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>Reflective rim tapes for cars and motorcycles
>Comes in whatever color and size you want
Are these considered tacky?
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had some on my bike, red.
Looked like shit after 6months. Dirty, peeling, and got colour got dull.
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On bikes no.
On your civic yes.
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They're a safety feature on bikes, but on cars yeah they would look dumb.
Corvette C5 as a first sports car?
I'm very good at manual, both from driving manual daily for 3 years, hooning in shitboxes, and various simulators, so that isn't an issue. I can find C5s for about $8k for decent versions with 120k miles. How reliable are they past 100k miles? I'd be using it as a daily driver and sometimes a car to fuck around in on backroads.
Also, opinion on the C5? Underpriced gem or heap of shit?
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>>17880477
Forgot to mention that I know how to work on cars.
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Save up for one with less miles or get a mint C4
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>>17880550
I honestly don't like C4s. I prefer C5s because of how they look, but also because of how common parts are. I don't know if this is the same case with the C4, but I imagine it isn't.
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When the fuck did trucks start to cost as much as a shitty house
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>Want to buy a new short bed, short cab truck.
>Every trim level that isnt straight up fleet vehicle poor grade is 30 thousand goddamned dollars.
>Literally A/C and having the truck be one fucking color with keyless.
>V8 and 4x4 is the down payment on a house.
How.
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>>17880410
What third world country do you live in that you can buy a house for around $55,000?
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>>17880410
They've been $50k fully loaded for ever. That's probably what a Ford f250 cost 20 years ago too. It's the $90k Laramie's and Denali's that are ridiculous.
Trucks can still be around the $35k mark if you don't pick every retarded option.
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/o/'s thoughts on the new sierra?
http://www.autotrader.ca/a/GMC/Sierra+1500/St+Catharines/Ontario/5_31399713_20080621144633703/?showcpo=ShowCPO&orup=20_15_296
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yup
it's a pickup
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I'll admit, the appearance looks bad ass. Basic trim and that goes good together imo.
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my thoughts? another oversized pickup that will capitalize on the manufactured image of 'manliness' that america has created.
i'll just sit around in my civic laughing at these guys when it takes them 20 minutes to parallel park
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What affordable JDM car do I import?
Keep in mind it costs about 6k all up on top of the cost of the car to import here.
I'm liking the look of a Soarer Z20. They seem surprisingly cheap and it has a pleasing aesthetic. On the other hand I'm quite tempted by an rx7 or evo although they'd cost more.
I'll say I know bugger all about these cars so I need to do my research, but I want something to work towards.
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Quit being a weeb and get an affordable car that is faster, more reliable, cheaper to source parts and easier to drive on our streets.
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>>17880034
not a weeb tyvm
I appreciate Jap cars and would like to own something more unique
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>>17880023
Silvia S13
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>lol black people can't drive manual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkcel34N-VA
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>>17879851
lmao
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That's 6 minutes I'm not getting back... Where does it get good/bad
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>>17879851
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=Xkcel34N-VA
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http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-shows/frankfurt-auto-show/a12237610/you-can-thank-america-for-the-continued-existence-of-stick-shift-porsches/
>Americans can't drive manual
You're welcome yurop
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>>17879708
"The executive says around 20 to 25 percent of 911 Carrera 2 models are ordered with a stick-shift, with an even higher proportion of 718 Boxster and Cayman buyers opting for the three-pedal arrangement."
Honda stated that 10% of their sales are manual cars (most were opt-in purchases, as in the buyer specifically wanted a manual) for a mass manufacturer like Honda, 10% is a fuckton of money. Enough that they now offer manual options for almost every car they sell.
Porsche's were always about the driving experience and feel. Took them a few tries just to get electric power steering right. During that time the owner base had a fucking shit fit. I could only imagine how angry they would be if they stopped offering some kind of manual car.
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>>17879844
I was one of the auties that insisted my first car, a new 08 civic lx, was manual. you're welcome /o/. I learned to drive on a manual corolla and at the time manuals were still cheaper and better mileage-wise than the same vehicle in automatic.
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>GT350 is manual only
>Viper is manual only
>Camaro 1LE is manual only
>Corvette has manual option
Americans choose to drive stick, they aren't forced to out of poverty
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>tfw live up North
>any car for sale that's over 5 years old has attrocious amounts of rust
I never thought I'd say this but I wish I lived in SoCal
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>>17879464
cmon down
we got mexican food aplenty, asians and asian food, shitty freeways, crime, L.A. if youre into THAT crappy city, and medium to hot weather year round. perfect for driving with my windows down
good luck finding an affordable place though
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>>17879464
So Cal Bro here,
Only downtown LA and South Central are shit. Everything else ranges from decent to good especially once you get to suburbs, the nice coastal areas or around Orange County.
Enjoy driving my convertible car top down through pacific coast highway. So Cal is great man.
Anyone saying otherwise is a poorfag driving a 96 civic living in Compton
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>>17879464
You don't have to live in commiefornia to not have rusty cars.
t. my 20 year old glorious 1000 times folded over nipponese steel shitbox doesn't have a speck of rust
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I don't like today's car front design. I hate pointy head lights and longer than is wide gills. I prefer 60s and 90s "natural" faces.
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>>17879423
>80s
>not a wedge
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>1970s
>four eyes
>not 1960s
Someone only looked at Camaros for their chart. The headlight regs were changed in 1958 and from that year on EVERYONE had quad lights.
