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

[vetali]

9 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

now we can for sure write a book entitled "The Downfall of Toyota" lol

They published that book long ago for myself...

 

Also, people can be allergic to Soy. If someone decides to ever do that thing where they attempt to strip a wire with their teeth and get sick, thats not cool either. 

[JoaoPRSousa]

28 minutes ago, terrytek said:

its kinda funny how the uk trusts you more with an open aired motorcycle at a younger age more than an enclosed vehicle. their logic is absolutely fucked up.

 

In Portugal you can also get a license to ride a 125cc bike at 16.

I mean, a 125cc isn't that fast. But I do get your point...

[PandaCopyRight]

4 minutes ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

In Portugal you can also get a license to ride a 125cc bike at 16.

I mean, a 125cc isn't that fast. But I do get your point...

yeah same here 

im guessing its most of europe 

[FuzzyYellow]

10 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Mine does but they is it charge a lot for parking, like $300/semester. So I park about 8/10ths of a mile away in a free spot and walk the rest

 

makes the commute interesting though, kinda like it. 

same, although for me, i only have to walk like 5 or 6 blocks. (it is cold here though...)

8 hours ago, OleST said:

That sounds way more epic than it is....

IKR? it's an Accord...

[Real_PhillBert]

I never bought a parking pass in college. The way the student lots and the engineering buildings were laid out you could park closer to your classes by parking on the street a couple of blocks off campus.

 

I didn't bring a car my freshman year, wanted to simplify. YMMV. 

[bcredeur97]

9 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I never bought a parking pass in college. The way the student lots and the engineering buildings were laid out you could park closer to your classes by parking on the street a couple of blocks off campus.

 

I didn't bring a car my freshman year, wanted to simplify. YMMV. 

I refuse to park on the street (i see parking incidents all the time on my walk to school, they don't teach proper parallel parking here in driving schools so it's always a free for all lol)
 

So I park behind a business that typically has a bunch of open spots. No one has seemed to mind in the last few years... And if they ever do I have many other places I can park, it'll just make my walk a bit longer lol

[Real_PhillBert]

2 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

I refuse to park on the street (i see parking incidents all the time on my walk to school, they don't teach proper parallel parking here in driving schools so it's always a free for all lol)
 

So I park behind a business that typically has a bunch of open spots. No one has seemed to mind in the last few years... And if they ever do I have many other places I can park lol

In my experience the people who cant parallel park, don't. So I can avoid potential door dings by parking on the street over in a lot where Katie who doesn't give a single fuck about her car or yours will fling her door open into my car. 

 

Two years I lived about a mile off campus so I just left the car in the garage and walked, the other two years I parked on the street without issue. Perhaps your area is different. 

[iDeFecZx]

1 hour ago, terrytek said:

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its kinda funny how the uk trusts you more with an open aired motorcycle at a younger age more than an enclosed vehicle. their logic is absolutely fucked up.

 

In all fairness you can only ride a 50cc at 16 but ya know.

[terrytek]

27 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

In my experience the people who cant parallel park, don't. So I can avoid potential door dings by parking on the street over in a lot where Katie who doesn't give a single fuck about her car or yours will fling her door open into my car. 

 

Two years I lived about a mile off campus so I just left the car in the garage and walked, the other two years I parked on the street without issue. Perhaps your area is different. 

i'm about to take a piece of shit car to college and leave my nice one at home, since i can just park the crappy car at school and not give any fucks about door dings and minor benders and stuff.

[Real_PhillBert]

2 minutes ago, terrytek said:

i'm about to take a piece of shit car to college and leave my nice one at home, since i can just park the crappy car at school and not give any fucks about door dings and minor benders and stuff.

Even when the car I drove (02 Focus ZX3) was nothing special, I still couldn't bring myself to subject it to the horrors of a college parking lot. But hey, you do you man. 

[bcredeur97]

3 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Even when the car I drove (02 Focus ZX3) was nothing special, I still couldn't bring myself to subject it to the horrors of a college parking lot. But hey, you do you man. 

just put a full car cover over it LOL

[terrytek]

4 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Even when the car I drove (02 Focus ZX3) was nothing special, I still couldn't bring myself to subject it to the horrors of a college parking lot. But hey, you do you man. 

i guess, since it's the only car you have as a form of transportation if something goes wrong. but really now i'm really debating if i should really bring a car to college or not.

