All of my cars, except the old Beamer have stupidly complicated belts. And in my S600 it's so tight, I can't do the job myself. My hands and arms are too big to work in that space, or maybe I'm doing it wrong, Idk... I really wonder how Mercedes managed to cram in a 6 liter V12 in there. There is no free space in that engine bay XD
BTW: LOL on the cobalt meme... Sadly we don't have any cobalts in Europe, but the next best thing is underpowered BMWs with M-packages and tons of M-badges. I love messing with them. Especially in the E-class and the C350e... E-class is like a wolf in sheep's clothing and the C350e... Must be embarrassing to be beaten by a plug in hybrid XD
One time I met the biggest BMW ricer ever, he even had one of those prison-style marks for all the cars he had beaten with the lost side being empty. After losing at a race to the next lights, I pulled down my window, he pulled down his and I said "Bro, gotta add at least one in lost... I'm in a diesel and I beat you, imagine what the AMGs, Porsches etc would do to you"
He flipped me off and tried to peel out when the lights turned green, but he stalled instead. I calmly drove away and laughed.
Yeah our mayor sucks... even more, cause now there is a project to expand the three tunnels that run through my city. The only thing this means is even more traffic jams. Sometimes I really regret going to Germany. My daily 10km commute already takes up to an hour.
The bus is only really loud when you sit at the rearmost seats. Good thing German buses ain't like Russian ones. Those had the engine, right next to the driver. Offset on the right. Russian bus drivers had to drive with the windows down at all times, cause of all the engine heat and noise XD
I really don't understand the bias towards women in car culture. Can't we all enjoy cars? If a chick knows how to do an engine swap it is something to be commended, not criticized.
If she knows how to heel and toe and nail apexes - great! Means she can handle a car right and you don't have to fear she might damage yours. Wish my girlfriend was more into cars.
I always say if you are not interested in something, you can never be good at it. For example, I have no interest in golf. I've tried it and I'm a lousy gofer. I'd rather mess around and race my friends in the golf kart and then go drinking, than sit and talk about grass conditions and swing counts.
That sucks. Kinda reminds me, I may be running off of what’s easy for me cause I obviously have really small hands so I can reach stuff pretty well. Good at reaching but usually gotta have my boyfriend around to mess with the impossible tight bolts that I make no dent in.
I like how we have our own pack of ricers and where you live, always seems to be toward badging. Hahah that’s great and especially to stall right then and there. I’m not sure I’ve seen that type of marking on a car but sounds pretty funny if he can’t beat you.
That’s dumb just going to make more traffic. Buses with the engine right beside the driver is a thing we have here. I never really thought how loud it probably is for the driver.
That is exactly right gender shouldn’t matter on what interested a person. That’s a good saying I like that. Very true. Oh messing around in a golf kart would be the only fun in it for me too haha.
Yeah, German ricers tend to go more for badging. Bulgarian and other Balkan ricers just do rice the old fashioned way... by making their car look like it came from Need for Speed Underground.
A good friend of mine claims he has the fastest diesel Seat in Europe... supposedly. It's a Seat Leon with some proper engine mods, but also lots of ricey stuff. He claims his Seat will do 320kmh, but even if you put a W16 out of a Veyron in it, the transmission is still the same. So it will still hit redline at about 240kmh. A Seat Leon is simply not designed to be a fast car.
Needless to say, our friendly race between his Seat and my E420 turned into a bloodbath. I simply sped off into the distance. Didn't hear from the guy for 2 weeks... he was that pissed.
I recently had the idea of buying an old Saab 900 turbo, like my neighbor and childhood friend. Guy has 3 BMW 635CSI' a BMW 2002 and a Saab 900 turbo. I've always liked old Saabs, but they would be an absolute nightmare to maintain and restore I imagine. So that's a no go, especially now.
And our roadworks - because of coronavirus, there is no traffic. I can get to work and go home in about 9 minutes. Or it used to be like that, until we had to temporarily close the dealership in the beginning of March.
Now I'm a full time bus driver until the corona thing clears up. I drive a mostly empty bus around town, or do a village run. It's quite good fun driving down the empty roads, enjoying my music and not having to do cashier work for passengers that don't know E-tickets exist. Worked out a deal until the dealership reopens. I've had to close down my business too and give my employees unpaid vacation, but still give them a monthly bonus to keep them from leaving (good and cheap employees are hard to find) but I still gotta pay all my taxes and stuff. And because my business is fairly new, I am not eligible for government aid packages.
