Author Topic: Cars.... How far have you went before getting a new one? (Read 97951 times)

michigancat · « **Reply #1450 on:** July 14, 2023, 05:42:37 PM »

I've thought about retrofitting the old Subaru with an Android auto deck. Maybe add a backup camera? Anyone done something like this?

michigancat · « **Reply #1451 on:** July 14, 2023, 05:43:23 PM »

Fun fact about me, I've never owned a car with a backup camera (too poor) unless you count my wife's leaf that we sold when we left California

steve dave · « **Reply #1452 on:** July 14, 2023, 06:53:25 PM »

Quote from: michigancat on July 14, 2023, 05:43:23 PM

Fun fact about me, I've never owned a car with a backup camera (too poor) unless you count my wife's leaf that we sold when we left California

Incred Michigancat post here folks

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Spracne · « **Reply #1453 on:** July 14, 2023, 08:01:49 PM »

I've never owned a car with a backup camera, unless you count the lefty virtue-signaling EV I did own but sold because I walk and/or take public transpo everywhere as a responsible earth citizen (except when I have to move our 1 vehicle each week for street sweeping; then, all bets are off).

michigancat · « **Reply #1454 on:** July 14, 2023, 09:01:04 PM »

Quote from: Spracne on July 14, 2023, 08:01:49 PM

I've never owned a car with a backup camera, unless you count the lefty virtue-signaling EV I did own but sold because I walk and/or take public transpo everywhere as a responsible earth citizen (except when I have to move our 1 vehicle each week for street sweeping; then, all bets are off).

It was my wife's car you dang Texan

I also take citibike a lot

Kat Kid · « **Reply #1455 on:** July 14, 2023, 09:32:57 PM »

It is legit wild to me how much more safe it is to back up with a camera. great saftey invention.

DaBigTrain · « **Reply #1456 on:** July 14, 2023, 09:37:37 PM »

Quote from: Kat Kid on July 14, 2023, 09:32:57 PM

It is legit wild to me how much more safe it is to back up with a camera. great saftey invention.

I’m not sure how I ever survived without one. When I drive cars(not mine) that don’t have a backup camera I am like wtf even is this

Kat Kid · « **Reply #1457 on:** July 14, 2023, 09:41:53 PM »

Quote from: DaBigTrain on July 14, 2023, 09:37:37 PM

Quote from: Kat Kid on July 14, 2023, 09:32:57 PM
It is legit wild to me how much more safe it is to back up with a camera. great saftey invention.
I’m not sure how I ever survived without one. When I drive cars(not mine) that don’t have a backup camera I am like wtf even is this

personally I have:

-had someone back in to me in a car in a parking lot
-backed up in to my mom's car when she parked behind me in my driveway and I didn't notice
-spent hours of my life waiting for people on Moro to finish their prayers as they back up and then leave half their ass in the road and decide if the person behind them wants the spot (much improved by the camera/proximity beep)

steve dave · « **Reply #1458 on:** July 14, 2023, 10:16:04 PM »

probably a farm thread cross post but I can back a truck WITH A TRAILER at probably 40 mph for as long and as accurately as you need me to. we are built differently.

steve dave · « **Reply #1459 on:** July 14, 2023, 10:17:28 PM »

ANOTHER BRAG: I can slowly back a double trailer (tractor, implement, anhydrous tank) reliably. This is an impossible task for 99.99999% of human beings.

michigancat · « **Reply #1460 on:** July 14, 2023, 10:34:27 PM »

Have you seen my parallel parking photos?

NO rough ridin' BACKUP CAMERA

star seed 7 · « **Reply #1461 on:** July 14, 2023, 10:45:50 PM »

I can't do it at 40 but I have impressed myself with the tight spaces I have backed trailers in to

sys · « **Reply #1462 on:** July 15, 2023, 03:48:14 PM »

i had a car once that the transmission or some part important for shifting the gears or whatever got mumped and it wouldn't work in any of the forward gears but still worked in reverse so i drove it like 15 miles in reverse to a mechanic.

Pete · « **Reply #1463 on:** July 15, 2023, 09:49:12 PM »

I cannot backup trailer for crap, but I am getting better. Backup camera on my Ridgeline has fancy angles and it makes backing up super easy, and has the warning lights and beeps when a car is coming. Very very handy.

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #1464 on:** July 16, 2023, 08:43:30 AM »

alternator ate crap in the friday rain, in the drive through at a mcdonalds, with my entire brood of young girls.

THAT SUCKED BIGTIME.

dropped $900 at burnetts. woof

Spracne · « **Reply #1465 on:** July 16, 2023, 12:21:24 PM »

Quote from: Dugout DickStone on July 16, 2023, 08:43:30 AM

alternator ate crap in the friday rain, in the drive through at a mcdonalds, with my entire brood of young girls.

THAT SUCKED BIGTIME.

dropped $900 at burnetts. woof

Maybe time to sell the '89 Trans Am?

Pete · « **Reply #1466 on:** July 16, 2023, 01:46:30 PM »

Quote from: Spracne on July 16, 2023, 12:21:24 PM

Quote from: Dugout DickStone on July 16, 2023, 08:43:30 AM
alternator ate crap in the friday rain, in the drive through at a mcdonalds, with my entire brood of young girls.

THAT SUCKED BIGTIME.

dropped $900 at burnetts. woof

Maybe time to sell the '89 Trans Am?

Tough to give it up. Way more seating than a Vette.

yoga-like_abana · « **Reply #1467 on:** July 17, 2023, 08:50:37 AM »

The most impressive is how well you can backup a short tongue trailer. That is the true test

ChiComCat · « **Reply #1468 on:** July 17, 2023, 04:42:37 PM »

Quote from: michigancat on July 14, 2023, 10:34:27 PM

Have you seen my parallel parking photos?

NO rough ridin' BACKUP CAMERA

That doesn't move the needle for me. It's impossible to begin with. It really can't be more impossible.

mocat · « **Reply #1469 on:** July 17, 2023, 05:09:45 PM »

yeah you don't need a camera if you're gonna nudge the car behind you anyway

michigancat · « **Reply #1470 on:** July 17, 2023, 05:42:59 PM »

I think it could help with your angles and knowing how close you are to the curb

steve dave · « **Reply #1471 on:** July 17, 2023, 05:43:51 PM »

Quote from: michigancat on July 17, 2023, 05:42:59 PM

I think it could help with your angles and knowing how close you are to the curb

you'd just ram it anyway

pissclams · « **Reply #1472 on:** July 17, 2023, 10:09:18 PM »

it’s exceeded my expectations

pissclams · « **Reply #1473 on:** July 17, 2023, 10:11:07 PM »

from the front with the top on

nicname · « **Reply #1474 on:** July 17, 2023, 10:17:35 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on July 14, 2023, 10:16:04 PM

probably a farm thread cross post but I can back a truck WITH A TRAILER at probably 40 mph for as long and as accurately as you need me to. we are built differently.

Sd totally emasculating many of us w this post. It’s a line of demarcation in manliness I’ve yet to cross. And he’s in here backing up double trailers as well.