for you up in Canada?

[hexed kayak]

they were all stanley breaker bars

[misty mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/hysterical-laughter-laughing-gif-25735842

My genuine reaction

Stanley is some good quality stuff too

[hexed kayak]

those volvo wheels are something else cause i used those exact breakers bars to change the wheels on a cat 966 loader

[misty mantle]

Your Volvo must have something against Stanley breaker bars

[misty mantle]

Damn,

[hexed kayak]

@misty mantle i just visited the cobalt facebook page and lost brain cells

[misty mantle]

Rip. There’s a reason I only have Facebook for marketplace. And you can lose brain cells looking at that sometimes too

[hexed kayak]

Facebook is the only place where there still is a cobalt community

[misty imp]

pro tip

spit on your brakes rotor after heavy driving

[wispy cloak]

Bmws are definitely something

[wispy cloak]

That's a tiny tool kit

And is that all quarter inch drive?

[misty imp]

yes and 8th inch as well

tiny

indeed

[misty imp]

beamers
problematic

German engineering ™️

[wispy cloak]

I didn't even know they made 1/8" drive tools

[wispy cloak]

It's more the fault of the previous owner than the car itself

It's just when it does have problems it isn't exactly the most fun to work on

[misty imp]

1/4th with 1/8th adapter

I remember having this japanese style mini rachet

I'm sure that's like non standard as well

smaller than quarter inch

[wispy cloak]

I mainly use 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2"

But occasionally have to break out the 3/4"

[misty imp]

might be wrong actually

might not even be a 1/8th

[wet summit]

1/8 inch drive is the worst thing i've ever heard of

[tame plover]

imma ask essentially the same question I did yesterday

can I run ITB's with just a remap? or do they typically require more than that ecu side

n54b22 engine in an E85 chassis

[charred depot]

Probably custom standalone setup or alot of ECU trickery.

Why do you want ITB's what's already done to it?

[tame plover]

👌 👌 cheers for that

i feared that would be the answer lol

I want ITB's because I love the throttle response of that engine and like the NA powerband
that and it's something different I guess

gonna do ITB's and hill climb cams

so far nothing has been touched engineside, just brakes and handling

might do a piggyback ecu cuz I wanna keep it street legal

or at least legal adjacent

if that's an option that is, I have no clue when it comes to ecu gubbins

[charred depot]

Where do you live?

[tame plover]

Isle of Wight

England

[charred depot]

Yeah im in Scotland just do it heh

[tame plover]

fuck yeah nice

as far as I'm aware you can run a standalone ecu and won't ever run afowl of the law unless u crash and the police inspect your car

and otherwise it's basically fine

there's no devoted traffic officers on the Isle of Wight anyway so nobody has told me to take the ironing board of a GT wing off my boot lid yet

[charred depot]

I run older stuff which is generally more lenient emissions systems wise but you shouldn't have any issue running a standalone ECU aslong as you are insured for it.

[tame plover]

👌 good to know, cheers

gives me something fun to fiddle with also then tbh

easier to learn ecu shit off a standalone than with trying to work on a locked down one as far as I'm aware

initial setup I'll pay somebody else to do though lol, fuck that

[tame plover]

sadly I can't pass emissions on mine with a decat lol

i bought it straight piped but had to fit a proper exhaust

still get gurgles and few quiet pops through the new exhaust at least

[tame plover]

Z4 dials are weird

kinda miss when my car was classic BMW Christmas tree, cuz it looks weird without warning lights in the middle lol

might turn all the lights back on even tho it's fixed

[deep zealot]

still waiting for a decent price on an F80

[tame plover]

they're like £30-£40K here lmao

[deep zealot]

yeah it’s like the same in usd here

was going to trade my x3 m40 for one but now i think i’ll hold off

market is still bad

[tame plover]

gotta wait till chavs own them and then u can get a broken one for cheap lol

got my Z4 off some shifty ass dude in Eastleigh with 0 service history, 1 key, no battery in it, clearly been crashed despite him being very adamant he didn't crash it

£1.2K sold as seen lmao

[deep zealot]

yeah don’t really want really want clapped one though. would want a clean spec F80

[tame plover]

ye that'll be big money for a good while

[deep zealot]

either that or i’ll just go for an X3 M or tune my M40 as it is

[charred depot]

You just go through the fun every year of fitting stuff back for the MOT

[deep zealot]

yeah I do miss my F30 gauge

but i don’t miss the car

[charred depot]

When we thought clapped out E46's were bad imagine what its going to be like when new BMW's become the clapped out ones.

