cars

[trim nacelle]

Bruh when they break and get treated like crap yes

Find a WELL TREATED VW

It'll be nice back

No end to the problems on my E36 until I sold it

I neglected that thing and it came back to bite me hard

[remote salmon]

Nope it’s basically the same maintenance as BMW but a bit cheaper

[balmy egret]

That's fine tbh

I guess I'd be learning about my car more at that point

[remote salmon]

Just change your oil more often than the manual tells you to and then the regular service intervals

And if something breaks take it to a German car mechanic

Your normal mechanic will destroy it like they did my X5

[balmy egret]

Yikes okay

[trim nacelle]

https://youtube.com/shorts/1U6eL9LK1xI?si=3F4133P-w2gypUX5

[pearl pollen]

https://youtu.be/Nw02-o04Qho?si=nzW7Bc_Wp4VB1Sjj

I am actually astounded at the horsepower

Like what

Take a guess before opening the video

[rain crater]

three bajillion

[pearl pollen]

Close

[balmy egret]

Isn't it like ~1000 hp?

Somebody made GM angry fs

[pearl pollen]

[gloomy valve]

https://youtu.be/_qynOc4bbXA

[gloomy valve]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/426362831810854912/1266860467297718345/190f5efba5b45-screenshotUrl.jpg?ex=66a6af40&is=66a55dc0&hm=09e5b079ce81e89a24065d75fe84f3a1d79a53bb09af9b9ba67d8594ef084b8e&

[balmy egret]

@trim nacelle If you were to tell somebody to get a Mk7 GTI, what's the highest mileage you'd tell them to get?

[trim nacelle]

The lowest they can find with a good inspection report

[balmy egret]

Gotcha. Makes sense

[trim nacelle]

I mean, what else would you expect

Lower mileage = less operational cycles = longer mechanical life

[balmy egret]

Yeah but I was wondering if it was something like "the car takes a dump at X amount of miles" (like my Focus)

[trim nacelle]

Oh

@balmy egret sorry back

Well typical things I said to look for are electrics

I haven't done a huge amount of study on these cars but for a gti I'd look at several things in particular

The quality of the dsg

Does it feel normal?

The tires

Brakes

At 80-100K belts

Nothing else really comes to mind atm

If the car was abused though then any number of things

If I'm not mistaken, inside the compression chamber you can get a lot of build up around the edges due to mistreatment of the engine

[balmy egret]

Would this be in kilometers or miles?

[trim nacelle]

The solution is to lift the engine and mill out the gunk and metallic parts

It's fixable but NOT cheap

They have to take the top off the compression chamber

[balmy egret]

yikes okay

[trim nacelle]

So yeah, the better and gentler it looks like it's been treated, it gets exponentially better

That doesn't mean you can't thrash it, but you gotta treat it well for the treatment you give

[trim nacelle]

Kilometers sorry

So somewhere about like, 60-70K miles

[balmy egret]

I mean yeah. These are German cars. They're gonna want to be driven hard

[trim nacelle]

But this applies to belt not chain driven

As I said, don't know a whole lot about the 4 cylinder, I just don't treat mine like trash

[balmy egret]

My alternative is a Volvo S60 lol. Just hoping I don't have to result to that

[trim nacelle]

Depends on the year

Some of those turn FOREVER

[balmy egret]

Thinking about facelifted second gen at the oldest

The seats fold down, so that would be great for when I go mountain biking (at least until I get a tow hitch setup for it lol)

A Mk3 would be nice though. They look good if you asked me

[trim nacelle]

If I'm not mistaken those are extremely nice inside

[balmy egret]

I know barely anything about them tbh. I just saw that they're a thing and I'm like "yo I feel like I'd look good stepping out of that"

Wait wtf I just noticed (in that photo at least) that the gas cap is on the front driver side

[trim nacelle]

European car so yeah

[balmy egret]

That's weird imo lol

[trim nacelle]

Oh wait

[balmy egret]

But whatever it still looks good imo

[trim nacelle]

No it's on the other side the hell

Hol up

Why is it on the left hand side

💀

[balmy egret]

lmaoooo fr

[trim nacelle]

It should be right hand side

Not talking about front or back

[balmy egret]

just why is it on the front at all? 💀

[trim nacelle]

Front is whatever

Volvo is weird

But the swedish aren't so weird to do it on the left side

[balmy egret]

rear passenger side here, as it should be

[trim nacelle]

You know what it might be

British license plate

🗿

[balmy egret]

Euro spec moment

[trim nacelle]

Wth my car appreciated in value again

[balmy egret]

bro this is what I'm ultimately wanting

but of course America says that we don't need wagons and instead need SUVs

[trim nacelle]

I like wagons but ima be honest, the way that back end converges makes me feel like it's a fold from a paper airplane

@balmy egret

B I C C

[balmy egret]

I see wym

I like wagons but hatches are good enough for me

I’m watching my stepfather fill his tank. I’m in his truck rn and I just see his "mi to E" go up all the way to 453 miles (729 km). It's a diesel 6.7L V8 and it's currently doing 14.5 mpg lol

Nuts that diesels can do that

[trim nacelle]

Lots of low range torque

Before dieselgate was a thing and diesel was cheap, the whole premise made a ton of ethical and environmental sense

Dieselgate killed a whole future for a technology

[balmy egret]

Man and I would've gotten a diesel Golf too tbh. It would make sense for my situation

[halcyon swallow]

Post car

[timid moth]

https://youtu.be/o5UqKcTiyH0?si=Ag7p3ONSpI5vSegH

that sound...

[gloomy valve]

Its good for 2012 ig

Better than what polyphony at that time could do thats for sure

[balmy egret]

Didn’t know they added the Mk7 GTI to GT7 so I bought it immediately after seeing it was available in Brand Central lol

[south yew]

Whatever happened with your Focus??

[balmy egret]

I'll DM you the long version in a second. But basically, still not diagnosed but it's at least back in my home town (with me as well)

Car is in the shop at a mechanic we trust

[south yew]

Good mechanics are hard to find, sadly.

[faint wadi]

I'm pretty lucky to have an honest one just a block away

They're the ones that replaced most of my cooling system on my Impala for under 2k

[mighty gulch]

Damn

Didn't know Tame Impala needed cooling

[oblique portal]

Dashcam recommendations?

[quick eagle]

TBF diesels were never actually environment friendly

Dieselgate just revealed how shockingly bad they were at the time

[trim nacelle]

No they are

[quick eagle]

And all the gizmos needed to make them pass regs make them break down all the time (oft catastrophically)

[trim nacelle]

Dieselgate revealed that VW was lying

[south yew]

There was another manu as well

Ford?

