>buy a car for $4000>coolant line $600>transmission fluid line $600>airbox $1200>will need new brake pads soonFuck this, I'm never buying used cars again.
>>27984744oh yeah. up until late last year or early this year (don't remember exactly) i had like literally nothing in my checking account. literally like 40 cents. i had pretty much maxed out my credit card and used what little i had in the bank to get the car, and from that point forward all paychecks were just dumped into the card to pay it off, but of course i had to pay for all my food with the credit cardi finally have like 4 grand right now but owe almost 2300 dollars because i took out a suncoast loan to basically rebuild the suspensioni think i'm finally done and can actually save money now
>>27984805Black or Mexican?
>>27984805You can get out of the pit anon, if she's a good runner now just chip away at it. Remember to peel your bananas before weighing them at the self checkout
>>27984860i'm broke and in my early 20s give me a break>>27984871it's a 1999 avalon so basically nothing serious can go wrong now, i should be ok for as long as i need it
>>27984412lollmao
What's a good price to buy a 2014 Dodge Avenger with 90k miles? What does everyone think about that car?Also, how much are taxes plus "dealer fees"? Does it really add like $1000 or so to the listed cost?
$6500 max
>>27984878That's actually exactly what I bought it for but the added $1000 in taxes/"""dealer fees""" made it $7500 out the door. I should have just walked away and bought one from marketplace instead of an auto broker aka scam broker lol
Why don’t Americans buy Volkswagens?
>>27984206they aren't inherently more expensive to maintain or unreliable if you do it yourself or know someone who can work on them. the issue is that unlike in slavic countries where vw is everywhere, you can't just find a random mexican dad in the states who will fix them for next to nothing. that's why there are so many "euro specialists" even though they're not that special. most normies would rather get another shitbox than deal with bmw tier inflated labor cost once the car starts nickel and diming them. you and I both know you pulled that 150k number out of your ass.
>>27982674>the Camaro and Vette should just be given their own brandingin fact they tried selling the corvette simply as the corvette in europe and the result was that everyone got very confused, I don't believe europeans are as accustomed to the notion of car brands being mostly fake and all under the control of three or four huge, vague corporate entities like "general motors" that make them up and kill them off whenever they feel like it and stick their badges on whatever they please as americans are, despite that being the situation in europe almost to the same extent that it is in america, and besides europeans are not in fact remote tribal peoples of desert or jungle barely in contact with civilisation and have heard of chevrolet and know the corvette comes from them, and so when they saw a car being marketed simply as "the corvette" most assumed it was a chinese knock-off
>>27984213>horrificly unreliableyes it’s that simple, they had larger market share decades ago but Americans realized they are just plain and simple bad cars, why Audi is full in on leasing also, 4 years or less they are ok>>27984387They are more expensive because they have more failures per mile than domestic and Asian models
>>27984672>more failures per mile than domesticnevermind, it was bait this whole time. disregard.
>>27982674Maybe in europe but ABSOLUTELY NOT in america Its not just a camaro here, its a CHEVY camaro.
Cars don't come with spare tires anymore, and you can't even option in a donut, the space is still there though, it's full of foam where the spare tire and tire jack used to be.Instead you get a tire pump and an OEM-specific bottle of fix a flat that costs $300 to replace after every use.
>>27984079it wont work for weird shaped holes or a total blowout, or damage to the sidewalls.
>>27983962The average new car buyer is a 52yo woman who cannot and will never change their own tire without roadside assiatance, this change does not affect anyone except for auto enthusiasts, and these people do not buy new cars ever.
>>27983962Yet another reason pickup trucks are the best modern vehicles. Not only do you still get a spare, it's usually a a fifth wheel and tire identical to the main four instead of some shitty undersized steelie.
>>27984212My 4runner Limited has a full size spare that is identical to the main four. But the regular SR5 just has a black steelie for some reason.
>>27984847my 4th gen 4runner SR5 has the full size spare underneath that matches the others.
I’ll start, OBS crew cab tube chassis prerunner with BBC 632 swap and a roots supercharger making [hopefully] 1500hp, long travel suspension and big tires on beadlocks
>>27983650Based italianjob enjoyer
>>27983194He welded the armor with the stinger (rear concrete ripper) on the ground so when it was raised it blocked his .50 BMG rifle. So when he fired tracer rounds at the propane tank farm (that was in the middle of a residential neighborhood) they just vaporized on his own armor plating.Luckily he made many mistakes otherwise many innocent lives would have been lost.He needed a better game plan and should have hardened the cooling system and his camera mounts.Incase people weren't familiar with the exact design of the killdozer:>1" hardened steel trenchplates (the kind used in road construction to temporarily cover holes so vehicles can drive over them), inner and outer layers with about 9" of concrete poured inbetween them.
>>27983532the modern day gray impala.
>>27979108
4th gen 4unner V6 (post 2005) SR5 (without Xraes) Reliable. Cheap. Indestructible. No BS on it to break. Can easily mod off the few environmental things if that's legal in your state. Lots of spare parts for them. Locking diffs. Great off road stock.The V8 is also good, but has secondary air injection, much more common headache problems, and cracking exhaust manifold.
