Time to say goodbye. We bought this in 2009, second owner. Sadly I never got to drive this to Cars and Coffee, or any show. This will most likely be gone by the end of this week. It's hard to find Broncos all original in this condition. But it's not all bad, my dad is going to buy his friends 1970 Chevelle. I guess I'll have to dive my Focus now.
Was there a Australian ute thingy on the last page with a turbo I-6 in it? I believe it was of the GM variety. Which means it was likely born with an LS engine. This means someone has meaningfully and willfully removed an LS engine from something born with one. This blight upon humanity must be removed from existence. While I might not think much of any newer cars, damn the G8 is phucking good looking thing. Also, there is a GTO running around that I swear sounds like Gods doorbell, he also has the Holden front end on it, really took me by surprise when I saw it in the mirror behind me.
How many of you lock your cars at night? I usually don't bother to. The only thing of value in there is the dashcam, which is usually pretty well hidden from the outside by the sunshade. I've even left the windows down all night once or twice. Not exactly on purpose though.
Commodores are one of the most, if not the most stolen car here. I worry leaving mine locked & parked up a pitch black driveway.
I've only recently began locking my truck at night, thats because one day I went out to my truck one morning and found that all the wiring for my CB had been ripped out and the console had been rooted though. I had a GPS and $40 in an envelope in the console that were gone, and I guess they gave up on the radio after they couldn't get it out. There were 5 trucks in our little town that had CB's stolen out of them that day, not including the attempt on mine. I'm not in a bad area, but I have a pretty solid guess as to who it could have been, but I can't call him out on it, since I have no evidence.
The only thing I keep in my truck are pirated CDs, so I usually don't even bother. Sometimes I do, though, depends on my mood.
Wait, people actually... don't lock their cars in america? I just facepalm reading those comments... I mean, even if you don't have anything valuable in it, there always is THE FUCKING CAR to steal. Even if hotwiring is not a thing anymore, there are ways of stealing the car without the keys.
It's extremely difficult to steal a modern car without the keys. If they want the car bad enough to transmit data to the computer and mimic keys and shit, I'm sure they're more than willing to bust a window out. A couple years ago a few people in my neighborhood got their cars "broken into" and had some ipods and stereos stolen and stuff like that. Pretty sure they were all unlocked. I couldn't pay someone to take the piece of junk stereo out of the crown vic. The little prong things made specially for removing Ford radios without damaging them have also pretty much become a permanent fixture on mine, so it'd be REALLY easy to steal it.
Now that is more real than you'd think. The chumps have ways, like putting a completely different ECU from a wreck in, or just disabling the immobiliser on its own. They do it here very often with the Skoda Octavia, a 7,3k euro 10 year old vehicle with no problem, 5 minutes and they are away. Don't underestimate chumps.
For modern car sound trends, i guess it is pretty good, but nothing will ever beat an actual engine you can hear.
My parents never lock their cars in the driveway. Hell, for a long time my mom left her valet key in the center console. We don't even lock our front door. Nothing has been stolen.
New scooty carburetor arrives in awhile. I will also try to take the limiting washer out of the variator (Limits top end speed) thingamajig and I ordered a "racing" CDI simply because the stock one probably has a rev limiter. I bet with these changes I could hit FIFTY. Downhill. Maybe. (My top recorded speed is 43, measured with my phone since speedo doesn't work and the replacement part is like ten whole bucks.)
http://jalopnik.com/your-guide-to-dieselgate-volkswagens-diesel-cheating-c-1731857018 I'm sure most of you know about this already but man, as someone who's been a diehard VW fan since he was little, it's like being betrayed by an old friend who you never thought in a million year could be this corrupt. I'm staring at my car keys in shame...
The sad thing is that 500,000 TDI owners are probably going to gave to take their cars in for a recall which will make them slower and less efficient. Don't know why VW ever decided to do something like this. They should have known that they probably couldn't have gotten away with it.
I can completely understand why they'd do it. Diesel emssions standards over here in the us are starting to get so strict that they're ruining the practicality of a diesel engine. They're hard to make money on and sell because the engines have to be so damn bogged down with emissions bs.I actually kinda respect them for doing it. The EPA is annoying.