Dodge? Much more recently

[quick eagle]

I hope you're chill with having your diesel constantly sit at the mechanic because it broke again

[trim nacelle]

Diesel is in fact quite economical for fuel thus can be better due to low rev range torque

[quick eagle]

Cheap
Reliable
Economically friendly

You have have 2 with a diesel

[trim nacelle]

There's a whole industry that relies on diesel

It's called logistics

It's the most efficient for the type of work it is needed for

But dieselgate ruined the notion of diesel as a whole

Cos VW were falsifying their numbers with manipulative engineering

[quick eagle]

Even before dieselgate
Diesel cars only really took off in Europe because of heavy subsidies

[trim nacelle]

It's all 3

[quick eagle]

Except they aren't?

[trim nacelle]

It is

[quick eagle]

Like you can have all the fancy stuff that make a diesel pass emissions

[trim nacelle]

A diesel engine has far more torque at low bands than a petrol one

[quick eagle]

But you WILL have a maintenance nightmare

[south yew]

I mean my Diesel truck gets 32+ MPG, very econimical half ton full size truck

[quick eagle]

It's an older one I assume?

[trim nacelle]

And very reliably built in good examples

[south yew]

2021

I also sell semi trucks for a living

[quick eagle]

Yeah you'll need a very friendly mechanic

[trim nacelle]

There's a whole reason Australia refuses to let toyota stop selling the Land cruiser

[south yew]

Nah

[trim nacelle]

Specifically the v8

It's just unbeatable for one's needs here

[south yew]

There's a lot of smack talk about modern emissions systems but most are pretty reliable now

[quick eagle]

Again

[trim nacelle]

They will pay 200K+ for a v8 LC

[south yew]

Older ones, not so much

[trim nacelle]

More for a diesel

[quick eagle]

Economical =/= environment friendly

[trim nacelle]

That's not correct at all

[south yew]

The exhaust coming out of a modern diesel with proper emissions systems is extremely clean

[quick eagle]

I don't argue they're not economical

[trim nacelle]

Less fuel used = more environmentally friendly in a relative sense

[south yew]

Like, the trucks come to us with 3000 miles on them and the exhaust stack is still shiny metal

Better than cars :/

[trim nacelle]

They were beating petrol cars back in their peak

For mileage

VW had a whole diesel.program with audi at the time in Le Mans about it

[quick eagle]

Then if they are so perfect

Why are they falling off even to this day

[trim nacelle]

They were going far longer on the same tank of fuel cos it was diesel

[quick eagle]

Like dieselgate has been so long ago nobody cares anymore

[trim nacelle]

These were audi r10's

[south yew]

Because diesel is smelly and more expensive in the US

Your hands smell after refilling with a pump

[quick eagle]

Most of Europe (as far as I can tell) have had lower diesel costs than gas
And gas smells here too

[trim nacelle]

Because dieselgate ruined the prospect, and people became objectively adverse to it despite the benefits, suddenly in comes, hello, tesla?

Everyone moved on

[quick eagle]

Tesla is overrated NGL

I don't hate it, it's pretty cool

But it's not the car, perfected

[trim nacelle]

Diesel is really messy to deal with

[south yew]

Tesla is over rated but at the same time also the largest due to subsidies

[trim nacelle]

It's smelly, it sticks all over the pumps

[quick eagle]

BEVs in general kinda feel like a scam to me

[south yew]

I don't mind diesel but I also kinda live with it every day lol

[trim nacelle]

It gets on your hands

[quick eagle]

PHEVs are really amazing tho

[south yew]

BEV's are a stepping stone to hydrogen IMO, which is the way we should go

[trim nacelle]

Diesel is really grotty compared to petrol

[south yew]

But scarce resource with no infrastructure

I also sell electric equipment

It's impressive but also a bit impractical currently

[trim nacelle]

Ya

That's my main issue with all electric rn

It's just not long term thinking

[quick eagle]

I really, really wish Nissan didn't go full cringe and make the GT-R name dead on arrival by making it a BEV

[trim nacelle]

It's great for small deployment

Like say, a city car

[quick eagle]

But they did so
Godzilla is gone

[trim nacelle]

A facility that needs light power like a small office

[south yew]

Ford did the same with the Mustang

[trim nacelle]

Maybe for something like a pool

[south yew]

BEV SUV

[trim nacelle]

Home power

Like fantastic

But those who say it can replace everything are crazy

[south yew]

Power grid cannot sustain full electric

[trim nacelle]

You'd have truck drivers pulling over every 4 hours for half a day recharging

Cars filling ev queues and paying more per refill than fuel

The grid having to be several magnitudes more dense

[south yew]

Kenworth Toyota Hydrogen semi is impressive

[trim nacelle]

I love the idea, I hate the lipstick on it

[trim nacelle]

Hydrogen cells are a fantastic idea imo

[south yew]

The power requirements to charge the packs on semi's are ridiculous

You need industrial power, 480VAC 3 phase 100 amps or more for a decent charge time

Even our sweeper at that rate takes 2 hours to charge

[trim nacelle]

Absolutely insane

[south yew]

They are but hydrogen is the problem. It's expensive to make currently, best way now is to crack water

[trim nacelle]

Yes

[south yew]

Which takes massive electricity

So round and round we go

[trim nacelle]

They've mostly fixed the hydrogen storage issue though

Thank god

[south yew]

carbon fiber tanks

[trim nacelle]

Hydrogen ice's could've been great

[south yew]

what do you mean could've

They're coming on strong right now

at least in the heavy vehicle segment

Cummins is making one, others are following

[trim nacelle]

Taken them only 20 years

Zero emissions tho

[south yew]

Hydrogen storage was the issue along with efficiency

[trim nacelle]

Yes

But make it widespread, and everyone switches

[south yew]

Modern DI tech is making it possible

[trim nacelle]

The interesting thing about this is it may add a lot of benefit to other industries too

Hydrogen powered rather than electric

Less strain on the grid for heavy industry

[south yew]

but more strain to create hydrogen

That's the next hurdle

[trim nacelle]

Ye

[south yew]

Water is also becoming a precious resource with all the droughts etc. Lots of pushback for cracking it for fuel

[trim nacelle]

Well as long as governments don't turn this into fanfare it's fine

[south yew]

Can use seawater but then you get contaminants in it

[trim nacelle]

Absurd to me as we had so many desalination plants shut down and the planet is 70% water surface

[south yew]

Now we recycle our waste for water in most cities.

