YT 7/18 - My Car is Heating Up Worse; PLEASE BUY from my eBay and HELP!

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WorldsSmartestManRonOTool said:
Could be as simple as a hose, leaking radiator petcock, or the radiator itself or water pump failing. If he's been driving around all "hmm...yeah" with it overheating, yeah he probably fucked the heads.
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He should check his oil if he hasn't already. It's gonna look less like oil and more like a thick foamy milkshake if he's blown his head gasket. Would be a quick thing to have a look at.
 
Bassomatic said:
I just got an obd2 reader (that's the system chris car has) and code tool on prime day for 35 bucks. With it you can do lots of neat stuff, including turning off those pesky idiot lights that yell at you something is wrong, I mean IM WORKING ON IT!!!

You'd be amazed how simplistic, lots of cars management systems are in regards to power, on my race car, I can tune live on the fly (ie make adjustments to the fuel spark revs etc while driving) from my cell phone via USB.
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Cool, I can pull the key out my jeeps ignition while driving. Pretty sick mod. I don't know, I might take it to shows this summer.


We actually run some nice new trucks at work that are completely integrated with the office computers. My boss once diagnosed a code via his phone and I'm like:
"you check this fucking trucks texts more than you check mine?"
His response being "the truck is smarter and more valuable.".
"Tune shade, my friend" I says. "Tuuune shade.."
 
The American Hedgehog said:
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$25 now, increased from $5 before.

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Do his "friends in marketing" happen to live in CWCville by any chance? Because I thought he had a pretty good thing going with his five dollar autograph cards. Say he prints off two sheets of paper with ten of those cards. If he sells all ten of them, he just made fifty bucks off something that likely wouldn't even take him an hour to make. Nobody's going to want one at 25 when it was a fifth of the price 24 hours ago.

But getting back on topic, how mechanically inclined is Chris? He could go to a salvage yard and find the parts he needs to fix his car for a fraction of what a mechanic would charge.
 
WorldsSmartestManRonOTool said:
lol yeah I've been there. Ended up doing a complete rebuild. He'll wait until he's blowing white smoke though.
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Depending on, a fuck ton of things I won't bore people with, white smoke in little amounts can be the first signal something is wrong, like even a mild leak on a HG.

Chris, it'll be a James Bond smoke feature before he notices or cares. It's also got a slightly sweet smell due to the antifreeze.

I had just finished building and breaking a motor in for my civic and had 900 or so miles on it, was auto crossing and gave it a oops 9700 RPM down shift.

Big bang lots of white smoke... and a tow by AAA home. I still am amazed how little damage that did, aside the HG everything else was ok, infact the pistons and head proper are in my current build half a decade later. No matter how abusive or neglectful you are of cars it's amazing the beating they take
 
thismanlies said:
But getting back on topic, how mechanically inclined is Chris? He could go to a salvage yard and find the parts he needs to fix his car for a fraction of what a mechanic would charge.
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Chris burned his house down trying to make coffee, I don't think he needs to attempt working on a car.

He would probably try to stop the leaks with CRAYOLA FUCKING MODEL MAGIC like when he broke his glasses.
 
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thismanlies said:
Do his "friends in marketing" happen to live in CWCville by any chance? Because I thought he had a pretty good thing going with his five dollar autograph cards. Say he prints off two sheets of paper with ten of those cards. If he sells all ten of them, he just made fifty bucks off something that likely wouldn't even take him an hour to make. Nobody's going to want one at 25 when it was a fifth of the price 24 hours ago.

But getting back on topic, how mechanically inclined is Chris? He could go to a salvage yard and find the parts he needs to fix his car for a fraction of what a mechanic would charge.
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thismanlies said:
Do his "friends in marketing" happen to live in CWCville by any chance? Because I thought he had a pretty good thing going with his five dollar autograph cards. Say he prints off two sheets of paper with ten of those cards. If he sells all ten of them, he just made fifty bucks off something that likely wouldn't even take him an hour to make. Nobody's going to want one at 25 when it was a fifth of the price 24 hours ago.

