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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    What do you think of this?

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,935 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    SnowWhite wrote:
    What do you think of this?

    You can come up with a better piccie of your car...
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,244 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    SnowWhite wrote:
    What do you think of this?

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    There's a tiny area above the bonnet that, on my monitor at least, appears to be blown out. :D
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    David_S85 wrote:
    There's a tiny area above the bonnet that, on my monitor at least, appears to be blown out. :D

    Aw give him some credit - he has no photoshop and is using a Flea-bay 8 "meegapikxel" camera. Not too shabby .

    Cool Zac!
  • dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Aw give him some credit - he has no photoshop and is using a Flea-bay 8 "meegapikxel" camera. Not too shabby .

    Cool Zac!

    Aren't you one of the people who has always said "It's not the camera, but the person using the camera". No excuses.
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  • BodleyBodley Registered Users Posts: 766 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Aw give him some credit - he has no photoshop and is using a Flea-bay 8 "meegapikxel" camera. Not too shabby .

    Cool Zac!

    You tell'em Momma Duck. Hummmmm, my 1 series only has 8 mp's.

    How's bout ponying up the dough and getting SW a student copy of PS. (Gee it's easy to spend your money)
    Greg
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    Thanks Pops! Anyone have an older version of p-shop they want to *give* me?
  • BodleyBodley Registered Users Posts: 766 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    SnowWhite wrote:
    Thanks Pops! Anyone have an older version of p-shop they want to *give* me?
    Stick with me kid - I think we can shame "Momma Duck" into the purchase.

    I mean how does it look for the Smugmug House Pro's kid to be hacking around in freeware. You know what they say about nuts not falling far from the tree - you want your nuts producing good work (hmmmm, I'm not sure that came out right) rolleyes1.gif

    Maybe next time your home you can get his old dust gathering windows machine - it's probably already loaded.
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    Bodley wrote:
    Maybe next time your home you can get his old dust gathering windows machine - it's probably already loaded.
    Nah he keeps his pr0n on it :D
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,244 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Aw give him some credit - he has no photoshop and is using a Flea-bay 8 "meegapikxel" camera. Not too shabby .
    Cool Zac!

    It was a joke. Sorry guys. I guess it backfired.
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    i'm hearing a lot of blah blah photoshop blah blah again. there will be no turtlenecks in this thread!

    So today, I got an email with a special invitation from Mercedes Benz to attend their special AMG driving event, to be held at premier race tracks across the country, and that I should hurry as my special invitation grants me access to this exclusive event.

    Oh, and it's only $1200. For one, yes one, day.

    Who's with me? lol3.gif
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  • bwgbwg Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,119 SmugMug Employee
    edited March 21, 2006
    DoctorIt wrote:
    i'm hearing a lot of blah blah photoshop blah blah again. there will be no turtleheads in this thread!
    turtleheads?
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,935 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    DoctorIt wrote:
    i'm hearing a lot of blah blah photoshop blah blah again. there will be no turtlenecks in this thread!

    So today, I got an email with a special invitation from Mercedes Benz to attend their special AMG driving event, to be held at premier race tracks across the country, and that I should hurry as my special invitation grants me access to this exclusive event.

    Oh, and it's only $1200. For one, yes one, day.

    Who's with me? lol3.gif

    Quick! Write them back and ask if they're high :D

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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    Quick! Write them back and ask if they're high :D

    Ian
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    I totally should.
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  • dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    DoctorIt wrote:
    i'm hearing a lot of blah blah photoshop blah blah again. there will be no turtlenecks in this thread!

    So today, I got an email with a special invitation from Mercedes Benz to attend their special AMG driving event, to be held at premier race tracks across the country, and that I should hurry as my special invitation grants me access to this exclusive event.

    Oh, and it's only $1200. For one, yes one, day.

    Who's with me? lol3.gif


    If I didn't just drop $1500 on certification classes I'd be in.
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    $1200... Thats a third of my car...
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    oil
    What kind of oil do you guys run in your new cars and how long between changes? Also what viscosity do you use for the spring/summer

    I use Castrol Syntec full synthetic 5w 30 every 4kmi

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,935 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    SnowWhite wrote:
    What kind of oil do you guys run in your new cars and how long between changes? Also what viscosity do you use for the spring/summer

    I use Castrol Syntec full synthetic 5w 30 every 4kmi

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    You change the oil? Hahaha. Every 3k mi. 10w40. Though dino. About the
    same in the bikes but diff weight.

