cars

[hexed kayak]

either an ev base v70

with manual trans

or the cobalt LS XFE

manual as well

xfe means extreme fuel efficiency

[grand garnet]

Anyone here familiar with old 454 chevy motors?

[hexed kayak]

somewhat

[grand garnet]

I have issues 🙃

[hexed kayak]

they all do

[grand garnet]

So ignition coil is getting no power, distributer getting no power, wires coming into ignition coil getting no power. But all else works fine

[tepid wing]

Sounds like an old enough car where you should be able to find the schematics and troubleshooting guides.

[grand garnet]

Just replaced ignition module, but thats not the issue. It ran fine before i parked it, next day rolls around and it needs jumped, cranks no start

[grand garnet]

Problem is I really cant, not on this specific issue, its for a motorhome, but its got the 1990 chevy 454 in it, same motor as a 1994 chevy p30. Still having a hard time.

[hexed kayak]

did the old module work somehwhat?

[tepid wing]

Huh, that sounds like quite the conundrum then.

[hexed kayak]

@grand garnet if it still works put it back in and see if it runs

if it does your new part died if it doesnt you have a wiring issue

[grand garnet]

It drove fine before then, old one it didnt start, new one it didnt

Ignition coil isnt sending spark

Put there also isnt any power coming into it either.

Fuses are all good

[hexed kayak]

how old is this car? cause a 454 is anything from fully mechanical to 80% computerized

[grand garnet]

1990

[hexed kayak]

ouch

[grand garnet]

Yes

🙂

[hexed kayak]

you've got 1990s gm electrical issues.
i suggest this

[grand garnet]

Haha

[hexed kayak]

but seriously anything could be causing it. your gonna have to start checking voltage on wires

[grand garnet]

45k miles, 30 yrs old

Its got no power coming into the ignition module

It started when i ran outa juice after leaving exterior lights on

Came back in the morning to start it, battery dead

Wait…

I may know the issue

Gimme 20 minutes

[hexed kayak]

Wtf happened to this poor Toyota

[coarse wagon]

Hail no hmm perhaps pulled closed with metal in the way

I was meaning the door the side though probably a bat or something

[grand garnet]

Okay it did not solve it

Replaced wire that came out

From when i was trying to get generator running

[raven bolt]

my car now welcomes me on startup

[misty mantle]

What year?

[grand garnet]

Fortunately I fixed it.

On the starter solenoid I did not have it grounded to the battery. When I was fixing the generator that wire melted off, but now everything works and i'm back to being on the road again!

[misty mantle]

👍

[hexed kayak]

tries to start car
im sorry i cant do that mr. basset
you didnt pay your loan mr.basset

and then it ejects you from the car and drives to the dealer

[pastel snow]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[wide fjord]

a happy lil' accident :)

[tepid wing]

Has there been any news on Tesla supporting Chevy on the Supercharger network?

[tepid wing]

Doesn't look like it.

[compact grotto]

Its on Chevy to move to NACS (which everyone is doing slowly) or providing an adapter.

Ford does, currently.

[tepid wing]

Tesla is the one that needs to allow them to be on their network.

[compact grotto]

Incorrect. https://www.tesla.com/support/supercharging-other-evs

[tepid wing]

From what others have said this delay might be related to them firing their charging infastructure team.

[compact grotto]

If the vehicle manufacture provides a CCS to NACS adapter it will work.

[tepid wing]

Honestly with how often they lie I wouldn't take their website at face value, plus the website says that GM isn't supported yet.

I'm wondering if I should send GM a letter about this because they don't seem to have another non-telephone way of contacting them.

[stiff bloom]

This is partly correct. If a charger uses the NACS/J3400 plug but otherwise is a CCS/J1772 charger, it will work without factory support. However, with a Tesla charger, the vehicle will need to support the NACS/J3400 communication protocol (which is different from the CCS/J1772 communication protocol and can be added via an OTA software update). Otherwise, the vehicle will connect but will not signal the charger to begin charging and/or at what voltage/amperage.

Edit: Actually Tesla chargers have been revised in the last few years to support the CCS protocol. Not sure why car manufacturers are still so slow to adopt. Perhaps the logistics of providing individual proprietary adapters?

[tepid wing]

From what I understand the hardware is ready, but Tesla isn't.

[bitter compass]

Full self driving will be available in 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024, ok but in 2025 for real we already prepared the model 3 with such a bad cockpit for driving but a mediocre one for being driven around

[stiff bloom]

"Hear me out, I know you bought this stupid truck because it has locking differentials, but we just love the way the video game industry does things right now so we're disabling that feature for DLC"

"Remember to pre-order our $39,000 $80,000 $82,000 truck for exclusive benefits, like getting the ability to pay $100,000 instead!"

[tepid wing]

To be fair this has very little information about the truck and cheaty 0-60 times.

[vocal mural]

Evening scooter tour

[spring basin]

Just got my eardrum ruptured by the loudest vehicle I’ve ever heard

And I’ve been around 1000hp two stepping RX7s

fucking clapped out CBR1000 passing me on the freeway

I have never heard something so loud

might as well have been open headers

[pure pond]

a People S

[compact grotto]

Yes, the support for other manufacturers (assuming the correct adapters) is relatively recent.

All brands will be moving to NACS so its a stop gap anyway.

I believe 2025 model year and up is where some brands plan to have switched over? Murky, read this in bits and pieces over the last 6 months.

[vocal mural]

2021 People S indeed

And do you know the location?

[tepid wing]

Aren't there a couple of 2024s with it?

[cold cypress]

beautiful thing parked up here

[frank flicker]

Hey, does anybody ride newer dacia cars, like 2022 new?

[stoic ledge]

I have driven a Sandero 3

I don't own one tho

[frank flicker]

I want to buy one and I wanted to ask how problematic it is to maintain

Seems like a perfect car for utilitarian dude like me

[stoic ledge]

A friend of mine is a mechanic at Renault, and as another friend wanted to buy one I asked him for advice

He said the 2 most common items breaking are window regulators, and something regarding the gear linkage cables, that they can become stiff and hard to shift

Otherwise easy car to work on and fairly reliable

Friend ordered one (Extreme TCe 110), hasn't been delivered yet

I have also driven a Sandero II (my grandpa had one) ... The 3 is really, really a much better car

[frank flicker]

Yea, I'm consindering this one, because since 3 it started to look cool tbh

And the problems you mention are very minor

Thanks

[tepid wing]

You know what, modern cars have no excuse for bad parking because of the crazy camera systems. :V

(Says a person with said camera systems)

[fair moon]

my car (2013) does not have said cameras

[tepid wing]

I should have used "new".

[fair moon]

is also a six speed manuel

😍

[tepid wing]

I have a 1 speed transmision and I dig it.

[charred depot]

I now have one from a 205 extended with some metal pole

[fair moon]

Jatco?

Guh, my service has not the

[tepid wing]

Jatco?

[fair moon]

What kind of cvt is it

[tepid wing]

It's fixed speed.

[fair moon]

Do you drive a lawnmower?

or an EV?

[tepid wing]

I drive a giant battery.

[fair moon]

i guess they both fall under the same category tbh

[neat field]

We love driving a massive battery!

[fair moon]

i drive a large gokart

with suicidal tendencies

[neat field]

Yo! The mini coopers are pretty sweet, idk if I would fit tho

[tepid wing]

I do wonder if 360 camera setups will become standard like backup cams did.

