@RallyDarkstrike said in The Gol is Dead. Long Live the Tera?:

@amoore100 said in The Gol is Dead. Long live the Tera?:

haptic touch-based HVAC panel

VW is very good at pissing off it's customers with this technology. There have been complaints about it for years, but they keep with it anyway...

While in the recent past VW have acknowledged this and said they would correct it and didn't, it turns out many more have complained and looks like VW will actually do something about.
I'm guessing the previous occasion when they said they would and not was them thinking, 'if we just let them get used to it, people will stop complaining!', only, they didn't stop complaining.

@Wrong-Wheel-Drive said in Obscure Oppo Rally teaser #1:

@Wanna-Have-A-Porschesome said in Obscure Oppo Rally teaser #1:

I'm pretty certain we're just going gambling this time

Gambling you say?

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Exactly my intention with double meaning. A gambling gambler would be crazy

@Nauraushaun it was/is a good ride. Especially since on the way there I was in the quiet carriage

@Nauraushaun
Car storage is zero. They all live outside up at the house. There is an undercover area to this shed but someone dominates it.... IMG_20250311_163746599.jpg

One day, I will build a carport.

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@atfsgeoff I need to ride more this year...

@Danny-Drives I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Analytics engines all count things differently and are ever evolving in an attempt to accurately count actual meaningful engagement and discount bots. If you installed 6 different analytics engines you'd get 6 different numbers.

This post isn't by any means popular so your interpretation of count doesn't seem terribly useful, sure it has had 3 people commenting in it for a couple days but that's really not much.

If you're looking for larger posts these give a better set of info

https://opposite-lock.com/top

https://opposite-lock.com/popular

These give you the most upvoted and most commented posts respectively.

Also yes google randomly drives traffic to one post or another when it tickles the algorithm just so. One post in particular got a good bit of traffic referred from google for almost 2 years, but I haven't seen it come up in the search console recently.

https://opposite-lock.com/topic/61532/audi-rs6-going-300-km-h-on-the-autobahn

Most of the hotly referred posts are what you'd expect though, product announcements or other breaking news. On top of it the site gets referred to by outlets like the autopian on occasion which tends to reliably send a decent chunk of folks over here.

Again, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make but there's a brief assessment and analysis on traffic here.

@siennaman said in 2025 Cheap Car Challenge - I know what I want, but how to get it? [UPDATED]:

@GSW said in 2025 Cheap Car Challenge - I know what I want, but how to get it? [UPDATED]:

If you fully depress the accelerator you can watch the fuel gauge work it's way closer to 'E' and there won't be much other than noise as a result.

This isn’t true…. don’t you also get heat? Heat and noise?

And fumes... lots of exhaust fumes.

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi

I don't like it.

Wheels are way too big, tire sidewalls too low, roofline is too low with mail-slot windows that will make it suck to drive.

And the front end makes me think of the song "Eyes Without A Face"

@WBizarre The March of Sadness

@M-T-Blake said in Thinking about a press loaner for Oppo specifically...:

@Danny-Drives Ten users? You calling me fat? Lol

No, I am saying you are worth 10 users. It is what you mean to me!

@Mazda616 said in I broke out my little pressure washer and foam cannon!:

@Danny-Drives said in I broke out my little pressure washer and foam cannon!:

I haven't seen zymol in ages.....

Not even sure I have seen it for sale in any store in 10 years. Can I ask why you went with it? and how you obtained it?

Decided to give it a try because I used it back in high school in 2007/2008 when AutoZone carried it, and it helped my Pontiac Grand Am’s swirl marked black paint look SO MUCH better. I couldn’t find it anywhere locally again, so I ordered it from Amazon.

I respect it.

It was from a time where you either got something good or food colored water soap/wax.

But in 2025? there isn't anything on the shelf at Walmart that won't do the job.

The worst brand on the shelf at Walmart is likely decimal points away from the best.

@Nauraushaun got to experience it once

@HammerheadFistpunch https://a.co/d/1hIaZTp
Plunge in, mill the distance you need, done.

You can use denatured alcohol to keep the bit from gumming up.

@theturbomrt it should be noted,
That AWD Town and Country is likely more rare than many 6+ figure cars.

The AWD vans were rare to begin with, as are the 94-95 Town and Country, combined together is rare enough google doesn’t even know it exists… claiming 1997 as the first year for AWD Town and Country’s.

@Sam-Blockhan Some of those unobtainium-lookin' parts kinda used to be... the red crates used to be exclusive to a single LEGO sports pollybag set in the early 2000s, which was just a red crate with some drink bottles in it. Until this truck came out, that was the only way to get the crate in red.

@Highlander Reading that in an Australian accent is required.

@PopupHeadlightElitist holy shit! Good find and good on ya!

@BaconSandwich That's good to know! Will definitely consider it! The school I teach at has an older one and it's been pretty decent other than what the kids mess up (not the printer's fault) and one easily accessible/replaceable plastic part that broke that I replaced with a better aftermarket aluminum part.

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTIthenA4nowS5 said in 11/10 American-ing:

@Darkbrador @aremmes or maybe ranch dressing on the squeaking belt is the solution?

Gotta be better than belt dressing on your salad.

@Highlander
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@davesaddiction said in DOTS - A British Sunday:

Kid A has still not driven my SS, despite my offering several times.
I think he's kind of intimidated by it.

