Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

My Honda is bulletproof!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

My Honda is bulletproof!

How would you know? It just sits in front of the house like a lawn ornament. It just needs some flowers to qualify as a planter.
Did you find where I hide all my cigarette butts in it yet?

[x808drifter]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Hey! There are more complaints about breakdowns on here than there ever was on the DSM forum. Like so many cars the bad rep was not deserved and mostly came from the Honda crowd. Pretty much the same group that likes to pretend that all Honda’s were bulletproof and had no issues at all.

The majority of DSM owners actually knowing how to turn a wrench and GOOGLE shit helped too.


I've recently had an epiphany for how to deal with dumb lazy people in my line of work.

If you're too dumb/lazy to google something, you're hard earned money is better off in my pocket.
50-200% surcharge for me fixing something you could do on your own with a simple google search.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by x808drifter

The majority of DSM owners actually knowing how to turn a wrench and GOOGLE shit helped too.


I've recently had an epiphany for how to deal with dumb lazy people in my line of work.

If you're too dumb/lazy to google something, you're hard earned money is better off in my pocket.
50-200% surcharge for me fixing something you could do on your own with a simple google search.

The problem with a Google search is you have a 50/50 chance of getting good instructions or total crap. Need to at least cross check 3 sets of instructions to try and sort out what is real.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

The problem with a Google search is you have a 50/50 chance of getting good instructions or total crap. Need to at least cross check 3 sets of instructions to try and sort out what is real.

Or just do it my way.

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Ya the DSMs in the post F&F era were pretty much doomed. They were relatively cheap by then but still looked the part. There were also two distinctly different levels involved and most of what got the boy racer treatment we’re not the ones that were built for that in the first place.
Many people like to call the Twins the new Civic but so far it looks to be headed to a history more along the DSM line.

I always felt that DSM fed off of the cred associated with the top tier variants. The GSX/TSi AWD/RS models were extremely quick in a F&Fesque drag race if done right, which made the people rocking the GS/ES models feel like they were a part of it. Then the mess of a v6 in the 3G put most of that to rest, at least for new cars. Once the Evo/WRX came about in the early 2000s, most of the 1G/2G folks moved to those as well.

Edit: Yes the Evo is still DSM. I should be going to bed, not posting.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by x808drifter

The majority of DSM owners actually knowing how to turn a wrench and GOOGLE shit helped too.


I've recently had an epiphany for how to deal with dumb lazy people in my line of work.

If you're too dumb/lazy to google something, you're hard earned money is better off in my pocket.
50-200% surcharge for me fixing something you could do on your own with a simple google search.

The worst of my problems used to be figuring out what special kind of Google-voodoo had been performed and fixing it as expediently and quietly as possible. Oh the stories my notebook could tell.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Spuds

You shot it and the sheet metal stopped the bullet? Pics or GTFO.

Yep. I'm bad at taking pics.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

How would you know? It just sits in front of the house like a lawn ornament. It just needs some flowers to qualify as a planter.
Did you find where I hide all my cigarette butts in it yet?

My wife is driving it right now.

And no.

[soulreapersteve]

*logs back in after a month away*
*greeted with invalid cert message*
*rush to random thoughts to see whats up*

Seems I may have to save a lot of the how-to threads to local disk if forum goes poof.. or simply wing it and see what happens

*insert tcoat, ultra, and humfrz back in my day story here*

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

*logs back in after a month away*
*greeted with invalid cert message*
*rush to random thoughts to see whats up*

Seems I may have to save a lot of the how-to threads to local disk if forum goes poof.. or simply wing it and see what happens

*insert tcoat, ultra, and humfrz back in my day story here*

Good to read from you, soulreapersteve!


humfrz

[Spuds]

Also, I can't thank anyone anymore.

Edit: Wow I'm an idiot. I finally figured out how to get my browser to stop trying to be an https hero. Just delete the s in the address bar, and it saves the setting for 'oh you want this as http... ok'. Now everything is better for me.

[Spuds]

And I bet this thread turns into a pulley thread in the near future.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...=129206&page=2

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

My Honda is bulletproof!

I've got a Desert Eagle that begs to differ....