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Posted: 11/25/2020 1:47:32 PM EDT
[#1]
Chevrolet AFM. [cylinder deactivation]
LG/Samsung everything in white goods. Bryant Carrier Payne location of flame sensor, the inducer assy, and the igniter location. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 1:49:12 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: SAP business software. Totally sucks to use. Ahhhhh. Software Against Productivity. You don't say? |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 1:50:12 PM EDT
[#3]
 Premium price and power all while nothing is double shear along with a weak frame. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 1:54:13 PM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I find terrible designs that are widely adopted to be the most fascinating. Single "smart" on/off buttons are really a terrible design. Instead of a simple, elegant, positive clicker SPST on off switch, you have a stupid electronic on/off that you need to hold for 5 seconds. Why? What does that possibly serve? I don't want to hold it for 5 seconds to turn on, 5 seconds to turn off, 2 seconds to pause, double-tap to do some other function, and neither does anyone else. Put in a small button array and a master switch, not any more complex and infinitely more user friendly. If it's to protect from accidental turning off (the only legitimate argument for these designs I've ever heard), simply submerge the switch in a detent so it can't be bumped. And, these fucking buttons styles are EVERYWHERE now. EVERYWHERE. Using all the features of Chrony brand chronographs with two buttons and no displays that are remotely intuitive. Redoing the user manual requires writing a separate procedure for each action or operating function. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 1:56:37 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The female brain They are geared for something different. Allowing them to dominate or 'compete' in an arena, and be free of accountability for doing it poorly, that functions differently than what they are geared for, is terrible policy. It leaves a field of broken and damaged everything that only gets bandaid patches and is forced to still function like it is in a peak state while everyone is forced to pretend nothing is wrong or the source of the problem comes from another source. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 1:59:56 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fucking yes Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Those "zero spill" EPA gas nozzles. Fucking yes When Trump gets back in, hopefully that bs will go away. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 2:05:59 PM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ah yes, I forgot microwave doors. The kind where you push a button in on the unit itself, and the door pops open (like ours) are a stupid design. All in the name of making the front perfectly flat. Put a proper handle on the door, which will never break like the button, and prevent you from using the thing at all. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Microwave ovens...why are the hooks on the door and not on the unit itself ? Nice sleeve snagging feature. Ah yes, I forgot microwave doors. The kind where you push a button in on the unit itself, and the door pops open (like ours) are a stupid design. All in the name of making the front perfectly flat. Put a proper handle on the door, which will never break like the button, and prevent you from using the thing at all. On the subject of microwaves.... the microwave beep with no way to silence. I ended up opening the microwave and ripping out the speaker. Hoping my next one at least has the option. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 2:17:16 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I had to rescue my daughter from out of a gas station parking lot because the battery in her 2010 Buick Enclave finally crapped out. I jumped her off and because I didn't have any tools with me, followed her to the Autozone so she could have them change the battery out. She bought the battery, opened the hood, and the guy goes, "Where's the battery?" I look - fuse block, no battery. Turns out, the battery is in a hole in the floor of the passenger compartment behind the passenger seat. To get to it, you have to put the passenger seat all the way forward, the middle row seat all the way back, and unscrew a carpeted cover plate. The hole in the floor is just barely big enough to hold the battery, so to take the cable ends loose requires stubby little open-end wrenches and the agility of a monkey. Because the battery ends flop back in once you get the old battery out, putting the new battery in requires four hands - one to hold the positive cable out of the way, one to hold the negative cable out of the way, and two to hoist the new battery down into the hole in the floor. Once you do all that, though, the rest of it is a piece of cake. Those jump packs are sweet. Get it home and deal with it. Less stress. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 2:17:35 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Current cell phones. Nokia 5160 you could run over with a car and it would probably still work. Drop a current phone 6 inches onto a table and the now cracked screen may be usable I LOVED that phone! You could throw it across the street and at worst you just had to snap the outer case back on |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 2:17:36 PM EDT
[#10]
The cabin air filter in a Nissan Altima coupe is behind the center console inside an access opening smaller than the filter.
