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Trouble Maker

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  1. Welllllll, AEP is the Electric company so that kind of makes cents.
  2. Could you really not sit at a house for a few hours without playing video games?
  3. Joe, that heat will come out eventually, regardless if the door is open or not.
  4. My first direction would be to use whatever the OEM says to use a snow tire. They've confirmed it works well with the systems in their car on actual snow and ice surfaces. Doubly so since the car is a summer tire only car off of the showroom floor. Second is, if you go with a different size, make sure the overall height is as close to the same as reasonable. Like Tom said, that aftermarket tire you suggested is much taller than the OEM tire. That big difference in tire height could cause performance loss issues with the electro-mechanical systems in the car not working quite right (esp ABS/TCS). If you are far enough off, you could throw an abnormality code, but this size shouldn't be far enough off to cause an issue. http://tire-size-conversion.com/tire-size-calculator/ At the very least, your speedometer is going to be incorrect. When you put a bigger tire on it's the 'bad' way (speed reads lower than actual). Easy way to get a speeding ticket. It's always a good idea to confirm speed accuracy by GPS if you put different sized tires on the car. Could you put a low boost tune on it? I wonder if Brian could do a very quick and dirty 'tune' and just change some max/requested boost 1 parameter change. Could make a very nice 'winter' setting on the car. Especially if the drive is not used to high TQ FWD (boosted) cars. It looks like Ford says you should use a 195/50r16 http://www.fiestast.org/forum/fiesta-st-discussions/315-warning-fiesta-st-owners-about-winter-tires.html Looks like for about $850 from Tire rack you can get tires, rims, mound & balanced with TPMS sensors http://www.tirerack.com/snow/WinterPackageMain.jsp?autoMake=Ford&autoModel=Fiesta+ST&autoYear=2014&autoModClar=
  5. If they've lost a leg/arm in an accident, they just need to attach chainsaw(s) where their missing appendages were
  6. You know what I've been thinking about a lot lately. That I don't do well enough to be able to afford a bunker for my family. I'm such a let down for them. When the fall of man happens, I constantly fear I will be able to do nothing to protect them.
  7. The one with the most guns & ammo and biggest bunker?
  8. That's what I thought, it just boggles my mind that this means those institutions made 32%+ today on the shares they wanted to and could sell. If somehow they were able and wanted to sell all of their shares, that means they made an accumulative ~ $6B+ today. I bet they added 32% of value to that stock by buying and reselling it. :dumb:
  9. So, can someone explain why it was estimated to be $68, but looks like it opened at $94.50?
  10. I would love to sit down and talk with Bob about my job change last year to reflect on what happened and try to understand more about how things went down.
  11. Clay, I used the 3m headlight restoration kit on the Focus as I was selling it and it worked great. Get the kit you attach to the drill, I can't imagine buffing it by hand. If it were a car I was keeping I would take the lights out and do them on a bench. It would be easier to do the edges of the headlight and 0 chance of damaging the cars paint. First 2 pics are post and pre headlight restoration. I would say this is a 75% 'finished' job, if you call a prefect job 100% http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/album.php?albumid=880 I used this kit, or something very similar. They were in stock at autozone. http://3mauto.com/products/headlight-restoration/3m-headlight-lens-restoration-system-39008.html
  12. How I'm picturing everyone in this thread. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k1gjcdD9ATE/ToXWidztx3I/AAAAAAAABUo/Y_3mQIowSgU/s1600/100872_D0216b.jpg
  13. What Pat said. My parents live 'out in the country' where cable isn't available and use Satellite (dish or direct?) for TV and an LTE hub/dongle/whatever the cell phone modems with wifi broadcasters built into them are called. They gave up unlimited data a few years ago when they signed a new contract and have a 5gb cap now. :dumb: It's probably the best option if you can get a good (LTE or 4G, etc) data cell signal.
  14. Hears cat knock a lamp down in the hallway, grabs shot gun, turns light on and blinds himself, runs into hallway blind and shoots cat thinking it's a burglar.
  15. I've heard they only run 14s so not really very quick.
  16. I assume these are the same drive-train as the Quattroporte of that ear. If so, I've heard the transmission reliability (maybe clutch issues?) is awful.
  17. BMW M5 V10. I think that's the E60 chassis, made from 05-10? That thing, especially if you put a nice exhaust on it... for $3k? :no: would probably sound as close to an F1 car as a normal human being can afford. From a really quick search on Edmunds it looks like you can get an 06ish with around 50kmi for just under $30k. I know little about these cars so I can't speak to them, or their reliability or maint. cost. Obviously not cheap, but then most of the cars in this realm probably aren't going to be, but it might be a nightmare car that I just don't know about. Just an idea that popped into my head for this type of car.
  18. So, I haven't been paying attention to phone news lately. What should I cross shop with these phones?
  19. My hope, and (only slightly educated) thought is that the average speed on surface streets and absolute top speed on highways will be able to significantly increase, decreasing travel times with fully autonomous cars (with vehicle-to-vehicle communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication). All while decreasing accidents and therefore injuries and deaths.
  20. For those who haven't seen or heard about the 'levels'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Definition
  21. Driving to and from work is a waste of time and is another place where our 'work week' is going to be shortened in the future.
  22. Welcome. Let us know if you need any info on the move, places to live. I'm sure that can be a chaotic process.
  23. Why a different tv? How much did you use this and where (not outside or anything weird like that right)? Was it new (not a display model) when you bought it? What's the full model # ? Seriously interested. I'm going to get a 50" or 55" Samsung 6400 series. But if I can get this for less it might be a deal as long as the answers are right. Feel free to pm me answers if that's what you prefer
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