In reply to NickD :
Can you shed some more light on this? YOu mention the DMV is watching it. Why? What's the history and do you agree/belive someone has done a flash on it in the past? Difficult to desipher from a series of replies.
In reply to NickD :
Can you shed some more light on this? YOu mention the DMV is watching it. Why? What's the history and do you agree/belive someone has done a flash on it in the past? Difficult to desipher from a series of replies.
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
Just my WAG but there's probably a lemon law case out there for this specific car.. Seems like it's got a history.
NickD said:Double "Oh E36 M3!" I just got an e-mail from GM that this car's powertrain warranty no longer exists, due to non-OEM calibrations. Somebody gets to open their pocket book now.
They tuned a hole right into their wallet.
My minor rant: All of the "get fit as a New Year's resolution" people are still hitting the gym hard. It's difficult to get any of the machines at lunch time and *impossible* after work.
Not sure how many times this has been said in the past 27,xxx posts... but sadly, it's time to do it again.
Cancer sucks.
Another friend.... damn.
Brett_Murphy said:My minor rant: All of the "get fit as a New Year's resolution" people are still hitting the gym hard. It's difficult to get any of the machines at lunch time and *impossible* after work.
Yep, I buy a month’s supply of nicotine gum in mid-December each year for the same reason.
Brett_Murphy said:My minor rant: All of the "get fit as a New Year's resolution" people are still hitting the gym hard. It's difficult to get any of the machines at lunch time and *impossible* after work.
Speaking as a dedicated couch tuber, all the relentless Peloton / Planet Fitness / Sports Drink ads on the media are extra annoying at this time of year, too.
RevRico said:It's either in my shirt pocket or on a counter so it's not like they're getting emptied by my keys or anything.
Wow - this triggered my brain when back in the early 80's we would close our fist and fill it with butane then quickly spark it and open our hand upward shooting a flame ball into the air.
I posted too many times. Had the wrong number in my head.
In reply to Knurled. :
Good point. Probably should go back and delete those, just in case.
Today I rented a uhaul trailer and made a 4 hour round trip to not buy a car because the seller somehow made terrible enough life choices that his 36 year old car he was asking $450 for has a lein on it and he didn't think to mention that when I contacted him about the car and said how far I'd be driving to go look at it.
And no. The damn title is not an optional extra when you're selling a car you berkeley.
In reply to NickD :
In reply to alfadriver :
Amen. A friend lost their wife far too young this morning only a few weeks after finding out she had pancreatic cancer.
In reply to Wally :
The awesome guy who owned the deli where I buy lunch died a couple weeks ago. He was fine, and then he was out of the building for a while, and thn he was back and his skin was yellowish-green and he had zero energy. I was told later that is what chemo does to you. Then he was out again for a couple weeks, sporadically showing up now and then to make a presence, and then I heard he'd died. Just like that.
One of his employees managed to swing some bank work and was able to buy the business, as of the 1st of the year.
Looking a lot like a 3rd back surgery in my near future. Apparently I was a little too slow changing jobs
After talking to the card issuer (US Bank) and Paypal, nobody can figure out why the prepaid Visa card I received for Christmas keeps getting rejected by Paypal. I've spent 4 hours today on the phone with various customer service people and nobody knows why it won't process. This is getting berkeleying ridiculous. I feel like the money on the card is being held hostage since it seems like nobody can figure out why it won't work for online purchases, I can't transfer the money off the card, I can't put more money on the card and I can't use the card to withdraw cash from an ATM.
In the middle of all of this, I get an email from the vendor that they canceled the invoice because they cannot ship the tuner to Florida. WTF? When I was here before, I bought a tuner for my Wrangler and there were zero issues shipping it here.
Why do people post cars for sale if they have no intention of selling them?
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In reply to SnowMongoose :
Or ones they can't legally sell. *continued angry grumbles from the earlier post*
Recent events make me wish for to drive a second generation Mustang with a 390 and four-speed. I know the 390 was a slug, don't care.
Although if you watch the movie segment where he's driving up into the mountains, he upshifts a minimum of five times.
This is more a very uncomfortable note than a rant....
So your family sees everyone taking the car out of their garage, just in case there's a quake that collapses the garage.... If you are already outside, it makes sense, as it keeps the car safe.
But weighing all of our factors, I have to tell the caretaker to leave the car IN the garage. It's old, and has a better use as a way to keep space under it if the garage collapses. For sure, if anyone is in the garage if it collapses, the car will keep a gap, and make is survivable.
That's a very uncomfortable explanation. But it's true- so our 2004 Focus is a sacrifice if it needs to be.
The real rant- the frequency has picked up, as has the magnitude... ugh.
Today's project came to a screeching halt.
Broken cross pin retaining bolt on a Ford 8.8. 
All stop.
In reply to alfadriver :
That is a scary thing to have to consider.
Which states don't have berkin vehicle inspection? I need to move to one of those. Two tickets in one week. Jeez louise.
Mndsm said:In reply to alfadriver :
That is a scary thing to have to consider.
Terrifying. But there are a LOT of pictures where the house is being held up by the cars- even when the entire house falls down onto the car port. Which tells me there's a survivable bubble next to the car- and we just have a roof over the car.
It's more terrifying that we are flying down into this situation next week- it's like a mini-hurricane happens for 3 weeks in a row. Except that this actually takes out concrete buildings...
In reply to slowbird :
Idaho for one. No inspections at all
Toyman01 said:Today's project came to a screeching halt.
Broken cross pin retaining bolt on a Ford 8.8.
All stop.
Nine times out of ten, there is a tiny nub of thread left on the pin after the threaded part comes out. Hose it down good with brake cleaner to loosen the gear oil/glue, grab a sharp straight pick, stuff it down the hole and you should be able to spin it out.
The tenth time is a pain on the ass.
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