[deep zealot]

fun little pull without launch control

needs tune

[charred depot]

No shitty UK car meet is complete without an E46 nailing a lamp post.

Our version of the mustang incidents but not occuring quite as much

[deep zealot]

that’s pretty funny considering i just saw a mustang on the grass less than an hour ago

[charred depot]

Like just trying to get home in your 330i on ling long and prosper's

I came close to being the proud owner of a 320d E46 shitbox but I turned my life around

[civic spoke]

I'm happy about my 320i

[hexed kayak]

i thought about getting a bmw for like 5 seconds before i started looking at volvos

[charred depot]

Im not saying its shit because its E46 one I looked at was just fucked heh

Don't really care much about brands I have alot of french cars as I am just used to the engines and whatso in them.

[hexed kayak]

i was gonna get a black w211 e350 estate but someone bought it out from under me

[charred depot]

Considered a old Merc now and then but not sure im ready to go full grandad

[hexed kayak]

i would have instantly cut the mufflers off and let the v8 sing

[charred depot]

Id probably be buying a diesel

[hexed kayak]

diesels are really rare here

v8s are too

most ofthem are packing a v6

[tame plover]

👌 😋

I'm very surprised my car didn't come with ditch finders on it lol

only good thing on it was the tyres

the guy who definitely didn't crash it had at least some sense

[deep zealot]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/905971697063165987/1149396282868244511/IMG_5070.jpg

HUD lifestyle is what it’s all about though

no more having to look at instrumental cluster

[misty mantle]

Think I'll stick to my physical guage cluster

[deep zealot]

fair it’s all preferences

hud is super cool and useful tho

[charred depot]

Had a broken speedo for a year only thing I look down for is to see if my engine is cooking yet

[hexed kayak]

my cobalt was thinking about cooking itself at woodward

[misty mantle]

Hud? The fuck is that

[charred depot]

My heater hose burst on a like 600 mile roundtrip and it lost too much coolant and steam cycled at the top of my street heh

[hexed kayak]

it was hot asf that day and i was beating the piss out of the car and it was sitting at 210 degress

[charred depot]

lucky timing

patched with tape the next morning topped up and away.

[hexed kayak]

electrical tape is a godsend

[charred depot]

Its special radiator hose repair tape I carry with me all the in my shitbox bag heh

[misty mantle]

It can fix everything except your marriage

[hexed kayak]

i was suffering from a bit of poverty a few years ago cause i got stuck paying a mortgage and rent for a couple months while selling my house and i used it to basically make an old cracked 45degree coupler brand new

[charred depot]

Ive replaced all the hoses now but had to make most of them out of silicone angles as cant buy them

[misty mantle]

Average old part part avalability

[hexed kayak]

@misty mantle

[charred depot]

Annoying as they did some very annoying angles under the dash

[misty mantle]

Fucking Mint

[charred depot]

I was too lazy to remove the dash at the time so was a nightmare laying upside down

[hexed kayak]

i was pretty fucking proud of that lol

@charred depot i found the screenshots of the ad. It was a e500

Quality unit

[wraith rivet]

idk why that car reminds me of funerals

just funerals in general

[tame plover]

v70 is best funeral car

[misty mantle]

Saw one of these a few weeks ago

[charred depot]

Cartoon show coming to you never

[misty mantle]

Oh, a cartoon drawing of your lot of vehicles

[charred depot]

my estates missing the towbar ruined

[halcyon finch]

My Opel

[tame plover]

I like those rims

[stoic ledge]

No pano windscreen 😭

@elfin stone look, an Astra H 😛

[hexed kayak]

saturn astra

gms badge engineering and platform sharing is a fucking mess

[stoic ledge]

