Comments by "" (@frozenpete788) on "Tedward"
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@Tanner_Teves you can have understeer with rwd too, especially with a heavier engine and with a mechanical lsd (that has preload and ramps on deceleration). Though it can be corrected with a bit of throttle to make it oversteer, if it's icy under snow with a bit of speed to bleed off, it can understeer too. Giving it full lock won't help, on the contrary. It's the same in the wet (and on the dry at the extreme), you have to work with the available mechanical grip you have, once you've exceeded that limit, more steering angle won't give you more turn in, you have to bring back the wheel and try to gain back that grip, and then try to stay in that limit of available grip. Easy to say I know, when it's icy and curb is coming straight at ya. A little fwd with not much power, skinny snow tires and lightweight can be weapons in snow believe me. You'd have to work harder with a rwd to do the same
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Congrats on your new car. Honestly, it's a good choice for a daily, when you need to do distance, don't think about it, reliable, fill gas, do an oil service and a few filters once in a while etc. Keep the toys for the week end, and they will feel even more special. I still think that any day is a good day when it starts with my M3 3.0, but you know, sometimes, the daily needs to be a daily, gas tank full, fill the trunk with stuff, cruise control on, drive for hours, key off, start again the next day without too much worries, it lets room in the head for something else rather than the car too
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@Chair991 no offense but this is not drama this is fake and bs. I can't stand Vw audi farts, Mercedes the same and probably the worst the inline 6 of the M3 M4 since f80 chΓ’ssis. Sounds disgusting as hell. I say no offense because it's kinda a conflict of generation and I get that. I'm not that old but I've always been around old cars, and the new stuff makes me puke except a few things here and there. Take the fake engine noises through speakers, what a century, engines sounds so bad they make them even worse through audio, or maybe you are right, there is drama, but maybe not the way I meant it. Sorry, that's just my point of view, I guess if so much people like it.. The problem is what are we gonna buy if it all bs like that, that's why we keep older stuff maybe
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Best experience ever! My uncle has a military one from the French army but a bit later, I had it for a week, set the ig'ition advance, clean the jets in the carb, man it drove like a dream (for a willys), when I got my e36, the fist few miles I though it had a problem the chassis was so soft, like a puncture or broken suspension, but no, it was just living with a willys on drums and leaf springs for a week. And that Go Devil engine, the sound they make, so great!
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A friend of mine gave me the keys of a M140i just before fitting and lsd. The torque was incredible, and dare I say it, too much for my liking. It's bloody fast for sure, but the shifter felt very rubbery, without the lsd even on the dry the back really tells you it looks for somewhere to put power. I'm just old game, but I liked my e36 m3 better everyday. It feels more special, more connected, older that's for sure, but any day starts well with a proper M car (don't worry, I also daily drive a 530d e39, stincky torquey diesel aha)
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I know I drive smoothly when I or my passengers don't feel the shifts, and it's all engine torque that you feel in the seats. The same with braking, I do reduce the pressure just right before the car stops to smoothen the deceleration (of course not when it's an emergency braking). Some cars help more than others. Even full trottle acceleration can be smooth with smaller power cars, just need to be patient and do the shifts right in that rpm window. I do that a lot with my 325is e30, the 1-2-3 shift. It's a clean power cut between gears, feels like months compared to modern boxes though ahah.
One last thing, I do push the clutch on startups too, my M51D25 (yeah 325tds e36 euro) has only half thrust bearing on the crank (cost reduction yeah ..) so it had a tendancy to wear it quicker because of the pressure plate force on the bearing and the oil pressure has to build up, but it still holding for now (if I remember I don't actually press the pedal on this one), thats the beauty with 9 cars, everytime you feel like it's a new purchase, until you remember the maintenance list :D
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I don't hate selling, I was flipping cars at the begining because I didn't have space and I could make a little money with a bit of work. But after a bit, driveway fixes became harder, I could store a bit, and more importantly I was buying what I liked, whether I had/have a bond, memories or lot of interest. Today I have multiple cars but I really have hard time selling any of them. The longest I own is 10 years this year. My 325is e30, if I have to sell everything but one, this will stay. The worst in that, I enjoy as much my 40hp Mini as my 290hp M3, hard to sell I guarantee :D
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Working in the industry for quite a while now, I can guarantee that there is a real gap between what (most ignorant) politics want and what manufacturers can or will do. EV's are part of a (small) begining of an answer, but it's absolutely not what they are trying to sell to people (that it will save the earth). Nor is the fuel cell technology (which doesn't even work in cold). We may stop burning dinausors bones but I think we won't be stopping burning stuff right away, because there are other fuels, alternatives etc. One day we will probably switch for something different, but now, stopping internal combustion engines in 10 years, yeah not gonna happen. Imagine yourself being on the table under a surgeon scalpel, "oh yeah we lost the patient because the backup fuel cell generator took 30 minutes to turn on, too bad".
Because the future is very blurry, for now I still enjoy my old timers, maybe I will still be able to do it in the coming decade, or at least I'll tell my children some funny stuff from my youth
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