[pastel snow]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[hexed kayak]

if it exists on a mercedes you can expect it to become mainstream in the next 10-20 years

[pastel snow]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[hexed kayak]

thats bmw

[pastel snow]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[hexed kayak]

it wont. how are you gonna sell a heated seats sub in a kia when the owner already has a 20%apr loan

[pastel snow]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[stoic ledge]

It already existed in 2010 on a Qashqai

Quality was horrendous tho

[stoic ledge]

Is that a Clarity?!

PHEV I think?

[viscid atlas]

My mom had one of these. The cam setup wasn't too bad

The quality was poor, but for parking the quality doesn't need to be too high

[neat field]

Sure is!! PHEV all the way

[tepid wing]

Yeah it's been around long enough that I would think it might become standard in a few model years.

[whole iris]

I can’t fit in them 😔

[bitter compass]

Angry old man screaming at technology noises

I wished backup cameras wouldn't result in people ONLY using them to reverse

[flint sable]

CLARITY!!! BASED

God I love the clarity

It looks so good

[flint sable]

My mini cooper blew its timing chain and has been in the shop™️ ever since

[neat field]

It is the best looking PHEV IMO, and it is so smooth to drive

[flint sable]

I love the little “wheel skirts” over the back wheels

Even though it’s just like a two inch line

[neat field]

So many people hate it but I think it makes the car in my opinion

a nice little addition

[flint sable]

Cannot understand that

DRLs are the best part

[neat field]

Some people are just salty for no reason

salty about my great gas milage!!!

[flint sable]

How much does it get?

[neat field]

I am currently at 1.3 L/100

[flint sable]

Holy cow that’s like 180mpg

[neat field]

It is pretty sweet!!

[fair moon]

R56 moment

[flint sable]

yep

[fair moon]

Expect it to happen every 60-90k

[flint sable]

so after that blew up

[fair moon]

miles

[flint sable]

it was our only daily driver that got decent mileage

[fair moon]

Usually you can hear it start to clatter ("death rattle") long before it gives up

[flint sable]

the rest are all fun!! but all gas guzzlers that are lucky to get over 20mpg

[fair moon]

Yeah the minis are really good on gas

Mine will do like 500mi+ highway driving

[flint sable]

the supercharger sounds really good

[fair moon]

oh you have an R53

...huh

those don't usually have timing chain issues

quite as bad as 2nd gen at least

[flint sable]

2005 i think

[fair moon]

yuh

R53

[flint sable]

also the driving lights do not work unfortunately

need rewired

[fair moon]

... does it even have DRLs? It shouldn't

Unless you mean something else

[fair moon]

Oh the foglights

[flint sable]

yea

[hexed kayak]

the r53 is a baby cobalt ss

[fair moon]

I mean not really

They're completely different cars

[hexed kayak]

its a fwd supercharged 4cyl. but mych smaller in every way than a cobalt

[fair moon]

the only thing that is shared is maybe the eaton M45 (?) supercharger

[hexed kayak]

nope

[fair moon]

not even?

hah

[hexed kayak]

cobalt uses an m62

like i said baby cobalt. same setup but smaller

[fair moon]

Transmission likely similar

[fair moon]

But yeah the mini is designed by ze germans so it is completely different

[hexed kayak]

your looking too deep into this

[fair moon]

yeah...

[hexed kayak]

both are fwd supercharged 4pot coupes. im aware they are the farthest thing from the same car

they just use the same thought process in how their engines were made sporty

https://youtu.be/2evJe9jOLjU?t=7
@fair moon

[prisma frost]

Offroading 😂

[vocal mural]

Even went up to 80km/h

[prisma frost]

I could never

I’d be thinking about all those rocks and gravel that would be chipping my paint

I’m more of a fan of these types of country roads

[vocal mural]

The classical 60km/h one

[prisma frost]

80

[civic spoke]

Drove on similar roads with the truck. Met both a big van and a damn bus.

[limber whale]

Ya don’t see GTI coupes very often

And my god do they look so much better than the 4 doors

[hexed kayak]

get an old volvo

they will do bumpy dirt roads at 130 no issue

[vocal mural]

You know how f-star expensive road tax is in the Netherlands?
I already pay €450 per year for city car

[stoic ledge]

Boat 🅱️olvo on LPG €1000+, and next year even more

[vocal mural]

Naaioverheid

[stoic ledge]

So glad I decided to not install LPG in the Astra

I've decided to drive less by stealing the company E-Tron

Saves me more

[vocal mural]

My plan:
Keep both my car and scooter at least until 2026:

In 2026, I want to get A driving license.
When having A driving license in pocket: sell both car and scooter and get motorcycle instead. And using car-sharing when I really need to

Something like this.

[civic spoke]

Would love to get a full A license and a big scooter.

[stoic ledge]

I wanted to get an A license but I bought a house so no money left

[pure pond]

road tax whats that? just drive a oldtimer

im searching for a older frame for my car so its gonna be a old timer. otherwise i cant drive it anywhere also

[vocal mural]

I want to drive my fathers 1971 MGB ofc, but he doesn’t allow me.

[stoic ledge]

Maybe not so smart to daily that, no

[vocal mural]

Burton car company does such things

[flint sable]

The most unrealistic thing I’d like to try and daily is this

We still need to find the speedster top for it

[limber whale]

One GTIs loss is another GTIs treasure

Bless Upullit

The tips are polished chrome which is so tacky and i love it

One tip is lower than the other but minor details

[south jewel]

Grr... went to take out the air filter to do it's cleaning today... condo life means I no longer have a socket set around (donated that to a friend when I moved back to the city). Need one to get at the hose clamp that attaches the air filter (I have an R600 EVO intake on my Mk8 Golf)... going to go pick up a 3/8 inch drive set tomorrow, and I guess I'll just do it next week.

(for reference it's that band you can see between the intake and the turbo inlet...I forgot that was how the filter was attached and figured I could just do this with my ratcheting screwdriver {not LTTstore.com 😉 })

[south jewel]

Honestly, I've had a recurrent problem with my Miltek exhaust... the outer two exhausts have drooped over time. I don't have a current pic. It's minor, but I can see it...I'm trying to figure out how to prevent it after fixing it.

[south jewel]

...and yea, chrome tips can be slightly tacky, but at least they aren't fucking oval like the Mk8 😄

[olive narwhal]

I’ll leave this here

[south jewel]

Mna... at least they could have rattle canned it to match!

[olive narwhal]

If they didn’t have enough to fix a rear end, they don’t have enough for a paint job lol

[south jewel]

You're not wrong

[wraith rivet]

Hot asf

I love this highway from Vegas though everybody collectively decides to go 90 even some truckers

I think I got stuck behind someone slow in this pic I’m not a left lane camper I promise

[stoic ledge]

Bruh 48°C

I'd self combust

[south jewel]

I died 10° before you 😉

[stoic ledge]

Possibly I've also died before, and by that point I'd self combust

Already suffering at 30°C

[south jewel]

Same here... are you me?