[trim nacelle]

So what do we use? Wood? Oh no deforesting

💀💀

Like

You gotta pick something

[south yew]

Osmosis desalination with nuclear for electricity for cracking. Unpopular tho

[trim nacelle]

Yeah cos people are afraid after chernobyl

Funny that

Like dieselgate

[south yew]

Fusion is coming along quite quickly as well

[trim nacelle]

We could go on and on honestly

People just don't have the capacity to understand you will never have a perfect choice

[south yew]

No, you wil not

[trim nacelle]

Water however is probably going to be the closest we'll ever get

We need water to survive, so it's perfectly symbiotic to our needs

[south yew]

REcently a tokamak reactor created more power than it took to start the reaction. Big progress there

60 second run time I think?

[trim nacelle]

That's fascinating

Genuinely wonder what the long term effects could be out of that though

Is fusion always safe 💀

[south yew]

Pretty much. Reaction creates plasma and dueterium

Good for making warp drive material 😂

Converts tritium to deuterium

[trim nacelle]

Why is my vision all fuzzy

[faint wadi]

All we need for that is a superconductor that works at reasonable temperatures, instead of needing to be near absolute zero.

[south yew]

Ya, that's another limitation for reactor time

Ai is working on room temp superconductors tho, shouldn't be long now

[flat zephyr]

i want a gen 2 ford fusion sport and want to mod it like this ngl

[mighty gulch]

yeah it was in korea iirc, they broke their own record of 18 seconds

[timid moth]

looks nice af

ngl

[flat zephyr]

ik i thought so too, ive seen tons of mods where they slam and stance them to crap but i just want something clean thats also practical

[timid moth]

^^^^

[amber rock]

Inneed someone's help

My partner and I are on a road trip, and randomly when we would stop breaking, the car would stall and roll backwards (it's not a manual)

It would only stall for a second and then we'd get control back and gas would work

I think it was because we were in very slow moving traffic and basically idling for too long

Volvo xc70 2012

@timid moth

[timid moth]

Not too knowledgeable on cars so imma hand it to these four to help you out @trim nacelle @balmy egret @south yew @silent meteor

[amber rock]

Ty

[timid moth]

Np

[amber rock]

I just pinged the first person I saw lmao

[timid moth]

Lmfao

Hope you'll get that issue fixed

[trim nacelle]

That's a weird one

My first thought was fuses

But maybe something else like transmission

[balmy egret]

Maybe check for corrosion on the battery terminals. More corrosion = less contact with the battery

[trim nacelle]

Yeah that's a good one

[balmy egret]

The engine is reliant on the battery in cars, so I'd kind of imagine that

[trim nacelle]

It kinda sounds power related

[amber rock]

It only happens when I stop breaking though, which makes me think it's something else

[trim nacelle]

Does the whole car switch off or just the engine

[amber rock]

It just won't gas, the car stays on

[trim nacelle]

Won't be battery then, maybe a short

[amber rock]

I'll take my foot off the break and hit the gas, it rolls back for a sec then jolts forwards

[trim nacelle]

It's not done this before right

[amber rock]

And its not every time, now that we're not in bumper to bumper traffic it's stopped

Nope

And were driving from jersey to CT, which is a 5 hr drive with 2hrs left

[amber rock]

Anyways ty, I'll ping you if it happens again

[trim nacelle]

Did you have the AC on a lot

[balmy egret]

I’m reading the fuel delivery is a common issue on that year/model

[amber rock]

Yes

[trim nacelle]

Hmm yeah

Fuel pump could go

[amber rock]

Would it be worse if the tank was over full?

[balmy egret]

Doubt it

[trim nacelle]

I'm still wondering if it's maybe the clutch or in a rare case the flywheel is slipping

[balmy egret]

Doubt it because I would've had that issue with my car by now lolll

[amber rock]

Flywheel?

I really don't know much abt cars

[trim nacelle]

I'm not really a mechanic per se so I'm probably not the best to ask for this lol

I know a lot about how a car works, worked on one? No

[balmy egret]

The clutch (on the transmission) engages into the engine's flywheel to make the car move. The clutch disengages to shift gears or when you come to a stop

[amber rock]

I can change my oil if I have to and my spark plugs

[amber rock]

The flywheel would make sense timing wise

But would it be a consistent issue?

[balmy egret]

It would probably be the clutch more than it would be the flywheel (at least I'd imagine)

[trim nacelle]

A lot of google is saying similar things but neither I or google are mechanics

[balmy egret]

Yeah I'd take it to someone you trust soon, when/if you can

[trim nacelle]

Maybe drop it into a mechanic for a quick stopover

Yeah

I would tell them what it sounds like

[trim nacelle]

mention this

[amber rock]

Yeah we're going to when we get home I wanted to make sure it was OK to keep going

My dads friend runs a shop so we'll bring it to him

[trim nacelle]

Idk how bad it seems

[amber rock]

It hasn't stalled in a hot minute

[trim nacelle]

But if it's fuel it could break down on the road

[amber rock]

Been at least an hour without issue, and it was consistently happening while we were in slow moving traffic and idling a lot

[trim nacelle]

Only slow moving traffic huh

[balmy egret]

Oh you know hold on

Clutch could be getting hot tbh

[amber rock]

Ye aside from that it hasn't happened

[balmy egret]

It's engaging and disengaging constantly

[amber rock]

That makes a lot of sense

[balmy egret]

(Idk for sure though. My car would be prone to this but it hasn't happened yet)

[amber rock]

No lights are on on the dashboard btw

[trim nacelle]

Does it have any difficulty turning on

[amber rock]

Nah

Alternator/ignition are both fine imo

[trim nacelle]

Have you tried turning all the interior stuff off in traffic

[amber rock]

I turned the ac off for a few minutes but it didn't make a difference, I was sweating too much to wait longer lol

Side note, new York and jersey drivers to not give a single F about cars with their hazards on

[trim nacelle]

Oooo ok

Air flow maybe

This seems a bit more plausible given it

it's specifically traffic

When you're on the highway, the car will intake a lot more

@amber rock does it feel rough when it's happening

Or just slipping and stalling

like the engine making a weird noise

[amber rock]

Uhh

No noise

When the gas would kick in there mightve been a noise?

Like a sudden jolt

[trim nacelle]

Maybe

Few answers here but a lot are pointing to the same common choices

[amber rock]

Gas consumption seems low honestly

[trim nacelle]

Also

[amber rock]

Not high

[trim nacelle]

You're using the correct fuel right

[amber rock]

Yeah

[trim nacelle]

Not mixing low grade or anything

[amber rock]

Only regular unleaded, I was worried they put the wrong gas in when we stopped in jersey (they pump for you) but they didn't

We checked the receipt to be sure, that was my first thought tho

[trim nacelle]

You're sure of this or it might be a coincidence?

