Automotive Addicts Lounge V2- Why we are all broke:
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A dent?
I don't really see a dent...?
[QUOTE=Serj22;47648363]1. These are bushings, they always go bad over time.
3. What is your wastegate set at? The current MBC I have, along with the others I've tried just suck. I'm thinking when you switch to the new turbo with that adjustable wastegate you can ditch the stupid controller.[/QUOTE]
Wastegate I have is set to 7-8 psi, i usually run it to 16.
[QUOTE=Snoberry Tea;47648770]I don't really see a dent...?[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/YOn3GAq.jpg[/t]
It's a dent about 1 inch wide above the door. There's absolutely nothing that tall in my garage that could've caused a dent that high up by falling on it.
Oh shit. I didn't even notice that. And even with you pointing it out I have to squint to see it. The reflection is making it hard to get a feel for.
Something had to have fallen on it. Or it happened outside your garage and you just didn't notice until now.
I thought maybe I dinged it when I put on/removed my roof basket on my last trip. Also I remembered that i took it off from the other side of the car so it couldn't have been that.
This car is pretty damn new and it's slowly getting fucked up. :c
[QUOTE=Snoberry Tea;47649044]Oh shit. I didn't even notice that. And even with you pointing it out I have to squint to see it. The reflection is making it hard to get a feel for.
Something had to have fallen on it. Or it happened outside your garage and you just didn't notice until now.[/QUOTE]
But the reflection is really the only way you can tell it's there...
[QUOTE=ToastedBread;47649064]I thought maybe I dinged it when I put on/removed my roof basket on my last trip. Also I remembered that i took it off from the other side of the car so it couldn't have been that.
This car is pretty damn new and it's slowly getting fucked up. :c[/QUOTE]
I mean it's not that big of a dent, a body shop can probably take care of it fairly cheap.
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[QUOTE=Xanadu;47649077]But the reflection is really the only way you can tell it's there...[/QUOTE]
iunno to me the circle reflection throws off my perception of it.
[QUOTE=Snoberry Tea;47649113]I mean it's not that big of a dent, a body shop can probably take care of it fairly cheap.
[editline]3rd May 2015[/editline]
iunno to me the circle reflection throws off my perception of it.[/QUOTE]
It's not just that. Someone dinged the drivers side door right on the shoulder line and a few months ago, someone backed out of a spot across from me when I was already out most of the way and fucked up the corner of my bumper. Been meaning to get it replaced.
[QUOTE=ToastedBread;47649156]It's not just that. Someone dinged the drivers side door right on the body line and a few months ago, someone backed out of a spot across from me when I was already out most of the way and fucked up the corner of my bumper. Been meaning to get it replaced.[/QUOTE]
Cover your car in spikes.
It was probably a rock or some other flying object flung from the opposite side of the road.
[QUOTE=Xanadu;47649178]Better [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_%28flamethrower%29[/url][/QUOTE]
I need this in my life
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Thinking of checking this out. Would just shove it in the box of my truck and tinker with it while im still out of town working. I still have a month to go and the thing is pretty much just 2 weeks pay, can always sell it once I'm home.
Thinking of stripping off a lot of the chrome stuff (crash bars, backbasket, windshield, mirrors) shit like that. Then pull one thing at a time apart and clean it up, should be a nice bike. Likely repaint it to black later but the current color isnt bad.
Snoberry, here's a little input, since I see some of the advice I agree with, and some I don't.
Wire the orange/white from the Pioneer to the orange on the Ford harness. The orange/white on the Pioneer is the 'dash light on' signal input, and will dim the head unit when it sees 12v. The orange from the Ford harness goes to 12v when the dash lights turn on. If you want the headunit to dim with the headlights, connect these two.
The white/blue from the Pioneer harness is the 'amp turn on' wire as they mentioned. Pioneer may call it 'system remote', but it's just poor wording. Kenwood calls it 'P-cont' for example. Just know that being the blue/white wire, it will go to 12v, low current, when the headunit it turned on. It's used for a few different things;
-triggering a factory amp
-triggering a factory FM antenna booster
-triggering an aftermarket amp
Since your truck doesn't have an antenna booster (you would if you didn't have the big whip fender antenna), and doesn't have an amp, and doesn't have an aftermarket amp, you can leave it capped off.