But getting back on topic, how mechanically inclined is Chris? He could go to a salvage yard and find the parts he needs to fix his car for a fraction of what a mechanic would charge.
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I wonder if he's retroactively raised the price on any that sold since yesterday. You know like "hey Chris, have you mailed my $5 card yet?"
"Hmm yeah, about that.."
 
Is Chris’ car paid off yet? Didn’t he buy the car at one of those high interest places like a tote the note or JD Byrider?
I’m curious if hes smelling what I call the burnt maple syrup smell.
Worst car I ever had was a Ford EXP, it overheated and cracked the aluminum head.
 
The Captain said:
So he dropped it off as an emergency case. He'll have to raise money to pay the bill later. I wonder if that means they're going to let him take the car without paying or hold onto it until he does.

Apparently shipping for his blanket to CA was $40. He's not happy about that.
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Shipping the blanket from Virginia to California was $40?
Did he pack it with bricks?
 
The Captain said:
So he dropped it off as an emergency case. He'll have to raise money to pay the bill later. I wonder if that means they're going to let him take the car without paying or hold onto it until he does.

Apparently shipping for his blanket to CA was $40. He's not happy about that.
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How do you sell a used blanket and eat the cost of $40 shipping?
neural said:
Interestingly, the sushi photo shows a Dodge steering wheel, I think he was using Barb's car, whatever that is.

@The American Hedgehog , do we know what Barb's car is?
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I believe it's a Dodge Caravan
 
Shipping standards are pretty retarded because they mostly evaluate costs by dimensions rather than weight, and a blanket has pretty large dimensions. I don't imagine Chris tries to use the smallest packaging available either considering how he packaged the sonic totem.

Anyway, 5 dollars is very reasonable for an internet celebrity's autograph, it's just a matter of figuring the best delivery service.
 
Orkeosaurus said:
Shipping standards are pretty exceptional because they mostly evaluate costs by dimensions rather than weight, and a blanket has pretty large dimensions. I don't imagine Chris tries to use the smallest packaging available either considering how he packaged the sonic totem.

Anyway, 5 dollars is very reasonable for an internet celebrity's autograph, it's just a matter of figuring the best delivery service.
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Does Chris’ ship priority mail?
I buy and sell on Poshmark, and I’ve sent out a lot of clothes, coats, boots, etc and $40 to ship that blanket seems high.
I mailed my granddaughter a flatscreen tv through UPS ( I had the store package it ) and it was only $60.
 
Doesn't Chris live in redneckville? I grew up in a white trash community too and there's always a dozen or so mildly talented mechanics around who will fix a car for a case of beer and a Subway gift card.
 
Ruin said:
Doesn't Chris live in redneckville? I grew up in a white trash community too and there's always a dozen or so mildly talented mechanics around who will fix a car for a case of beer and a Subway gift card.
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Them folks don't take kindly to one of his types walking onto their property..
 
Ruin said:
Doesn't Chris live in redneckville? I grew up in a white trash community too and there's always a dozen or so mildly talented mechanics around who will fix a car for a case of beer and a Subway gift card.
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Considering Chris probably can't explain the problem other than "I keep puttin coolant in it and it's still overheetun!" The time it would take most backyard mechanics to deal with it and the inevitable other issues that always arise would likely conflict with his attending Bronycon in only nine days.
 
Lipitor said:
How do you sell a used blanket and eat the cost of $40 shipping?
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By being Chris.

He literally over-and-underperformed here. Like, nobody else would be able to sell that thing for that price, but only Chris, as experienced as he should be, would also fuck up this majorly on shipping costs lol.
 
Chan the Wizard said:
I think they make exceptions for the exceptional ones.
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How are they on Trans-tolerance in rural Virginia?
"Hey Cooter? Would y'all consider yer zelf as an ally to the Trans community? Cuz we got us a Ben Franklin-kin with busted Ford.."
 
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