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EO2K 04-25-2017 03:33 PM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1408646)
Wanna guess how much that costs per month?

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...aa26e62a75.jpg

Joe Perez 04-25-2017 05:37 PM


Originally Posted by EO2K (Post 1408858)


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...144678d2fc.png

Godless Commie 04-25-2017 09:34 PM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1408643)
Stopped about ten feet from the other car. Took me a moment to go through "What the fuck just happened? I've stopped! Oh, riiiiiiight. I'm not driving on shit* rubber." Just as the taxi that had been following me slid past me in the next lane, fishtailing wildly.

Splurge. Buy the good rubber. And don't be a lazy asshole. That is all.

With good tires and brakes comes the risk of being rear ended...

So, carrying on with the m.net style, I did this:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/iPtiDC.jpg
Third brake light assembly, removed.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/4QWT8Y.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/X9sk9w.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/921/rX8sZe.jpg
Discard bulb and socket, (OK, save for later if you like) and cut wires.
Then install 48 LED panel with adhesive back side. Use a dab of hot glue to tuck wires away.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/TjbrEQ.jpg
Cut wires to the 1156 bulb socket adapter, retain plug, discard the rest.
That way you can unplug everything if you need to remove stuff.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/L056cf.jpg
Here's the $4 LED flasher thingie.
Blue goes to LED +, black wires to harness - and red to harness +. Simple.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/jEfPYH.jpg
This is everything, soldered and shrinktubed.
Tape wires, flasher neatly (m.net..) and tuck away nicely (m.net, again)

Nice and bright, and flashes in a way that GETS attention. Shortens the following vehicle's reaction time.
It saved me from getting hit more than a few times.

Godless Commie 04-25-2017 09:39 PM

And, here's the link to the LED panel, if anyone's interested.
Get the "warm white" option.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hot-...608.0.0.v1Jw0q

Joe Perez 04-25-2017 09:45 PM


Originally Posted by Godless Commie (Post 1408943)
With good tires and brakes comes the risk of being rear ended...

Yes, indeed. And believe me, as soon as I realized that I was, in fact, decelerating rapidly, my eyes went to the rear-view mirror. Saw the taxicab (Prius) swerve into the next lane and lose control.


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...30d55e548a.png
* not actual taxi.

sixshooter 04-26-2017 11:04 AM

In the 1950s, George Kelly, in his book on Personal Construct Theory, wrote, "psychological disorder is any personal construct which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation".

B6Tfastiva 04-26-2017 10:19 PM

Well I was supposed to be in Phoenix by now but American cancelled our flight and rebooked us for tomorrow. Thank you for wasting one of my vacation days.

aidandj 04-26-2017 10:24 PM

At least you weren't on United.

Joe Perez 04-26-2017 10:34 PM

You never fully appreciate just how much hair there is on your ass until you have to shave it...

codrus 04-27-2017 12:51 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1409236)
You never fully appreciate just how much hair there is on your ass until you have to shave it...

http://www.topworkplaces.com/cms/pho..._orig_full.jpg

You know, it's funny, I took my Audi over there but they didn't seem to know what to do with it...

--Ian

triple88a 04-27-2017 01:58 AM


Originally Posted by Godless Commie (Post 1408943)
Nice and bright, and flashes in a way that GETS attention. Shortens the following vehicle's reaction time.
It saved me from getting hit more than a few times.

Pics of what the finished product looks like?

Erat 04-27-2017 07:00 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1408643)
* = to be fair, the Michelin X-ice 3 is probably one of the best studless snow tires out there, both in the slush and in the dry. But it's still a snow tire.

i just went back from the xice-3 to the s-drives and promptly pulled 1g under braking the next day:


Even the camera does a little stutter. Lol

z31maniac 04-27-2017 08:36 AM


Originally Posted by B6Tfastiva (Post 1409232)
Well I was supposed to be in Phoenix by now but American cancelled our flight and rebooked us for tomorrow. Thank you for wasting one of my vacation days.

It happens.

I had that happen to me a few years ago coming back from Vegas after a few days out there for work helping teach some schools. I'm glad they brought us back to the gate after beginning to taxi since there had been a hydraulic failure.

A night in a hotel was much better than crashing into the Rockies trying to make the connecting flight in Denver.

TurboTim 04-27-2017 08:54 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1409236)
You never fully appreciate just how much hair there is on your ass until it grows back in...

Fix that for you.

sixshooter 04-27-2017 10:07 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1409236)
You never fully appreciate just how much hair there is on your ass until you have to shave it...


Originally Posted by triple88a (Post 1409270)
Pics of what the finished product looks like?

Pervert.

DNMakinson 04-27-2017 10:22 AM


Originally Posted by triple88a (Post 1409270)
Video of what the finished product looks like?

FTFY

Joe Perez 04-27-2017 10:58 AM

The probability of my posting pictures of my clean-shaven ass on a forum inhabited by a bunch of lonely homosexual deviants is rather small.

shuiend 04-27-2017 11:03 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1409348)
The probability of my posting pictures of my clean-shaven ass on a forum inhabited by a bunch of lonely homosexual deviants is rather small.

​​​​​​​So you are saying that there is a chance?

sixshooter 04-27-2017 11:07 AM


Originally Posted by shuiend (Post 1409349)
​​​​​​​So you are saying that there is a chance?


Braineack 04-27-2017 11:07 AM


Originally Posted by Erat (Post 1409296)
i just went back from the xice-3 to the s-drives and promptly pulled 1g under braking the next day:

https://youtu.be/2Rbvktd7n_g

Even the camera does a little stutter. Lol


where was the excessive hornage? id have been honking from 0:04-0:10


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