This was full badge engineering

[hexed kayak]

i have 3 chevy cobalts. one uses a chevy 4cyl you can trace back to the 80s the second uses a chevy lsj otherwise known as the saab lk9/b207r and the third is a chevy lnf motor otherwise know as the opel Z20NHH

shits wild

[misty mantle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyJRTM0knE

[hexed kayak]

just watched that

its nuts

lnf and opel z20nhh

you can see the manifolds are the same

lsj and b207r

@stoic ledge

[stoic ledge]

Yeah it's great, for the Meriva I ordered a part from the US as it was just available on amazon.com for 35€ van 250€ here

Well not manifold

But the parts sharing

[hexed kayak]

what do you think of this lol

all those engines for one econo box made for 5 years

[stoic ledge]

Doesn't surprise me for one bit with GM

Stuff like the Astra J also had like 3 different engine families/generations for petrol, not even counting the diesels

[hexed kayak]

all of them are bombproof engines though regardless.

gm just cant make a car from the ground up to save their life

[stoic ledge]

My Corsa's 1.2 originates also from like 1996

They added stuff like MPI, VVTI etc

But same base block

[misty mantle]

The Vortec V8s that the 90's pickups got are just glorified versions of GMs old carbureted V8s

[hexed kayak]

yeah you can use 2.2 blocks going pretty far back with my 07 cobalt because it was mostly head updates

[stoic ledge]

That's also why like a Corsa B 1.2 and Corsa E 1.2 have like the exact same engine sound While being 20 years apart

[hexed kayak]

in the 05 and 06 cobalts you can just drop in motors from 90s cavaliers

[stoic ledge]

Oh yeah same with the 1.4 (Turbo) from Family 0, same block as the 1.2, different head

Iirc the 1.6 Turbo even head like the head of a Z18XER, just shorter stroke

Code on the block even said Z18XER

[hexed kayak]

07 it got a much needed head redesign and 09 added vvt

[hexed kayak]

lol

[hexed kayak]

kinda sounds like white block volvos

[stoic ledge]

I checked, Z16LET has the head of the Z18XER

[hexed kayak]

all the blocks are the same they are just bored out differently

[stoic ledge]

That's observed on a Z16LET

[hexed kayak]

rip the poor mechanic who tried to order any parts for that

[stoic ledge]

Imagine trying to order the turbo for it based on the Z18XER code

[hexed kayak]

order cams with different specs and the piston kisses valve

[stoic ledge]

YES

[wraith rivet]

is it just me or does newer s4 look worse than the older ones?

[hexed kayak]

they made the lights smaller to make room for the MASSIVE grill

[stoic ledge]

That's also just an ugly spec

[wraith rivet]

that is true

[wraith rivet]

yeah the lights are terrible

[stoic ledge]

Proper wheels make it 10 times better

Also... Wagon makes it better 😛

[wraith rivet]

https://images.drive.com.au/caradvice/image/private/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_675,q_auto:eco,w_1200/v1/bdeflrg2vc1nvqszlhqy

this looks a lot better but still not as good imo

those slots in the runnings lights look so weird

gaps

[stoic ledge]

Just get an Alpina B3

[wraith rivet]

idk why to me that looks cross eyed lol

like the headlights are looking at the grille

[stoic ledge]

[stoic ledge]

Best looking wagon is still the V60 tho

[hexed kayak]

volvo best car

[wraith rivet]

that is nice

[wraith rivet]

dad was looking at getting a phev Volvo for a bit but then got a ram 1500 instead 😔

[stoic ledge]

That's a very different thing lol

[hexed kayak]

proably a good idea

[stoic ledge]

RAM vs Volvo

[wraith rivet]

quite

[hexed kayak]

new volvos have been infested with a virus called geely

[wraith rivet]

I think the inner debate of “practicality…. or big giant v8 brick” had its outcome

[stoic ledge]

Meh didn't really have influence on those

[hexed kayak]

i would sleep great at night knowing my new reliable swedish cars motor was put together in a chinese factory

[stoic ledge]

Depends on where the car is made

Those engines are also made in Sweden for example

[hexed kayak]

but unless is specifically labeled where the motor was made you will never know

the car could be built in belgium like my old p2 but the motor was put together in china

i dont even know if they still build there but its an example

[stoic ledge]

XC40 and C40 are made there iirc

[hexed kayak]

was that a supercharger i heard or a trans with bad synchros

[charred depot]

turbo

[hexed kayak]

turbos dont whine

unless they are about to blow

[charred depot]

the intake is mounted right at my bulkhead where the blower motor draws in air

[hexed kayak]

the sound is 8 seconds in

[charred depot]

I know its when I start to go on boost ive had loads of these engines and never a issue with the turbo.

