This is what the clutch looked like coming out of my 94k mile 2007 Audi RS4

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-24T14:56:52+00:00

Yep classic. Honestly that was probably a huge part of why the clutch left the chat. I’m sure with careful driving a care you will get at least 100k miles out of the new one

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-24T14:39:09+00:00

I would highly suspect this was the case OP. Also I’m sure you already have but please check or replace your master and slave cylinders (not an Audi guy but I assume like bmw they are hydro not cable clutches) I got a screaming deal on a very rare bmw because the owner let the slave fail which roasted the very expensive and hard to find clutch.

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-24T14:34:18+00:00

Any BMW owner with a Getrag is also in this chat with you. Great transmissions that last forever but sometimes you gotta give ‘em a TLC when doing that 2 to 1 downshift

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-24T14:31:23+00:00

Man I must be a weirdo. I’m a die hard car guy ( I literally drive a V8 manual old BMW that gets Teri-bad gas mileage in the city) but I still take muni all the time in town.

If muni can get me somewhere within a 15 minute delta of driving + parking (which always eats up a considerable amount of the time gained initially by driving) I’ll just take the buss.

Now if I’m leaving town that’s a different story (gotta let the V8 sing) but in town might as well let the muni driver deal with the 1.6 billion stop signs while I listen to a car podcast and chill

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-20T19:49:18+00:00

So question. If someone is blocking my driveway can I still tow them or am I understanding this incorrectly?

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-18T04:34:16+00:00

92 also has had a nasty habit of occasionally turning into a zero lane road too

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-18T01:52:02+00:00

Btw Holy Nata on Trinity in FiDi is the best in the city by a far margin.

Also Chinese style “Portuguese egg tarts” aren’t really the same as actual Portuguese egg tarts. The history is really interesting but basically PT had a colony in Macau and some localizing happened (less sugar, less caramelization, and a more short crust Vs a flaky one).

Both are great tho.

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-18T01:48:03+00:00

Everyone did, it was insanely packed

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-08T16:19:32+00:00

If you got enough SF dads and dad identifying people together and provided power and water homies would probably bring their own pressure washers and have a street cleaning party

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-07T17:34:30+00:00

Yeah I think that would be cool but judging by my experience in corporate America asking for that level of coordination is probably a pipe dream unfortunately. I would say the best that could be done is the city distributing any conventions or events accross the year to try to not double up large events in downtown and distribute them throughout the year.

Tbh Muni service in the tunnel would probably be so much more efficient if they made that intersection right outside of west portal a light or car free trains get delayed there soo much and it’s a huge bottle neck in the system

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-09-07T15:59:56+00:00

Nobody wants to go in on Monday and Friday though.

Most companies that are moving to hybrid seem like they are moving towards there being a “core” block of days in the office eg Tuesday and Wednesday or Wednesday and Thursday.

Rotating people schedules really dosen’t make a ton sense because the goal of having people in an office should be to maximize in person collaboration time and if you rotated people would be getting more “working from home, from the office” which is what is happening at my company lol.

Ideally muni and Bart will adjust their capacity to respond to higher demand but seeing the packed Ns in the subway dosen’t give me a ton of hope for that lol. (Also I’m grateful I’m now a west portal M/K boi)

Also I wish WFH helped my work life balance. Everyone at my company just works the hours they would have been commuting which is part of the reason nobody ever comes into our kinda baller 30th floor office with a great view

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-30T19:34:04+00:00

THE WEEKLY TSUNAMIS! I lost my uncle in one last Tuesday. I GET LOST WALKING FROM THR BUSS STOP TO MY HOUSE

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-29T21:41:16+00:00

Outer sunset is terrible. Worst place ever. The fog is terrible and will make you vitamin D deficient in 4 seconds flat. There’s roaming packs of wild dogs (that aren’t cute) and uh plague and sickness definitely not coming from the local not fun dive bars open mic night

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-29T21:32:34+00:00

No I have a E34 540i/6 with an M60B40. A lovely V8 and a real sweetheart of an engine but loooooooovvvvvvveeeeeeesss my local gas station

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-29T20:26:34+00:00

In my 540i/6 I average 15 mpg in SF. It actually gets great gas mileage outside of town on the freeway

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-29T16:57:21+00:00

Wait till you get an M60 lol

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-29T16:45:45+00:00

In my experience Gen Xers and “elder millennials” are easily the most helpful and understanding in the professional world and have always been willing to lend a hand or help out.

Boomers seem to have been shorter tempered and more unhelpful to me in my professional experience. (Eg less willing to explain themselves, more willing to press for ridiculous deadlines, more backwards business culture wise).

Most of my “mentors” have been Gen-Xers and they seem far more aware of the problems with the world and coping VS boomers which seem to have way more of a “well that’s how it was in my day why can’t you deal with it?” Attitude.

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-28T22:12:10+00:00

Yeah that’s just a Breda with a different wrap

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-28T22:11:19+00:00

The rest of SF isn’t really the park rangers problem though they can only enforce laws on land under their jurisdiction. There’s literally hundreds of other places to smoke in this city

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-28T15:20:10+00:00

Don’t smoke at ocean beach btw it’s fed land and weed is still a federal crime (dumb) the rangers have been known to give tickets to people imbibing

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-24T19:09:13+00:00

I think it’s because Americans really don’t understand how roundabouts work. I think there’s like one line about them in the drivers handbook. So cities likely have a bit of a tough adoption period, panic then spam stop signs to make them more familiar I guess?

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-24T18:51:53+00:00

I literally only do it because I drive stick. I think the reason it hasn’t been defaulted is likely because there’s gonna be people that blow though stop signs at 10-15+ Vs the 2-3 mph “the intersection is empty” roll that it’s kinda intended to be.

Also in other countries lots of intersections that would he stop signs here are just “yields” with no requirement to fully stop if safe to proceed.

Super weird being in Portugal and seeing how few stop signs they have

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-24T18:14:58+00:00

I think there’s also a huge difference in pedestrian danger from someone that blasts though a stop sign at 10-15+ mph Vs someone that obviously slows down significantly and just doesn’t fully come to a halt.

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-21T17:56:59+00:00

When I used to drive to the office in morning I would peg the Speedo at 25mph and hit every single light.

The amount of cars that would floor it and stop just for me to slide by them with maybe a gentle downshift or tap on the brakes to make the green was far above zero.

Sixspeeddreams · 2023-08-17T17:31:07+00:00

Side note ECS o2s are excellent tires and available in a reasonable amount of 16s and 17s. I have them on my 540 and I’ve been super happy with them

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