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My first car was a 1998 Cadillac Sedan de Ville, black exterior with black interior and black leather. I had to get a remote start in the fucker because I literally could not get in for 3 minutes after opening the door on a hot day. [editline]14th August 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Birdman101;48454122]GM ignition problems nothing to see here, move along[/QUOTE] I'll take the key out of my jeep with the engine running and walk into sev like "what up, I'm the fucking retard that put a remote start in a 1990 jeep cherokee"
Hey funny story about my bike.. I'm cruising down the road when all of the sudden it gets a little bit louder. I stop and look, sure enough, the whole damned exhaust pipe just popped right off. Damned thing is all scratched up and holes everywhere. No mending this one I think. So now this 500 is riding with one exhaust pipe, and the other is open lol. It's annoyingly loud to say the least.
My cx500 sounds fucking beautiful straightpiped
Picked up my package from the post office today, got a "new" refurbished custom engine harness to convert my Civic to MPFI. I really fucking hate USPS and their signature on delivery services. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5601782/EF%20Pics/2015-08-14%2012.24.37.jpg[/t] [QUOTE=butre;48454034]my truck developed a new problem [media]https://youtu.be/YZIMEXbNkLA[/media][/QUOTE] I've never owned a vehicle which didn't do this, all Hondas which have a conventional key do this after a while. In my Integra it's a required feature, to open the hatch you must use the key because the shitty electric trunk latches usually broke within the first year of ownership.
Like jeeze, how hard do you people shove and yank your keys to get them to do that?
I get my truck washed after forever and a day, go to the flea market to get some shit, come back and some bird shit on it. [t]https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/11856426_860666403989091_8035798346064186784_o.jpg[/t] Motherfucker I'll turn you into buffalo wings.
Birdshit just adds character.
dead insects gives a nicer accent.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;48460024]Like jeeze, how hard do you people shove and yank your keys to get them to do that?[/QUOTE] if you saw what it takes to start that truck you'd understand
[QUOTE=kimr120;48460210]dead insects gives a nicer accent.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of when I was driving down the road once and some kid egged the side of my truck. I was being lazy and didn't get it all off and the next day I go out to the car and there's all these bugs crawling on where the egg hit.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8nvFLKsAYA[/media]
Hey guys. Building a cafe racer, but the tank I want to use is extraordinarily rare everywhere but Spain (and fuck $200+ shipping) so I was planning on fabricating my own using a 3d printed 'plug' to form steel over. The tank doesn't have any really hard angles, so I was thinking I might take a few sheets of really thin 30 gauge steel sheet and form it over the plug, using the thinness of the sheet to morph to the shape easily. Any thoughts on welding a multi-layer surface together at the edge?
what tank are you looking to reproduce?
I swear on the graves of all of my ancestors, I will never, [I]never[/I], [I][B]never[/B][/I] do any business with a bank or financial institution in my fucking life. Found a Veloster on Craigslist, settled a great deal on it, only snag is the car's title has a lien on it, it's technically owned by bank. So we arrange for me to go pay off most of the guy's loan while he kicks the rest in and transfer the car into my name. We call ahead to the bank to ask if I can use a debit card because my bank was closed so no cashiers check.. Bank said debit would be fine to pay off the balance of a car (note, specifically mentioned how much I was paying and that it was a CAR). We get to the bank, whoops! You can't use a debit card here! There's a $1000 limit! After about 30 minutes of the woman at the bank struggling to come up with methods of payment, we settle on cash. We come back with cash only to find the bank has closed. We go to a different location, wait in line some more, finally sit down with the manager of the branch. Oh good, a manager! That means she'll definitely know what she's doing and won't fuck everything up. We go through the process, sign the dotted lines, etc. etc. and I receive an odometer release and a bill of sale, both are notarized. I pay extra to have the title put in my name and shipped to me ASAP because I need to register my vehicle soon so I can buy campus parking passes and blah blah blah. We ask her if we can register the car TODAY using the documents she provided, even without a title, she says yes the DMV will absolutely register the vehicle because the documents we have apparently act in place of a title. Get to the DMV, wait even longer, and what do you know? They can't fucking register it! Says the bank hasn't released