[hexed kayak]

It sounds a bit like this car does at the end

[charred depot]

its just a unsilenced turbodiesel intake noise nothing special about it heh

[hexed kayak]

If i heard it id be checking my shit for shaft play

[charred depot]

zero play every one of these with a pod filter sounds like that

[coarse jewel]

Turbos do whine, it's just at higher revs than super chargers and it's generally quieter. When turbos start to wearout they get extra whiny. Once your past the break-in period of a new car it's a good idea to push your turbo a little to learn the whine so you have a point of reference for when it fails. Driving a WRX with 105,000km on it the Turbo is fairly whiny but has been like that since day one. WRX engines run a pretty high boost so they'd likely wearout a turbo pretty fast compared to some other cars.

[charred depot]

Ive had one of these on 240k miles with the original turbo

[stoic ledge]

CEL permanently on

Also, love how those dials look like the ones Opel used, but still they're different in such a way they still aren't the same and need multiple SKU's

[pale root]

https://instagram.com/alen.nikocevic?utm_source=qr&igshid=MThlNWY1MzQwNA==

[hexed kayak]

you wouldnt believe how many codes that car had when i parked it

[stoic ledge]

I hope less than 70 but more than 68

[charred depot]

my cars never throw codes : )

[wispy cloak]

It sounds just like a normal diesel turbo

[wraith rivet]

I’m thinking of a number….

[hexed kayak]

sad to dissapoint but if my memory is right it was 32

i was gonna make that car mint but the list of shit it needed was so extensive i just decided to drive it till it died and it never did

still have it

hasnt been on the road in 2.5 years but it still runs when i go to start it every few months

How it sits now

its getting raided for its snow tires soon

there is 5 year old firestone winterforce 2s on there with 3000km on them and they are an exact size match for my volvo

the old snow tires would go on those wheels and i would buy some cheap oem volvo wheels for the new ones

only thing im worried about is flat spots because this car has moved like 6 times in the last 2.5 years

best tires ive ever had

that car has them my purple car has them and my volvo has them as summer tires

ive been able to throw that swede barge into corners at 130kph with used 205/55/16 fire stone all seasons

that black car towed a jeep out of a ditch with those tires on it

in winter

and the tires on my purple cobalt are able to send all 400hp my car makes to the front wheels with minimal wheelspin

and its like a go kart on rails in the corners

[spring basin]

Just saw a Rivian for the first time, pretty cool

[misty mantle]

Welcome to the club. There’s like 3 of them around where I live

[deep zealot]

trusty little toyota

well it’s not little it’s a huge car

[deep zealot]

cuz then they’ll blow up like every other subaru

[misty mantle]

Why does it say please refuel if you have a full tank

[deep zealot]

I was at the pump and didn’t give the engine a chance to turn over

[misty mantle]

Lmao

[timber oar]

The funny thing is the fuel gauge in my old 4runner is the most accurate fuel gauge I know

It underestimates if anything

[versed coral]

damn my 2010 jetta's ignition stole my key

just won't turn to off, won't come out

[misty mantle]

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

How about putting it in some rice?

[versed coral]

[misty mantle]

In all seriousness though, make sure the key is all the way in the ignition, and you didn't turn it all the way to accessory mode

[versed coral]

yeah, the car was on

i cannot turn it off.

[misty mantle]

Is it a manual?

[versed coral]

nope

and it is in park

with the parking break on

and the computer knows

[misty mantle]

Damn German engineering

[versed coral]

das auto

[misty mantle]

Have you tried jiggling the cylinder?

[versed coral]

yes.

so to turn off the car

i... pulled the fuel pump fuse,

and removed the battery outright.

[misty mantle]

Voltswagen is gonna Voltswagen lmao

[versed coral]

put it on concrete wood

if i just cut the battery, it would have kept running off the alternator

[misty mantle]

As it should.

