Showing posts with label his. Show all posts
Showing posts with label his. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Wheres Hitman And His Car Updated 12 36 PM MST


The ChallengerTalk Forums have been on a rollercoaster ride the past week: Outrage over a member named "Hitman" being denied the keys to a 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 after a $29,100 winning bid on eBay was disputed by Southern California dealer Glenn E. Thomas Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep....support for "Hitman" when it was announced that he and the dealer were going to sit down face to face last Friday after eBay announced there was no technical glitch, as the dealer had claimed.....and celebration when, just after 7:00 AM PST Sunday morning, "Hitman" posted the news that the dealership "honored the $29.1K auction", along with a photo that showed a key with a Glenn E. Thomas fob atop a Challenger brochure and a handwritten note reading "YES!"

One more post, three hours later...saying he was going to take it easy, read the owners manual...and since then...silence. At least from "Hitman".  No more posts, no more photos.

From members of the forums? Well, a growing number of posters are questioning whether things are as they seem.  They dont really know "Hitman" (hed only made two posts on the forum prior to starting the thread about his having won the auction on March 13).

An examination of the bidding record for the auction raises some questions, too. 15 bids were made for the SRT-8, by only 5 bidders.

March 12, a single bidder made 10 bids, ranging from $22,000 to $29,000, with no competing bids in between, in a four and a half hour period. These appear to be automatic bids.

And then comes "Hitman" (or so were told, since eBay keeps actual bidder IDs confidential by assigning an anonymous bidder name)...who makes his one and only bid of $29,100.

But unless theres a glitch with eBay time stamps, thats weird, too...because the $29,100 bid is shown as having been made at 08:54:13 PST...and the 10-bid streak described above didnt start until 11:00:25 PST...more than two hours later. Which means "Hitman" chose $29,100 as his bid when the standing high bid was $20,100.

A last-moment hail-mary to shut out the competition? Maybe. Except "Hitman"s winning bid was more than five hours before the auction closed. And eBay says automatic bidders maximum bids are kept confidential from other bidders.

Open up "Hitman"s bidding history and youll find hes no power bidder. Hes been involved in exactly four eBay auctions...and the Challenger SRT-8 is the only one where he had the winning bid.

Hey, it could be that "Hitman" is just out enjoying the SRT-8...but his friends in the Challenger community are beginning to wonder if theyve been had.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Tilting the car with his hands

Many motorists, particularly those from older generations, prefer to repair their vehicles themselves. If minor damage can be pretty easy to fix in your own garage, the work associated with repair of the body or chassis, require additional equipment. Take, for example, dump the car. Buying a factory unit did not benefit the ordinary motorist, as it is used quite rarely, but worth a decent amount. At the same time, the need to use it in some papers is required. So how do you get out of this situation? There are many authoring road tripper, which is made by hand. They vary in design but have the same goal - to facilitate working conditions in a serious car repairs, not investing at the same time in the manufacturing of the devices a significant amount. Immediately I must say that looking at some construction, the first thing to pay attention to security that delivers a product with its use. There are quite a simple system, but the use of many pretty traumatic. For example, Tilting, made of wood material. In such designs is difficult to achieve stable stability of the device and given duty. Even if made on such drawings dump confident enough to work now, then after a while, with the aging of the wooden parts, its use can lead to accidents. Should give preference to those devices that are completely exclude spontaneous sinking car. This is achieved by mounting a serious enough tilt to the floor of the garage and the car. It is advisable to be at least three contact points, one of which falls on the opposite side of the lift side. This design dramatically reduces the risk of "backsliding" of the machine under mechanical impact and shearing it from blocking elements. When choosing a system tilt is useful to consider not only the capacity but the number of people that can help you raise the car. If you use a jack or a special lift system, this question is usually not necessary. Another important characteristic is the angle to which the design allows to lift one side of the car. Of course, it is sometimes quite a bit "bully" the machine to perform a certain job, but if you look more far-sighted, then a greater degree of uplift is always preferable. And in conclusion, that the manufacture of tilt to thoroughly work out the technical documentation design and try to follow closely the recommendations of the developer. If there are restrictions on the use of certain materials, it is reasonable to consider them or to apply more sophisticated. Of course, this should not limit your imagination and rationalization idea, but it is easier to improve an existing product than to start from scratch.

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