All of this is out of my pocket and I also had to pay all of the taxes and insurances for this year in March for all of my cars.
On the plus side, the Autobahn is completely empty. You can do top speed runs until you blow up your engine if you want XD
Tho not advisable unless you have a government issued permit that you can drive about... Only issued for people who can't do the home office thing. Anyway, hope things are better on your end.
As for golf kart fun - got me kicked out of a golf club once, but it was worth it. Friend of mine's dad worked there. We were invited for a practice game and we raced the golf karts.
Since we don’t have them I don’t know anything on seat but I can imagine they would be just another average slow car brand not focused on being fast. 😂 always funny to show up a ricer who has bullshit to say.
I’ve never been a huge saab person only saab I see around and will admire is the saabaru those 9-2x. I have seen some older saabs that do look fun I’d buy one but it would just be to mess with nothing so far to grab me for more than just a glance. I’m open minded tho. I’m sure if you got one I’d be down to hear some stories on it.
For the most part I still see some dealerships open around here that never closed up but I’m not sure how bad the carona has been for your area. I bet it is fun being able to have empty roads. Where I work never closed cause we are essential and my hours are crazy I didn’t get much time to go mess around on empty roads. Ooo that sucks having to pay out of pocket for all that, really nice you still give them extra to stick around you sound great to work for. My friends and family’s work never gave them extra for being out of work, nor did I get any extra for working during all this carona mess.
😂 kicked out for racing golf karts sounds like the best way to me.
So, what's up with you? Any new mods? New Subie adventures? Also an electric manual transmission Mustang came out and I was weirded out by the concept...
Hope the whole corona insanity hasn't been hard on you, cause it's been a real pain here.
That Saab plan I had, down the drain, as well as any major restoration and modding work on my cars. Only thing I will do is basic maintenance to my E-class in September when I go to visit my parents and try to have a vacation at home. Girlfriend is moody cause we can't go to the beach, visit friends, go to parties, or do pretty much anything. I kinda welcome it... Both financially and emotionally. I really need a vacation. Having to comply with stupid government regulations and keeping my business closed so long wasn't good for my wallet to say the least. And ever since we reopened, business has been very slow. People are still scared and want to avoid people, even if said people only walk around in their lawn to do their work. Right now I'm working for nothing. My business expenses and income are pretty much the same. I have no idea what to do... Selling the business is bad, cause nobody will buy it and I will lose money. Autumn is approaching and according to the WHO, there will be a second wave and if that's true, I may have to get out while I'm ahead, close up shop, return my vans to the dealer, pay leasing fees and consider myself lucky I don't have to start selling my own stuff.
The only upside is that I managed to secure a contract for snow clearing this winter in my town, if it snows that is...
And even if it doesn't, city hall will cover my basic expenses so I can stay afloat.
Really pissed off I couldn't get any government aid, cause my business is "too small" and "too young". Way to promote economy growth by giving billionaires more tax breaks and aid and undermine regular people trying to make a living. Things were even worse in Bulgaria... The first businesses that got "corona aid" money were casinos, betting shops and other businesses owned by politicians.
Sorry if this was kinda ranty... I haven't really talked to anyone about any of this stuff.
As for the golf carts, it was worth it. I managed to get a tiny bit of wheelspin and kick up some dirt in a golf cart. And my mate fell out of his cart while taking a sharp turn XD
Nobody got hurt and there was nothing for the cart to hit, but it was still an intense moment.
Bordem just got the best of me and I swooped back on. I’ll likely not come back again for a while knowing me.
Nothing too new for me I’ve been putting more focus on cosmetics lately and making my car look better while I’m pretty content with the performance. I do want to lift it and get a aftermarket downpipe. My exhaust pops usually when I downshift but I want more of that crackle. I currently have a 3” mid and 3” axel back piping. Those are my two focuses to do soon and probably put on some spacers which I’ve been iffy on. It is estimated I have a lil over 300 hp and for my daily (ik ill only keep wanting more) for now I’m happy with the speed. I plan on bringing it on the dyno at some point for the true amount. I got to race a caddy that was a v8 270hp and it was the most fun I’ve had in a race I obviously won but I will admit it was on my ass for a while. I wasn’t redlining it either I was shifting at about 6,000 rpm. Got to about 90 mph then stopped cause speed limit was only 40, don’t wanna get arrested. I’m dying to go to some meets or visit a rally event to watch but of course I’ll have to keep waiting on that.
