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>I have no interest in autosports but I will never drive a car that's not "sporty"
>I neglect my car
>I have no car, no license and no room to wrench
>>14767744
*silently gets into the same train*
>Someone hit my parked car and left an ugly mark on the paint, but I'm too lazy to go buy touch-up paint to fix it...8 Months later.
>>14767734
I consider myself an auto enthusiast but I've never driven a truly fast car because I dont even know anyone with a fast car and I live in a poorfag country where a remapped 1.9 turbo diesel is conisdered ''fast''.
The fastest car I`ve driven is my E46 328ci with 6.8 seconds 0-60 time which still blew away everything on the streets.
>>14767818
Wow...I'm sorry...Like, I actually feel bad that my DD SUV is faster than that...Fuck man...
>>14767839
That's life in yurop. Anything above 2 liters is "fast".
Protip: check the catalog before making a thread
>I don't know how to drift
>>14767818
Come to burger land and you can drive my STi. It's no lambo, but it's faster than 6.8 seconds.
>>14767839
>>14767846
Yep I can`t help but get angry when my friends are boasting about their 140hp diesel VW passats and golfs as ''very fast cars''.
Sometimes when I get on a commercial plane and during takeoff I try to imagine how a relatively quick 0-270kph acceleration feels like because I have no clue.
>>14767846
Damn...I live in Texas, USA, and where I live, it's not impossible to get a car over 200mph on public roads, just because there's so much room.
I in fact got one of these (Pic related) to 212MPH on the flatlands of west Texas. Re-cammed LS7 with no catalytic converters and glass-pack mufflers, pushing 900horses at the crank.
>>14767865
Just keep turning. And when you think you've turned enough, turn harder and hit the gas.
If I can drift a 5,000lb, fulltime 4WD SUV, you can drift.
>>14767872
visiting burgerland is one of my life goals/dreams
too bad for the price of a trip to America i can buy a decent car but.. someday
>>14767882
Ok. Gonna try it in a safe zone.
I just hope i don't flip the car
I want a lifted SUV so bad
>>14767898
you cant flip a car by drifting unless you hit something or have a lifted 4x4
>>14767907
Ok.
Thanks for the tips
>>14767898
Okay wait, Don't take that advice at face value.
Same faggot with the 5,000lb SUV here, if you really do want to drift, the trick to controlling it is, after you get the back end to slip loose, and it starts sliding, you need to turn INTO the drift.
For example, if you turned the wheel to the left to start the drift, turn it to the right to regain control. The wheel is to point the car, and guide the direction, but to actually control the angle, you need to use the gas.
More gas should make the car slip further, less should bring it under control.
But be careful. Too much gas, and you're gonna find the back end coming around to say hello.
Watch some videos of people doing it on youtube, there's tutorials. And don't be afraid to fail. It takes practice.
Pic mildly related: Drift machine.
>>14767907
This is correct, unless you're doing 100+mph. At that point, you probably shouldn't be drifting...
>>14767846
Speak for yourself, slav
>>14767923
Thanks for those solid advices on drifting.
Gonna practice it.
>>14767923
it`s not like you can`t drift above 100mph.. but you need some skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wilZVquUIXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn6JnaWz8SI
>>14767882
>if i can drift a 4x4
Hahahahaha
>>14767959
I feel like I should say that Toyota's are weird.
That SUV of mine normally front/rear power split of 40/60 from the 4.7L V8, but during turning, it switches it to a 29/71.
It will get sideways though. For a little while, at least. It want's to go straight. I'm going to be bypassing the Traction control soon, and wiring it to a switch in my dash so I can turn it on and off.
>>14767952
Those sand people are doing some slick drifting actually...
>>14767952
but when you flip you can get catapulted and lose your limbs like these poor guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn0OaOgkmAc
>>14767959
do you really believe 4WD can't drift?
I had to see this video before seriously considering Miata's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0-UJLYGIZg
>>14767983
If you wanna call that drifting...
4x4 fags are a joke on the track
>>14767994
what kind of 325i has 100hp?
I`m pretty sure the M20B25 had 170hp.
I have no license, I live in a slav land of no car culture and I got interested in cars because future responsibilities made me re-evaluate my relationship to cars (and because I'm a filthy weaboo that started listening to Eurobeat a few months back and watching Regular Car Reviews).
There's an old '89 Nissan Sunny 1.6 SLX hatchback I can invest into which is great because I'm a retro hipster that dislikes how new cars look and there's no chance to get a similar car around here unless it's sold for scrap.