(am in Vancouver...and that heat is now)

[stoic ledge]

I'm from 🇳🇱 but currently in 🇫🇷 ... And it's going to be 33°C here today

[vocal mural]

Black Saturday period

[stoic ledge]

Made it here without any real traffic jam last Sunday

[novel relic]

Fucking death sun

Yesterday my motorcycle broke down and had to push it 15km in that heat

Fainted cause of it

Today just now drove it home from the shop, its only good at speeds above 70kph, others are just death

[tepid wing]

That just sounds like the south, Texas summers can get up that high.

[wheat hatch]

[reef sparrow]

lol

[violet meteor]

is the first one faulty?

(doesnt rattle)

[pure pond]

some dont rattle

but if its the old one that doesnt rattle an new one does than it can be faulty

[violet meteor]

one is new and the one that doesnt rattle is 6m.old

[tribal current]

I’m lucky I share a shop with a buddy

I couldn’t imagine being without tools

I keep a socket set in my trunk just in case I ever would need it

[hexed kayak]

how is that unrealistic? its just a mustang. not some full spec track car

[flint sable]

i live in the county with the worst drivers in the entire US and i would not want to be hit

[hexed kayak]

im lucky to live where people only care about hurting expensive things

i can leave my purple cobalt ss in the most asking to get hit spot ever and it will always be fine

[hexed kayak]

but my 20 year old fdaily driver volvo will get hit no matter where i park it.

[flint sable]

unfortunate

[hexed kayak]

@flint sable All the places someone else has fucked up my Volvo

[flint sable]

oh yikes

[hexed kayak]

cobalt hasnt been damaged by another human though

yet

its currently sitting in an impound lot cause i forgot to pay a ticket so they suspended my license till i do

have to wait a month to get it back

[flint sable]

ough

[hushed crane]

Key fobs.

[civic spoke]

That sure is a key job that you can get.

[hushed crane]

fr

[civic spoke]

Rental?

[hushed crane]

nope

[civic spoke]

Newer Ferrari's doesn't really do it for me. Sure, they can sound great. But I still prefer the models that were available with a third pedal.

[hushed crane]

same but my gf wanted it.

[civic spoke]

Modern ones you can't really reach even a fraction of their limits. Which is sad.

[hushed crane]

gimme a sec my work laptop about to die

true

[hexed kayak]

458 is about as new as a Ferrari as i would care to drive

[civic spoke]

Honestly same.
But I would prefer even older ones.

[hexed kayak]

if i was gonna buy one it would be a manual swapped 430 scud

[civic spoke]

Any Ferrari with a manual would be lovely. Even something super slow.

[civic spoke]

One of their touring models would be 👌

[hexed kayak]

hoovie has a v12 manual touring ferrari

[civic spoke]

Yeah, manual swapped, right?

[hexed kayak]

the 456gt came manual

[hexed kayak]

and its gated

[civic spoke]

The good stuff.

[wide fjord]

I didn't know Golf wagons existed, I just saw one today.

[stoic ledge]

Most seen variants in Europe

[wide fjord]

Maybe I should say more "I just noticed one today." because I maybe already saw multiple in my life

[flint sable]

Leather wrapped VW fob

[hushed crane]

totally

[charred depot]

On track tomorrow morning hopefully it rains

[hushed crane]

oh yeah vw owns bugati

[charred depot]

only hope I have against these newfangled Fiesta ST's in my 40 year old shed.

[hushed crane]

My parent's house

[flint sable]

they did change it for the chiron but the veyron shares the fob with the golf and every other vw

[flint sable]

i miss out FeST

[charred depot]

ill hopefully atleast get some massive bodyroll photos, ideal track suspension

I do find it funny that these things have as much ground clearance as crossovers but are just an car.

[tepid wing]

Fob.

[worldly oasis]

@hexed kayak last I checked the Pcv breather isn’t supposed to do that

[hushed crane]

oh ok

Mclaren

[void vector]

anyway kia just dropped a hybrid version of the minivan https://www.kia.com/us/en/carnival-mpv-2025

finally a sienna competitor maybe (in terms of hybridization)

[eager grove]

This looks so good

[void vector]

i think they stretched it taller or smth

[void vector]

still pales in comparision to asian market vans but yeah it def looks nice

[hexed kayak]

i love old heat harded plastic

[hexed kayak]

it just means you no longer have to call a towtruck to get to the dealer when the engine grenades itself

[worldly oasis]

Should have a new part on Monday hopefully before work

The rubber one so it won’t die on me

[hexed kayak]

ive got bad news for you

[worldly oasis]

What

They are gonna come right after I leave as usual?

[hexed kayak]

if one plastic hose is that brittle a minimum of 4 others are like that too

[worldly oasis]

But the forums said this was the only one that was bad 😭

[hexed kayak]

doesnt have to be the pcv system

[worldly oasis]

Ik

All the other shit is rubber not this shit ass plastic from what I see

[hexed kayak]

i shattered the factory charge pipes on my cobalt ss into 15 pieces when i went full boost not knowing hoiw brittle they had gotten

[worldly oasis]

Mine is fine still I have shoved it quite hard trying to get to the engine cover bolts

I’m gonna keep it running until it throws an error or I see another thing wrong with it

Until then that’s the fix and I just want to drive my car again

Deep cleaned the seats and steering wheel while I was waiting too

[hexed kayak]

buy mink oil and use it on all the leather

[worldly oasis]

I used whatever extremely old stuff my dad has

[hexed kayak]

if you put mink oil on the seats every 6 months the leather will be the softest you ever felt and the seats will NEVER tear

[worldly oasis]

I’ll consider it but for rn my leather is basically brand new still

[hexed kayak]

and if you park the car for 2 weeks and dont open it the mink oil gets rid of any bad smells

even cigarettes

[worldly oasis]

Car still smells new

[hexed kayak]

it wont always. and sometimes shit happens that makes your car smell bad

[worldly oasis]

Might do it next time I deep clean if I feel like buying it tho thanks for the tip

Anywho I need a v70r

[hexed kayak]

good luck. people want like 16k for a nice one

[worldly oasis]

It’s even more expensive with the manual 😭

Prob cheaper to buy an automatic and swap in the manual at this point

[hexed kayak]

ngl you would probably have more fun with a imported d5 drivetrain than you would a whole v70r

a v70r is fun until it cracks the cyl walls

then you have to ditch the 2.5 and build a 2.4 block since it has thicker walls

[worldly oasis]

Cyl sleeves seem like they are the thing to do nowadays

Who knows we will see what deals I can get won’t be able to buy a car for a while tech school is expensive

[hexed kayak]

honestly these days your best bet is to take what you can get or chase the rising prices for the next 10 years

like something wrecked or blown up

[worldly oasis]

Ig I’m chasing the prices because I ain’t making shit until 2 years down the road

Hopefully I can get an internship before then but who knows

[hexed kayak]

you could even get a base v70 and a crashed s60r and build your own v70r
s60rs are alot cheaper in every condition

[worldly oasis]

Yeah I could do that

But the one tune that I was looking at uses the 4c suspension buttons as tune switching

Or I just get an s60r, no real need for the wagon besides curb appeal

[hexed kayak]

4c is such an L imo

i didnt buy 4 s60s cause they had it

im not paying 700$ a strut for a 3k car

[worldly oasis]

We will see when I have money

Oh well I’m going to bed

[hexed kayak]

having a working s60r on hand makes it easier to get a working v70

ive ripped the motor out of a fully working nice condition car before just to put it in a car with a blown engine cause it looked cooler than the car it came from

[charred depot]

Track day on all seasons was not the move

Going to be no seasons at this rate

[bitter compass]

I mean who needs tires anyways

[charred depot]

got body roll

[pure pond]

90kmh in a corner damn 😂

[charred depot]

have some faster more dramatic clips of that and other corners, need to sort through.