And found this out the other day that my moms legacys headgasket blew at 212k miles. I’ve told her for years and months about being ready on that as shes gotten closer to 100k mark since it was last done (at 119k). I’ve gotten super technical explaining how boxer engines are and how they give out over other engines just so much over and over told. But my dad also don’t know shit about cars and for the longest time I’ve argued with him on headgaskets. He got the timing belt replaced which is good cause it was about due and then he started saying the same bullshit that replacing that helps so the headgasket doesn’t go. And holy shit I got to the point I’m like fuck it if he wants to make shit up and sound like a retard it’s on him. And now he finally knows I’m right but rn I’m still not happy with him cause he’s acting like it’s nothing and telling my mom to just keep driving it and damn I just 🤦🏼♀️ I’ve been driving my mom around and redirecting her. For months now shes been thinking of upgrading anyway and I talked her into a crosstrek but at this point I say go for something else if noone will listen to me on subarus ya know the brand I know best. My dads got the annoying habbit of making shit up and acting like he’s right. I’m surprised his cars are still going as far as they are. Poor things.
Ew all this electric stuff is just sad I just don’t see why, it’s so dumb to me. Speaking of, the rumored new 2021 sti looks not so great. Also I guess wrx will come with 300hp and the sti with 400 which I’ll be a fan of that 😂.
I can imagine lots of stuff is put on hold since all of this happen. Yeah 🙁 it has been hard distancing yourself from all of that. I still will see a few friends but very few and although some stuff is open like bars and as much as I’d love to go I’ve been keeping my distance on it. Maines rate isn’t the worst but I don’t want to take a chance. Damn that’s rough sorry to hear that. lots of places here are losing workers because they get paid more for unemployment during this than to keep working. I definetly feel bad for all the companies like yours having to go through that. I hope things look up soon and you don’t have to get rid of anything. Well that’s a plus I hope the snow stuff works out.
I was just wondering if they would help the business like they do around here but that’s weird they blow you off like that. That’s so true just pushes away regular people who truly need it. That’s sad.
Oh no it’s all good rant as much as you want if anything I’m doing it too 😂. I always enjoy hear what you have to say.
😂😂 that would be me for sure I’d fall out on every turn. Sounds like it was pretty intense didn’t think they were fast enough to spin up some dirt. I haven’t been on one in so long but I remember having a lot of fun on one.
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All of my cars, except the old Beamer have stupidly complicated belts. And in my S600 it's so tight, I can't do the job myself. My hands and arms are too big to work in that space, or maybe I'm doing it wrong, Idk... I really wonder how Mercedes managed to cram in a 6 liter V12 in there. There is no free space in that engine bay XD
BTW: LOL on the cobalt meme... Sadly we don't have any cobalts in Europe, but the next best thing is underpowered BMWs with M-packages and tons of M-badges. I love messing with them. Especially in the E-class and the C350e... E-class is like a wolf in sheep's clothing and the C350e... Must be embarrassing to be beaten by a plug in hybrid XD
One time I met the biggest BMW ricer ever, he even had one of those prison-style marks for all the cars he had beaten with the lost side being empty. After losing at a race to the next lights, I pulled down my window, he pulled down his and I said "Bro, gotta add at least one in lost... I'm in a diesel and I beat you, imagine what the AMGs, Porsches etc would do to you"
He flipped me off and tried to peel out when the lights turned green, but he stalled instead. I calmly drove away and laughed.
Yeah our mayor sucks... even more, cause now there is a project to expand the three tunnels that run through my city. The only thing this means is even more traffic jams. Sometimes I really regret going to Germany. My daily 10km commute already takes up to an hour.
The bus is only really loud when you sit at the rearmost seats. Good thing German buses ain't like Russian ones. Those had the engine, right next to the driver. Offset on the right. Russian bus drivers had to drive with the windows down at all times, cause of all the engine heat and noise XD
I really don't understand the bias towards women in car culture. Can't we all enjoy cars? If a chick knows how to do an engine swap it is something to be commended, not criticized.
If she knows how to heel and toe and nail apexes - great! Means she can handle a car right and you don't have to fear she might damage yours. Wish my girlfriend was more into cars.
I always say if you are not interested in something, you can never be good at it. For example, I have no interest in golf. I've tried it and I'm a lousy gofer. I'd rather mess around and race my friends in the golf kart and then go drinking, than sit and talk about grass conditions and swing counts.
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That sucks. Kinda reminds me, I may be running off of what’s easy for me cause I obviously have really small hands so I can reach stuff pretty well. Good at reaching but usually gotta have my boyfriend around to mess with the impossible tight bolts that I make no dent in.