[amber rock]

It seems really low but it could be. The car isn't mine, I've only driven it a handful of times

[trim nacelle]

What's your average

Does it have a readout

[amber rock]

Sadly no

[trim nacelle]

MMmmm hard to say then

Cos if it was REALLY low compared to the known average, and since you said it's quite warm

Would be sus of fuel pump

Esp. since motor says it's a common issue

[amber rock]

We gassed up like at least two and a half hours ago and were just now getting to 3/4 a tank

And it can't do better than 18mpg or so

[trim nacelle]

That doesn't sound unusual tbh

Had to think for a minute

[amber rock]

Oh nah it was four hours ago

I just checked the recipt

[trim nacelle]

That does sound low

Lol

Take it to a mechanic and have them check the fuel pump lol

[amber rock]

Alr

Ty

So fuel pump, oxygen sensors, clutch, and maybe fuel delivery?

Ofc pump goes with fuel delivery but you get it

[trim nacelle]

Fuel pump, oxygen sensors, EGR, clutch/transmission, spark plugs

[amber rock]

Ty

I can most likely rule the last one out

It went for an oil change a few weeks ago and they check the spark plugs at the same time

[trim nacelle]

Yeah I put the sparks at the end cos you never know

I'm not really thinking it is them

[silent meteor]

thats an interesting issue. I agree that it is likely a fuel pump issue. couldnt be flywheel because automatic cars dont have flywheels. but yeah id check all those things that Felix said to check.

[south yew]

Loose battery terminal is most likely the issue here

@amber rock

It could also be the fuel pumps

That Volvo has two fuel tanks

One transfer pump that moves fuel from one side to the other, and a secondary pump that gives it to the engine

What happens is that the transfer pump weakens or stops and the secondary pump starves for fuel. If no check engine light, could be either one

Or not, that's a different model

I was thinking of the XC90. That's the one with twin tanks. I'll stick with loose battery terminals.

[south yew]

Battery is in the rear under the floor cover. Common issue with these is a leaky rear door seal and the compartment getting water inside with corrossion.....definitely worth a look.

[amber rock]

We sat at a rest stop for 30min and left the car off. Afterwards the issue didn't arise again

I think Felix was right abt the clutch overheating but we're going to bring it in to the mechanic tmrw

[south yew]

It's a manual?

[amber rock]

Def going to have the fuel pump checked

Nah

[south yew]

Auto's don't have clutches, well they do, but your symptoms don't really describe a clutch issue

[amber rock]

Hm alright, I don't think it was battery related however

The only thing that would fail was the gas/engine, nothing else was turning off

[south yew]

You'd let off the brake and it would stall?

[amber rock]

Yeah, for about half a second to a second

I'd have my foot on the gas and we'd start rolling back and then jolt forwards

[south yew]

If it doesn't do it again I wouldn't worry too much. Having the fuel pressure checked isn't a bad idea and shouldn't be too expensive. That will reveal a fuel pump or delivery issue

[south yew]

Could also possibly be a small leak in the brake vacuum booster since it only happens when you let off the brake. Might be worth checking that also to make sure it holds vacuum.

[trim nacelle]

Learnt something new lol

I thought all cars had one

Well, ICE's

[silent meteor]

yeah, automatic cars have flexplates, kinda similar to a flywheel but different

[trim nacelle]

Teach me sensei

[mighty gulch]

Car go vroom

[trim nacelle]

I've always just assumed they all* had one and it had a direct impact on throttle response

[mighty gulch]

I don't even know what's happening

[trim nacelle]

Car thang

Car zoom

Car

Boom

💥

[silent meteor]

engines have tiny explosions in them

[south yew]

I mean, it is a fly wheel just with a different name

Technically the auto's have more effect on throttle response because of the torque converter bolted to it full of fluid

[trim nacelle]

So it's still a fly wheel

[south yew]

It serves the same purpose

[trim nacelle]

[south yew]

Connect engine power to transmission

Flywheels do it with a clutch, flexplate does it with the torque converter

[trim nacelle]

Does that change for different types of autos?

Sequential?

[south yew]

Depends on how it's shifted

F1 sequential is air shifted, clutch is just to get you moving

MOST of the sequential gearboxes on the market are auto clutch

IE, solenoid moves clutch when TCM says to

[balmy egret]

like DCTs

[south yew]

Yes and no

[balmy egret]

:0

[south yew]

Ford's DCT is just an auto shifting manual

[trim nacelle]

Ooo ok interesting

[south yew]

MOtors to shift gears and actuate clutch

[trim nacelle]

So it's case specific

[south yew]

It's a pile of dookie stay FAR FAR AWAY

[balmy egret]

Oh yeah I know 💀

Never getting another Ford tbh

[south yew]

There are good and bad of everything

[balmy egret]

Good trucks and SUVs. Bad hatchbacks and sedans. trucks and SUVs don't interest me so the only Ford I'd buy at this point is a Mustang lol

Still don't get how Ford can't make a working transmission

[south yew]

Sure, if you don't mind a transmission with "lifetime fluid" you can't even check that grenades itself every 100K or so

Mustang trans is French

[balmy egret]

Nevermind. No Mustang for me. Just learned that it's French

[south yew]

Dad had one, if he had been able to service it, it would have lasted

Stay away from VW/Audi 1.4 turbos or 2.0 turbos

they blow head gaskets like Subaru's

[balmy egret]

Not the Golf GTI 2L turbos, right?

bruh because I planned to get one as my next car

[south yew]

MK7?

[balmy egret]

Yes

[south yew]

Mmmmmmm

[balmy egret]

I've heard that they're much better than the Mk6 Golfs

[south yew]

I mean, kinda

same engine as the Audi A4

Watch this video on the 2017 Audi A4 2.0 and let me know if you want to work on it or pay someone else to work on it. Water pump is driven off a shaft on the back of the engine with a tiny belt, turbos prone to go bad, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m67F6CqfbfM

[balmy egret]

I mean it can't be THAT bad, right?

I mean I knew about the water pump issues. I haven't heard much about the turbo issues

[south yew]

If you get one, don't get one that's been tuned. Be prepared for the "Euro Tax" for repairs. They're neat little cars tho

handle well and good power

[remote salmon]

If you bring it to neutral right as it starts to die does it come back to life?

Oh nvm I thought it was a manual

[remote salmon]

Oh I’ve had some fun with those 2L turbos lmaooo

Friend bought a golf with 200k on the engine to immediately swap in a VR6 he had lying around, decided to blow the head gasket for fun

500shot of NOS is beautiful for a second

[balmy egret]

Oh yeah I’m well aware of the Euro Tax

[south yew]

I watch multiple repair channels on the tubes. One of them is an Audi dealer tech. The issues there are........not great.