On the ford harness, the blue/white would be the wire for the factory amp, and the blue would be for the factory antenna booster. If you look at the F-150's stock wiring harness wires vs. the ones in the new Ford harness you plugged in, you should notice the pin slots for the blue and blue/white from your new Ford harness are empty, that's how you know you don't need to connect them. If they were populated you WOULD want to connect them.
Next up the parking brake wire, light green. You DO need to connect it to access some of the features.
You can tag the parking brake wire, if you want it 'legal', which is just the non-black wire at the 2 pin connector at the parking brake, green/red IIRC. That goes to ground when you press the brake.
On these pioneers the wire needs to see;
-not ground
-ground
-not ground
-ground
to enable DVD, etc.
If you don't want to connect it to the parking brake, just get a little on/off toggle switch with 2 wires. Connect one to ground and the other to the pioneers parking brake wire. Flip it on and off a couple times to enable all the features, etc.
Another option is this;
[url]http://www.amazon.com/MicroBypass-AVH-X1500DVD-AVH-X1600DVD-AVH-X3500BHS-AVH-X3600BHS/dp/B00A9AQPUU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430632369&sr=8-1&keywords=270bt+bypass[/url]
This little thing just wires up to ground, parking brake wire, and the blue/white pioneer's amp turn on wire. When the blue/white turns to 12v it'll pulse the parking brake wire twice and then stay at ground, so it's automatic! Super handy.
As far as bluetooth.. what kind of phone? I've never had an issue pairing just about anything up with that unit.
Also, you mentioned adding an external remote for track skip, vol control, etc. There is indeed a way to do that, and it's one of the 3.5mm jacks on the back of the headunit. It's labeled SWC if I remember right (the one not labeled AUX). That is the plug input for a steering wheel control module output, like the ASWC-1, for example. Those connect to the vehicle's steering wheel control wires (if equipped, of course), and do the translating between the vehicle's variable resistances from steering wheel button presses, and the headunit's language (resistance between the 2 right of the 3.5mm jack). There's ways to swap your wheel to upgrade to that feature and stuff, just it's a next step level upgrade, lol.
And of course the purple/white reverse signal input. This wire would hook up to the reverse lights circuit that goes to 12v when the vehicle is in reverse. When purple/white sees 12v the headunit shifts into 'reverse camera' mode, which means it just displays whatever video is going into the input on the brown RCA jack on the back. Obv that'd come from a reverse camera, if you ever wanted one. Until then, just cap it.
[QUOTE=clutch2;47649372]Snoberry, here's a little input, since I see some of the advice I agree with, and some I don't.
Wire the orange/white from the Pioneer to the orange on the Ford harness. The orange/white on the Pioneer is the 'dash light on' signal input, and will dim the head unit when it sees 12v. The orange from the Ford harness goes to 12v when the dash lights turn on. If you want the headunit to dim with the headlights, connect these two.
[highlight]Unnecessary. The head unit dims itself based on time. I can also dim the display manually or turn it off without stopping the music. I'd rather not hook up wires I've been specifically told by other people not to.[/highlight]
The white/blue from the Pioneer harness is the 'amp turn on' wire as they mentioned. Pioneer may call it 'system remote', but it's just poor wording. Kenwood calls it 'P-cont' for example. Just know that being the blue/white wire, it will go to 12v, low current, when the headunit it turned on. It's used for a few different things;
-triggering a factory amp
-triggering a factory FM antenna booster
-triggering an aftermarket amp
Since your truck doesn't have an antenna booster (you would if you didn't have the big whip fender antenna, which it should have, yes?), and doesn't have an amp, and doesn't have an aftermarket amp, you can leave it capped off.
