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Car thread
XR-7:
My mom practically pulled me out the door in the middle of eating dinner to go practice driving the manual Versa. She drove me to my school where I practiced driving it in the nearly empty parking lot. After a scary encounter on the street, I ended up driving all the way home with almost no prior knowledge before last night.
Today was a decent day.
#Ravencroft:
Mounting tires is a pain in the richard. I spent three hours removing my regular tires from their rims and mounting snow tires this morning. Funny thing is I have a job working in a race shop and mount tires on a regular basis. Street car tires are A LOT tougher. I usually have two sets of rims for each set of tires but haven't gotten to that since I got a new car over the summer.
Alyx Vance:
--- Quote from: XR-7 on November 18, 2014, 11:26:07 PM ---My mom practically pulled me out the door in the middle of eating dinner to go practice driving the manual Versa. She drove me to my school where I practiced driving it in the nearly empty parking lot. After a scary encounter on the street, I ended up driving all the way home with almost no prior knowledge before last night.
Today was a decent day.
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Dang, at least you were able to learn quickly.
--- Quote from: #Ravencroft on November 19, 2014, 01:17:07 AM ---Mounting tires is a pain in the richard. I spent three hours removing my regular tires from their rims and mounting snow tires this morning. Funny thing is I have a job working in a race shop and mount tires on a regular basis. Street car tires are A LOT tougher. I usually have two sets of rims for each set of tires but haven't gotten to that since I got a new car over the summer.
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What exactly do you mean by mounting tires?
$trinick:
--- Quote from: Alyx Vance on November 19, 2014, 04:09:48 PM ---What exactly do you mean by mounting tires?
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Putting them on rims.
ABlockOfCheese:
--- Quote from: #Ravencroft on November 19, 2014, 01:17:07 AM ---Mounting tires is a pain in the richard. I spent three hours removing my regular tires from their rims and mounting snow tires this morning. Funny thing is I have a job working in a race shop and mount tires on a regular basis. Street car tires are A LOT tougher. I usually have two sets of rims for each set of tires but haven't gotten to that since I got a new car over the summer.
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what is surprising about mounting tires is that car tires are harder to mount/break down than big rig tires.