Cars and other kinds of motoring gibberish

krim wrote:mmm... i think that's the road... it's rather bad now.. otherwise i'd have got to 120.

Bad?

I thought they had completely repaved it.... Back in '88, it was two lanes in both directions with no blacktop.

One of my coworkers at the time misjudged the length of that road and had to hit the brakes really hard on his (non-ABS) Z28 and flat-spotted all four tires... :sweat:

it's rather cracked and retouched w/ tar towards where In N Out is.

krim wrote:it's rather cracked and retouched w/ tar towards where In N Out is.

In N Out?

I haven't been out that a ways in ages. :sweat:

Oh, it's not Lincoln actually, i was on Westchester Parkway, which runs the ENTIRE length of the north runway and little used by traffic. Lincoln curves off towards Manchester Blvd.

Lincoln is worse than Westchester parkway where the radar station is.

Jaegal_Maut wrote:
I thought that that was emoticon

Yes, it's emoticon, took it from Bulgarian VW Club forum, it's one of most frequently used there :hehe:.
The fastest I ever drove was 155 km/h (96 mph) :ashamed:, that's with my 75bhp Golf III (Mk3).

boris wrote:
Yes, it's emoticon, took it from Bulgarian VW Club forum, it's one of most frequently used there :hehe:.
The fastest I ever drove was 155 km/h (96 mph) :ashamed:, that's with my 75bhp Golf III (Mk3).

I dont want to try cause cops here will give you $200 fines and that's not something i'd pay just to speed around the streets.


So, how's that new GTR Skyline that's coming to the US. Looks better than the G35 but it still looks kinda odd. Newaiz, i heard it's gonna have some decent power. Who knows =)

ThyGriever wrote:I dont want to try cause cops here will give you $200 fines and that's not something i'd pay just to speed around the streets.

That's always the case, but sometimes people get stupid.



Like me (but I never got a ticket for excessive speed). :beaten:

fastest i've been is 145mph on my honda vfr800. the first time i got caught speeding, the officer said i averaged 93mph over the half mile he followed me. :beaten:

kenjilina wrote:fastest i've been is 145mph on my honda vfr800.

Whoa.

I can't imagine that spped on a cycle.

My palms are getting sweaty just thing about it. :sweat:

ThyGriever wrote:
I dont want to try cause cops here will give you $200 fines and that's not something i'd pay just to speed around the streets.

Fines? Naaah, situation with cops here is a little bit different. Besides I don't drive with those speeds in the city. I was in the countryside, on section of „uuropean route E80 and the thraffic there is quite sparse (thus cop free :hehe:).

I've only been caught speeding twice.

First time was 53km/h in a 40km/h zone. Second time was 72km/h in a 50km/h zone. Hardly "speeding", more like "exceeding the posted speed limit", and in both cases it was a case of just entering those slower zones from 70km/h zones.

bmwracer wrote:
I can't imagine that spped on a cycle.

i 'sensibly' started to back off then but my mate on his yamaha r1 carried on. said he saw 170 on the clock!
he's not a bullshitter either so i believe him. :crazy:

oops!
http://cars.uk.msn.com/News/car_news_article.aspx?cp-documentid=3786890&wa=wsignin1.0
:hehe:

kenjilina wrote:fastest i've been is 145mph on my honda vfr800. the first time i got caught speeding, the officer said i averaged 93mph over the half mile he followed me. :beaten:

:shocked: 145mph = 215 kmh.. man I can't imagine being on bike with that speed..
In my town, there's always traffic jam almost all day(except night) in bussiness area, so its likely imposible in here to speed to over 200 kmh unless you are in freeway at midnight, hence I think most likely no one has ever recieved speeding ticket here esp at moring.. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Back from the shop after having my hood release cable replaced... $335. :sweat:

It took two guys to almost entirely disassemble the entire front end of the car to get to the damn thing. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:Back from the shop after having my hood release cable replaced... $335. :sweat:

It took two guys to almost entirely disassemble the entire front end of the car to get to the damn thing. :bleh:

That's the downside to owning a BMW I guess: Parts and service are expensive :)

Anime Dad wrote:That's the downside to owning a BMW I guess: Parts and service are expensive :)

Since my car is 13 years old, I take it to an independent BMW guy...

The cable assembly itself was only $35.... But it took the two guys almost four hours to get to it and replace it.

Bad design, I'm afraid. :sweat:

After-market hood release for a 13-year old BMW:

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Anime Dad wrote:After-market hood release for a 13-year old BMW:

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Close: I was using a pair of Vise-Grips to yank the hood release cable from under my dashboard... Woulda saved me $335. :doh:

Pick-up Trucks can be tricky.

Turns out that if you have a bunch of holes in your radiator, and your thermostat craps out... one of the first clues that you might be having engine trouble is the smoke coming out from the front of the hood when your idling.

Driving fast makes it look like the smoke has vanished, and might give one the impression that the problem has been fixed.

This is just an illusion.

Driving really fast does not take the place of a fluid filled radiator.

Learn somethin' new every day.

Well, on the up side, I'll be getting quite a bit more exercise for the next couple of days.

Lots of walking in my future.