Gormadt

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Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

me waiting for my FBI agent to stop drinking and come knocking

Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

It's a clip from the movie The Triplets of Belleville that came out in 2003

It's an odd but great film, I highly recommend checking it out!

Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

It really is a great movie

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Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Not enough people seem to realize you can do things for the love of the game

Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Damn there's always a catch

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Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

JFC that would thrash my poor little car!

Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

I'm so happy my shitbox takes regular 87

Unfortunately the cheapest I ccould find yesterday was $5.15 per gallon (they limit you to 10 gallons). Most of them around me are $5.50+ with 2 being well over $6 per gallon ($6.19 and $6.29).

Those are for regular, I haven't even checked premium prices locally.

Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Oh god would someone please think of the business owners!

Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Probably getting rid of the generals telling him it's a bad idea given the current trend.

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Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

No worries, one of my neighbors is of the "neglect the car until it violently dies" category of car owner. His car SCREAMS the whole time It's running, the brakes SCREAM the moment any pressure is applied, it leaves oil spots everywhere he parks it, and on and on.

He won't fix it, won't have someone else fix it, he just keeps driving it.

It's sad to see him kill that care with his lack of care.

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Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Vehicle over 2 tons? New license tier, restrictions on where it can park, and put a speed limiter in them capping it at 70mph.

Over 4 tons? New tier that requires the previous tier as well, more strict parking restrictions, speed limiter to 60mph.

Not to mention I'd say vehicle size as well as weight should factor in too.

Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

I'm hoping it's the belt but it does have a significant amount of miles on it and the items on the belt have held on so far.

Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

The brakes are a major thing to fix and you should def get that fixed (or do it yourself) in quick order.

And at least on my Kia that aircon belt is the deepest belt in the engine bay, it's a bitch to get to. It's why whenever I do my timing belt I do all the belts at the same time, no matter how bad or not they look. I don't wanna deal with getting in there a second time lol

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Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

As the other commenter said, it's one of the other belts not the timing belt. If the timing belt slips the engine dies in quick order. Far louder and with a great degree of violence.

This is the first time it's happened on my shitbox and funnily enough it's only 10k miles before when I planned to do all the belts (My car has 4 belts including timing). I do them every 60k miles as a preventative measure primarily because I have to remove all of them to get to the timing belt, and since I'm in the I might as well swap them too.

I work on all my cars myself I just have to do it on the side of the road because I'm not supposed to work on my car on the property other than inflating as tire, checking fluids, or jumping the car.

At this point both of my cars are almost at the distance from the Earth to the moon in terms of the odometer and I'm gonna do my best to get them to the distance of there and back again at least. My plan is to fix them until I can't anymore, and given my skill set that's gonna be purely a parts availability thing likely caused by the windows at some point.

Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Good news is my city is rolling out more bike lanes and their getting a lot of support from the community

I'm just outside of city limits though and my neck of the woods is WAY DOWN the list for upgrades

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Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Nah, it's a Kia

My CRV does it as well but I'm less concerned about that than I should be lol