the title yet, might take a week or two! So after much argument and counting backwards from 10, I register the car with a temp registration just so I can drive to and from work until the title shows up in the mail. I get home from work today, look what I find on my desk! A letter from the bank, oh joy! Open it up, and as I'm reading my shiny new title I seem to find... No mention of my name? Turns out, the bank just put the title in the previous owner's name. In essence, I just paid off somebody else's car loan, like a gift! I don't own the car, and I can't fucking register it, and of course the place is CLOSED so I can't even get it resolved today (or tomorrow, or the day after!). Now I have to coordinate with the seller and hope he's merciful enough to drive out of his way to a notary so I can finally buy the car I already [I]fucking bought.[/I]
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1031910/IMAG0949.jpg[/t] Shitty photo but gets the point across. I like my redneck bumper / unicorn and Im really digging the standard guard on the burban. I like the unicorn because I can poke trees over before their limbs will get to my windshield.... and the suburban has less potential of me poking out a headlight.... [sp]Dont look that I welded it to the suburban..[/sp]
[QUOTE=srobins;48461884]I swear on the graves of all of my ancestors, I will never, [I]never[/I], [I][B]never[/B][/I] do any business with a bank or financial institution in my fucking life. Found a Veloster on Craigslist, settled a great deal on it, only snag is the car's title has a lien on it, it's technically owned by bank. So we arrange for me to go pay off most of the guy's loan while he kicks the rest in and transfer the car into my name. We call ahead to the bank to ask if I can use a debit card because my bank was closed so no cashiers check.. Bank said debit would be fine to pay off the balance of a car (note, specifically mentioned how much I was paying and that it was a CAR). We get to the bank, whoops! You can't use a debit card here! There's a $1000 limit! After about 30 minutes of the woman at the bank struggling to come up with methods of payment, we settle on cash. We come back with cash only to find the bank has closed. We go to a different location, wait in line some more, finally sit down with the manager of the branch. Oh good, a manager! That means she'll definitely know what she's doing and won't fuck everything up. We go through the process, sign the dotted lines, etc. etc. and I receive an odometer release and a bill of sale, both are notarized. I pay extra to have the title put in my name and shipped to me ASAP because I need to register my vehicle soon so I can buy campus parking passes and blah blah blah. We ask her if we can register the car TODAY using the documents she provided, even without a title, she says yes the DMV will absolutely register the vehicle because the documents we have apparently act in place of a title. Get to the DMV, wait even longer, and what do you know? They can't fucking register it! Says the bank hasn't released the title yet, might take a week or two! So after much argument and counting backwards from 10, I register the car with a temp registration just so I can drive to and from work until the title shows up in the mail. I get home from work today, look what I find on my desk! A letter from the bank, oh joy! Open it up, and as I'm reading my shiny new title I seem to find... No mention of my name? Turns out, the bank just put the title in the previous owner's name. In essence, I just paid off somebody else's car loan, like a gift! I don't own the car, and I can't fucking register it, and of course the place is CLOSED so I can't even get it resolved today (or tomorrow, or the day after!). Now I have to coordinate with the seller and hope he's merciful enough to drive out of his way to a notary so I can finally buy the car I already [I]fucking bought.[/I][/QUOTE] Sounds like bad timing. A transaction like that is worth taking a day off work/school for. One of the few things I'm thankful for buying from a dealership is that their lot, including their service department, is open on Saturdays and I was able to get through the entire headache in 5 hours. Wasn't the last headache though, cause the service dept messed up installing a brakepad that eventually seized while I was about ten miles from home. Point being if you must rush a car purchase do it on a weekday morning, and renting a car or getting a carpool to extend time wouldn't hurt either, except on your wallet
[QUOTE=DPKiller;48461913][t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1031910/IMAG0949.jpg[/t] Shitty photo but gets the point across. I like my redneck bumper / unicorn and Im really digging the standard guard on the burban. I like the unicorn because I can poke trees over before their limbs will get to my windshield.... and the suburban has less potential of me poking out a headlight.... [sp]Dont look that I welded it to the suburban..[/sp][/QUOTE] Add bushguards to the unicorn and get the best of both worlds!
