Learned'd VIII: Less Bewbs, Same Nonsense

[WDRacing]

I have the ABS and traction control disabled on my BMW.

[frapjap]

Who does that? The dealer, or is it as simple as a fuse pull?

[float_6969]

It's well known ABS ISN'T useful on snow and ice and lengthens stopping distances. There you be some kind of road condition switch on the dash of ABS equipped vehicles that allows you to disable the ABS easily in those weather conditions.

[WDRacing]

Who does that? The dealer, or is it as simple as a fuse pull?

Disabling ABS is going to be model specific. It's usually just a fuse though.

[frapjap]

I've been reading that there isn't a great way to disable it without taking VDC with it. But- since my car is a base model with a 5 speed, it looks like I don't have VDC. Based on my AWD sno drifting last night, I'd agree. However, I can't find anything concrete that says one way or the other.

Ben- could you look that up for me? 2007 2.5i Legacy 5MT

Another issue is that pulling a fuse might disable cruise- which really sucks.

I'll have to pull the fuse and replace it to figure it out by trial and error in the mean time.

[WDRacing]

I have an ABS light, does the Legacy? Makes troubleshooting which fuse really simple. Also, perhaps just unplugging something under the hood?

I don't think cruise is tied to ABS.

[sx moneypit]

I've been reading that there isn't a great way to disable it without taking VDC with it. But- since my car is a base model with a 5 speed, it looks like I don't have VDC. Based on my AWD sno drifting last night, I'd agree. However, I can't find anything concrete that says one way or the other.

Ben- could you look that up for me? 2007 2.5i Legacy 5MT

Another issue is that pulling a fuse might disable cruise- which really sucks.

I'll have to pull the fuse and replace it to figure it out by trial and error in the mean time.

Ray,if you have VDC there will be a on/off switch on the driver side of the dash .

[frapjap]

I do not have said switch. Or a traction control switch.

YAY! Its all up to me?

[Ace2cool]

Yep.

I pulled my ABS fuse too. I'll decide when I need to let off the brake. I'm not an OMG PANIC AND MASH THE PEDAL REALLY FRICKIN HARD kinda guy.

[Dattebayo]

I actually had to pull my ABS block on the Sentra and install brake line unions to fully bypass that shi*ty system. Even then you have the line balancers and other crap involved... Ten again, it's an older type. They probably make all that part of the MC now.

[PEZi]

[frapjap]

Yep.

I pulled my ABS fuse too. I'll decide when I need to let off the brake. I'm not an OMG PANIC AND MASH THE PEDAL REALLY FRICKIN HARD kinda guy.

LMAO, I like it.
I have confirmed that I have no VDC. That b**** is comin' out!



Morning folkses!

[sx moneypit]

Mornin' Ray!
How goes it?

[WDRacing]

Mornin Ray!

[frapjap]

Morning Brian, Ben.

Getting psych'd up for the big storm!

What've you guys been up to? Hows the countdown to moving, Brian?

[float_6969]

Morning all! I'm SORE. I (with my brother-in-law helping) started replacing the floors in my house on Tuesday. I'm friggin out of shape. Had to tear up 4 layers of flooring in the kitchen, then we put tile down (grouting today). Last night I started tearing up the bathroom floor and it was a nightmare. It had linoleum, but the put OSB down on top of the sub-floor and used a MILLION nails to hold it down, making it impossible to tear it up in any kind of reasonable manner. Basically just chipping away at the OSB as it disintegrated. Also found a bunch of mold in the sub-floor around the toilet. Apparently it leaked at some point and they didn't really fix it.

Once the kitchen and bathroom are done, wood laminate will go down in the rest of the house. Fortunately we don't have to tear anything up for that. It's going down on top of the existing wood floors. They're oak and I would have liked to have re-finished them, but the previous owner didn't take very good care of them and there are quite a few spots that are totally ruined.

[WDRacing]

Hows the countdown to moving, Brian?

Like anything else you look forward to, it's taking too long to get here.

started replacing the floors in my house on Tuesday.

When my Grandfather got out of the Army back in the day he started his own flooring business. That's so no BS work.

[frapjap]

Morning all! I'm SORE. I (with my brother-in-law helping) started replacing the floors in my house on Tuesday. I'm friggin out of shape. Had to tear up 4 layers of flooring in the kitchen, then we put tile down (grouting today). Last night I started tearing up the bathroom floor and it was a nightmare. It had linoleum, but the put OSB down on top of the sub-floor and used a MILLION nails to hold it down, making it impossible to tear it up in any kind of reasonable manner. Basically just chipping away at the OSB as it disintegrated. Also found a bunch of mold in the sub-floor around the toilet. Apparently it leaked at some point and they didn't really fix it.

Once the kitchen and bathroom are done, wood laminate will go down in the rest of the house. Fortunately we don't have to tear anything up for that. It's going down on top of the existing wood floors. They're oak and I would have liked to have re-finished them, but the previous owner didn't take very good care of them and there are quite a few spots that are totally ruined.

Sounds like you could have benefited from a Red Ripper shingle remover to knock out all of those nails.


What the hell were the 4 layers in the kitchen?! Did no one before you want to do the job right and remove the previous decades flooring?

[WDRacing]

People are lazy...

[frapjap]

Who from NICO lives in San Diego? I have to go for a conference and am thinking of spending the weekend there and would like to try to meet some folks if they're local.

[WDRacing]

You need to edit your profile.

[sx moneypit]

You need to edit your profile.

[frapjap]

You need to edit your profile.

My picture is getting old, too. I've been waiting for a mod to change it since football season has come to an end.

[Dattebayo]

The German comparisons up there, wtf?

Gee, lets compare a bunch of languages based on Roman Latin to one that has nothing to do with it and then stupidly wonder why it's so different...

[float_6969]

Sounds like you could have benefited from a Red Ripper shingle remover to knock out all of those nails.


What the hell were the 4 layers in the kitchen?! Did no one before you want to do the job right and remove the previous decades flooring?

NOW you tell me! Jeez, yea, we could have used one of those, LOL.

Exactly. Just layer on layer. We started on the bathroom today and it was a nightmare. Made the kitchen look like a walk in the park. The basic story is that I've discovered that the house that is on the foundation, wasn't originally here. It was moved here after a big flood that Kansas had in the 50's. The Kitchen and Bathroom aren't part of that original house and were added on after it was moved. When this was done, the addition wasn't level with the house, and so the sub-floor is a different height. Then to make it worse, they changed the access to the basement and back door at some point after the addition was made, and in doing so, cut about half of the floor joists and didn't re-distributed the weight properly, so the bathroom floor is TERRIBLY sagged and warped. This lead to the toilet leaking and rotting out 3 layers of sub floor. And like the kitchen, the floor was never torn up, so it had 2 layers on top of the sub-floor. To make it worse, who ever put the last layer of floor down discovered this, and instead of fixing it, they used a bunch of mortor to try and level the floor and then put OSB on top of it. Apparantly this didn't work well because they ended up GLUING most of the OSB down, and they had the nails spaced about 2" apart around the entire perimiter of each piece of OSB, making it nearly impossible to remove it. It took me about 4 hours to remove the OSB, and this is a SMALL bathroom. It's BARELY a full bath.

I'm gonna start a new TV show. I'm gonna call it f*** THIS OLD HOUSE!

[sx moneypit]

Mornin' folks! TGIF!!

[frapjap]

LMFAO!
Thats a great idea for a show. I hope every episode ends with a tip on how to burn down the house, flood it, or otherwise render it unliveable and returning a large amount of money to your pocket from the insurance company.


Seriously though, that SUCKS. Props to you for powering through it, the work at the end is always worth it. But, this is one of those time that I'd want to call a contractor or a handy man and make them do it. But then I wouldn't because the job probably wouldn't get done right, ya know?

Anyone else going to get hizammered by this storm? We're in the central "eye" of the storm and will see the most snow. I'm going skiing. Hopefully some good photos will come out of it!

[frapjap]

Morning fellas. 3 days and no posts? Weak!

[WDRacing]

Indeed. I don't have anything to report. I have work that needs doing on my van, the 540 and the 240...but ZERO motivation to do any.

My 240 needs a full suspension rebuild...not looking fwd to that. The stereo is F'd, I have the model with the factory amps, so I'll need to pull all the stock stuff and just rewire everything. New tires...repaint my R32 wheels...headliner...the list goes on.

[DrifterXRPS13]

Just dropping by to say hi!