[remote salmon]

Yeahh VW engines in general aren’t fun to repair

Maybe except the 1.9 TDI

I may be biased tho since I’ve stripped that engine down so many times

Only German I find so easy to fix is MB’s OM616 just because it never breaks

[south yew]

That engine is a legend

[remote salmon]

I regret selling my W123

Still don’t know exactly why I did

[gloomy valve]

I thought the 10 speed was pretty good

Unless you are talking about something else

[south yew]

I was referring to an older transmission. Early 10 speeds weren't great, later ones are better

Seems like the 22+ have a trans dipstick but you have to unscrew this stud and it's right next to the exhaust

[gloomy valve]

[south yew]

Dad's was a 2007? 2008?

Not serviceable, crapped out at 105K miles

He fixed it and sold it

[remote salmon]

I’ve yet to figure out why manufacturers don’t have a drain plug on all transmissions

Like first one that comes to mind is the newest Subaru Impreza with the 5 speed manual, obviously has a drain in it but it’s just been plugged up

[trim nacelle]

https://youtube.com/shorts/h8lBm0Mqupw

[gloomy valve]

Is that a short wheelbase moment

[mighty gulch]

LOL it's hilarious when they go out of their way to plug something that was designed into the hardware

[balmy egret]

Darn no Grand Prix this weekend :(

[balmy egret]

Bruh
https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/why-the-wrc-is-introducing-virtual-chicanes-in-finland/10640505/

[storm hemlock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEkOlvMCfo8&ab_channel=carwow

[trim nacelle]

I was actually cheering for the yaris

That was stupidly entertaining

[gloomy valve]

Isherightyouknow

[gloomy valve]

Well he did beat him towards the end

That is a sick yaris

[south yew]

A distributor cap in this condition is not conducive to making sparky spark. How this thing was even running is beyond me!!

[neon phoenix]

Physics finds a way

[south yew]

Blows my mind

Just a very slight miss at idle sometimes. 50 MPH on the water? No problem, sings like a bird

[flat zephyr]

You’re a smart pc person and a car person? I’m cooked

I need to find one thing to become super smart at

[faint wadi]

I'd say "google is your friend" but they've been getting much worse lately. Before all this "AI generated" BS you could pretty easily find enough info on just about any niche subject to carry a conversation.

[mighty gulch]

Are we talking about boats now

[south yew]

When I work on it, yes.

[balmy egret]

My gf sent me a photo of a pink Silvia S14. Idk whether I've won or if I should educate her a little more and say "these aren't dailyable"

don't know if she means she wants it as a project car lol

[balmy egret]

tbh it's rare that I watch a video that includes a Lamborghini and any other car and the Lambo wins

[storm hemlock]

but that lambo sounds sooooooo goood

[balmy egret]

it does fr

[storm hemlock]

v12

[storm hemlock]

this one looks sick

[balmy egret]

Bruh I just wish we had more wagon and hatchback options in the US

it's annoying. it's just all SUVs here

[storm hemlock]

rip

[balmy egret]

"wagons don't sell good in the US" because we're all idiots here 💀

"Bigger makes me better" bro

[storm hemlock]

shooting breaks also look good

but rare in US

[balmy egret]

never heard of a car called that lol

[storm hemlock]

lol

[balmy egret]

is that basically just a coupe shaped as a wagon?

[balmy egret]

want it

[storm hemlock]

cls 63 amg

[storm hemlock]

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/9lL7XpmG/2011-bmw-z4-roadster-sdrive35is

cool car under 30k

[balmy egret]

I don't have that kind of money. I have Golf GTI money

[storm hemlock]

20k ?

here gti cost 20-30k

[balmy egret]

They're like 15K at the low end here

Trying to see if I can get lucky with a decent one at a low price. If not, I'm probably just gonna get a Volvo S60. A Mk3 would be nice but Mk2 S60s don't seem so bad

They mostly come with multiple owners but they're all at a decent mileage. I haven't heard many bad things about the Mk2s and (maybe) the Mk3s

[storm hemlock]

focus st are popular in US

i think they are cheap

[remote salmon]

It’ll break on you so quickly, N54s are horrible engines for reliability and because it’s used previous owner probably already beat tf out of it

[storm hemlock]

yeah rip

[storm hemlock]

how much cost a new engine ?

[remote salmon]

No clue but off the top of my head I’m guessing about 8-10k for a low mileage one based off when I was looking for a new N55 for my X5

It’s a fine engine and easily makes power if you got the money for repairs

Oh and to fix a lot of the main things that go wrong like your turbos dying or gaskets going bad, you gotta drop the subframe to have access to them to replace them

[balmy egret]

True but I don't want another Ford tbh

[storm hemlock]

https://carsandbids.com/search?q=1m

1m are cool

but expensive

[balmy egret]

Bro is trying to sell me on BMWs lmao

Nah I want a BMW but I can't afford something like that yet

Both to buy and to maintain

[storm hemlock]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

get a cheap v12 mercedes

[balmy egret]

Heck no

Lmao

[storm hemlock]

leon also have same engine as golf

but rare in US

i think

[remote salmon]

You ain’t getting a SEAT in the US lmao

[storm hemlock]

yeap

[trim nacelle]

Spanish Golf

[mighty gulch]

Spolf

[gloomy valve]

I fw the cupra no kizzy

[hazy nova]

Any civic coupe owners about

[balmy egret]

@south yew I called the guy at the shop about my car. He said it's possibly the brake pressure sensor

I'm hoping that's what it is because I'd imagine that would be much cheaper than an ABS replacement

[halcyon swallow]

[balmy egret]

"License fee" implies that you have to pay to know how to drive, which also implies that if you don't know how to drive, you don't have to pay

[faint wadi]

It's more like you're renting your license plates

[balmy egret]

Practically, yes

[neon phoenix]

What is this

[balmy egret]

Probably some California stuff

[halcyon swallow]

Annual car registration

[neon phoenix]

💀

[gloomy valve]

Yearly cali tax

California hates cars

[faint wadi]

No, Cali hates GAS cars

You get all kinds of credits, rebates, discounts, etc if you have an electric.

You also need to get smog checks every few years (depending on how old the car is) which you don't need to do on electric

[mighty gulch]

"well electric has no emissions"

[trim nacelle]

Pfff

Until they dispose of the lithium batteries

☠️

[mighty gulch]

and how is the energy being made?

[trim nacelle]

Best make sure it's buried properly

[mighty gulch]

are you sure it's from a nuclear power plant?