[versed coral]

so if i remove the fuel pump, i remove the fuel

no pump, no engine, no battery to make it easy.

[hexed kayak]

is a tdi

[versed coral]

is normal gas jetta

[hexed kayak]

if so fucking choke it out cause it could be tryiing to run away

[misty mantle]

He said the key wouldn't move

[versed coral]

normal meaning the godly 2.5l engine no turbo never gonna fail engine.

everything else gonna fail

the engine will never

[misty mantle]

Now that you said that, its gonna throw every rod and drop every valve

[hexed kayak]

shit like this reminds me of one of my cobalts

[versed coral]

nah, the engine legendary for not failing until 300k miles

[hexed kayak]

it rolled into the street 4 times

[misty mantle]

Wait, does the key move to the crank position?

[versed coral]

yes

it cranks

[misty mantle]

Ok, good

[versed coral]

fucking gold

[misty mantle]

Was gonna say, if it doesn't, you're gonna have to get a mechanic out to your house

[hexed kayak]

broken handbrake cables and a really shitty leakdown meant that parking it on my steep driveway the engine would slowly turn over and the car would creep out of the dirvway over the course of 5 hours

[misty mantle]

Yep, sounds like a salt belt GM with a manual

[versed coral]

gotta wake up early to undo what i've done

to take the car to the mechanic man

[misty mantle]

Putting in a fuse and battery shouldn't take more than 5 or so minutes

But, then again, Its a VW

The battery could be buried under half the engine

[versed coral]

10 minutes for VW's shit battery mount

[hexed kayak]

why do so many cars have horrifying places for parts

[versed coral]

slide rails

[hexed kayak]

ive gotten uber lucky

[versed coral]

i have to remove the air filter to pull the battery

[hexed kayak]

the batteries in every car i have is just under the trunk floor

[misty mantle]

Me: Laughs in no battery mount and hopes and dreams preventing the battery from jumping up and shorting out on the hood

[misty mantle]

You basically just own Cobalts

[versed coral]

until you mentioned that i was just going to not mount the battery- thanks

[hexed kayak]

the bolbo has a rear battery too

[versed coral]

i'll use my sockets and put everything besides the trim back

[misty mantle]

Das Auto

[versed coral]

i'm gonna leave the trim off, make it slightly easier for them not to break it this time around.

[hexed kayak]

Hopes and dreams didnt help me

I had vice grips on the battery and they fell off and grounded on the body

[versed coral]

oh

[misty mantle]

Did those burns happen with you in the drivers seat?

[versed coral]

it's positive then negative or negative then positive when hooking up a battery again?

[hexed kayak]

No they happened from panic grabbing flaming plastic

In the trunk

[misty mantle]

Ah

[misty mantle]

Positive, then negative

[versed coral]

k

[misty mantle]

I've done it either way though

[versed coral]

i do have it on a piece of 2x4 to hold it off the ground

while it's sitting and all

but i'm gonna sleep now

[misty mantle]

I would have just disconnected the ground and left it in the car

[versed coral]

see but my theiving neighbors saw me fucking with the keys

not leaving the chance.

[misty mantle]

Oh, thats fair. Had stuff stolen from you by them before?

[hexed kayak]

all that melted plastic stuck to me used to be the cargo net

[versed coral]

plus the hood latch has an electronic lock

[versed coral]

yes.

sleep time

[misty mantle]

Night!

[misty mantle]

Rip.

At least the entire car didn't go up in smoke

[hexed kayak]

i had some good insticts when that happened

i was driving on the highway and the car just lost all power and 4 seconds later i smelled smoke

ive never pulled over and slammed on the brakes so hard

[misty mantle]

Probably enough caked on grease on that 2.9 in my Bronco that it would go up pretty quick

[misty mantle]

For once, the permanent pliers went unpermanent mode

[hexed kayak]

The temporary fix worked too well

I forgot i needed a terminal for like 2 months

Needless to say i bought one that day

[misty mantle]

I think that was a sparking reminder

I'll see myself out now

That was bad

really bad

[misty mantle]

A new spring and those vice grips would be mint

[hexed kayak]

They got one and i still use them lol

This happened just under 3 years ago

[misty mantle]

Nice

[hexed kayak]

Like less than a month under 3 years

[plucky flame]

Hmmm so its not the amperage that kills you then

[misty mantle]

Its DC anyway

[plucky flame]

Its also only 12v

Sissy voltage

[hexed kayak]

ac is what gets you

dc just gives you a zap

[misty mantle]

It'll definitely wake you up

Let me guess, speaking from experience?

