Tell me about your every day life with you cars.Are you just a commuter, do you cruise, explore, race. How much time do you get to really enjoy them?Mine for example:>Own only one car, Miata.>Commute is short 10 min but usually just bike or walk for fitness> about 3 nights a week night cruise before bed> weekends meetup with a local miata club to drive the back roads.> if no club event head out on a day trip>spend a lot of time scouting google maps for good roads and planning trips.>looking at the street views for find the most scenic drives.>racing? just in it for the love of the road, the view, and adventure.
>>28606175>drive car>car starts making noise>buy parts to fix car and drive other car in mean time>never fix car>other car starts making noise>buy parts to fix other car and drive other other car in mean time>never fix other car>other other car starts making noise>buy parts to fix other other car and drive other other other car in mean time>this is my last car perfectly functioning car>i am afraidIt seems I now have no choice but to start fixing my shit... *sigh*.
>>28606175I commute 1 hr round trip 4 days a week to work, so burnt out i usually just hit the recliner and turn into a pile of jelly.Off on Fridays so that's my get out and go day. Usually look online for gun stores I never been to and restaurants I never ate at. Being in the south there's plenty of civil war battle fields to go visit for the day.No telling how much fuel I've burnt and booger and cum filled meals I've ate.
>>28607045die niger
>>28606588Ask him to buy it, name some symbolic price or something below market.
cars n ciggies go together like stale peanutbutter n whitebread
What are you excited for seeing?
>>28604632Sounds like Hebrew nonsense>Yuo vill ride ze pod
>>28604632that poster really sums it up
I have no hope of anything good ever happening again.
>>28604698It's the new Saturn SUV.
>>28604632I dont even know what that is, but assuming its for cars, nothing. Nobody is ever going to make a cool or exciting new car until crossovers die off.
All the "gig" work for driving pay absolute ass. All I want to do is drive my car around, I'm fine with it currently, but $0.50 net profit after taxes and maintenance is absurd. Has anyone here at /o/ cracked pandora's box and found a medium that pays well?
>>28607957Not really, it's 31MPG. Was debating buying an older Prius just for it but I don't know if the additional insurance cost would be worth it.
>>28607923You're far from the only person to have that bright idea, so as you might imagine it's been minmaxed to hell. You need a car that's super cheap to buy and maintain and will eat miles without complaining, probably a hybrid or EV, I think Priuses and Corollas are/were popular for this. And I'm sure there's more to it, regarding picking your area and work times. You're still not gonna make a whole lot of money, it's work that's really only suitable for illegal immigrants and people caught between jobs who are only doing it for a couple months before the car maintenance costs catch up with them.
>>28607923Of course it pays poorly. It's one of the least demanding jobs, both physically and mentally. If it paid well then literally everyone would do it. There'd be no reason to have any other job. As it is it's for people who are so inept that they can't do anything else, not even flip burgers, so they get paid less than burger flippers.
I had to uber for a while after getting laid off for being too old, and let me tell you, I'm never letting strangers into my car again.The amount of cunts only increases during weekend, but hell, the fact that you have to keep your car clean (affects your rating) despite their efforts to destroy it makes everything not worth it >fat soccer moms who eat in your car and clean their hands on your seats>nevermind the smell of rotten food that just stays there>mothers who take their small children despite the law requiring special car seats for them. They vomit, smell like shit, block my rear view, break my concentration, etc.>dude weed lmaos who sometimes forget their weed in your car, that's why you better have a rear facing camera or something>old retards who think they drive better (i.e more recklessly) than you >horny teenagers who think hidden handjobs are the funniest thing ever. Also had to stop working because of the smell ot cum
>>28607923Good luck finding a gig that pays you to drive around and do nothing. There are lots of delivery gigs out there. Obviously you're kind of fucked if you drive a sports car with no cargo room. A government gig would be ideal as well. These guys get paid pretty well to deliver mail using their personal vehicles.
Here's your new BMW, bros. Hope you like it! Expect it to be the new design language for BMW for the next 10 years!
>>28607209That one looks stupid as well, the grilles are too round and leave gaps at the top and bottom. This here is where BMW aesthetics peaked.
>>28607285That's ugly. It really peaked with the E24
>>28604926I hate modern "designers"
>>28604926>>28605626I surprisingly don't hate it aside from the grille>>28604928Honestly I'll prefer minimalism like this over what Mercedes have been doing
>>28607209>old:D>new:(
This is my dad's truck, the 2004 Mazda B2300. Is it any good?
Should be good until it rusts in half or the heat death of the universe.
>>28603209Yes but it isn't as good as the B3000.
>>28603209It's terrible, I'll give you $800 for it because I'm feeling generous
>>28603209more reliable than a late model Taco for sure
>>28603209ToyotaRaper2300
You haven't truly lived until you've tried to explain a VAZ 2114 to a confused Westerner."It's a Russian hot hatch.""Cool! Like a Golf GTI?""Well... imagine if a Lada Riva had a one-night stand with a Lego set. The 2114 is the surprisingly angular child that resulted."It's the only car where the factory option list was just two boxes:[ ] Starts[ ] Doesn't start today (most likely)Driving a 'Semyorka' (as it's nicknamed) builds character. The heating is so powerful it can melt the permafrost, but the air conditioning is just you rolling down the window and hoping for a breeze. The ergonomics are a mystery; the buttons are placed not for convenience, but as if the designer lost a bet. You'll hit the rear window defroster every time you mean to turn on the headlights.