[drowsy kernel]

finally fixed DLR lights in my 97 passat - took me 3 years in the end the connector was just dirty 🤦 Now I have to install a set of rare, retro looking rims that were sold in the US when this model came out, hope I manage to install them for at least one season before changing the car lol... I'll try to buy a manual mustang when I go on vacation to the US. I'm thinking about putting in a full fis skoda superb cluster but it's gonna be a pain to install and make it work.. I should still have couple skoda clusters left

they look pretty cool IMO

[hollow pasture]

Took the crx out with the boys

[fathom socket]

what in the India did I just watch

[prisma frost]

Not even India 😅

[fathom socket]

if they can't afford indoor parking they can't afford a nice car. whoever has a corvette and doesn't have a place to park it because they're broke after buying the corvette sounds a lot more out of touch then the guy who was more interested in making money so he doesn't have to inflate a fucking bubble around his car lol

it's called having a luxury car whilst living amongst poverty.

trust me make more money and move instead of sitting there complaining about gas prices

every teenager comes to the realization that life is pointless and that it would be easier to die.

now some of these teens grow up and decide they like living and usually stop whining

and some others croak

and then the rest, sit there and complain about everything and never do anything to change it.

"Life is pointless" ok yeah we get it you've brought this up like a million times when are you going to commit heart no pump? because right now you're being a sac of potatoes

🧠 = $

can't you see?

society isn't a place for smart people, it's the self sustaining labor camp for the rich.

picture this, the rich are the bee keepers, Society is the honey farm.

politics, media and money are just the queen bee.

all the drones and worker bees don't ask why they just stay where the queen is and produce honey as the anonymous bee keeper collects it from the back

now look I might die broke, but at least I'll be blaming myself and not the government

[wheat hatch]

[white heart]

Thank God you got muted 🙏
Please never speak again

[wheat hatch]

Lmao

[charred depot]

certified race car

[misty imp]

opinions on liqui moly?

going on a cr engine

CR12DE

Ragged almost everytime i use it

[civic spoke]

Decent enough brand. Been around for ages.

[vocal mural]

I have toptec 4200 in my engine rn

[misty imp]

I'm doing a service on my car soon

I've got the mannol 5w-30 energy premium, additives seems alright

I also need to sort out the wheelbearin on the rear but that's for another day

Do i, take it to another person to replace the wheel bearing, or replace the whole assembly that has wheel bearing itself. both costs about the same either way

[somber comet]

Speaking of this, I just realized that I should clean my car but I forgot (

[misty imp]

Taking it to another person might cost more

[misty imp]

Do you notice any diff between this and a normal run of the mill oil?

[charred depot]

If you replace the entire knuckle you will absolutely need an alignment badly after, something on older stuff is not all knuckles were made equal so stuff like tie rod ends bolted in slightly different places.

Probably not a issue today but should really be paired

[misty imp]

it's not a knuckle

[charred depot]

Oh its the rear, what do you mean entire assembly then

what car is it for

[misty imp]

Nissa Micra / March K12

the noise has been annoying me for about 6 months now

[charred depot]

Yeah just buy a complete drum if you are lazy but then you would ideally need to do both sides and adjust the shoes. Bearing isnt that much of a hassle to get out of those.

[misty imp]

based on my search apparently it is

I would need some hydraulic press to get it out which i don't have and have no intention in getting

[charred depot]

BFH or you can remove the bearing insides and destroy the outer race

[misty imp]

Yeah and hammer it out, but honestly too much effort and alot of things could possibly go wrong

either spend 60 GBP in the housing, or spend 10 for the bearing itself and endure 2 hours of possible PITA

i don't have a workshop to do this in either

[charred depot]

Dunno if you are getting a preassembled drum just make sure its got a good quality bearing and not a 5000 mile special

[misty imp]

[charred depot]

Why I would prefer to just buy a decent bearing

[misty imp]

my car's already like pushing 100k miles anyway

I'm planning on replacing it next year when I buy one at full price

Decent car though I can't lie

it's been serviced like twice from when i bought it at 55k miles

it's got that trade mark "woman negligence" ™️

[charred depot]

there a i30 in my family on over 150k miles, I believe it was bought on about 60-70k and its been serviced once. Its only saving grace is probably the oil leak it has creating a cycle of ocassional new oil.

[misty imp]

infinite service glitch

I have been topping it up from time to time so eh

but seriously need to get the oil changed on that car + sort out that bearing thing

[vocal mural]

It is my 2nd oil change since I've got the car (driven 23200km in 10 months (+-273000km in total).
I chose that specifically because i have LPG installation in my car (= higher temperature).

[misty imp]

Damn

I haven't come across LPG for a long long WHILE

[vocal mural]

Have become obsolete in some countries like Denmark (6 still left), Luxemburg (11 left) and Sweden (61 still left).
Although in Netherlands, Belgium and Poland still common.
||Look up on Mylpg before sending @vocal mural 🤦‍♂️||

[misty imp]

it was popular back in asia, my dad had one

[round turtle]

I wouldn't say that LPG is common in the Netherlands. Even fuel stations with LPG are getting less by the year

[stoic ledge]

LPG has also been in decline in NL, it had an upwards trend in the 90s, still quite relevant in early 2000s but afterwards it went downhill fast

Early 2000s there were still benefits for it for company cars so it was still a chosen option

After that, it was basically only for private buyers... And there weren't/aren't many (new) private buyers

Around 2010 it saw some momentum again under private buyers, with the combined road tax of then free road tax (Chevy Spark, Mazda2 BiFuel) and good private buyers financing deals (Opel Corsa mainly, and other Opel models)

Now it's almost only Dacia which still sells LPG on new cars

I won't say factory fitted as previous Dacia's weren't factory fitted, but fitted before delivery. Now they're factory fitted

But yeah, the amount of LPG cars on the road is declining... So that'll also be the case for fuel stations

However, it's still broadly available

[vocal mural]

And will decline even harder. Because of no more G3 subsidy by 2025

[vocal mural]

Sad actually. It is cleaner than petrol

[misty mantle]

Here in the states, a lot of small gas stations have LPG fillups, though i don't think I saw a single LPG tank at any of the truck stops I stopped at on a recent road trip

[young fox]

We have a few cng stations here as well, the fuel company here has a conversion option for your gasoline vehicles to also run on cng. Not much info regarding what types of cars or engine or whatever are given tho which confuses me. But some taxis run on them, and they are usually Camry's

[misty mantle]

I think Ford offered the F-series and E-series with LPG and CNG fueling back in the '90s.

I know LPG for sure, a lot of those got crushed back during Cash for Clunkers

Other than those, don't really see a lot of stuff that runs on either, at least in my area

Speaking of, was on a road trip recently, saw quite a few semi trucks running on I think CNG

[vocal mural]

Buses in Arnhem and Nijmegen area (Breng) runs on CNG.

