I thought this kind of rust was an instant fail...
>>28920289>although not structural it should still fail for having sharp edgesFair point.
captain sweden yes
>>28920289sharp edges in an area where it might matter when bumping into a pedestrian. thats not one.people think inspections are completely black and white, but they know cars rust and shit falls apart. there is some slack. infact there is a huge amount of slack. unless you live in germany i heard their inspections are nazi.
>>28920640The MOT guidance talks about sharp edges that could cause injury if grazed; it doesn’t say where.This anon>>28920289Has a point
>>28921066
coming soon to America
>>28917091still not enough for pig disgust westerner
>>28920128japs gave upamericans gave up in 1970
This gives me Pontiac Aztec vibes...
>>28917065>The Groucho Marx signsture edition...
>>28917065Most of Asia never learned aesthetics like Japan did. The Chinese had it forcibly excised from its culture when the communists took over, and the rest of them were too busy rice farming or dying in nameless wars to ever conceptualize things like art and form. That's why the gooks and the chinks are so obsessed with these brutality monstrosities. They go with the simplest idea of what a form should represent because there's no cultural reference for anything beyond that. So anything workman-like looks like an AI generated Tonka truck, anything sporty is just a bunch of angles and vents, and anything luxurious will just be a normal car with a massive grill. Truly a pitiable race.
put an 18" sub in your car
>>28914727'06 Scion xB. Biggest impact came from the door skins and the roof, the floor made a significant difference but I'm not sure if that was worth the extra effort of pulling all of the carpet, ymmv, definitely worth some effort
>>28921016Its snowballing into a major project, feels like I should just do the whole fucking thing this weekend instead of doing it in phases.
>>28914042I don't have enough melanin for this
>>28918443>>28918443>why does every car with subs only play shitty mumble rapYou can't actually tell what they're listening to most of the time you only hear that obnoxious sub rattle,my fucktard wigger neighbor was playing hank williams and I thought it was some monkey tunes till I drove past his place.alot of performance car audio people are mentally retarded, kindof the key to aftermarket audio is making it as loud as it can before distortion but these stupid ass niggers just want to listen to bass distortion, my theory is that it shakes their heart really hard and gives them a sortof high like huffing paint or whatever, it's not actually about a quality listening experiance or any of that shit, just a stupid high and they love to be annoying in public.
>>28921246>all cool shit is for niggers
>be me>hear about a car problem story>car is a chevy malibu(not sure if 2021,2022, or 2023)>check engine light comes on sometimes>car runs fine though>owner takes the car to stealership>car stays at the stealership for days>stealership doesn't want to do anymore diagnoses on car unless owner spends $500 on new car battery>owner doesn't cave to stealership, says he can get battery cheaper at store>I get a thought>"older cars are easier to service..">"..but I wonder how easy modern cars are to service?"Any thoughts anons?
>>28921085Hard to say these days.It's either a brown person or Ai.
>>28920997Clean it up, Janny.
>>28921085>>28921111>>28921129It's obviously a question about whether or not modern cars can be serviced easily by their owners. Can anybody give the op insight?
Great(emdash)you have a question about the servicability of modern cars(emdash)I can help with that. What do you want to start with? Just ask away!
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Say something nice about the C205 C63 S.
>>28920471>E seriesjust get a chally
>>28921116Maintenance costs are higher with shorter servicing intervals, but most people who buy BMWs are poors so they always complain whereas Mercedes buyers typically don't care
>>28918734>Used krautshitAnd for 10k you will spending double that keeping it alive.
>>28921407
>>28921407sucks 2 suck and 2 be poorfinest driving machines are not cheap
Can you reach the same power output as a Duc V4R with Akrapović race exhaust, that with some Shell motor oil and race fuel reaches 238 hp, with a modified inline 4 bike? I mean like if a rich consumer team with no restrictions building an (naturally aspirated) inline 4 race bike, like the Honda that has the same 81 mm bore as the Duc, went to Pankl and requested forged rods & high compression pistons, then added race kit crankshaft, race cams, full titanium exhaust system, would they have been able to, running race fuel, match the Duc's power output?Like even in WSBK, the Honda and BMW seem to have a few hp less than even the non race bike consumer Ducati, and the WSBK bike is slowed down by regs to keep it less dominant.Why can the V4 be made so much more powerful than inline engines? 238 hp is Suzuki and Yamaha MotoGP bikes from 10 years ago territory, is it possible for a non prototype inline bike to reach this? What would one need to replace on the 1000cc Honda to match the Duc?
