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[vetali]

3 hours ago, GreatCrouton said:

Need me a new vehicle jack....

 

I have a good 'ol Canadian Tire trolley jack.  It's been fine for cars more a less but have a truck now too.  While this thing will lift it, it's neither convenient or easy.  Put a good bend in the bar used to pump the jack.

 

Would like a low profile variety that is useful on cars and trucks with a long pump handle.  Lots to choose from, no idea which are good a and which to avoid.

 

What have you been happy with?  Looking for something no more than $400 Cdn.

ACDelco used to make a great floor jack. I don't see that specific model anywhere though. Not sure about Canadian options, but here we have the Harbor Freight Snap on knock off jack. Its pretty good.

[bcredeur97]

3 hours ago, vetali said:

ACDelco used to make a great floor jack. I don't see that specific model anywhere though. Not sure about Canadian options, but here we have the Harbor Freight Snap on knock off jack. Its pretty good.

HF jacks and toolboxes are like the best things they make 

[bcredeur97]

Man these cars are massive.. I think it’s longer than my Touareg lol 

 

[vetali]

1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

HF jacks and toolboxes are like the best things they make 

Just don't get their jack stands.

 

Just now, bcredeur97 said:

Man these cars are massive.. I think it’s longer than my Touareg lol 

Hope he got the wheel coverage. Those things gotta bend easy lol

[Bitter]

The wheels are already bent, they just don't know it yet. Reminds me of our dentist customer and his last C class AMG, we saw it twice a year for oil change and to swap from summer to winter wheels/tires. Never was there ever a time when one of the OE summer wheels wasn't bent. Usually all were bent to some degree, we'd get it straightened or a recon wheel or once a new wheel because outer lip was bent and 6 months later it's bent again lol. His newer AMG tho, must be better metal or something cause nothing has bent yet.

[Psittac]

Just got this today. 286k miles 1 owner and they went to the dealer every 5k miles and said yes to anything that needed to be done.  I'm going to start overlanding with it but want to get out a few times before I start modding it.

[AlwaysFSX]

5 hours ago, Psittac said:

Just got this today. 286k miles 1 owner and they went to the dealer every 5k miles and said yes to anything that needed to be done.  I'm going to start overlanding with it but want to get out a few times before I start modding it

That is very shiny

[bcredeur97]

11 hours ago, vetali said:

Just don't get their jack stands.

 

Hope he got the wheel coverage. Those things gotta bend easy lol

 

11 hours ago, Bitter said:

The wheels are already bent, they just don't know it yet. Reminds me of our dentist customer and his last C class AMG, we saw it twice a year for oil change and to swap from summer to winter wheels/tires. Never was there ever a time when one of the OE summer wheels wasn't bent. Usually all were bent to some degree, we'd get it straightened or a recon wheel or once a new wheel because outer lip was bent and 6 months later it's bent again lol. His newer AMG tho, must be better metal or something cause nothing has bent yet.

He got this thing he was telling me about where they will cover damaged or curbed wheels and tires up to $5000 in value per year 

 

and the A8 does have a spare (interesting it’s a black spare not the “shameful” red/orange one his A6 had lol) 

 

to me that car doesn’t seem as bad as the 22” wheels on my moms Q7 lol (she’s been fine…. So far) 

 

I forgot to take a pic of the engine bay on the A8;  it’s kinda weird with the ECM on display like they are proud of it or something lol. But I miss all the little details and accents audi used to do in the engine bay, now it’s boring like “here’s your engine” 

[bcredeur97]

10 hours ago, Psittac said:

Just got this today. 286k miles 1 owner and they went to the dealer every 5k miles and said yes to anything that needed to be done.  I'm going to start overlanding with it but want to get out a few times before I start modding it.-snip-

I wanted one of these but was so obsessed over it being lower mileage that I bought a touareg instead, but I think this would of been a better idea now lol 

 

I mean for $5k it’s hard to go wrong if it lasts 2 years it’s worth it *shrug* 

 

I do like my touareg but I hate having the thought of the HPFP exploding in the back of my head all the time 

[vetali]

27 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

He got this thing he was telling me about where they will cover damaged or curbed wheels and tires up to $5000 in value per year 

 

and the A8 does have a spare (interesting it’s a black spare not the “shameful” red/orange one his A6 had lol) 

 

to me that car doesn’t seem as bad as the 22” wheels on my moms Q7 lol (she’s been fine…. So far) 

 

I forgot to take a pic of the engine bay on the A8;  it’s kinda weird with the ECM on display like they are proud of it or something lol. But I miss all the little details and accents audi used to do in the engine bay, now it’s boring like “here’s your engine” 

5000 dollars? Pfft thats like one wheel. I get scared about my 20s, but I've only seen one bent before in the shop and it hit something hard enough to blow the tire out with it.

