Ontopic The new car-seching thread

ZRH said:
Those little trucks they drive around now are S10s basically. They are called Grumman LLVs.

There are three different kinds of mail carriers.

There are contract carriers that usually drive their own cars and dont have uniforms. That's like very rural.
There are "rural carriers" they are paid less and uniforms are optional but they use post office equipment.
City carriers are kinda like what people think of when they think of the post office, but outside of large cities most offices only have like 1 or 2. You use all post office equipment and they give you a uniform. You also get paid more but the schedule at the moment is 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, and like you basically cant go home until everything is done.

I was a city carrier which is why I dont work for them anymore. It was just stupid during the pandemic. Everyone was quitting, entire floors of the sorting facility were shut down on account of COVID breakouts, and the entire culture, at least at the baltimore office, is solidly toxic.
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Our mailman with the Plymouth would've been one of the "very rural" ones.

My mailman now has a uniform and drives one of those jeeps that has the steering wheel and pedals on the side that makes the most sense for having mailboxes end up at your window while driving with traffic on the correct side of the road.

It's one of those jeeps i'd like to have.

I don't know if they're Jeep brand jeeps but anything that looks kinda like that is a jeep to me.

Being government commissioned vehicles they probably got at least one part on there made in every congressional district and none of them work well together but I'd still like one.
 
Me, coming out to find another coolant leak under the Audi this morning:

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How fucking incompetent can an enterprise place be? Realy fucking incompenent.

I said I had to get back to work asap and the person handling my rental went to lunch and didn't tell anyone.
 
"Now that I've got a garage to work in, I'm gonna do the brakes on the Q5!"

Open the autopartsway box... rotors, no pads. Packing slip only has rotors, implying that there's a 2nd box that the pads should have come in that never came.

Figure fuck it, I'll just do the rotors and keep the pads on there because pads are easy to change, they just come out the side of the caliper. So I fire up my bluetooth adapter because I need to release the parking brake, the adapter never worked on the corolla which I found weird... guess it doesn't work on the Q5 either. Maybe got knocked around too many times in the back of the car, fuck knows. Guess I'm not doing the back rotors.

Ok, I'll just do the front rotors. Tear into it, yeah, everything's good and seized up and I ain't doing it with hand tools and my air tools are in storage.

Monday morning plan: yell at autopartsway, call local VW specialist garage and throw the shitpile at them.
 
Spent the afternoon putting as much of the original stuff as I could find back on her grandsons civic and getting it functional and driveable again after his absentee "dad" went after it with coilovers and camber kits and having things slammed so low to the ground and wheels crooked and riding on the edge of the tire and scraping shit off the bottom of the car on the slightest crack in the road let alone speedbumps or potholes.

Threw the rest of the "performance parts" in the trunk. Explained to him how they work. Told him we can mess with that sometime later but for now we just need functional/normal. Showed him how they can be adjusted various ways and be both sporty driving and functional, they just never were. Mr. "I'm gonna bolt some shit on here and call it a racecar" did just that but doesn't know how shit needs to work together as a whole system.
Showed him how the parts themselves aren't garbage but their implementation was, etc., etc.

Kid is happy, and his girlfriend is happy, and they have a reliable car they can take to do stuff without wondering if it's gonna fall apart at the next crack in the road. And he doesn't have to carry a full mechanics tool set with him everywhere he goes and use "racecar" as an excuse why he has to keep fixing shit every weekend instead of doing something fun with that voluptuous girlfriend of his.

We can do more racecar shit when he's single and lonely.
 
Tightened all the clamps, and the fuckin' Audi is still leaking.

I'm pretty sure it's the very last piece of plastic in the cooling system, the thermostat housing. I'd thought I was being smart when I added a little grease to the O-ring to make it easy to install, but it turns out the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
 
Fuuuuuckkk the insurance company said to return the car today, but the auto shop is closed so I can't get mine and I need to be in DC by three

Can't get ahold of the adjuster. Like wtf...
 
Mr. Argumentor said:
@Jehannum

How close are you to these cars? If I won something would you be able to store it till I fly out and tow it back?

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My neighbors are on to my bullshit, so I can't store anything not running.

But if it isn't a total eyesore, I can do it for you. I'll just keep the plate pointed away from the street and stupid karen across the way can mind her own business for a week or two.
 
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