This is my 2nd visit here on /o/ and I had hoped lurking here would prove fruitful to my efforts to learn more about cars overall but... well... I think I got what I expected.
>>14767994
I know several guys who drift 1.6 Miatas like champs. Welded diff or LSD of course.
>>14767875
Do you run NOS or race gas? I've never heard of an LS7 making that much without juicing or running crazy race fuel, or both.
>>14768013
the sunny is an awful car desu
better get a civic
>>14767734
>>I have no interest in autosports but I will never drive a car that's not "sporty"
This is understandable.
Once you grow out of the benchracer phase to realize that lap times and ETs don't really matter for a dedicated street car, you can appreciate a car for how it drives rather than how fast it is.
>>14768023
Had a big ass lifted Camshaft running on 110 Octane, a KN Air intake, and a strengthened tranny to handle it all. Entirety of the engines valve-train was redone as well.
To give you an idea of how big the Cam was, it idled ROUGH at 1,800RPM. Like, the car was rocking side to side at 1,800. I got it to 212 and It was still pulling, about 300RPM off the original redline.
I lost the stones. We hadn't done anything to the suspension or chassis yet, and it was getting...Unhappy, with going that fast.
>>14767999
You're adorable.
>>14768032
But thats unamerican
>>14768029
Why and what kind?
I can inherit a fully operational Sunny with some decorational and minor technical faults here and there and it's fully working.
Just to clarify, the Nissan Sunny is an European version of Nissan Pulsar N13 IIRC.
My first car was a geo metro
>and I liked it
... So I bought one as my second car.
This was a literal decade ago, though. I've moved on to bigger and better things.
>>14768062
It's okay anon. We were all stupid kids once.
Some people on here still are
Probably going to buy a late 00s Buick as a comfy appliance mobile until i can have space and money for a second car.
>>14768060
if you can inherit it then fine. Just for the price of a sunny you can get a civic that will be cheaper to upkeep and relatively nice to drive
>>14768159
Eh, I can understand. Still I prefer the Sunny mainly due to my filthy taste in cars.
bought car 19 years old drove it for 4 months then it broke down, it sist ever since
> I am turning 23 in 2 months
>>14768032
Those are some wise words
>>14768062
10/10 car
I want to go on a track day, but I'm too nervous.
>>14767874
I actually have a 140hp 2.0TDI Golf.
It's by no means slow... I've driven a brand new NA Mazda, THAT was slow. My mom's Opel Corsa is slow.
It's fast if your frame of reference consists of grocery getters and other shitboxes, which, for the most part, is most peoples' complete frame of reference.
It felt fast to me, being my first car after having mostly driven aforementioned Corsa, but right now it just feels sluggish to me. I can push this car close to its limits and feel like I'm being held back. It is, in a more wholesome frame of reference, by no means fast.
>>14767865
>>14767882
Speaking of which, how doth one drift with FWD shitbox?
>>14768324
>uncouple front anti-roll bar (leave the back one alone)
>receive lift-off oversteer
>you are now drifting (kinda)
>>14768324
Drifting a FWD car is not really possible.
You can cause oversteer and have it kick the tail out, or even pull some massive slides through the corners, but actually powersliding isn't gonna happen.
I like two door SUVs
>>14768332
a FWD powerslide is possible. Slide thru the corner and mash the throttle with the wheel pointed straight to straighten out the car.
FWD drivetrain lets you control understeer/oversteer more easily
I don't have a car.
If I had a car, I don't think I would be able to take proper care of it, because I don't have a garage.
I don't own any tools at all, besides a screwdriver.
I want a Fiat, despite them being unreliable messes sinply because they look nice and are extremely fucking fun to drive.
Mommy and daddy are buying me my car in full.
I've never had a job in my life.
>>14768343
please stop
>>14768332
The first time this happened to me it was on the inside lane of a busy two lane roundabout just after the first rain of the season.
The confession is I only knew how to recover because of video games.
i tripfag on /o/. the reason i do is because i have no irl friends, and /o/ is generally just poor enough where my lower middle class car is one of the nicer cars posted. i don't like going to forums because there are actual rich people there with better cars or a lot more money put in their cars.
i honestly believe every tripfag posts here for the same reason.
i live in bongland and drive a 99 peugeot 206
i wanted a 5 series but i got done for careless driving and the points plus a claim means anything with an engine bigger than 1.6 costs me like £3k to insure
driving in this country is shit the fuel is too expensive
>>14768462
wtf is the guy sitting in the car brandishing? a green lantern ring?
