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Participant[quote=spdrun]See my response above. If you’re driving a stick correctly, downshifting doesn’t have to make you slow down hard, since the engine is already spooled up before you re-engage the clutch. Once you’re running at 4000 rpm or so, you can basically control speed with the gas pedal alone.[/quote]
Again, it might be different in a diesel, but with a gas engine, at 70MPH, down shifting to 3rd or 4th gear will put you at near red line. Which will slow you down hard. At least with my car, it would slow me down hard. There’s no way my RPM would be at 4k in 4th gear going 70MPH. It would probably be around 5k+. That would force the car to slow down 10-20MPH in a very short period of time, unless I’m stepping on the gas. What’s the point of down shifting 2 gears if you’re going to keep your foot on the gas? Why not just leave it in the same gear and just let go of the gas? Unless you’re trying to piss someone off?Participant[quote=spdrun]Nope.
(a) my car’s a diesel. No throttle plate, so not much engine braking
(b) if you rev-match properly before letting the clutch back in, and ONLY THEN gradually let off the gas, the slowing will be very gradual. Not to mention that downshifting and letting the clutch in with the engine idling chews up clutch plates.If you’re talking about doing the same in an automatic, I’d actually agree, but unless it’s an electric car, any car I own will have the correct # of pedals.[/quote]
I never have a diesel, so I didn’t know down shifting in a diesel behave differently than down shifting in a gas engine.Your (b) sounds a lot less dangerous than your initial description. I though you’re talking about going 70 and down shift to 3rd or 4th gear and just let go of the gas. Now, that’s dangerous. Doing that can easily slow you down 20+MPH very quickly.
Participant[quote=spdrun]My goal is NOT to piss off a tailgater, BTW. In fact, I really don’t want to annoy them at all. I just want them to pass me or back off. It’s not a question of revenge or whatever, it’s a question of the safety of myself, my passengers, and my car.
Gently speeding up and slowing down will generally cause them to detach without even knowing why they did. Brake checking would put myself, them, and everyone else next to us on the freeway in danger. Not an option.[/quote]
Your intention doesn’t always have the same reception. I’m sure those who are tail gaiting you would be pissed off when seeing you slow down and leave a wider game, which would slow them down. Down shifting 2 gears is not gently slowing down. Down shifting 2 gears going 70 MPH will DRASTICALLY slow you down without letting the person tailgating you know your intention. You’re just asking to be rear ended. I would never attempt to do such a thing.Participant[quote=spdrun]If I’m slowing down, I actually look in the mirror and don’t let the gap close too much. Brake checking where you actually slam the brakes is a whole different game, and a fool’s game IMHO.[/quote]
When I break check, I look in the mirror, I make sure I have a big gap. But at lease when I break check, the people behind me see that I’m slowing down. I also only break very quickly and I’m not stepping on the break 100%, because I know my breaks are better than most cars on the street. So if I really slam on my break, I would be rear ended. Me, brake checking and moderately stepping on the break and really slow down. I start the break check at a far enough distance where the person behind can see that I’m breaking.You down shifting 2 gears though, is just asking to be rear ended by people who aren’t paying attention and not notice the space difference. Down shifting 2 gears will slow you down more than me break checking AND you don’t let the person behind you know what you’re doing. So, you sir, are operating in a more dangerous game than I am.
Participant[quote=spdrun]Lastly, I’m from NYC. Driving is a competitive blood sport here, but at the same time, brake checking and road rage aren’t all that common here. Relax and be a good sport about things. How can San Diego drivers be so angry in such a lovely place? Paradox.[/quote]
When I’m in the city, I don’t get road rage. I get road rage when I’m on the freeway and get cut off by punk asses who after cutting people off, drive like a granny or slow down and pace the cars in the slower lane.So, if I’m driving in NYC, I’d probably be more mellow than you and not even bother with slowing down/down shifting to piss off the tail gaiters.
Participant[quote=spdrun]
That would work for most user. What would work better is to just move to a slower lane. When people do that to me, I just gun it, pass that person and get into their lane, then slow down below the speed limit just the piss them off.
Lovely. Just the kind of punkass idiot I want to be sharing the road with.
Hopefully one of the people whom you brake-check will either not react and rear-end you, or follow you home and beat the living snot out of you.