[plucky flame]

Im certain it could manage just fine if you held one end in each hand

Try that and let us know how it goes

[hexed kayak]

they perfectly fit my hand because i grabbed it when it was hot as fuck and there is still scars on my hand in the shape of it

[plucky flame]

The ole custom fit huh

[misty mantle]

You can really grip them grips.

I'll leave now

[civic spoke]

Shoes stay outside.

[hexed kayak]

Heres me casually minding my own business on a ferry 30 mins after my car just tried to burn to the ground

@misty mantle

[misty mantle]

Right behind a dodge that is probably on its 5th transmission atm

[hexed kayak]

I doubt those people would be too happy to know what happened to the car they are on the water with

[hexed kayak]

it had the tick

[misty mantle]

Wait until they hear about the Chrysler electrical issues

[misty mantle]

Ah, so its probably on its 3rd motor and 5th trans

[patent basalt]

I’ve been there

That oil filter housing gasket made a mess

[misty mantle]

Average BMW gasket

[hexed kayak]

ive dealt with one chrysler product in the last 10 years and it had no issues. fucking blown away on that one

[misty mantle]

Wow.

[hexed kayak]

it was my gfs 1.4t 500l

[misty mantle]

I nearly had to deal with one, that would have been if my dad went with Jeep instead of staying with Ford. I think it was around a hour I had to suffer for in that dealer.

[hexed kayak]

my grandpa was considering a new ram in 2014

to replace his 99.5 sierra with 1.3m km

[misty mantle]

My grandpa has owned nothing but Chevys and Fords

[hexed kayak]

my grandma and me tore him a new one and said what was he thinking

[misty mantle]

He end up getting it or did he get something else?

[hexed kayak]

he got an 06 silverado

[misty mantle]

Hell yeah

[hexed kayak]

the very last of the good ones

[misty mantle]

He was one year off from having a Cateye

[hexed kayak]

i fucked up the year he did have one

[misty mantle]

Oh, nvm

[hexed kayak]

it was a weird pewter color

[misty mantle]

The Cateyes are really where my limit on old Chevys are

The OBS squarebody, GMT-400/early GMT-800, and Cateyes are all the good ones.

After that, you start getting into the crappy ones

[hexed kayak]

ill take a gmt900 if its had the afm removed

[misty mantle]

The AFM is what really dies on those motors.

Think thats really the main big issue with those engines

[hexed kayak]

@misty mantle

[misty mantle]

Looks good. It got fender flares hiding the rust?

[hexed kayak]

it had no rust when he got it

[misty mantle]

Wow.

[hexed kayak]

it was only 6 year old truck when he got it

[misty mantle]

What motor?

[hexed kayak]

5.3

[stoic ledge]

Wouldn't be surprised of that's the max amount of errors it can store

[misty mantle]

Was it still the Vortec engines at this point, or was it pretty well swapped to the LS motors?

[hexed kayak]

i think the little fire ive been talking about here may have fucked the ecu a bit lol

[hexed kayak]

still vortec but all the parts are interchangable with ls motors

[misty mantle]

Wouldn't be suprised

[misty mantle]

Figured.

[hexed kayak]

you gotta watch out with them

[misty mantle]

One of my friends, his parents have a Cateye and I think the motor has a bit of either a tick or a knock

[hexed kayak]

people will drop a 5.3 right out of a silverado and drop it into a c5 or c6 vette after blowing their motor and then they sell it as a ls vette

[misty mantle]

They forget the 5.7s exist

[hexed kayak]

5.3 is cheaper

[misty mantle]

Fair.