I haven't washed my car in 2 years now
>>14768536
In the past two years, I have washed my project car that doesn't run more than my two running daily-drivers. (Once versus never)
>>14768013
>coming to /o/ to learn more about cars
read a fucking book
>>14768456
lol
>>14768472
I think it's a laser pointer
>>14768456
That's a pretty decent bait
>no license
>no car
>no bike
>no scooter
>nowhere to wrench
>will be 24 in a couple monthes
>>14768598
Tripfag detected
I sometimes bring my car to a dealership mechanic because I dont feel like I can do some jobs and Im afraid of fucking shit up.
>>14767734
Confession:
Whenever a bird does its business on my car, I immediately run out the house and use my power washer to wash it off.
Confession 2:
I wash my 3 cars twice a week.
Confession 3:I really want a Honda S2000 or a Boxster even though my cars have much more power than the s2000 and the old boxster.
Confession 4: I listen to my engine every time I start it. I literally pop the hood and listen closely.
Confession 5: I use autosol and polish my exhaust tips an unhealthy number of times a month.
Confession 6:If I had a lift, I'd change my oil every week.
Confession 7: Even though I have 3 cars, I dream about buying a CBR125 bike and going for a ride.
Confession 8: I spend all my money on my cars.
Confession 9: I still feel uncomfortable when driving a different car which has a different clutch.
Confession 10:If my engine is making an odd sound, I lose sleep over it. I would hear the strange sound in my dreams.
>>14767874
>Sometimes when I get on a commercial plane and during takeoff I try to imagine how a relatively quick 0-270kph acceleration feels like because I have no clue.
>>14768749
>Autism
>>14767982
i'd feel sorry for them if they weren't drifting on public roads and putting other people's lives in danger.
>>14768787
I can afford okay japanese performance car like accord type s, or older civic with B engine, or maybe nissan s13 or impreza, but I know that cars are just moneypit and I don't want to throw bunch of money in car.
>>14768462
Once you get past 25 driving here is actually very good. We have a huge selection of wacky shit you can buy/build and as long as it passes an mot you can drive it, the fuel is shit but no worse than anywhere else in Europe, and the second hand market and car culture in general is great.
If you want to see what shit is go and try and be a petrolhead in somewhere like Australia.
>>14768824
I actually got myself checked out. I'm not actually autistic.
>>14768749
>Confession 10:If my engine is making an odd sound, I lose sleep over it. I would hear the strange sound in my dreams.
Literally me
I'm always worried my shitbox is just going to crap out on me any day, and I'm always freaking out over every sound it makes
>>14767875
>>14768045
>>14768831
continued, just remembered
> I can buy BMW or something from VW with 1.8t engine
>but that is just standard and for some reason i hate german cars.
>>14768749
>Confession 10:If my engine is making an odd sound, I lose sleep over it. I would hear the strange sound in my dreams.
I do this too, but with any sound I hear coming from the car. Then I go online and start reading about what the sound could be and I start losing even more sleep and sometimes even imagining the sound when I'm driving the car even though it's not there which makes me even more of a nervous wreck. I love wrenching on cars but the thought of my car breaking down makes me really upset because it makes me feel like I didn't maintain it correctly or fix it right the first time around.
fuck after typing that out I realized how autistic that fucking sounds, what the fuck. Didn't even think about it before this thread
>>14768836
I'm 26 approaching 27. I have no points on my license. I've got a totally clean license. I have 8 years NCD.
My insurance on anything is always over £1k
>>14768456
Suspicions confirmed
>>14768746
You're smart. No shame in that. Know your limits.
>>14768858
BROHUG. I'm the guy with the confession list and I honestly bro, I go online and check it out and I ALWAYS THINK THE WORST. I do exactly what you do and I experience exactly what you experience.
I'm pleased to know I'm not alone
>>14768865
You must live in a shitty urban area. I'm 27 and only started driving again after a few years of sporadic ownership that lost my ncb, my insurance this year on my heap was £400 including business travel.
I own a Camaro SS but I have more fun in my GF's Sonic RS turbo.
>>14768885
I live in North West London
>>14768912
That explains it then. Everything in London is just overpriced and awful. Move out when you can and come live in Best Country.
>>14768922
What is Best Country?
>>14768939
The shires/wales.
>>14768945
>Not America.
You sir, do not enjoy the testosterone filled muscle boi cars?