[wraith rivet]

Our garbage trucks here run on cng

Pretty cool

[void vector]

crown signia released for build in the us

49k 😂

[hexed kayak]

i could by a mint 20 year old p2 volvo for 8000 and burn or wipe my ass with the rest of the money and still be happier than if i bought that car

[dull cedar]

49k seems oddly cheap tbh

[vocal mural]

Subscription based car service
Pay 30 per hour for using headlights.
And 2 every time u use your brakes

[misty imp]

I want to save up my chicken tendies money and buy this:

[vocal mural]

Honda 500 rebel?

[misty imp]

Yes

NGL helmets looks ugly though

something like this goes hard:

but like it's a 500cc

[vocal mural]

I still need to get A license

[misty imp]

I have a license for a car but not a motorcycle :p

[vocal mural]

I’ve B, BE and AM

It costs +- 1500€ here to get A

[prisma frost]

I should probably go for a BE at some point

Seems handy to have

[vocal mural]

I had it because of my previous job.

[prisma frost]

Ah

[stoic ledge]

I also wanted to get BE, but max trailer my car can tow, I can drive on B

1420kg for the trailer iirc, so with the car that's <3.5t

[fathom socket]

Google Tensor G3

[pure pond]

its easy to get when you already know the basics of riding with a trailer

[stoic ledge]

I'll do it some day

I'll first try with my B

[little dagger]

My every day car. What do you guys think? I really need to repaint it someday.

[white heart]

thats a crv right ? how tf do you even see with that tint, it make it look like youre tryna kidnap childrens or sum

[little dagger]

its really clear in daylight i promise

[white heart]

is that what you told the officer ?

[little dagger]

and yep a CRV Gen 1 Manual

[little dagger]

lol

[deep zealot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQX11KLYvZU

massive doug demuro L

dude comes off as such an ass

[charred depot]

always considered lowering it, this is slamming out of a corner with the suspension loaded. Looking at the bottom of the sill it is still so high but the rear wheel is properly tucked.

[dull cedar]

that paintjob will be cost more than the vehicle is worth, do not do it

[pure pond]

just a rattle can paint job

[wispy cloak]

My truck weighs almost four tons unloaded

[stoic ledge]

Necessary to pick up the morning chai tea latte frappe from the drive thru 😛

[civic spoke]

That's 67,000+ lbs

[charred depot]

We all got given B+E for free during cobid.

[stoic ledge]

@lyric tulip

(I can't tag mod?)

[terse raptor]

@golden

@rugged forge

[stoic ledge]

Mod doesn't show for me 🥹

[terse raptor]

It didn't show for me either

[vocal mural]

The role ping have been disable because of abuse afaik

[wispy cloak]

I don't tow much anymore so I'm selling it

I don't have the grocery getter one ton truck mindset

I'm keeping the dakotas though

[stoic ledge]

Classic, so now direct ping is the way to go

[charred depot]

305 jumpscare

[wispy cloak]

is your picnic table intact

[misty mantle]

Gotta type it out. Once you hit space it'll automatically bring the <@&750150305383186585> ping up

Shit, accidental ping

Sorry mods, didn't mean to ping you guys

[worldly oasis]

@hexed kayak got everything back in place le Volvo is happy again

[stoic ledge]

Nope doesn't work for me

If I press space, I don't see any

If i just type <at>Mod I get names which have Mod in them, but not the role

[civic spoke]

I believe it will still ping the mods.

[stoic ledge]

Nice, I'll try it next time something happens

[obsidian basin]

looks like there's something about being called DCS for being angry about reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STcKvMuYdf4

[pure pond]

ive seen it, its just crazy you cant even make a review video and say your honest opinion. and i find it weird because now they get more hate from people so it kinda backfires

[bitter compass]

Luckily it's a minority of companies who do that, imagine every company you criticise hunts you with a lawsuit with no regards how unimportant you are... that would make me scared of VW, tesla, redhat, ibm, checkpoint, canonical..

[tepid wing]

Alpharad managed to sell an old car with a Hatsune Miku wrap for 20K.

[fathom socket]

hey there im wondring if there is a similar channel for matarmstong channel

[turbid pebble]

@dusk ocean correct channel is correct. Not bad, a few little bubbles but the film needs time to cure. One mirror cap is not good but those are not exactly the easiest. I’ll swing it back and get that fixed at some point. It’s just adhesive that got gummed up.

[dusk ocean]

Nice! Sick minivan

[tepid wing]

I've thought about wraps I just have no idea how much they'd be or what I'd want, plus I don't really want the maintenance of redoing them regularly (as I've heard you need to do).

[dusk ocean]

I'm a gloss fan but it's cool and nice to not worry

[turbid pebble]

Hehehe heck of a minivan 🙂

This is paint protection film so it’s far more durable than a vinyl wrap. It has a lifetime warranty unless I scratch the shit out of the film

[raw cosmos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcqfa_uj2hA

[halcyon grotto]

somebody's in trouble

[solar echo]

Louis Rossmann talks about that. they changed their policy battery % w/o changing the date

[tepid wing]

I hate the constant attacks on the general public by large companies like this.

[native ermine]

yeah let's instead burn them down for a change and go for blood

there's more of us then them right

[stiff bloom]

Sign me up

[wheat hatch]

@stoic ledge @civic spoke

[stoic ledge]

Nice

[wheat hatch]

Big boat ⛵

[stoic ledge]

Luckily you can always still get this real, from the ground up developed ///M pure bread

[wheat hatch]

It really is that hideous

[stoic ledge]

At least you can get it in an ambulance spec

The colour and the striping pre-applied

Lights in the grill

[wheat hatch]

A///Mbulance

[candid crown]

Ngl I love the color and the livery

Something about safety yellow just looks cool going fast

Pulled this thing out of it's storage spot and started working on it again

It's been 10 years since it's had a full harness in it and that changes TODAY

Well this week anyways

[stark cave]

lucky

[candid crown]

Lucky?

[stark cave]

is it ur storage spot?

[candid crown]

Yee, my back yard, then I have my shop and my dad's shop where I store other cars

So I guess 3 storage spots

[stark cave]

damn 3 spots

did u know about the car?

or just fully forgot about it?

[candid crown]

I knew it was there I've just had other projects

This was my first car from a long time ago so I've been waiting until I had all of the parts I want to build it right, didn't want to wreck it because 240s are so expensive now

So it's sat

[candid crown]

Looks better when it's not covered in shit lmao

[bitter compass]

Damn, a paint job matching the wannabe importance of drivers

[sudden elk]

Any focus fans? Also seen the veloster N on scrap yard wars, any idea who's that is?

[stiff bloom]

OOooooo I love it!

I'm a focus fan! I'd have one if there were any with a clean title in the entire PNW

[pure pond]

i drove a focus rs one time they are fun cars

[hexed kayak]

My cobalt does this all the time

I’ve stiffened the chassis and have really thick sway bars so my car has absolutely zero issue going up on 3 wheels when it hits a slope. any time I go up a weird driveway that makes it pick up one of the drive wheels it will just loose all power

Happens without fail on this driveway if I leave traction control on

[sudden elk]

Definitely a joy, hard to keep fully working though lol

[white heart]

It could prevent you from crashing tho

It's not only for your safety lol

[charred depot]

minor front end lift

I should maybe perhaps do some suspension improvements

[tulip ice]

What track is this

[charred depot]

Knockhill

[pure pond]

that thing has a lot of ground clearance

[charred depot]

It does, but its also lifted from going over a crest.

