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They are certainly ugly in a certain way, but also signify "Tesla" and high efficiency, so my brain accepts the look. The ones that were ultra hideous were on that early Honda electric. Ugh. Someone suggested that the car could move back and forth a few feet if it's being fucked with and sentry mode is on (though it seems some of these owners disabled sentry, WTF). This is 100% technically possible, but too much fear of liability will prevent it. Also the car could spin the wheel if it's off the ground while the car is locked and alarm/sentry mode is on. It already can identify and detect humans in a 360 circle, and record them. It does it so well that I have hours and hours of sentry recordings.

Hope you don't mind, I edited your post just to make it clear the summary of the solution is contained there. If you need to change your username in order to encourage NWS posts, so be it... Users are allowed to make that change.

Let the roasting begin. Also, another very rare individual who uses first initial/last name on forums. Almost everywhere except here, that's what I use. This forum name was given to me by a riding buddy.

I was very surprised and curious also. And it would then stand out, I think? Also do the thieves know that there are nice wheels under the aero covers? Or do most owners remove the covers like I did? Google says they are 5x120 bolt pattern, so pretty common and interchangeable.

Also, the Tesla has a flat bottom, so the crates are holding the weight evenly. I would suspect that a typical car with only a small curved lip at the bottom would have a different experience. The thefts aren't totally new, but apparently it's become a huge thing lately in inner L.A.

Dual long guns makes sense in Los Angeles. Oh yeah, new crime spree in LA right now...Tesla wheels, and leaving the car on plastic drink holders taken from behind stores. I can't say a specific ratio, but it seems like maybe 1/5 of motors here have an SBR. Never noticed a shotgun.

AZ used to be really picky about the front plate, until the law changed and now we don't have one. This is why our society crumbled, and global warming is far worse here than anywhere else. Scottsdale got rid of nearly all cameras. It was a popular vote. And by vote, I mean our people were shooting them, pulling them down with chains, covering them with paint, and showing up at officials' houses to "return" their mailed photo tickets. Also a shitload of people moved to postal box registrations, and just ignored citations. I love anarchy. It's effective. We have four red light cameras in Scottsdale only for the most dangerous intersections. Scottsdale has our highest concentration of entitled dickwads. Paradise Valley, which seems to be Scottsdale if you're not from 'round here, still has a couple of photo speed vans, set to 11 over (not terrible for curvy surface streets marked 45 I guess). Postal box registrations...I love it that I'm not the only one. When I put my UPS box address in for insurance info or MVD stuff, a list of nearly 100 cars at that address shows up for me to pick one. Government doesn't need to know where we live. Oscar's story mirrors the one where a friend and I were riding back from his house, in a huge pack of trucks and cars doing 85. They decided to light US up for doing about 83. A bike at 83 is clearly more dangerous than a truck at 85. Guess where her plate is from....

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On the way tomorrow. Criminal.

This was hardwired in the chick's car that we just traded in, so no cord, and the mount was fucked anyway. She said it would occasionally just freak out. She thinks it would sometimes alarm for no reason and sometimes just go dark, but forgot the details. If I power it up by USB it does turn on. So really, the only use for this is if you want to send it for their $140 platinum refurb service, where they go through it all and send you back a new cord and mount, almost like new. I have no interest in it, I only do 5 over. https://www.escortradar.com/pages/repair-info-and-pricing

That was for phone sex, stop resisting.

Great point, sometimes we overlook things in thinking there's one obvious problem.

Uh huh, and....??

No, some other sale/new owner I ran across, just tossed it here since this thread meandered into all sorts of used bike talk.

This is a weird one. The more you look, the worse it gets.

The clunk on an old slow carb bird must be ludicrous, because it's annoying as fuck in the one with the anti-clunk. One of the things I noticed when I rode mine to the buyer's place, because I'd ridden the KTM the day before and its transmission is so much smoother.

Also, the center could be larger and still work right? Isn't all the load on the bolts anyway? And it would not be expensive to have one with a smaller hole machined out. I had some wheels with too-small center holes cut at a machine shop for under $20 per. Ooooh... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blank+sprocket&atb=v270-1&ia=web

Isn't your sex swing made of ropes?

Sex swings use pulleys, not sprockets.

Boats are a great place to find aftermarket parts out for everyone to see.

Sometimes the aftermarket ones are bigger, and can take more power. Sometimes they're not as good. Really depends on how you ride it.

The carb ones clearly must run hotter since they draw in hot intake air, and every Professional®™ knows that's the key to engine operation. In fact, not sure why any carbed XXs are even still running at all.

Meh, meandering threads about mechanical things is a fun part of life. Probably, because I see an oil cooler air duct piece for the carb bikes, but not the FI bikes (with minimal, casual search for parts).

I tried image searching, here's a fun result: Do these snorkels go nowhere on the carb models?

They don't have "ram" air, but pretty sure they have nozzles that reach into the fairing holes, no? I don't think I've every seen a naked carb bird. But otherwise, I assume that in one of the ignored messages above Tomek proved why all boat engines are destroyed shortly after warmup, on every boat ever made? Dude's never been wrong, so be careful. Back to the OP, I think the best answer is just to not fuck with it. I can see no good coming of it, and probably no bad, so net zero.