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Hey /o/, I'm restoring a 1967 Camaro RS with my dad, and it'll be my first car. What do you think?
Pic kinda related
Also comment your first car if you want.
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>>13656776
lolcantturn
rides like shit
other than that should be fine.
my first car was an '87 mercury cougar. was kind of a piece of shit, but it worked from A to B.
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>>13656792
well we'll be putting power steering in it, so that shouldn't too much of a problem
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>>13656776
Go to bed Stockman
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I bought a new car recently (not *new* new, but new to me), and since it's a nice car (2012 Mazda3 hatch) I've been trying to baby it and drive a lot more carefully. So of course I hit a speed bump way too fucking fast yesterday because it was poorly marked and I didn't see it in time.
What kind of damage can you do to your car from going over a speed bump too fast? Is there anything I should check for? I have bad anxiety now because I just got this car and I'm worried I broke something. I went over the bump at maybe 20-25mph? It wasn't a huge bump, but maybe about the size of pic related. It didn't really sound like I scraped anything, but there was definitely a loud "KA-THUNK"
I haven't noticed any leaks, and the steering still seems okay. Still freaking out though. I'm not really a gearhead, should I take it to a mechanic just to make sure? ;_;
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knock the oil drain bolt off your car and drain all your oil and then have your engine seize up
happened to my friend, but his car was slightly lowered and he is retarded
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>>13656784
>happened to me but my car is stanced and I'm retarded.
ftfy
You can blow a strut or destroy a bump stop, your car is fine.
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>>13656784
What this dude said.
There's an unmarked speed bunp that is actually covered in asphalt, ran over it with my C63 AMG, and luckily I stopped because I noticed warning lights going off everywhere.
Luckily it was within warranty, and I didn't have to pay a cent.
2015 TOKYO AUTO SALON
https://youtu.be/CGBDI8EM1DY
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>those tandems
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>>13656704
why do i always feel as if i'd rather there not be girls standing next to the cars? it always feels as if they're taking something away from em
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>>13656704
Why would they do that to a Lamborghini?
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Hey /b/. Long story short, I'm a broke college student who's trying to buy a Honda Accord 2002 for $3.5k. I found this car at a shop that sells repaired salvaged cars. Should I buy this car or should I keep looking. It looks and drives pretty well.
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>>13656014
buy an older, cheaper, more reliable car you fucking idiot
>I'm a broke college student
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>>13656014
>no pictures
>no vin
>not even an explanation as to why it ended up at salvage repair shop.
You're gonna have to try harder than that.
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>>13656014
For 3.5k youre looking at pretty chill shitbox status. Don't jump the gun dumbass
Should they start sell them back in the states?
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>>13655967
I doubt very few people would buy a french car here.
Fiat is having problems as is trying to get a foothold here.
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Isn't that just a rebadged Mitsubishi? Peugeot barely has any character.
Bring back Citroen first.
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>>13655977
In my mind that Shloud be second after Leo then Reno
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What does /o/ think of Mosler?
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Sucks dick like you dead whore mother
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>>13655934
fuck off shitposter
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>>13655927
They no longer exist which means that they'll never build a world-class racecar ever again.
I know it's two mediums that might not mesh well but are their any good books about cars?
Could be related to engine theory, or even just regular service.
Hell even a good fiction book centered around cars could be cool.
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Haynes guides.
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>>13655802
Yes. Lots. Car history books, car spotting guides, books of amusing anecdotes about cars, compilations of good articles or opinion pieces about cars, car spotting guides...
I'd take a picture of my collection, but it's at home and I'm not.
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Are there any good books that aren't repair manuals about sweet jdm tyte Mazda's and Nissan's?
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is there any sports car that doesn’t suit a duckbill spoiler?
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Retarded-huge ones like that suit almost no car.
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When will this Ford shilling end? I'm fucking sick of seeing you faggots on my /o/.
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>GM
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>on my /o/
>my /o/
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get a load of this nigger
besides, GM is several times worse
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Gm fanboy pls leave, this is f/o/rd not /recalls/
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Hey guys. Deployed schmuck here. Coming home soon, and I want to buy something cheap and reliable. I've always heard great things about Civics. I want to keep it under $3500 (why $3500? Because I forgot to put money towards this sooner and that's what I've got saved). So with a price cap like that I'm obviously looking at something 15-20 years old or with very high mileage. I've never bought something like this before.
Which is worse old age or miles? Should I have a mechanic check it out first? Can I really get a good car that cheap?
