The G-spot

[BimmerM3]

The rear diff also moves with the wheels on solid axle trucks.

Huh. I figured they counted the diffs just for deeply rutted roads.

[CaminoRacer]

Huh. I figured they counted the diffs just for deeply rutted roads.

I'm not sure. For the most part that's just a measure of tire diameter. Unless you're gonna pony up for portal axles.

[12,000 RPM]

Proper air pressure fixed the understeer problem. Tires still aren't great but they definitely don't squeal or give up as easy as before. Now I don't feel bad getting the suspension together.

[Morris Minor]

Well my G is not going to work in the area I'm looking to buy a home: uphill 20-25% incline hairpins = lots of spineroo of the inside tire.  Throttle is too tippy - breaks traction. Christ knows what it would be like in the wet or on damp autumn leaves.
Subaru Outback seems to be the weapon of choice judging from the pub parking lot.

[12,000 RPM]

Get a Quaife installed

[Laconian]

Well my G is not going to work in the area I'm looking to buy a home: uphill 20-25% incline hairpins = lots of spineroo of the inside tire.  Throttle is too tippy - breaks traction. Christ knows what it would be like in the wet or on damp autumn leaves.
Subaru Outback seems to be the weapon of choice judging from the pub parking lot.

20-25%? Jebus. I wonder if that's steep enough to warrant the X-mode, a feature I've never had to use on our car.

[MX793]

20-25%? Jebus. I wonder if that's steep enough to warrant the X-mode, a feature I've never had to use on our car.

Nah.  Not if it's just wet.  Snowy, maybe.  There was a ~14% grade to get up my street where I lived in college.  Trying to scramble up that with several inches of snow on the ground in a FWD, open-diff car with all-season tires and no TCS was interesting.  Trying to stop for the stop sign at the bottom going the other way even moreso.  The ditch, if you slid off the side of the road or slid through the T intersection was about 8 feet deep.  It was also only a relatively short stretch that it was that steep.  Maybe 50 feet.  The rest of the hill was closer to 8%.

[Raza]

I had no idea Gs were such uncontrollable monsters. It's amazing that all the suburban housewives who drive them haven't been killed yet.

[Morris Minor]

Get a Quaife installed

Hmm - might be cheaper than an Outback. 

[giant_mtb]

Nah.  Not if it's just wet.  Snowy, maybe.  There was a ~14% grade to get up my street where I lived in college.  Trying to scramble up that with several inches of snow on the ground in a FWD, open-diff car with all-season tires and no TCS was interesting.  Trying to stop for the stop sign at the bottom going the other way even moreso.  The ditch, if you slid off the side of the road or slid through the T intersection was about 8 feet deep.  It was also only a relatively short stretch that it was that steep.  Maybe 50 feet.  The rest of the hill was closer to 8%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeqG0CqzHq4

[Morris Minor]

We were following a real estate agent who was driving a well-used standard issue Chevy Suburban from the early aughts. Unlike the G, it was not spinning tires. The G's throttle is difficult modulate a low speeds; it's jumpy; gentle limousine acceleration from rest is not easy.

[12,000 RPM]

Hoping traction gets better with better tires. Z rated 275s should tame the beast.

[MexicoCityM3]

I had no idea Gs were such uncontrollable monsters. It's amazing that all the suburban housewives who drive them haven't been killed yet.

G = Widow maker. Hadn't you heard?

[Cookie Monster]

[Raza]

G = Widow maker. Hadn't you heard?

Man, I had no idea.  I'll pray to Xenu (or whoever we Scientologists pray to) for everyone's safety in their Gs.

[93JC]

Xenu is kind of like the Scientologist equivalent to Satan, so congrats you couldn't have been more wrong.

[Laconian]

A shame you made such a fundamental error with Dianetic dogma. You should audit your engrams and have a thinksession with your mind-brain.

[Raza]

Xenu is kind of like the Scientologist equivalent to Satan, so congrats you couldn't have been more wrong.

Or maybe I'm the Scientologist equivalent of a Satanist!




(I know who Xenu is, of course! That was the joke. Missed, it seems.)

[Raza]

A shame you made such a fundamental error with Dianetic dogma. You should audit your engrams and have a thinksession with your mind-brain.

With all the bar prep, my thetans are going crazy. I really need to go clear.

Although, I've been watching that show The Path, about a cult that climbs a ladder. I'm thinking about joining that cult.

[CaminoRacer]

With all the bar prep, my thetans are going crazy. I really need to go clear.

Although, I've been watching that show The Path, about a cult that climbs a ladder. I'm thinking about joining that cult.

All they do is climb ladders all day? That's gotta be the most tame, boring cult in history

[MexicoCityM3]

All they do is climb ladders all day? That's gotta be the most tame, boring cult in history

But very much in shape. Hot girls there probably. I am a leg man myself.

[Raza]

All they do is climb ladders all day? That's gotta be the most tame, boring cult in history

It's a spiritual ladder. 

I'm not caught up on the show yet, though.

[Morris Minor]

Huh, I could not fill the tank above 3/4 full last night. Tried another pump. Tried trickling it in. Weird

This has happened a few more times, most recently two weeks ago - could not get it above about 60% full. Today I got a notice that there's a known problem with the evaporative emission vapor vent tube getting clogged. A "hard to fill condition" is a symptom.
They're extending the warranty on it, so I'll get it fixed.

[giant_mtb]

I had that issue in the A4 more often than I liked. Seemed to happen especially in winter. Never had any other vehicle do that to me.  Can be super annoying trying to trickle in a whole tank.

[12,000 RPM]

Happened in the Z like once or twice.

[MX793]

Happened all the time in the Mazda late in its life.  Never so bad I had to trickle, but anything more than 50% flow would make it trip the auto shutoff.

[Morris Minor]

This has happened a few more times, most recently two weeks ago - could not get it above about 60% full. Today I got a notice that there's a known problem with the evaporative emission vapor vent tube getting clogged. A "hard to fill condition" is a symptom.
They're extending the warranty on it, so I'll get it fixed.

Well I took it in last week and they stated there's nothing wrong with the vent tube. The gas pump fill problem happened again yesterday. Sigh.

[GoCougs]

Ha! I just got the letter today from Infiniti corporate about this issue, stating that the warranty is extended to 15 years or 150,000 miles. FWIW I've never had the problem. Good thing, because the last thing I want to do is have to go to the gas station more than I would otherwise have to - I absolutely hate it with a passion.

[MexicoCityM3]

I had that issue in the A4 more often than I liked. Seemed to happen especially in winter. Never had any other vehicle do that to me.  Can be super annoying trying to trickle in a whole tank.

Live the electric experience!!

[MexicoCityM3]

Ha! I just got the letter today from Infiniti corporate about this issue, stating that the warranty is extended to 15 years or 150,000 miles. FWIW I've never had the problem. Good thing, because the last thing I want to do is have to go to the gas station more than I would otherwise have to - I absolutely hate it with a passion.

Warranty on this specific issue?