BTW – if someone tailgates me in the passing lane, I’ll move over, and I generally keep right when not passing anyway. If someone does it on a 2 lane road but refuses to pass, or on the right lane of a freeway, I’ll try to detach them. Brake checking isn’t cool, but slowing down and speeding up slightly isn’t dangerous, but still gets the point across.[/quote]
Same sh!t, different pile. Using your words, hopefully, some of those people whom you try to piss off by slowing down will not either react fast enough and rear-end you or follow you home and beat the sh!t out of you.BTW, the only time I tail gate is when some punk ass cut me off and drive like a granny on the fast lane.
Participant[quote=spdrun]
Whenever they get too close, tap your brake pedal lightly enough for your brake lights to go on, but not enough to actually apply the brake and slow down.
I just downshift a gear or two and let off the gas gradually … accelerate a bit … let off. The varying distance without brake lights generally creeps most tailgaters out, and causes them to finish their proctological exam.[/quote]
That would work for most user. What would work better is to just move to a slower lane. When people do that to me, I just gun it, pass that person and get into their lane, then slow down below the speed limit just the piss them off. If they try to pass me, I’ll just speed up to prevent them from doing so. If I’m really pissed off, I can pass them, and do a hard break check on them.Participant[quote=Diego Mamani]I also make sure that I’m not in one of the faster lanes, because if I were, then I’d be the moron…[/quote]
Unfortunately, I’ve seen many morons doing this too. Then there are morons who pace the cars next to them, so even you want to pass them, you can’t.Participant[quote=spdrun]Both conditions:
(a) not being underwater
(b) being able to rent at a profitshould be true to make an owner happy. Being stuck with a rental property would also suck painfully.[/quote]
Most desirable areas, I don’t think ever was or ever will be cash flow positive from day one or even after a couple of years (assuming conventional 20% down). Being underwater only keep you up at night and make you unhappy if you intend to move. If you bought your dream home or a house you plan to retire in, assuming you can truly afford the place, why would you lose sleep over something that won’t affect you.Yes, being stuck with a rental property that have negative cash flow would suck. But being “stuck” with a rental property that’s under water doesn’t always suck, especially, if you’re cash flowing positive. If you bought a rental that wasn’t cash flowing, then this is a lesson you’d have to learn. But again, you’re only “stuck” if you’re intending to sell.
Participant[quote=bearishgurl][quote=AN] . . . My brother’s house (built in 2012), although it’s only 100 sq-ft smaller than mine, no way can hold the kind of party mine get. No way can he fit a table that can sit 14-18 people or have room for that many people to sit.[/quote]
Could it be because your brother’s house has a lot more walls? :={[/quote]
Funny thing is, NO. He has less wall (hard as it may seems, since I live in Mira Mesa, where we suppose to not have any wall). Actually, he has NO interior wall on the first floor (except to enclose a powder room).June 26, 2012 at 4:36 PM in reply to: OT: SD Unified Purchases 26,000 iPads For District Students #746565Participant[quote=Essbee][quote=ucodegen](in 1978…)Most high schools didn’t even have computers available to them, much less individual homes. The High School I attended was one of the rare one’s who did.. in 1975 (oops, dating myself here). This was the first system I learned to program (Not Basic, the other language that was available on that machine)
[/quote]Fortan maybe?[/quote]
Fortran?Participant[quote=sdrealtor]FWIW focus groups have been telling builders to get rid of living rooms for at least the last decade. Then again if I didnt have a living room where would I put my ping pong table?[/quote]
It seems like a lot of people don’t want them anymore. Personally, mine gets used all the time. I sit there to stare outside. When I have family over, some people will be in the family room watching TV while others are chatting in the dining room and others are chatting in the living room. Because they’re not all in one open space, you don’t have to talk over each other. My brother’s house (built in 2012), although it’s only 100 sq-ft smaller than mine, no way can hold the kind of party mine get. No way can he fit a table that can sit 14-18 people or have room for that many people to sit.ParticipantI feel sorry for you guys. Not only do you have to deal with lizards, now you have wabbits problem too?
Participant[quote=svelte]I can safely say this cuz no one owns – or even has a deposit – on any of these yet, but wow are those some bizarre layouts.[/quote]
I totally agree. Man, those must be the worst floor plan I’ve ever seen. -
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