Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
And some new cars come with no spare tyre at all. So presumably they don't have the iron either.
I've never had a car that didn't at least have a doughnut spare. Most have had full size spares. I have no need of winter tires.
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@boomzilla My new car has an emergency puncture repair kit instead of a spare. Although it does have room for a spare if I'd want to buy a proper one at some point.
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@Atazhaia I'd guess that if I bought a very cheap / small car here in the US it might be likely to not come with some kind of a spare tire. It might also not have a modern transmission.
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@boomzilla It is a B-class (so one step above a "city car"). And it has manual transmission, because I know how to drive a car and don't need the baby's first car additions.
It is also this far passing the winter trial. One reason I bought this particular car (Suzuki Swift) is because it has features to handle local features like bad roads and snow-filled winters. And yes, I could back out from my unplowed drive with 20cm of snow on top.
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@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Suzuki Swift
Yep, that's the sort of car I was thinking about.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Suzuki Swift
Yep, that's the sort of car I was thinking about.
They are one of the scariest cars on Nürburgring.
Generally, they are rented by people that have some utter shit for cars and the appropriate driving skills for the utter shit car. And no experience in track driving. They are scary as fuck and continuously do all kinds of shit that would get you black flagged on track days.
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@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
And it has manual transmission, because I know how to drive a car and don't need the baby's first car additions.
I know how to drive manual, but I prefer automatic. Manual isn't fun at all in heavy traffic.
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
And it has manual transmission, because I know how to drive a car and don't need the baby's first car additions.
I know how to drive manual, but I prefer automatic. Manual isn't fun at all in heavy traffic.
Heavy traffic is never fun to drive in.
Before I broke my back, I preferred manuals in heavy traffic as well. I probably still do, but I've driven automatics the last 7 years now.
If I have to drive in heavy traffic, and can't just drive before/after traffic peaks, I prefer using motorcycles so I can lane split and for the most part just opt out of the worst of it.
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
And it has manual transmission, because I know how to drive a car and don't need the baby's first car additions.
I know how to drive manual, but I prefer automatic. Manual isn't fun at all in heavy traffic.
It's all in the priorities, isn't it. Finland doesn't have enough population to make traffic that heavy.
We like manual gearboxes for the same reason off-road cars tend to have manual gearboxes: Automatic isn't fun at all when the weather on the road can't decide whether it wants to be ice or ankle-deep slush. Older automatics just didn't move very well. Newer automatics burn out parts in a year or two.
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@Carnage Yeah, I don't have the sport model. I have the hybrid AWD model, so the acceleration and top speed are mediocre. But instead I can drive when conditions are shit, which I find more important than driving swiftly.
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@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage Yeah, I don't have the sport model. I have the hybrid AWD model, so the acceleration and top speed are mediocre. But instead I can drive when conditions are shit, which I find more important than driving swiftly.
I've been thinking about getting a Suzuki Jimny, it being the cheapest 4x4 drive car available new. It has the performance of a potato, with shit comfort at any sort of speed so it'd fit perfectly in my menagerie of vehicles all being entering that people don't want. Except none of them are unreliable. I guess I'll have to get to that as well some day..
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
> Daughter comes home in the Ford Fusion with a flat tire.
> Pull out the spare.
> Jack the car up.
> Grab the tire iron.
> Socket doesn't fit on the lug nuts. Socket too small.
> Check it against my Ford Escape. Fits.
> Get tire iron from van. Socket too large.
> FML> Daughter calls AAA to get the tire changed.
> My next door neighbor workd for AAA and gets the call for "light service."
> None of his wrenches fit the damn nuts.
> Neighbor heads off to get a tow truck.
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@boomzilla Metric nuts?
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
my menagerie of vehicles all being entering that people don't want.
So you're the @Tsaukpaetra of vehicles?
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Except none of them are unreliable.
Ah, never mind.
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@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla Metric nuts?
Yes, but no. My wrenches are 19mm and 22mm, respectively. So the nuts are somewhere in between.
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@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla Metric nuts?
According to US-ians all metric stuff is nuts
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@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla My new car has an emergency puncture repair kit instead of a spare. Although it does have room for a spare if I'd want to buy a proper one at some point.
The one time I needed the spare was when I hit something with the rim and the tire was ripped to shreds, so an emergency kit would not have helped me. That's an advantage of proper spare.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla Metric nuts?
Yes, but no. My wrenches are 19mm and 22mm, respectively. So the nuts are somewhere in between.
Does it have these nuts on?
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla Metric nuts?
Yes, but no. My wrenches are 19mm and 22mm, respectively. So the nuts are somewhere in between.
Does it have these nuts on?
Huh...yeah, that could be the problem.
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla Metric nuts?
Yes, but no. My wrenches are 19mm and 22mm, respectively. So the nuts are somewhere in between.
Does it have these nuts on?
Oh, my girlfriends jag has those, and I figured they were shit and needlessly complicated when I swapped tires for her. Guess I'll tell her to get them swapped for decent nuts.