My grandpas '96 has the 5.7

Its just a EFI 350

[hexed kayak]

they just want their car running with A v8 so they can get their cash and buy a new vette

[misty mantle]

@hexed kayak

[hexed kayak]

the only ls based 5.7 is a ls motor

the vortecs are 4.8 5.3 and 6.0

i wish they made a 5.7 ls based vortec

[misty mantle]

https://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS/059/0282/10002/-1

There is a 5.7 Vortec

[hexed kayak]

not a ls based one

[misty mantle]

Fair.

[hexed kayak]

i want to put a 6.0 in my old cadillac but i have no idea where to start

its got a wimpy 305

[misty mantle]

I gtg for the night.

Night!

[wispy cloak]

I'm replacing the engine

It died

[eager grove]

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g39628015/best-selling-cars-2022/

This list surprised me a bit

more hatchbacks and sedans than I was expecting

Also some of these stats are wild

In the UK there 1.6million passenger cars sold

In the US there were 13.75million light vehicles sold. Depsite only having 5x the population of the UK, 8.6x the cars sold

But

10.9million of those were trucks

the USA sells 3.75 'light' trucks for every car

My figures above are inaccurate

Because the UK figures don't include Light commercial vehicles

but in 2022 that number was only 282,139 - which includes just 29,564 pickups for the whole UK total

42,488 the year before

[timber oar]

We have more room for cars 😂

[patent basalt]

F

My e36 was an auto I did all that maintenance to the engine and the trans started slipping bad

[deep zealot]

That’s why you manual swap those old bmws

anything with a ZF6 and older

[hexed kayak]

usa also has a massive fleet car market

some companies will roll up to dealers and buy 30 trucks in one shot

uhaul buys a fuck ton of trucks

i rent one like 3 times a year and i always am given something with less than 500 miles on the odo

[versed coral]

car no fix until wednesday

i guess i'm taking everything out of my car and pulling the battery every time i'm not driving

[misty mantle]

Morning

[versed coral]

drove car to work

[misty mantle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIoFx832AOQ

Might let you get the key out

[versed coral]

yep, first things i tried were the videos that pulled up

[misty mantle]

Damn, that cylinder is really fucked

[versed coral]

i have the fuse and battery reinstall down to about 5 minutes

so

[hexed kayak]

you know you could just pull the starter solenoid and the car wouldnt even turn over

[misty mantle]

Then the battery would go dead since they cant turn the key off

[hexed kayak]

i thought they just cant get it out

but can still turn it of

[carmine summit]

does this mention anything about the shifter mech

[misty mantle]

They can't turn it off

[misty mantle]

No.

The key cylinder is fucked

Car in the video is a manual

[carmine summit]

pretty sure there's a thing to bypass the interlock on the autos

[misty mantle]

Its the key cylinder itself.

[carmine summit]

id have to look into it, been a minute since i had to work on a newer vw

[carmine summit]

have you taken it apart to diagnose?

[hexed kayak]

you need to find a better alignment shop if thats all it took to knock that wheel out of alignment

[wispy cloak]

You could have bent something

[misty mantle]

Miat

[hexed kayak]

yeah and i hit potholes like that 15 times a day every time i drive and i dont need an alignment

[misty mantle]

I hit potholes every time I go to my grandparents, doesn't affect my truck

[hexed kayak]

in my lowered cobalt

dude you hit a peice of rubber and now your car is fucked up. thats not normal shit

i said this to you yesterday. post shit in a public channel get comment on it

[misty mantle]

How the fuck did this argument even start

[hexed kayak]

you posted about how you hit something not talking to anyone specific at all so should we just ignore your message then?

[wispy cloak]

Me bob or other bob

[misty mantle]

Ross

Remember, he also doesn't drive a Miata.