An accessible small filter might get changed reasonably often, and cost less. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 2:34:25 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Chevrolet AFM. [cylinder deactivation] LG/Samsung everything in white goods. Bryant Carrier Payne location of flame sensor, the inducer assy, and the igniter location. No matter which manufacturer does their own version, it always seems like a solution in search of a problem. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 2:38:09 PM EDT
[#12]
Almost every Spyderco knife. Ergonomics my ass!
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Posted: 11/25/2020 2:40:42 PM EDT
[#13]
The window regulators in my 2003 Yukon. Of course, just out of the 5 year warranty period, I had to replace the front driver's side regulator 4 times and the front passenger side 3 times over the course of ~18-24 months. Each time, they were replaced with actual brand new GM parts, but the stupid cable inside the regulator would get snarled up, so the window was stuck in the down position.
7 damned replacements within a span of 18-24 months. I was fortunate that the replacements were warrantied, so the shop never charged me for parts OR labor for any of the replacements after the 1st on each side, but it was pretty damned inconvenient to be out somewhere and have the window get stuck in the down position (including one time when I was out of state). After the 7th replacement, I simply locked the windows in the closed position. 
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Posted: 11/25/2020 2:46:12 PM EDT
[#14]
Chiappa Revolvers |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 2:52:48 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The window regulators in my 2003 Yukon. Of course, just out of the 5 year warranty period, I had to replace the front driver's side regulator 4 times and the front passenger side 3 times over the course of ~18-24 months. Each time, they were replaced with actual brand new GM parts, but the stupid cable inside the regulator would get snarled up, so the window was stuck in the down position. 7 damned replacements within a span of 18-24 months. I was fortunate that the replacements were warrantied, so the shop never charged me for parts OR labor for any of the replacements after the 1st on each side, but it was pretty damned inconvenient to be out somewhere and have the window get stuck in the down position (including one time when I was out of state). After the 7th replacement, I simply locked the windows in the closed position. We need you in that Ford thread where nobody has ever had their power windows die! |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:03:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had to rescue my daughter from out of a gas station parking lot because the battery in her 2010 Buick Enclave finally crapped out. I jumped her off and because I didn't have any tools with me, followed her to the Autozone so she could have them change the battery out. She bought the battery, opened the hood, and the guy goes, "Where's the battery?" I look - fuse block, no battery. Turns out, the battery is in a hole in the floor of the passenger compartment behind the passenger seat. To get to it, you have to put the passenger seat all the way forward, the middle row seat all the way back, and unscrew a carpeted cover plate. The hole in the floor is just barely big enough to hold the battery, so to take the cable ends loose requires stubby little open-end wrenches and the agility of a monkey. Because the battery ends flop back in once you get the old battery out, putting the new battery in requires four hands - one to hold the positive cable out of the way, one to hold the negative cable out of the way, and two to hoist the new battery down into the hole in the floor. Once you do all that, though, the rest of it is a piece of cake. My folks had a 2010 Dodge Caravan. My mom passed in 2019 and dad passed this summer. He wasn't able to drive for the past year so it just sat there. My sister got it moved out of the driveway and across the street while we were cleaning the house. When we went to move it back, the battery was completely dead. Long story short, even though we had the fob and physical key, the door would not unlock. So we couldn't pop the hood to charge the battery. I had to snake socket extenders through the grill and disassemble the hood catch mechanism from the outside. It was a pain in the ass. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:19:15 PM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We need you in that Ford thread where nobody has ever had their power windows die! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The window regulators in my 2003 Yukon. Of course, just out of the 5 year warranty period, I had to replace the front driver's side regulator 4 times and the front passenger side 3 times over the course of ~18-24 months. Each time, they were replaced with actual brand new GM parts, but the stupid cable inside the regulator would get snarled up, so the window was stuck in the down position. 7 damned replacements within a span of 18-24 months. I was fortunate that the replacements were warrantied, so the shop never charged me for parts OR labor for any of the replacements after the 1st on each side, but it was pretty damned inconvenient to be out somewhere and have the window get stuck in the down position (including one time when I was out of state). After the 7th replacement, I simply locked the windows in the closed position. We need you in that Ford thread where nobody has ever had their power windows die! Lol. Must have missed that thread 'cuz I've never owned a Ford. P.S. I must have bad luck with vehicles, because that was the 2nd vehicle I've had with power window issues. The 1st one was a 1994 Mitsubishi 3000GT. Known problem that the top plastic bracket in the regulator cracks and breaks with age. Some small companies now make an aluminum bracket to replace that plastic piece (when, not if, it cracks/breaks, it cocks the glass at an angle so it doesn't ride in the tracks properly). |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:22:42 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol. Must have missed that thread 'cuz I've never owned a Ford. I have, and it had crank windows, but it's been a few years. Here's the thread, good for a chuckle: Ford Marketing Selling Old-School Options |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:34:40 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryThose were great until the head gaskets, starter or split block fail.. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:35:58 PM EDT
[#20]
Every try replacing the starter on a E90 bmw? ??