>>14768958
We can have those here and if he really wants he can throw an ls in the back of a corsa for giggles.
>>14768958
Not as much as he enjoys fucking sheep
>>14768881
hopefully someday I'll be rich enough where I'll never have to worry about shit like this, I'd still probably feel anxious about the car breaking down but it'd feel good to know I could get any part replaced without even blinking twice about the amount
>>14769064
You'll be rich, and you'll still want to wrench things yourself and you'll still worry.
The only difference is that you'll have more expensive cars and more expensive parts.
>>14769141
just went to replace the fuel filter on my DD and ripped a fuel line, have to go to autozone or pepboys now and get new fuel lines and replace it, and it's getting dark soon. The sense of worrying is overwhelming.
I own a 2001 Silverado
I hate bro dozers
I hate faggots who think trucks are only good for work
I like it because it has a decent amount of power and utility for a fairly cheap price.
>>14768945
welsh fag here. i live in cardiff and im in the same boat as that guy paying £3.2k for a 1.3 micra
>>14769983
I feel your pain bro. At least you're able to replace your fuel line and resolve the issue. Imagine if it was something more serious.
>>14767734
>im THE CAR GUY, but i can't wrench
>drifting is magic, sometimes i just get it right but never do i understand it and so i never improve
>bikes scare shit outa me, but i still went and got my license
>>14767947
Start by doing it in the snow. It's much easier and slower there
>>14767734
>I neglect the ever lasting fuck out of my cars
I went 12000 km over on my last oil change and went 2 years before washing my car.
>I get mad when people brake too much for a corner
Fuck it's not like going any slower is going to save you if your car somehow magically departs.
>People laugh when I say I want to mod my SX4 crossover and it makes me mad
You mod what you got, I'm not a special snowflake looking to be unique, I just want more power and more grip.
>I drive slow on expressways
Driving in a straight line is boring as hell and no amount of speed will change that.
>I love driving in snow
I like the feeling.
>I watch F1
Always have, always will
>I will never own a German vehicle
They just can't deal with the climate here.
>I hate TCS/ESC
Fuck whoever thought we needed that shit in cars.
>I honestly believe you don't know how to drift if it requires the hand brake
You have a clutch, a brake pedal and gas, that's all you need to slide around corners.
I'm seriously debating filming some projects I do this summer despite not being very mechanically inclined or interesting as a person.
>>14767734
>I'm fairly certain I would go insane if it wasn't for my car hobby
>>14768865
ENGLAND
YES
>>14771602
my nigga
>>14771611
>transgender muslim
>mfw I'm arab myself and read this
>mfw when whites think they're the ones threatened while not suspecting how we're doomed
>gay and transgenders claiming to be muslim
>worthless thugs blowings their useless lives claiming to be jihading
>whites converting and doing an islam apartheid because muh reborn faith comrades
>mfw we struggle to find an unmolested E30 while Americans get freaking foxbodies for their first car
>mfw going on a long lone drive can cost you as much as a dinner in a small restaurant while Muricans get cheaper gas than mineral water
>mfw the slightest change to your car makes an insurance leper while Muricans roll in their V8 swapped streetracers with insurance costing less than their horsepower rating
>mfw every strike or law reform makes every gas station a guzzoline warzone while brotruckers roal coal for fun
>>14768787
knowing I'm not alone with this feel almost makes it lighter to bear
>>14767734
I still have a massive dent in my right wheel arch from 3 months ago where some faggot crashed into me while it was parked and drove off.
I didn't claim on insurance because muh premiums.
I never wash it unless there's a good reason because its parked under a tree and birds shit on it all day anyway.
I would trade it in this instant for something much more sportier/fun if I wasn't scared of paying gorrilions for maintenance.
>>14767886
Isn't there any places that offer sports cars for hire in your land poorfag?
Unless you're completely isolated from the world you could not take a small trip somewhere that does...poorfag?
im really jealous of people with exotic cars
i mean, REALLY really jealous
the most exotic thing i could ever get is an Elise
i grew up poor, in a 3rd world shithole
now i make decent money and have a decent car, but it still makes me mad how people can afford such nice cars, and i cant
>Have never own an automatic, despite a 50 mile commute in the US's second worst congested area.
>Think about getting some paddle shift / automagic luxo barge just for some relief.
>Autismo lvls prevent this.
>tfw I quite like cars
>but I look at them as a tool rather than a waifu
Even fun sporty cars I never grow any sort of attachment to although I love to BRAPAPAP
Drop that shit in a heart beat if I had to.