[trim nacelle]

Man, electric could've been good

[mighty gulch]

how many cars can a plant power lmao

[trim nacelle]

Why'd they have to ruin it with this green dialogue

[mighty gulch]

in ideal conditions

a 1000MW power plant can charge 6667 cars

apparently

[trim nacelle]

Yeah but what about the houses they're attached to

[mighty gulch]

i was assuming it'd just be directly from the plant to the charging stations LOL

imagine that

an entire power plant doing nothing but charge electric cars

[trim nacelle]

So 6.7K cars

[mighty gulch]

yep

[trim nacelle]

I think whereever you got that number from seems a bit off *(Wasn't)

💀

Wait no I'm stupid

No it's not

Wow I'm all mixed up

LOL

Each car is half a house

10 vs 21

So it's 13000 homes roughly

Ok so we assume the grid in either of our countries are maxed out

You'd need half as much power generation again for every household *having an EV to comfortably handle the load on the grid

And that's ignoring all the lithium overhead, entry prices and allat

[mighty gulch]

turns out electric cars suck back a lot of battery

[faint wadi]

In all fairness it is more efficient for a power plant to make the power than it is for your engine to make it on demand, assuming your utility company uses renewables in at least some of their power production

[mighty gulch]

this is fair

[remote salmon]

Still find it insane that a cybertruck costs $75 to charge for 1.5 hours at a supercharger and only gets 275 miles range

[faint wadi]

That's an exception thankfully

Just a poorly designed vehicle overall

[remote salmon]

Yeah it’s only teslas that are like that

I actually enjoyed my KIA EV6 rental

Charge took 20 minutes, cost maybe $25ish at the DC fast chargers and could get 400 miles out of it

And it handled really well for an EV

Only thing is it looked ugly af

[mighty gulch]

nah bro you can add an extra battery on top of your enormous battery to double the range

(i really doubt it's going to give a substantial boost)

it fits in the stupid tunnel bed

[faint wadi]

Technically yes but then there's additional weight to push so it's less efficient. EVs are a balancing act.

[mighty gulch]

i mean, when the cybertruck is a 3000kg piece of metal

for the base model

what's like 10 more kilos

people aren't gonna be using the cybertruck to do truck things anyway

[faint wadi]

Only 10 kilos? That wouldn't be enough battery to make any difference at all

[mighty gulch]

well idk how much the battery boost thing is

it's not even out yet lol

well last i looked

it's not real yet

I assume it must be under 100kg if it's supposed to be attached by the consumer

[faint wadi]

The original cybertruck battery is 721kg

[mighty gulch]

oh holy god

the battery pack is real in fact

and it weighs like 273kg

because it's not supposed to be user replaceable or removeable

[faint wadi]

Oh cool so it probably extends range like 25%

[mighty gulch]

I musta forgot we were talking about tesla lol

120 miles extra range from advertisements

[faint wadi]

Let's not forget if you ever go through a car wash or heavy rain your warranty is void

[mighty gulch]

or if you charge anything in your cybertruck while it's stationary

god forbid

[remote salmon]

More battery is also more charge time too tho even tho you get like an extra 75 miles

[faint wadi]

Wasn't the original marketing for the truck also claiming 400 miles of range when it's actually more like 250

[mighty gulch]

yeah it was 440 miles

for the tri motor version

[faint wadi]

So lets assume the same for the accessories and say their claimed 120 miles is more like 70.

Wake me up when we have NDB in cars, I'll trade in then

[mighty gulch]

that feels about right tbh

whats that

[faint wadi]

Nuclear Diamond Battery

Self charging

Infinite power effectively

[mighty gulch]

whAT

[faint wadi]

They discovered some time ago that if you impregnate artifical diamond with nuclear waste, it generates an electric field that can be harnessed in the form of a battery

It's super cheap to make and a lot more environmentally friendly than lithium mining

In short, Fallout cars

(but the ambient radiation they give off is less than your cell phone)

[mighty gulch]

well, nuclear waste is just radioactive material that can't be used for nuclear energy

like way past it's half life

[faint wadi]

This has a half life of 28,000 years so it's not that lol

https://youtu.be/VWwKqSzakYU?si=HCjoMJc8ywre5Glc

[mighty gulch]

what the hell bruh

28000 years

when are we getting pulse engines powered by multiple nuclear explosions

[faint wadi]

I'd say an antimatter reactor would be more likely than that

Or a fusion reactor instead of fission, once we solve "room temperature" superconductors

[mighty gulch]

fusion is getting closer

imagine we create fusion before gta 6

[faint wadi]

AI is working on models for the superconductor so that'll accelerate things a bit

That's the last huge hurdle we can foresee

[mighty gulch]

just fluctuations in the magnetic fields and stuff as well

[faint wadi]

We already have fusion reactors that can create more energy than it takes to run the reaction but they're not efficient enough for wide use

[mighty gulch]

we sure did get there

but positive power output was a huge step

soon we'll be well on our way to Mjolnir armor

just have to scale it down, and make them have a self destruct feature...

[faint wadi]

Self destruct is easy, you just shut off magnetic containment

After cutting the flow of coolant

[mighty gulch]

must also vaporize everything in a set radius

render the armor unrecoverable by the covenant

[faint wadi]

Cut coolant, temp increases to critical (10,000C should do it) and then cut the containment, and it'll melt itself into slag

Along with anything else in the vicinity

[mighty gulch]

yeess, yeeeesss

[trim nacelle]

I'm just going to let the pictures talk.

https://youtu.be/L6adrYYHumU?si=OZhmrL85Uiso8dBm

[faint wadi]

My first impression is from the front it looks like it has really big nostrils

[trim nacelle]

Absolutely has me wrapped tho

Gorgeous design car

Cannot deny the nostrils part

It's been a while since we've seen something this seriously unique I feel

Not since like, the P1, or Huayra

It's just, so raw

[remote salmon]

I really can’t tell if I like it or not

[trim nacelle]

Hey, it's unique though isn't it

[remote salmon]

Oh it is

[trim nacelle]

Next closest in my mind would be the gordan murray t50

[remote salmon]

Peel P50 is hotter tho

[trim nacelle]

☠️

It would be hotter

It's got no bloody aircon

[remote salmon]

Lmaooo

[trim nacelle]

💀

[remote salmon]

You see I’d buy that new Bugatti but I just don’t like the big nostrils, that’s why I settled on my WRX

[trim nacelle]

Yeah yeah

Next thing you'll tell me is you can afford rent

Smh

[remote salmon]

Hey my rent here is actually pretty cheap for what I’m getting

[trim nacelle]

1 kitchen 0 bedroom

[remote salmon]

$775/month is pretty solid for an almost 1000 sqft apartment

Kitchen, living room, bathroom and a master bedroom is pretty good and utilities included

[trim nacelle]

You seem to be taking my memes seriously

[remote salmon]

You’re a serious meme

[trim nacelle]

I'll serious meme u in a minute

[remote salmon]

Just the way I like it

[trim nacelle]

Laughs in cracked wrx cylinder

[remote salmon]