Aside from lower balljoints and a £20 pair of new front shocks everything suspension is original on this and it was going at corners as hard as some of the more appropriate newer cars.

front bushings are disintegrating a fair bit, rear arms are on bearings rather than bushings so that is fine for now.

[shell mountain]

Hear me out, iykyk

[marsh badge]

Saw this random gto at a Walmart parking lot

[hexed kayak]

traction control doesnt do squat for stopping you from crashing unless you are a damn NPC

thats stability control that does that

which my car does have and it stays on unless im on a track

and imo traction control hurts you more in a crash than it helps you
ive almost wrecked a couple times and those times i needed every bit of power the car could lay down to keep me on the road and if i had traction control on i would only have been able to use like 8% of the power that i needed

my cobalt is actually in the minority. 90% of them never came from the factory with traction control or stability control.
just abs. but the turbo model needs to have all 3 for the factory launch control to work

[hexed kayak]

@misty mantle @dusk ocean

[misty mantle]

Is this a genuene Marketplace post?

[hexed kayak]

yes

[misty mantle]

[dull cedar]

Ya'll have traction control and stability control??

I don't even have ABS

[civic spoke]

Meanwhile. Mine is just broken.

[dull cedar]

How tf does abs break without preventing the brakes from working at all

[civic spoke]

Because the module controlling the ABS is borked. And in turn disables the ABS, Traction Control, and Stability Control from doing it's job.

[dull cedar]

Ah

[civic spoke]

Makes me realize how much I actually want an LSD.

Me with my E46 with no ABS, TC, and Stability Control when people say that they can't drive in snow without their 4WD/AWD SUV.

[charred depot]

Try driving a Lada with the vacuum assist on the brakes removed

2 feet all the force you can and still barely stopping

Said lada also having 300hp

My 305 estate is the same but not quite as bad, still not very nice for motorway driving around cities where you are suddenly having to stop from 80mph. Unfortunetely because we drive on the correct side of the road in the UK and most cars being designed for LHD brake master and servo's tend to be in the way of engine conversions, inlet manifolds and whatso.

[wheat hatch]

[little dagger]

Here is my second ride. May old ass Pajero Fieldmaster.

[bitter compass]

The luxury of being able to afford 2 parking spots

[charred depot]

Luxury in some places I guess, a friend of mine who was pretty average has always owned like 15-20 cars at a time.

[coarse oriole]

My car came out before abs was added to cars

Nvm my car just sucks

[charred depot]

Yeah was going to ask what car as its been around for a long time

only really mainstream 90's ish though

[coarse oriole]

My car is a 1981 300d

[vocal mural]

The only I have afaik is Abs

[past copper]

That's just manual brakes at best, a 76 Chevette is like trying to stop a freight train with a toothpick, with only a 60 hp engine, that's why you got to have calves to stomp on those brake cables. Who needs power brakes, apparently nobody if your car is under 1 ton. Now my question is, if nobody had power brakes would people tailgate as much? Would we still have people weaving in and out of traffic starting and stopping like their hair is on fire? I live out in the country and city driving to me is like going into a war zone, nobody is patient.

[charred depot]

Its alright if it wasnt there to begin with, unless you fit a smaller diameter master its awful.

Ive driven a couple 1.3L european chevettes they were quite alright.

(not the same car left was donor)

[little dagger]

I also have this 3rd one for important "meetings" at work. My CRV is just chilling in the background.

[prisma frost]

This was like 2 months ago. Probably one of the most beautiful moments

[native ermine]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2024/07/26/toyota-to-revive-celica-and-mr2-with-4wd-and-manual-gearbox/

[stiff bloom]

I hope the rumors are right, but I'm really careful to trust Forbes for car news... usually they're beneath even MotorBiscuit for trustworthines

[wide fjord]

I'm making a wheel kind of inspired by the TE37s, but they're 10 spokes & probably realistically stupid because of how thin they are

[dusk ocean]

@gray echo hmmm

[wide fjord]

They're done, I did them in baby blue because why not, but tomorrow I'm going to render them in a bronze color

[dawn shell]

I'm interested to see how would fare for the brakes

[white heart]

Is that a 205 champion

[charred depot]

Its a 1.6 GTI

[civic spoke]

"Sir, This is a school zone."

[white heart]

Close enough, absolutely love all kind of 205

Id kill to have a low mileage 205 as a first car

[charred depot]

Bah why care about milage

[pure pond]

i dont even know what milage my car has it restarts after 99k

[charred depot]

My 2 305 daily drivers the engines have done more miles than the cars

I really want another 305 saloon to make fully track spec but too rare

[storm basin]

My car was running dry on a trip today and the thing was running hot. After i got home and let it cool down some, I poured the rest of the coolant I had into the backup/overflow tub. I got more coming. Question is, do I need to pour it directly into the input for it to fill?

[misty imp]

yayyyy finally going to get to service my car next weekend

Also I'm going to have an aneurysm, listing says free shipping:

go into it and you see that it has 50 GBP shipping

[charred depot]

You dont live on mainland UK though do you.

[jagged wagon]

It does have free shipping... if your address is a location they provide free shipping to. 😉

[misty imp]

nope i live in the isle of man

functionally the same as the UK shipping wise

[charred depot]

ehh

[misty imp]

They treat us like guernsey

[misty imp]

covered by royal mail :p

[charred depot]

even up here some bits of scottish highlands are excluded.

[misty imp]

no extra charge

it's either I get that whole ass hub or get the bearings itself and magically have a press to get the bearings off

it's pissing me off

[jagged wagon]

Evidently not for this seller. If you put an Isle of Man postal code, it says they ship via FedEx.

[misty imp]

it's been making a hmmmmMMMmMMMM noise for like a year now

[misty imp]

F

We also are covered by fedex

they have a partner here that does the delivery for them

it's all through the boat not anyways no more air freight so fedex and stuff is useless for next day postage

[charred depot]

Yeah its covered you just have to pay the fee heh

[misty imp]

https://tenor.com/view/fell-gif-11242683397767497522

I love challenging motorcycle drivers on windy roads

Some biker's been tail gating me for like a mile and half, had enough and legged it

tried to over take like 3 times too got stopped because there was another car coming

Windy road in question:

[misty imp]

Oh hell yeah @charred depot @jagged wagon found one cheaper with bearings on them

[charred depot]

I mean the bearings probably going to be shit then

[misty imp]

honestly

better than hearing the HHHHHHHHHHHHHHM mmmMMMmmMMM going everytime i drive

[charred depot]

It'll be back to haunt you in no time : )

[misty imp]

I'm already asking my girlfriend's dad if I can use his stuff

I mean I got basic tools

but ramp and whatever

nada

[charred depot]

you could do it with a spare tyre jack.

[misty imp]

man restored a whole as vintage Triumph by himself a while while back

[misty imp]

I'm doing an oil change as well

[charred depot]

cars not that low just reach under

[misty imp]

Also I'm not going to try my luck with the scissor jack my car comes with

mine's quite low

since it's a hatch back

Suv like my parents I'd probs raw dog but mine? nah no way i'm fitting in that

[charred depot]

Modern mazda 2 sport I had didnt need to jack that up either, never had to for any car.

