Is there a small detail on any car that you like/love? It could be any part or function of the car

Should've used Lego chainsaws.

That looks cheap as shit. Not to mention horrid.

Welp, I know what I'm using if I ever decide to make a Vulcan Lego model.

Beautiful.

fuck year.

those tail lights are fucking hedious though.

Woah...

probably the FB's buttons around the gauges.

post some pics user

what if you wanted to track it in the wet

you don't.

whoever can afford that car doesn't give a shit about your opinion though

The theft prevention on Rolls Royce hood ornaments.

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I don't know why the fuck this is so funny.

is hood ornament theft a common problem?

No one is just gonna touch it and let it disappear. If I were gonna steal it I'd latch on to it right there. Is the motor strong enough to rip it out of your hand?

yes especially with Mercedes Hood Ornaments.

I mean its not a huge problem but it happens now and then for some people.

>implying anyone would know it would shoot down.

why, are they actually valuable or is it just to fuck with the owner?

>is it just to bring it closer to the driver

I thought this was obvious.

It's strong enough to prevent theft even with force. Webm looks like shit because I quickly converted it, but it gets the point across.

Yes its a major problem in places like San Francisco

You're supposed to do that yourself before you leave this in a parking garage or somewhere similar

When I was a young kid someone stole the hood ornament off of the family Dodge Intrepid when we were at some steakhouse in a quiet little suburb. My brother had a Plymouth Neon as his first car and someone stole the emblem on that too.
Clearly its not because of the value. They steal it just to steal it.

Envy is an ugly and petty thing.

So after looking up another video on this theft prevention thing, the Rolls Royce hood ornament costs 10K to replace. 50K if you have the golden one.

Why aren't all engines gear driven? What do we even still have timing belts and chains for?

Probably faster to machine and install wheels and belts.

Belts are cheap, simple, lightweight, and work essentially perfectly as long as you keep up with the maintenance interval on them,

it's an old school crime
youtube.com/watch?v=5awcF-TTFQo

holy fuck what is the standard one made of

I think it's just hand cast in some special way.

Brand

Retarded subhuman fucks steal hood ornaments from Rolls and Merc and hang them on their wall.

I used to steal gt/turbo/whatever badges out of junk yards and put magnets on the back of them then place them on shitboxes. Elantra gt turbo ect...

Also used to turn the Ps upside down on jeeps, jeed.

do the p's just rotate?

That's fucking disgusting

No, retard. He took it off and turned it upside down

sounds like a lot of work to pry them off and glue them back on

yeah people like to steal them to put on chains or w/e

or just for fun

its usually shitheaded teenagers who do it, just for a laugh. kinda like stealing street signs

stealing street signs is fun for all ages

The FC has the same thing, few things feel better than turning a knob and having your headlights go up.

This looks cheesy as fuck.

I bet they break like popsicle sticks too,

shut up cuck

These guys are lightly diddling the ornament. I want to see how this system reacts to someone yanking as if to actually remove it.

why the salt friendo?

cost
when gear driven stuff wears out you have to replace every gear
almost the same with chains and sprockets
with belts it takes a while for the pulleys to wear out

Imagine if one of those things snaps off.

That'll be $6000 please.

those look like spare tires lmao
80 kmh max?

That is a lowball figure

OMG i'm a cam gear.

It would see the rain if you pissed all over it, amirite?

Golden idea.

the uneven "hitting" forces due to the cams fuck up the gears sooner than you would think and then you might as well use a chain.

first thing I thought of when I saw this thread

BMW got RR right. Kudos to them.

im pretty sure making cogs with that much precision and accuracy is super expensive

I figure if bike chains/sprockets are anything to go by, it's almost always preferable to replace the drive sprockets and chain as a single maintenance item as the teeth tend to become bias to one direction due to torque.
Replace just the chain and the worn sprockets will prematurely stretch the chain.

130k km on my SV1000 before the main shit the bed.

I guess the chain absorbs some of that lash, because the cam gears may as well have been brand new. Mind you, when you're pushing almost 10krpm on a 6L V12, routine maintenance is probably as important as orange peel on the pain.

Both of these, they hand cast them for the sake if adding prestige to the brand

No idea, there was no info on that prototype in the article.
It looks almost like a turbo Boxster or something though, the bumpers are definitely 996 Turbo-like.

>know of this anti-theft mechanism
>touch ornament
>throw the handful of gravel you had ready in your hand down the hole

>be 'merican
>have rolls royce
>thief attemps stealing ornament
>gets fingers stuck and broken in the hatch
>is eligible to sue you

fantastic

I really like the eclipse boot. I love the 3rd and 4th gen tail lights and I love it when people customize them. They're quite versatile. I really also just love when people rice the shit out of eclipses and put body kits and neon and shit.

The hood cracks open and a black fist punches you right in the nutz. German engineering.

Oh, so that's how they're planning on putting those migrants to work.

I'm surprised something this practical would be in a Ferrari.

Happened to My 97' SL600. had some Dindu grab the Mercedez logo out of the grill

Good thing it's a track car, since you probably couldn't leave it in a parking lot without a salty nigger/poorfag snapping some off.

kek