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    10-04-2012 06:37 AM #71
    Quote Originally Posted by bherman13 View Post
    I can get on board with selling a dumb product to dumb people for profit, but I'd be a bit uneasy about sending 2 ton steel objects down the road with false confidence in the drivers that their tires will hold up in an emergency at 60mph (or any other speed for that matter).

    In other words, the innocent drivers could be paying for the dumb drivers' mistakes.
    My post was in jest.... but I also seriously doubt such a product would change the behavior of those drivers. They will drive until their tires pop regardless of what fake looking tire tread products are available.
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    10-04-2012 08:05 AM #72
    Vibrations around 60mph...




  3. 10-04-2012 08:42 AM #73
    HOW does that even happen?

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    10-04-2012 08:53 AM #74
    Quote Originally Posted by SLAB View Post
    HOW does that even happen?
    My guess is the little guy was sitting on the curb. See the curb rash before the rat? The driver probably rubbed up on the curb and smashed the rat between his wheel and curb, pinching it in between the hub cap and wheel.

    EDIT: nvm, the hub cap has no curb rash, but the wheel does. I'm just as confused as you now.

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    10-04-2012 08:57 AM #75
    Quote Originally Posted by Shmi View Post
    My guess is the little guy was sitting on the curb. See the curb rash before the rat? The driver probably rubbed up on the curb and smashed the rat between his wheel and curb, pinching it in between the hub cap and wheel.

    EDIT: nvm, the hub cap has no curb rash, but the wheel does. I'm just as confused as you now.
    ^I was just gonna mention this..
    Why yes; that she tropper has sideburns...

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    10-04-2012 09:06 AM #76
    Quote Originally Posted by Old Windy View Post
    ^I was just gonna mention this..
    Thing is, that sidewall is huge. So he didn't just run it over, it had to be elevated onto something for it to get pinched that high off the ground. Confused.

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    10-04-2012 09:19 AM #77
    My guess is is climbed in behind the hubcap while the car was parked, and when the car was driving at 70MPH, the forces centerfuged the mouse out.

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    10-04-2012 09:19 AM #78
    Serbscribed.

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    10-04-2012 09:22 AM #79
    Quote Originally Posted by Egz View Post
    My guess is is climbed in behind the hubcap while the car was parked, and when the car was driving at 70MPH, the forces centerfuged the mouse out.
    This,

    there is no other way

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    10-04-2012 09:29 AM #80
    just enjoying the show.

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    10-04-2012 09:34 AM #81
    Quote Originally Posted by Egz View Post
    My guess is is climbed in behind the hubcap while the car was parked, and when the car was driving at 70MPH, the forces centerfuged the mouse out.
    Exactly. You can see it was easy to get through one of the holes in the wheel. Must have been a wild ride. Would that be centripetal or centrifugal force?
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    10-04-2012 09:34 AM #82
    Quote Originally Posted by Egz View Post
    My guess is is climbed in behind the hubcap while the car was parked, and when the car was driving at 70MPH, the forces centerfuged the mouse out.
    winner winner. I'd laugh pretty hard if I found 4 legs sticking out of my hubcap though.

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    10-04-2012 09:49 AM #83
    More air brakes.

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    I thought all diesels sound like that
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    10-04-2012 11:51 AM #85
    Had a girl call me this morning, she put straight chlorine into her cooling system. She's claiming she has a toxic smell coming out of the vents. She'll be in later today, I cannot wait for this.

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    10-04-2012 12:07 PM #86
    Quote Originally Posted by seadoo2006 View Post
    For many, that's not an option ... try owning and maintaining a car at $1200/month gross wages (minimum wage).
    You're kidding right? It's called lack of foresight and financial planning. If you buy a vehicle you have to budget a certain amount each month, year, etc for maintenance. If you can't afford to maintain it don't buy a car. I don't care if you make $2 an hour or $500 an hour. Ride a bicycle, get a motorcycle, carpool with someone, ride the bus......there are ALWAYS other options.
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    10-04-2012 12:09 PM #87
    Quote Originally Posted by wiech151 View Post
    Had a girl call me this morning, she put straight chlorine into her cooling system. She's claiming she has a toxic smell coming out of the vents. She'll be in later today, I cannot wait for this.
    Why in the hell would you put chlorine in your coolant system? I'm beginning to believe our species is doomed.....
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    10-04-2012 12:13 PM #88
    Quote Originally Posted by Uberhare View Post
    You're kidding right? It's called lack of foresight and financial planning. If you buy a vehicle you have to budget a certain amount each month, year, etc for maintenance. If you can't afford to maintain it don't buy a car. I don't care if you make $2 an hour or $500 an hour. Ride a bicycle, get a motorcycle, carpool with someone, ride the bus......there are ALWAYS other options.
    And, like always, people on this site show supreme ignorance to how many live their lives. Do you want someone working for minimum wage or do you want people on welfare? Seriously, that's the question because guess what, those minimum wage jobs are not in the ghetto or government housing, they are were people want to work ... which often involves great distances in the US. For instance, the CLOSEST rental building to where I work is 10 miles away.