[misty imp]

I've got a massive fat ass

it ain't happening

[jagged wagon]

Ah, yes - that noise. Hearing things like that or the Yip-yip-yip-Yip-yip-yip-Yip-yip-yip noise when a door opens is so annoying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8fJPvXyfc0

[misty imp]

look how small the gap is underneath

[charred depot]

plenty of room

[misty imp]

it's fine now though my gf's dad letting me use his ramp

as for the wheel bearings, I can do that one evening

with the scissor jacks

@charred depot you live in the UK right?

ever used mannol brand?

[charred depot]

Yes, Scotland.

[misty imp]

I've just bought a 5L bottle

friend recommended it to me

they any good?

[charred depot]

Mannol is cheap shit but most of my stuff is clattery old diesels that really dont give a fuck

[misty imp]

ah

Fair enough

pretty sure you can run chip oil on those and it won't complain anyway

[charred depot]

I've used it, it being changed often is more important than what you are putting in for normie shit.

[misty imp]

I've only changed the oil like twice over the past 3 years

it has done almost 50k miles in that time 🙂

[charred depot]

Ive run my cars on veg oil and waste engine oil but dont do it too often. More hassle than its worth.

[misty imp]

it's also constantly getting abused by me

[charred depot]

Theres a hyundai in my family that is similar, ofcourse consequences will come eventually.

[misty imp]

I'm happy I didn't get a Fiat 500

I wanted one when I passed

[charred depot]

And the consquences are sudden

[misty imp]

but got talked into getting a micra since it's better

[misty imp]

we'll see

[charred depot]

My daily driver still has the engine oil from the car it was previously installed in a couple years ago

Engines coming back out soon though was temporary, dont like the 1.8TD's

[civic spoke]

That's a sick shot.

Suspension is doing what it's supposed to do.

[charred depot]

Im modifying Nissan S13 coilovers to fit the rear of my saloon.

[misty imp]

near car

neat*

I'm an active french car hater but the 90s rally french cars are sick

[charred depot]

I get to drive alot of old shite and even as rough as the french stuff gets they always drive great.

[misty imp]

most of the shit that's broken off my car was from renault

Side mirrors? renault

straight out of the fucking clio that thing

[charred depot]

Nearly all of the suspension on that car is the 40 year old original parts, and it still drives impeccably.

[misty imp]

Wiper links?

surprise to surprise it's fucking renault

[charred depot]

Eh Moderns.

[misty imp]

pretty sure the brakes are also from clio

[charred depot]

I dont gravitate to renaults much though.

[misty imp]

the only thing that isn't is the engine

yep the micra and the clio dont' share the same engine atleast on petrol

they do though on diesel

[charred depot]

Post 2000 nissans are just dreadful, arguably the biggest fall from grace that happened in that time period.

Most manufacturers went downhill but man

[misty imp]

they're okay honestly

but I admit, some parts have been

really shit

post 2014 nissan is the worst though

they started using renault more for their parts and it shows

[charred depot]

nissans height of achievement post 2000

[misty imp]

those cars are over hated i swear to god

[charred depot]

under hated, its not enough

[pure pond]

i got a nissan qashqai i hate working on that thing

[misty imp]

nah they're solid little cars

Juke RS is fucking hilarious

[charred depot]

Nissan NV200 vans are some of the worst ever created.

[misty imp]

they're mostly rebadged renault 🙂

[charred depot]

They still stuck their badge on it

[pure pond]

everything is designed by different people and put together. last time i had to remove the gaspedel to change cab filter because it wasnt blowing air anymore

[misty imp]

Same way I wouldn't call this a merc either

it's a fucking Saxo pretending to be a merc

[charred depot]

Not really

[misty mantle]

Don't these all suck mechanically?

[misty imp]

looks and internally? yes

as with any german cars it's one of those you have to maintain constantly, miss one and shit starts breaking

[charred depot]

Everything nissan produced post 2000 was getting munted, merc was still making somewhat ok stuff for a bit.

[misty mantle]

Part of the reason I love old American stuff, it don't give a shit

[misty imp]

most old cars don't

[pure pond]

nah my vw transporter with 480k is stil great and wasnt even maintained the best

[misty imp]

i mean doesn't that thing have a 1.9tdi?

[pure pond]

yeah but still

[white heart]

Cause I don't want everything in the car to fail and cost me a shit ton to fix

[charred depot]

that is a deluded perspective.

[misty imp]

those 1.9 tdi can literally run on used fastfood oil

I know someone that does run it on chip oil

[pure pond]

every diesel can

[charred depot]

reasonably decent mileage cars will be better condition driving wise than ones that have never moved.

[misty imp]

it's fucking hilarious since you can smell the car as it is coming

[white heart]

Most 205 were driven by fucking maniacs, half of them are ready to fall off at any given moment, If I get one I want it to drive decently lol

[charred depot]

as soon as you start putting miles on low mileage classic cars everything will start crumbling.

[misty imp]

reasonably well maintained high mileage car is okay tbh

[white heart]

Oh I didn't mean mileage as in never driven

[misty imp]

specially if the owner replaced stuff with guaranteed expiration date on them like rubber bushings etc etc

[white heart]

I just want it to be around 100k km

[charred depot]

Yeah but if you get a low mileage one you will get it with dried out grease in the rear arm bearings. You want it to be thrashed so it has been replaced and has a new axle.

stuff like that

You want the bushings to have totally disintegrated

[misty mantle]

(Though technically my truck is only like 70% American, it's got a engine that was intended for Germany and Continental Europe and it's got a fucking mitsubishi transmission for some reason)

[misty imp]

mitsubishi does have a pretty good industrial car parts

last place I worked for had a fleet of them

solid great pick up trucks

My dad used to drive the l200 as well

[civic spoke]

I'm pretty happy with my Eibach/Bilstein combo that I have running in my BMW. Eibach springs, Bilstein shocks.

[misty mantle]

The one that this truck left the factory with grenaded back in January

[charred depot]

Problem is I just cant get shit, any "new" shocks I can get are NOS garbage cheap brands.

[misty imp]

transmission goes boom

[charred depot]

Have to make something else fit

[civic spoke]

Yeah, I can get that. Which sucks.

[misty imp]

also lads, if I don't get this wheel hub, any techniques / cheap tools that would get the bearing out?

[charred depot]

MAP gas and big fucking hammer

[misty mantle]

And it's more expensive to rebuild these ones

the FM145

[civic spoke]

And it's like. An old "Grandma" model, so nothing performance wise is available either.

[charred depot]

I cant even get original springs

[civic spoke]

Not even OEM equivilant ones?

[charred depot]

Nope

cant get bushings

[civic spoke]

Damn. Let me check on my end, to see what they sell here for 'em.

[charred depot]

You can find estate springs but saloon stuff is a nightmare

[civic spoke]

What year/model Peugeot is it?

[charred depot]

305 1987 Saloon

[misty imp]

dad also had one of these back in the 90s

very fucking based

[charred depot]

Top mounts I have to get from the peugeot museum in france for like £150 a side. Already had to replace one as disintegrated.

[white heart]

That would be true if people actually wanted to fix them

[charred depot]

Well you will know if you test drive it.

Low mileage cars will drive great for a month.

