@amoore100
The Tasman is right in my wheelhouse. Kia must know this because it is apparently being restyled slightly even before launching.

Also, If Kia has done the right thing then the Australian aftermarket 4x4 equipment service providers will be well on top of the styling issues by now.

I don't think Kia will have similar problems with the new van. However, the chances of it coming to North America are slim. I even have doubts about the Tasman making it that far especially if Kia doesn't have much available production line capacity in the US...

@AkioOhtori

About 46 seconds in is your first BMW driver, whole thing is funny though.

@Chariotoflove oh, yeah. There's no clinical application. Why I'd never even heard of it before. Those names certainly have zero clinical recognition. GE, Siemens, Hitachi, Toshiba are the ones in the clinical arena. Forgot Philips.

@CarsOfFortLangley

He'll always be Komrade of Fort Langley.

@Esotericars they just keep going

@PopupHeadlightElitist At least that's Five Guys, a bacon cheeseburger meal at Arby's is $20. Why anyone goes to Arby's for a cheeseburger, I have no idea, but that's what it is

The good news is, a basic cheeseburger at Nifty Fifty's is $5.35, and they make genuinely one of the best burgers at any chain place I've ever had.

And the cash-only steakhouse near my parents, which I try to visit every time I'm in the area, is $4.95 for a 1/4 lb bacon cheddar burger

But, they also do an 8oz filet mignon with two sides and a dinner roll for $24.95, and you can add a lobster tail for an extra $8.95, so, that's usually what I end up with.

Also, their cocktails are $5 each, double sized, and very strong

@ITA97 $750

Ten years ago during my first year delivering packages for [redacted] I had a delivery for a Jehovah's Witness church. I pull up in front as some little church gathering is letting out and go inside, leaving the radio on in the truck. Do the delivery, walk back outside, and as I step out I hear the opening riff of "Heaven's A Lie." The way I sprinted back to that truck

@flatisflat it doesn’t have steering wheel controls for volume and skipping songs/stations????

@Rad-Barchetta

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@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo I, too, am hoping that both teams just have a lot of fun out there and enjoy practicing sportsmanship

@Highlander said in Cool Mazda 6 wagon:

@Dr-Zoidberg but who did it better?

They're both Ford-adjacent vehicles, so neither 😀

@anyunusedusername

Thanks for all the input!

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@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTIthenA4nowS5 said in What’s the point?:

People refuse to pull more than .0000001 g when cornering and it drives me bananas.

You want me to spill my beer?!

@RacinBob First and foremost, thank you for all your responses.

The strap and the contact areas for the generator itself have all been polished down. The case is fully grounded to the block, so I'm very confident it's not a grounding issue.

My car had a mechanical regulator to start, and so I replaced it with a mechanical regulator. It is wired as such:

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There is one thing different that I know is different is the white wire, which you can see below the D+ wire. I had those two screwed into the same terminal. The white wire runs to the test system and is usually screwed into a different hole that doesn't make direct contact with the D+ wire. Should have just left it off because the diag system on this car hasn't worked in years, but I wouldn't think there was that much interference.

For testing voltage I've been testing between the D+ and the case of the generator, but perhaps that hasn't been "grounded" enough until recently.

Order of operations from here is:

Reinstall rebuilt and seemingly good generator Unplug everything from generator save from a lead between DF and - and add a test light to D+ Plug it all back in and then test voltage from D+ to battery negative.

I think those tests make sense? The second one will at least show me if the gen is spitting out power or not. But my VW guy seemed adamant that any digital tester or machine will detect phantom voltage, so a bad wire inside the gen could still be the root of the problem.

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly said in What the shit universe (James Bond news):

@FourMalibus
The character as portrayed by Craig (as opposed to the look) was arguably the closest to that described in the Ian Fleming novels.

I've never read the books, but that might be the case. But I'd be willing to bet most people that have watched the movies haven't read the books, so they expect what the movies portrayed until the Craig versions.

@HFV_Junkyardin The caps on the ends of guard rails are supposed to flatten the rail so it rolls up rather than spearing cars. Clearly that didn't happen here (there was a big mess with many being found to be defective a few years ago)

I hit the start of a guardrail segment once, but it was buried so no real spearing potential (I just glanced it bouncing me hard into the opposite rail):
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They've since replaced it with a more normal endcap:
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Which even more recently seems to have gone missing?
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@gk450 said in New here (ish):

I dream of one day having a smart fortwo

Welcome aboard! Since you like the above...you should introduce yourself to @Miss-Mercedes Love of all things Smartcar!

