Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Levent]

I never knew speed rating on tires meant anything until today. Holy shit you can really tell when you are going faster than what your tires are rated for.

[Bitter]

If I do an exhaust cutout, I found the button I'm using for it.

I can't think of a more perfect button for that.

[vetali]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

If I do an exhaust cutout, I found the button I'm using for it.

I can't think of a more perfect button for that.

Its almost 2023, make your own with a stick figure bending over and a trumpet sticking out of their ass.

[Bitter]

29 minutes ago, vetali said:

Its almost 2023, make your own with a stick figure bending over and a trumpet sticking out of their ass.

Someone else suggested the OEM Party Mode button, which I also like.

[Bitter]

Mercedes OEM tires have foam in them for acoustic reasons.

Learned something new today.

 

Anyone else see this fascinating TTC video?

 

[AlwaysFSX]

14 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Mercedes OEM tires have foam in them for acoustic reasons.

They've been doing this for several years now if I remember correctly

[bcredeur97]

34 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Mercedes OEM tires have foam in them for acoustic reasons.

-snip-

Learned something new today.

 

My parents’ Q7 has this feature. When they went to get a tire patched the ppl weren’t sure they were gonna be able to do it because they’ve never seen that before lol 

 

I think they ended up buying some Michelins or conti’s without the foam. Because the OG tires with the foam are incredibly expensive (like $500 per tire or something stupid like that) and not too great.
 

They said they didn’t notice a difference

[Bitter]

Yeah the PS 4S don't have the foam and aren't MO or MO1 marked, customer is a good friend of the boss so the boss priced out the OEM PS 3's and they're not that much more than the PS 4S which is a higher performance tire. We'll probably slap on another set of the OEM tires that'll take the car to around 60K miles and I'll be shocked if he doesn't trade it on another one by then cause it'll be almost 10 years old at that point and this guy just doesn't keep cars that long anymore.

[JoaoPRSousa]

14 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

They said they didn’t notice a difference

 

Nice

[Bitter]

PS 4S installed on wheels, they'll go on the car in the spring.

Boss called the owner last night (they're old friends) and the owner said "look I bought a performance car so if these are higher performance tires then that's what I want on it" WELL OK SIR! Lol. I can't imagine this thing on some real track use Pilot Sport Cup tires or Proxes or something, the worn PS3's were already pretty good with the AWD and little turbo lag. I didn't do any launches because that's abuse of a customer vehicle but boy do I want to....

[bcredeur97]

Topped off my DEF/adblue today. I don’t let it drain all the way I try to time it so I can fill it up when it’s about halfway and a single 2.5 gal jug fills it up.
 

but today When I got to the end of the bottle I felt some of the crystals that had formed on top of the bottle fall on my hands

 

hope none of that made it into the tank…. Lol because my luck that will clog something and end in a delete and I don’t really feel like spending all that rn 

 

So I guess note to self don’t get every last drop out of the bottle. Not worth it 

 

22k miles and about 1 year, 1 mo into ownership, Oil change #4 soon!  

[vetali]

Gotta be careful with deletes, EPA been cracking down on shops that do them. Seen a couple shops recently that specialized in brodozers that closed up suddenly.

[bcredeur97]

35 minutes ago, vetali said:

Gotta be careful with deletes, EPA been cracking down on shops that do them. Seen a couple shops recently that specialized in brodozers that closed up suddenly.

yeah i would of course only use the vehicle on my farm afterwards. Like a responsible human

Gotta plow the front yard field with something

[AlwaysFSX]

2 hours ago, vetali said:

Gotta be careful with deletes, EPA been cracking down on shops that do them. Seen a couple shops recently that specialized in brodozers that closed up suddenly.

Fuckin BLESS

[iDeFecZx]

New daily

[bcredeur97]

8 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

New daily

-snip-

Won the lottery? Lol 

 

are there even lottery’s in Europe? I’m only assuming there is lol 

[bcredeur97]

Might drive through Florida while I’m off in a little bit.. all the way till the road ends in key west 

 

anything I should check out along the way? Besides the freedom factory

[Bitter]

I don't know anything about Florida other than I've been to some stuff around Orlando a few times and fuck that city and trying to walk anywhere.

 

I get to do a left rear wheel bearing pretty soon on the GF's Escape, it's making noise pretty good but no play. Some noise in the other side just starting but worst first. Also needs trailing arm bushings like they all do. I should check the alignment after replacing the bushings.

 

I'm planning on hitting Tail of the Dragon in 2023 again, a friend is flying into an airport on my way down there and I'm picking him up and we'll cruise down and he can dragon my car while I try not to puke in the passenger seat. My mom lives in Knoxville and knows some of the area but she's not a car person so much, what else is a good drive around there that's sort of less heavily traffic'd?

 

Oh and I hand un-torqued this today ????? with just a long breaker bar and a pipe ?????? I am not a big strong guy or a big guy or a strong guy. I use power tools as much as possible to do the work for me. I have 4 different air hammers because I'm lazy.

Uh whut? No way was that 406 lb-ft when it left the factory LOL it came loose way too easily. F250's aren't my favorite front suspension jobs to do but they're not bad, most still comes apart pretty OK and punching the ball joints out with my air hammer is ALWAYS fun because BZZZZTTTT and it's out.

[AlwaysFSX]

3 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

are there even lottery’s in Europe? I’m only assuming there is lol 

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

It's insane

[vetali]

12 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

New daily

 

Shop is way too clean REEEE

[iDeFecZx]

14 hours ago, vetali said:

Shop is way too clean REEEE

Its almost as if we've not had much work for a while haha

Tbf tho thats at the top of the workshop where stuff normally just gets parked up waiting for parts

[iDeFecZx]

18 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Won the lottery? Lol 

 

are there even lottery’s in Europe? I’m only assuming there is lol 

I wish lol, one of the owners many cars, had it in to repaint to front bumper ready to go to a new owner, supposedly sold it for £1.5m

[Beerzerker]

15 hours ago, vetali said:

Shop Carport is way too clean REEEE

Where's the door to your house?
I don't see it in there.

If I ever pop in for a visit I'd like to not get lost in there and also not have the shop/housedog (Spotty?) chasing me around.

"Good Spotty - That's a Good Spo".....
"GRRRRRR"
(With the tune "Hair of the dog" softly playing in the background for effect....)

[PandaCopyRight]

16 hours ago, Beerzerker said:

Where's the door to your house?
I don't see it in there.

If I ever pop in for a visit I'd like to not get lost in there and also not have the shop/housedog (Spotty?) chasing me around.

"Good Spotty - That's a Good Spo".....
"GRRRRRR"
(With the tune "Hair of the dog" softly playing in the background for effect....)

what the? ... you good? 

[JoaoPRSousa]

17 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

Its almost as if we've not had much work for a while haha

Tbf tho thats at the top of the workshop where stuff normally just gets parked up waiting for parts

 

What the fuck are you on about? We all know you're not a mechanic, quit your bullshitting.