I'm not, I didn't search it up, and it was a video that I watched... (Should've putted on captions, so pretty much I wasted typing.)
ok thanks, im not the one doing that as if i kept my mouth shut then the radio would be on for quite a while and the car may or may not start. I suppose maybe one day during the holidays i could measure the current draw. Multimeter is only rated for 10A DC max but the stereo is a modern Sony unit, it's quite compact and has USB instead of CD so is rather low power i should imagine.
I really wish I enjoyed working on cars. I just topped up the oil in my mom's Honda and even that sucked. I also spilled it all over the engine because I'm a clumsy fool.
I'm not always a fan of the actual activity of working on cars (especially things like changing a starter outside when it's rainy and 32F because the shop is full) but the satisfaction that comes from it when you are done makes it worth it for me, plus the money saved.
I just dawn a snow suit and pile into the 3 feet of snow... its actually quite cozy under there when you do that... I just had to change the starter on my parents Jeep.
This right here is the exact reason why I'm putting off doing the spark plugs in mine. I do not want to smash my fingers against shock towers and exhaust manifolds for 2 and a half hours then inevitably strip the threads in a head out of frustration. But I've gotten to the point where I'll have to do it so wooooooooo
U wot? I'd chose either the Gremlin or the Ritmo. They both are far better cars than the Pinto. Also, I don't think the Ritmo is ugly. I kinda like it actually. I believe that Nash was one of the first manufacturers to utilize seat belts in their cars, though only as options. I've heard they did it somewhere between 1949 - 1950. SAAB was another Swedish manufacturer to take on seat belts as well. I highly doubt it.
I sort of enjoy doing small stuff, but taking on big projects is a drag. Rebuilding my engine is sucking the life out of me. If I blow another engine up I'm replacing it with one from a junkyard. I did spark plugs on a 4.6 outside this time last year. You can do it.
Oh, no, it's not a 4.6. I don't have to deal with the modular engine spark plug nightmare (thank God for V6). I'm just not looking forward to breaking something, because they're the original plugs and there's no way they aren't fused to the head. On top of that, I don't have any PB Blaster left, I used almost every bit of it on my rusty ass GMC truck before we sold it. On the plus side, I only have to buy 6 $2.79 spark plugs, so that's something.
Replacing the spark plugs was cake on the vic. Or are you talking about the 3 spark plug threads nightmare? They won't shoot out if you torque them right, and that problem was mostly fixed in '05 or so when they gave the spark plug holes more threads. Won't keep them from working loose though. I almost blew a plug out of the 09. Loud ticking/tapping showed up out of nowhere one night. It was the sound of a spark plug that had worked loose and was only holding on by a thread or two. I went around and made sure they were all torqued after that. They're pretty new so I didn't bother replacing them. The mustang's got the v6 doesn't it? I was thinking it had the v8, had me confused.
Funny you should say that, my friends 2005 P-71 SAP blew a plug one night. He thought he blew the engine up. It had been ticking for days before but he thought it was the exhaust gasket going out (again). My 04 has been fine for 4 years and 40,000 miles. My dad owns it now.
Im barreling headfirst into the end of car culture. in 15 years, cars will just be soap boxes with a lounge seat in it. Our future generations will be asking "Daddy, you mean you actually had to drive instead of sitting around like a blob? That really sucks.
Yeah, not a chance. Electric cars sure, but self driving is a pipe dream at this point. It'll be 25 years at least before it starts to become a thing imo.
Well for starters, in its current state is basically untested in the real world, its great for driving around Californian streets at 30mph and perfect clean highways but that's meaningless in reality. The costs are also crazy to outfit a car with all the tech that these demo cars have, that will not be changing anytime soon. It'll be 15 years easy before there is a consumer product and even then it will likely be prohibitively expensive. Mainstream adoption is way off. On top of all that, there will always be a manual override and standard controls.
At the current pace of fast development, seeing self driving cars that work in the world in 2025 is not far off. thats almost 8 years of breakneck testing, with Billions going into the technology, i think it is very plausible to be at small scale production in 2025.
Thats plausible indeed, but widespread adoption and it being the norm for cars is a long way off. I think of it in the same way as I do with electric cars, they have been developed for decades and have had huge advancements and yet are still far from being mainstream. What limits them most of the cost, thats still the case and even with governments handing you money just to get you to buy one they still arent selling very well. I see the same thing happening with selfdriving, a standard car being say £30k with a self driving option being like £10k ontop. If thats the case then its not hard to imagine that they will take a couple of decades from first mass production to come down in price and have a chance at being common place, so you're talking quite a long time. I also still firmly believe that the manual driving aspect will not go away as there are some things that just can't be done otherwise.