Thanks for all the responses! Sorry I was at a ski jumping event most of the afternoon/evening.

This is just a little thing internal to a few students, not some big public event. Now I kinda wonder if the school has a ASCAP license or something. It's a private school not public, so I wonder if that makes any difference too.

In the end, I'm not at all worried about playing the song for this instance. It'll be done once and that's it.

@davesaddiction that put things in perspective

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@Highlander needs moons and clovers

cool car

If you end up near the Space Needle, the standing Chihuly exhibit might be worth your time, depending on how you like this sort of art. It's outstanding on a sunny day for obvious reasons, but can doubtless be appreciated in gloomier weather, and a fair bit of it is indoors. Tickets are a bit spendy and of course you exit through the gift shop, but we thought it was well worthwhile.

@BicycleBuck said in Good Morning, Oppo:

I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be on the inside, not the outside.

Ha! Clearly they are performing an engine run.

Probably maintenance just checking out a fresh rubber band.

No sense going through the effort of a complete install until you get it sorted.

@Zaphod-s-Heart-of-Gold said in Who's scratching my windshield?:

@J-B I'll chime in for a few things. First, windshields don't last forever. The one on my Jeep looks fine until direct sunlight hits it then all the micro-pits show themselves. Being nearly flat does me no favors here.

THIS ALL DAY LONG. And twice on Sundays. In Alaska they use gravel on the roads in winter. If you make it through spring without having to replace a windshield, you're lucky.

@Just-Jeepin and 535kg!

@TheJWT Interesting, I saw an black R35 and black r32 GTS driving by together this afternoon.

786675db-9e3a-4bd3-adb1-8bd83cda2028-image.png I was reluctant to look this up, thinking it would be a bloodbath inside the car, but somehow none of the four people in the car were seriously injured. The crew of two in the Mosquito suffered unspecified injuries, but I'm guessing minor ones, given that they were undoubtedly strapped in and the impact was well away from their part of the aircraft.

In further saving graces in this situation, probably the car was going slowly (wartime headlights on a dark night and all that), and I'm further guessing that the plane had bled off most of its energy by the moment of truth. Both iron car and wooden plane were nonetheless write-offs.

This is good parsh. (Unfortunately, it's at the wrong time for me.)

@MisterButtercup
They offered them in Oz for a short time. They did not sell like crazy. Mostly because they were not sufficiently cheaper than the four door version which is what the market expected... because the market is stupid.

Same story is repeating now with the Jimny and Jimny XL. The four door XL is only four grand more than the traditional 2 door. Never mind that the 2 door is made in Japan while the 4 door is made in India. But two door sales have dropped like giraffe dung...

@Muchacho excellent point. And hooning around in snow on empty streets is a heck of a lot of fun!

Or so I’ve heard…

@ClassicDatsunDebate @leftfield6

The music was terrible, as were most of the reveals.

A few of the videos were very cool, and some of the jokes were funny.

I appreciated that the heads of the FIA definitely were pissed about the host, most of the time. This is exactly how a comedian should handle a job like this.

@Muchacho
They've been available in Oz for quite a few years but the marketing is quiet. Maybe I'll get an A80 256 GB as my next phone...AU$329 at the moment.

@foghat1981 I have a special place in my heart for the Foot Fist Way - it was filmed in my hometown while I was in high school and one of the actors in it was a pretty close friend, he plays Henry. The martial arts was not an act for him, he got the role because he was a multi-degree tae kwon do blackbelt in his mid-teens. He went on to be a pretty prolific stunt actor before a tragic accident took him way too soon. Look up Carlos Lopez on IMDB

@pyroholtz BaT has 138 auctions closing today. Unlike C&B BaT charges a listing fee of minimum $99. Even if BaT doesn't sell a single car today (unlikely) it will generate $13,662 in revenue.

Yesterday C&B shifted 23 cars for an estimated revenue of $21,059 (average $915).

While they no doubt have different cost models BaT is making nearly 2/3's of C&B's daily revenue before they've even sold a car.

@Future-Next-Gen-S2000-Owner said in WWYR: American Transverse Twin-Turbo V6 Barges:

The follow up Taurus had the smallest interior of any big car ever. It was weirdly inefficient with its space, or at least felt that way to me.

That's the final USDM Taurus, there is no follow up 🙂 But yes I agree, they're somehow tiny inside. Unless of course you meant this one:

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@Roadkilled said in Good Morning, Oppo:

@BicycleBuck said in Good Morning, Oppo:

so I can acquire that epic look.