[highlight]Yeah didn't need it, didn't wire it up.[/highlight]
On the ford harness, the blue/white would be the wire for the factory amp, and the blue would be for the factory antenna booster. If you look at the F-150's stock wiring harness wires vs. the ones in the new Ford harness you plugged in, you should notice the pin slots for the blue and blue/white from your new Ford harness are empty, that's how you know you don't need to connect them. If they were populated you WOULD want to connect them.
Next up the parking brake wire, light green. You DO need to connect it to access some of the features.
You can tag the parking brake wire, if you want it 'legal', which is just the non-black wire at the 2 pin connector at the parking brake, green/red IIRC. That goes to ground when you press the brake.
On these pioneers the wire needs to see;
-not ground
-ground
-not ground
-ground
to enable DVD, etc.
If you don't want to connect it to the parking brake, just get a little on/off toggle switch with 2 wires. Connect one to ground and the other to the pioneers parking brake wire. Flip it on and off a couple times to enable all the features, etc.
Another option is this;
[url]http://www.amazon.com/MicroBypass-AVH-X1500DVD-AVH-X1600DVD-AVH-X3500BHS-AVH-X3600BHS/dp/B00A9AQPUU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430632369&sr=8-1&keywords=270bt+bypass[/url]
This little thing just wires up to ground, parking brake wire, and the blue/white pioneer's amp turn on wire. When the blue/white turns to 12v it'll pulse the parking brake wire twice and then stay at ground, so it's automatic! Super handy.
[highlight]Yes I already ordered that, actually. I didn't really want to spend that much but I didn't want a toggle switch hanging under my dash, I didn't want to cut a hole in the dash to mount it nicely, and I didn't want to actually wire it into my brake because I had no idea how AND I didn't feel like doing the bullshit they need to 'unlock' it (you have to fucking set and release the parking brake THREE TIMES to unlock the features. How fucking dumb is that? That's a lot of goddamn work in my truck, because to release it I have to lean down and tug a lever)[/highlight]
As far as bluetooth.. what kind of phone? I've never had an issue pairing just about anything up with that unit.
[highlight]Accessing the bluetooth settings are blocked when not in park. As such I cannot pair a device without the bypass. Fuck Pioneer.[/highlight]
Also, you mentioned adding an external remote for track skip, vol control, etc. There is indeed a way to do that, and it's one of the 3.5mm jacks on the back of the headunit. It's labeled SWC if I remember right (the one not labeled AUX). That is the plug input for a steering wheel control module output, like the ASWC-1, for example. Those connect to the vehicle's steering wheel control wires (if equipped, of course), and do the translating between the vehicle's variable resistances from steering wheel button presses, and the headunit's language (resistance between the 2 right of the 3.5mm jack). There's ways to swap your wheel to upgrade to that feature and stuff, just it's a next step level upgrade, lol.[/QUOTE]
No I actually didn't want to add an external remote, at all. It's not necessary the head unit is like 6 inches from my hand as it is. I just mentioned that the book made it sound like the blue/white "system remote wire" wire was for that.
Anyway the stereo is already wired in and working. Radio only atm. I'm toying with the idea of plugging the USB in and running that to my glove box when I take the unit back out to wire in the bypass.
[editline]3rd May 2015[/editline]
Also I didn't "cap" any of the wires I didn't need coming out of my harness or the stereo. I just cut them back so there was no bare wire exposed and tied them up in the bundle of wire. Is that ok?
If you're good with the unit dimming via time then you're OK with that orange/white.. but I'm going to give you this to heed; just because someone said to 'specifically not hook it up' doesn't mean they're right. I do this 50 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. If you DID want to hook up the orange/white wire it will be OK, no matter what other people said. I guarantee you 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt.
You still should be able to pair the phone while the unit's not in park, I'm pretty sure I have. Just turn on bluetooth on the phone, search it, then select it. To delete phones, or search from the headunit, then you need to have the parking brake set.
Not capping them is OK. I do because I'm anal, but just insulating them in some way and tie them up, that's good too.
Some fuckwit honked his train horn right outside our house today. Startled me badly enough to drop my bowl and shatter it all over the floor. Those things should be goddamn illegal.
