Freakin forums

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 07/10/2017 at 22:14 • Filed to: None

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Ask a specific data based question. 50% is a guess like “is probably fine”. 20% give you their data but no direct answer. 20% say “I don’t know I have the same question”. 10% talking behind your back (in plain sight) with other posters about how dumb the question is.

I mean at least with oppo there is some smart assery and photoshoots thrown in place of condescention.

TheHondaBro > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 22:20

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5% only commenting on trivial points in the post that don’t answer your question.

Neat set of Land Cruisers.

awmaster10 > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 22:22

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The view from your yard is insane

deekster_caddy > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 22:22

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3% post a totally unrelated problem in your thread b/c they don’t know or care how to start their own thread

awmaster10 > awmaster10 07/10/2017 at 22:22

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Does that answer your question?

Tristan > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 22:22

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Ask about tire fitment, you’ll get 5,270 replies saying “DO A SEARCH, NOOB!” Ask “what should short term fuel trim read for a Vortec 5.7?” ...crickets. Forums are 99% mouth breathers.

HammerheadFistpunch > awmaster10 07/10/2017 at 22:27

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My in laws but it’s 5 minutes from my house

Alfalfa > awmaster10 07/10/2017 at 22:28

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Utah’s where it’s at. Mountain views everywhere.

Urambo Tauro > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 22:30

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...and then five years from now, you’ll get another response or two, resurrecting the thread. And eventually someone will notice how old the thread is, and take a look at your profile to find that they’re speaking to someone who hasn’t logged into the forum for a couple of years...

awmaster10 > Alfalfa 07/10/2017 at 22:30

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Im in the blue ridge “mountains” which are pretty but just hills in comparison.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 22:32

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I have only found 1 car related forum other than Oppo that I can actually stand and it is a Mini forum.

Alfalfa > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 22:34

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Ask what kind of oil to use, everyone has a different opinion and using anything other than their suggestion will kill your engine in a month.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 22:45

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Oppo continues to be an amazingly civil place considering how uncivil things are getting these days. I have tried other car forums but found the information specific to what I need lacking. Like only found 2 or 3 subaru oil consumption threads and most of the posts were useless. Me and Trailofbroken headgaskets got more info on OPPO via post/reply than any forum would provide.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 23:05

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And 60% telling you to use the shit ass search bar

JR1 > HammerheadFistpunch 07/10/2017 at 23:05

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How exactly can you tell the specific temperature? If you tell me how you did it maybe I can give you mine so you have a general idea.

HammerheadFistpunch > JR1 07/10/2017 at 23:15

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Bluetooth obdii reader and torque pro app.

HammerheadFistpunch > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/10/2017 at 23:17

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For reals. If oppo had the kind of knowledge base of the few forum users that really know there stuff for each model the forum would be dead

HammerheadFistpunch > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 07/10/2017 at 23:18

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The cruiser forum is usually good but it is filled with the typical forum types

Svend > HammerheadFistpunch 07/11/2017 at 00:01

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The Skoda forum I’m on is great but we do get idiots on both sides.

One guy signed up to the forum and in his first -Newbie and Introduction’ post said hi and that he’d just bought a new Skoda estate and was asking for help because when he drove his car above 40mph with the rear passenger door windows open he got ‘buffeting’ and it was hurting his ears, we all asked if he was serious and pointed out you’ll get that in any car especially noticeable in an estate car if the front windows aren’t open a little to equalise the pressure as the air was coming in the cabin and getting pushed towards the rear and air trapped in the rear of the cabin was getting pushed forward.

Some of the banter got a little much for him and his second post on the forum was to say he was leaving as we weren’t helping and that he’d never experienced it in a car in his 40+ years of driving.

We explained it sympathetically, even explained it in depth how air flows around the car it different ways when certain windows are open and others closed, but the banter was too much for him.

On a detailing forum I’m on the common silly question is what’s the best wax to use?

Well that depends on what you want from a wax, protection, gloss, depth of shine, durability, colour of car, how much time you’ve got to apply it, what condition is it going to be applied in, etc...

notsomethingstructural > HammerheadFistpunch 07/11/2017 at 00:13

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RTFM and search

But on a serious note. You said you did the TStat. A good start. You flushed the coolant. Did you bleed it correctly? You’re worried about a shitty radiator. When does it happen? If on the highway I’m really doubtful it’s the radiator. If it’s when you’re idling, does it get worse or better if you rev it? If it gets better w/ rev it could be your water pump...?

Coolant systems are super duper basic and 100% mechanical. The temperature gets to a certain point. The valve opens. A clutchless mechanical pump circulates fluid through a heat exchanger. Things cool off. The valve closes. That’s really all there is to it. If it stays too hot during the “things cool off” stage then it’s either the valve didn’t open, the pump didn’t circulate, or the heat exchanger didn’t work. I really don’t think it’s the third.

Don’t forget, you can always idle it and spray the rad with a hose.

razorbeamteam > HammerheadFistpunch 07/11/2017 at 01:10

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Sorry to jack this thread, but I’m having an unrelated problem with a different car than yours, does anyone know the awnser to my problem?

RallyWrench > HammerheadFistpunch 07/11/2017 at 01:12

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This reminds me, 505Turbeaux wanted to put something like this together. Maybe we can resurrect the idea.

HammerheadFistpunch > razorbeamteam 07/11/2017 at 01:39

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Have you tried modulating the frequencies? Its probably the eps conduits

jimz > Tristan 07/11/2017 at 05:48

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Forums are full of blowhards who think they know what they’re talking about but are too dumb to realize they don’t. It’s like listening to a couple of 12 year olds in study hall arguing the merits of Ferrari vs. Lamborghini.

pip bip - choose Corrour > razorbeamteam 07/11/2017 at 06:13

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can’t be done because reasons.

JR1 > HammerheadFistpunch 07/11/2017 at 08:20

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I wish I could help I don’t have either. I can take a picture of my gauge though if you think that will be any use to you at all.

1engineer > HammerheadFistpunch 07/11/2017 at 11:42

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Most forums are only good for modding. Anything OEM or technical is usually way beyond their scope of understanding. I am a member of a few forums (T4R, Tacomaworld) and their membership includes a few who know their stuff and a vast majority that just want to complain. The best way to get an answer to a tech OEM question is go to the dealer or to the OEM. Never forums.

HammerheadFistpunch > JR1 07/11/2017 at 12:13

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nah, the gauge doesn’t budge until its too late (230+)

JR1 > HammerheadFistpunch 07/11/2017 at 16:19

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Well I did not read your post before I took this picture. Since I went through all the effort to take the picture you’re going to look at the damn thing! So here you go anyway haha

HammerheadFistpunch > JR1 07/11/2017 at 16:24

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it is a nice gauge.

JR1 > HammerheadFistpunch 07/11/2017 at 18:00

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It needs cleaned