chit chat thread

[rampelsauce]

What are y'all doing for whatever holiday it is today?

[Rekpoint]

rampelsauce said:

What are y'all doing for whatever holiday it is today?

Was supposed to go in for college today for some reason? Had to start it off right and skip the first day.

[REKIII]

patsbimmer1 said:

So I bought that truck on Thursday and put about 200 miles on it Friday for work.  I like it a lot!  The navigation is really intuitive but I'll probably use the Android auto or Apple carplay most of the time.  The 2.7 got about 24mpg and I'm hoping to average 20-22 mpg with this thing.  I'm happy with the purchase so far but did cry a little bit when I pulled up to a customer and he had a brand new Raptor supercrew in the same color as my truck sitting outside the shop with a 2" leveling kit and brand new Nitto ridgegrapplers.  Someday...

Very nice!  Great color!!

Don't cry too much about the Raptor.  If he did in fact put a 2" leveling kit, all of us other Raptor owners will laugh at him.  That is NOT how you lift or modify a Raptor.

[REKIII]

rampelsauce said:

New car alert: Wifes (read: our) new X3 as of today!

Yay!  Congrats.

[Jdesign]

Yell (scold) if you must, but I bought another car and its not a BMW.

I use to have an IS300 with air ride prior to my E30. When I sold that, I kept the air ride and always said I would buy another later on down the road. Well.. I happened across an is250 sport last week that was dirty everywhere, including a vomit filled back seat from the demon crotch droplets this lady called children. It also needed some small items (Brakes & TPMS), but had low milles and a low price. I don't plan on keeping this one, but I might relive my past by installing wheels and air ride. 

After its first wash in years;

My old IS300 (circa 2010)

[patsbimmer1]

REKIII said:

Very nice!  Great color!!

Don't cry too much about the Raptor.  If he did in fact put a 2" leveling kit, all of us other Raptor owners will laugh at him.  That is NOT how you lift or modify a Raptor.

I bet they would really love the 22" Asanti wheels then lol.

[Jdesign]

patsbimmer1 said:

I bet they would really love the 22" Asanti wheels then lol.

https://www.facebook.com/bombwhips/videos/674581563040114/

[REKIII]

patsbimmer1 said:

I bet they would really love the 22" Asanti wheels then lol.

Generally, yes, that would go into the 'hated mod' category too.  I however give a bit more leniency to wheel size though.  On my Gen 1 I went with 18" (up from stock 17") with the stock size 35" tire and really liked the look.  Other Raptor owners hated it and said I defiled the truck.  My Gen 2 I have 20" wheel with 37" tires, again, I really like the look and feel the tire to wheel ratio still works.  22" is a bit big for me especially if he's still on 35's, but to each his own.  Most Raptors never leave the pavement.

The reason we all get so excited about the lift mods, is that all the suspension is set up ready to be lifted without the stupid spacers.  Putting spacers in means the owner (or installer) knows nothing about the Raptor.

[patsbimmer1]

REKIII said:

Generally, yes, that would go into the 'hated mod' category too.  I however give a bit more leniency to wheel size though.  On my Gen 1 I went with 18" (up from stock 17") with the stock size 35" tire and really liked the look.  Other Raptor owners hated it and said I defiled the truck.  My Gen 2 I have 20" wheel with 37" tires, again, I really like the look and feel the tire to wheel ratio still works.  22" is a bit big for me especially if he's still on 35's, but to each his own.  Most Raptors never leave the pavement.

The reason we all get so excited about the lift mods, is that all the suspension is set up ready to be lifted without the stupid spacers.  Putting spacers in means the owner (or installer) knows nothing about the Raptor.

That makes sense regarding the suspension.  So this is the actual truck.  The tires a really nice but I think the wheels and wheel lights fall into the "Concrete Cowboy" or "Mall Crawler" category.  To each their own, he's driving a brand new raptor with $6k in wheels and tires and i'm driving around in a used F150 and an 8 year old BMW.

