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I don't mind maintenance, but don't want constant problems. I was looking at a c30 but I've heard there's all kinds of stupid issues with them and replacement parts are expensive and harder to get.

Was hoping to find something in the $4-$5k price range, but that is seeming like a pipe dream if the cooper is out. I guess there is a reason the r56 Cooper S's I've seen are in that price range, ha ha. I think y'all helped make my mind. Thanks!

I know, right? I used to be one of the few that would actually agree with Geeto on some of his statements/perspectives, but that statement was ridiculous. I'll remember that. The next time someone is passive aggressive to me, I'll break their car windows and say Geeto told me this was just standard escalation. Just following protocol ole bloke.

Uncomfortable from an interior standpoint, or from a ride quality standpoint? What issues did you have with your N14?

Anybody have experience with these? I'm looking into getting a smaller, preferably turbo, preferably manual car to DD to work and back instead of driving my big ole 2011 Screw F150. Mini Cooper S came on the radar. R56 is what I've been looking into. 2007-2008 looks to be close to the budget area. Most I see in that area are around 125k. I know some of the issues common with these N14 engines is: Timing chain guides crack/break and tensioners fail Thermostat housings leak (made of plastic; POS) Front Lower Control Arm bushings go out around 75k, so even of they have been replaced at that point, we are only 25k or so from needing them again. Side mirror and antenna base gaskets tend to rot out and are very expensive to replace. Am I missing anything. Also, I am 6' 2", but haven't sat in one yet. Am I going to have anticipated fitment issues? I do about 250mi/wk so i'd prefer something that is somewhat comfortable.

While this was going on and they were chattering among themselves as to what was going on, and one of the guys referenced the same thing happening when they were partying next door a couple years ago, the non-cackly-woo-girl said, "I get it, it's late." To which Mrs. Cackles responded, "Fuck them, they can call the cops." And then continued to get louder. Her friend tried to bring reason into it. The rest said fk me. OK. You have made your intentions clear despite your friend trying to get you to be reasonable. Yes, I understand there my be retaliation. That is the way of things these days. Be an inconsiderate entitled butthole, someone does something about it, and somehow they are the "bad guy" and warrant being retaliated against. I understand this is the world we live in. I wouldn't call it an eye for an eye per se, i'd call it me bringing a gun to a knife fight. I wound up getting the results I wanted with the previous neighbors, and am hoping for the same thing this time around.

The drunk excuse for prey much anything carries no weight with me. Yup, most of us have done foolish things to one extent or another while consuming alcohol, including myself. And I have always operated with the understanding that whatever repercussions there were as a result were deserved and on me. Period. Nobody old them to get drunk and act like asshats. If you want to do that, fine, but don't complain about the repercussions. Fortunately, all was quiet last night.

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Y'all need to at least listen to the first 10min of that JRE interview with a guy who specializes in this stuff.

Or I could not have to get dressed and drive to the next neighborhood at midnight when I could just walk outside and turn a speaker on. :marc: Obvious solution? Obvious solution is one that works, which could be multiple solutions, and in my case, did work as usual.

Came here to post this.

College kids on spring break. What terrifies me is that I essentially did exactly what they were doing, and that somehow in their mind justified them breaking my property. This is the future of America right here. People that think this way. Cuz I ain't a snitch! Ha ha. I usually try to resolve issues myself before getting LEO's involved. Being that it was a noise complaint and not a murder, my guess is it would have taken the LEO's about as long to finally get there as it did for me to solve the issue. That, and I don't know if the LEO's would have heard the music from the street out front as the way the houses/neighborhood is designed, the sound can be pretty loud from the back, and barely audible from the front.