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Read the sticky
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>>13655064
You could get 3.5 corollas
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>>13655078
Corollas are pretty shit besides the older models, which suffer from the Takumi market ups.
Civic is love, civic is life.
Always look for EX model trims unless you like having people in your car.
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What production car has the best power to weight ratio? Not counting kit cars and go-kart stuff like the Ariel atom.
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Where do go-karts end and cars begin in your eyes?
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>>13654855
Lotus?
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>>13654855
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aqb-FKqX5vYIdDlKVVpnRG52WWdfcl9yWDY3WFh1VlE&usp=sharing
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I've always been a big fan of the 5 series ever since the E39. My first big-boy car purchase was a E39 530i. Fantastic car and engine. I upgraded to the E60 M5. I loved that V10 engine, man. The SMG was nothing but problems, but when it was running at 100%, it was pure driving excellence. A few years ago, my wife and I had a kid and I figured I'd get a more reliable and less ridiculously expensive (8 mpg was about my average in the E60) car.
Of course I ended up getting a F10 550i x drive. It definitely wasn't the high revving beast that the M5 was, but I did like that low end torque and 4 wheel drive. Hadn't really had many issues that other 550i owners have had until recently.
Earlier this year my service rep at the dealership notified me that there was a "Customer Care Package" for my car and they needed to look at it.
http://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2015/bmw-n63-customer-care-package-recall.shtml
It's basically a recall for a number of engine parts. They had it for a few weeks and I got a brand new 7 series in the meantime as a loaner. Once I got it back I noticed a few things - better acceleration. Noticeably. Also the engine fan runs constantly. It's loud. Stays on 30 seconds after the car gets turned off too. I didn't put two and two together at the time that the recall and the fan were related. I just thought that it was summer and it was hot and the fan needed to cool the engine. However I found this article recently:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/a25710/enginerdy-strange-connections-bmw-n63-v8/
And that article opened my eyes to some pretty ugly realities about the engine in my car. I really love my car, man. But its clear from that article that the engine is a piece of shit.
If you stuck around through all that up there, my question is the following:
Knowing what I know, do I stay in this car since I'm not really having any issues, or do I move on to something else in anticipation of trouble to come?
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>>13654764
It's up to you.
If it helps your peace of mind, I would look at something else. There are cars capable of providing similar thrills.
I would look at the Mercedes E63 AMG, or a Pontiac G8 GT or Pontiac G8 GXP (if you can find one)
Ironically, the Pontiac is probably closest to the thrills a 5 series will give you because the chassis designs are actually very similar.
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>>13654764
As a BMW guy I would recommend to drive it until expiration of the warranty, and then just sell it. Used BMW are nothing but a Russian roulette. It's all fun and games until you randomly get rek'd
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>>13654874
Warranty is out. I know what I'm dealing with here. My M5 was a nightmare once it got over 80,000 miles.
>>13654798
I actually test drove the CLS63 and didn't like it as much as the 550i. Never drove the E63. I actually think both of them are sexier cars, but they just don't drive like the BMW does. I'm getting old and set in my ways I guess. I may just wait a few months for the 2016 5er.
How is it possible that a cat got into a cars spring?
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Cats are liquid, didn't you know this?
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>>13654657
he needed a softer suspension so russian engineering happened
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>>13654657
Requesting the reversed gif/webm of this that pisses off stupid animal rights people.
Why hasn't anyone done a motorcycle with a rear swingarm pivot in front of the engine so you could have a 35+" swingarm with massive mechanical grip and anti-wheelie properties while maintaining a short wheelbase... ?
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>>13654626
Where does the engine go?
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because the "anti-wheelie properties" in long swingarms come from the extended wheelbase, not from the length of the swing arm alone
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>>13654631
i made a coconut run version
The engine would sit behind the swing arm pic up point. Nothing much would have to change, expect maybe the swing arms will have to be wider than the chassis profile, or the engines will have to sit higher (bad trade off)
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/o/,
What is stance and is it a culture? Expand; what does or doesn't make 'stance' a culture. Similarly, is vaping popular among stance, and if so -- why?
Thanks for reading,
Anon.
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Faggotry
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stance is how a car sits
stance (culture) is people obsessed with getting their car to sit a certain way
its a culture because its a scene
vaping is popular among every fucking body these days because who the fuck knows why
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>>13654493
Stance is to autos as bronies are to people who like cartoons.
A cancerous faggy shittrend started by autismochallenged individuals with too much time / money and too few brain cells / testosterone.