I like how we have our own pack of ricers and where you live, always seems to be toward badging. Hahah that’s great and especially to stall right then and there. I’m not sure I’ve seen that type of marking on a car but sounds pretty funny if he can’t beat you.
That’s dumb just going to make more traffic. Buses with the engine right beside the driver is a thing we have here. I never really thought how loud it probably is for the driver.
That is exactly right gender shouldn’t matter on what interested a person. That’s a good saying I like that. Very true. Oh messing around in a golf kart would be the only fun in it for me too haha.
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Yeah, German ricers tend to go more for badging. Bulgarian and other Balkan ricers just do rice the old fashioned way... by making their car look like it came from Need for Speed Underground.
A good friend of mine claims he has the fastest diesel Seat in Europe... supposedly. It's a Seat Leon with some proper engine mods, but also lots of ricey stuff. He claims his Seat will do 320kmh, but even if you put a W16 out of a Veyron in it, the transmission is still the same. So it will still hit redline at about 240kmh. A Seat Leon is simply not designed to be a fast car.
Needless to say, our friendly race between his Seat and my E420 turned into a bloodbath. I simply sped off into the distance. Didn't hear from the guy for 2 weeks... he was that pissed.
I recently had the idea of buying an old Saab 900 turbo, like my neighbor and childhood friend. Guy has 3 BMW 635CSI' a BMW 2002 and a Saab 900 turbo. I've always liked old Saabs, but they would be an absolute nightmare to maintain and restore I imagine. So that's a no go, especially now.
And our roadworks - because of coronavirus, there is no traffic. I can get to work and go home in about 9 minutes. Or it used to be like that, until we had to temporarily close the dealership in the beginning of March.
Now I'm a full time bus driver until the corona thing clears up. I drive a mostly empty bus around town, or do a village run. It's quite good fun driving down the empty roads, enjoying my music and not having to do cashier work for passengers that don't know E-tickets exist. Worked out a deal until the dealership reopens. I've had to close down my business too and give my employees unpaid vacation, but still give them a monthly bonus to keep them from leaving (good and cheap employees are hard to find) but I still gotta pay all my taxes and stuff. And because my business is fairly new, I am not eligible for government aid packages.
All of this is out of my pocket and I also had to pay all of the taxes and insurances for this year in March for all of my cars.
On the plus side, the Autobahn is completely empty. You can do top speed runs until you blow up your engine if you want XD
Tho not advisable unless you have a government issued permit that you can drive about... Only issued for people who can't do the home office thing. Anyway, hope things are better on your end.
As for golf kart fun - got me kicked out of a golf club once, but it was worth it. Friend of mine's dad worked there. We were invited for a practice game and we raced the golf karts.
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Since we don’t have them I don’t know anything on seat but I can imagine they would be just another average slow car brand not focused on being fast. 😂 always funny to show up a ricer who has bullshit to say.
I’ve never been a huge saab person only saab I see around and will admire is the saabaru those 9-2x. I have seen some older saabs that do look fun I’d buy one but it would just be to mess with nothing so far to grab me for more than just a glance. I’m open minded tho. I’m sure if you got one I’d be down to hear some stories on it.
For the most part I still see some dealerships open around here that never closed up but I’m not sure how bad the carona has been for your area. I bet it is fun being able to have empty roads. Where I work never closed cause we are essential and my hours are crazy I didn’t get much time to go mess around on empty roads. Ooo that sucks having to pay out of pocket for all that, really nice you still give them extra to stick around you sound great to work for. My friends and family’s work never gave them extra for being out of work, nor did I get any extra for working during all this carona mess.
😂 kicked out for racing golf karts sounds like the best way to me.
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Nice to hear from you, thought you ditched iin XD
So, what's up with you? Any new mods? New Subie adventures? Also an electric manual transmission Mustang came out and I was weirded out by the concept...
Hope the whole corona insanity hasn't been hard on you, cause it's been a real pain here.
That Saab plan I had, down the drain, as well as any major restoration and modding work on my cars. Only thing I will do is basic maintenance to my E-class in September when I go to visit my parents and try to have a vacation at home. Girlfriend is moody cause we can't go to the beach, visit friends, go to parties, or do pretty much anything. I kinda welcome it... Both financially and emotionally. I really need a vacation. Having to comply with stupid government regulations and keeping my business closed so long wasn't good for my wallet to say the least. And ever since we reopened, business has been very slow. People are still scared and want to avoid people, even if said people only walk around in their lawn to do their work. Right now I'm working for nothing. My business expenses and income are pretty much the same. I have no idea what to do... Selling the business is bad, cause nobody will buy it and I will lose money. Autumn is approaching and according to the WHO, there will be a second wave and if that's true, I may have to get out while I'm ahead, close up shop, return my vans to the dealer, pay leasing fees and consider myself lucky I don't have to start selling my own stuff.
