Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

Cory, I have never seen a Craigslist ad for a manual that didn't saysomething like "5-speed" in the text. Obviously if it is a six speed, it would say that as well. When I am searching I use speed as a keyword in addition to the make or model. If you use the word "manual" you will just get ads for cars that come with the owner's manual.

In addition, if you want to exclude ads that contain certain words, use a minus sign in front of the word with no space between, ie: "Volvo speed -auto -automatic"

Trying to figure out why so many people act like complete shiny happy people around my Rover. While I do accelerate a little slower than when I drove the Volvo, I still keep to the same "5 over" that I always did.

When I had the BMW and the Volvo. People would hang back a few car lengths or pass me. Now they ride my ass so close I can only see the roof of their car.. and this is on a multilane road where they -can- easily and safely pass

EastCoastMojo wrote: Cory, I have never seen a Craigslist ad for a manual that didn't saysomething like "5-speed" in the text. Obviously if it is a six speed, it would say that as well. When I am searching I use speed as a keyword in addition to the make or model. If you use the word "manual" you will just get ads for cars that come with the owner's manual. In addition, if you want to exclude ads that contain certain words, use a minus sign in front of the word with no space between, ie: "Volvo speed -auto -automatic"

thank you much, I need to start looking in your neck of the woods, seems the raleigh area is much more of a volvocenter than charlotte. Going to look at Boone too, but I'd rather not tow a vo down that mountain lol
All I'm trying to do is find a 242 with a manual, it shouldn't be that difficult. lol

mad_machine wrote: Trying to figure out why so many people act like complete shiny happy people around my Rover. While I do accelerate a little slower than when I drove the Volvo, I still keep to the same "5 over" that I always did. When I had the BMW and the Volvo. People would hang back a few car lengths or pass me. Now they ride my ass so close I can only see the roof of their car.. and this is on a multilane road where they -can- easily and safely pass

Hypermiling? I don't get it either, people drive like dicks these days. I do enjoy setting those shiny happy people up for some big ass potholes though... just line 'em up and swerve over at the last second, they can't see 'em coming. Another way to berkeley with them is to gradually speed up 5-10mph, and then slow back down without using the brakes. Do that a few times and they will go hug another bumper.

berkeley Illinois 355. $3.90 just to get on? AND under construction? 45mph. For that price and the two other $1.90 tolls, I should be allowed to go light speed.

EastCoastMojo wrote:

mad_machine wrote: Trying to figure out why so many people act like complete shiny happy people around my Rover. While I do accelerate a little slower than when I drove the Volvo, I still keep to the same "5 over" that I always did. When I had the BMW and the Volvo. People would hang back a few car lengths or pass me. Now they ride my ass so close I can only see the roof of their car.. and this is on a multilane road where they -can- easily and safely pass

Hypermiling? I don't get it either, people drive like dicks these days. I do enjoy setting those shiny happy people up for some big ass potholes though... just line 'em up and swerve over at the last second, they can't see 'em coming. Another way to berkeley with them is to gradually speed up 5-10mph, and then slow back down without using the brakes. Do that a few times and they will go hug another bumper.

I drive like I'm drunk when people tailgate me, backs em right off.

I have a hulking, custom welded, steel bumper. I downshift tailgaters.

Ok CNN, it's easy to see where your priorites are. In my morning scan through websites for news and such, I come across a video link on the CNN main page about a car veering into a crowd at a car show. Sounds interesting, so I click on it.

Short (30 second) commercial plays, which I ignore, and then it tries to load up the video I wanted to watch- and I get a popup saying that the video failed to load. So... you can make the COMMERCIAL that I couldn't give a rat's ass about play right on pretty much any computer, but the actual CONTENT won't work (likely due to the ancient browser we have to use here)? Grrr.

My upstairs neighbor at my apartment has a baby...

It WAILS in the middle of the night all the time...

They clomp around like a herd of elephants when this happens.

They did it from 3-3:45am this morning...

I feel like a dick, but I am getting pissed off at losing sleep, this is almost every night for the last few months.

What can I do about this, aside from moving? (lease isnt up till next year)

Yeah, I know, babies cry in the night and all that, BUT I am suffering for someone else's rugrat.

Earplugs are your friend here, Apex.