Hey now, I don’t got cracked cylinder issues

I got head gasket issues

This keychain even reminds me of it

[trim nacelle]

Ok real talk

That key looks so cheap

[remote salmon]

I mean it is a base model

[trim nacelle]

Hey it's valid

[remote salmon]

I prefer it over the button start

[trim nacelle]

But damn bet that feels different to the merc

Could be worse

Did you know

[remote salmon]

Priming for oil changes is so much nicer than having to pull fuses with push starts

[remote salmon]

Oh 100%

[trim nacelle]

The huayra keyfob is something like a volkswagen keyfob with a $0.15 plastic shroud

You wanna feel cheap

Get a huayra

[remote salmon]

At the same time tho, I wasn’t buying this car with comfort as my #1 priority, so I’m happy with some of the costs being cut on quakity

[trim nacelle]

Sorry it is in fact a merc key underneath

Merc engine, merc key

$0.15 plastic cover

[remote salmon]

You see? My E450 is just a pagani

[trim nacelle]

They charge $5000 for it

[remote salmon]

Didn’t feel like spending so much more money for just a name

[trim nacelle]

Did you know the bugattis side mirror knobs are charged 30 grand for on a veyron

[remote salmon]

Yeah I saw that

[trim nacelle]

They're the exact same parts from a vw transporter

Lol

Ah damn you watched the vid

[remote salmon]

It’s crazy how much mark up there is

[trim nacelle]

What about how the Lamborghini diablo taillights come from bus parts

And the headlights from a nissan 300zx

☠️

[remote salmon]

I forgot what it was but there’s some lambo headlights that came from a Nissan

[remote salmon]

YEAH

[trim nacelle]

Lmfao

[remote salmon]

I want a 240zx

Or a Toyota MR2

I can ignore the spontaneous combustion

[trim nacelle]

Gen 2 mr2

[remote salmon]

Or a very early gen WRX would be nice

[gloomy valve]

Crazy ass car

Its like a vgt but real life

[trim nacelle]

https://youtube.com/shorts/UxJV7qw6nfw?si=iMQn9UnSyhKxJaDV

[gloomy valve]

Historical video fr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb03dK0nBf0

[storm hemlock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHgD0wJGcR0

legendary video

[balmy egret]

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

Nothing special just felt like sharing ^

[storm hemlock]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-music-monkey-monkey-listening-to-the-music-monkey-chill-vibin-gif-24320967

novitec ferrari

[balmy egret]

😩

[storm hemlock]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ii0JeDl1hv0

lower the volume please

💀

[balmy egret]

bruh that almost doesn't sound real 💀

[pearl pollen]

Absolutely special

[pearl pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/attention-megaphone-golden-girls-can-you-hear-me-listen-gif-17713176969757105143

[flat zephyr]

nobody:
your neighbor at 7am on a sunday:

random side bar but i think this is the dream car

2010 murci sv

😇

as to what i will actually be able to maybe afford in this economy

a corvette or mustang would be cool

[faint wadi]

Corvette is going to branch off as its own brand next year. What would you think about a Corvette minivan?

[mighty gulch]

Corvette bus

Corvette truck

[faint wadi]

NGL Corvette truck would probably sell like crazy

[balmy egret]

Bro don't give them ideas

There's already an SUV concept floating around out there

I hate this

[bleak nexus]

I know a guy that works on the Corvette team, an SUV concept isnt even the database

[neon phoenix]

Just drove the mustang Mach e4 X. Electric cars have such amazing acceleration

I don't want these combustion engines anymore.

[flat zephyr]

Corvette truck would be fire

Nah the new ZR1 would be insane to own

Mustang GTD is fire too but they making you apply for that and only making like 300

[gloomy valve]

Wait when unnecessarily digitized things stop working because thats how they were designed

Its weird how the design of literally everything is different with evs

They should make it like a normal ice car, with buttons for things and a normal design, but instead of having an engine it is an ev. You get what im tryna say?

[balmy egret]

Rumored then. Thank the lord

[trim nacelle]

https://youtube.com/shorts/vcUwBtfT2fo?si=Ryi-fLsm73xVHUvG

[trim nacelle]

That's just a urus

[balmy egret]

Pretty much 💀

[neon phoenix]

Yes..as things get more electrical, it feels cheap

[pearl pollen]

i like the new lambo but its just kinda the same thing again i feel like

[trim nacelle]

https://youtu.be/jUFak71Nr_g?si=hbi0V5YdbKmbo6AN

[balmy egret]

It'll probably overheat

[mighty gulch]

Gaht damn

A marvel of engineering

Truly strikes a balance between utility and street performance

[oblique portal]

TOYOTA, 200k plus miles before the engine starts to lose mpg

[balmy egret]

I was thinking of the GR Corolla engine. They've been catching on fire lately and Toyota has been trying to keep hush-hush about it

But yeah anything from Toyota that’s not sporty is amazing

[oblique portal]

They’re naturally aspirated right?

[balmy egret]

I think? Forgot lol

[oblique portal]

It’s turbo charged

[balmy egret]

1.6L I3 turbo yeah

Yeah because 300hp through that little thing is nuts

[oblique portal]

Kinda makes sense they caught on fire

Maybe it was modded/tuned on the ones that got fire but idk

[mighty gulch]

There didn't seem to be any indications they were

But I guess we'll see

[balmy egret]

That’s kinda what I’m thinking

I think some people (rarely) can get like 600hp out of it (I could be wrong)

[gloomy valve]

Yeah some guys are able to get crazy power out of that thing

[balmy egret]

300hp is already crazy for a 1.6L 💀

[pearl pollen]

Honestly tho

[mighty gulch]

Isn't the base model Taycan only 402hp

[faint wadi]

yes

"only" lol

[mighty gulch]

Well, in comparison to the 1.6L engine of the GR Corolla

Like a 102hp difference is kinda crazy

[remote salmon]

Well it’s only the GR Corolla and 86 have issues, the MK5 Supras are really solid

[balmy egret]

That’s true

[remote salmon]

86 has issues coming from too much RTV being added to the oil pan on earlier batches of the FA-24 and oil starvation issues in high G applications when making a right turns

Oil starvation is only an issue on the track though and it’s fixed by installing a baffle kit

Who knows what’s going on with the GR Corolla tho, seems like there’s always a new issue with it

[flat zephyr]

i cannot find any ford fusion sports near me 💀

a taraus sho would be really cool too but those like dont exist anywhere

[balmy egret]

Fr those SHOs are rare for no reason

And same with the Fusion Sport

[south yew]

SHO's are arare because police bought them all

[balmy egret]

you know that would make sense lol

I'm having the masculine urge to get a Fujifilm X100V to get photos at a local cars and coffee event that happens about every two to three weeks

