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A curious mind wants to know.
Just a few quick questions, if you've got a moment . . .
1. Does "LOL" as used on TBN mean "lotsa luck" or "lotsa laughs" and how does a person know which one it is? If I intend one meaning and you read it as having the other meaning, then what?
2. Are NM wheels identical to the general-issue '02 wheels? Are they close?
3. The gas pedal controls a computer, which in turn controls the fuel flow. Is this sequence ever reversed--that is, the computer reads something about the fuel flow & takes control of the gas pedal?
4. The engineering I've described in #3 is called "drive by wire" & represents improved technology over the old accelerator set-up (i.e, a cable runs from the gas pedal to the engine compartment). The real improvement, however, is the introduction of the computer, not the wires to it. Shouldn't this new system be called "drive by computer"?
5. On TBN, is there a difference between "Member Showcase" & "Gallery"?
6. How many speakers in my '04 Retro? I find 3 pairs of grills, yet an article posted on TBN (one of those complainer articles) stated that the car has 8 speakers. What am I missing?
7. Will the windshield frame support an overturned Retro?
8. What's a fair donation from me to support TBN? How often?
9. There is a small scattering of fine sand (?) on the "shelf" that divides my headlights from the amber lights below. Anyone else have this situation? Is it possible for me to remove the entire headlight unit so I can dump the stuff out? If not, I plan to remove the headlight bulb & vacuum with a small rubber tube.
10. I've tried to remove the black plastic cover from the top of the engine. I've removed the push-pins from the front of the cover, but there is something holding it on along the back of the engine. Can't see or feel what it is. Don't want to break the plastic. Any advice?
11. If I spend big bucks for Borlas & then drive in the forest but there's no one there to hear them . . .
12. I have it, too--the squeak in the steering. It would be very, very, very difficult to convince me that it's coming from under the hood. I hear it as coming from where the steering column enters the dashboard. In the on-going & everlasting thread on this squeak, the author of entry #26 says WD40 does the trick. I'm hesitant to squirt some in at the point I've described, but if others have found relief by this method, I'll try it. Good idea or not?
13. Why so shy, guy? I'm referring to the anomymity exhibited in some avatars. Hey, we're all friends, right? Pretty close to family, even. Loving, trusting, caring, whatever. Me? I let it all hang out--in my avatar, that is. I'm not sure who I'm supposed to hiding my identity from. True, I sometimes feel our society is filled with axe murderers, icepick torturers, acid bath kidnappers, butt-squeezing bus riders, & worse. But this is TBN. Or am I being too trusting, too naive?
14. 5,269 members in TBN & they're all just like me? How odd. One of the first Retros I ever saw was turning south off E. Franklin St. into the campus. Red, beautiful, topless, side windows up, clean & shiny, a young couple in the car in their Sunday best . . . & African-American. My guess is that to be a member of TBN you have to: A) own a Retro & B) have at least some small degree of computer literacy. So why are we all so white? A & B are hardly excluding or precluding factors, given that they are distributed among 303 million Americans (& then toss in a few Canadians & the odd Dutchman). It's not a pressing issue with me--& I could be wrong in assuming that this particular aspect of my genetic code is uniformly shared by y'all--but if I'm correct in my assumption, it seems to beat the odds in a way that exceeds those of finding the Arizona Cardinals playing this coming Sunday.
And that, very briefly, is what's on my mind this morning. Hope you have a good day. :sun: That's all! You're done! I'm Will.
1. Does "LOL" as used on TBN mean "lotsa luck" or "lotsa laughs" and how does a person know which one it is? If I intend one meaning and you read it as having the other meaning, then what?
2. Are NM wheels identical to the general-issue '02 wheels? Are they close?
3. The gas pedal controls a computer, which in turn controls the fuel flow. Is this sequence ever reversed--that is, the computer reads something about the fuel flow & takes control of the gas pedal?
4. The engineering I've described in #3 is called "drive by wire" & represents improved technology over the old accelerator set-up (i.e, a cable runs from the gas pedal to the engine compartment). The real improvement, however, is the introduction of the computer, not the wires to it. Shouldn't this new system be called "drive by computer"?
5. On TBN, is there a difference between "Member Showcase" & "Gallery"?
6. How many speakers in my '04 Retro? I find 3 pairs of grills, yet an article posted on TBN (one of those complainer articles) stated that the car has 8 speakers. What am I missing?
7. Will the windshield frame support an overturned Retro?
8. What's a fair donation from me to support TBN? How often?
9. There is a small scattering of fine sand (?) on the "shelf" that divides my headlights from the amber lights below. Anyone else have this situation? Is it possible for me to remove the entire headlight unit so I can dump the stuff out? If not, I plan to remove the headlight bulb & vacuum with a small rubber tube.
10. I've tried to remove the black plastic cover from the top of the engine. I've removed the push-pins from the front of the cover, but there is something holding it on along the back of the engine. Can't see or feel what it is. Don't want to break the plastic. Any advice?
11. If I spend big bucks for Borlas & then drive in the forest but there's no one there to hear them . . .
12. I have it, too--the squeak in the steering. It would be very, very, very difficult to convince me that it's coming from under the hood. I hear it as coming from where the steering column enters the dashboard. In the on-going & everlasting thread on this squeak, the author of entry #26 says WD40 does the trick. I'm hesitant to squirt some in at the point I've described, but if others have found relief by this method, I'll try it. Good idea or not?
13. Why so shy, guy? I'm referring to the anomymity exhibited in some avatars. Hey, we're all friends, right? Pretty close to family, even. Loving, trusting, caring, whatever. Me? I let it all hang out--in my avatar, that is. I'm not sure who I'm supposed to hiding my identity from. True, I sometimes feel our society is filled with axe murderers, icepick torturers, acid bath kidnappers, butt-squeezing bus riders, & worse. But this is TBN. Or am I being too trusting, too naive?
14. 5,269 members in TBN & they're all just like me? How odd. One of the first Retros I ever saw was turning south off E. Franklin St. into the campus. Red, beautiful, topless, side windows up, clean & shiny, a young couple in the car in their Sunday best . . . & African-American. My guess is that to be a member of TBN you have to: A) own a Retro & B) have at least some small degree of computer literacy. So why are we all so white? A & B are hardly excluding or precluding factors, given that they are distributed among 303 million Americans (& then toss in a few Canadians & the odd Dutchman). It's not a pressing issue with me--& I could be wrong in assuming that this particular aspect of my genetic code is uniformly shared by y'all--but if I'm correct in my assumption, it seems to beat the odds in a way that exceeds those of finding the Arizona Cardinals playing this coming Sunday.
And that, very briefly, is what's on my mind this morning. Hope you have a good day. :sun: That's all! You're done! I'm Will.
She now drives one of those BMW 3 Series that is a hardtop/convertible.
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