 

I thought you still had the Infiniti, I guess you all VW nerds now.

 

Mercedes likes to put the ECU right in the middle of the intake, Cadillac was doing it for a few years too. Honda was putting the ECU in middle of the V in the front of the engine for a few years, then they moved it back to the fender area in 2019. Much harder to do a timing belt on the newer v6s because the harness is wrapped around the timing belt covers. Takes a whole 2 hours instead of 1.5.

[bcredeur97]

7 minutes ago, vetali said:

5000 dollars? Pfft thats like one wheel. I get scared about my 20s, but I've only seen one bent before in the shop and it hit something hard enough to blow the tire out with it.

 

I thought you still had the Infiniti, I guess you all VW nerds now.

 

Mercedes likes to put the ECU right in the middle of the intake, Cadillac was doing it for a few years too. Honda was putting the ECU in middle of the V in the front of the engine for a few years, then they moved it back to the fender area in 2019. Much harder to do a timing belt on the newer v6s because the harness is wrapped around the timing belt covers. Takes a whole 2 hours instead of 1.5.

Yeah he’s had an A6 for many years, mom hated the Infiniti so she ended up getting a new Q7 about a year ago. Then my dad got jealous I guess and got an almost new A8 lol 

 

tbh I don’t think the A8 is worth it. It’s nice but not as expensive as it is nice. I liked last gen Audis more, feel like they had a bit more attention to detail. 
 

i also don’t like new VW’s, I feel like they are getting cheap with them. 

 

but the wheels are about $1k it seems; not $5k lol https://parts.audirockville.com/p/audi__A8/Wheel--alloy/94394328/4N0601025AF.html

[IPD]

The irony of a back-and-forth discussion about 2 vehicles, where one is worth what a wheel on the other costs.

[bcredeur97]

29 minutes ago, IPD said:

The irony of a back-and-forth discussion about 2 vehicles, where one is worth what a wheel on the other costs.

right? Lol. 

One could fulfill a need and one is most definitely a want. I was just discussing with my dad about an RS7. He could buy an RS7. It's more money than an A8 now. But he could of bought another A6 (or kept his) and then bought an RS7 after. Or drove the volvo xc60 in his garage that's normally for my sisters' to use for a year and then bought an RS7. 

If you make even only OK money; you can get anything you want; it's just a question of how much you're willing to sacrifice to get it. You could work your way up from beaters to mediocre bmw's OR you can drive beaters until you can afford a lambo lol. It's just a question of how bad you want something.

In his case he doesn't want an RS7 bad enough to go buy one. He doesn't care how fast his car is. The only reason he even considers wanting one is because they "look cool" So that's fine lol. Likewise; he could continue driving cheaper cars and then go get a Rolls Royce. But he doesn't want a Rolls Royce bad enough to do that.

But @Psittac prob could of went take out a loan to get something worth 3-4x more that he wants. But he could also just drive that 4runner into the ground and then get something even better than what he wants now, later on. 

[Bitter]

I've been banking up money for a while now to replace the Mazda, but as I've said before I can't decide if I should get something used and decent or get something nice. It's just a car I drive everyday to and from work mostly but I do enjoy driving and a decent sound system...but I also like having money not driving around money lol. I'm leaning toward a Civic of the more recent generations or a Mazda 3 of the more recent generations, but I need to go drive either of them. I don't really like CVT's but they're great on the highway and get good gas mileage, I'd go EV but as it stands I do need to drive long distances sometimes and right now that's more difficult with an EV. If there was a plug-in hybrid that was in the used market that wasn't a Prius or Prius like vehicle I'd consider that but they're all super crap to drive like so bland and boring and soul sucking to me.

[DANK_AS_gay]

I will say, the CVT isn't great if you are pissed lol. Hammering the throttle and waiting for the delightful feeling of a gear change, only to hear your car sound like it's bouncing off of the rev limiter. It also means throttle response is nil. Takes ages for the car to let the revs get up in the higher range where it needs to be. Even in "sport". Also irritating when you have to pull out across 4 lanes into 60 MPH traffic (i.e 80 MPH), and there is an idiot in a GMC 2500HD pulling a trailer full of dead washing machines going 95 MPH. BTW, this is my parents' idea of the safe route.

[bcredeur97]

Cars are worth more than me

 

And @vetaliheres the weird engine bay with the ecu on display on the right:

[Bitter]

Finally making some progress....

[bcredeur97]

21 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Finally making some progress....