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@boomzilla My Land Rover came with very similar nuts from the factory which caused issues removing a wheel due to swelling. Ended up smashing the aluminium caps off with a hammer and screwdriver and using a smaller socket on the remaining steel nut.
I've since replaced the nuts with a set of a different design.
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Well, ford is notorious for requiring their own special tools. But I have a 2015 Ford Fusion and while the tire iron is absolute shit (it is one of the collapsing types) it does fit the nuts (though one did require a little persuasion to get more than a hairs grip on it)
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@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Well, ford is notorious for requiring their own special tools. But I have a 2015 Ford Fusion and while the tire iron is absolute shit (it is one of the collapsing types) it does fit the nuts (though one did require a little persuasion to get more than a hairs grip on it)
Yeah, mine is the same. It fits fine on my other Ford's lug nuts.
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla Metric nuts?
Yes, but no. My wrenches are 19mm and 22mm, respectively. So the nuts are somewhere in between.
Does it have these nuts on?
Yep. Guy at the dealership recommended buying replacements on Amazon and they'll swap them out for us no charge.
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@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
driving swiftly
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Oh, my girlfriends jag
Stop bragging.
We already know you have a girlfriend.
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@loopback0 My swollen nuts have never given me trouble.
Look, you make it that easy to make a comment, I'm gonna make the comment.
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“You know the best thing? If they want more money, they just ask the government. Cook up some bullshit about ‘vital track maintenance’ then blow the loot on women and horses.”
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@topspin said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
There is something fishy about that accident.
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@Carnage It was a lax attitude. Someone dropped the bass on it.
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@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Somehow UK railways seem to be particularly susceptible to this problem. Like, significantly more than other countries.
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@lolwhat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@loopback0 My swollen nuts have never given me trouble.
Look, you make it that easy to make a comment, I'm gonna make the comment.
You're lucky, that's usually pretty serious, as it often concurs with prostatic hyperplasia which may or may not be precancerous.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Yes, but no. My wrenches are 19mm and 22mm, respectively. So the nuts are somewhere in between.
If you clamp up the 22mm real good in the bench vise and take the ballpeen or recoilless to it a bit, you can probably get it down to 21, maybe 20.
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I don't know about that. We get the same thing in France every fall.
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@Zerosquare We don't, in Finland. I assume it's a difference in the number of track maintenance/sweeping vehicles. If the trains didn't move at all in winter, no-one would use them.
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@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Total time lost in the period [of the past 3 years] tops 2,000 hours
That almost TWO HOURS A DAY!!!!!1
On a rail network with 16 billion passenger-km and 21 billion tonne-km of freight per year. Imagine that.
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@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Zerosquare We don't, in Finland. I assume it's a difference in the number of track maintenance/sweeping vehicles. If the trains didn't move at all in winter, no-one would use them.
The UK somehow manages to be surprised by yearly weather phenomena every single time. Remember when they got "experts" from Germany and Sweden because it had suddenly and unexpectedly snowed and everything transport was utter chaos?
To be fair, German Railways is the same with summer heat. It's 35° outside? Just like last year and the one before? D'oh, if only someone had thought about servicing the air conditioning!
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@LaoC said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The UK somehow manages to be surprised by yearly weather phenomena every single time.
Rails are laid in configurations that allow for given range of temperatures; it controls the size and frequency and type of expansion joints. Excessive heat makes the rails buckle; the designed-in slack is used up.
I've less sympathy for bad handling of temperatures on board trains. I particularly think that a failure to put in some sort of temperature sensors and use them to switch between heating and AC as appropriate is predictably stupid. It's not like temperature sensitive switches weren't well known for over a century now.
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
insolation makes a key difference here
And of course England is well-known for its bright, sunny days.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
And of course England is well-known for its bright, sunny days.
I'm having one of those right now. It's just not warm at the same time.
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@LaoC said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The UK somehow manages to be surprised by yearly weather phenomena every single time. Remember when they got "experts" from Germany and Sweden because it had suddenly and unexpectedly snowed and everything transport was utter chaos?
In Canada you'd think we'd be used to snow on the roads in the winter, but every single year, 90+% of people seem to completely forget how to handle it
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
In
CanadaCalifornia you'd think we'd be used tosnowrain on the roads in the winter, but every single year, 90+% of people seem to completely forget how to handle itFixed for me. But given our droughts, guess it's not all that surprising... It's our rainy season - the last rain we had was mid-December.
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@dcon Florida was the same. Despite getting rain nearly every day, often in torrential amounts. Even the slightest bit of water from the sky would slow things to a crawl. I blame the tourists and old people.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I blame
the tourists and oldpeople.Save yourself from disappointment down the road
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@LaoC said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The UK somehow manages to be surprised by yearly weather phenomena every single time. Remember when they got "experts" from Germany and Sweden because it had suddenly and unexpectedly snowed and everything transport was utter chaos?
In Canada you'd think we'd be used to snow on the roads in the winter, but every single year, 90+% of people seem to completely forget how to handle it
How do you mean you can't just power through it?
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