>>28605768>Driving a 'Semyorka' (as it's nicknamed)spotted a fake rusaboo larper. Semyorka is the nickname of the VAZ-2107, a facelifted version of the og Zhiguli. Sem' means seven in russian, which corresponds to the last letter in the model code. All classic VAZ models have such nicknames, and the 2114 is called "Chetyrka" or jokingly "Chepyrka", dervied from "chetyrnadtsats"-fourteen in russian.tldr: cocи хyй, пиндoc
>>28605768>You haven't truly lived until you've tried to explain a VAZ 2114 to a confused Westerner.Try explaining BPAN it to your fellow citizens who don't have brainrot first.>Driving a 'Semyorka' (as it's nicknamed)Go suck dicks.>>28605951Same for Russia. It's an export name, probably even limited to some countries. OP is a faggot who doesn't know his shit.
>>28606054>not a real semerka
>>28605768You are annoying and none of your friends actually enjoy your presence. Finding joy in lecturing randoms about old, shitty russian cars (that get hypermogged by korean cars), as a person who lives in a place where pretty much none of them are available, does not make you cool and quirky, it makes you cringe and gay.
>>28605768thats alot of words for it's a piece of shit and probably slower than a chevy citation towing a skid steer.
this is the new Mercedes interior. this time with a single screen, stretching from pillar to pillaroh well
>>28607292>Imagine in a few years how amazing this will look with ultra thin bezels. So cool to see innovation like thissorry bro, I meant to quote the dingleberry above you
>>28605698bentley and rolls royce
>>28605716>t. GermanI don't know if it's going on outside of the US but almost 20 years they've been building shitboxes for the pavement ape demographic that are essentially just dolled up corollas and shitty suvs to take advantage of their poor credit scores.my immediate response to a mercedes is not the way it was when I was a kid, now I asume it's some dipshit poor ass living in an apartment complex trying to project wealth.
Digital buttons and knobs don't break.
>>28608012Mercedes truly lost the plot. The only "people" who still drive that shit are immigrant drug dealers or complete NPCs.
This was the savior.M2 is $20,000 more after taxes and BS.718 a shit and Corvette is too much.ITS/CTR are FWD and I4. Not even mentioning the cuckmobiles that are the Yaris and Golf R.Toyobaru and Miata are S L O WLOW
>>28606547not very ultimate then is it kek, wrenchlet
>>28605502> just called someone poor> muh breweryPost pre-tax annual and NW.
>>28606556subscribe to a better LLM for your spam bot chaim, this one is confused
>>28603544>"signifcantly cheaper">new Z was dealer marked up 200% until this year
Nigga Pls>>> dbl wish on all 4>>> lightweight 4banger with linear power delivery, 330hp after quick remapping>>> <1100kg>>> DCT, basically as good as PDKAlthough its quite expensive
So carbon ceramic brakes are just a meme? The more track days I go to, the more I realize that no one there has carbon ceramic brakes. Cars that had them originally equipped are all converted over to steel rotors usually AP racing stuff.Owners I talked to have said the steel rotors actually have a better brake pedal feel and the replacement parts are a fraction of the cost.So why are manufacturers still using carbon brakes then??
>>28607050>carbon ceramic brake rotors>time to service brakes>5k per rotor>???>buy steel rotoraint rocket science.
>>28607050>So carbon ceramic brakes are just a meme?Yes>So why are manufacturers still using carbon brakes then??Options are a cash cow. Go to the porsche site and build a 911GT3 with and without all options.
>>28607050It's for richfags and pro teams, not weekend warriors
>>28607881>It's for richfags and pro teamsTranslation:>It's for F1 and Hypercar teams, maybe LMP2 (I don't remember)Nobody else in racing uses carbon brakes.
>>28607069Racing brake rotors are carbon-carbon, not carbon ceramic.It's a different material.>>28607073The 911 GT3 bros tell me the AP racing stuff actually has less brake fade and better lap times compared to the carbon ceramic stuff.
Fuck this soulless ass brand and fuck mild hybrids. The most soulless and joyless vehicles ever made, only ever driven by Uber Pajeets wanting the highest MPG possible at the cost of everything that is joy, comfort and life. Fuck Toyota!>b-but it's reliableSo is a bike.
>>28604684This is supposed to be an enthusiasts forum.
hybrids are so fucking disgusting, the way the engine starts up after stopping, so unrefined, literally something poorjeets and mexicans would drive for uber perposes
>>28603940By having the 3MZ. Fuel mileage leaves a little to be desired but I’m on my third oil analysis and they keep coming back near perfect for wear and everything else. Unlike the 2AZ, it consumes no oil between changes
>>28604751>the way the engine starts up after stoppingIf you accelerate very carefully, you can get the car to a decent speed before the engine starts, at which point the Toyota road noise is so high that you can't even tell whether the engine is running or not.See? They thought of this, too.No really, it's actually quite refined. Some cars with automatic transmissions shake and jank more switching gears than a recent Toyota hybrid does switching to the gas engine.