So like I'm going to look at a 2nd gen taurus SHO on wednseday (1989)
my body is ready.
I'm also fairly drunk and listening to music that reminds me of when I was DDing my red jeep and having wonderous backfires every upshift and fuck you I love alice in chains.
:D
[editline]3rd May 2015[/editline]
I hope you all have an album or set of songs as dear to you as this album is to me in regard to automobiles.
[QUOTE=c0nk3r;47649823]So like I'm going to look at a 2nd gen taurus SHO on wednseday (1989)
my body is ready.
I'm also fairly drunk and listening to music that reminds me of when I was DDing my red jeep and having wonderous backfires every upshift and fuck you I love alice in chains.
:D
[editline]3rd May 2015[/editline]
I hope you all have an album or set of songs as dear to you as this album is to me in regard to automobiles.[/QUOTE]
100mph+eurobeat
I listen to Alice on Pandora every morning I drive to work
Laugh all you want, but [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL4RBZV7Wjc]Hrimfaxi from Ace Combat 5[/url] is great for driving sometimes. However most of the time for driving I use things like [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM]Don't Stop Me Now,[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4nWy8pmIM4]Barracuda,[/url] and [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNlT5I8R3ZU]Kickstart My Heart.[/url]
For some reason I'm drawn towards this car.
[t]http://www.caradvice.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2015-proton-iriz-5.jpg[/t]
2015 Proton Iriz. It's a car made by Proton to save them from destruction. It'll be dirt cheap (in Australia especially), probably just a bit more fuel efficient than my Hyundai i30 (which gets 10.3L/100km, which is terrible for a car of its size), not fast (11.3 from 0-100) and probably not very sporty. But I still like it. Just look at those rear lights.
[t]http://4-ps.googleusercontent.com/hk/QfFbG2TN5yVZ-d0l4wVSEEmYC_/www.caradvice.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/x2015-proton-iriz-9.jpg.pagespeed.ic.RINMMA_dhp0A8TAcTftM.jpg[/t]
In related news I've discovered what a Tōge is today. Not from Initial D or Japan at all, but from Malaysia (where they spell it Touge.) Here's the Proton Iriz doing just that:
[video=youtube;enItylTAs6I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enItylTAs6I[/video]
and here's the car trying to overtake:
[video=youtube;Fm90NG1hL80]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm90NG1hL80[/video]
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;47649686]Some fuckwit honked his train horn right outside our house today. Startled me badly enough to drop my bowl and shatter it all over the floor. Those things should be goddamn illegal.[/QUOTE]
Those train horns are pussy shit. You know what you must do
[url]https://www.hornblasters.com/products/details.php?i=nathan-airchime-k5-540-train-horn-kit[/url]
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=QFum-pcgmTA[/media]
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;47649686]Some fuckwit honked his train horn right outside our house today. Startled me badly enough to drop my bowl and shatter it all over the floor. Those things should be goddamn illegal.[/QUOTE]
Goddamn kids and their GP40 diesels
[QUOTE=Xanadu;47650602]Goddamn kids and their GP40 diesels[/QUOTE]
You fokken wot m8? How dare you default to the GP40! Everyone knows the GP35 is the best Jeep! [sp]Not because I only have GP35's and can't afford new engines even though I want GP40's or anything...[/sp]
[QUOTE=clutch2;47649471]If you're good with the unit dimming via time then you're OK with that orange/white.. but I'm going to give you this to heed; just because someone said to 'specifically not hook it up' doesn't mean they're right. I do this 50 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. If you DID want to hook up the orange/white wire it will be OK, no matter what other people said. I guarantee you 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt.
You still should be able to pair the phone while the unit's not in park, I'm pretty sure I have. Just turn on bluetooth on the phone, search it, then select it. To delete phones, or search from the headunit, then you need to have the parking brake set.
