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From: ganapath@tahoe.qualcomm.com (Chinnappa Ganapathy)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Slick-50 Motor treatment/oil
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:54:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: qualcomm.1992Apr13.185422.20177
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

In article <fragante.702945083@chilko.ucs.ubc.ca> fragante@unixg.ubc.ca (Gv Fragante) writes:
>
>If you're going to use S-50 in your car, make sure you follow the instructions
>to drive your car for about 30 minutes before turning it off. This is supposed
>to allow S-50 enough time to reach and circulate inside the engine block,
>making itself stick to the moving parts. Otherwise, if you just pour in S-50
>and park the car, your just pouring it down to the oil pan where it's going to
>stay.

Wouldn't it circulate the next time you drove the car?  I don't see the
problem here.

Chinna
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From: samblane@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Sean Samblanet)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Slick-50 Motor treatment/oil
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:37:46 GMT
Reply-To: samblane@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Sean Samblanet)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


     I have a_ 1990 Eagle Talon Turbo that I race in SCCA Showroom Stock
events.  My question does_anyone know if Slick-50 would cause any problems
with the turbo seeing that the engine_ oil is run through it?

    Any info on S-50's effect on turbo engine is appreciated.

Thanks
Sean
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Stereotypical frustrating drivers
From: alan@lancaster.nsc.com (The Hepburn)
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:48:25 GMT
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation

In article <1992Apr03.073157.20020@Celestial.COM>, bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
|> How 'bout the idiot who pulls up to the intersection, waits for
|> the light to change, then turns on the left turn signal.  For
|> that matter any person who signals less than a block from where
|> they're going to turn.
|> 
|> 

I think that signalling MORE than a block from your turn is just as bad as not
signalling at all.  Isn't it confusing, and irritating, to see someone turn on
their signal and then NOT turn at the next corner?  "Oh I was going to turn up
here about 6 blocks, but wanted to make sure everone knew it"...

The CVC requires a signal for 100 feet before a turn (or lane change).  If the
intersections are less than 100 ft apart, then you should signal as soon as possible
without generating any confusion as to your intentions.


-- 
Alan Hepburn           "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
National Semiconductor       a little temporary safety deserve neither
Santa Clara, Ca              liberty nor safety."
alan@berlioz.nsc.com                              Benjamin Franklin
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
Subject: Re: Stereotypical frustrating drivers
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:45:38 GMT

randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) writes:
>bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>> How 'bout the idiot who pulls up to the intersection, waits for
>> the light to change, then turns on the left turn signal.  For
>> that matter any person who signals less than a block from where
>> they're going to turn.

>Whoa, there pardner.  You're suggesting sitting at an interminable light
>to leave your turn signal on for the duration of the light is the proper
>or "non-idiot" thing to do?  Au contrare.

>Bill, you might want to revisit your drivers ed books.

I don't know what state you're licensed in, but in both MA and NH you
are required to both 1. turn your signal on in advance of any turn
(the definition of "in advance" varies, but my general rule-of-thumb
is that you do it just before you start decellerating or, if that
would be ambiguous, after you get beyond an ambiguity point -- usually
both are within about 150 feet of an intersection on a rural road and
somewhat less in the city), and 2. leave your signal on until you've
cleared the intersection.

>Personally, I'm all for turning off turn signals while sitting at long
>lights.  I KNOW YOU'RE TURNING, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME ALL DAMNED
>DAY LONG.  A brief informative notion that you're turning is enough,
>but don't wear the message out.  Since you're not going anywhere, who
>gives a damned. 

Turn signals aren't only for the car behind you!  It's important to
pedestrians if you're taking a turn on red and even more important for
cars across the intersection if you're turning in front of them.  At
long lights it's even more important that you keep the signal turned
on because it's more likely that other vehicles or pedestrians will
show up after you've stopped -- and would thus have no idea of your
intentions.

>I'd love to see all cars by the year 1995 or sooner have turn signals
>that automatically shut off after ten blinkeys.

>It would keep the dorks that drive down the highway with their signals
>flashing away in line and help the signally impared {tm} from flashing
>their turn signals for the entire duration of long lights.

This is why blinkers have visual and audible feedback.  People still
forget them, but for the most part the clicking or blinking eventually
annoys them into turning them off.

Those turn signals are the best thing you have for telling other
drivers of your intentions.  Just because some people don't use them
properly doesn't mean that you should disable them.

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving,rec.autos
From: tpaquette@ita.lgc.com (Trevor Paquette)
Subject: Re: ATTN: Canadians! (re: Radar Detectors)
Organization: Landmark/ITA Inverse Theory and Applications
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:49:02 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.060014.3897@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> schaffer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Doug Schaffer) writes:

> ...
> Also, most roads around here, (most of the province) are quite long and 
> straignt until you get into the mountains.  Police use more instanct on
> on in the middle of nowhere (look for a car on the side of the road not
> moving) and in Calgary (and maybe Edmonton??) there are some MultiNova
> automatic photoradar guns that are (movable and) attached to the underside
> ...

