[rant] Fix my car dawg.

I'm a total gearhead / petrol head. Same goes for Ed and somewhat Dask. However, I currently am driving my '08 ML350 that I paid cash and wanted for a simple luxury SUV. Here's a list of problems I've had / having in the 31K miles.

Engine & Transmission

• Engine is currently lurching and slipping out of the powerband, letting the car sit while completely warm seems to suggest that either a spark plug needs to be replaced or maybe a faulty fuel injector.
• Transmission is completely mental. 
• It only upshifts when I'm revving the tits off it @ the 7K redline and trying to drive economically.
• It upshifts right when I'm out of the torque range and a good 2-3K from the real power when I plant my foot down and want power.
• The shifts them self seem to come straight out of a '88 Honda civic, they jerk the car like it's a manual and the car seems to lurch when a gear is finally selected.
• Transmission has too many fucking gears and the ratio's are shit. Seven gears. The 1st gear can bring the car up to 40mph while the 7th gear will let the car keep highway speeds at 60mph @ 1.9K rpm. The car fucking idles at 900rpm...

Suspension & Steering

•  The Continental's the car originally came with lasted a nice... 20K miles. The rubbers were rated for a good 50-65K miles. Currently on Pirelli PZERO ROSSO  Mercedes Spec @ a cool $360 a pop (literally!).
•  The stock OEM brakes the car came with lasted a cool... 20K miles with like 90% freeway miles. Just like the tires, they were overrated. In this case, these were rated for 30K city to 40K freeway.
• The brake rotors themselves were also swapped along with the pads. Those rotors were scuffed to shit and were rated for 80K MINIMUM.  
•  The steering rack has to be rebalanced every time I take the damn thing in for a service. 10K miles.
• The car is a bitch to park accurately (as in tiny spots in parallel parking), the car seems to be angled when using wing mirrors.
•  Speaking of the wing mirrors, the passenger mirror was completely smashed off (by the DEALER during a service) and replaced... poorly. The damn thing works when I fold them in, but when it comes to unfolding them, it takes a good 10-30 seconds to lock it in place. Compare to 2-3 seconds for factory spec driver side.

Electrical

• The right turn signal has been utter shit since 10K miles and has been acting up repeatedly. It will either work, or not work. That simple.
• I've probably spent close to 5K to addressing this specific problem.
•  Replaced the OEM factory headlight bulbs with Philips H7's. The OEM ones failed simultaneously while I was on the freeway @ 8pm.
• Center console had to be replaced at C service at 20K.

Build Quality & Etcetera

• Half the buttons and switches in the car are either loose or falling off.
• Something that happened today made me do this rant. I was driving on the freeway doing 80mph tonight @ 3am. Both the rear windows failed for some reason and rolled completely down. Now I usually keep the rear button lock engaged because it gets in the way. I figured no big deal so I tried to roll them back up from the front. I pulled the buttons... and they popped out. I mean just popped out. They flew up and landed in the footwell. I figured, 'Sowut I'll just unlock the rear windows and use those switches'. I pushed the unlock button... and it got stuck. Physically stuck. As in, no movement at all. Great. I had to pull over on the hard shoulder and spend 10 minutes searching for them (and finally finding them under my seat. Spent another 10 minutes getting them back in and working.) Stealership, here I come.
• Sunroof leaks a tiny bit when it's raining hard.
• Passenger side vent for the backseat broke and can't be aimed anymore.
• Rear badges for ML350 & 4MATIC fell off. They were made of plastic.
• Driver's seat has lost lumbar support. The bar doesn't exist anymore.
• Driver's seat has lost back support and has a small amount of give in it. Picture a computer chair that has a lock to prevent you from rocking back. That small rock you get when you lock it? That's what I have to deal with when driving.
• The left blister / bolster on the drivers seat has collapsed. I drive at an angle facing toward the door now...
• The leather on the dash is prone to sun damage.

So please, fix my car dawg.

*Team stuff : I'm leaving for a China vacation next Wednesday, Ed will be translating at full speed Monday.*

-Tech

*EDIT : I own more than 1 car.

[ect] HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Surprised that it's already 2011?  Yeah... that means 1 year till the end of the world!!! Let's make the best of it and release a truckload of scanslations, agree?  Bring out the booze and celebrate, because it's gonna be one hell of a year!

The gTeam Wishlist: 

(Yes, because Christmas is for sissies.  Real men get presents during the New Year)

Ed

AKG K701 Headphones
Some of Tech's winnings from Vegas.

Tech

Aston Martin DBS (too conspicuous to drive for me. worse than my old F355) 
'11 C63 coupe (c'mon Mercedes),  
'05 CL65 with less than 20K miles and a WORKING Active Body Control system that doesn't cost me $8K YEARLY on repairs on the fucking system like my '04 CL55

Dask

Black OP's skill

Kraut

Poland
Russia

Scripted 

[news] State of the Nation Address (100,000+)

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[News] Updated release schedule and what not...

Mozaiku x Sanshimai is being pushed back to a 10day release schedule because of problems with QC and well... A certain doctor is rather peeved about both chapters not meeting his expectations, expect chapter 7 on Thursday. We are working on a project to fill in the gap though. Blame the doctor.

[News] Mass Emails and Joints and Denials...

First off, we are responding to all the requests we've received and emails pertaining to joint projects. We've also sent a few of our own emails concerning joints and we are eagerly awaiting responses so we can start cranking out our work ASAP. Secondly, our responses to said emails were rather slow as in we mentioned on Halloween, the entire team has been fucking around and generally enjoying the REAL WORLD (parties, drunks, hospital visitation, Dask turning backwards for his bitch). Keep sending us requests and what not, they honestly remind us why we are doing this (yes I personally read each email we receive).  ~Tech

Chapter 6 [v1] Staff Changes and a v2 for chapter 6 announcement

Chapter 6 [v1] missing final QC to make it perfect... I figured we had to get SOMETHING out today rather than Thursday. Blame the Kraut. Expect EdMX to either clean up this post or give me the go-ahead to re-release chapter 6 if a v2 is required. Stay tuned.

Sorry, I just came from duty in the hospital, hence why I wasn't able to QC on time.  There's a reason WHY you need to QC before releasing something... so sorry, boys and girls... this release will have to wait.  I need to verbally abuse my colleagues.  ~ EdMX

Enough is enough, Kraut is officially fired as our initial typesetter and will only work as a backup cleaner or as a 'last ditch' typesetter. I'll be doing all typesetting personally since I have trouble with QC, as we can all see. ~ Tech

[Ryu-Ya Kamino] Mozaiku x Sanshimai ch6 [ENG]

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Chapter 6 delayed

Blame the Kraut. I'm waiting for the last 3 pages and he stalls and makes up as many excuses as possible. He finishes the pages then sits his ass on the PSD's and doesn't bother to email me them because his grasp of the english language is so poor he thought that I wanted the initial typeset @ 7PM PST. Idiot.