>the perfect daily doesn't exis-ACKK
>giving him attention its time to learn
>>27980482once you've taken the used luxury sedan pill, it's hard to ever go back>t. 2007 E320 CDI
>>27980537What a wrenchlet, slowfaglet.
>>27980575>autismNah, he's just an annoying shitskin.
>>27980537That's his fucking mom's car you jerk.
I'm too stupid for it
>>27984395>How do I stop at a light without stalling?worst case you can do like I did in my 85 shitbox iroc camaro I bought for $500 in high school. The clutch just hung there dangling (didn't even think about working properly). I would have to turn the car off at stop lights, put it in 1st, then hit the gas and turn it on when the light turned green. From there I just powershifted through the gears. Not sure how long I could have gone on doing that but I ramped it over some railroad tracks and sent her into a pole which put it out of its misery
>>27984409>put it neutral and unclutchwait do people just sit there with the clutch in the whole time?
>>27984735>wait do people just sit there with the clutch in the whole time?Yes. Eventually you'll be able to identify them by the "In Sink Garbage Disposal full of ball bearings" sound their throwout bearing makes.
>>27984395Go to a lower gear and eventually to neutral when ur slow enough
>>27984090>let the NPCs honk their horns, you won't lose 'aura'If there's anything good compared to living in a big city, it's that you can embarrass yourself completely for 10 minutes straight on a public road and literally no one at that intersection would ever recognize you again. Applies to more than just driving.
Lowered cars look ghetto and stupid.Black wheels look ghetto and stupid.
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>>27984772i know, im wiggermaxing
if white people invented the internal combustion engine, why are the best and most reliable engines today japanese?
>>27982297The japs don't have the same attitude for outsourcing that the west does. They want shit done to a certain quality and they will check on you. Americans don't fucking car. Their plants that aren't in mexico are full of niggers and they just drag the whole thing down.
>>27983465>Trucks are usually made to last longer yet you can't post a single japanese truck with more mileage than that ram. and those rams make up the highest percentage of recorded million mile vehicles.continue to cope why japan doesn't make the highest mileage engines, i guess. they don't even make most of the engines that hit a million miles.>v8 is not more complex>more moving parts and reciprocating mass is is not more complex because the toyota has more little pieces of metal called "valves" in each cylinder>even if the vic still has the same amount of values anyway>whole engine has more moving parts>but its not more complexokay...>a car with more moving parts that lugs around more weight is not under more stress because it needs to use twice the moving parts to make more power to move its weightthis doesn't make any sense, but okay.
>>27983624Sure, here is one from a pakistani (the comment was from a year ago, so probably has more now). And that's where you are going to find most of these super high millage vehicles. In 3rd world countries, where most people drive what they can get. There are probably more out there, but until they share than information online, we will never know. It's also ironic that you would claim, 'they don't even make most of the engines that reach a million miles,' when in reality, they do— and not just in commercial vehicles, but also in regular passenger cars—something american manufacturers struggle to achieve. And that was exactly what my original post was about. Even the website you got that picture from (the 1.7 million ram) doesn't think it's fair to use it as an example, because its' a commercial vehicles. You still can't post an american econobox (that isn't a truck larping as a sedan, with an anemic 50 hp/l engine and a 4-speed slush box form the '50s) with a million miles on it. I'm not the one coping, you are. You think, people around the world think of american cars as high quality/long lasting shit, you are delusional. Here is also a picture of a 2+ million mile volvo bus engine. I guess americans don't make the longest lasting commercial vehicle engines as well.
>>27984425spoiler alert, most of these "million mile" 3rd world cars that are still on the road will just have their engines swapped from scrapped cars in junk yards. you can find tons of american cars in cuba from the 50s still driving around for the same reasons.rest of your post is still cope about civilian trucks that can be bought at any car dealership and don't even require a CDL being commercial vehicles, and then japs still not being able to produce a higher mileage engine despite making actual commercial vehicles i.e hino. even gas engine trucks are "commercial vehicles" to you. is the corvette and camaro also commercial vehicles? they have small blocks, and small blocks are in trucks! also, i thought american trucks are just soccer mom cars with beds? no one uses them for real work like the mighty kei truck.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15jkNDwHWj0here is the kind of mileage actual commercial vehicles can do.>muh econoboxmaybe OP should've made this thread about econoboxes, since we've already proven the most reliable powerful or highest HP/L engines don't come from japan. so don't say "engines" and expect people not to post engines.
