just here to remind everyone: ACAB

no dice.

Good fucking lord, shut up. A polishing cloth can’t be worth $20.

I highly reccomend the ThanksShimano IG account for more of this nature

believe it or not that’s actually become a pretty common failure mode for Shimano’s forged cranks. 6800, 8000, 9000, and 9100. it’s likely due to there not being a perfect seal once forged, and a little water gets between the 2 forged pieces, and over time corrodes/separates. It’s more common of a failure in wet…

Ah, the German car world, where every single vehicle begins it’s life as a heater core held aloft, around which the ENTIRE VEHICLE is assembled.

Dear god....all that to do the heater core?

We must all suffer for our Art. Some people skin their knuckles every weekend, making a little blood sacrifice to the gods of car maintenance. This evening I’m bidding on a Jaguar Mk.2, thinking it’ll be easier to live with than my current project. Bob disembowels an incredibly complex BMW. Somewhere out there, David…

That is after I put most of the center console back together so I could test. 

Are you not familiar with the BMW masochist known simply as Bob? He’s been all up in pretty much all the most tender bits of this thing, seeing things that no man should ever have to witness.

No one in a new Maxima is driving 137 mph. The CVT explodes at 120.

I have, from time to time, thrown concern for my safety to the winds and told these smug fuckers exactly that - nobody cares what you think, nobody cares which way your dick points. And they have NO ability to cope with this. They stutter and flail. They turn bright red (yes, they’re white dudes 99% of the time). It…

It’s just a name of a sports team, that will sooner or later be sold to another city/state/corporation. And nobody remembers what Manor F1 team was. Admittedly there are rare exceptions, but this is absolutely insignificant.

Her eyes just say it all in that pic. Total annoyance and rapanoia.

Crawdids

First gen Mazda6 and Mazda5 for example. LOTS of companies took this trend on.

European Cadi’s had them. SRX and CTS.

God I want a NG9-5 Wagon in a baaaaaad way.

For some reason the only one that stuck in my mind was the Lexus RX....why that remained while all the others were moved to the trash file of my mind is a question I best not linger on.....

00 Nissan Maxima tiptoed into the trend, originally w black surrounds, then going full chrome a year or so later.

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