-snip-

wen standalone ECU? 

[Bitter]

Just now, bcredeur97 said:

wen standalone ECU? 

Ugh who knows, it's complicated unless I ditch the automatic and that's a whole big thing. Finding a good C60 isn't easy, just best to assume anything you get needs a rebuild, plus all the ancillary parts...it ends up being a very expensive endeavor. Keeping the auto is complicated for a standalone because you need a trans controller as well. Also, I need to pass emissions every 2 years so whatever I do had better be plug n play and the car better be able to run without setting codes long enough to get through emissions testing. Hell, might turn out that the intake is a really bad match for the stock ECM with an auto trans and it's slower than it was before, which honestly is a big reason this has taken me so long to start working on. I'm genuinely worried this will be the case, as far as I know no one else has put this intake on an auto 2ZZ. What I see of 6spd dyno plots both tuned and untuned was that torque all over went up which in turn raised horsepower but torque down lower in the rev range wasn't reduced so I'm really really hopeful that this thing isn't a bog monster off the line worse than it already is because she takes off slooooow, there's not much below 2000 RPM but thankfully above that things are better. If it's just as slow from idle as stock I'll be OK with that as long as it's not slower than stock. It can't be worse, can it? Don't answer that. If you can't tell I get very verbose when anxious.

[Beerzerker]

9 hours ago, DANK_AS_gay said:

I will say, the CVT isn't great if you are pissed lol. Hammering the throttle and waiting for the delightful feeling of a gear change, only to hear your car sound like it's bouncing off of the rev limiter. It also means throttle response is nil. Takes ages for the car to let the revs get up in the higher range where it needs to be. Even in "sport". Also irritating when you have to pull out across 4 lanes into 60 MPH traffic (i.e 80 MPH), and there is an idiot in a GMC 2500HD pulling a trailer full of dead washing machines going 95 MPH. BTW, this is my parents' idea of the safe route.

I agree - CVT doesn't let you have the response a more standard trans would have and it's not a great ideal hammer on one often - They don't like it much.

Doesn't help a CVT is known to be problematic and not too sturdy anyway, I've already replaced one because the wife had ran off the road in a sudden rainstorm (Hydroplaning) and bumped a curb with one of the front wheels, which in turn did something to the gear hub where the axle shafts come in.

I'm guessing the bearing was damaged because it was making a terrible roaring sound along with an audible clicking when moving. The CVT itself still operated as you'd expect but the noise didn't take any time at all to start getting worse, I took it to a couple of repair shops and during this short time period is when things noteably deteriorated with it's condition because I had to drive it to each shop.

Finally had a person I know to look for and they found a used trans in a wreck and we got it, they swapped the CVT's and it's been OK eversince.

[vetali]

2 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

And @vetaliheres the weird engine bay with the ecu on display on the right:

Thats not as bad as I thought it would be. Though the size of it is insane. Newer ECUs are pretty small. I replaced one that was bricked during an update on a CR-V and I was like, "wait is that it?" to parts. It was about the size of 2 blu-ray cases put together. TCM is also incredibly small on them.

[Fast_N_Curious]

My jaw about hit the floor when I saw it for the first time. Must be posted here for eye candy.

 

 

[IPD]

To each their own I guess.  I've always hated the Pontiac goat.  Just a lousy GM attempt at faking panache by slapping the "GTO" label on something that was in no way, shape or form actually a GTO.

 

Worse, when Mitsubishi actually did make a GTO, they had to relabel it as "3000GT" because of this fuckery.  GM will not be forgiven for this iniquity....among many others.

[Bitter]

It looks like a rich boomer saw a rocket bunny style car on facebook and wrote a blank check to a fabricator who has way too many ed hardy t-shirts.

 

On the plus side this is looking pretty good at 140K miles. Stock intake mani only has about 1oz of clean oil puddled in it and is equally clean inside, judging by this and how it runs I think it's fairly healthy still. Nothing beside the throttle body has been cleaned and that was around 85-90K miles, never had the intake off and I didn't clean anything before this picture.

 

[bcredeur97]

49 minutes ago, Bitter said:

It looks like a rich boomer saw a rocket bunny style car on facebook and wrote a blank check to a fabricator who has way too many ed hardy t-shirts.

 

On the plus side this is looking pretty good at 140K miles. Stock intake mani only has about 1oz of clean oil puddled in it and is equally clean inside, judging by this and how it runs I think it's fairly healthy still. Nothing beside the throttle body has been cleaned and that was around 85-90K miles, never had the intake off and I didn't clean anything before this picture.

-snip-

 

Ah, the magic of port injection