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    Car whirs/whines after hard acceleration on left turn

    Car: 2007 Ford Focus Sedan 2.0L Problem is in the title. Most of the time, the car drives fine. If I accelerate hard while making a left turn, however, the car tends to go into some sort of screwed up state where it makes a whine/whirring sound when moving (not while stopped). It sounds...
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    ECS G31 T-M Speedfan CPU DeltaT

    I'm playing around with the fan settings in the bios, but I have no idea what this setting changes. I think the default setting was +3, and it can be set from +0 to +15 or something like that. Changing any of the other settings changes the value that the bios gives as the temperature at...
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    Good gift idea?

    I recently came across this cookbook. It made me chuckle, because I'm an immature little turd like that. No, I don't actually have anyone to give this to.
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    Tire chains useable on 2007 Ford Focus?

    Manual says do not use tire chains. There seems to be just a hair over 1/2" of space in between the inside of the front tires and the struts. Tires are 205/55/16. Bone stock vehicle. California says I have to use tire chains if it snows, even if I were to buy snow tires (which I won't...
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    What else do the Scottish deep fry?

    Is there anything they won't fry?
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    So I drop by Costco for the first time

    I didn't look too closely at them and thus did not see big the package was, but considering they sold mustard in jars larger than my head and sugar in burlap sack size bags, I bet there was a goodly amount of rubber in them. Whoever scores enough that they need to buy their prophylactics in...
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    Additional services to be done with timing belt change besides water pump?

    Apologies in advance, I am sure you see many variations of this question pop up every week or so, but my search skills are subpar. The car is approaching time to start thinking about timing belt replacement, but has not been driven for extraordinarily high mileage ( ~57k miles). I know the...