>>27984564Yes, these vehicles can be purchased by regular people and be used for personal transportation, but that’s not their primary purpose, is it? Trucks like the ram 2500 are primarily designed for commercial and fleet use (transportation of goods, towing, construction site duties, etc.), which is why they are often exempt from EPA testing. While they are certainly capable of serving as personal vehicles, they are engineered to different standards due to their purpose. Japanese manufacturers like hino, fuso, and isuzu have produced commercial vehicles that can exceed a million kilometers/miles, which is considered high mileage. Just because there isn't a picture of one online with exactly 1.7 million miles, doesn't mean they can't do it. The reason why i posted the old man with his 1993 corolla (which made you seethe really badly), is because it’s more remarkable for an cheap econobox to achieve such high mileage compared to a expensive 1/2 ton or 3/4 ton truck (like the ram 2500), which was designed for much heavier workloads/last longer. You can continue to post you sex tool engine maker all you like, because you won't find a similar class american econobox with similar mileage. As for the kenworth you posted, that's a heavy duty truck designed for industrial use. You really gonna compare that to a bus engine. Is that even the original engine with no rebuilt? The volvo engine, literally had no noticeable wear after 2+ million miles, it probably would of done another 2+ million or more. Overall there is no reason to continue this conversion.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvs-jH4x8Zw
driver's license<motorcycle license<private pilot license
Armed forces license above all.
>>27984430Fag
Legoland license> all
>>27983974What if I have a license to kill
>>27983974Fuck this shit. I’m buying a sailboat.
I want to get a Tesla. I’m tired of ice engines and all of their fluids. I don’t drive long distances very often.
>>27984562Read, nigga
>>27984552>CAYou have some of the prettiest driving roads in the country, I hear. 2nd only to the Appalachia, through VA/KY/NC/TN.
>>27984247Kys
the honda clarity sounds perfect for you
>>27984247Get an ebike instead. Practically the same thing, but cheaper.
There will be a day in America where every remaining LLV's Iron Duke will fall silent, never to rumble down the streets again.
>>27983805No goyim! Old car bad! Buy new car, always green and eco friendly to consoom! Do not think about it!
>>27983805besides money, there's nothing keeping anyone from reverse engineering parts right now.
>>27983821woah its almost like nissan has models that aren't the altima, retard-kun
>>27983929patents
>>27984696expire
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I'm thinking of replacing the oil pan bolts on my 4.0 with studs from mcmaster>1/4-20x3/8 in the block, 1/4-28x3/4 from the block replacing the 1/4-20x1/2 bolts>5/16-18x3/8 in the block, 5/16-24x3/4 from the block replacing the 5/16-18x1/2 boltsStuds will have an OAL of 1-1/4" which should give me enough length to snug them in the block and install the pan and nuts like normal
>>27985079>>replacing the 5/16-18x1/2 boltsreplacing the 5/16-18x3/4 bolts*
>>27985079You only need 2 studs, the rest are fine being bolts
>>27985171>>27985079>buy a long bolt from Home Depot for 50 cents >cut it in half with a grinder>bevel the ends of the threads Boom, 2 studs for 50 cents and didn’t even have to wait for a McMaster order
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>immune to remote detonation with 100% pure blood non Western engineering and parts supply chain owned by 100% Chinese peoplechinese cars just keep on getting better and better
>>27984610>immune to remote detonation>prone to local detonationI guess you win some and you lose some.
>>27984610but is it free?
Since yesterday my car has been vibrating a lot, not just the engine but the whole car.It’s also much harder to shift gears now, I have to force the gear lever into a gear if I’m at lower rpms. At higher rpms the vibrations decrease and shifting is easier.I drove around to test things out and discovered:>Burnt clutch smell after the drive>Hard to shift at lower rpms, when vibration is more intense>Vibrations are felt even in neutral, and also with the clutch pressed on>One time when riding the clutch to slowly move when in 2nd made a loud thump noise and the car stalled as if it went in neutral (possible disengagement)>The car also rejected a gear change once even when the clutch was pressed, as if it were still in gear>The car also drags, increasing rpms faster than it increases speed, meaning some slippage is occurring.I have replaced the clutch and clutch press about 2 months ago, but went in for a performance kit for more torque and a more aggressive engagement. I kept original DMF as the repair manual said I could keep it through one clutch change.Could this have killed my DMF?What should I do in order to confirm my suspicions? I just know the dealership is going to quote me a shit ton of parts that aren’t necessary.
>>27984478Guess I’ll do that. It sucks that my initial plan was to get a new Sachs DMF too to go with the clutch but decided to trust the repair manual and save some money. Also on a side note. If, with the engine off, I can shift gears as easily as I did before without having to force it in, this confirms the transmission itself is okay and the issue is with the DMF or clutch assembly, right?
>>27984414Verify if it vibrates at a stop in neutral AND at a stop with the clutch in and transmission in gear.The clutch will still rotate in neutral while at a stop with the clutch engaged or disengaged.
>>27984580It does on both occasions, reason why I’m more leaning towards the issue being the DMF than the clutch. It vibrates like if I had it cammed.
Did you replace the pilot bearing? Those things howl if you don't.
>>27984605Only the clutch release bearing. Though I do not hear any howling noise coming from the bell housing.One theory I found for this issue was that it could even be due to a seized alternator pulley. I would never have thought of that but about 3 months ago my alternator failed and I had to replace the brushes, slip ring and voltage regulator, though I only replaced the rear bearing, and not the front one in the pulley. I have been having some intermittent red battery lights for these few months but since they go away after a while I tend to ignore them until I can get a new alternator. Could this theory be true?
