In a stream of BIG, heavy fish, its everyone ensuring their safety first instead of falling asleep and assuming you'll be dandy in others' hands. If you're crossing that intersection, even on your green, and you don't quickly check the cross street for possible morons/don't even check your mirror while being stopped to see if there's a rapid fireball possibly approaching you from behind - it is also on you. Trust absolutely fucking nobody else on roads of a nation where law of the road is predominantly designed to milk Xmas present money rather than deter morons from being able to drive.
Have this absolute monstrosity that drives between California, Nevada, and Arizona.
Every time it is seen, it has gained more plastic growths.
Its current form is a few years in the making.
Given that modern safe excuses for cars are majorly plastic - not all that fast. Plus inside of a garage, there aren't many cheap shitboxes that could get up to speed, so I will get 30-40 is good enough vs a solid support post.
Zero of these vehicles are Drift builds which makes it 100% useless but I've already sperged enough about that earlier ITT.
These guys are always the exact same type of person as the 6+ inch lift kit pavement princess fags; they just chose a different aesthetic.
They all have small dicks with a void where their personalities should be and are compensating for it.
Not to mention that 99.9% of them are some of the most (maliciously) retarded drivers on the road.
Is that a bad thing? That's about twice a year. Could be oil changes and some tire changes, but synthetic oil only requires changing every 10k miles, which is only about once per year.
Service records aren't added for stuff like changing your own oil, right?
Seems like a solid car that does what it's supposed to do.
Is that a bad thing? That's about twice a year. Could be oil changes and some tire changes, but synthetic oil only requires changing every 10k miles, which is only about once per year.
Service records aren't added for stuff like changing your own oil, right?
Seems like a solid car that does what it's supposed to do.
My concern is that it has that many between 12 different owners, meaning that around 12 of those maintence records are likely from whatever Dealership processed the car and not from the people who owned it.
I could be wrong but that's my mindset around it.
The fact the car is being passed around like a blunt is not a good sign to me xD
Is that a bad thing? That's about twice a year. Could be oil changes and some tire changes, but synthetic oil only requires changing every 10k miles, which is only about once per year.
Service records aren't added for stuff like changing your own oil, right?
Seems like a solid car that does what it's supposed to do.
5k or 6k if you're a total slob that can't be bothered with $50 and if half an hour. Unless you have your Bimmer that holds like 8-10 quarts, last thing you want to do is wait that long. Once that filter clogs up, you're not doing your engine any favors.
And of course your modern owner's manuals will say stupid shit like 7.5k miles since it's calculated to get the right right past the drivetrain warranty to steam roll you with an engine replacement or other horribly expensive shit.
And if you get ANY service done, anywhere but your own driveway they are obliged to give you paperwork and thus it goes on "record." So when you have a shitbox going through more owners that oil changes.......you already know everything you need to.
On the motorway this afternoon I was passed by a riced-out Volkswagen Lupo of all things. This dude had lowered it and put on these really small but really wide wheels. It looked like a roller skate with flip paint.
Thread title taught me about the kitchen appliance “potato ricer”. Very informative.
Edit - Dont worry fellow kiwis. I did a follow search for “ricer cars” and found the slur information I was looking for. Never rest on your laurels and think “I know enough slurs.”
It mainly became a thing in drifting circles because it affects steering and the way the tires grip the road, which can help keep better control around corners. It does have an actual function there.
However the lowest common denominator got ahold of it and turned it into a "fashion statement". 95% of the people that have camber don't actually drift their vehicle and just do it for the looks, which is utterly retarded.
Noone runs that kind of camber on drift cars. You want near 0 camber on rear wheels. Only the front has excessive camber since you need the front to grip when drifting. I have a full angle kit on my 350z and it is designed to be run at atleast 3.5 degrees of negative camber. It literately cannot be aligned with less camber.
Grip racing cars have more even negative camber. When you corner, weight is on outside wheels. Have camber allows more grip.
Almost noone has a slammed drift car because you'll run into clearance issues with front wheels and you'll destroy your fenders right away. The correct way to fix it would probably to set the bumpstops correctly, but noone bothers with it. We just raise our cars.
Having coilovers is one of the biggest differences in car performance. Its very apparent which cars are running stock suspension at an event. They all have excessive body roll.
Most actual drifters don't daily their drift cars because it's a massive waste (plus their cars are tuned to run a specific way which isn't always the most street legal or convenient) and usually have a separate vehicle they drive normally around in.
You see a similar phenomenon with people who have proper Rally/Off-Road or Drag/Race builds. (However there are some who make what I call "Enduro Builds"--mostly seen with off-roaders--that can drive just fine on the street as they can off-road; and of course there are also the good street racer builds).
I know a lot of people that daily their drift cars. Camber on the front isn't a huge issue since the cars are RWD. My drift car is street legal. The biggest issue on the street is the solid bushings that just make it uncomfortable in a lot of situations. I don't drive too many miles nowadays and I have multiple cars, but I could daily my drift car if I had to.
I also forgot to mention that the lowered suspension helps with lowering the center of gravity, so the car doesn't flip over as easily when drifting through hairpin turns.
This video highlights a why having lowered suspension helps cornering. During testing, cheap ebay coilovers were actually faster than expensive coilovers simply because they lowered it more.
Noone runs that kind of camber on drift cars. You want near 0 camber on rear wheels. Only the front has excessive camber since you need the front to grip when drifting. I have a full angle kit on my 350z and it is designed to be run at atleast 3.5 degrees of negative camber. It literately cannot be aligned with less camber.
Grip racing cars have more even negative camber. When you corner, weight is on outside wheels. Have camber allows more grip.
Almost noone has a slammed drift car because you'll run into clearance issues with front wheels and you'll destroy your fenders right away. The correct way to fix it would probably to set the bumpstops correctly, but noone bothers with it. We just raise our cars.
Having coilovers is one of the biggest differences in car performance. Its very apparent which cars are running stock suspension at an event. They all have excessive body roll.
I know a lot of people that daily their drift cars. Camber on the front isn't a huge issue since the cars are RWD. My drift car is street legal. The biggest issue on the street is the solid bushings that just make it uncomfortable in a lot of situations. I don't drive too many miles nowadays and I have multiple cars, but I could daily my drift car if I had to.
This video highlights a why having lowered suspension helps cornering. During testing, cheap ebay coilovers were actually faster than expensive coilovers simply because they lowered it more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kef1wXcQY
Is that a bad thing? That's about twice a year. Could be oil changes and some tire changes, but synthetic oil only requires changing every 10k miles, which is only about once per year.
Service records aren't added for stuff like changing your own oil, right?
Seems like a solid car that does what it's supposed to do.
My concern is that it has that many between 12 different owners, meaning that around 12 of those maintence records are likely from whatever Dealership processed the car and not from the people who owned it.
I could be wrong but that's my mindset around it.
The fact the car is being passed around like a blunt is not a good sign to me xD
That Altima also had at least 1 reported accident, at least 1 airbag deployment, 1 open recall that hasn't been fixed, and was previously used as a rental car, which also explains the 12 owners.
That Altima also had at least 1 reported accident, at least 1 airbag deployment, and was previously used as a rental car, which also explains the 12 owners.