I would have a hard time acquiring an epic look unless it includes an epic fail.

Epic is as epic does, so they say.

@skidooman USD and it would be lower. Undecided how much that would be yet though.

@HFV_Junkyardin yep, but I did take some liberties with the face. Reminds me of one of those tiny spiders with the big eyes

@KngT said in How do you go about with Auctions?:

I bought my 3 Alfas on BaT. I overpaid for 2 and underpaid for the other.

Do I compare other similar dealer vehicles or private party? what would be closer?

Since I'm mostly interested in old Alfas, I used BaT prior auction history to research. My '96 Alfa purchase was bought impetuously. I didn't research much and probably overpaid by $4k or more. Oops. For research, I would look at any other sales you can find - auctions, private sales and dealers. That will give you a good idea of what something is worth. I did a lot of research and watched sales of GTVs for about a year before I bought mine. That led to a good deal when I finally won an auction.

This one has a minor accident and that complicates things, how much do I realistically reduce from one without?

Not sure on this.

Do you set a max limit bid up to there and stop? I always feel I might overpay in auctions rather than an upfront price I can negotiate down

I try come up with my "number" prior to bidding. When I bid that number, I close my laptop and walk away. If it wins, it wins. If it doesn't, oh well. I didn't really do that when I bought the '96 Spider and ended up overbidding.

I heard that the last hour is when it gets frenzied, are people literally bidding every minute?

Depends on the vehicle, but yes, the last hour is where it's at. A car can start that last hour with a $10k bid and then end up selling for $65k. So, don't be super optimistic of a low current bid as the last hour starts.

Can you swoop in last 30 seconds and put a $50 (or minimum) extra and win it? I feel I am not suited to such a frantic way of buying a car.

BaT has a no sniping set up. At the end of the auction, every bid resets the clock to 2 minutes. Some auctions can go an extra 30 minutes because of this reset.

Good luck and happy bidding.

@HammerheadFistpunch $5 on it was illegally imported and has no license plate nor title

It doesn't even appear to have a mounting location for plates

Bonus tree kicker with bolted on catch point
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@pip-bip Had I stayed single, still would have this.

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Love that Google Street View picked it up in the driveway at my parent's house probably the next day.

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For those that have no idea what you are looking at, it's a Holden Monaro GTS, or HQ as the Aussies would call it. At one point I had three Holdens, but that is a post for another time.

@ttyymmnn yeah, I heard Norfolk got a foot of the white stuff

@Sam-Blockhan You'll need the camera, as one won't be seeing through that played out rear beltline/pillar upkick. Much character, so dynamism.

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi Three blue and one black here at the JeRC household. Although contributing to the problem a little we are well above average.

@Roadkilled said in Just Got My Red Block Lego Set in the Mail:

@Man-With-One-Reliable-Jeep

My first car was a 1982 Dodge Aires wagon. The Chrysler name for the color was "Morocco Red", but I thought it looked more like a brick. (It certainly had the aerodynamics and handling of a brick. ) It would match your Lego set.

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That legitimately looks great.

@Just-Jeepin Slush Mini, what a crime..

@RallyWrench said in Automotive Questions on Jeopardy:

@Krusty-Walnut They should have left out "cold cranking," or added "weak" ahead of it. That question is poorly constructed at best, I can see how it would confuse people with no experience. Or who have somehow never seen a battery commercial.

Yes. It is very awkward. I have no idea what the cold cranking is supposed to add to it. If you got clicks while 'hot cranking' it could be the same issue.

@Arch-Duke-Maxyenko Unplugged in New York remains my favorite Nirvana album:

@pip-bip

I think this is by (Ms) Gordon Conway, an American artist and costume designer who was active in the 1920s. She was at the time married to Blake Ozias who was a sales rep for Delage.

Edit: it may be a reworked copy of a poster which she did for Delage.

@pip-bip the Taycan we have home

@BJ said in Three-car dream garage?:

Not quite, but a fun little collection of Hot Wheels from the pharmacy.

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Proton Saga in red for me, a McLaren Solus GT in blue for my youngest, and a 1986 Toyota Van that rides a bit low for the teen.

(It's a really shitty pic, my apologies!)

Ooh I got the Solus also cuz it looks like the Sabre and there's two "local" to me and I think it's cool I've seen them. Only 7 of those made.
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Also saw a Senna GTR this summer.
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@CarsOfFortLangley said in Snow in Kentucky (again).:

@Mazda616 Kentucky getting more snow than Vancouver lol

It’s also way warmer there than here right now.

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@amoore100 That's a positively hideous facelift.