Also
>pretty good at wrenching
>head rebuilds come out pretty good only ever had one homeless bolt at the end.
>fucking hate wrenching
>only do it because I am not spending thousands for someone else to do it and fuck it up.
>>14773710
>mad how people can afford such nice cars
some of them even live their entire life having known nothing else
to them its just an normal car
I don't dislike rich people per say just that they often do not appreciate what they have
>I just want a hot rod I can drive. I have no interest in building it myself I just want to drive. Why the fuck should I play the part of the driver AND the mechanic? Why do car enthusiasts have to be able to work on cars instead of just liking driving them?
>>14773739
>don't appreciate what they have
Same can be said for most people in the world.
I can look at you and get mad for you had thrown away a quarter pound of flour when right now my island is going through a flour shortage.
Then someone else can look at me complaining about how the Internet is down for the 2nd time this month and call me spoilt because internet doesn't exist in his area.
>>14773747
yes it is layers all the way down
>spending more in a day than I do in a year
>cant focus on the road
>have to pay attention to road signs all the time
>have to remember the last seen speed limit sign and keep in mind all the time
>cant relax
>cant drive and think about life or other non-driving related things
>have to think about how should i drive to that or how i should avoid this
>intersection is disgusting
>someone behind me is crossing lane at the same time with me, think its too close to me and we will crash so i instantly steer wheel back
>look at side mirrors, see the car but the image doesnt reach my brains
>driving at night is nightmare, only see 10-15metres ahead of me
>see road signs at night only 5meters away
>see oncoming traffic, cant make out make, model and license plates
>oncoming traffic headlights are not bright, but i cant see my road properly
>cant see shit while parking at night, have to get out of car to see where is pavement
>dont feel how long my car is, always leave like 1,5metres free space behind me (thats a hatchback)
>forget which gear i am now driving
>not sure which gear to upshift
>getting drivers license and car was my only dream
i think its either automatic (which is really rare in eastern yurop) or no car at all, i just to drive without any reason, turn my radio and drive long-ass road without keeping attention on some shitty road signs and worrying about BMW elitists boiracers who will cut me off. but instead im always pressured, have to think nonstop. i cant believe i cant even do shitty activity like driving, any girl can now manage with manual transmission
>>14773818
It'll be okay anon.
>>14773818
You sound like a woman. I recommend you don't drive any more.
Seriously, how hard is it to remember the speed limit and stick to it? Even if you miss the signs you can usually guess it.
>>14773837
t-t-thanks a-anon :)
>>14773843
>You sound like a woman.
the most cancerous car-meme. just fuck off. simply because i have different character/personality doesnt mean shit
>tfw want to be that guy who knows how to fix a car
>too lazy to learn something and hate wrenching
>tfw feel like i will be laughed at while using automatic transmission
>>14773857
Yep, definitely a woman. Please never drive again :^)
>>14773864
>tfw even women are better
i want to own a really really shitty shitbox and turn it into a sleeper
>>14773868
just catch the bus, bro
seriously, you sound like an accident waiting to happen.
>>14773876
but driving is my only joy in this life. i dont own a car yet, i just finished my school driving course
>>14773874
Swedens national sport is pretty much doing that to 240s
>>14773880
>cant relax
>cant drive and think about life or other non-driving related things
>intersection is disgusting
>look at side mirrors, see the car but the image doesnt reach my brains
>driving at night is nightmare
>too lazy to learn something and hate wrenching
>driving is my only joy in this life
you're a fucking retard, anon
i bought an ebay torque wrench
>>14773902
maybe i am, but i like driving, thats my passion
I am European
>>14773942
this
>i think there's nothing wrong with v6 "muscle" cars
>really want to sell my 250hp car for a 80hp shitbox
>i think tiny fiats and kei cars are awesome
>fwd is really good at drifting if you don't suck
>i love the 2,7 dodge stratus and it drifts better than every bmw i have seen
>I am a mechanical engineer (+ computer scientist)
>I have worked on / modded my own car since the day I got my license.
>I have never been scared of driving, even at speeds 135+ mph.
>I had an STi that ran upper-12s for 6 years and sold it because lol 8 tickets and dat college payment. I hit 172 three times in that bitch.
>I tuned that car myself, on the street with a laptop I bought just for tuning the car. I datalogged nearly every time I drove for almost a year.
>I have been in two very real police chases and got away (one lasted over 10 minutes).
>I street raced religiously ages 16-23
>I tracked my car on summer weekends ages 23-24.
