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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

2y ago

This may or may not influence my next car choice

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Gotta love how the factory lettering is just as bad as the ones the owner put on.
- Yeah, what's up with that? If anything, the custom ones look better.
  
  Looks like he took the letters off and put them back on. Originally the lettering has a way tighter spacing.

Nice, but also fuck cars. Is there a bicycle option for a more civilized age?
- civilized age
  This is dangerously close to a Star Wars quote
  
  Oh, my bad, you are right. Can you offer a better choice of words?
- Ain't towing your boat on a bike 🤷‍♂️
  
  Most people don't need to tow a boat, and those that do only need to do so a minority of the time.
  People should have the option to bike to where they need to. Instead everything is basically designed around cars being the only valid form of transportation.
  
  Depends. Rowboat? No problem.
  
  The one day you actually use it?
  
  When our species develops a philosophy without the need for accumulation of wealth, a inflatable kayak will do and can be easily transported by biclycle.
  
  You don't need a truck to tow a boat either, especially not a big one. Probably nearly any motor vehicle could tow the majority of boats that are being towed, not that most people who own a truck are toeing boats and not that boats are being towed often anyway. Just rent something the one day a year you take the boat out if you need to. It'll save you money in the end.

Anyone else notice the clever license plate. “Beam me up”
- I thought that was what I was supposed to notice.
  
  Look at the left side of the truck

Just rent a car from Enterprise, much less of a sacrifice than buying a fucking Nissan pickup

My other truck is a Galaxy Class.

The VQ40DE engine they put in the 2005-2019 models is a great engine. The RE5R05A transmission is solid as well. If you get one make sure it's either past 2008 I think or the radiator has been replaced. The stock radiators had a flaw where it would make strawberry milk by mixing your coolant and transmission fluid usually around 100k miles.
- I do love strawberry milk, thanks for the tip!!!
  
  The Gen 3 tundras have the coolant to trans fluid heat exchanger on the right side of the tranny where the thermostat for the tranny fluid is located. Keep that in Mind.
- I have a 2013. It gets shit gas mileage but I’ve never had any problems other than normal consumable parts.
  
  It's a truck, of course it gets shit gas mileage lol
  I do wish they'd bring back the small trucks that we had in the 80s

Happy to know some trekky out their is living their dream job.

This is awesome and I want to be friends with the owner so bad. No one in my friend group likes Trek

Fuck Nissan.
I do like this though.
- Someone bought a Nissan with a CVT
  
  Nissan subjected us to having to share the road with Nissan drivers.

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