I don't even know what it takes to fuck up a miata

[hexed kayak]

I drive on this shit everyday i think i would know what it takes to knock a car out of alignment

[misty mantle]

My truck already doesn't have a perfect alignment because '80s American off-road shitbox

And it really isn't possible to get it perfect in mine

[hexed kayak]

Heres a car that actually fell into a pothole in this city

[misty mantle]

More like a sinkhole, holy fuck

[hexed kayak]

it was a pothole till dude drove over it

[misty mantle]

Dudes insurance probably wrote his Xterra off

[hexed kayak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUWPU4FImk&t=6s

this is the kind of shit i drive over in my cobalt

[carmine summit]

as someone who worked in a body shop: you have no idea how much energy is transferred at highway speeds

it doesn't take much to do a lot of damage

[hexed kayak]

i also worked in a body shop

Fixed audis and bmws

[carmine summit]

and the body shop I worked at did some work for RM Sotheby's, what's your point

we painted a Maserati MC12 front clip

[wraith rivet]

this

[hexed kayak]

That i infact do have an idea how much energy gets transferred at highway speeda

[carmine summit]

clearly not if you think hitting a truck tire at 65mph won't throw out an alignment lol

[misty mantle]

Not sure if this shows it well, but heres what I drive over going to my grandparents

[hexed kayak]

a truck tire and a small piece of tire tread are two completely different things

[carmine summit]

it was a chunk of retread off a truck tire

[wraith rivet]

a very large and very much solid chunk

[misty mantle]

Wtf is even the point of re-treading a Semi tire?

[carmine summit]

longer service life

pretty common

[hexed kayak]

its usually done badly though

[wispy cloak]

Cost savings

[carmine summit]

not usually

there are tens of thousands of retread tires on the road every single day

[hexed kayak]

They are banned here cause of of how many retreads were flying off trucks

[hexed kayak]

I hit a pothole in my volvo that cracked my strut tower and didnt need to do an alignment

[carmine summit]

that's a rust failure

[wraith rivet]

I thought you said it wouldn’t cause damage

[hexed kayak]

Its not. I bought this car specifically because it didnt have rotten towers. The pothole was just that bad

Bent my wheel too

[hexed kayak]

Where did i say that

[carmine summit]

idk the majority of that crack looks like it's along a rust bubble to me, which means the metal was already weak there

so the strut tower cracked before your alignment was altered

literally taking a class on FMEA right now

[wraith rivet]

when you were talking about how Miata hitting it at highway wouldn’t have done anything

what is that picture of specifically?

the truck it flew off of or someone who smacked it

[hexed kayak]

A small chunk of tread laying in the road is different from a tread actively flinging itself apart with cars around it

[hexed kayak]

I accidentally sent it it was for another message

[wraith rivet]

oh gotcha

[hexed kayak]

When i took all the paint off to fix it there was 0 pitting in any of the metal on the bottom or top the only thing you could see in the metal were stretch marks and stress fractures.

[charred depot]

bloody potholes

this one might possibly just quite have been due to rust, maybe.

It seems the turrets on this got really corroded so the guy covered everything with black paint

[stoic ledge]

[charred depot]

not wax or anything just black spray paint

it was held on by like a inch once my friend started taking a pickaxe to it but even rallying it around we couldnt get it to completely fail heh

Were going to repair it but it costed so little had numerous other issues and could just buy a decent one for slightly more.

This is funny, you can have cars made out of 100 shitty MOT patches but a few holes drilled for a cage no no no

Rule 1 don't tell the DVLA anything heh

[misty mantle]

Probably a combination of that strut tower being rusted out and you driving over a pothole

I'm happy I don't have to deal with anything more than surface rust on my truck

[charred depot]

That one was a strange one as the car overall wasn't that rusty, yknow it look decent from the outside.

Whereas like my grey 305 estate looks scruffy as hell but is solid underneath

Always get like "there's no way that has a MOT on it"

[hexed kayak]

Fuck canada and fuck Trudeau

[misty mantle]

What happened this time

[hexed kayak]

Mf is banning wd-40 cause its “bad for the planet” so wd-40 said well change our formula

Which means its going to be dogshit

[misty mantle]

This is the stupidest shit I have heard today

[charred depot]

hard to get a decent paint stripper these days

[hexed kayak]

Im gonna have to drive to vermont to get the good shit now

[charred depot]

all gotta be environmentally sound

[misty mantle]

Gotta do what ya gotta do

[hexed kayak]

Going to Plattsburgh isnt to bad actually

[misty mantle]

Actually, yeah, that isn't bad at all.

Nearly a 3-hour round trip, but not bad

[hexed kayak]

Ill stop at the ben and jerrys factory

[charred depot]

I washed my car which is a very rare event then we got a load of Saharan sand covering everything. God hates me.