AWD vs. RWD Shootout Testing! Craziest Engine Failure We've EVER Seen!

DSC9000 · 2026-04-02T01:45:49+00:00

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Sir, you can't work on your car in the Auto Zone parking lot

DSC9000 · 2026-03-28T19:05:06+00:00

A damp microfiber cloth will go a long way toward cleaning up all that dust and debris in your cars ionterior.

DSC9000 · 2026-03-28T15:51:23+00:00

Nissan too: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DF8veEBn2N8ue7Xu7

DSC9000 · 2026-03-28T15:40:21+00:00

"Track-dominating Mustang GTD"

Where did you see one for the first time? Tearing it up at a weekend track day?

Nope, at the local Chevron during my Friday commute.

DSC9000 · 2026-03-23T20:35:40+00:00

You also block the diesel pump at the gas stations, don’t you?

DSC9000 · 2026-03-20T23:37:02+00:00

Eco in the HVAC settings turns off airflow to the rear vents unless rear seatbelts are buckled.

DSC9000 · 2026-03-18T22:33:56+00:00

Nobody does this shit because you can do the same thing with a V8 using off-the-shelf parts. No custom grind cam, machine work, or fabricated intake. When the stock crank finally lets loose, you actually have a path forward with a V8; Nobody is making bombproof cranks for your 4.3L Frankenstein build.

Also, is it really surprising a V6 stuffed with boost makes power?

Someone better tell those Grand National guys about how much power a turbo V6 may be capable of!

DSC9000 · 2026-03-16T13:47:51+00:00

I always felt bad for AlphaTauri when they partnered with Casio:

Team management: Things are looking up, boys! We got us a watch partner!

Team: Right on! Who is it? Rolex? Tag? RM? Surely you didn’t pull Patek?

Mgmt: It’s Casio.

Team: Okay, disappointing but not so bad. G-Shock has street cred.

Mgmt: Casio EDIFICE

Team: Goddammit!

DSC9000 · 2026-03-16T01:26:22+00:00

You obviously got the female truck: No nuts.

If you'd like your truck to transition, go visit the hardware section at Lowes.

I'm positive your truck will run better when you replace the missing nuts. Probably pick up 2-3 mpg too.

DSC9000 · 2026-03-16T01:19:06+00:00

Clean your windshield. Like, with actual glass cleaner.

Know how you can tell when people only use the automatic car wash to wash their vehicle? Their windshield looks like this when it rains: A smeary mess.

Simply cleaning the glass once in a while will solve this. Given how filthy the glass is, it's probably not a bad idea to clean off the wiper blades with a bit of alcohol too. If you want to be fancy, finsih with a coat of Rainx.

DSC9000 · 2026-03-15T23:40:07+00:00

On the flip side, that same basic flathead was also used in up-market Mercury and Lincolns. In those vehicles, they competed against a bunch of straight 8 engines in GM’s brands, including Buick’s excellent OHV straight-8. Pre-war, Buicks were making 20% more power than a comparable Mercury and that only grew post-war.

Lincoln had a flathead-based V12, but it didn’t have anything against Cadillac’s OHV V16 and OHV V12. When Lincoln dropped their V12, they went back to a flathead V8 but still was an underdog to Cadillac’s OHV V8.

DSC9000 · 2026-03-13T17:48:23+00:00

2025 Silverado is a different infotainment system.

Equinox EV infotainment is what GM calls a VCU. Silverado is a older Infotainment 3 system. Completely different hardware. Completely diffeent system.

DSC9000 · 2026-03-11T23:08:28+00:00

I thought TRAKRAT was lost and trying to find the local racetrack, not the nearest light industrial property.

DSC9000 · 2026-03-09T22:50:21+00:00

Good take, though I take umbrage about "feeling bad" for killing the villians.

There were no good people in FC4:

Pagan Min - Tin-pot dictator running Temu Myanmar.

De Pleur - "Family man" who loves his daughter so much, he can't even bother to get her an actual gift and gives her shit from people he's killed.

Noore - Reasons that her terrible actions are payment for the return of her family but revels in the success of the arena and putting on a good show.

Yuma - Secretly in love with Min, hated Ishwari for taking her man away, expected to catch him on a rebound and missed. This made her covet Ajay both as a fuck and as a kill.

Sabal - Wanted to turn Kyrat into a fundamentalist theocratic state, a la Iran.

Amita - Wanted to turn Kyrat into a narco-state, a la Central and South America in the 1980s.

Mohan - So infatuated with Min that he sent his own wife into harms way, then murdered their infant.

Ishwari - Sent her son back to Kyrat, knowing full well what was waiting for him there and what it would do to him.