>I DO know how to drift.
>I slide the rear wheels out nearly every time I drive.
Oh, confessions? Yeah, these days I'm just a jobless 26-year-old white guy with 2 engineering / science degrees and a 5-year near-daily morphine / heroin habit.
>I still drift a sick clean miata around the empty alabama streets all the time though, so it's whatever. You never really feel alive 'til you're drifting deer-laden "25 mph" curvy streets at 85 while zenned as fuck on an opiate / amphetamine combo listening to desert rock.
Another confession: the last girl I banged weighed over two times what I do and it was a fucking great time.
Okay, another: I think I used to be a psychopath until I really hit the hard drugs and discovered "empathy" in my lower-20's. In high school my "daily challenge" was to go at least 130 mph in my Honda on the highway that cut the city in half no matter how congested it was... And I did it, never considering who was in all those minivans and accords I blasted past.
>I have also never been in an accident.
>>14767734
>I've eaten many times in my E92 M3 over the past year I've owned it and haven't thoroughly cleaned all the interior trim seams that have accumulated food particles and salt
>>14773967
Madman.
>>14773967
This is a familiar story. You're going to loose your miat too it's just a matter of time.
I'm not going to tell you what to do, but there are people out there willing to help you, and I don't mean in the recovery community they'll just make things worse. If you can't get into therapy try to find someone who has been clean 5-10 years or more and hope you're not beyond saving.
You feel like you're living but you're just one bad fent cut away from the obituaries.
>>14773967
That also doesn't sound psychopathic, it sounds like you've been suffering from severe depression for a long time, possibly from an inconsistent/abusive parental figure. You've probably suppressed your sense of empathy because you're overwhelmed by caring too much, how's your spacial reasoning?
Find a therapist, reach out to your family, find a support network. Or just keep self destructing it's really up to you.
>>14773967
>desert rock
what is desert rock? examples?
>>14774079
Ignore it and go straight to the good shit.
>>14774029
>You feel like you're living but you're just one bad fent cut away from the obituaries.
I totally agree - the new fent shit is scary. Thankfully I now live where I can't even find weed so I'm into the "natural" stuff - pods (which are somehow weaker than ever) and seeds (which is somehow stronger than ever) - and these aren't conducive to being cut, but hey, it could happen.
I've gotten clean plenty of times and once I find a job I don't really envision the nod-life to be self-sustainable. I have such a high tolerance that I'd rather just smoke weed only at nights anyway. Those are really throwaway addict-excuse statements, but this isn't: I'm at a point where I just want to make something out of my life. I don't really want a girl / family but I want to do something in my field(s).
I have never pawned anything for money and would rather withdraw. I also know relapse is the most dangerous time.
>>14774072
I have been horribly depressed all of my life. I had (still have, somehow, 65 yrs-old and after one beat leukemia) great, loving, smart, and wealthy parents... But I just feel sad all the time and always have unless I'm getting some sort of extreme rush, which is usually dangerous and not a permanent solution. Idk, I live in a great place, in a great time, surrounded by great people, and heck, I'm even pretty damned good-looking even after 12 years of daily amps and 5 years of opiates on-and-off daily... But I still find myself crying randomly nearly every day at age 26... idk anymore, I'm used to it.
>>14774079
Desert rock is often called "stoner rock," and even though I fucking love cannabis and grew it for years, I dislike the term "stoner." It is stuff like Kyuss, which later became Queens of the Stone Age, Karma to Burn, Fu Manchu, Truckfighters, and lots of various flash-in-the-pan bands from the southwestern-US in the 90's. The lyrics don't necessarily have to make sense, it's really about the vibe - and often the bassline.
>>14774197
You're making sense but you're all over the place. That knowledge is useless if you can't get the horse infront of the cart. The line that always stuck with me is "you can't manage other people until you learn how to manage yourself." Managing depression means managing your body and your mind, it's hard to make something out of your life when pain relief is your full time job.
Five years is a long time, the physical effects of kicking are short-term and mild. Suffering through the long-term psychological torture is the real albatross. Good luck.
>>14774346
Well, until I get a real job in an engineering, science, or computing field, I see no reason to quit. Nobody likes kicking 1-2 times a month, but most of the best times of my life have been while I was on opiates (and usually 1-4 other drugs, but opiates are king) and if I'm just out here in a rural alabama forest job-hunting on my PC for a few months then I might as well be in a zen-trance state. A lot of people say that they can quit whenever, but I have the capability to have a better life sometime soon and I really want that and I couldn't imagine a better reason to kick for a loooong time.