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:37:04 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I had to rescue my daughter from out of a gas station parking lot because the battery in her 2010 Buick Enclave finally crapped out. I jumped her off and because I didn't have any tools with me, followed her to the Autozone so she could have them change the battery out. She bought the battery, opened the hood, and the guy goes, "Where's the battery?" I look - fuse block, no battery. Turns out, the battery is in a hole in the floor of the passenger compartment behind the passenger seat. To get to it, you have to put the passenger seat all the way forward, the middle row seat all the way back, and unscrew a carpeted cover plate. The hole in the floor is just barely big enough to hold the battery, so to take the cable ends loose requires stubby little open-end wrenches and the agility of a monkey. Because the battery ends flop back in once you get the old battery out, putting the new battery in requires four hands - one to hold the positive cable out of the way, one to hold the negative cable out of the way, and two to hoist the new battery down into the hole in the floor. Once you do all that, though, the rest of it is a piece of cake. At least you can get your hands in to put the battery in, on the 1st gen Toyota Vans it was in a hole in the floor and you better remember to attach the plastic lift straps from the old to the new battery or you'll never get it out again save rolling the van on its side. Every Ford built off the Focus platform (including the Transit Connect) have the battery under the cowl. A replacement is rated as 3 1/2 hours. GM always like to but the batteries under cowl supports and the airbox. Chrysler liked to bury the battery in the wheel well. On air cooled beetles dont forget to put the battery cap spacer on or you might short out the terminals with someone sitting in the rear seat and start the seat padding (its Hay!) on fire. The batteries on breadloaf VW vans is tucked next to the engine and the fumes rust out that corner of the vehicle. The battery in mid-90's Nissan Pulsars sits right behind the left pop-up headlight. The fumes from the battery eventually corrodes the light wire harness and the light stops working. If you crash a Tesla hard enough it will explode and throw batteries everywhere. The 11th and a half Ring of Hell is populated with designers/engineers. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:38:49 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That new GM multipro tailgate is an abomination from what I've seen. My business neighbor already messed his up on a trailer ball. the new one has an intermediate position for when you have a trailer hitch on. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:41:45 PM EDT
[#23]
Badger Ordnance offset optic mounts. They attach to scope mounts but are on a much lower plane than the scope. i.e. if the scope is a 1.93, the offset should 1.93, but it's not. Also stuck with 45 degree with no adjustment. Also they took forever to release.
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:44:47 PM EDT
[#24]
DSArms website when they have primers during a pandemic
althought i hope they keep it its the only reason i got primers hahahaha |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:45:10 PM EDT
[#25]
Samsung refrigerator ice makers. Stone cold pieces of shit.