[white heart]

Getting a 205 in my state is pretty much choosing between garage kept or absolutely trashed

[misty imp]

if it's driven in france it's probs ragged

[misty mantle]

Mmmm, crunchy

[charred depot]

No those are the good ones

[white heart]

Id normally be mad but can't even lie it's true

[misty imp]

Same reason you don't buy GTIs

[white heart]

Gtis can't even be found no more

[misty imp]

most of them have been ragged their whole live and a few thousand miles away from becoming a bomb

[white heart]

They are either crashed and trashed or kept in a garage

[charred depot]

205's really arent that complicated anyway. A full suspension overhaul will cost very little.

[misty imp]

there's a shit ton of old 2000s GTIs here

not the OG 90s box GTI though

they're rare

[civic spoke]

Managed to find a single rear spring for the 305.

Out of stock, too.

[charred depot]

yeah

[white heart]

Unless you have zero mechanical skills and need to get it done by a garage

[white heart]

Lucky

[charred depot]

A monkey could swap out a rear axle on a 205

Dont buy a 205 GTi though, save your money and get a DTurbo they got the GTi suspension setup and cost way less as "stinky diesel"

although with a few screws adjusted it will be quicker than a GTi

[white heart]

Ehhh

[misty imp]

Same reason you don't buy a used Fiesta / focus ST @white heart

most people who drive them have ragged the ever living shit out of them

is there even a focus ST?

[charred depot]

yes.

[misty imp]

horrible cars

[charred depot]

You would be suprised how many very old people drive ST's on the UK mainland.

[misty imp]

Most people that drives them are fucking idiots too

Atleast over here in Isle of Man

[white heart]

Ye

[pure pond]

also have the focus rs

[white heart]

Imma go sleep

[misty imp]

think they're hot shit with 120 BHP car that has the structural integrity of a chocolate bar

[charred depot]

Back in the day they would be ghia's as top spec n all that. Now ofcourse the ST is the high spec model so they buy that to trundle along at 20mph.

[civic spoke]

[misty imp]

Focus RS are rarer tbh

[white heart]

What kind of monkey wre talking about

[misty imp]

and more expensive

[misty mantle]

You rarely even say base Focus/Fiestas here in the states anymore

[civic spoke]

What's an intelligent rear-wheel drive system?

[misty imp]

IIRC they're not being produced anymore atleast for the states

[pure pond]

i see a lot around here

[misty imp]

Focus RS I can respect abit

[charred depot]

6 nuts, unscrew brake line, disconnect handbrake cables tada drops out the bottom in one simple piece.

[misty imp]

but ST and belove and F*estas?

fuck no

[charred depot]

quickest suspension overhaul ever, refurbed units widely available.

[misty imp]

gargle tune and a fart can seems to be the NPC mod on them

[white heart]

Sound simple enough

[misty imp]

engine sounds like absolute dogshit

[white heart]

Might be worth a try, not sure I'd get a 205 as a first car tho

Anyway good night chat

[charred depot]

best first car, just get a standard trim.

[civic spoke]

Standard trim with most cars is the way to go, many times.

[misty mantle]

Yeah, ford quit doing small cars for NA years ago now

[misty imp]

not like the americans are interested in small cars anyways

most of them want a sedan or a pickup

[white heart]

I mean for a first I was thinking of something a bit more reliable like a Corolla

[misty imp]

I might go suzuki on my next car tbh

[white heart]

But ye I really need to sleep

Gn

[misty imp]

I love these things

[pure pond]

yeah suzuki

[misty imp]

that or this

[civic spoke]

Any 'shitbox' is a great first car.

[misty imp]

I have driven a nissan shitbox for like 3 years now

time to move on

[pure pond]

i only now the older suzuki's dont know if the new ones are good

[misty imp]

that or repair the issues w it

[civic spoke]

I started with my E46. And I'm a bit spoiled, tbh

Just missing bluetooth audio.

[misty imp]

new front suspensions needed, boot cover needs looking at as well

that you on the vid?

[charred depot]

my friend

[misty imp]

sound like a real scottish geezer

Fucking based

[civic spoke]

Have had my E46 for 9 years now. Great buy.

[misty mantle]

Yeah, that is true. Us Americans do like our trucks

[civic spoke]

Bought for 50,000 SEK with 70,000 km's on it.

[misty imp]

is that a 1st gen Jimny btw @charred depot

[charred depot]

Samurai

[misty imp]

Huh neat

please tell me you actually restored that bad boy

[charred depot]

No I sold it on behalf of my friend to some english farmer.

[pure pond]

Best offroaders

[misty imp]

snorkel on that bad boy

[charred depot]

There's no green lanes in Scotland so owning an offroader is a bit beh

[misty mantle]

I like how the snorkel fades into the fender flare

[pure pond]

it looks nice but how its made is terrible there is around 7cm of bondo on the thickest point 🤣

[charred depot]

I wish we had green lanes here like there is in England, paying to get stuck in mud isnt too appealing.

[rugged lynx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmymcg9Ta8

[wide hemlock]

car

[wispy cloak]

Are sedans not small

Well

Let me rephrase

Can sedans not be small?

[civic spoke]

7 series being a massive sedan.

[wispy cloak]

They can be large

[civic spoke]

But man. Small sedans, or cars in general is nice.

[wispy cloak]

That's why I rephrased

I thought of crown vics

[civic spoke]

Sucks that safety required a minimum size to be however safe they want it. More or less.

And passengers are often to suffer first.

[wispy cloak]

I daily polar opposite vehicles

[civic spoke]

My daily is my E46. And for work I have a Mercedes Arocs.

[wispy cloak]

I daily a b5 a4

And an f350

[civic spoke]

You sunk my battleship.

[wispy cloak]

I'm still sad that b5 s4 guy decided not to sell his car

I will be forever

[civic spoke]

F

[civic spoke]

The S line of Audi's are nice.

Especially of that generation.

[wispy cloak]

As soon as I sell the f350 I think I'm going to get a b8.5 s4

A prestige if I have the funds

[misty imp]

The OG civic was a sedan, that's a small example

actually no

I'm tripping

Sedans acc suck for space

you can't haul as much with them as you would with a hatchback

[past flicker]

Has anyone ever dyno'd here? Do people measure the kw in different ways?

[misty imp]

not personally but know someone

there's two, one is crank and one is wheel iirc

Crank is calculated just for the engine, and wheel is what the whole car is outputting

[flint sable]

why

[misty imp]

Yayyyy

purchased a wheelhub with abs ring and bearing pre installed

free shipping

also bought 30mm socket

https://tenor.com/view/yippee-happy-yippee-creature-yippee-meme-yippee-gif-gif-1489386840712152603

[wispy cloak]

If you want to haul stuff why not just get a wagon or truck

[misty imp]

they're usually bought for style 🙂

[wispy cloak]

I just buy sedans and trucks

Haven't owned a wagon to date

[hollow pasture]

Still got that monster truck fitment but we will fix that

[misty imp]

I've only owned a hatch back to date

I'd probs get an SUV but most of them are so fucking boring to drive

[wispy cloak]

My problem with newer hatchbacks is that trunk space seems very minimal

Especially when the rear seats are up

[misty imp]

I mean that's their whole thing

they usually have shorter wheel base

[hollow pasture]

That's why my hatch is from the 80s

[stoic ledge]

Cleaned my hatchback today

[violet meteor]

this coolant tank has been used for a few hours and its like this?

whats wrong with my car

is my radiator clogged

[outer torrent]

Idk how I didnt see this coming