[Jdesign]

patsbimmer1 said:

 The tires a really nice but I think the wheels and wheel lights fall into the "Concrete Cowboy" or "Mall Crawler" category.  To each their own, he's driving a brand new raptor with $6k in wheels and tires and i'm driving around in a used F150 and an 8 year old BMW.

True, and I agree. Its a really good example of money can't buy taste. Taste is more of a development with exposed time and knowledge to a subject. Everything has its place, whether its liked or not by the masses.

[REKIII]

patsbimmer1 said:

That makes sense regarding the suspension.  So this is the actual truck.  The tires a really nice but I think the wheels and wheel lights fall into the "Concrete Cowboy" or "Mall Crawler" category.  To each their own, he's driving a brand new raptor with $6k in wheels and tires and i'm driving around in a used F150 and an 8 year old BMW.

Agreed.  Bit overdone in my opinion, but that's all it is, an opinion.  If he likes it, more power to him!

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[patsbimmer1]

My aunt's sister in law is selling her house and cleaning out all of her dad's stuff from when he owned a service station and in the process I scored some near perfect metal cabinets for free!

[Jdesign]

patsbimmer1 said:

My aunt's sister in law is selling her house and cleaning out all of her dad's stuff from when he owned a service station and in the process I scored some near perfect metal cabinets for free!

Those are awesome. L u c k y !

[patsbimmer1]

Jdesign said:

Those are awesome. L u c k y !

I know!  There's also about 300 trucker hats that he accumulated over the years that i'm trying to acquire to sell.  I'm not a big hat guy but I now some of these people would love!

[GB-335xiCoupe]

patsbimmer1 said:

My aunt's sister in law is selling her house and cleaning out all of her dad's stuff from when he owned a service station and in the process I scored some near perfect metal cabinets for free!

I'll gladly take those off your hands (if you don't want them). LOL

[patsbimmer1]

GB-335xiCoupe said:

I'll gladly take those off your hands (if you don't want them). LOL

Not a chance! lol

[jc43089]

I've been having some good times with my new house.  So it is a modular (not manufactured /mobile) home that was built in 2013.  So a regular house that is set in pieces and fastened together, this one is 3 long pieces and then the roof installed after because it is tall, 9 foot ceilings, and a 6/12 pitch roof.  Well I started poking around a little by the windows and noticed some mold under the window trim when I pulled a couple pieces off to inspect further.  Well one thing led to another and now I have all of the siding off of one end of the house.  repaired water damage around all of the windows due to terrible installation of the house wrap and nonexistent flashing around the windows.  Good thing we caught it now or it would have been much worse.

Pretty disappointing to find on an almost brand new house.  Of course the place that built it is out of business since then... I wonder why.  Otherwise it is a well built sturdy house.

So before winter I am trying to remove the vinyl siding, remove the windows, which is easy because they are vinyl with integrated J channel, repair any damage.  Install new house wrap and reinstall the windows properly.  Then reinstall the siding.

Watch out for modular builds from Liberty Homes, the factory is in Dorchester WI headquarters was Goshen Indiana.  I think the time it was built must have been about the end so maybe earlier ones were fine?

I will have to post some pics, everything about the weatherproofing is a comedy of errors.

[REKIII]

Windows are the worst.  There is no 'Cheap' way to do them.  Economy home builders think that they can just slap vinyl windows in and they are good.  It's nearly impossible to tell when the house is first done too, you basically have to see them do it, or wait and hope.

Good luck getting it all rectified.

[jc43089]

REKIII said:

Windows are the worst.  There is no 'Cheap' way to do them.  Economy home builders think that they can just slap vinyl windows in and they are good.  It's nearly impossible to tell when the house is first done too, you basically have to see them do it, or wait and hope.

Good luck getting it all rectified.

Yea, it was a combination of damaged house wrap, like holes all over, improper lapping.  Then the windows were just caulked on all 4 sides into the opening and no Butyl flashing tape applied anywhere.  If my wife wasn't so sensitive to mold smell we probably wouldn't have noticed until the damage was much worse.  It really isn't that bad but she thinks we just need to sell it as a distressed property for cheap and run away.  I'll chalk that up to being 6 months pregnant crazy hormones...