Went to get lunch about a half hour ago and got rear ended at about 20mph coming to a stop at a rail road by a couple of broads in a Mercury "Escape." They were following too closely and sped up on my ass pretty quick about a mile before, and they definitely didn't take into account the weather(rain). Got out, did a quick inspection, looked like the rear bumper just got pushed in a little bit(I'm 99% sure I can fix it by pulling it off and bending tabs), and a little paint scrapage. Not too terribly concerned about the $1500 car that needed a rear bumper anyway(scrapes from PO not knowing how to parallel park apparently). Asked if they were alright, they said "yes," inspected their car, they said nothing was wrong and they already had a paint scuff in the spot they tagged me- both her and I were OK, negligalbe damage done, no reason to get insurance/police involved. Luckily, I always give enough room ahead of my in slow traffic for E36 M3 just like this. Lectured them on speeding/following too closely/weather for a minute, got back in my car and left. They were definitely not the type to want to hear about it.

Talk to your kids about driving in all conditions. Ugh. Such an annoyance. Thank god this car is a not that nice and I have little money into it.

One of the downstairs neighbors has been revving the piss out of his V6 Explorer at various intervals for the last half an hour.

I have no idea what he's doing, I haven't seen him lift the hood on it at all.

Between the idiots downstairs, and the fire dept's air raid siren across the street, sleep is getting hard to come by around here. Maybe I need to invest in a set of ear plugs too.

Whoever went and ruined spray paint should be killed with fire.

I'm 1.5 cans of duplicolor in on painting the first 10 inches or so of the hood on my DD. Builds as little balls rather than paint if sprayed thin, runs on near horizontal surfaces if sprayed any thicker. The first go was so bad I ended up more or less sanding it all off. Fisheyes and wrinkling galore(I washed it with dawn twice and then wiped it with iso). Its gonna end up looking not much better than it did rock chipped and rusty.

Should have dealt with a mismatch and gotten the 49 state legal paint from TSC.

In reply to Kenny_McCormic:

You have surface contamination, or at least all of the major tell-tale signs of it.

Kenny, I agree, it sounds like surface contaminants. Isopropal alcohol is not as good as say, acetone, for wiping down surfaces. If you can find 90% Iso, that might work, but the 70% stuff commonly found on this side of the Rx counter won't do it.

I only buy the 99% iso, leaves nothing behind. The watered down crap is for cleaning computers.

My company apparently don't know what they pay me. I just got told about my raise for this year and the raise I saw was based on my salary from over a year ago (so the year before my last raise). So basically according to the piece of paper, I would get a tiny (less then .2% raise). My boss is going to find out what happened but how does HR not know what they pay people!?!?!

Replace the bulb in the DLP television, now the berkeleying Insignia stereo I bought 6 months ago has stopped outputting to all connections. Crank all the way up and can barely hear it covered in static.

berkeleying cheap Chinese electronics.

Today everybody seems to think they are a berkeleying unique snowflake! Let's face it, some of 'em are just flakes.

Kenny_McCormic wrote: I only buy the 99% iso, leaves nothing behind. The watered down crap is for cleaning computers.

You still have contamination. Are you painting over bare metal or old paint? Your new paint is definitely having a reaction, and the propellent has nothing to do with it.

In reply to Javelin:

A little bit of both, the fisheyes went away after I hit with with iso again, must have not gotten all the wax out of the pits. I'm beginning to wonder if the stone guard primer layer of the OE paintjob is my problem, seems to have the crackling problem mainly at the transitions from steel to paint.

I still think the old paint made of more hardcore solvents worked better, less surface tension or something, didnt have the problem of not wanting to actually lay as paint without putting it on so thick it runs.

Aaaaaaargh!

What is wrong with shipping (trucking)?!? Today is Tuesday. We have the product on the floor and the customer a whole 350 miles away needs it next berking Tuesday. Why can't we figure this out?!? Load the berkeleying truck NOW, start driving tomorrow, deliver it on Friday!

berkeley me!!!!

Javelin wrote: Aaaaaaargh! What is wrong with shipping (trucking)?!? Today is *Tuesday*. We have the product on the floor and the customer a whole 350 miles away needs it next berking Tuesday. Why can't we figure this out?!? Load the berkeleying truck NOW, start driving *tomorrow*, deliver it on Friday! berkeley me!!!!

If I were a driver, I might be mildly annoyed to have to spend the 4th of July laid over in a truck.

Maybe load on Friday, leave first thing Monday and deliver that afternoon or Tuesday morning?

In reply to Racer1ab:

Our trucking is supposed to be operational Friday and Saturday. The customer is open those days and the 4th as well.

They want to load it Monday night.

In reply to Javelin:

Weird. Then again, I was told before that I just don't understand how trucking logistics work.

That guy always wanted to load stuff at the very last minute, in case an "emergency" client needed his car transported in the mean time.

More often than not, this meant that something broke at the last second, and everyone ran around like mad trying to fix things.

Nope, I certainly don't understand those logistics.