you are the crime lord of your localitywhat car would you like to be driven in?
>>28968958>is paid a visit by the IRS in the evening
I drive myself, sonnyboy
>>28968658Dark black Crown Vic
>>28968798You want to get got or you want to make bank. no nigger rimz means you get to keep your bags.
>>28968798>thinks it's about sneaking and not just wanting to avoid unnecessary bullshit
true american power
gonna bump my dumb thread just because it's one less thread about that fartrarrirealized today that the van isn't making phat clouds of smoke anymore with the new injectors, so that's probably good?anyway tomorrow I think I'll go measure the exhaust pipes on either side of this fuckin thing, head to the supply store, buy a metal pipe that's a little bit bigger, and swap it for the pipe, and clamp it down tight with two exhaust clamps
>>28968733Why not just knock the packing out and continue on?
>>28968962well if I remove it to do that I might as well replace it
>>28969045Yeh, but you'd get to keep the cool flat pan.And idk wut ur car is but it will sound different and louder without it, which may not be desirable.
>>28969155big
My car is 5 years old now and I'm doing the first brake service. It's a front engined AWD so I pulled the front drivers wheel to check the status of what I assume will be the most worn pad and there was plenty of meat left, however the inside pad was really jammed in the sliding clips. I had to hammer and pry to get it out and while doing so I gouged the surface in places and dinged up some of the edges. It goes back in smoothly after filing away some of the rust, but should I replace the pads regardless?I realized the correct places to pry near the clips after so I shouldn't ding up the remaining pads, but the pad shims are starting to show alot of rust.It's dishartening to see just how much rust is already on the suspensions parts of the car. The brake line nut looks like it's already seized and will just be crust in a year or two. I don't know if I should even bother fucking with it, it seems like the line will just have to be cut and reflared for the new line in the future when the hoses fail.
>>28969315I would sand down the slot in the bracket but I can't get the bracket off. It's also weird that the caliper/bracket looks like shiny aluminum on the outside but the inside is covered with rust. I didn't investigate further but it could be that it is aluminum and doesn't have any rust to be removed.
>>28969382Bracket is likely held on by two bolts behind the rotor. The caliper is normally annodized or zinc treated to keep it from rusting. The rusty parts probably started from brake dust collecting on it and rusting. Rusty calipers are gonna be fine. Ive never seen one structurally compromised by rust and i live in the rust belt. The type of steel they use glazes over in rust, then it stops and just stays that level of rusty.
Yeah I mean I can't break those bolts loose, I'm not going to bother. The pads in question, you can see from the bevel that the inside one has definitely worn a bit more from being stuck.
>>28969491It looks like theres a lip of rust forming on the rotors as well eating away at the edge of the pads. Not a big deal, just shortens the lifespan of this set of brakes.When you do get new ones, get nicer level oem pads. For rotors i recommend at a minimum coated rotors. Rotors with no coating will die faster.
>>28969563I think that's just the rotor design, it looked ok to me.
So what's Buccee's really like? I live in NY so I don't think I'll ever see one in my hood.
>>28963843Kek
>>28959872why are they cheeringwhy are they clappinghow is this not a mental illnes
>>28968921theyre doing it for the camera
>>28966639>>28966969Turnover is extremely high its a horrid place to work.
>>28969490With pay like that why would turnover be so high? Are the managers slave drivers or something?
'ate road cars.Love race cars. Love 'em.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi1J8dNxlYMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQRDKL0K908https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k58WiUVZSgPrivately owned race cars. Publicly raced race cars. Track specials.
>>28969542>kicks your $2,000,000 French Chrysler Viperhttps://www.dupontregistry.com/car/dodge/viper--gts/2000/GTSR%20C31/220418
>>28969548standard operating procedure
i hate audi for killing this thing
And still she refuses to die.
Prove me wrong
>>28968762>daily car>having to mod itcringealso, quaife is not a real diff. get an m performance lsd or fuck off
>>28969178B7 RS4 has hydraulic power steering and a longitudinal motor you spaz.
>>28969350Still gay-wheel drive so it's boring as fuck kek cry pussy
>>28969299M lsd not compatible. You actually need to fab shit for it to fit.Quafe is plug and play, no maintenance. Bimmers should have it from factory.Just like good tires and a square set of wheels.
>>28969475its compatible unless youre running the dogshit xdrive versionor the non m240i, mayhaps idk.its m240i sdrive compatible though
What's the least shittiest smol ATV? They look fun.
>>28967872
>>28967981>Hepco Becker Gobi panniers>Trail beer on tap
>>28967872I see these when I’m /out/ and I’m always infinitely jealous
>>28968576You have to helmet don’t you bc stones spoils it for me
>>28968576Bitches, leaf.
If Nissan is bad, why did Scotty buy a Z?
>>28968897Scotty doesn't know.
>>28968897Nissans are not bad. >CVT trannies are bad.