After playing fuck fuck games with it for months, I just ended up disabling it and bought a countertop ice maker. Problem solved...problem staying solved. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:52:46 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I have, and it had crank windows, but it's been a few years. Here's the thread, good for a chuckle: Ford Marketing Selling Old-School Options Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Lol. Must have missed that thread 'cuz I've never owned a Ford. I have, and it had crank windows, but it's been a few years. Here's the thread, good for a chuckle: Ford Marketing Selling Old-School Options Lol, thanks. Standard GD, "Stop liking what I don't like" 
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Posted: 11/25/2020 3:52:59 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Changing the Heater Core in most modern vehicles... You have to remove the dashboard completely to get to it unless they include the maintenance hatch. I once had a 1971 Jaguar XJ6 (happily upgraded with a built-up Corvette 350). I shit you not, the shop manual's instruction for replacing the heater core began "Using a cold chisel and a two- or three-pound sledge . . . ." The heater core was sealed in between the steel exterior firewall and the steel interior firewall. You were supposed to cut a hole in the interior firewall large enough to allow removal and replacement of the core. No instructions for what to do about the hole afterward. Fortunately, the headers/exhaust ran directly beneath the floorboards, keeping the driver's and front passenger's foot wells at a balmy 194 degrees fahrenheit year 'round so I just took a piece of heater hose and hooked the hot water outlet directly to the return. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:03:19 PM EDT
[#28]
Something I noticed this morning...deodorant containers where you turn the knob to push the deodorant up.
Once 1/2 used they become extremely top heavy and fall over in the cabinet and it only gets more top heavy from there on out. Yet they put curved lids on them so you can't stand them upside down, which would be an easy logical fix to this annoying top heavy fall over constantly design. (like you can most modern ketchup bottles now.) |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:08:54 PM EDT
[#29]
Why is the out hole so close to her in hole? |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:13:24 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The worst part is that those gas cans have a different thread pitch than the old good nozzles, so you can't even find just the nozzle to use on a can. I hate them because they spill shit everywhere. Buy the blue water cans. Spray paint them red. Enjoy your pre californized gas cans. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:14:39 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Ahhhhh. Software Against Productivity. You don't say? 
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:17:25 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dodge truck front suspension parts. All GM vehicles. Food packaging that claims easy opening & resealing. Truth! "Tear here to open" Proceeds to attempt to tear. Two minutes later after much frustration retrieves scissors, cuts bag open and closes with a clothes pin. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:21:41 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: backstory? Modified hinged frame for a better break over angle. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:23:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As opposed to something you might actually be able to grab, that has distinct and obvious buttons? https://static.bhphoto.com/images/images1000x1000/1594079145_1571628.jpg All those crevices would be so full of Cheeto dust and lotion. 
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:26:51 PM EDT
[#35]
The Chrysler Sebring. Replacing the starter is beyond stupid as well as replacing the water pump..
Oil filter location on a Cavalier or a Sunfire. My Ex-girlfriend's ex-husbands "remodeling" skills. That was 4 years of constant WTF repairs. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:26:51 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Almost every Spyderco knife. Ergonomics my ass! I was gonna mention them. How that company grew to the size it has by making knives so goofy baffles me. Ugly, weird, and almost every one I've ever put my hands on my guttural reaction is to go "ewww". They just don't fit the hand, at all. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:28:32 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Why is the out hole so close to her in hole? Plausible deniability when you "miss". |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:30:05 PM EDT
[#38]
The dashboard and vehicle switches on any International truck. Holy shit, it’s like the engineer in charge of cabin design came in one day and said, “This looks like a good place for a switch/button”, and left it at that. Nothing is user friendly or intuitive in an international, or a Kenworth, for that matter, but at least Freightliner’s finally decided that being able to see the gauges or screens is important for taller drivers.