    I should think you'd get 5k out of synthetic, no?
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2006
    ian408 wrote:

    I should think you'd get 5k out of synthetic, no?

    dEwD he's 19, and thinks he's Jeff Gordon rolleyes1.gif
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    You change the oil? Hahaha.
    Ya its easy! Takes less than an hour by myself and I clean a lot of crap while I'm at it.
    ian408 wrote:
    Every 3k mi. 10w40. Though dino. About the
    same in the bikes but diff weight.
    I thought you had a new Audi? Don't they recomend like every 15kmi?
    I know my friends 2002 BMW e46 is every 15kmi
    ian408 wrote:
    I should think you'd get 5k out of synthetic, no?
    Perhaps 5k but its a 17 year old engine! I wouldn't push it.
    Andy wrote:
    Jeff Gordon
    :giggle Racing around and around in an oval 50 times? No thanks! I'd rather drive in the twisties naughty.gif

    Nurburgring:
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,935 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    dEwD he's 19, and thinks he's Jeff Gordon rolleyes1.gif

    Yabuttt...El Jeffy has a whole posse of peeps to deal with that. I bet he
    doesn't go more than 500mi between oil changes lol3.gif

    Oh, santa arrives tomorrow...
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,935 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    SnowWhite wrote:
    Ya its easy! Takes less than an hour by myself and I clean a lot of crap while I'm at it.

    I'm glad to see you working on your car. I mean that in all seriousness.
    snowy wrote:

    I thought you had a new Audi? Don't they recomend like every 15kmi?
    I know my friends 2002 BMW e46 is every 15kmi

    Oh that? It's not new anymore. It's almost 2w old. First service is scheduled
    for 5k miles. I won't have to get out any sort of tools. It's included with the
    car.
    snowy wrote:

    :giggle Racing around and around in an oval 50 times? No thanks! I'd rather drive in the twisties naughty.gif

    Yeah, that roundy-round stuff is for the birds.
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    Oh that? It's not new anymore. It's almost 2w old. First service is scheduled
    for 5k miles. I won't have to get out any sort of tools. It's included with the
    car.
    I bet you're having fun with that thing! Its the turbo, right?

    ian wrote:
    Yeah, that roundy-round stuff is for the birds.
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    325ix cosmetic update
    Bought a BMW lip spoiler and painted it trim flat black

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    AND


    Swapped part of my tan interior to black to give it a nice 2-tone.
    Also added an m3 steering wheel.

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    Tan non-sport seats FTL

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,935 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    SnowWhite wrote:
    I bet you're having fun with that thing! Its the turbo, right?
    Turbo with a T. I need to tone it down a bit--before I get
    a ticket :D

    Nice job on the interior.
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  • bwgbwg Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,119 SmugMug Employee
    edited March 22, 2006
    personal opinion: save your money on the syn and just use dino. That thing's run for 17 years on dino (or at least the most important years of it's life), you're not going to get any of the wear benefits of syn at this point.

    you're changing it too frequently to get any cost benefit and eventually that syn is gonna find some holes and end up on the floor or out the tailpipe. Trust me on this.


    and nice job on the interior, but get some new carpets. ugh!
    Pedal faster
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    bigwebguy wrote:
    personal opinion: save your money on the syn and just use dino. That thing's run for 17 years on dino (or at least the most important years of it's life), you're not going to get any of the wear benefits of syn at this point.

    you're changing it too frequently to get any cost benefit and eventually that syn is gonna find some holes and end up on the floor or out the tailpipe. Trust me on this.
    Yup, seriously Zac, you might as well be balling up money and burning it. I don't care how good you are at finding deals on synthetic oil online, you are wasting your money! And if that's not good enough, Lee is also right in that the synthetic may actually do more harm than good for a 17yo engine that wasn't designed for it. Unless you've changed all the seals yourself, they may actually have negative reactions to the additives in syn.

    You want some links to go read?

    And to answer your question, just like Ian, mine's paid for... every 5k I plan on showing up at the dealership and surfing the web for an hour. Yes, the GTI runs full syn from the factory.

    I futz around with the 2-wheeler myself because its a toy and its a good way to blow off some energy on a weekend. The car is a tool, I ain't crawling around busting my knuckles on those anymore. Plus, I think you need a specialized degree to understand most modern german engines, and that's only if you can get to them!
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  • BodleyBodley Registered Users Posts: 766 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2006
    bigwebguy wrote:
    eventually that syn is gonna find some holes and end up on the floor or out the tailpipe. Trust me on this.

    Ditto... I've heard some bad stories about changing from dino to syn in auto's. Had a friend that was headed on a trip and thought he would change to syn for extra protection. Well, during the trip he lost the oil and burned up the engine - the thing leaked like a sieve. He was told it was because he changed to syn.

    Dance with the girl that brung you!! That pur-tee one in the corner could be in drag.
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 22, 2006
    Bodley wrote:
    Dance with the girl that brung you!! That pur-tee one in the corner could be in drag.
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    much shorter and to the point than my advice!

    Zac, dude, you drive an AUTOmATIC!???!!? :uhoh
    (I reckon auto is better than nothing)
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  • dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2006
    DoctorIt wrote:
    Zac, dude, you drive an AUTOmATIC!???!!? :uhoh

    At least he can kinda steer the car without hitting things for the most part at least. I mean if he had to shift and steer at the same time can imagine how many more cars he would be sending to an early grave. :cry
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