[Real_PhillBert]

2 minutes ago, terrytek said:

i guess, since it's the only car you have as a form of transportation if something goes wrong. but really now i'm really debating if i should really bring a car to college or not.

Really depends on your specific situation. If you're staying in the dorms and there's a reasonable public transportation system set up, I probably would recommend you not. At least for the first year. But if you're going to be living off campus and/or the bus situation is not great, then that would change things. 

[terrytek]

32 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Really depends on your specific situation. If you're staying in the dorms and there's a reasonable public transportation system set up, I probably would recommend you not. At least for the first year. But if you're going to be living off campus and/or the bus situation is not great, then that would change things. 

i mean, san jose state is like a 2 hour drive from home, so i'd like to be able to return home on breaks and such, and in case i need to get out of town, i have my car, so i can leave when i want to. on the other hand, it's right in the middle of downtown, with some good ass public transport, like BART, where i can travel around the entire bay area by metro, so sometimes if i don't feel like driving to say san fran, i can take bart. there are advantages and disadvantages to having a car in college.

[byalexandr]

So it looks like I only have three lug nuts on all four of my wheels for some reason or another. Just to be safe I went to AutoZone and got some lug nuts, but it turns out the lug nuts on my wheels are not conical and sit flat on the wheel hole. But I went and bought the conical ones.

 

Is it okay to put those on there? Or should I just stick with what I have for now and get the proper ones later on (I get paid this Thursday so I'll have some money for mods and all)?

[JoaoPRSousa]

31 minutes ago, byalexandr said:

So it looks like I only have three lug nuts on all four of my wheels for some reason or another.

 

[warmmilk]

Finally got my new rear tires mounted on the BMW, here's one of the rears

[Velvet Revolver]

 

 

^These youtubers are liars. The car is either a stolen car, or an insurance scam, probably be parted out after its reported "stolen" by these hooligans.

 

How many rental cars you see with stickers on them that arent of the rental car agency?

Let alone 2 Eminem stickers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 minutes ago, warmmilk said:

Finally got my new rear tires mounted on the BMW, here's one of the rears

 

[byalexandr]

36 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Id stick with what you got and order proper ones. Just make sure all the others are tight. 

Yeah they are. I torqued them to spec.

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, byalexandr said:

So it looks like I only have three lug nuts on all four of my wheels for some reason or another. Just to be safe I went to AutoZone and got some lug nuts, but it turns out the lug nuts on my wheels are not conical and sit flat on the wheel hole. But I went and bought the conical ones.

 

Is it okay to put those on there? Or should I just stick with what I have for now and get the proper ones later on (I get paid this Thursday so I'll have some money for mods and all)?

I have a feeling there was wheel locks on those 4 and they removed them for some reason... As to why they didn't put normal lugs in their place is anyone's guess...

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, warmmilk said:

Finally got my new rear tires mounted on the BMW, here's one of the rears

-snip-

All that camber and you not cornering enough  

 

but I don't blame you, I run my tires down until I absolutely have to change them too. But I usually get a flat before that happens lol

[warmmilk]

1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

All that camber and you not cornering enough  

 

but I don't blame you, I run my tires down until I absolutely have to change them too. But I usually get a flat before that happens lol

I'm committed to spending as little money on the BMW as I can get away with... so no alignment

 

I've actually had the tires for months now, just never got around to getting them mounted.  about a week ago I started to feel a vibration from the car, so I figured it was time to get off my lazy ass... haha

[RevoltTrain]

So the entire yard is frozen, layer of ice with about 4 inches of heavy thick snow on it. We don't get light fluffy snow, it's super thick and heavy whenever we get lake effect. Of course we had to get a warm week the one week you'd want it to be nice and cold and snowy

 

 

And of course the Saab got stuck in the yard because of how bad it is. So I did a burnout on accident and now have white walls

 

I've decided. White walls need to be a thing again 

 

[bcredeur97]

How is this even a thing??

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/dec/15/russian-reality-tv-show-allow-rape-murder-game2-winter?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-2

 

what has this world come to?

[bcredeur97]

Also it's gonna be almost 80F here on Christmas Day LOL