  Edmonton also just got 4 new LASER guns.. knowing the Calgary Police, they'll
 soon follow. Enjoy your radar detectors while you can folks..

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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: maurice@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Maurice Rich)
Subject: Re: fog lamps
Keywords: humor
Organization: ITC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:59:35 GMT

randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) writes:

>maurice@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Maurice Rich) writes:
>> In Australia we have roos, wallabies, cattle, sheep, feral pigs, etc
>> who seemingly delight in trying to find the shortest messiest route between
>> the radiator grill and the dash that doesn't entail going over the bonnet
>> (hood I think you americans call it ?)  This kamikaze critturs sit beside
>> the road at night awaiting unwary motorists with underpowered high beams.
>> Thus my penchant for aftermarket lighting !

>That's understandable in the outback and all.  We're mostly peeved by
>the unfathomable ego thing when it's done in the city with bazillions of
>street lights on and *lots* of other traffic.


"Urban" Cowboys !...   but, really, I do live in the city.. Pull your
Atlas out and look where Brisbane is.. It is the capital city of my state.
Probably 60-80 percent of Queensland's population is concentrated in the
SE corner and up the coast.  To visit my relatives in Cairns & Mt Isa
(Camoowheal actually) is approximately a 2 to 3 thousand mile round trip
depending which way I go !..


-- 
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From: disc5e6@rosie.uh.edu (92S00302)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Slick-50 Motor treatment/oil
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:07:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: rosie.10APR199215073884
Organization: University of Houston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr6.035058.24141@wuecl.wustl.edu>, c31002wb@jezebel.wustl.edu (WILLIAM) writes...
> 
>I've been hearing and seeing alot lately about this "Slick-50" motor treatment.
>They claim that it's not a motor oil but more of an engine protector.  
>I was wondering what the various net opinions are about this product.  Has 
>anyone used it?  Did it help?  Could it potentially harm the engine?  I've
>heard it's rather expensive ($50+), is that true?
> 
>Thanks in advance,
>-william
> 
>                           ||   A truely wise man does not play leapfrog     || 
>William E. Burris          ||	          with a unicorn                     || 
>c31002wb@jezebel.wustl.edu ||                           -???                 ||
>                           ||  Looks like blind screaming Hedonism won out   || 



      I saw an ad at K-mart in the paper today for slick-50
it was only $20 for a bottle.  Not cheap but probably worth it.
From: mgh@hera.aps.anl.gov (Mike G. Hoffberg)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Covert radar gun under development.
Keywords: auto,radar
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:15:35 GMT
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago Illinois

In article <1992Apr15.154931.1252@news.nd.edu> fdeck@sleepy.helios.nd.edu (francis deck) writes:
>
>Has anybody considered STEALTH TECHNOLOGY for cars?  I know
>the Corvette is made of plastic... Do 'Vette owners get
>pulled over by radar cops?
>
>f. deck

Not again.  :(   (extremely unhappy face)

MIKE
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From: peterco@eff.org (Peter A. Cohen)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving,rec.autos
Subject: ATTN: Canadians! (re: Radar Detectors)
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:20:51 GMT
Organization: ON Technology, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2

Are there any cities or provinces in Canada where use of a radar detector
is illegal?  My fiancee and I are planning on taking a driving trip this
summer.

- Peter
From: bradl@tekig5.pen.tek.com (or current resident)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: fog lamps
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:48:02 GMT
Reply-To: bradl@tekig5.pen.tek.com
Organization: Pokey Folk on Parade

In article <shpveINN41t@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> mike@gilligan.Sun.COM (Mike Roncadori - Information Resources) writes:
>In article <1992Apr15.171848.6115@cis.ohio-state.edu> prabal@pons.cis.ohio-state.edu (Prabal Acharyya) writes:
>>
>>four lights even there is no fog.  Sometimes they are OK but sometimes
>>they really hurt (depending on the design and position of lights I
>>guess).  So, is there a law, or anybody can switch on *all* the lights
>>they have.
>
>I think that it's just a matter of personal judgement here in
>Virginia. I heard that New York just enacted a law similar to
>the statute for high beams (turn them off when within 500 ft.
>of other traffic). Given the total lack of sense displayed on
>the roads around here, I applaud New York for that law.
>
 
 Ditto. There was a thread a while back regarding what the owner's
 manual(s) said about using the fog and/or driving lights. The person
 who started the thread rudely failed to summarize, junked the email,
 and so forth. But what I^H *he* undoubtedly meant to summarize was the
 following:

 o	Drivers of cars that came equipped with driving or fog lamps
	reported that the manual said, essentially, DON"T BE A SCHMUCK,
	TURN YOUR LIGHTS OFF IN THE FACE OF ONCOMING TRAFFIC.

 o	Several respondents reported their manual made no mention of
 	driving or fog lights, whatsoever. These people are temporarily
 	forgiven; by now they have (heh) seen the light (or were
	sentient humans to begin with and kept their lights out of innocents'
	eyes).

o	The final category of respondents, evidently without enough
	chapstick to let them read the whole manual, said, essentially,
	"Well I can see a *whole* lot better with them on and I don't
	think they bother anybody, and if they do, tough."

