SwampNut

Come on guys, Mike lives with mom, he needs that big back seat for you know, other things.

Cat prices are insanely variable, you have to call a lot of shops. I needed one on a 328i because of a spark plug failure, and got multiple quotes of $800-1500, then one shop said $350. I know, you can't just go to a shitty shop, but it was fine, never an issue. And then I had them do a bunch of other exhaust stuff and it was always good and inexpensive. Just an old guy in a shitty ancient building in the cheap part of town. Lived in a room in the back of the shop.

So NOW who's the mainstream one and who's the weirdo? LOL We had a famous/infamous medical tourist here that "bought" a whole wing of a hospital for his wife for a week. Some Saudi dude. They even did physical construction to give them what they wanted (paid for). If you google "dentist algodon travel" you'll get an entire list of medical travel agents and bookers with hotels and all sorts of things just geared around medical tourism to Algodon MX from Yuma.

Route 66 is over-rated. I like AZ SR 69, more curves and less bushy, but I ate it there once.

Two of them, 0.1mm apart in size, test fit.

Easy to scale bushings are obviously hugely useful. Type the inside/outside diameter, the flange parameters, and boom, print. Faster than a run to the store and precisely the odd details that I needed, not just "close enough." And it costs five cents to just print another if it's not exactly right.

Toyota had it right with the actual mini trucks. Make a vestigial back seat for when you really have to, but don't waste it on space for the 1%. Like my neighbor whose only reason not to get an EV is the week long trip he makes ONE time per year. When it would be better to rent something anyway. And which would cost a fraction of what he's wasting on gas for the other 358 days.

Or if you're going to make a back seat that almost never gets used, it should at least be as minimal as possible and save the space for actual usage.

Yes, and I swear we've discussed it here at some point. You have to get it perfectly dry and clean, and has to stay dry for at least a day. Becomes much easier to clean.

Of course, I just can't understand how we agree on most all other vehicles, and then this extreme thing...

Remove the best parts of both vehicles? Great.

I honestly think this is a prank and there's no fucking way they made that monstrosity.

Yeah, it's everything all in one, problems solved. Then nothing to bitch about. Never happen. Looks like a clown car to me. Like someone tried to do car satire. It has all of the ugly of the Mercedes box thing but none of the character. Go back to the SC.

Interesting, what would you call it? It's been a documented thing for a few thousand years starting in Greece and then Europe. In the 18th century, spa/medical towns were popular, either because all the practitioners could gather and share, or because they thought places had magical healing. Vegas could become our modern day spa town. Tucson kind of is. They have a lot of rehab and spa tourism.

WTF

Having driven one a few hundred miles, you couldn't give me one free. But it's mostly Toyota shittiness complaints, and you seem to like Toyotas. There's nothing enjoyable about driving, the electronics are garbage, and it's certainly mechanically solid.

That's exactly it, been a thing for a long time. Wealthy Canadians come here to get things done that their "free" medical care won't do, or will take forever. Americans go to Mexico, India, and other places for expensive procedures. Really wealthy Americans fly to India to buy stolen kidneys, but just an average person can go there to get a $50k procedure done for $20k including the travel cost, and get a vacation. Vegas can provide services for Canadians and Europeans to get things done here. Even the Saudis will ship people here for work that isn't done right there. When I lived in Tucson I went there for rx drugs and dental work.

Let's not assume the vast array of symptoms are related, could just be a Ford being a Ford. Your speed thing matches what happened to me with East Texas red fuel (and I don't mean the tax, it's got red clay in it). Changing the filter in the dark in a 50 MPH wind at midnight was fun, but got me moving again. I always carry a spare, do you?

Ads becoming less effective is fantastic news. If WW ads work before GLP-1s, then they should stop working after...LOL.

It's even beneficial to your bank account, and global economy (unless you're a purveyor of junk, bad choices, and poison). https://wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/the-100-trillion-disruption-the-unforeseen For decades, the advertising model was simple: Trigger an emotional response, create an impulse, convert it into a purchase. This foundation supports the $400 billion global advertising industry. What happens when those emotional triggers stop working? Early consumer data on GLP-1s shows: - 65% reduction in response to food advertising - 40% lower click-through rates on impulse products - 85% decrease in late-night online shopping Madison Avenue is quietly panicking. One major agency (which asked not to be named) estimates that 50% of their current advertising strategies will be obsolete by 2027. They are right to worry. Vegas has suddenly been dying off with record reduction in attendance, wonder if this is related? Look at Las Vegas. Five major casinos are redesigning their floor plans, shrinking restaurant and bar space by 35% and expanding wellness spas and medical tourism facilities. Vegas, the city built on impulse spending, is investing in the post-impulse economy. What hidden improvements will we see when people don't waste on processed junk, meat, and the like? What boosts will go to their family wealth and other more worthy uses?

It is technically correct, the best kind of correct. I understood it, just found it ridiculous that they published it that way.

Someone has scanned a whole fairing piece, gonna need a nice-size printer though. https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/zero-moto-sr-s-side-fairing-oem-high-poly-scan

Sounds like you have something similar to where I put my sharpening grinder. Two sheets of ply on top of a sheet of light-weight shelf material with melamine. We used to use it as a mini-bench. Old well-made industrial cabinets were CHEAP during the 2008 recession.

Bounce and noise--if you hammer things, it gives and bounces and is loud. Cold in winter. I don't want to rest my arms on it or touch it. Dark, so it's hard to see parts. Can't write on it to make notes as you go. Things stick to it, like adhesives. Once you weld on a surface it's never quite perfect again. (Well, once *I* weld on a surface, with the normal amateur fuckups.) Conductive, so you can't use it for electrical projects, tests, and such.

I gave this a lot of thought since you posted, and came up with Oscar's idea too. The metal table is not nice for anything at all other than welding. So I'd make up a melamine table that is good and solid, maybe just the scrap countertop idea posted earlier. My MDF requirement is optimal, but the lighter substrates are not terrible. Then have a square metal piece on a frame that you can set on top of it. It needs to be framed to stay flat, and to keep from melting the other table. Go to a metal seller, ask for whatever size of 1/4 plate and some square tube, done. Shit, get fancy and put it on hinges, so it hangs off the back of the table and swings up for usage... It does.