I googled, it looks like an old ladies car. As I predicted. Hell,it looks like someone stretched one of those old POS chrysler lebarons. Pininfarina might have made some nice ferraris, but this is not a good example of their work.
Her in Upstate NY, the only biodiesel drivers make their own. No one sells it. The ones I know just changed the hoses over themselves and run enough road diesel to not worry about much difference in the fuel.
I would guess that having a bumper lower at some speed would be a perfectly good compromise.
Where do you live? I lived in a mountain area with no winter service and still drove 4banger fwd cars with little to no problems. I see actual need being such an edge case that waivers can be given since they will likely number in the hundreds per state.
Any good antennas you can suggest? Indoor or outdoor would be fine. I would prefer not to have to move it though. Multiple would also be better than having to move one.
You can digitize without encrypting. That is what clear QAM is for.
What this is really about is that they won't have to roll a truck for a cable install. Heck, they can fire all the techs too, or at least most of them. They will leave all the cables live all the time and make you come get a box to do the decryption. When you leave you give the box back, or if you don't pay they deauthorize it on their end.
We were both within our first year of driving, so inexperienced was it. We also both learned to drive without ABS so remembering not to pump the brakes under normal conditions was something we were probably more focused one.
How did a design like that make it into a production vehicle?
I would have preferred no ABS. I learned to drive without it, and given the choice of none or the cavaliers ABS I will take none everyday of the week. Works great in my prizm though.
120lbs for the internal unit, is what google says.
You are not going to get much range out of that though, it is meant for a hybrid.
I looked into doing this sort of thing before and the mass of the batteries is a big deal. Lithium batteries are not hard to get at all in bulk, just expensive.
You make a good point. Clearly it should not be legal to sell vehicles that can ride over normal cars like that. I bet simple modifications to the bumper could prevent that.
The Cavaliers sure loved to rust though. Both me and my brother totaled one each when the ABS failed. In both cases brake and clutch were held down but the cars suddenly slowed then the brakes just stopped doing anything. Skid marks backed up our stories in both cases. I think that was only the early 90s ones though.
The smart has a quite rigid passenger cabin, by design. It will use the SUV for crumple zones. That is how they get around being so small. Now if you hit a solid object or another smart, you are screwed.
I counter your 95 civic with a 90 Mercedes 300SDL.
Instead of 300k you can expect north of 500k miles. You look like a dictator of a small african nation when you drive it, instead of a poor stoner. Plus it gets great mileage and will fit a whole family.
My 10 year old Chevy Prism frowns on your shenanigans. That car was also sold as a Corolla.
It gets good milage, the insurance is amazingly cheap since I don't need collision, I can buy another for $5k instead and it has not needed very many repairs.
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I believe he meant like RIM they were doomed.
RIM will be in bankruptcy soon enough.
I don't buy no name PSUs, but shouldn't the new Bronze, Silver, Gold efficiency scheme take care of this?
Or are those numbers BS as well?
I googled, it looks like an old ladies car. As I predicted. Hell ,it looks like someone stretched one of those old POS chrysler lebarons. Pininfarina might have made some nice ferraris, but this is not a good example of their work.
Her in Upstate NY, the only biodiesel drivers make their own. No one sells it. The ones I know just changed the hoses over themselves and run enough road diesel to not worry about much difference in the fuel.
I would guess that having a bumper lower at some speed would be a perfectly good compromise.
Where do you live? I lived in a mountain area with no winter service and still drove 4banger fwd cars with little to no problems. I see actual need being such an edge case that waivers can be given since they will likely number in the hundreds per state.
If you have a cell, drop the voice.
It should shrink quite a bit though. I used to have cable and internet then I went just internet and it saved me about $30 a month.
Innumerable? I doubt it, we stole 0 from the muslims during the crusades.
What about all those legitimate cable watchers who don't want to rent a box?
How much are you spending on computers these days?
$10 a month would mean in two years a fairly reasonable HTPC would be paid for.
Do you think this unit would be suitable to place in the attic?
I would prefer not to put it on the roof so there is less wife opposition.
Well now those guys will only be doing dish and direct.
So when will I be getting that check for their line that crosses my property?
They can do what they like when they start paying their own way.
Also this is not a free service, merely a requirement that any OTA channels they carry for their subscribers be broadcast without encryption.
Any good antennas you can suggest? Indoor or outdoor would be fine. I would prefer not to have to move it though. Multiple would also be better than having to move one.
You can digitize without encrypting. That is what clear QAM is for.
What this is really about is that they won't have to roll a truck for a cable install. Heck, they can fire all the techs too, or at least most of them. They will leave all the cables live all the time and make you come get a box to do the decryption. When you leave you give the box back, or if you don't pay they deauthorize it on their end.
Don't give up on the HTPC, give up on cable instead.
Get yourself an OTA tuner, amazon/netflix/hulu plus and go for it. Unless you are addicted to some sport that is not OTA it really is the way to go.
We were both within our first year of driving, so inexperienced was it. We also both learned to drive without ABS so remembering not to pump the brakes under normal conditions was something we were probably more focused one.
Junkyard parts are cheap. You can even order them online now.
Making your own biodiesel is cheap isn't it?
Just try to find an old civic without a body kit and a fart can muffler. Good luck.
Cadillacs are for two types of people ladies so old they look through the steering wheel and those of the gangsta persuasion.
How did a design like that make it into a production vehicle?
I would have preferred no ABS. I learned to drive without it, and given the choice of none or the cavaliers ABS I will take none everyday of the week. Works great in my prizm though.
120lbs for the internal unit, is what google says.
You are not going to get much range out of that though, it is meant for a hybrid.
I looked into doing this sort of thing before and the mass of the batteries is a big deal. Lithium batteries are not hard to get at all in bulk, just expensive.
Tell everyone it's macho. People eat that shit up.
You make a good point. Clearly it should not be legal to sell vehicles that can ride over normal cars like that. I bet simple modifications to the bumper could prevent that.
The Cavaliers sure loved to rust though. Both me and my brother totaled one each when the ABS failed. In both cases brake and clutch were held down but the cars suddenly slowed then the brakes just stopped doing anything. Skid marks backed up our stories in both cases. I think that was only the early 90s ones though.
I never understood that. How is patriotic to increase demand for a commodity that has one of its main sellers donating money to terrorists?
In this case the Saudi royal family.
The smart has a quite rigid passenger cabin, by design. It will use the SUV for crumple zones. That is how they get around being so small. Now if you hit a solid object or another smart, you are screwed.
I counter your 95 civic with a 90 Mercedes 300SDL.
Instead of 300k you can expect north of 500k miles. You look like a dictator of a small african nation when you drive it, instead of a poor stoner. Plus it gets great mileage and will fit a whole family.
My 10 year old Chevy Prism frowns on your shenanigans. That car was also sold as a Corolla.
It gets good milage, the insurance is amazingly cheap since I don't need collision, I can buy another for $5k instead and it has not needed very many repairs.
Air is also a terrible storage medium. Low energy density and high mass, for the tanks, what's not to like?