The only upside is that I managed to secure a contract for snow clearing this winter in my town, if it snows that is...
And even if it doesn't, city hall will cover my basic expenses so I can stay afloat.
Really pissed off I couldn't get any government aid, cause my business is "too small" and "too young". Way to promote economy growth by giving billionaires more tax breaks and aid and undermine regular people trying to make a living. Things were even worse in Bulgaria... The first businesses that got "corona aid" money were casinos, betting shops and other businesses owned by politicians.
Sorry if this was kinda ranty... I haven't really talked to anyone about any of this stuff.
As for the golf carts, it was worth it. I managed to get a tiny bit of wheelspin and kick up some dirt in a golf cart. And my mate fell out of his cart while taking a sharp turn XD
Nobody got hurt and there was nothing for the cart to hit, but it was still an intense moment.
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Bordem just got the best of me and I swooped back on. I’ll likely not come back again for a while knowing me.
Nothing too new for me I’ve been putting more focus on cosmetics lately and making my car look better while I’m pretty content with the performance. I do want to lift it and get a aftermarket downpipe. My exhaust pops usually when I downshift but I want more of that crackle. I currently have a 3” mid and 3” axel back piping. Those are my two focuses to do soon and probably put on some spacers which I’ve been iffy on. It is estimated I have a lil over 300 hp and for my daily (ik ill only keep wanting more) for now I’m happy with the speed. I plan on bringing it on the dyno at some point for the true amount. I got to race a caddy that was a v8 270hp and it was the most fun I’ve had in a race I obviously won but I will admit it was on my ass for a while. I wasn’t redlining it either I was shifting at about 6,000 rpm. Got to about 90 mph then stopped cause speed limit was only 40, don’t wanna get arrested. I’m dying to go to some meets or visit a rally event to watch but of course I’ll have to keep waiting on that.
And found this out the other day that my moms legacys headgasket blew at 212k miles. I’ve told her for years and months about being ready on that as shes gotten closer to 100k mark since it was last done (at 119k). I’ve gotten super technical explaining how boxer engines are and how they give out over other engines just so much over and over told. But my dad also don’t know shit about cars and for the longest time I’ve argued with him on headgaskets. He got the timing belt replaced which is good cause it was about due and then he started saying the same bullshit that replacing that helps so the headgasket doesn’t go. And holy shit I got to the point I’m like fuck it if he wants to make shit up and sound like a retard it’s on him. And now he finally knows I’m right but rn I’m still not happy with him cause he’s acting like it’s nothing and telling my mom to just keep driving it and damn I just 🤦🏼♀️ I’ve been driving my mom around and redirecting her. For months now shes been thinking of upgrading anyway and I talked her into a crosstrek but at this point I say go for something else if noone will listen to me on subarus ya know the brand I know best. My dads got the annoying habbit of making shit up and acting like he’s right. I’m surprised his cars are still going as far as they are. Poor things.
Ew all this electric stuff is just sad I just don’t see why, it’s so dumb to me. Speaking of, the rumored new 2021 sti looks not so great. Also I guess wrx will come with 300hp and the sti with 400 which I’ll be a fan of that 😂.
I can imagine lots of stuff is put on hold since all of this happen. Yeah 🙁 it has been hard distancing yourself from all of that. I still will see a few friends but very few and although some stuff is open like bars and as much as I’d love to go I’ve been keeping my distance on it. Maines rate isn’t the worst but I don’t want to take a chance. Damn that’s rough sorry to hear that. lots of places here are losing workers because they get paid more for unemployment during this than to keep working. I definetly feel bad for all the companies like yours having to go through that. I hope things look up soon and you don’t have to get rid of anything. Well that’s a plus I hope the snow stuff works out.
I was just wondering if they would help the business like they do around here but that’s weird they blow you off like that. That’s so true just pushes away regular people who truly need it. That’s sad.
Oh no it’s all good rant as much as you want if anything I’m doing it too 😂. I always enjoy hear what you have to say.
😂😂 that would be me for sure I’d fall out on every turn. Sounds like it was pretty intense didn’t think they were fast enough to spin up some dirt. I haven’t been on one in so long but I remember having a lot of fun on one.