Numerous holes in the Australian landscape suggests Kid A is on the right track.

@MM54 Similar.

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@Sam-Blockhan

I got that one too 😄
My first Technic in over, like, 15 years.

I was going to give it to the kiddo, but it's a bit too complicated for them at this point.

@Exage03040 Have you considered the possibility that maybe the helmsman was trying to get caught up on White Lotus, and just couldn't even right now?

@MM54 unfortunately I don't have great news on that front. The kit has been designed for years but I'm still waiting for the very first set of production caliper brackets. Currently I'm running some prototype brackets that mount NA Miata calipers over AE86 rotors but preclude the installation of the parking brake cables. The new bracket design solves that problem but I've been waiting for four years or so.

This project started in early 2019 and here we are.

@DuckDuckGreyDuckFTMFW cool! Keep at it!

@HFV_Junkyardin Yes . 510 all day.

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My 85lb dog isn’t quite as “dense”. Well, he’s pretty dense, but not in terms of weight.

@Qaaaaa 2 weeks ? That gives you time to swap the engine into one of your 17 other cars …

@Sam-Blockhan the osprey was out again tonight. I saw him try twice for fish, but he pulled back at the last second. Then I saw the eagle. It's so cool.

@SamV8 They weren't 🙂

@adamftw I loved the dynamics of the impreza, they had the balance and handling dialed.

@Snakesm13 said in Minneapolis, I am in You:

Holy balls the Rivian is fast!

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@GrymNick said in Soon....:

@AestheticsInMotion superbusa when

Oppo-funded Superbusa..?

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera said in hour rule:

It was overall an impressive year for the "independent" company with some 450,000 total sales of this senior car and the tidy little Rambler American.

Rambler hit #3 in sales behind Chevrolet and Ford, with American Motors grossing over $1 billion in revenue, 1960 was a very good year

The Rambler American was the #2 compact car on the market, after the Falcon, but outselling the Corvair, Valiant, and Lark; and the midsize Six did top 297,000 units. The Rebel V8 added another 17,000 midsize sales, and the full-size Ambassador sold a bit under 24,000 units, those two were almost just showroom decorations, but they were cheap to build, so it didn't really matter.

They also moved 13,000 Metropolitan 1500 subcompacts

@Just-Jeepin my brothers friend had the exact same Jeep in high school. Not a fan of the LEDs but I guarantee it's safer with them. Screenshot_20250310-184916~2.png

@BicycleBuck I bet this would be faster than hyphen when Google starts training on oppo data again.

Every time my laptop battery was worn out and gone it was probably time for the laptop to be replaced anyway or moved to garage work plugged in without a battery anyway.

@KngT I’ve seen one in person and they look incredible up close. It was a dark blue and it was stunning to look at and hear drive up.

@Mazda616

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Likewise, but without the detailing. We had just enough rain these last few days to dump a majority of Lubbock on all the cars in town. The line at the car wash was long and distinguished, but I got both of them through and vacuumed today. Many people don't appreciate the pleasure to be found in getting into a clean car.

@RallyWrench a guy down the street from me has one of those . It looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor.

@davesaddiction That was fantastic.

I've never watched DTS and after seeing all the continuity errors and BS clips from social media I'm not going to start now. I get that it's entertainment (reality TV really) and it brings fans in, and I'm thankful for that, but I don't need it to enjoy F1.

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTIthenA4nowS5 said in Facebook marketplace is fun:

@Wrong-Wheel-Drive Will you trade for a gun and two guns?

I bet there are plenty of guns worth more than my miata. I'll take a GAU-8 it even comes with a free plane attached to it!

@Mazda616 have another.
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@Camshaft_Chris
The XJ Cherokees in Oz and NZ were made in the US (which is why they were popular US Mail vehicles). They popularised Jeep again in the region despite their pricing and quirks. Of course, since then Jeep has tanked...

@Darkbrador
AKA Cupboards. Big storage cubicles etc etc etc

@Mr-Ontop said in Gonna rip a Miata around the mountains and see my favorite musician in LA this weekend!:

@Wrong-Wheel-Drive I was gonna say mudslides out there but your trip is already over. How was it?

I'm not the one with the rental Miata, I've just spent some time living and driving there. I was just in Ventura county and did some mountain biking near those roads. Trail conditions were great so imagine roads around there to be good as long as you didn't stray too close to Pacific Palisades to the east

@TheTurbochargedSquirrel said in Yo, metal brother:

Brothers of Metal?

So, we’ve got another metal brother

@Cash-Rewards Always be the one with the coolest cars in your neighborhood/job parking lot🤝

@Cash-Rewards those do a lot of exercises near me. It never gets old. They can hustle.

@Highlander “It’s alive!” 😬

@awesomeaustinv I understand somewhat. My Meemaw (grandma) is basically my mom, since she has been there for me all my life when my mom was…well, not. And after my mom passed away when I was 11, my Meemaw got full custody of me and raised me. She’s my closest person aside from my wife, and she just turned 93 in February. I know the time I have with her is running short, and it’s hard to stomach or even begin to think about going on without her.

I’m just doing my best to spend time with her now and be there for her as much as I can. She loves seeing my kids (her great-grandkids), so I make it a point to bring them over to her at least once a week. More often in the summer when they can play outside in her big yard. She does well health-wise, but it’s hard not to worry about someone up there in age.

I hope your grandpa pulls through well and that everything goes okay! Treasure him.