Cars - For Car Enthusiasts

personally surprised that Tesla beats Jeep, but I'm uploading it mostly because it says not to.

I can only dream of being this cool.

My only wish is that the steering got better. Otherwise I think this is a perfect car.

I know, not exciting to everyone but I'm tickled pink! I needed new rotors anyway, and this set was only a few hundred more than stock brakes.

Love this comparison, someone I've wondered off and on about. Yes tires are a big deal! Don't cheap out on them.

This one was mine, a 1998 Mercedes W208. The nice things about it were the cool Mono-Wiper, the engine (supercharged 2,3L M111) and the seats that were perfect for my height. It had a terrible ASR system but came with a LSD, so it was lots of fun in the winter.

The not-so-nice things about it were that the ignition randomly would not recognize the key, a missing catalytic converter, two fist sized rust holes in the front control arms, rust all over the underbody and the absolute worst 6-speed manual transmission I have ever used.

It also had multiple alignments but it didn't take long for the steering-wheel to be off-center again. You could see the tail end "crabbing" in the rear view mirror. There was something very wrong with it, which can probably be attributed to one of the 7 previous owners.

This isn't even counting all minor annoyances like the frameless windows not lowering themselves when you open the doors (that was only a thing after the 1999 model year), the wind noise, the awful interior materials, the broken seat latch in the rear, the trunk lock not working... I could go on for an hour like this.

So anyways, what is the worst car YOU have ever owned?

Previously owned an E36 M3 and it was an absolute blast to drive. Used to do some canyon carving in the LA area on Mulholland Highway.

This seems like a really interesting development. This seems like an interesting way of overcoming EV range anxiety. Hopefully battery technology will continue to evolve but maybe cars that can regenerate their batteries by driving might be part of the future too.

Any favorites on this list? I owned the SAAB and F150. Wouldn't mind owning a few more eventually.

Visited an Toyota Land Cruiser museum in Salt Lake City earlier this week. Here are my favorites!

Norris running laps on my desk for practice!

Got this from a used book store for $20!

The RX-7 is beautiful, but the S14 stole my heart!

The Corvette shop in Metro Denver had over a dozen Vettes waiting to be picked up by their owners. This was my favorite! The inside was as perfect as the outside.

When a simple one day job turns into a week-long project... Bonus points if you can guess the model.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/145697

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/755907901353344482

Remember when the Hummer H1 was the biggest, most obnoxious passenger vehicle on the road?

This one is parked between two new Blazers, which are as wide and have distinctly taller hoods.

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Is it bad that I want one of these too?

Please follow the link to comment in support of a proposed rule to require vehicles in the US to be designed with some pedestrian safety considerations. It will hopefully keep some obviously dangerous designs off of our roads.

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Imagine you were in my weirdly dirty shoes, driving along a back road somewhere between 30 to 35 miles per hour, behind a pickup truck. Oh no, tragedy strikes!

"TINK TINK TINK TINK TINK"

Damn. You just got this car, too!

Alright, now back to my perspective. First of all, out of all the times for my car to start making this noise, it had to be when I was driving like a civilized human being?! I knew it wasn't the engine, I knew it wasn't the transmission. The "tink" was coming from the rear. I pull off on the side of the road and get my body as low as possible to the ground and poke around. Brakes look fine, axles look and feel fine, suspension looks fine. Nothing's wrapped around anything and slapping a piece of metal. Damn.

Fast forward to a handful of yards down the road in a parking lot, still "tink"ing when it rolls. Tink going forward, tink and a little clunk going in reverse. It's gotta be the differential. I've lost all hope, so I start calling a local dealership for the closest date I can bring in my car to get it looked at by a real mechanic. Nothing available today. After some more "close" inspection, I eventually accepted defeat and drove (very slowly) back home.

After the heart wrenching (and tink-y, but thankfully short) drive back home I realized I can easily check my rear differential by jacking up the rear of the car and spinning the wheels by hand. I do just that, and it spins freely with no "tink". What?

Wait, what's that?

Oh. There looks to be some sort of nail. What's that saying? Can't see the forest for the trees? What a fool can't see he can't believe? I'm not sure.

Keep in mind, the sound it made was LOUD. Like, someone hitting a wood spoon onto a pot lid, LOUD. I'm not sure if "tink" is really the right word, but I'm rolling with it. I assumed it was mechanical, because when a car makes a sound like this you automatically think worst case scenario.

By this time, I had called my brother in law to help. He had a theory: what if that "nail" was long enough that when it had the weight of the car on it, it would hit the inside of the wheel?

That very well could be the case.

Luckily, the penetration could not have been in a better place to be plugged! (Mostly because I don't want to replace all 4 tires at the same time just yet!)

I drove (still, slowly) to a tire shop a couple of miles down the road. I wasn't entirely convinced this would fix the main problem, but it needed to be removed anyways.

I wait in the lobby for who knows how long. Eventually, one of the shop guys comes into the lobby and drops a piece of metal on his desk.

Holy shit. That'll do it! That pin is almost 5 inches long, about twice as long as I have sidewall on my tires! It absolutely solved the tink problem 😉

Moral of the story: if your car sounds like it's hitting a wooden spoon on a pot lid, double check and make sure you didn't run over a metal rod longer than your wheel is thick before looking for mechanical issues!

And that's my first experience with driving over nails (or other pins and metal pieces) in over 4 years of driving! I hope my little story was fun to read, and I hope you immediately realized it was something in the tire unlike me over the course of several hours!

In my youth I had a 2nd Gen Eclipse and I loved it! It got me more than a few dates. I always wanted more from Mitsubishi and planned to buy whatever their fastest car was as I got older and had money. Sadly the company fell apart (in my opinion), but watching this reminded me of what I loved about their products back in the day!

That Lancer!! Wow.