After 15 years of owning nothing but bmw's and DIY on them myself Im switching to toyota. At some point constant bullshit get boring and I want A to B car that works with basic fluid changes
When does car leasing make sense?My GF is looking for a new car, she wants something "reliable and modern crossover SUV" like an RAV4, CRV, or CX9.I cannot convince her to get something old and reliable, like a 3rd gen RAV4.I will not stand by her buying anything after 2018. She is looking at 2020/22 model years.Budget is $20kShe is going back to school to get a Master degree and will using it for that, and work. She wants a nice car that we can also road trip in. (I prefer to rent a minivan for road trips as I only have small shitboxes) so she wants a ying to my yang.Does it make sense to lease a car then? I've been showing her the Lexus equivalent of the RAV4, the NX line, but those are too expensive used with low mileage.If she likes it, we can buy it out. If not, trade it in and keep leasing a modern car, since that's what she wants.Thoughts?
>>28603957Leasing literally never makes sense. It's ALWAYS bad. It's a deal designed by the dealership to make the dealership more money. Why would they ever lease a car if it was less profitable than selling it?>oh but it's for people who want to get a new car every 3 yearsIt still makes more sense to finance and trade in
>>28607775it does but solely for >>28607277. that includes businesses too. otherwise it's retarded. some people will say it's actually good if it's a car that depreciates really fast like EVs but why would anybody want that shit anyway.
>>28607277>>28607284>>28607286>>28607738comprehensive insurance covers hit and runs and accidents caused by you, like backing into a fire hydrant, rolling your car back into a wall, or scraping a pylon. it also fully covers you in a rental so you dont have to buy their overpriced insurance.its also very cheap on an older vehicle, im paying an extra $76 per 6 months.
>>28607775Don't worry about the dealership making money lol. The guy who owns it is probably one of the richest fuckers in your city. Dealerships push leases because they take that low mileage, well maintained vehicle after your lease and then finance it out to some retard at pretty much the MSRP at 30% interest. All you people claiming leasing is a waste of money should post your bank statements. I bet you waste a lot more than a lease payment on stupid shit every month.
>>28607851useless unless you're a womanmen who can't drive should be castrated
>Claim to be balanced>Can buy 10 of them for the price of 1 OEM>OEM Garrett seals sometimes leaking at 45k>Rebuild is $300+ price of 2 china turbosAnyone have luck running china turbos? How many miles do you have on it or get before it shit out? Was it catastrophic or just seals leaking?
>>28607797Japan is close to China, but no one is afraid of Japanese turbos. Why?
>>28607821I think times are changing. Alot of jap stuff sucks now or jap brands are outsourcing to india and china. Garrett isnt made in japan either.
>buy used Jeep wrangler a couple of weeks ago>2016 with 83k miles>uh oh weather is getting a little chilly>turn on the heat>air blows coldanyone have any ideas about what I can do? doing a little bit of research, the most common causes of this are the blend door actuators or a clogged heater core. but, in either of those cases it sounds like the air should blow hot on one side (drivers side or passenger's side) and I have cold air on both sides.It would suck if the heater core was shot, because that's a dash-out job to fix, and it costs several thousand dollars...
Isnt it every car buyers dream thatAC BLOWS COLD???________________________________Sent from Paul's Iphone 5"Ass grass or cash- no one rides for free"
>>28607479feel the water hoses going into the heater core, are they both hot?if they are it means hot coolant gets to the heater core but it doesnt deliver heat. that again means air door issue, a typical jeep problem. its often an out-with-dash problem but google around there might be bandaids and workarounds like cutting a hole behind the glovebox and installing some aftermarketparts. that was the case with the same problem on grand cherokee.
>>28607585Long time, how is your wife doing?________________________________89 XJ 4.0L99 F250 "towpig"Alabama Air Nationonal GuardRoll Tide
>>28607479Most common cause for this in cars is the blend door actuator.
>>28607479blend door or your heaters been bypass looped cause the core is busted.
I heard a pinging sound and then my transmission light came on, gear changing was immediately noticeably way worse. Is it safe to drive it to the auto shop?
I just love how absolutely 0 people responded to his caption cause we're all too entranced by the big titty asian
You're better off walking
Y'all need Jesus>>28606642u-joint, maybe.
>>28606642Turn the car on and listen for any rattling.
>>28606665That's weird because I'd make her my slave and beat the shit out of her. Creampie her constantly and make her eat my ass.
*mogs you*
>>28604588>different engines>exact same powerband and torque curveCase in point.
>>28604696yeah what dude >>28604588> same weight, same power, same torqueso... weight distribution is the difference? or is that the same as you said? one of them has to be different
>>28604588>Why the fuck would you?Well you'd make a 36.7L SOHC engine to stop the doodlebugs from reaching london, for example.
>>28606568For me, it's Duplex Cyclone.
>runs on no coolant and laughs
