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26 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

 

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

If you can't be civil. Please leave

 

Edit. That goes for everyone in the thread

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On 12/24/2021 at 11:40 PM, jagdtigger said:

IDK why that stupid insanity took off. Its needlessly big for any urban area and they are pretty much useless on offroad. I tend to call them rolling bricks....  Not to mention the short lifespan of their engines, overinflated 1.4 liter or worse.

For me its a similar reason as to why crossovers are growing on me. I'm getting old. A taller instep is a lot better for my back than a low car. + the XC90 isn't that big by SUV standards. (Though a suburban would be sweet) Then there is the comfy interior, the four wheel drive system, the v8. Its just kinda neat

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20 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

It’s just so gimmicky and doesn’t make me want one really 

 

That's what a lot of people said about PC's when they were new.

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45 minutes ago, willies leg said:

 

That's what a lot of people said about PC's when they were new.

Except a pc isnt a car?

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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1 hour ago, willies leg said:

 

That's what a lot of people said about PC's when they were new.

except when your car eventually gets hacked cause of a slight gimmick .. you will die unlike a pc ... 

and if you feel the need to compare a car to a pc ... then that car doesnt need to exist imo 
Yes cars have a ton of computers and computing power, but its not the thing you'd read your emails on, play video games and do work on ... if you are smart 

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1 hour ago, iDeFecZx said:

Except a pc isnt a car?

 

Yeah, and a Tesla is actually a PC with wheels. Whole new market of opportunity coming up with apps and services.

Be there or be square:

 

https://github.com/adriankumpf/teslamate

https://github.com/lephisto/tesla-apiscraper

https://e-mobility-driving-solutions.com/produkt/raspi-teslalogger-2/?lang=en

 

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22k USD bill on a 10 year old car for it to function again

 

Can't wait to see how this is defended.

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37 minutes ago, vetali said:

Can't wait to see how this is defended

Badly

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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18 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

In other words you license needs revocation.... :old-dry:

 

Yeah, because the car you drive defines if you can have a license or not. LMAO

"an obvious supporter of privacy"

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2 hours ago, PandaCopyRight said:

except when your car eventually gets hacked cause of a slight gimmick .. you will die unlike a pc ... 

and if you feel the need to compare a car to a pc ... then that car doesnt need to exist imo 
Yes cars have a ton of computers and computing power, but its not the thing you'd read your emails on, play video games and do work on ... if you are smart 

I do work on my car all the time, gonna do some work on it tomorrow in fact. 🤪

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11 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I do work on my car all the time, gonna do some work on it tomorrow in fact. 🤪

Now this is an outright lie. Mechanics never have time for their own vehicles.

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19 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Now this is an outright lie. Mechanics never have time for their own vehicles.

True fact

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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1 hour ago, willies leg said:

 

Yeah, and a Tesla is actually a PC with wheels. Whole new market of opportunity coming up with apps and services.

Be there or be square:

 

https://github.com/adriankumpf/teslamate

https://github.com/lephisto/tesla-apiscraper

https://e-mobility-driving-solutions.com/produkt/raspi-teslalogger-2/?lang=en

 

1 hour ago, willies leg said:

 

Ha! Yeah them there computers are gonna sink all of us, once you modem them up you'll be hacked for sure! Throw them all out, they're evil!  😉

 

Just gonna bring this down back to earth ... A CAR ... is there to transport you from A to B or where the fuck you want to ... A PC ... is to do computing things as in do school work or your job or do the occasional videogaming .... a car thats a pc is literally the dumbest shit in the world 

Also if you knew ... most people will never directly know when they are actually hacked until the hacker wants you to know it 

Please take your head out of Elon Musks ass and start thinking. 
Yes tesla may have started the wave of EVs ... are they the best ... fuck no. Is the companny dumb as shit? not always but some of their decisions sure are(main example is what you posted)

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32 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Now this is an outright lie. Mechanics never have time for their own vehicles.

yep. shitbox life ain't the life for me. Working on cars all day, then working on your own? Naw, thats the last thing I want to do

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52 minutes ago, vetali said:

yep. shitbox life ain't the life for me. Working on cars all day, then working on your own? Naw, thats the last thing I want to do

Cracking up at the thought of you trying to slide under a Civic

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5 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Cracking up at the thought of you trying to slide under a Civic

Used to when my sister had hers.

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Sadly at this point I have no choice, needs a water pump and alternator. WP took a poop about a month after the radiator, 8yr/80K miles eh ok for aftermarket parts. WP is behind the timing belt so time to do that again. I was limping it along until after the holidays but then the alternator took a dump also on Wednesday night, original unit at 197k miles so I guess I can't complain there either. It's been whining real bad with probably a failing diode for a long long time. Growling and very low charge voltage now so I think it's ate a brush. I have a good fully charged battery in it, a 2nd OK-ish battery, and a long jumper cable. Gonna run off 2 batteries to get my 13 miles to work tomorrow morning and get er done on Monday as soon as I free up a rack, it's gotta cool off when I get to work anyway. Got an Audi A5 that just needs the chassis brace and underpanels on it so that'll go back together quickly. I need to car shop this summer, it's not like I don't have money set aside I just still can't decide how nice a car I want for daily beater and then car prices went insane.

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Be there or be square

Must mean I'll turn into a square whenever a Tesla in autopilot runs me over because it's dogshit

"an obvious supporter of privacy"

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4 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

Yeah, because the car you drive defines if you can have a license or not. LMAO

The car does not, but buying a car specifically to be able to break rules on the other hand.....

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42 minutes ago, jagdtigger said:

The car does not, but buying a car specifically to be able to break rules on the other hand.....

then buying any car being able to go above speed limits should be illegal?

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2 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

 but buying a car specifically to be able to break rules on the other hand.....

Is pure genius.....the only thing that makes even better is the fact it instills road rage in other roads users  oh the fun you can have, brightens my day right up. Look you have the hump and I haven't even carved you up yet lol .

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1 hour ago, PandaCopyRight said:

then buying any car being able to go above speed limits should be illegal?

Don't give Musk any ideas.

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5 hours ago, Bitter said:

Sadly at this point I have no choice, needs a water pump and alternator. WP took a poop about a month after the radiator, 8yr/80K miles eh ok for aftermarket parts. WP is behind the timing belt so time to do that again. I was limping it along until after the holidays but then the alternator took a dump also on Wednesday night, original unit at 197k miles so I guess I can't complain there either. It's been whining real bad with probably a failing diode for a long long time. Growling and very low charge voltage now so I think it's ate a brush. I have a good fully charged battery in it, a 2nd OK-ish battery, and a long jumper cable. Gonna run off 2 batteries to get my 13 miles to work tomorrow morning and get er done on Monday as soon as I free up a rack, it's gotta cool off when I get to work anyway. Got an Audi A5 that just needs the chassis brace and underpanels on it so that'll go back together quickly. I need to car shop this summer, it's not like I don't have money set aside I just still can't decide how nice a car I want for daily beater and then car prices went insane.

just change everything so nothing will break again for the next 100k or so /s

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25 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

just change everything so nothing will break again for the next 100k or so /s

I'm almost there! Just need to replace the body and I'm all set.

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13 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I'm almost there! Just need to replace the body and I'm all set.

I'm sure you can find bits of one at a pull a part.

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