Needlessly spending money of the week.

"My citroen won't start" (lucasboechat) 02/07/2018 at 21:08 • Filed to: None

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Took the Passat to get the front bumper valance (scraped leaving a steep driveway) and 4 wheels repainted, since I manage to curb all of them in 3 months by sheer stupidity.

Spanfeller is a twat > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 21:25

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Scraping rims in Latin American roads (TM) doesn’t come with stupidity... it comes with the life of the car.... as with shoddy maintenence records and worn out suspensions/gearboxes.

Volvo imports cars to Mexico with heavy duty shocks because of this.

My citroen won't start > Spanfeller is a twat 02/07/2018 at 21:31

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Yep, but they really were my fault, two of them happened on the same place on different wheels, one at the tight entrance of a shopping mall with massive curbs on both sides and one I don’t know.

And yeah, Latin American Roads® require you to replace suspension bushings thrice as often.

boredalways > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 21:32

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I think you posted this to make us jealous of a longroof we can’t have.

My citroen won't start > boredalways 02/07/2018 at 21:34

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You get the Golf Alltrack, we don’t. That is the cooler longroof.

Spanfeller is a twat > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 21:36

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Its not happened to me with the Kia yet, but my jeep did see its wheels attacked by curbs.

I must say I do not take my business to those establishments anymore... I’ve experienced the horror way too many times already.

One of the funniest accidents was a 3m long scrape that some asshole’s mirror left on my jeep cus he tried to cut me off and he did not budge...

I spent the better part of an afternoon fixing the jeep and I feel absolutely no remorse.

My citroen won't start > Spanfeller is a twat 02/07/2018 at 21:38

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Hey I did that last week, with a Tucson, wouldn’t let him in, long plastic scrape on the side of the Subaru and a probably broken mirror on the Tucson.

The scrape mostly came out with a quick polish.

Would do it again.

Spanfeller is a twat > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 21:41

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Certainly, sometimes when the police isn’t there to grant us our god given privilledge as SUV drivers protection from such fools, we need to engage in some guerrilla fighting

My citroen won't start > Spanfeller is a twat 02/07/2018 at 21:43

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SUVs are great as defense and attack weapons good because they intimidate clueless people.

boredalways > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 21:45

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Thanks to Dieselgate, no TDI version.

Also, I rather have the Passat.

Spanfeller is a twat > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 21:47

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Dark times come when the clueless aren’t intimidated by 2.4 tons of Murican MUSCLE

Yes, I already miss my Jeep, those fools had forgotten they need to fear me for I am Francisco; god of reaching his destination withouth hearing your fucking bullshit you dumbass in a red Aveo.

My citroen won't start > Spanfeller is a twat 02/07/2018 at 21:53

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Here the dumbasses drive the Onix, the cheapest car you can buy. Bestowed 0 start from LatinNCAP, not Euro, but LatinNCAP, where instead of concrete barriers they crash cars at Native Indian populations or whatever.

All the cheap shitboxes really.

Spanfeller is a twat > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 21:59

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Dumb ass drivers here come mostly in the shape of Jettas and A3s... But Aveos... Oh god... They’re the bane of my existence

Trucks are also driven like crap, since the drivers learnt how to drive in a little econobox and now pilot a , ladder chasis monster using 2 lanes

My citroen won't start > Spanfeller is a twat 02/07/2018 at 22:04

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Thanks to our distance to the US, we don’t really get Trucks, just the medium sized ones and they are rare in the city. Also btw, do you get these in Mexico?

Spanfeller is a twat > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 22:09

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Is that like some sort of Spark wagon...

its fascinating. But no, we do not.

We do get trucks, quick tip, if you plate them in texas BOOM no smog check... go around without a filter releasing soot upon unsuspecting paser-byers No issue... its a work vehicle after all and the goverment will be dammed if it makes a business change their 60s big block chevy trucks with something slightly more modern.

My citroen won't start > Spanfeller is a twat 02/07/2018 at 22:13

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They are driven by airport cab drivers here. These things are the worst shit to come out of Brazil after cheap weed.

No smog checks here anywhere for any car, mayor of São Paulo tried that for a couple years but it blew up on his face.

Spanfeller is a twat > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 22:22

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That is incredible... I suspect that it would be better if cars were smog checked.

Airport cabbies here run Jettas or Boras but they get federal licence plates (normally the states plate the cars)

My citroen won't start > Spanfeller is a twat 02/07/2018 at 22:27

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All commercial transport vehicles here get red license plates, we don’t really have state license plates, plates are the same for the whole country.

Smog would really help in a big city, but it became a poor vs rich thing, as in poor people can only afford old cars that would not pass smog and public transport is inefficient, thus only pushing the poor away from the city center as usual. Which kinda makes sense.

Spanfeller is a twat > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 22:35

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Well, I mean... a 10 year old Honda Civic emits less contaminants than my brand new Kia stinger; yet I get to move about every day and the civic doesn’t, its an unfair system for everyone. It was challenged in court because of classism too.


The main issue here is that if nothing is done about it, then our cities will fill with cars, smog test should represent a way so that unhealthy cars don’t go out, not like here in Mexico where it is basically a punishment to the poor.

I’d gladly give away driving a day a week if it meant that the other days I wasn’t actively getting loung cancer or sitting in huge traffic lines. I’d also love it if fewer people drived because then there’s less red aveos to worry about.
I already carpool 3 times a week and I often run the car on eco mode unless I have some bro-stunts to pull.

I mean, I’m not excusable, I ran a v8 Jeep for the better part of four years and it isn’t exacly an efficient vehicle. But the verification process changed and now cars need to have their wheels checked, allignment checked, brakes checked and lights checked, meaning that poorly maintained cars will not run anymore.

My citroen won't start > Spanfeller is a twat 02/07/2018 at 22:41

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We get none of that, not even inspection, you register your car online. We do have “hoy no circula” in São Paulo, but we call it “Rodízio” and it works by the last numbers of your license plate (since they are always LETTERS-NUMBERS). The Passat’s license plate is EWJ-0054 so I can’t drive it on Tuesdays.

Spanfeller is a twat > My citroen won't start 02/07/2018 at 22:50

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Mine supposedly doesn’t get to be driven on tuesdays too, but I got it smog checked and it got the 00 sticker; meaning I can drive every day.

It basically goes like this:

Excento: Hybrids and electrics(including the Tahoe hybrid!)-lasts 7 years
00: Cars two years or newer-go out every day
0: cars 2 to 7 years old-go out every day
1: cars older than 7 years, go out 6 days a week and one saturday a month they stay indoors
2: cars older than 7 years but with horrible emissions go out 5 days a week, can’t be driven from 5am through 11am every day.

If you car comes from a state without a smog check process, then you default to 2 status.

Aditionally when there’s an huge smog problem or a contingencia the 00s and 0s get to fuck themselves and follow the rules that the 1s get.... 2s don’t get to see the light of day.

I’d change it so that every car had to be put away once on the weekdays and I’d add very stringent inspections (like the ones in Spain) yearly.

I’d also put half of the city under a congestion charge, alike London’s.

I love cars, I love driving, but I think that as city transport they just suck... I should only use my car maybe three times a week rather than every day for transport and use other methods instead.