I really want to get back on smoking weed potentially as long as I live but it's really the only thing that drug tests can detect which is problematic (though I have been known to bring other peoples' urine in a condom strapped to my thigh lol).
Pic from 2013 - good times and slightly car-related.
>I own a turbo first gen Miata with huge brakes and extreme performance summer tires, and a first gen RX-7 GSL-SE, but I daily drive a Prius and get 55mpg in it by going slow as fuck and ruining everyone's day.
>>14774472
>first gen RX-7 GSL-SE
You, sir, are clearly a gentleman who understands the finer things in life. I don't care if it's not in the best shape, but do you have any pics?
>Pic - my miata last week.
>>14773687
Not that much of a poorfag...
I could sell my cars and get a quick car like an STI or Audi S4 B5 but the problem is the yurop gas costs. I`d be able afford to drive it up to once per week but I need a daily driver
>>14774547
Its in great shape.
>>14774563
>>14771611
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britain-would-be-poorer-than-any-us-state-except-mississippi-if-it-joined-america-9693240.html
>>14774472
Ah, at the tail of the dragon, nice.
>I don't want my car to be loud because it only has 4 cylinders
>I don't seeing like loud 4 cylinder cars in general
>>14774591
That's not a confession it just means you're not a complete faggot.
>>14767734
>My car only has 140 HP at the crank and is a Turbo diesel
>probably the fastest car i will own in my life
At least it has skinny tires so it does skidz . Life is empty in Yurocuck
>>14774563
>>14774573
I am extremely turned on by this. Keep on doing what you're doing; your respect for the car shows.
>>14768456
Same
>>14767734
I love big block V8s, horrible fuel efficiency and Bismarck class land yachts
> I secretly want a Tesla to offset my addiction to guzzoline.
>>14773818
You'll git gud with time, mate.
The more you drive, the more some things become reflex or automatic reaction (like remembering speed limits and other signs, shifting gears...)
The beginning is always stressful, don't let that stop you Dimitri
>I unironically lke the PT Cruiser and the Nissan Cube
>>14774627
One more for the mileage. Its over 300k now.
>Reading all these funny confessions
>Panda5 comes in here to start a BAWWW thread
>>14774905
It's not a BAWWWW session because I actually enjoy being a junkie. A lot of junkies try to play on other ppls' sympathy to use them, but really, nearly all junkies really like the lifestyle.
No bump / secret sage.
>>14767801
*Sends train to deathcamps*
>>14768854
Whoa, heartbreaker? Like the one that used to post on /k/?
>>14770021
Even though I use my 01 Silverado for work and camp stuff, I'm glad you're around
>>14768343
>>14768359
nah, you can powerslide, but you can't drift because fwd can't maintain oversteer.
basically you steer further into the turn and mash the throttle to understeer out of it
I watch haggard garage, ricer miata, regular car reviews, roadkill and mcm quite a bit.
I don't really like haggard garage or ricer miata, but sometimes they do some funny stuff or their stupidity makes me feel better as a backyard mechanic. Regular car reviews I barely watch now, but if I see an interesting car I will partake. Roadkill isn't bad at all, but /o/ seems to dislike it. Probably my favourite automotive web series. MCM is okay too.
Do I win?
>I let my original ls1 go 10 to 12 thousand miles between oil changes sometimes after it passed 150k miles because I wanted a reason to upgrade it.
>I've never cared if any of my vehicles have body damage.
>I have severely ragged every vehicle I have ever owned. Except the aurora.
>I have been wrenching on my vehicles for 16 years and always done it by hand, wrenches with cheater bars and hand saws etc. I just bought my first power tools and have used them once. It feels like cheating.
>the vehicle I am working on getting running right now is the only manual I have ever truly owned. I have borrowed manual trans cars and driven them for extended periods of time and would never dd one by choice.
>the prius is a good car. After I drove one for a few months, I understood it. (Not the only reason, but I delivered pizza 2 nights in it. $2 in gas a night averaged 18-20 runs a night)
>I recently bought a shitbox cavilier for aforementioned pizza delivery gig. Interior needs to be burned and exterior has not a single straight body panel/shitty chipped and scratched paint. I love it.
Pnr
I don't like working on cars. Never have and probably never will. I pay people to do it because of a mixture of laziness and I'd rather spend my time doing something else.
I can't navigate at all. I once got lost within a four block radius of my own home because a street was closed.