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:37:36 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The dashboard and vehicle switches on any International truck. Holy shit, it's like the engineer in charge of cabin design came in one day and said, "This looks like a good place for a switch/button", and left it at that. Nothing is user friendly or intuitive in an international, or a Kenworth, for that matter, but at least Freightliner's finally decided that being able to see the gauges or screens is important for taller drivers. Occasionally at my side job I'll take one of the trucks from yard A to drop off at yard B or drop off/pick one up from the shop. We have a little bit of everything in the fleet but mostly Kenworth and Freightliner. Freightliners power window switches on the center dash is pretty dumb but I really, really hate Kenworth's AC vents on the drivers side positioned perfectly to blow on your hands. Nothing like a refreshing blast of ice cold AC freezing your hands for hours at a time and there's no way to close them or redirect them to blow somewhere else less annoying. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:37:41 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Think anything with a gas engine and fuel tank with a fuel gage. Why do the designers of these products feel it is necessary to come up with trendy new symbols indicating empty/full. They are never defined in the owners manuals, and are NOT intuative in the least. What the eff is wrong with E for empty and F for full. On more than one occasion I have wanted to contact the company manufacturing this stuff just to ask them the name of the designer so that I can hunt them down and beat the hell out of them. Can you provide an example? I honestly have never seen a car that doesn’t have an easy to read gauge or at least a line showing how much fuel you have left... My current vehicle has a digital cluster including fuel gauge and it’s easy to read. Same with the temperature... |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:44:19 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Occasionally at my side job I'll take one of the trucks from yard A to drop off at yard B or drop off/pick one up from the shop. We have a little bit of everything in the fleet but mostly Kenworth and Freightliner. Freightliners power window switches on the center dash is pretty dumb but I really, really hate Kenworth's AC vents on the drivers side positioned perfectly to blow on your hands. Nothing like a refreshing blast of ice cold AC freezing your hands for hours at a time and there's no way to close them or redirect them to blow somewhere else less annoying. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The dashboard and vehicle switches on any International truck. Holy shit, it's like the engineer in charge of cabin design came in one day and said, "This looks like a good place for a switch/button", and left it at that. Nothing is user friendly or intuitive in an international, or a Kenworth, for that matter, but at least Freightliner's finally decided that being able to see the gauges or screens is important for taller drivers. Occasionally at my side job I'll take one of the trucks from yard A to drop off at yard B or drop off/pick one up from the shop. We have a little bit of everything in the fleet but mostly Kenworth and Freightliner. Freightliners power window switches on the center dash is pretty dumb but I really, really hate Kenworth's AC vents on the drivers side positioned perfectly to blow on your hands. Nothing like a refreshing blast of ice cold AC freezing your hands for hours at a time and there's no way to close them or redirect them to blow somewhere else less annoying. I haven’t seen a dash-mounted window switch in a Freightliner in years, how old are these units? The Cascadias have their controls laid out much like a car, but Volvo is the best at intuitive placement of their controls. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:48:20 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Those "zero spill" EPA gas nozzles. Instead of loosing the vapors in the can, they spill gas and release far more vapors. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:56:15 PM EDT
[#43]
Everyone on the design and approval teams for the 2007-2013 Chevrolet truck headlights was clearly an idiot. They could argue that AFM was intended to have better results, but there is no way to claim anything other than idiocy on the headlight bulb replacement.
Ditto whoever designed/approved having a steel support bar directly in front of the in cabin air filter in 2005 era Honda Pilots. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:56:19 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Stop All Production...at least that's what we call it around here. I have heard it called Satan's Accounting Program also. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 4:58:36 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I haven't seen a dash-mounted window switch in a Freightliner in years, how old are these units? The Cascadias have their controls laid out much like a car, but Volvo is the best at intuitive placement of their controls. The Freightliners are business class M2's. Straight trucks or single rear axle day cabs. Our class 8 trucks are all Volvos. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 5:01:02 PM EDT
[#46]
Women.....
Get rid of vocal cords, would be perfect! |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 5:31:08 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol, thanks. Standard GD, "Stop liking what I don't like" Glad you enjoyed it! It was educational, if nothing else. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 5:31:47 PM EDT
[#48]
The human spine.
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Posted: 11/25/2020 5:35:38 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Another vote for basically any touch screen in a car. Touch screens for basic functionality have no business in a car. There's no reason I should have to navigate through multiple menus just to change the radio station or change the HVAC. I should be able to do it by feel, without taking my eyes off the road for more than a split second. this, a 100 times this. Clearly designed (and marketed) by people who don't actually drive. also, not to freeload. any 1970's or 1980's Alfa Romeo I mean I can't believe no one has mentioned this. |
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Posted: 11/25/2020 5:43:34 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Why is the out hole so close to her in hole? Only a problem if you don't have a long enough extension for the model being serviced
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