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    AMGtech

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    • I've had this sticker for a while, so I bought a thing to put it on

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      2022 Defender 110 SE, with the inline 6. Special ordered back in June, and it finally showed up this week so I was able to pick up last night.

      Tow package, off-road pack with locking diff, air suspension, cold climate pack, air con seats, three zone climate with pm2.5 filter for PNW smoke season, premium LED headlights, upgraded stereo, and activity key so my girlfriend and I can do an activity together. She's not the moon spirit but she's still pretty great and likes activities.

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      I did not add all the fancy advanced off-road tech stuff, because the base level off-road pack is already plenty for someone who knows how to drive (whether or not I'm included in that group remains to be seen). No radar cruise, because I barely use cruise anyways. Plain black leather interior, no wood trim.

      Dealer experience couldn't have been better. Deposit was $2k when I ordered, non refundable unfortunately but I knew I wasn't going to back out so whatever. They didn't try to upsell me on anything, I asked for extended warranty and weathertech-style floor mats. That's it. MSRP went up since I ordered, but they honored the price I agreed to and credited me the difference. No markup. No bullshit. No hassle.

      Oh and since I have pretty great credit, around 580, I got excellent financing on it. 14.89% for 144 months! Did that give you a heart attack? Lol sorry couldn't help myself. 2.1 for 60 actually. Can't complain considering how much profit I could make selling this thing back to CarMax right now. And it'll be paid off before the warranty runs out.

      I am absolutely giddy and was fangirl-ing pretty much as soon as I got to the dealer until I got home.

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      posted in Oppositelock
      AMGtech
      AMGtech
    • "You're too expensive! My mechanic will fix it"

      A couple months ago a 2013 CLS came in after losing all it's coolant, and also complaining of oil leaks. M278 Bi-turbo V8. Main coolant leak was a broken turbo coolant line, but also had a badly leaking water pump. I looked it over and ended up quoting those and some oil leak repairs. Yeah it wasn't a cheap quote, but this is a complex engine very tightly packed into this engine bay. I could replace head gaskets on an old LR Disco faster than doing the repairs I quoted here. $5400.

      Well, as the title says, they had it towed to their mechanic to get it done cheaper. When this happens you don't always get a chance to look back over the other guy's work. But I got lucky, they brought this back in for more diagnosis.

      Towed in for oil and coolant leaks to be precise! This is where it gets fun. It did run though, so I checked oil level and went to pull it into my bay. Holy crap! That thing clattered so loud I thought it was going to explode! Any guesses?

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      Their mechanic didn't tighten the bolts on one of the high pressure fuel pumps, which caused it to break. The only things holding it in were the high pressure fuel lines going to the fuel rails. This thing rides on the camshaft with it's own follower/lifter so it was just hammering away! But those were the only bolts not tightened...

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      Two out of four bolts for the upper idler pulley bracket were only in by about two threads.

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      One of the water pump bolts was missing completely. Stripped out if I had to guess.

      What's really interesting, is that they didn't even need repairs around the high pressure fuel pump. They also completely neglected other areas I quoted, and appear to have not replaced the oil filter housing gasket when they had it off to do all the work, so that's puking.

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      What did their mechanic charge you might be wondering? Surely couldn't have been more than half of what I quoted right? Considering their work quality and cheapness of the parts they put on...

      $5398! Amazing deal! I am crook and feel shame for asking $5400.

      They towed it back to their mechanic and paid me for my diagnosis. Their mechanic needs his wrenches taken away.

      posted in Oppositelock
      AMGtech
      AMGtech
    • Well that sucks. Fuck thieves

      Monster was stolen. Waiting on cops and insurance and whatever else is involved in this.

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      posted in Oppositelock
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      AMGtech
    • Don't let your guard down just because people, possibly you, have been getting vaccinated

      I just lost a co-worker. We're having an outbreak at work, just as we started getting vaccinated. 10-15% of us have gotten the first round. Last Monday, pretty normal. Tuesday, 1/3 of the building was sick. We're currently down 2/3. It took less than a week for this person to go from the time of showing symptoms. I don't need your sympathy, I need your focus.

      Not blaming anyone, just reminding

      posted in Oppositelock
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      AMGtech
    • I have less money now than I did a couple hours ago

      Reason:

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      Deposit placed. Fully refundable. Assuming I go through with it, the Monster and Africa Twin will be going away.

      posted in Oppositelock
      AMGtech
      AMGtech
    • Stolen Monster update

      Bike has not been recovered. Which is fine, I don't want to see it after someone else has probably fucked it all up. I just want the assholes in jail, but that probably won't happen, so I'll take the payoff.

      Insurance (state farm) has been super easy to deal with. Submitted claim via app, submitted paperwork online, two 5 minute phone calls, and am basically done aside from sending them the title.

      Payoff: $11,300. For a 7 year old monster with 22,000 miles. I wasn't even planning on listing it for that much before it was stolen. I'll take it. Definitely makes it sting quite a bit less to lose it.

      For reference, mine was a 1200 base. There are a few 1200s for sale near me with less than 5k miles, selling in the 9-10k range.

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      posted in Oppositelock
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      AMGtech
    • AMGtech's thoughts on the new 223 S(hit)-class

      Hate it with a burning passion.

      Every function in this car is forced full of tech for the sake of being tech, at the expense of luxury. Every switch and button is now slower, more difficult to use, and less intuitive. They're all touch sensitive trash with alleged haptic feedback. I say alleged because I have yet to feel it. Which means they're trying to make a button operate like the touch screen on your phone, but feel like a traditional button. JUST MAKE A TRADITIONAL FUCKING BUTTON! All these switches feel super cheap too, like the buttons on a megatouch bar games machine from 2000, not like an S should.

      Hey Mercedes, if you need to have five online classes to explain to technicians how to use the sunroof and outside door handles, with sizeable lists of system shortcomings, your design might just be shit.

      Even in one of the training videos they show a guy using the seat heater switch, but he had to press it three times to register a single press. Because it's shit.

      They've also got motion controls. Why? Every switch is within arms' reach already, why would I want to try a motion control that takes more energy even if it works on the first try (spoiler, it doesn't).

      The outside door handles are too slow to react, so if you're faster than they are (flush mount, motor used to extend when you need to grab them), you'll pull against the motor and the door won't open until the motor catches up. If you pull too hard too fast you can damage it. You can feel and hear the motor operate and that feels cheap. The door closing sound is more similar to a 2003 Jetta than any non-G-wagen Mercedes.

      I hate that the center display of at a different angle from the instrument display, even though I understand why, the design to me isn't cohesive.

      I hate this car.

      Engine and trans are great. It's got some good features. But it isn't worth the hassle of everything else.

      There is only one thing I love in this car and that's the ambient lighting. You can set it to be different colors at the same time. As in fading from neon pink to light bluish/teal giving it a very 80's Miami vibe. There are plenty of others themes, but that vaporware color scheme has me dreaming of doing lines with rolled up Benjies right off the dash (not really but you get the point).

      If you want a newer S-class, get a 222 that's newer than 2018 so it has the 176 hot V and 9 speed. That car is a winner. The 223 is a waste of materials and scourge on the planet.

      Here's a photo of how I really feel:

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      posted in Oppositelock
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      AMGtech
    • Pain. Real talk. Losing family. *Possible trigger warning*

      One of my cousins killed himself yesterday. I haven't actually seen him in years, but we were the same age and always played together growing up. We only lived a few hours apart and our families were close, so get togethers weren't infrequent.

      I can't really help but wonder if this is all a ripple effect from something that happened before we were even born. Or if there's "something in the water" like my grandma thinks.

      Decades ago, when my dad and aunts were all still kids, the youngest about 5 at the time, something similar happened. My youngest aunt came home earlier from school not feeling well, they let her just walk herself because tiny rural town and home was only three blocks from school. When she got home, she found her dad had shot himself. Obviously this would really traumatize his kids.

      Maybe a year after I graduated highschool, one of the kids from across the street shot himself. He was still in high school. I was 4-5 years older than him, and he moved in when I was already a teenager. So I knew the kid a little bit. He was friends with one of my other cousins who lived on the same street as us though.

      A few years after I graduated highschool, a kid I grew up next to, maybe three years younger than me, did the same. Right in front of his girlfriend. Fuck. I was never close to him, but I ran into his mom a couple years ago and she just started bawling.

      Maybe a year or two after that, I don't know, timeline is fuzzy, one of my aunts took her own life. The mother of my cousin who took his life yesterday. She had three kids. Her dad was the one from earlier, decades ago. She wasn't the one who found him. I don't say that to reduce her pain, just to try to differentiate between them all. Sorry if I'm not making much sense I'm shaken up.

      A few years ago, a different cousin tried, but fortunately failed. She is doing well today, I spent time with her in November. She's one of the ones that grew up across the street from me.

      And now this

      4 suicides on the street I grew up on. Rural town of less than 800 people. 3 family member suicides, 1i never knew. And 1 attempted.

      I can only think of one other suicide from our whole rural community, which includes two other slightly larger towns and multiple townships. Why so many on my street and in my family? We're a good family, full of love and very close knit, supporting. I don't get it.

      Depression doesn't fuck around. Get help if you need it. Please. There is so much to live for.

      posted in Oppositelock
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      AMGtech
    • Defender review, after couple weeks of ownership and finally taking it "off-road"

      Very first thing I noticed upon picking it up was the keyless entry door handles. They have an actual button to press that locks and unlocks the vehicle. I didn't notice when test driving or checking them out prior to ordering because the vehicles were always unlocked already, so it didn't cross my mind. This caught me off guard because Mercedes hasn't used actual buttons there since maybe 2011 at the latest. Our stuff is all capacitive touch and actually works extremely well for that application. There's nothing wrong with actual buttons, assuming they remain water tight over time, it's just a reminder that this isn't a Benz. Just something for me to get used to.

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      As far as capacitive touch goes, this has literally nothing like that aside from the center screen. I love that. Capacitive touch buttons make me want to use the Defender for one of its original purposes and go to war against whatever engineer decided to put them everywhere in newer Benzes. This was a not-insignificant deciding factor in buying this, sans employee discount, versus buying a new Benz with an employee discount.

      As for the interior features and controls the Defender does actually have, there are real buttons and dials on the center console for everything except media controls (minus volume, there is a rotary knob for that on the console, and a scroll wheel on the steering wheel). Driver and passenger each have physical dials for temperature controls, seat heating and cooling, blower speed; all of which cleverly utilize the same dials. They do it by having you press another button first, or the knob itself, which changes its usage. Yes, it adds an extra step, but it really de-clutters the dashboard and adds to the utilitarian feel. The terrain response system is controlled the same way, press button, rotate knob. It didn't take me long to get used to the controls, but if you don't know how it works it could definitely be frustrating. I could see somebody buying one of these and missing out on multiple features just because they were never told and never read the manual. Steering wheel has all the standard controls, again, no capacitive crap! Heated steering wheel, heated seats, and AC seats are all wonderful.

      Touchscreen, its menus, Android auto, and apple carplay all work as they should and are easy to navigate/control. My biggest issue here is that the shifter slightly blocks my hand from getting to the screen, not my view of it, just my hand. But only slightly, and two days with the vehicle I was already subconsciously adjusting for it. No more problem.

      One thing I really love is the interior design. It really looks and feels like a descendent, an evolution, of a classic Defender. I've spent a ton of time working on and driving the old ones on road and even off. The new one really hits the mark for me. I can see arguments for this not being a Defender because no straight axles, but after living with it, I don't care anymore. It's like arguing about whether coca-cola is still even coca-cola without cocaine. Who cares. We can't have the old anymore because the world has moved on. That doesn't mean the new isn't following the footsteps of old, that caffeine still gets me going.

      I went with the upgraded meridian audio system. Which honestly, I don't love. Don't get me wrong, it sounds good and has solid bass, but for the money mid-range needs to be a lot stronger, and the equalizer controls should be more than just treble, bass, and subwoofer. A three band equalizer, plus sub, with a few preset maps should be the bare minimum at this price point. Treble is clear and bass is strong, but there's not much in between. Another thing, I can't honestly tell if this has speed compensating volume. I find myself adjusting volume a lot more than in any Benz made in the last 15 years. Road noise is at worst only a few decibels worse than my R-class. But that's to be expected, wedge versus brick, carpet interior versus no carpet, luxury family hauler versus high end off-roader. None of these things actually bother me, but they are worth mentioning in a review.

      I also upgraded to premium LED headlights, which are awesome. They are perfectly aimed, the cut line almost never illuminates the interiors of other vehicles, but just up to the bottom of windows at most. Everything below that is a nice, even, bright white. Then there's the puddle lights, which I've gushed over already 😍

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      I also opted to get the optional activity key, which is actually a wearable that looks like a smart watch. It even functions like a smart watch. It has a basic touchscreen display that lets you lock, unlock, and start the engine, shows date and time, and let's you put the device into a water mode that makes the screen much less sensitive and requires multiple very deliberate presses to unlock it. It is waterproof and shockproof, intended for things like rafting, kayaking, mountain biking, etc. All things I like doing. And at $200, it's cheaper than my cost on a Benz key. And trust me, standard smart keys do not like getting wet and getting a new one can be a real big hassle on some vehicles. When I checked that box on my build, the activity key was actually the old design, basically an NFC wearable that has to be activated each use and could only lock/unlock. So what I got was a pleasant surprise and much more user friendly.

      On road driving is exactly what I wanted. Firm suspension, but still very comfortable, because air. Excellent handling for it's size and height, minimal body roll at speed. Excellent power delivery (almost 400hp) and smooth throttle response. Well, mostly smooth. This is the P400 inline 6 cylinder 48v mild hybrid. Things like this, just by their nature, sometimes feel a little jerky when transitioning between engine acceleration, electric motor power, deceleration, and regen. Benz and others have this problem as well. I only notice it when stuck in heavy traffic below 10mph, and it really isn't bad. I've mostly just been commuting in it, in nasty traffic, but averaging 20mpg is a huge improvement over what the R--class gets in the same conditions, which is about 13-14mpg, at an average speed of 15-20mph.

      And now for the fun part! On Saturday we went hiking. Easy, right? Well this is the description of the road leading up to the trailhead: "Both options finish with 2.6 miles on Forest Road 4109, which is extremely rutted and rough, with deep potholes and trenches, and getting worse every year. High clearance is required and 4WD is STRONGLY recommended."

      https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Silver_Star_North_Trailhead

      No it isn't actually off-roading, but I'm working my way up so I don't dive in too deep and get in trouble. The being said, my R-class would have had a very hard time making it up this without taking severe damage. I would not have attempted it on my old Monster either, which is saying something I think. I will do this road again on the Honda (or Desert X), but only if I'm not alone. There were deep washouts and ruts, steep approach and departure angles, mud, snow, and loose gravel.

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      The Defender only lost traction for a microsecond one time when some gravel slipped under a rear tire. At one point I had to pull off track to let a another vehicle get by, and at that point scraped under the front slightly on a gravel pile. No damage done though. There was also an optional water crossing that I tried on the way back down. Unfortunately I forgot to turn on wade sensing prior to going through, but if I had to guess, I would say it was 18-20" at its deepest point, and VERY soft ground under all that water. But not even that slowed the truck down. I got nervous at the water depth, and didn't want to stop to fiddle with turning on wade sensing, but the truck just politely thanked me for not just parking it with one wheel on a curb at the mall, and continued on its way.

      The ride quality off-road is next level. Better than anything else I've been in. Raised height mode gets a little stiffer and bouncier, but it's still excellent. Old Defenders beat you up and exhaust you. This doesn't. It's basically cheating. It's almost too easy. That could end up getting me in trouble at point!

      Others have complained about the P400 having too touchy a throttle for off-roading. I think they're full of it. It was very controllable in comfort mode, and only got better when choosing the correct terrain response setting. That being said, those complaints were all early 2020's, first year, mine is 2022. LR may have fixed that issue, if it ever really existed.

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      Unfortunately I was having too much fun to get out and take more pictures, but these snowy shots are nowhere near the worst of it and don't even do those exact spots justice.

      I had been thinking about a custom plate that says "disco 5" because at first it seems a better successor to the disco line than to the Defender line, and certainly more so than the giant mind-boggling design choice that is the actual D5. But as I said earlier, after living with it, I don't care anymore. It would be an insult to this truck's abilities and conscientious design. And quite frankly, this will wipe the floor with all but the most heavily modified old Defenders, in every category. This is better.

      posted in Best of Oppo
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      AMGtech
    • Yesterday's ride was supposed to just be motorcycles, not a also a helicopter

      Met up with @beefchips yesterday to ride some dirt. A bit of wayfinding was needed as the BDR route was wrong and wanted us to go down a steep slope that clearly has never been used as a trail and was littered with dead and fallen trees, and also use a hiking trail that's gated to motor vehicles. Even with that little snag early on we could see the trails were going to be great!

      After finding our way onto the correct route, we stopped for lunch at a huge intersection/pull out area on a forest road. While eating, we heard what I at first thought was a Harley coming down the trail behind us! Well my ears might be broken because it was just a V-strom 1000 with a slip on. Chatted with the guy riding it for a few minutes and then we all headed our separate ways.

      The trails were almost entirely easy forest service roads, with a few gnarlier sections here and there, but nothing crazy. Eventually we came to the Wolf Mountain fire lookout. At 108' tall is apparently the tallest inhabitable wooden structure in... the country? world? I can't remember. But the guy working that post invited us up, and told us all about it and even let us have a look through his telescope thing that he uses to look for fires! He was genuinely excited to have guests, so if you find yourself in the area, check it out and say hi!!
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      Continuing on, the trail remained easy forest roads except for small sections. Until we got to my favorite part of the ride so far. Legit double track jeep trails with large exposed roots, rocks, deep ruts, technical climbs and deep puddles! These would've been rated blue squares at a mountain bike park, which is a lot of terrain to handle on such big bikes (read: not dedicated dirt bikes). It was rad! And the Africa twin has no right to be as good off road as it is!

      Then the real fun started. And by fun I mean the opposite. We came to a very long puddle that there was no way around. We grabbed a long stick to check depth, maybe about a foot, and used the stick to feel for any obstacles hiding under the brown water. Feeling that it looked worse than it actually was, we went for it.

      I don't know if we missed something or if it was just the mud and ruts being thick and heavy, but beefchips bars kicked sideways, causing him to lose the clutch and pull too hard on the throttle and go full send. Mother nature told him half sends weren't allowed. I'm not gonna lie it looked pretty badass, huge rooster tail shooting up and water flying everywhere! But there's an inherent issue with bars turned really far and lots of throttle on a narrow trail. And let me tell you, trees don't take no shit. That KLR bounced right off that tree.

      If you are squeamish, stop reading, jump to the end no pictures though

      Beefchips was trying to stand up by the time I got to him. But he immediately told me his ankle was broken. He laid back down and as he did I could see his foot wasn't really moving like it should, just sort of flopping around. If you want to see what it looked like, look up videos of Dak Prescott's leg injury. I took a closer look at it, being careful not to move anything. It was bleeding, but not profusely. I knew it would be awhile before we were able to get help and I was unable to get a real close look because of his boots and riding pants. But it wasn't arterial, so that was good! I helped him, while doing my best to prevent further ankle and foot movement, to get it slightly elevated to slow blood loss. Then activated my emergency GPS beacon. Got him a couple aspirin and did my best to downplay the injury. Last thing he needed was to go into shock. But he was hanging in there, totally lucid, doing great really. No damage to the helmet or complaints of pain anywhere else.

      I knew there was no way in hell an ambulance could get anywhere close, so I scouted the area and found a big open meadow nearby. We also tried calling 911, but there was no reception at all, we had been descending through thick forest for a few miles. After covering him with as many layers as I could and making sure the bleeding wasn't getting worse, I walked a half mile in either direction to see if I could get reception, but even in the meadow the was nothing, with either of our phones. At this point it had been an hour since he crashed and I activated the beacon, and still no sign of rescue. We both felt it would best for me to ride out to find signal. So off I went, back the way we came, up the hill. I had to go about a mile before getting the slightest hint of signal. But it was enough and I managed a 911 call.

      I had made a note of GPS coordinates from the beacon and relayed those to the dispatcher. Unfortunately, service was cutting out, there were dropped calls, and also some figuring out which emergency services department would be closest. My phone was only pinging off of one tower so they couldn't get a solid read on my location. Then I had to do some more scouting to find a sign to indicate which road we were on. I hadn't seen any in quite a while, but it turned out there was a nearby one, just fallen over. All in all, it was about 30-40 minutes of minutes of phone tag with emergency services to get a tag on location. Then another agonizing 10-15 minutes where I didn't hear anything from anyone and reception had gotten worse. I hated leaving him lay there, but figured if I went back to him I wouldn't be able to use my phone or lead anyone to him.

      Then I heard sirens!!! And a few minutes later a lifted Tahoe and Silverado on mud tires and sheriff's dept decals came blasting up the trail right to me! I lead them back to the accident site. They also immediately knew it would take a helicopter to get him out. So one of the guys started working on that and went to pick up the ambulance crew that was parked at the nearest trailhead, an hour roundtrip. So the other officer and I worked on stabilizing the leg and removing the boot. Moto boots do not like to be cut off, they are tough! I can't imagine the pain he was in, but he stayed with us the whole time and was a champ about all the shit we were doing.

      Once the boot was off and pants were cut to halfway up the thigh we were finally able to fully assess the damage. Multiple breaks to the tibia, multiple breaks to the ankle area with bones protruding, but he was able to wiggle his toes and could feel them when pinched, apparently no sensation lost anywhere which is a very good sign.

      Ambulance crew then showed up. And I don't mean like what you see in movies. This was two (clearly trained) locals in their normal clothes. I don't say this to diminish their knowledge or abilities. They were called out of their homes at dinner time to help us out. They were fantastic. It's just a rural area with a town that barely has a gas station, they can't have a full time team of paramedics on staff.

      One of the medics and I worked on moving the KLR as it was still right next to him preventing more than one person from really comfortably working next his leg. Bike was still tipped over and back of it partially submerged.

      Anyways, they went to work stabilizing the leg for real with actual medical things, the other officer got back on the radio and set up beacons to help the chopper find us. Then the rest of us loaded him onto a backboard and strapped him down. Helicopter arrived and we got him loaded into it and on his way to the hospital.

      From time of crash to liftoff, it was probably about 4 hours. Four hours of laying there in agony, shivering from trauma, being completely alone for at least an hour while I was getting a hold of emergency services. Can't imagine this from his perspective. What a badass.

      TLDR/for the squeamish; basket broken ankle I'm the middle of nowhere on difficult trails. Helicopter evacuation needed.

      We were over two hours from the hospital he went to, so I haven't been there yet. I found my way to a hotel as I was in no mood or frame of mind to set up camp for the night. I'm going to call the hospital in a bit and see if I can get an update.

      Oh, and we got all of his stuff off the bike, and the officers took it back for him. I was able to ride(!) The largely undamaged KLR out of the soup it was in and parked it in the meadow for now. We will have to figure out how to retrieve it later, or it gets stolen and insurance pays out. I don't know.

      Stay safe oppo.

      posted in Oppositelock
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      AMGtech

    Latest posts made by AMGtech

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      @decay-still-has-too-many-beaters I'll just grab the magic thing from you then

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    • RE: Decay 1, Oregon 0

      @decay-still-has-too-many-beaters said in Decay 1, Oregon 0:

      @AMGtech you can just have one, they literally cost me pennies to print

      Sweet thanks! Coming to the meet in June?

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      @decay-still-has-too-many-beaters would you be willing to sell me one of these magical devices?

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      @AestheticsInMotion jeebus. That's over double my mortgage on a 15 years loan. We should've passed rent control laws at least twenty years ago.

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    • RE: How much is Infiniti hated?

      @ranwhenparked no doubt! I don't mean the comparison as an insult to Infiniti at all

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    • RE: How much is Infiniti hated?

      @Genesis_Haysenhox "Infiniti made the sexiest coupe in existence" lol wut

      They're fine. I agree Infiniti is underrated overall, but calling that the sexiest coupe in existence is like saying Red Robin makes the best cheeseburgers in existence. And that may be true to someone who has only ever eaten at fast food joints, but on a greater scale isn't even close to true. Actually, that applies to Infiniti overall, they're the Red Robin of cars. I like Red Robin, but there are often better options depending on what you're looking for.

      Best Infiniti is 2003 M45. It's like a Ford crown Vic but better in every way. Many of the rest are fine, some downright suck.

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    • RE: This or That 199

      @Exage03040 other than parts availability, does the Couper have anything going for it against this Nissan?

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    • RE: Who wants to see the dumbest emergency key ever?

      @EssExTee oof glad they stopped using that style. Mine is like everything else, press button and key slides out

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