>>14773657
You seem to have a lot of repressed anger towards Anericans
Better keep an eye one you, we'll add you to the watch list just to be safe
>I browse /o/, but i only got bikes
>i haven't driven a car since i got my license
>gottagofast is now a second instinct, but i started doing it trying to kill myself
>>14767875
Whats living in texas like? I was planning to move from Sweden but im not sure where to (I got a distant relative living in texas)
>>14767734
I don't actually own a car.
>>14768456
Confirmed attention whores. Get a pair of tits and cut your dick off and off you go.
>>14767907
I put an opel corsa into a slide at 50mph on dry tarmac and it went on two wheels when I countersteered. I reckon if I had been going 2-3 mph faster it would have rolled.
>>14768749
>Confession 4: I listen to my engine every time I start it. I literally pop the hood and listen closely.
This is too perfect to be true
>>14777205
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKziKX9SZ7I
this guy maintains oversteer pretty well. though on a longer track to keep it going you'll probably just either go slower and slower or straighten out
>>14768831
>Honda b16
>Moneypit
>Subaru past older gc models or sti with forged pistons
>moneypit
None of the cars you mentioned are moneypits, especially not Hondas, I regularly see accords get absoloutey ragged on in salty wintery areas and they don't die till 250,000 odd miles.
Subarus as long as they aren't the pre 99 ones with HG issues or models with piston ring issues are bombproof.
As with any car the key is preventative maintenance, if you don't keep up to date with maintenance on any car especially if you drive it hard then you'll be writing big cheques.
>>14781211
It's true. I listen to the engine closely every time I start it. I get paranoid if it doesn't sound exactly like I expect it to sound.
I only got my license like 1 and half month ago and I drive now is occasionally my mom's kia van which I find hard as balls to drive since its fucking huge and had a new weird as fuck clutch installed
>>14774197
>I just feel sad all the time unless I'm getting a crazy rush
Holy shit I'm the same way, I feel dead inside unless I'm doing something batshit insane . I just started going when the roads got quiet at night and going pedal to the metal driving like I was at a track through the most dangerous roads around.
Then I went around roads 'drivers' went around for fun and started racing with them. I'd even go with no seatbelt just to feel a bit more dangerous.
>>14768013
You don't have to call yourself hipster simply because you like a car that is made 25 years ago.
If one has to admit it, cars were objectively better 25 years ago than they are today for the simple reason
>pedestrian safety laws
>safety bubble cars
>generic looks,shitty SUV and Crossover dominating the market (because women have to compensate for something amirite guise????)
>simplifying cars to the point of a google car because Stacy can't keep her fucking eyes on the road and has to fucking text all the time
Thus all of these things combine to get something of a fucking rope that engineers want to hang themselves with because they are that fucking constricted. They can't make anything fun if they want to survive.
Thinking of the potentials of the cars through all things that electric and digital components in the cars could give us today, we could fucking fly them already and I should be living in the fucking golden age of cars, but no. Shitty people buy shitty cars, and I get no fucking chance to buy a fun car because all they churn out is boring status symbols to survive, so I will always be fucking stuck buying 90's shitboxes.
Fuck jews and women for hoping on the ride and destroying my favourite hobbies.
>Learnt to drive with a manual car
>was perfectly competant with manual
>get manual car license
>first car was automagic, cheap and realiable, had that for 5 years
>decide to get a new car, i'd be open to either auto or manual
>ends up being another automagic
>5 years later on the market for another car
>it's been 10 years since i've driven manual and end up buying an auto
>>14773880
>>14773902
Sounds like you're just an idiot new driver. Drive auto for a year and you'll be fine. Manual after that, if you're so neverous. Unless you're actually autism you'll be fine
>>14767734
>I only washed my car once during the winter this year
>I am letting my first car sit and rot. Albeit in a garage but I just can't get the motivation to work on it. '90 300CE.
>I play /ovg/ with a controller
>I bought the new NFS Deluxe Edition
>I don't think there's anything wrong with FWD on cars the size of a first-gen Focus.
>But FWD on anything bigger just seems weird and I'd never buy a car with FWD that size.
>The first three upgrades I did to my car was: New Head Unit, Exhaust, Short Ram Intake...Short Throw Shifter
>I stoplight race people who aren't stoplight racing me.
>I haven't yet done my end of winter wash and wax
>>14779615
Anger ? No, jealousy rather.
>tfw lurking the classic car thread
I enjoy driving will stoned. Shifting just feels awesome.