My strategy (which frankly has *never* worked :-) is to briefly blink my
lights OFF. As furious as it makes me (my girlfriend laughs at me) I try
very hard not to stoop to the level of BLINDING THEM WITH AN AIRCRAFT
LANDING LIGHT. Yet.


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From: randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: fog lamps
Keywords: humor
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:40:31 GMT
Organization: The Internet

maurice@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Maurice Rich) writes:
> In Australia we have roos, wallabies, cattle, sheep, feral pigs, etc
> who seemingly delight in trying to find the shortest messiest route between
> the radiator grill and the dash that doesn't entail going over the bonnet
> (hood I think you americans call it ?)  This kamikaze critturs sit beside
> the road at night awaiting unwary motorists with underpowered high beams.
> Thus my penchant for aftermarket lighting !

That's understandable in the outback and all.  We're mostly peeved by
the unfathomable ego thing when it's done in the city with bazillions of
street lights on and *lots* of other traffic.

Oh, God.   There he goes about lights again...

Cheers!

- randy

randy@rls.uucp  <backbone>!osu-cis!rls!randy  rls!randy@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
It's a fax from your dog, Mr. Dansworth.  It looks like your cat.  - Larson
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
Subject: Re: Unmarked police cars
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:18:29 GMT

matt@world.std.com (Matt Saucier) writes:
>In article <11635@tamsun.tamu.edu> bnh5940@rigel.tamu.edu (Blaine Hufnagle) writes:

>   Also, look for the unmarked car "stereotype."  This includes light colored, 
>   single colored paint jobs, i.e. cream, light blue, white, tan, and 
>   anything other than red, black or green; College Station here uses dark 
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Ahem....  *DO* watch out for red and black as well...  MA has at least
>one (but probably more) RED mustang,

... and a yellow mustang, and a green mustang at the very least.  I
used to commute opposite-direction from morning traffic so I got quite
accustomed to seeing that off-yellow mustang sitting behind some other
car.

There's an unmarked police car on the MA Turnpike that has baseball
caps in its rear window that tagged a co-worker a couple of weeks ago.

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com
From: ddpbbb@nerd.ease.arco.com (Bob Benson)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Stereotypical frustrating drivers
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:58:16 GMT
Reply-To: bbenson@arco.com
Organization: ARCO EP&T IT R&D


In article <1992Apr7.172614.16692@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jks2x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason) writes:
|> 
|> 	You want to talk about crazy speed limits?  There's an 
|> apartment complex around where I'm from where the speed limit is
|> (and I'm not making this up) 12 1/2 mph.  There's also a parking
|> lot near a mall where the the limit is 11 mph.  You have to wonder

Got your attention, didn't they? Guess what they wanted to do.
 
Bob Benson                                  bbenson@arco.com
Ralliest & Generally Strange Person         214-754-6734
Driving along, doing the speed limit.
Not the one on some silly b'crat's sign. The road's limit.
From: cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Sam Kinnison/seat belts
Date: 15 Apr 92 04:52:22 GMT
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, California

It's been mentioned several times that Sam Kinnison was not wearing
a seat belt when he was involved in his fatal accident, and that
he was thrown into the windshield.  Does anyone know how seriously
his wife was hurt and whether she was wearing a seat belt?  Just
curious.

-- 
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From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: fog lamps
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:47:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: Celestia.1992Apr14.174713.11725
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA

The ought to be a law requiring all driving lights to be
connected to the high-beam relay so that they are turned off when
on low beams.  No on-coming traffic should ever even know you
have them suckers!

I used to have a '67 Ford Cortina GT that I raced in IMSA Baby
Grand and drove on the street.  It had Cibie headlights and
``Super Oscar'' driving lights which I had installed for a 6-hour
at Mid-Ohio (the alternator promptly died so I couldn't use them :-)
I put a simple relay in the line to the driving lights which was
attached to the high-beam indicator light so they would turn off
when I hit low-beam (there was also a switch to turn the driving
lights off completely).  Of course when I flashed the high beams
it also flashed the driving lights.  Very few people kept their
high beams on for long approaching me :-).