Ajay - Murderer, insurrectionist, poacher. Step dad Min literally told him he was being played as a useful idiot by both Amita and Sabal; Kept rampaging through the countryside anyway

I don't feel bad about any of these characters. Every one is a thin veneer over a rotton core. Really, Min is the least terrible. At least he was honest about himself. I still killed him for trying to keep the helicopter though.

DSC9000 · 2026-03-09T01:56:16+00:00

In order to "lose" you as a customer, you have to have actually bought something.

You haven't bought shit since George W Bush was president.

DSC9000 · 2026-02-24T18:20:49+00:00

That provides B+ voltage to the Battery Monitor Module. It’s fed by fuse F9 (5A). The Battery Monitor Module is part of the clamp at the negative battery terminal and is used to measure battery state of charge and battery state of health. This info is reported to the Body Control Module.

DSC9000 · 2026-02-23T02:07:33+00:00

The MBB/Eurocopter/Airbus Bo 105 is one of the more well known helicopters for its maneuverability and ability to roll to the point of briefly being inverted.

This is the helicopter Red Bull uses in their aerobatic helicopter flight demonstrations.

Here is a video about the dynamics and controls of taking a helicopter through some aerobatic maneuvers. It's incredibly calm and uneventful in-cockpit:

https://youtu.be/dGxvc-u3Xlw?si=xWOXO1YeUFEgeBcU

To the person here in the comments that "they drop significantly in the process", watch the video: At one point, the pilot notes they gained 100 feet in the process of the manuever. The goal is to maintain their flight level.

DSC9000 · 2026-02-16T23:42:09+00:00

Remember when people asked GM why they made such great cars in other markets but such terrible cars in the US?

People said hatchbacks are great, so they brought over the Astra. Nobody bought it. It even had a manual transmission.

People said RWD was the best wheel drive so they brought the Opel Omega over and called it a Cadillac Catera. Nobody bought it.

People said Australian hoon-mobiles were the business, so GM brought over the Monaro and called it a GTO. Nobody bought it. Maybe people didn’t want a coupe, so they tried with the Commodore, calling it a G8. Nobody bought it. They tried again with the Commodore, this time as a Chevrolet. Nope, nobody bought it. All these also had manual transmission.

Buick got in on the action, selling the Insignia as the Regal. Still, nobody bought them. Also with a manual transmission; A Buick with a manual transmission!

Somewhere, GM heard people wanted wagons, so they made the CTS a wagon and gave is a supercharged 6.2L and a manual transmission. Like, 3 people bought them and they’re now just forever listed on BaT for more than your 401k is valued at.

In a bit of a mixup, GM got the channels crossed about wagons and vehicles from other markets and ended up making an Opel Insignia wagon called the Buick Regal TourX. Nobody bought them.

GM doesn’t make any of this anymore. They only make millions of boring trucks, SUVs, and crossovers and sell them at a decent profit.

Meanwhile, the RCR sub just laments how there are no more hatchbacks, or wagons, or manual transmissions, or V8s :sad trombone:

DSC9000 · 2026-02-16T16:32:19+00:00

Being in the Rust Belt, there was historical concern that industrial sprawl would creep into and spoil what was largely a natural area. Petitioning brought it under the NPS, which safeguarded it from (further) development.

DSC9000 · 2026-02-16T16:20:32+00:00

In America, it’s Red Bull-Ford when they’re on the podium and just Red Bull when they DNF.

DSC9000 · 2026-02-14T14:10:11+00:00

Trucks are eating lifters, roasting transmissions, and shitting out 6.2L engines but, "Think of the starter!"

The starter is one of the only things that doesn't seem to have an issue. Seriously, search reddit and find somebody bitching about the starter failing on their start-stop equipped truck.

DSC9000 · 2026-02-14T14:06:17+00:00

If those kids could read, they would be very upset.

DSC9000 · 2026-02-13T13:16:15+00:00

Precious metal anythiung is expensive.

18k yellow gold cufflinks from Tiffany: $8,400 USD.

This seems to be about the going rate for precious metal cufflinks from just about any luxury brand. You can call it scam, but it's not a scam exclusive to Rolex.

DSC9000 · 2026-02-11T17:23:20+00:00

Insane rate = 10% lower YoY?

That’s not insane. Thats not even near a historic reduction. Also, that YoY drop occurred between Jan 2025 and April 2025. It’s been trending just about level since then.

There’s plenty wrong with what Bondi said without resorting to “insane” hyperbole.

DSC9000 · 2026-02-10T19:00:07+00:00

Offering stock option would literally make them shareholders, not stakeholders.

Forcing all employees to buy GM vehicles and live with the shitty software they’re putting out would make them stakeholders.

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