There are no factory cars that are even in the same universe as the aftermarket pop tunes. The most pops and burbles I think I remember hearing might be the Veloster N from a few years ago.
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There are no factory cars that are even in the same universe as the aftermarket pop tunes. The most pops and burbles I think I remember hearing might be the Veloster N from a few years ago.
F8x BMW M3/M4's especially with the M performance exhaust pop and burble a fair bit.
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There’s a Calgary-based company who is promoting doing the most obnoxious of the pops and bangs ECU tunes; these sh-tbags: Project Redline. Always some entry-level trim of entry-level model Euro, and they slap a crackle tune on it and show off how awesome garbage it sounds.
So I started sharing their ads to my IG reels with captions like “This sounds like dogsh-t#” and “#clappedoutsh-tbox”. They blocked me shortly thereafter. One of them was a base A4 driving through what looked like your typical deep SE ‘new community’ and the guy was just cruising along doing ~50 KM/H, letting off the accelerator, and ruining everyone’s evening.
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Typical dumb take.
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As far as small SUVs go, I like the Bronco Sport. I think it looks way less NPC than basically all the usual suspects (Rav, CRV, anything Subaru, anything Nissan, etc.). Not a bad choice, fotze. Great packaging, nice looking, lots of options, not a guzzler, comfortable versus body on frame SUVs...totally reasonable choice.
There’s a Calgary-based company who is promoting doing the most obnoxious of the pops and bangs ECU tunes; these sh-tbags: Project Redline. Always some entry-level trim of entry-level model Euro, and they slap a crackle tune on it and show off how awesome garbage it sounds.
So I started sharing their ads to my IG reels with captions like “This sounds like dogsh-t#” and “#clappedoutsh-tbox”. They blocked me shortly thereafter. One of them was a base A4 driving through what looked like your typical deep SE ‘new community’ and the guy was just cruising along doing ~50 KM/H, letting off the accelerator, and ruining everyone’s evening.
I have the 3.5 Ecoboost in my Tremor, and holy cow there are so many dorks with these putting blow-off valves on them. Total nerds.
As far as small SUVs go, I like the Bronco Sport. I think it looks way less NPC than basically all the usual suspects (Rav, CRV, anything Subaru, anything Nissan, etc.). Not a bad choice, fotze. Great packaging, nice looking, lots of options, not a guzzler, comfortable versus body on frame SUVs...totally reasonable choice.
Ya the base. Outer Banks. I do economics all day and I cannot wrap my head around how terrible of a capital investment into vehicles is.
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There are no factory cars that are even in the same universe as the aftermarket pop tunes. The most pops and burbles I think I remember hearing might be the Veloster N from a few years ago.
Gurgles are fine, perhaps even pleasant depending on the situation. Backfire is stupid.
If the machine is a beast, it should sound like one. If the beast is sounding like it's choking on a chicken bone, please help it, not further emulate it.
What did you do for the test drive? I've got an interested buyer who's given me a cell phone number and agreed to meet at CPS District 3 Office. However, his FB profile is bare with no picture. I've asked for a LinkedIn profile.
I've read online to ask to see license, which I plan to take a photo off. If he wants to go for test drive, I'll accompany him. But once I'm off the CPS lot, then I'm kind of on my own. Any suggestions on further protecting myself from scammers/those will ill intent?
I am curious if you went into the station and told them what you were doing and gave them the licence plate info. Would they take it? Maybe have the guy come in with you? Is that overkill? Would CPS tell you to piss off?
Ya the base. Outer Banks. I do economics all day and I cannot wrap my head around how terrible of a capital investment into vehicles is.
Yeah, they're definitely not a good investment.
For me I don't mind spending money on cars because they're my favourite thing and give me great joy and memories. I way rather spend money on vehicles than travel, as an example.
As an aside, I hate travelling and think it's the biggest waste of money evar. Getting crappy sleeps in a strange bed, every meal is a PITA to work out, I'm unintentionally incapable of getting excited by sites/points of interest. Like, I've travelled enough to have gone to several countries, checked out cathedrals, checked out war stuff, been to concerts, restaurants, etc. in Europe. Every European town square is basically the same and kinda meh. Mexico is hot and scuzzy. Hawaii is nice, but boring after about three days. Vegas I go too hard too fast and can't last more than a couple days.
I just like camping and hanging out in the mountains. Oregon coast camping last year was awesome. Going to camp my way across BC and onto the island this summer. That's fun to me. Paying a bunch of money to have my autonomy stripped from me while I'm trapped in an airport, then trapped on a plane only to land and be somewhere way worse than the perfection that is the home I live in? Fk that. Such a waste. And talking to people who travel is beyond painful. I couldn't care less that you bought a plane ticket, booked a hotel, and are pretending it was so great. Of course it wasn't. Travelling sucks.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a body shop that will do a small job? Essentially a 4 inch gouge on the back of my van. It's pretty deep. I don't think it'll buff out. I tried to put some touch up paint in there and it looks like ####.
I have the 3.5 Ecoboost in my Tremor, and holy cow there are so many dorks with these putting blow-off valves on them. Total nerds.
Especially because every modern turbo car with a MAF is messed up by these. They come with recirculating valves for a reason, as that's so you don't have some mystery amount of air leaving the system downstream of the MAF meaning your fuel mix is now wrong.
Gurgles are fine, perhaps even pleasant depending on the situation. Backfire is stupid.
If the machine is a beast, it should sound like one. If the beast is sounding like it's choking on a chicken bone, please help it, not further emulate it.
As much as I hate the overdone/fake pops and burbles, one of the most glorious sounds I've ever heard was the noise from a 458 Italia downshifting.
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Yeah, they're definitely not a good investment.
I agree with cars generally being a poor investment...but I did manage to buy into the air-cooled 911 market just before things took off, so I did get a nice 5x return when I sold my 964. I mean it was pure luck and I would've bought it anyway, but I make sure to bring that up to my wife every once in a while (even though she's actually pretty cool about it all, and one of the reasons she was A1 marriage material).
But yeah, it's a hobby, and hobbies cost so money. Still better than pissing it away on booze or drugs or gambling. I think I'm actually pretty decent at minimizing the losses. I've never bought a new car in my life (I can just never get past the depreciation dropoff) and tend to buy things near the bottom of the price curve, so even if I lose money it's typically nothing too drastic. Most of the biggest depreciation has been on my wife's cars...but that's because they naturally tend to be newer since the priority there is different.
The most practical car I ever bought (Lexus RX350) was the only one I've ever lost money on when I sold it. And I don't regret it. But hobbyist purchases have all made me money in terms of the capital (obviously if you count insurance, gas, repairs and maintenance, oil changes, etc it wouldn't). So I dunno, I think you can make them a reasonable investment if you don't mean "I'm going to make a bunch of money on this", but rather, "I'm going to use this thing and enjoy it and sell it and my cost will be mainly cost of use rather than depreciation". It's totally doable.
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Yeah, I used to make money money on cars. Now I just buy whatever I want and don't worry about the depreciation. Used to think guys like me were total idiots. Now I realize it's just a cost of the hobby to get what you want when you want it. Still smarter to buy better, of course, but I generally underbuy what I can afford, anyway, so it's not hurting me any.
Had to take my vehicle to get the tires changed at the dealership. They came back with "REPLACE THE TORQUE CONVERTER SEAL AND REAR MAIN SEAL TOGETHER ON SAME TIME" and it's going to cost me $2k.
I've already emailed a few non-dealership auto repair shops to get a quote but they're taking their time to get back to me. I was hoping CP brain trust can help me assess if this is something I have to do? Or can this be deferred?
