ROLLIN’ SPARKS BITCHES!!!!
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Where *you* are the crumple zone...
I’m strangely attracted to and violently repulsed by that at the same time.
My theory is that most of the billy big mouth bass designs have an underlying tie to pedestrian safety. The trend started in Europe where pedestrian deaths are a big deal and big old grilles are less damaging to errant lemmings than enclosed fascias with hidden steel reinforcements. The trend started as a necessity in…
MSRP on that will be over 100K. I am clearly going to have an “OK boomer” moment right now, even though I am not quite a boomer (born in ‘67 - turned 52 last week).
The J.D. Powerhammer awards are in the bag!
And the dealer had their name stamped into the rear bumper!
You got DOORS - WTF do you want?
Yup - I bought my 2005 L with 172K on it 2 years ago. It’s barely broken in. While I was looking (we specifically wanted an L for the extra rear room), we looked at a 2011 that had 812K on it. They let me see the records and it was on it’s 3rd engine (the original went to 450, the second was replaced at 710) and 3rd…
I bought an ex-livery 2005 Town Car L two years ago in the SF bay area. They’re aging out of being able to service SFO so they’re disappearing fast. I daily mine and love it. Gets 20 mpg which is pretty damn good for the size. I joke with my wife that if I ever leave her I am taking the Clown Car as it is bigger…
You and I have swapped stories about working on these things. The underhood is figuratively the 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag.
My favorite brake pad story: A couple friends and I joined another team for a 24 Hours of LeMons race at Sears Point - the car was a mostly stock E30 and of course the car wasnt ready when it arrived at the track. We put on a premium grade pad all the way around from a local chain that ends in “zone” on the car. At…
I waited in line at JCPenney to buy it - I remember it was a HUGE deal, they were playing “Pac Man Fever” over the loudspeakers... SUCH a letdown.
I vaguely remember this is how Atari was able to pull off the four ghosts in their version of Pac-Man (and why they flickered like an old florescent shop lamp.)
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This totally explains my favorite Activision game as well. Freeway!
I’m in the information provider end of the industry and cannot agree more. Most techs (and shop owners) only question is “I HAVE THIS CODE WHAT PART DO I CHANGE?”
Naah, didn’t take offense in the slightest. I got thicker skin than that.
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I’m in the biz and the biggest problem right now with ADAS is *EVERY* manufacturer has their own special tools including calibration targets that are sometimes even specific to the model. Some require 10 feet or more of clear, level space around all sides of the vehicle. What independent shop has that? If aftermarket…
Yeah, I pulled it from an excel sheet I use for work and they list many variants seperately (trim level, engine, drive wheels) so there are a bunch of lines for each model and it was easier to get them alphabetically