>>28968897There used to be so much variety of fun cars now there are only a handful
he's a mechanic you are not
>>28968897I saw a running twin turbo Z32 going for $6500 with similar paint condition recently so I'd guess that's why
well, /o/, will you get one or not?
>>28960639I don't hate the clean "apple" design but needs to be lower and longerferrari doesn't make sedans, their EV should be exotic not a tall soap bar sedan on a skateboard chassis like every other EVwhy would you ever buy this over a taycan turbo or lucid sapphire? so people can make fun of you for having a ferrari with no engine?
>>28960576if i won the lotto tomorrow... no.
>>28960576I wish, I would get one if it was below 150kIt's an EV and a Ferrari ffs
>>28967365why not?you know at a certain point legacy carmakers will stop selling ICE garbage right?
>>28960576Looks like some shitty GM product.
post thing (japan)
>>28967262I would be so disappointed if I went to Daikoku PA and it was all late model regular traffic that I see every day on my commute like that screenshot and some boring ass exotics that I see trailered into every single cars and coffee.
TwingoTwingo JAPAN
>>28968375
I lived in Suzuka for a few years
No one here can afford or cares about Ferrari so why do they flood the board with their adverts?They heard about /pol/ being influential in internet culture and think that applies to the 200 or so people worldwide who post here?Buy an ad.
>>28966771I think this is organic and what happened is two-fold: on one hand this is the natural conclusion of fiat money system where the value of currency is disconnected from anything in the physical world so anything can be worth an arbitrary amount of money - an electronic meme coin can be worth 1 millionth of a cent today and millions of dollars tomorrow, in this case a $30k EV Nissan is the exact same vehicle as this $600k Ferrari. On the other hand, this represents total implosion of globozoghomo-neoliberal value system: the absolute magnitude of this cannot possibly be overstated. In the past the neoliberal system operated via an implied unspoken incentive structure where since the young age kids were told to study hard, get good grades, get in a good university and get a successful career in banking, healthcare, law or other meme field. Once you achieve all that you will have a chance to buy a meme car like Ferrari, because of its design, performance and meme factor. If you were to ask an NPC what they would spend their money on if they won the lottery they would say "BUY LE FERRARI!" in 98% of cases. It is not just a car, it is a massive symbol for neoliberalism. When someone looks at a Ferrari like this and goes "Wtf is this shit?", that completely demolishes the incentive structure of contemporary socio-economic system. It's basically like a nuke going off on the values of neoliberalism, but because the values and unspoken rules are the only thing that keeps the system together (the enforcement apparatus is very limited) it becomes a systemic risk.
>>28967757Eat shit faggot. It’s a humiliation ritual.
>>28968157So you want Ferrari to stagnate and die like the rest of the European industrial sector?
>>28968846They have been for half a century now
>>28966257Because an electric Ferrari concept car just dropped (the Luce) and all the ICE loyalists are chimping out about it.
How come Harley always discontinue the good looking bikes? And keep the boring and ugly ones around?
>>28968754HELL YEAH BROTHER
>>28968754fyi the electrical upgrade is about 2k at a dealership and pre-24 pan ams are routinely 10k used so you can get in at your 12k number pretty easily
>>28968152How can that thing be comfy when you ride it splayed out like an octopus with all your body weight sitting on your tailbone? You're also getting all the wind on your chest trying to push you back but your body is not in the optimal position to counter that force.Pic related is peak touring comfy position.
>>28969334>how can that be comfyif you tried one you would find out immediately that it is extremely comfy instead you remain ignorant
>>28969334Ok :)
Turns out ferrari owners want to own EVs as wellhttps://www.reuters.com/world/china/ferrari-ceo-defends-luce-ev-pricing-says-wont-replace-other-engines-2026-05-28/
>>28968279Non-sequitur
>>28967692How can I be wrong that I think it's ugly? I think it's truly hideous
>>28967692There is a number of ferrari collectors who will buy whatever slop they sell no matter what. There's probably also a number of buyers who have been forced to order the Luce so they can get on a waitlist for better models.
is there ANY market for "I want a Ferrari but I don't want to actually be seen in anything as ostentatious as a Ferrari"?
>Ferrari about to learn that "yes men" extend to focus groups too"Consumers don’t think how they feel. They don’t say what they think and they don’t do what they say”
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/global-ev-data-explorer/
>>28967161Me btw
>>28966816name a whiter part of the world then
it's weird seeing the very antithesis of the board being pushed here so hardEVs will NEVER be enthusiast carsit's like watching /ck/, the cooking board, shill fast food which they absolutely do and it's depressing
>>28969114This board is about cars and evs are carsWhich board should we discuss our evs in then?
>>28969114How is EVs fast food?
>>28962815eletronics don't drink water retard
>>28962832why do you hate africans?
>>28962815holy luddite moron
>ferrari bad because apple designer helped themreally?
>>28966326Because of the content of their character
