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onzedge

10-16-2015 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by rooftop (Post 3329162)

Good afternoon

Woof Woof

madwi

10-16-2015 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Leingod (Post 3329149)

Okay..... Btw, PD2 tonight? I'm free all night

Nooooooo!! Microtransactions in payday after they said Never ever going to happen. :shakes head: The backlash on the web is getting crazy lol. Dont even try to read the steam forums, try the payday subreddit.

njobe89

10-16-2015 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by rooftop (Post 3328767)

I've been walking around all day. Dead tired :yawn:

how you liking it so far.

when i was in belgium, my daily average of walking was 16 miles lol

JARblue

10-16-2015 08:30 AM

It's Friday?

:woot: :happydance:

b15	10-16-2015 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Davey (Post 3329141)

I think you're probably right, but I worry too much... $70 worth of oil isn't worth worrying over, to me... So I decided to stick with my "overkill" method of changing in the fall, then changing again in the spring. :icon17:

I ended up making an appointment for 10/31. So I might drive the car once or twice after that (although it will get down to the low 30's overnight, we don't usually get snow or have any road salt put down until 1st week of December) and then I'll put the battery tender on it and shut the door and try not to think about it for 5 months.

My DD has summer tires on it too, and they're getting pretty "entertaining" with these 45-degree mornings. :rolleyes:

I only change mine in the fall before storage. Everyone has different opinions but I don't like used oil sitting for months. I only have about 3k on mine as well but I'd rather flush it out prior to storage to get rid of any contaminants. In the spring in the first start, I take it for a nice long drive and get the oil nice and hot. Any condensation that may have accumulated while it was sitting will evaporate. In my opinion, it's only needed to change before or after storage. No sense in doing both considering its only being stored 5 or so months, not years.

b15	10-16-2015 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Leingod (Post 3329145)

DO we absolutely need battery tenders?

No. But it'll be hit or miss if it starts in the spring on its own. Float chargers (doesn't have to be battery tender brand) are cheap and worth it. I use one every winter and my OEM battery is still going strong

Leingod

10-16-2015 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by madwi (Post 3329166)

What are they charging for specifically??

Leingod

10-16-2015 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by b15 (Post 3329196)

Float charger. Got it. Thanks!

onzedge

10-16-2015 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3329172)

It's Friday?

:woot: :happydance:

Hump day!!!

Leingod

10-16-2015 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by onzedge (Post 3329203)

Hump day!!!

Lies. It's almost Sunday!

Leingod

10-16-2015 09:59 AM

$250 for flatstoppers. No thanks. i'll have the guy move the car forwards and back a foot each month.

Davey

10-16-2015 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by rooftop (Post 3329162)

Good afternoon

:hello:

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Originally Posted by b15 (Post 3329190)

In the spring in the first start, I take it for a nice long drive and get the oil nice and hot. Any condensation that may have accumulated while it was sitting will evaporate. In my opinion, it's only needed to change before or after storage.

That's what have always done (in the spring) except I've also changed it in the fall. In spring, when the 6 month interval is up again, I get it changed again. So, Nov 1 and May 1, more or less.

It's probably a waste of money but whatever. :icon17:

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Originally Posted by Leingod (Post 3329145)

DO we absolutely need battery tenders?

Not absolutely, but your battery will last a lot longer and the car will actually start without charging it in the spring.

Also you don't want to have the battery so dead that the "drop the windows 1/4 inch" thing doesn't happen. :ugh:

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Originally Posted by Leingod (Post 3329227)

$250 for flatstoppers. No thanks. i'll have the guy move the car forwards and back a foot each month.

You don't need those, you don't need to move the car forward and back, and you don't need Sta-bil. I leave my tires at the normal pressure (which is 34 psi in my case) when I store the car every year, I've never had a problem with flat spots. As long as the tires aren't low on air you won't have a problem.

A lot of the "wisdom" on this subject is more applicable to 60's cars with 60's gas tanks and bias-ply tires. :rolleyes:

Leingod

10-16-2015 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Davey (Post 3329250)

:hello:

That's what have always done (in the spring) except I've also changed it in the fall. In spring, when the 6 month interval is up again, I get it changed again. So, Nov 1 and May 1, more or less.

It's probably a waste of money but whatever. :icon17:

Not absolutely, but your battery will last a lot longer and the car will actually start without charging it in the spring.

Also you don't want to have the battery so dead that the "drop the windows 1/4 inch" thing doesn't happen. :ugh:

You don't need those, you don't need to move the car forward and back, and you don't need Sta-bil. I leave my tires at the normal pressure (which is 34 psi in my case) when I store the car every year, I've never had a problem with flat spots. As long as the tires aren't low on air you won't have a problem.