>>28920306An i4 will always have a heavier crankshaft with more friction points which puts it at a natural disadvantage.Ducati also runs meme-valves (Desmodromic) which have 2 advantages: No valve float at high RPMs and a general "lighter" valve train which bleeds less power to drive.To reach similar power output in an I4 you need pneumatic valves like in Motogp.
>>28920455Yeah I think this is the big thing. The ducati V4 puts the power down better coming out of the corners and are generally easier to ride than the screamer. This is what wins races.
>>28920573overrated, marquez' rc213v was a screamer from 2012 to 2016.>>28920475this is the answer i was most looking for
>>28920475But do you think it is even possible for a race prepped Honda cbr engine to reach 240hp on race fuel?
>>28920979with ported heads, an aftermarket racing ECU, high viscosity race-oil and all that stuff it probably could get an extra 25 hp yes. But at a severe cost of longevity.
If I wanted to buy an old 3 series, which model years should I avoid. What should I expect if I actually buy one?
>>28920500Well maybe they shouldn't have bought a bmw with a peugeot enginespend 5 minutes on wikipedia before buying a car
You want a E30, E28, E34 or E32. M20 or M30. Dead simple, you can fix the car with a rock. No VANOS.If you're feeling adventurous you could buy a E34 540i or a E32 740i for the V8. It's probably the most reliable V8 BMW has made. Cunt of a thing to work on in the car though.
>>28920512You're better suited with the 735i or, if you want to get nuts, the 750iL. The M30 is the single-best engine I have ever worked with. It's the engine so nice I bought it twice. Well, four times, if you want to get technical.
>>28919970if you're able/willing to wrench on it, have fun.otherwise, lol. just lol. lmao even.
>>28919970Never buy the first model year (true of any car desu) and try to buy as late of a model as you can. Also don't buy the base models, they were usually leased as company cars and treated pretty rough.
Why does no one use their blinker anymore?
>>28918593Hormuz Straight closed. Can't get blinker fluid.
>>28919689>People growing up with racing games trying to get as far away from the corner as possible before entrywow all those soccer mums i see doing this shit all the time in their cuvs or worse, hatchbacks, mustve been hardcore nfs and gran turismo players
>>28918771Im glad more people are starting to notice this
>>28918593bc 80% the country is now mystery meat goblins with a sub70 iq
Ran out of blinker fluid
byd bros...
>>28918176BIG YELLOW DICK
>>28921428
Mutts are afraid of the superior Ching Chong car
i love byd
heres why china will collapse in 2 weeks (published 3 months ago)
>uncatalyzed exhaust
>oily briggs lawn mowerhad to use my honda afterwards
How the heck do cats have so many more smell receptors when their face is so much tinier than ours?
>>28920582Kots are an enigma, and meant to be worshipedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wSDcOFQEA
>>28918335Am I the only one who looked at the thumbnail and saw a female stomach with navel piercing?
>>28920999i thought it was a burnt sunglass lens and was wondering why anon was looking right down the bore of a muffler
>download software update on pc>copy it to flash drive>unplug flash drive walk out to car>plug in flasg drive and hit series of buttons to start update>complain about the update preventing you from driving
It's amazing that no matter how obviously bad something is there will always be some autistic dumbass contrarian here >>28919914 to argue for it.
>>28921304>>28921310I started an oil change and couldn't drive my car for 30 minutes!
>>28918920Even my 20+ year old Mercedes has infotainment software that I've updated, there's always bugs to fix or features to add. On one of my newer cars the more recent update supposedly fixed the radio cutting out and changed how the backup cam is displayed, for instance.If it's something that receives OTA updates or has an onboard LTE antenna it's just a goypod that can be controlled, on the other hand.
