My advice from driving a manual Ford Ranger with brake and throttle way offset from each other:

It really raises one’s spirits to see that such a potentially dangerous situation was overcome without without injury

The passenger side headlight on my 99 Forester had a loose plug and cut out all the time. Until I jammed an empty cigarette pack under it to keep it in place.

Thanks, will try and report with findings. All I have is a propane torch. That should work, right? If not I could always just cut an inspection hole in the bottom

Did the same just a couple of years ago with a 96 Geo Tracker. Two years sitting, threw a battery in that had been sitting around for almost as long, and fired right up, bad MAF sensor and all. Gas keeps better than we seem to think, or our cars don’t care as much as we seem to think. Either way, I don’t stress about…

It’s a good thing that there isn’t a ton of vibration and forces on the fuel tank to mix all of that junk into the fuel when I’m driving.

That’s just it. Even if this assistant, however nice she might be, wasn’t worth keeping, this sounds like a bad way to handle letting someone go. Not that we know the whole story.

Not really enough to go on here.

Someone at work had some Lexus crossover or another in that color and in person, it really is the most striking beige ever.

I’ll go pretty low price on regular tires. My money goes into the best winter tires I can afford. The difference made by top shelf snow tires in the winter is massive compared to any tire change in summer when operating at approximately legal speeds.

That attitude is why I hate even buying even parts at the dealership. Invariably, I’m intercepted by a sales guy:

I think I like Jerry

‘96 Geo Tracker soft top. Parked it in the garage at work on a fairly warm  day, so I left the front half of the top flipped back, but otherwise closed so that 20 years of grime wouldn’t team up with the heat and humidity and make the thing smell worse than it already did.

Yes, the GTI is the gold standard of low key looks hot hatch, and yes this car is a bit busy at the back.

The looks are perfect. It’s the palate cleanser we need after the Civic Type R.

I loved my Game Gear. Duracell must have as well, because it ate AA’s like popcorn.

Wow, what state is that? Here in Vermont, that only applies to “previously opened containers”

Mostly car related:

I wonder if Moab or somewhere nearby might not be the place for it to take off. May not have the manufacturing history, but a lot more Jeep enthusiasts passing through to drive business.