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[chiller15]

6 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

A reference to this

It's still drives great...just the squeak during acceleration (it seems to be more when the car leans back during acceleration and leans forward during breaking...all at low speeds, like sub 10mph) and then ticky fan! I can't afford to get another car.

[Drak3]

Why can't RAM just make their own counterpart to the Suburban?

[AlwaysFSX]

Just now, Drak3 said:

Why can't RAM just make their own counterpart to the Suburban?

Durango?

[techswede]

2 minutes ago, RatedBlam said:

Must be something between WWII Japanese steel and Chinese pot metal. 

Still wasn't the weirdest thing about my golf though. If you shifted it into second it would drive just fine. And have nothing weird going on. But a full second or two after the shift it would have a brief scraping sound. I still have no idea what caused it and i looked it over several times. 

[Real_PhillBert]

2 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

How do you "accidentally" buy a Camaro?

 

1 minute ago, techswede said:

Its a good looking one though. What was wrong with it? 

It was not good looking and everything was wrong with it haha.

 

So this was back in ~2008ish during the housing crisis, and this family friend of mine was in some deep shit with his ARM loan that he could no longer afford. He mentioned that they've had a '68 camaro out rusting away in their tree line since he was a kid. I figured "fuck, a 68 camaro is worth $500 no matter what the condition is." So I offered him $500 for the car sight unseen, he accepted and I cut him a check. 

 

A couple weeks later I came with our trailer to get it... it wasnt a '68, it was a '78. Big difference. I knew the money was already gone, and didnt want to be an ass so I loaded it up, along with an extra trans, extra Z28 hood and fenders too. 

 

I was so disappointed I didnt even put it in our barn, this thing was a complete basket case. Parts car, at best. And even if I could get it back into good shape, it was a car no one wanted. (78s had the ugly as fuck giant rubber bumpers, and way over the top fender venting, it was bad. real bad.) I stuck it in the trees behind our barn for about a year.

 

Eventually I posted it on Craigslist for $650 as a parts car. Surprisingly some guy building a drag car actually came and took it for $650, and was happy to get it. His wife was a bit pissed but that wasnt my problem.

 

So that's how I accidentally bought a '78 Camaro, and made money on it. Life appears to have a sense of humor sometimes.  

[terrytek]

9 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

So this morning I woke up this harshly and suddenly due to a painful cramp in my lower right calf. It hurt so bad! I had to cover my mouth with a pillow so I could yell without waking everyone up lol

 

..then my alarm went off literally 2 minutes later. 

 

so how was everyone else's morning?

dreamt about being able to drive stick expertly, alarm rang, let it rang, woke up, questioned how the hell i've always managed to wake up so early

 

2 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Why can't RAM just make their own counterpart to the Suburban?

I wonder the same thing, but with Toyota. They build their trucks in Texas anyway, and I think they're capable of building a full size SUV, but it wouldn't be like Toyota to do that, but they pretty much have a car in every single car category.

[Drak3]

Just now, AlwaysFSX said:

Durango?

A) Dodge

B) The Suburban is a Silverado turned SUV. The Durango is the Dakota turned SUV, or it would be had RAM or Dodge kept it around. I want that, but a RAM 1500 or 2500

C) I want a huge SUV.

[Drak3]

Just now, terrytek said:

I wonder the same thing, but with Toyota. They build their trucks in Texas anyway, and I think they're capable of building a full size SUV, but it wouldn't be like Toyota to do that, but they pretty much have a car in every single car category.

Also yes.

[JoaoPRSousa]

1 hour ago, iDeFecZx said:

Satin black

Didnt want to go gloss black or too light of a grey cause of the color of the car

Will get pics once I get her back.

 

 

[AlwaysFSX]

4 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

It was not good looking and everything was wrong with it haha.

 

So this was back in ~2008ish during the housing crisis, and this family friend of mine was in some deep shit with his ARM loan that he could no longer afford. He mentioned that they've had a '68 camaro out rusting away in their tree line since he was a kid. I figured "fuck, a 68 camaro is worth $500 no matter what the condition is." So I offered him $500 for the car sight unseen, he accepted and I cut him a check. 

 

A couple weeks later I came with our trailer to get it... it wasnt a '68, it was a '78. Big difference. I knew the money was already gone, and didnt want to be an ass so I loaded it up, along with an extra trans, extra Z28 hood and fenders too. 

 

I was so disappointed I didnt even put it in our barn, this thing was a complete basket case. Parts car, at best. And even if I could get it back into good shape, it was a car no one wanted. (78s had the ugly as fuck giant rubber bumpers, and way over the top fender venting, it was bad. real bad.) I stuck it in the trees behind our barn for about a year.

 

Eventually I posted it on Craigslist for $650 as a parts car. Surprisingly some guy building a drag car actually came and took it for $650, and was happy to get it. His wife was a bit pissed but that wasnt my problem.

 

So that's how I accidentally bought a '78 Camaro, and made money on it. Life appears to have a sense of humor sometimes.  

That's amazing.

3 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

A) Dodge

B) The Suburban is a Silverado turned SUV. The Durango is the Dakota turned SUV, or it would be had RAM or Dodge kept it around. I want that, but a RAM 1500 or 2500

C) I want a huge SUV.

Dodge and Ram are the same thing. The new one isn't based on a Dakota. Great? The Durango isn't what you'd call "small."