>>28918800>Do not shift your vehicle out of Park (...) because the update will be interrupteddoesnt this mean that driving cancels the update
>>28921324>fixed the radio cutting outhow the fuck does software impact the fucking radio? it's one chip and a passthrough, and the chip isn't even complicated, it's just a variable timing circuit, a tiny amp, a couple passive filters, and an antenna>>28919622>basically all software development now is a shitshowlet's be realit's worse now, but it has never been good
Lmao Chevys are junk ahaahahahaha chevys are complete utter junk hahahahahaa
OP got gapped once by a chebby and the hole just never healed ever since. I pray for you OP, may the crevice return to form after a bowtie blew it out.
>>28921153Right? IFS and shitbox jap diesels.
>>28921213it won't :)
i raced op's slowpack today in my camaro SS and won btw
>>28921153the trucks in Ops picture likely have well over 200k miles on them, my 04 and my dad's 99 are both well into 200k+.
Ban the assault trucks now.
>>28916778>post on reddit called "regularcarreviews">actually hate carsredditors need to be put in camps
>>28916867No, I don't wish to become the meat squeezed between two F-150s.
>>28916878It's historically well known fact that the country has always been full of retards.
>>28916827>and need to give ID to view porn will do that to youyou mean red states?
>>28919555England is a red state?
Why the fuck are they switching to 850cc as the top race?You better pick up your liter bike SOONor you will be priced out
>>28920574f1 did that, all the tilkedromes are tailor made for f1 cars and their speedtilkedromes are also boring as fuck compared to real tracks like spa and suzuka
>>28920057MotoGP bikes are prototypes. Watch WSBK if you want racing that is based on production (still heavily modified)They are also removing a lot of aero and electronic aids, so keeping the 1000cc engine pushing nearly 300hp on lighter and simpler bikes would probably kill someone
>>28920057They already tried this about 10/15 years ago by going to 800cc and it failed, they lost so many viewers they had to switch back to 1000cc, the same will happen again.
>>28920094Nah, peak era was the turn of the millennium in Y2K. Same for wsbk. It was just magical. The machines were amazing. The production bikes of those homologations were fantastic. >>28920057It's been ran by commies ever since those euroniggers pulled the ladder up on American talent. It's so bad desperate mfs move their ass to Spain from the USA just for a pigeons pube hair chance to get in.Fuck em all, and fuck all the electronics. We pay to watch humans race motorcycles, not a machine doing calculations in order to handle itself.>We don't need 200hp for top tier racing>Task saturation is a engineer fairy tale>Winglets gotta go It's so gay
>>28921110>american talentAmerican talent only existed because of zero torque 2 stroke 500cc engines which stalked at 10k rpm and redlined at 13.5k, so had to be kept within that narrow range the whole time, straights or turns, which meant dirt track background us riders (and aussies/kiwis) just absolutely obliterated everyone else with no such background for the while. Btw, that wasn't even a secret back then.That era abruptly ended literally with a bang with the appearance of the aptly labelled big bang engines, and said "american talent" just simply got outclassed once they no longer had that advantage and it became obvious they weren't the road racing gods they were made to look like they were.
Back in 2000s convertibles were making a comeback. They sold much better in 2000s than in the 90s. There were so many cheap convertibles especially hardtop ones. Then in 2010s they all seemingly disappeared.Why?
>>28920841I swear those movies were a psyop to make people obsess over incredibly unlikely and implausible dangers, instead of real things that could effect them
>>28921174i think you're confusing that with the BLM movement desu.
>>28920067Basically this. Although when you consider the development cycle for a new platform, the early cars from the early and mid aughts we're probably greenlit in the late 90s, before the 2001 WTC op that really defined the beginning of the end.
>>28921176No see blm is the real danger
>>28919996>most only have one daily vehicle so it NEEDS to be a jack of all trades i.e. CUV (even though it'll only ever be used for groceries)>everyone now coddled by climate control, so why drop the top and sweat/freeze instead of sitting in 72 degree weather year round? the glare is going to get all over the screens, too.>insurance on two doors allegedly more expensive>societies are now less high trust - soft tops get broken into, hardtop verts are expensive + high maintenance>it also opens you up to the panhandlers and crackheads roaming every other intersectionYou just have to look at it from the normie point of view. Meanwhile, I see people driving things like picrel in the middle of the rain and get just a bit jelly.