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>>17879423
Picked up typical cars from each era.
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Lately we're seeing automatics that are more efficient than their manual counterparts. For example:
2000 Ford Focus 2.0l
31/22/25 hwy/city/combined w/ manual
28/22/24 hwy/city/combined w/ auto
2017 Ford Focus 2.0l
34/25/28 hwy/city/combined w/ manual
38/26/31 hwy/city/combined w/ auto
And the Honda Accord, which has a CVT in the 2017 auto model:
>2000 Honda Accord 2.3l
29/22/24 hwy/city/combined w/ manual
28/20/23 hwy/city/combined w/ auto
>2017 Honda Accord 2.4l
32/23/26 hwy/city/combined w/ manual
34/26/29 hwy/city/combined w/ auto
Just from doing test drives, I can confirm that new manuals are turning significantly higher RPM at highway speed, which is murder for MPGs.
So I was thinking, why don't they do something like this for manuals in cars? Not to the same extent, but a 5-speed manual with a hi/lo splitter would still be lighter and cheaper than a 7 or 8-speed automatic and would likely let you get better mileage because you could have a better gear ratio range at highway speeds so you could get your engine turning really slow for maximum efficiency, without sacrificing power at highway speed because you could just drop a few gears to pass.
Thoughts?
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>>17879289
They're called overdrive gears OP
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>>17879289
Fuck yeah I want 8 gears in my manual or a hi/lo spliter. Both would be excellent compromises. The way it's set up now is appropriate for the car and its intended use, but still a compromise of which 6 ratios to use.
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>>17879289
because jews
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Post a picture of the metal cancer on your shitbox.
my car. Can't jack up that wheel easily anymore
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>>17879260
>tfw for the first time in my life my car has no rust
Although iktf when you go to jack it up and it just crunches a hole in the rust. I'd been jacking it by the diff or the subframe for years because of that. Sometimes a control arm or other big suspension mounting point.
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>>17879260
eugh...
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Ive been getting a hold on it
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The first time you see a driver less vehicle... what do...
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>>17878839
Play chicken with it and whatever else I can think of to confuse the AI.
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>>17878839
What a shitty study. Even if the driver wasn't cosplaying as a seat, people would notice the obnoxious flashing lights. Fully autonomous vehicles are not yet legal on public roads and in test vehicles with humans inside monitoring systems the vehicles tend to stand out due to the unusual sensors.
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>>17878844
Researchers at the University of Washington confused autonomous cars into misidentifying road signs, and they did it with simple stickers they made a home computer. The researchers put stickers on road signs and managed to convince the car’s image-detecting alogorithms that they were seeing, say, a speed limit sign instead of a stop sign.
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/o/ v /k/
spoiler: /o/ gets btfo like the faggots you are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CObtSg4LzF8
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what is this, the 5th thread today? fuck off
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>>17878828
redbull me on the story
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>>17878828
>harass guy hauling shit
>guy takes the bait
>BUT HE'S 40 I'M JUST 18 BAWWWWW
kek
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Let's give Twingo some friends! Post small and happy cars! I nominate the Opel Adam with it's big happy smile
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miata seems to be happy but has LEWD character
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>>17878857
>Miata
>lewd
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Peugeot 208
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2010 Toyota Corolla Repair Question
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So /o/ I have a car repair question about a 2010 Toyota Corolla. I have a female friend who owns a 2010 Toyota Corolla who has had problem with it. She started her car up, while it was in the driveway, pulled it into her garage to put it out of harms way before Hurricane Irma hit. The car was then shut off and left for a couple of days. When she tried to start it again after the storm passed, the car would just crank and not actually start running. After a few tries she started hearing a grinding sound and stopped. She called a tow truck and had it towed to a local repair shop. The repair shop claims that the reason her car would not start, is that she hadn't let it run long enough to get warm after she initially started the engine and moved it into the garage, before shutting it off. They claimed that her car can't handle a short start, be moved and then shut off. That unless it gets warm, the gas remains in the cylinder, and it acts like the engine is flooded on an old model car. That the only way for it to be restarted again, is they had to remove the spark plugs and clean them because they became fouled from the gasoline, and that in the future, her car has to be run long enough for the engine to warm up, before it can be shut off, or this may happen to her again.
My question is, is this an actual known issue with 2010 Toyota Corolla's, or is what the repair shop told her a bunch of bullshit? I would be surprised if a Toyota is not capable of being started in the summertime heat of Florida when the engine is cold, pulled forward into a garage, shut off, and allowed to sit for a few days, and it can't be started again without needing work done on it, but that is what the repair place has told her was the issue.
Is this a known issue on her model of car, and if so, what can be done if anything, by the owner to get it to start without having to have it towed.
Thanks for any input/advice/knowledge you have on this problem.
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>>17878710
Really?!? No one knows anything about this?
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>>17878710
>female
>friend
Fucking cuck
You can start and stop a modern engine as much as you want it won't flood.
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>>17878710
>the reason her car would not start, is that she hadn't let it run long enough to get warm after she initially started the engine and moved it into the garage, before shutting it off.
This is a load of shit. Grinding noise was probably the battery being nearly dead from all the cranking and the starter solenoid not fully engaging. As for why it wouldn't fully start, that could be a multitude of things, but keep in mind the 3 important factors of ignition:
Spark
Fuel
Air
Check for any problems with all three of those