[Drak3]

Just now, AlwaysFSX said:

Dodge and Ram are the same thing. The new one isn't based on a Dakota. Great? The Durango isn't what you'd call "small."

Dodge and RAM were, but they split into 2 seperate entities under the same parent company. RAM does trucks and Vans, Dodge does cars. The Dakota got axed one year in.

 

The Durango is somewhere in the middle. But I would call it on the smaller side of conventionally sized SUVs. Whereas the Suburban is the same size as a Silverado 1500.

[bcredeur97]

17 minutes ago, chiller15 said:

It's still drives great...just the squeak during acceleration (it seems to be more when the car leans back during acceleration and leans forward during breaking...all at low speeds, like sub 10mph) and then ticky fan! I can't afford to get another car.

likely shock/strut mounts. how old is the car (age, not just mileage)?

I find after about 10-15 years these things start to appear. on some cars it's earlier, especially if it sees rough roads and dry conditions often.

My miata has started making a weird squeak from probably the shock mounts in the rear just recently, and it's nearing 16 years of age. about time to overhaul the suspension. I want to put new control arms, shocks, basically change anything that has a bushing or any rubber bits on it. They are all ancient and probably really hard and dry by now.

[techswede]

dang it

[RatedBlam]

20 minutes ago, techswede said:

Still wasn't the weirdest thing about my golf though. If you shifted it into second it would drive just fine. And have nothing weird going on. But a full second or two after the shift it would have a brief scraping sound. I still have no idea what caused it and i looked it over several times. 

Good thing it's a rear spring so you can barely tell. 

Maybe they had gone a tad too small on the legendary German tolerances

[techswede]

1 minute ago, RatedBlam said:

Good thing it's a rear spring so you can barely tell. 

Maybe they had gone a tad too small on the legendary German tolerances

Even with the front spring it was hard to tell. Maybe some engineer thought

"Well. Boss iz not giving me zhe funds to make ziz zhe best it can be. BUT IT WIL MAKE IT TO POLAND NO MATTER WHAT!"

[RatedBlam]

1 minute ago, techswede said:

Even with the front spring it was hard to tell. Maybe some engineer thought

"Well. Boss iz not giving me zhe funds to make ziz zhe best it can be. BUT IT WIL MAKE IT TO POLAND NO MATTER WHAT!"

The gears are making themselves some more lebensraum. 

[bcredeur97]

I really like Koni Yellow shocks(that mazdaspeed 3 I was supposed to drive last month was on them, I at least got to ride. And the way the car would drive with them you could just tell they were very nice. A little stiff, but not uncomfortable. And he said because he couldn't adjust them in the rear he had them set pretty stiff), but I'm about to just go for the KYB AGX ones for the sake of just getting new shocks on the car... they are literally half the price.

 

I may get to drive the MS3 this month.

Decisions, decisions. I wish I could get good stuff for like half price lol

[JoaoPRSousa]

11 minutes ago, techswede said:

dang it

 

And here I am complaining about 13 degrees at 8PM... Jesus fuck

[techswede]

Just now, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

And here I am complaining about 13 degrees at 8PM... Jesus fuck

And its only going to get colder.. Expecting snow in the coming weeks. 

[AlwaysFSX]

17 minutes ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

And here I am complaining about 13 degrees at 8PM... Jesus fuck

It' 5C here, I love it.

[terrytek]

49 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Also yes.

If there was a bigger suv based on the Tundra the size of a Suburban, tbh I would buy it. Enough room for cargo an dpassengers, and probably is very off road capable.

[chiller15]

44 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

likely shock/strut mounts. how old is the car (age, not just mileage)?

I find after about 10-15 years these things start to appear. on some cars it's earlier, especially if it sees rough roads and dry conditions often.

My miata has started making a weird squeak from probably the shock mounts in the rear just recently, and it's nearing 16 years of age. about time to overhaul the suspension. I want to put new control arms, shocks, basically change anything that has a bushing or any rubber bits on it. They are all ancient and probably really hard and dry by now.

It's a 2010 Mazda 2, so approaching 8 years old and it's done approximately 55,000 miles.

 

It's just that it happened straight after a MOT/service. It didn't happen when I took it in and it happened as soon as I drove it home. I know I should have taken it back to the garage, but I didn't have time. I'll get them to have a look again when it goes in next year.

[bcredeur97]

28 minutes ago, chiller15 said:

It's a 2010 Mazda 2, so approaching 8 years old and it's done approximately 55,000 miles.

 

It's just that it happened straight after a MOT/service. It didn't happen when I took it in and it happened as soon as I drove it home. I know I should have taken it back to the garage, but I didn't have time. I'll get them to have a look again when it goes in next year.

ah, during an MOT over there I know they actually poke around on the suspension (unlike here in the US where no one does anything for inspections lol)

Because they messed with it, it likely caused some of the old rubber to shift or move around enough in a way that it makes it start squeaking. I remember on my dad's G35 that it was silent until one day when we had to change a lower control arm, which we changed, and I guess from just moving things around and poking around in there, the bushings on the upper control arm started making noise.

Literally a "once you touch it, it becomes a problem" Kind of problem. Things being forced to moved around in ways they normally aren't under normal use.

[AlwaysFSX]

Just now, vinyldash303 said:

Thats a Blazer equivelant. 

A Durango is so much larger than a Blazer.

[Drak3]

6 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

A Durango is so much larger than a Blazer.

It's not that much bigger, which is sad because the Blazer was made as an in between for the Bronco and a two door Jeep.