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;48462140]Add bushguards to the unicorn and get the best of both worlds![/QUOTE] It will be overweight.... I'm kinda at a verge of not doing anything to it because I really goofed. I cut the pipe and have no real idea on were it should end. I learned my lesson. Build it on a jig were you know the width of the vehicle and can cut the angles correct. So I've lost interest in that bumper....I could salvage the project with about a day worth of labor.... But yeah, my alignment and I discussed how much more weight I could get on and did some calculations and I can cover it, and put a winch on it and that IT my adjustments would be maxed out for camber.
[QUOTE=Xanadu;48462136]Sounds like bad timing. A transaction like that is worth taking a day off work/school for. One of the few things I'm thankful for buying from a dealership is that their lot, including their service department, is open on Saturdays and I was able to get through the entire headache in 5 hours. Wasn't the last headache though, cause the service dept messed up installing a brakepad that eventually seized while I was about ten miles from home. Point being if you must rush a car purchase do it on a weekday morning, and renting a car or getting a carpool to extend time wouldn't hurt either, except on your wallet[/QUOTE] It's my first big-boy car buying experience so I guess I'm just paying my naivete tax, but I still can't believe the level of incompetence involved here. Imagine if the seller was a deadbeat and refused to come meet with me to resolve this? The bank would have cost me $16,000 and I'd have nothing to show for it, it seems amazing that a mistake like this can even happen with this much money involved. On a lighter note though, my girlfriend got a car, a brand new Ford Focus or something like that, drove it home from the dealership and as she was driving away decided to open the windows to let in some fresh air and enjoy the ride.. Only to have the window immediately slump down into the door as soon as she hit the button. Had to go to the dealership and have it repaired, manufacturing error. Her father insisted she get a Ford because he wanted to support the glorious Detroit auto industry lol
[QUOTE=butre;48460321][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8nvFLKsAYA[/media][/QUOTE] How to steal a 90's honda civic: the video
[QUOTE=Code3Response;48462602]How to steal a 90's honda civic: the video[/QUOTE] As a public safety professional you should know you don't steal 90's honda civics. They steal themselves and kidnap unsuspecting minorities while they sleep.
[QUOTE=butre;48461629]what tank are you looking to reproduce?[/QUOTE] Tank off a Lambretta Serveta Puma cross. Long, narrow, and the triple tree notch is shallow. [t]http://oi44.tinypic.com/34phwcz.jpg[/t]
I mentioned the time my buddy used my keys to unlock and start his car, right?
[QUOTE=Del91;48462682]I mentioned the time my buddy used my keys to unlock and start his car, right?[/QUOTE] I think I read that for a long time there were only 4 or 5 different key patterns in use by one of the American manufacturers. :v:
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;48462767]I think I read that for a long time there were only 4 or 5 different key patterns in use by one of the American manufacturers. :v:[/QUOTE] Gonna put my money on it having been AMC.
[QUOTE=Code3Response;48462602]How to steal a 90's honda civic: the video[/QUOTE] that's good to know in case I ever need to steal a '90s civic but this doesn't work without the right key (I've tried) [editline]15th August 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Xanadu;48462802]Gonna put my money on it having been AMC.[/QUOTE] yeah mopar wouldn't have done that for sure. sort of a toss up between chevy and ford I guess but AMC would have had no problem with that [editline]15th August 2015[/editline] that or maybe international or studebaker [editline]15th August 2015[/editline] it's amazing that when I was a kid studes were really cool but now nobody remembers them
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;48462767]I think I read that for a long time there were only 4 or 5 different key patterns in use by one of the American manufacturers. :v:[/QUOTE] Actually we both have CB7 accords. Mines a 90, his is a 91.
Spent over 5 hours cleaning and claying (for the first time in my life, claying that is) today. Totally worth it, it's so smooth now but it made me sad because all I can see now is stone chips :disgust:
Just got back from a pretty fun trip. [img]http://i.cubeupload.com/yOS5Fb.jpg[/img] I need new brakes now.
So one of my friends has the same model and year lesabre as me, just a different trim. He recently took some body damage in a crash and the insurance company considers it totaled. He's willing to sell it to me for very cheap. I want it for parts (door trim, window switches, regulators, exterior trim maybe, and his spoiler which isn't dented like mine. There are some other things I could jack from it too, there's less than 75k miles on it. How do I test to know if the engine/tranny is still good? Is it relatively easily to swap the same exact engine?
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