A lot of the "wisdom" on this subject is more applicable to 60's cars with 60's gas tanks and bias-ply tires. :rolleyes:

I ordered a tender just to be safe. Cheap $25 one. Flatstoppers were insane. I'll take my chances with flat tires. For the $10, I'll get stabil. Can't hurt. The storage place is heated and on tile. So I'm not to worried.

Davey

10-16-2015 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Leingod (Post 3329258)

Seriously, some radial tires will flat-spot every time you park the car for 8 hours. Of course they disappear when you drive the car for 15 minutes then.

For storage, if you left 15 psi in the tires for 6 months, you might get flat spots.

But you could get the car out, air them up to 40 psi, drive it around the block two or three times, and deflate them back to normal and they'd be fine. :tup:

Davey

10-16-2015 11:23 AM

Slight wrinkle in my birthday surprise plan for my wife...

Amazon sent the 4 items in 4 separate packages... Two of the items came yesterday. The "seller" is shown on the label as something like "Just4Fun" on one package, and the other is something like "TShirts&More" or whatever. :shakes head:

Hopefully she just looked at the part of the label that showed I was the recipient or just didn't think much of it. If she figured it out, she's definitely got her poker face on. :icon17:

Her other two gifts arrive tonight (including the shirt she is pissed she lost) but they will show "AmazonLLC" so I should be OK if she hasn't figured it out yet... :ugh2:

Pintsize725

10-16-2015 12:25 PM

Boo, F1 private event got shelved until next year since our local ice rinks suck at wanting to host an event with awesome coverage. :thumbsdown:

Leingod

10-16-2015 12:33 PM

I just found an old video of my dad recording me while I played Socom 3 with people. The stuff I said...

I'll go mid and smoke the bananas! You take McDonalds!

You half left around the pine and we can cap blue near the dog

Think we can smoke the beaver?

Double down on the tranqs and we can drop the blondes at the corner

kenchan

10-16-2015 02:13 PM

:yawn:

kenchan

10-16-2015 02:14 PM

Oh yah, motored my G today. Foot hurt but it was a nice drive.

Poured in stabil. Going to qd when I get home. :D

kenchan

10-16-2015 02:15 PM

Then my motoring season is officially over for this yr.

Nismo89

10-16-2015 02:35 PM

afternoon all

Davey

10-16-2015 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 3329379)

Then my motoring season is officially over for this yr.

Do you people all live in Alaska? :icon08:

Davey

10-16-2015 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Nismo89 (Post 3329392)

afternoon all

:hello:

JARblue

10-16-2015 04:29 PM

RIP Bevo XIV :(

kenchan

10-16-2015 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Davey (Post 3329436)

Do you people all live in Alaska? :icon08:

No, the real U.S.A.

kenchan

10-16-2015 04:45 PM

i went home early and cleaned up my G and put her in hibernation. :)

i forgot to put some dcon under her, so will do dat before i dyson the house in a little bit.

Davey

10-16-2015 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 3329473)

No, the real U.S.A.

:roflpuke2:

Dude I'll be able to drive my car for at least 2, if not 6 more weeks.

Maybe not with the windows down, but I'll be able to drive it. :icon17:

Probably won't after the 31st, though... And I might not until then anyway. But I could! :icon17:

kenchan

10-16-2015 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Davey (Post 3329490)

i can still drive the cars, datz not the reason why i put them away. i dont want ANY salt or deicer on them.

also, not really interested in cleaning my cars while freezing my arse...

kenchan

10-16-2015 05:11 PM

dat said, ordered gallons of speedshine and sprayon carwash. :D

kenchan

10-16-2015 05:13 PM

oh yah, i did win the business. so i guess i could go get the new car any time。。

but then im kinda scratching my head.. do i really want the IS? :ugh:
i have a feeling my ankle will cure in a couple of weeks and could regret getting an AT car while my plan was to keep my dd MT and future hobby car AT..

kenchan

10-16-2015 05:16 PM

might be better to get the accord CVT and play it by ear..it's 1/2 the price of the IS... give it to my older kid when he's ready to drive.

onzedge

10-16-2015 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 3329498)

might be better to get the accord CVT and play it by ear..it's 1/2 the price of the IS... give it to my older kid when he's ready to drive.

:iagree:

kenchan

10-16-2015 05:48 PM

:iagree:

oh yah, i got new wheels and tires today. :D

for my RC car dat is. :p they're even asian knock-offs of the TE37's. :rofl2: