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Yes, the water will not come out of the wood. I'm going to say glass for now but something else will most definitely be used. Basically, the window (actually I should say side panel, because it will span the height and width) is detachable and slides into grooves on the wood. You can fill the water by detaching the side panel and filling water and dye into it. Then, insert the plug so the water does not leak, and slide it back into the grooves and then you have your water side panel.

The sliding is also very easy in terms of installing your parts. Need to edit a part? Just slide out the side panel, make some modifications, slide it back in.
 
Autocad free trial is such a slow download. It seems like Autodesk uses a torrent for Autocad, so whoever was senidng me that download has utterly terrible upload speeds. I just cancelled it anyway. I'm going to use pen and paper. Plus, the onyl Autocad I know how to use is 2003.
 
It was the Pilot Super Sport's, two on the rear, with the Kuhmos up front. 400 totalm bad news is Costco doesn't do the alignment so I'm gonna look at the receipt for the tires....

Damn tournament scoring system lost us 10-20 points thanks to the school network... Thankfully it was an exhibition roundi have 5 bucks on Steam since I just got CSGO....
 
You want the Pilots on the front. They are WAY more grippy than kuhmos and worse in the rain so if you lose control of the car they will slide first and you ALWAYS want the front to slide, NOT the back. MUCH easier to control. Also having a very grippy summer only track-spec tire paired with a crappy all-season tire on the other axle is NOT good and will cause really weird driving dynamics and cause both sets of tires to wear unevenly. Not very safe. The Pilots will probably only last a year or two at most in this situation. They will wear REALLY fast. I would DEFINITELY put them up front though. WAY safer.
 
I keep getting annoyed at people who are complaining that the R9 390 has 8GB vRAM. Oh forbid AMD puts extra vRAM on their card. I keep seeing people say things like "the 8 GB is pointless" and such and such. I'm not arguing that it is all used, as games today still use around 3GB vRAM. But still, it is being used as a source of complaint. Would they be happier if they brought it down to 3.5GB?

I think it is unpredictable that much vRAM will ever be utilized on the card, but I do believe future games will be using more than 4GB and the 390 will have an edge there. The 8GB vRAM did not seem to have any effect on the pricing of the 390. I guarantee the 390 would have been the same price if it had 4GB vRAM. But forbid AMD be generous. We all know it's a rebrand, and I think it is good that AMD does make nice tweaks to each rabrand. The additional vRAM, lower power and heat, and greater memory clock is what makes the 300 series (well, at least the 390) stand out as a solid rebrand IMO.
 


I figured the pilots should be on the front, but for the fact that they are new and have more grip. Hopefully they are really all-weather ones and I made a mistake buut...

Pilot Sport A/S 3
5 Year/45k warranty
Install & Disposal % Balance
Nitrogen Inflation
396 Total
160 per tire

Well... Crap..
 
Well that sucks. Those are AWFUL to daily drive. They have basically no tread at all and will be completely worn out in like a year. They have a 300 treadwear rating which is basically as bad as it gets. They are SO SOFT and due to this they wear out SO fast. A proper all season will have a treadwear of 500-600. The warranty is only 30k miles which means you will only get 10-15k miles AT MOST out of them compared to an all season with an 80k warranty where you will really get 40k out of them. How expensive were they? Those are TOP of the line performance tires. Generally REALLY expensive. The set I had on my GLI were REALLY expensive.
 
No, we(mom) actually got the Pilot Sport A/S 3's... What she said this morning was the Super Sports... Recommendation of the sales person... so probably did that on purpose if they really are bad and wear out fast...
 
Oh thank god. Those are All seasons and quite good ones at that. If she got the A/S 3s then she did well. If she got the super sports then good luck. Don't get me wrong, they are GREAT tires for what they are designed for but they are AWFUL daily driver tires. The A/S 3 is a good all season.

If you go look at the side of the tire it will say what they are.
 
I did a quick glance since my knees were killing me, but the receipt says A/S3, I'm believing them. So we are, this week, getting the oil replaced(NOT FROM JIFFYTUBE), and the alignment... That said, the Kuhmo's are in great shape apparently. I didn't take a good look. So apparently my mom hasn't done an alignment in three years, which I believe is completely false because of the fact that I remember BigOtires doing it way back when... two years ago.. and at American Tires.... so yeah...

Bulk Oil sounds really cheap....

Just heard my mom say it is a pair of tires every year... how did I miss that....

Back to Dial-Up thanks to CS:GO downloading
 
I have no clue...It says Multi-Grade Bulk Oil... sounds like trash

Well, I'm assuming it really is because there has never been an alignment(for a while), but there should be one per year and whenever the tires are switched out, right?

minimum of 30 miles a day, 7 days a week....
 
Yeah don't buy that oil. Buy proper oil. Cheaping out on an oil change or tires is like cheaping out on a PSU. I'm about to pick up oil for my car.

I do an alignment on a normal car once a year. My GLI got one every couple months due to camber and my G35 got one like every 6 weeks because it was low and the front toe would always go out and I got free alignments.
 
Yeah, I already warned my mom. Is it worth it to do the synthetic oil for the car? Its 50-60 bucks... I'd do it myself, but I have no jack so.... Besides the one used to change the spare which I don't trust... looks so weak...
 
Yeah I know, which is why I can't do my oil changes myself.
That sounds cheaper over the long run... or is it about the same, but giving the illusion of being cheap...

What, three months more for 20 bucks more....
 
I'm confused on how we only have 150k ish on the car... From here to school to moms work to back... yeah... I did the math and its 30 miles a day, 300 a week.... 10 weeks later its 3000, that's ~2-3 months
 
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