    Now, yes, I am upper level management and can afford my 60/mile a day commute, but for many, that is simply not an option. Again, work with people who have very few options and you'll realize that brakes are just not very high on the list or priorities when feeding their kids and feeding themselves come first.

    Don't like it? Raise the minimum wage, raise the welfare payments, stop kicking people off the "government dole" because you're a vindictive c*nt, but whatever you do, don't tell someone that is trying to manage with their own lot in life that they aren't doing it right because they choose to feed and clothe themselves over spending inflated prices on auto parts at the local Midas.

  19. 10-04-2012 12:24 PM #89
    Quote Originally Posted by seadoo2006 View Post
    And, like always, people on this site show supreme ignorance to how many live their lives. Do you want someone working for minimum wage or do you want people on welfare? Seriously, that's the question because guess what, those minimum wage jobs are not in the ghetto or government housing, they are were people want to work ... which often involves great distances in the US. For instance, the CLOSEST rental building to where I work is 10 miles away.

    Now, yes, I am upper level management and can afford my 60/mile a day commute, but for many, that is simply not an option. Again, work with people who have very few options and you'll realize that brakes are just not very high on the list or priorities when feeding their kids and feeding themselves come first.

    Don't like it? Raise the minimum wage, raise the welfare payments, stop kicking people off the "government dole" because you're a vindictive c*nt, but whatever you do, don't tell someone that is trying to manage with their own lot in life that they aren't doing it right because they choose to feed and clothe themselves over spending inflated prices on auto parts at the local Midas.
    You seem pretty angry. However, you both have a point.

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    10-04-2012 04:45 PM #90
    That poor mouse.....rat? rodent?
    Whatever, do you think he suffered? or was it instant death?

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    10-04-2012 04:53 PM #91
    Quote Originally Posted by silvermouse5150 View Post
    do you think he suffered?
    yes

    Quote Originally Posted by silvermouse5150 View Post
    or was it instant death?
    no


    Unless it was dead before the car started moving. Think along the lines of how this thing died in Alien 3. Not a good way to go out.

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    Yep, that was my first thought too. A nice set does not automatically make a chick attractive. Especially when that "chick" is a dude.
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    10-04-2012 05:21 PM #92
    Quote Originally Posted by wiech151 View Post
    Had a girl call me this morning, she put straight chlorine into her cooling system. She's claiming she has a toxic smell coming out of the vents. She'll be in later today, I cannot wait for this.
    If she lives that long.

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    10-04-2012 05:24 PM #93
    Quote Originally Posted by Uberhare View Post
    Why in the hell would you put chlorine in your coolant system? I'm beginning to believe our species is doomed.....
    She was trying to bleach her car to a lighter color?
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    10-04-2012 05:27 PM #94
    Quote Originally Posted by barry2952 View Post
    More air brakes.

    Ok, seriously...how's this even possible?
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    10-04-2012 05:30 PM #95
    ^^^ Seriously, how does the car even stop?
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  26. 10-04-2012 05:33 PM #96
    best thread ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    10-04-2012 08:07 PM #98
    Quote Originally Posted by Geechie_Suede View Post
    "Something is wrong here"
    How the hell do you even do that to a clutch?
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  29. 10-04-2012 08:25 PM #99
    Quote Originally Posted by Geechie_Suede View Post

    "Fixed 3 of these, this was the worst. First gen Ford Focus right front"
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    10-04-2012 09:25 PM #100
    Link to the mouse pic? I collected hubcaps as a kid, and found not one but two of the same Buick Century hubcaps with mouse skeletons fused to the inside of the clip ring. Those hubcaps stuck out far enough for there to be a big space for a mouse to climb in and sleep, and the scaly rust on the clips likely provided a surface for the now-dead mouse to stick to.

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    non-aroused intake:


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  33. 10-05-2012 04:31 AM #103
    Quote Originally Posted by kingrukus View Post
    You know... I didn't REALLY laugh until i saw that picture. Super funny. I bet they spent treefiddy fixing that.

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    10-05-2012 05:23 AM #104
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    10-05-2012 08:46 AM #105
    Quote Originally Posted by 16v_43v3r View Post
    How the hell do you even do that to a clutch?
    Dang, that is a clutch.
    When I first saw the picture I thought it was a drum brake.


    And riding the clutch will do that.
    Think sitting to close leaving your left foot on the clutch.
    That's a common noob mistake.
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