[south yew]

Ya, same exact car, just had an Interceptor badge instead

[balmy egret]

man so if we wanted an SHO it has to be a used police Ford

As if the police Chargers weren't already bad enough

[flat zephyr]

alll the ones i find are like 150k+ miles and like 50+ miles from me

ford needs to bring back the cheaper sedans and cars

SUV market sucks

[flat zephyr]

i dont think all of them were police

i unironically saw one outside of my work last week i think, pretty sure it was undercover police, it was a dark grey and the plate looked like it had a badge on it

[south yew]

No, not all

But the police bought a TON of them

They were also detective/investigator cars

[trim nacelle]

https://youtube.com/shorts/9AS81Ahesis?si=eAPO_IVrNG1ug6QY

[mighty gulch]

At least it's not gonna fold like paper

[south yew]

LMAO, forgot we had a car channel. Guess we should be talking here 😦

[mighty gulch]

Real LOL

[south yew]

Been gone for 3 years, what you expect?

[mighty gulch]

I forgot about that lmao

[pearl pollen]

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2024-ford-mustang-dark-horse-pros-cons-review/

My god I didn’t realize this thing was over 4,000 lbs

That’s Challenger territory

Hellacious braking though. What a beast

Better be for the price point tho

[faint wadi]

Braking has more to do with the tires than the brakes themselves.
Better brakes mostly just handle heat better so they can handle longer and frequent braking.
Better tires will grip the road better. More contact, more friction, less sliding.

[south yew]

Y'aint gonna outbrake your tires with stock brakes unless it's raining or you really screwed up

[faint wadi]

Obviously still don't get cheap brakes

[south yew]

No, always go semi-metallic

[faint wadi]

You get what you pay for

[south yew]

Ceramic is silly on the street, they have to get hot before they work well

Sintered is the pad material you want

Stay away from "green" or organic pads too

[trim nacelle]

Get them carbon ceramics cos you'll always be braking from 280km/h

[south yew]

And even then, your first stop from 280 km/h they won't work worth a darn lol

[faint wadi]

They do need to warm up yes

[south yew]

Current set of brakes on my work car is ~70K miles and don't need replaced yet

[faint wadi]

I'm always riding my brakes at 400C (in project cars)

[mighty gulch]

what if you install like

4 disc brakes

on each wheel

[south yew]

y

[mighty gulch]

or whatever the clamp kind is called

[faint wadi]

It'll lock up the wheel and you'll slide, or if you have ABS it'll do nothing of use

[trim nacelle]

Then your wheels are like triple wide and have the turning circle of a tank

[mighty gulch]

Instant wheel lock lmao

[south yew]

Plus like 4 master cylinders to pump enough fluid to stop

[faint wadi]

One by each tire plus a master controller for them

[mighty gulch]

okay, what if instead of brakes you used a thruster

[south yew]

ineffective

[mighty gulch]

car also probably flips on turns

[south yew]

The thrust to stop a multi thousand pound vehicle in the same time as brakes is nuts

[mighty gulch]

time to pull out the kinematic equations again-

[faint wadi]

Like... An engine of some kind applying an opposing force from the direction of travel? The car would crumple lol

Just get a flying car, no brakes required just dodge

[mighty gulch]

lmao

real

[faint wadi]

We have several working prototypes of those btw

Including folding wing designs

It's just the FAA in the way

[south yew]

the FAA nightmare

[faint wadi]

Them and their silly rules, like "you need a pilot's license to fly anything"

[south yew]

Although you gotta admit they run a tight ship that's effective.

[faint wadi]

Boeing

[mighty gulch]

given a vehicle of 3000kg traveling at 80km/h

how much force must be applied to stop it within 5 seconds

[south yew]

Compared to cars and trucks, FAA has it on lock down lol

Boeing peed in their own cheerios

[faint wadi]

The FAA also believed Boeing when they said "trust me bro," twice. Still no fines.

[south yew]

Yeah, that's not so great

[trim nacelle]

How will you disengage thrust

What if these are boeing engines

This sounds so unsafe

[south yew]

Boeing doesn't have engine problems. They have airframe problems

[trim nacelle]

Do I get shot if I complain about them not stopping me while I'm using them

[south yew]

Good point, we might want to stop talking about them

[trim nacelle]

Lmao

[mighty gulch]

Obviously cutting the fuel source is enough-

[trim nacelle]

Then what about the second set of lights

How will I reignite them

[mighty gulch]

Uh

Backup engine

[trim nacelle]

Thank god my work trip is only 2 traffic lights

[mighty gulch]

Each engine is stacked on top of each other

[faint wadi]

You'd need near instant response on that reverse thruster, good point

[trim nacelle]

Along with trying not to melt the car in front

Those poor kids...

[south yew]

The BEST brakes I've ever used in my life was an electromagnetic brake on the driveline of a big truck

6 stages

Stage 6 put you through the windshield

[faint wadi]

Time to drift loaded rigs ig

https://tenor.com/view/drift-rc-truck-gvnasemes-truck-ets2-gif-21894350

[flat zephyr]

https://tenor.com/view/sniper-stewie-griffin-gif-23481779

[mighty gulch]

Proof of concept-

[trim nacelle]

Stupid discord

That was not the one I wanted

[mighty gulch]

I was genuinely confused

[trim nacelle]

My ui is locking up

[south yew]

I mean, I've done that with a big truck on a sliperry road. Contrary to popular belief, it's NOT fun

[trim nacelle]

Was looking for "out of control firework"

💀

[faint wadi]

I would imagine it's a terrifying experience even for experienced drivers

[remote salmon]

This reminds me i really gotta upgrade the brakes on my WRX, they’re fine but they’re so much worse than any other brakes I’ve had on other cars

[mighty gulch]

Upgrade package

[south yew]

How old is the fluid?

[remote salmon]

Brand new basically, car has like 3.3k miles on it

[south yew]

AH

[mighty gulch]

"Huh, put them on the side of the vehicle? Nonsense"

[remote salmon]

The stock brakes are just really underperforming imo

[south yew]

OEM brakes work they just tend to feel wooden

[mighty gulch]

Yo this is true

I haven't had custom brakes before

[remote salmon]

Oh yeah they definitely do work but i still ain’t 100% used to having to push the pedal so hard in compared to other cars I’ve driven

[mighty gulch]

But OEM ones feel pretty linear

[remote salmon]

The stock brakes on my BMW X5 and MB C350 and E450 were so much more responsive

[trim nacelle]

That is imo strange for a brand new car to not feel snappy

[south yew]

Probably not bedded properly

[trim nacelle]

What kind of brakes are they

[remote salmon]

It’s apparently a common thing with the base trim