Last night, it's about 915-930 and the wife and I are getting ready to hit the hay because, well, we have adult things to do in the morning, like job, manage kids, etc. While finishing up our show (Re-watching Breaking Bad, not that it adds anything to the story) we hear loud voices. At first we thought one of the kids was crying from the other end of the house, but upon inspection, it was not them. It was the people behind us (not the original a-hole neighbors, but the people beside them as our back yard basically backs up to two different back yards). Upon discovery of the voices, we also heard loud music with heavy bass. The wife is already pissed. I'm more of an "it's not 10pm yet, Fort Worth noise ordinances don't kick in until 10pm, so lets just go to bed and hopefully they will quiet down" kind of guy. I turn our white noise maker on to try to drown it out and we go to bed. Well, the music and the voices are just enough to keep you from falling asleep. Right where as you'd start to doze off, the one cackly b*tch with the shrill voice in the group would "woo-girl" scream about something, and pull you right back to consciousness. Finally around midnight, the music is louder, the bass hits harder, and that b*tche's voice is too much. I tried for a few hours to avoid this, but this is where we are now. I get my trusty Photive weatherproof bluetooth speaker, walk out back, set it on a 5gal bucket in the yard facing their property, get on my phone and opent the frequency generator app, set it to 8700-8800mhz, and start turning the volume up. After a couple min and me working the volume up to high, the high pitched sound is just cutting through the music like a hot knife through butter. I hear them start asking each other, "do you hear that?" "WTF is that?" "Is that the speakers?" And they would turn the volume down, and as they would, I would turn the volume on my speaker down accordingly. Up and down we went for a few min. Then the voice of one of the guys starts talking about how I did something like that to them while they were at their neighbors in the past. Cackly bish yells out loud, "fk em, they can call the cops!" Nah bish. I ain't a snitch. You picked the game, lets play. One of them says they can hear it coming from two different places. Lulz. They start peaking through the cracks in the fence. One of the guys says he see wires running along the fence. "I can get some wire cutters and reach over and cut them." he says to other cackly bish. (They weren't wires. They were 1/4" irrigation hoses I had previously used to run air from an air pump to air stones in my hydroponic lettuce growing setup). I hear their back patio door open then close. A couple min later it opens again. I hear some shuffling along the fence then the sound of the lines being cut. Jokes on them. Those lines need to go in the trash anyway. Noise continues. While this is going on, cackly bish exclaims, "I can't stand this sound!." Big smile across my face. After the "wire" cutting failed, and the sound continued, they finally turned the music way down to an acceptable level, then a little while later, turned off their patio lights and went to inside. It was a little after 1am at this point. I feel like ass today running on only a few hours of sleep. But I do have a little smile that this little speaker and this free app worked their magic again. I am pissed at the audacity of the individuals who feel it's appropriate to destroy property in other people's yard for doing exactly what they were doing. I play your game, you get pissed because you don't like the way I play your game, so you break my stuff. OK you entitled asshat. It was too dark to get any kind of video unfortunately. I get it, they were college kids, (I know because I heard cackly bish talk about college), and it's spring break, but the adults here have responsibilities. Go be loud elsewhere.

I'm totally ignorant on your platform, but why would a cam need changed to run e85? Pump, injectors, and maybe fuel line depending on how restrictive it is?

Yeah, the roads here suck.

It's not going to stay contained. It will get widespread here in the US.

^This

Thoughts? Me likey.

Don't have much to add as my experience is very limited but I had to do all 4 corners recently on my 2011 FX4 Screw (original shocks/struts at 160k) and did monroe in the fromnt and bilstein in the back. (Monroe came as an assembly and was available right then, had KYB assemblies been available then, I would have done KYB in the front). Either way, i'm happy with the ride and a least on my platform, the bilsteins for the rear really weren't that expensive. Got my shocks/struts off amazon for cheaper than my buddy who works at a dealership could get them even with their discount.

Such fighting. Many Cursing. Much anger. Wow. Lettuce get back to hunting?

That was up in the pandhandle. Amarillo, Lubbock, etc. There are other places, like DFW where I live, that are not like that. Texas is so big it has basically 5 distinct geographical regions that are all different from one another.

First hunts together back at the beginning of the season, the hawk wanted to eat the puppy. So I took them both to the panhandle where I knew I could get the puppy in a position to flush rabbits and the hawk would have good visibility to see the rabbits and that the dog flushed them. After the first 2-3 slips, the hawk put it together that the puppy wasn't food, the puppy helped find food and they have been best friends ever since. We didn't get a bunny in the bag on this hunt, but it was the first one Goose (the puppy) had been able to grab. 2 bunnies were there, the hawk takes off after one and Goose grabbed the other. Both got away.

Nice deer!

I haven't eaten squirrel in probably 20yrs, (I save the one's I shoot in my front yard for the hawks), but i've been thinking about trying them in some recipes again. I'd like o try braising it like I do with cottontails which takes away any gamey flavor and the meat literally falls off the bone.

I haven't deer hunted in over a decade, but man, some venison sounds so good. I miss it.