Bill
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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving,rec.autos
From: snd@elan.cs.princeton.edu (Stefanos Damianakis)
Subject: Re: ATTN: Canadians! (re: Radar Detectors)
Followup-To: snd@cs.princeton.edu
Organization: Computer Science Department, Princeton University
	<1992Apr9.232323.25971@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:28:13

In article <1992Apr9.232323.25971@watdragon.waterloo.edu> d2cheng@crocus.waterloo.edu (Dominic Cheng) writes:

   In article <1992Apr9.162318.25946@ccu.umanitoba.ca> larrigan@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (John Larrigan) writes:
   >peterco@eff.org (Peter A. Cohen) writes:
   >
   >
   >Actually, I am not sure where they are legal.  I know for sure they are not
   >legal in Manitoba.  I you are caught with one they will let you keep it
   >but they drive over it first.  I also know they are illegal in Ontario.
   >But like all things its only illegal if you get caught :-).
   >

   I get caught once in Ontario and they gave me a ticket for $140.  Of course,
   they took my radar also. :(

   However, I *think* they are legal in Quebec, though.

   -- Dom

nope, they is not allowed in quebec either...

-stef
Organization: Junior, IM - H&SS Track, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 14:40:58 -0400 
From: Edward Rosales Bella <eb2b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Stalker Radar Detector

I was just wondering if the Uniden Stalker radar dectector also covers the
Ka photo radar and if it were to cover the whole Ka band (photo and
wide).  The specs. for the Ka band are 34.940Ghz (I think)  and + -
110Mhz.  Plus is there sometype of plastic or glass cover to put over
the license plate so that photo radar cannot read the license plate?  If
so who would sell it?  
 
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Ed
eb2b@andrew.cmu.edu
 

Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
From: ma@lloyd.Camex.COM (Mary Ann Purcell)
Subject: Re: trouble with the Texas Highway Patrol
Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 16:10:56 EDT

In article <10884@rls.UUCP> randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) writes:
## I wouldn't enjoy the search either, but as long as I wasn't harrassed and 
## no damage to my vehicle was done, I see little harm it in.  Obviously the
## DPS officers felt that they had a good reason to search so extensively,
## otherwise they wouldn't have wasted their time.  And, they were within
## the law.
##
## Jeffrey M. Mayzurk   jmm2948@zeus.tamu.edu
#
#If you're a-jokin' your not a-grinnin'.  You forgot the smilies son.
#
#- randy
  I guess you guys haven't heard of the fourfiture (sp?) law.  You might 
not be aressted but your car might.  60 Minutes did a piece on this last
Sunday night.  In the war on drugs, they can stop you, question you, 
take you stuff(car, money you have on you if it's a large enough sum) and
send you on your way.  They profiled 2 guys.  One had his money taken and
the other had his plane taken.  Neither one was charged with ANY CRIME.
There is almost nothing you can do about it...  The man with the plane
was driven into bankruptsy and got his plane back by buying it in an
auction held by the government.  




Mary Anne Purcell
Camex,Inc.  75 Kneeland St. Boston, MA  02111  (617) 426-3577  
ma@bos.camex.com     ...!uunet!camex!ma (I do not speak for Camex)

Xref: sparky rec.autos.driving:2447 rec.motorcycles:13446
From: cs20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Catherine Barbara Saum)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving,rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Female driving stats (Was: Re: Kill Biker....)
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:37:40 GMT
	<22700@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>No need to get sexist or racist about it -- PEOPLE tend to be bad
>drivers!

Thankyou Joe...well said...

-Ouisey
p.s. Is the "Hate Man" still around?
_______________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Covert radar gun under development.
From: Philip_Martelli@kcbbs.gen.nz (Philip Martelli)
Date: 17 Apr 92 07:15:25 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

CR-Xs are half plastic.. and yes, they get zapped by cops. I think the 
engine's a little too much metal to miss. (Though maybe just!)
From: mike@gilligan.Sun.COM (Mike Roncadori - Information Resources)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: fog lamps
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:12:47 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: gilligan.east.sun.com

In article <1992Apr14.174713.11725@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>The ought to be a law requiring all driving lights to be
>connected to the high-beam relay so that they are turned off when
>on low beams.  No on-coming traffic should ever even know you
>have them suckers!
>

Actually, the way manufacturers equip the cars is that when the
high beams are on, the driving lights go off. At least that's
the way my wife's Maxima is. I asked the service guy about this,
and he said that the law says no auxiliary lights when your high
beams are in use. I don't know whether this is true or not, just
that's what the guy said.

It doesn't bother me, because the only time I even uncover the
driving lights is on long trips. I don't turn them on unless it's
foggy outside, and high-beams do more harm than good in fog anyhow.

-- Mike
From: mort@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Mortensen)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 01:23:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Racial Discrimination at Mitsubishi
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA