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4 minutes ago, desertdude said:

In my year and half in RAK Ive seen one electric car, a Tesla with a Dubai plate.

Which is no doubt why they have decided to waive registration fees for electric cars; it won't cost them any revenue. 

6 minutes ago, desertdude said:

Jeez just when you thought they couldn't get any fuglier.

I think I would commit suicide before I got behind the wheel of that abomination! 

 

I would not take things that far- I would simply push it through my front door into the lounge, let the air out of the tyres, and use it as a multi-level coffee table. Or use it as tool shed,or as something to store my cats' food in.  

4 hours ago, desertdude said:

Ive had plenty of Land Rovers and none of mine rusted only the body panels excluding the roof are aluminum rest is regular metal including the frame, but rust in general isnt a problem in these parts.

SO Treks rant doesnt apply here.

 

 

 

Rant? I don't care, cars are still no different from washing machines. 

On 9/28/2018 at 7:43 PM, Barry said:

I’d love to hear some opinions and see if we can find the most hated car on carnity

My nomination goes to the Nissan Tiida. In my opinion, the most horrible, bland, vanilla POS to ever grace the roads. The later cars don’t even have a temperature gauge. When your car is overheating, the first warning you get is a red coolant light on the dashboard and by that stage, the damage has already been done and the cylinder head is warped. 

For me it's easy to choose. I don't hate cars as such, but to me, anything with wheels is no different than a washing machine or fridge. Therefore, a Lambo or a Rolls is just a washing machine with more bells and whistles than say, a Camry that only has the basic functions you'd expect to find on a budget washing machine. 

Nonetheless, I made lot of money over four decades fixing cars, so there is that.  

But to Barry's question- If I had to choose the most hated car on Carnity or anywhere else, my choice would be based solely on these criteria-

1) how difficult a given car is to work on

2) how difficult it is to find parts, and,

3) how often it breaks down

Thus, based on these criteria, Land Rovers and all French cars would win hands down, every time. 

4 hours ago, Barry said:

The problem here in uae is ignorance. And I’m not trying to be a dick by saying that. People here have little to no experience of some cars so just immediately write them off as French scrap without really knowing anything about them. @sertac and me are from countries where pugs are  plentiful and make perfect sense on the narrower, twister roads. Driving on wide open dubai roads is one thing but going down a narrow lane in a Peugeot 205 at 90mph, engine screaming, with the trees flying past on your side windows is incomparable. Different strokes for different folks. Live and let live. 

I used to feel this way about some Alfa Romeos. Back in the day, there was nothing that could touch a 2L Alfetta in the handling department, and a large part of the performance department as well, but those days are long gone. All the good Alfa's have rusted away.

5 hours ago, desertdude said:

Outside of Europe no one really cares about these French POS's. And there is a reason for that. And dont say Africa they dont like the newer one either

They also did not like the old ones...

3 hours ago, shadow79 said:

well you can do those things and even more on a corolla, celica or a starlet...

What things? 

2 hours ago, sertac said:

People who like mostly elderly uncle`s car Corolla wont understand why people like Peugeot and Citroen.

 

If you have never had to work on these blobs of evil, you will never understand why so many people absolutely hate all French cars 

On 9/22/2018 at 7:42 PM, desertdude said:

Dont bring conversion rates into the equation otherwise a taxi ride in Zimbabwe probably costs a billion Zimbabwean dollars

You are being overly optimistic thinking a taxi ride costs a billion Zim dollars. I have relatives there, and according to them, taxi rides could cost upwards of 10 billion dollars for rides under 5 km. If you could find a taxi that had fuel in its tank, that is. 

To put this in perspective, consider that the biggest bank note (Zim dollars) in circulation in that country (when I was last there, about 2 years ago) had a face value of 100 trillion dollars, and they came with expiry dates- usually about three months from the date of issue.

According to the local economists, Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation rate was then so high that it could not be calculated, but  those that have tried seemed think it was somewhere in the many-billion percent range when the currency was scrapped about two years ago.

US dollars is now the official currency, but more than half of the country's population can go for months without seeing a foreign currency bank note. So now, people barter home-bred chickens and backyard-grown vegetables for taxi rides- if they can one with fuel in its tank, that is.  

I don't listen to anything- none of my cars have working radios. 

Perhaps because all Lucid models will be equipped with automatic fire extinguishers? Another reason may be that the makers of Lucid cars have no immediate plans to make self-driving cars. 

7 hours ago, vishlad702 said:

I guess the gentleman made up his mind to get the belt changed in Habtoor, much before the comments poured in. 😁

Yeah,like a lamb to the slaughter...

Yeah, and the idling speed seems fine, too.

14 hours ago, Barry said:

I hate to say it but you got screwed. Better to go to a small garage, get the work done for a small price, tell nobody and keep the receipt to show to the next buyer that the work was done and keep the resale value up. 

I dont think @maharufgot screwed. I think he got screwed and robbed at the same time. 

23 minutes ago, Gaurav said:

OK, guys, this is a different scenario of lifting the front due to excessive torque like Fast and Furious cars, but what I mentioned was the car was moving ahead doing a burnout but not in straight line and slightly tilted on one side. I had my Mustang for 2 years and know how 450 hp in 1.5 ton body do the burnout in a straight line, plus that car owner knew that issue as a known problem since he bought and couldn't rectify that deformity probably due to expensive repairs.

Did your friend's Mustang have wider or better tires than yours? If so,the added traction will increase the tilt  because more of the engines' torque is being transferred to the body because it is more difficult  to make wide tires spin. The same is true for tires with high traction ratings. 

5 hours ago, desertdude said:

You seem to be confusing diff gear ratio with trans gear ratio. Two separate things.

@desertdude is right, but I will add that messing about with final drive ratios is generally a bad idea, since it always upsets gearbox ratios,and you might end up with a result that is opposite the one you were hoping for. If you want more power, do some engine mods or reprogram the ECU with a performance tune. 

9 hours ago, desertdude said:

Don't need to, ton of online VIN checkers

Sure, but my point was that a VIN number is a more accurate way of checking a car's age than going by date stamps on parts. That said though, your idea of using an online VIN checker is a whole easier than actually learning to decode VIN's. 

8 hours ago, Gaurav said:

Welcome zaidane, which year Z you got and how much you paid, as my cousin is after one of these too and looking for some ownership advise for road and track (if you do) both. He is a new license young lad, so getting strong resistance from the family.

...as perhaps he should. This is not the time to learn to drive a sports car. 

Learning to decode VIN numbers might come in handy, too.

14 hours ago, Barry said:

I thought we established that a long time ago 😉

I'm surprised that Land Rover actually made it to second last place 

9 hours ago, Barry said:

Tuning isn’t an issue as the engine is controlled by a computer. When was the last time you had a full service including spark plugs? Would be worth plugging it into a computer to see what’s going on when the spluttering occurs. 

I agree. Getting live data is the only way to figure out what's going on here. 

On 8/15/2018 at 9:31 AM, sertac said:

Haven't you had enough of Jeeps to last you a lifetime? 

On 8/20/2018 at 7:05 AM, Barry said:

I also refuse to listen to kiss now. It’s a shame because they were a good band but every time I hear them now I just remember how much of a twat gene is. 

I have never liked KiSS or their genre of music, so what ever it was that Simmons did, passed me by. What did he do that was so bad?

10 hours ago, desertdude said:

Haven't you watched any of these types of movies. Its usually that majority of the earths population is wiped out and there is enough fuel left over in abandoned gas stations, storage tanks and refineries to support a vehicle or two

That's exactly the reason I watch these types of movies- to see when the fuel runs out. Never happens, though.

However, if an apocalypse ever happens, I'll go with a Unimog until the fuel runs out. If it's a zombie apocalypse, I can just run over hundreds of zombies on my way to the next fuel storage tank. It it's any other kind of apocalypse, I'll bet my Unimog against Barry's puny Lada that I'll make it to the next fuel storage tank first- If he gets in the way,I'll just drive over him. 

I have often wondered about this apocalypse thing. The word implies a total breakdown of power grids, and therefore the collapse of industries like oil refining. So, this being the case, where would the fuel for these weird and wonderful vehicles come from after a couple of years? 

17 hours ago, desertdude said:

Personally I think Fox bodies was the ugly stretch of the mustang blood line only beaten by the

Mustang II. 

I agree. Fox bodies don't even look like Mustangs. They look more like a failed attempt to pimp a Euro-blob.