Not capping them is OK. I do because I'm anal, but just insulating them in some way and tie them up, that's good too.[/QUOTE]
Yeah snoberry. If clutch says one of us is wrong about 12v stuff, we probably are. He really does know what hes talking about.ci used to do m.e. but that was a long time ago before a lot of features existed. Thats why I stated I have no idea what to do with all those other color wires. Ive never had experience with them. But either way. Clutch is a valuable resource kind of like oil.
[QUOTE=FlandersNed;47650396]For some reason I'm drawn towards this car.
2015 Proton Iriz. It's a car made by Proton to save them from destruction. It'll be dirt cheap (in Australia especially), probably just a bit more fuel efficient than my Hyundai i30 (which gets 10.3L/100km, which is terrible for a car of its size), not fast (11.3 from 0-100) and probably not very sporty. But I still like it. Just look at those rear lights.
In related news I've discovered what a Tōge is today. Not from Initial D or Japan at all, but from Malaysia (where they spell it Touge.) Here's the Proton Iriz doing just that:
[video=youtube;enItylTAs6I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enItylTAs6I[/video]
[/QUOTE]
Afaik, it is pronounce Tou-ge and since we don't use fancy accented letters it should be just right.
I used to take the same type of road in the video everyday when I still drove a Proton, they're really fun to push around in.
I would actually want this car if proton put in their really-really good multi-link suspension in it but its a tiny budget car and I'm pretty sure they'll have this car's torsion suspension engineered too.
This is what proton is super good at : Suspension
This is what they are bad at : Engines
This is what they're worse at : Plastic interior
Proton suspension are buttfuck fantastic seriously, and they handle really well. The car just goes wherever you point it at.
Their engines have always been underpowered, I mean 100hp out of a 1.6l engine in 2014 is just disappointing, not to mention the 10.0:1 compression ratio.
The interior of their baseline models have always been made with a hunk of crap. A plastic tupperware has more strength than the plastic interior of dubious quality.
Their CVT is ehhhhhh, its very "untuned". Its not as bland as boring as other manufacturer's but its still extremely bland and boring. You'll get what I'm trying to say if you drove Nissan's CVT and then drive Proton's CVT.
IMO if you're getting a Proton:
-Get a manual
-Get the high end model
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Thinking of checking this out. Would just shove it in the box of my truck and tinker with it while im still out of town working. I still have a month to go and the thing is pretty much just 2 weeks pay, can always sell it once I'm home.
Thinking of stripping off a lot of the chrome stuff (crash bars, backbasket, windshield, mirrors) shit like that. Then pull one thing at a time apart and clean it up, should be a nice bike. Likely repaint it to black later but the current color isnt bad.[/QUOTE]
How bout you buy an engine for the dart and tinker with that while your away. Maybe you can talk to it when your lonely or use the air cleaner as a nighstand and frame a picture of your dart to put there so you can look at it every night before you go to sleep and dream about not spending money and time on mustangs and actually finishing the dart.
[QUOTE=clutch2;47649471]If you're good with the unit dimming via time then you're OK with that orange/white.. but I'm going to give you this to heed; just because someone said to 'specifically not hook it up' doesn't mean they're right. I do this 50 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. If you DID want to hook up the orange/white wire it will be OK, no matter what other people said. I guarantee you 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt.
You still should be able to pair the phone while the unit's not in park, I'm pretty sure I have. Just turn on bluetooth on the phone, search it, then select it. To delete phones, or search from the headunit, then you need to have the parking brake set.
Not capping them is OK. I do because I'm anal, but just insulating them in some way and tie them up, that's good too.[/QUOTE]
no no no they said specifically not to hook up the blue on my harness to the blue/white on the stereo because it'd fry the head unit. They didn't say anything about the orange.
I didn't wire in the parking thing at all because I had no idea where it went, so I'm 99% sure the stereo is just flat out blocking features until I do so. In the manual every thing it says about greyed out options are a result of the parking brake thing.
[editline]3rd May 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;47649686]Some fuckwit honked his train horn right outside our house today. Startled me badly enough to drop my bowl and shatter it all over the floor. Those things should be goddamn illegal.[/QUOTE]
Aren't they great? :v:
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