I'm ok with belching. Its not exactly funny though.

16: No woman finds farting funny. Ever.

LOL! loved this! really well done.

I know this sounds silly but when I was going to school in Boston I had an old, beat up honda Elite scooter. It was missing plastic body panels, had been spray painted black and the electric starter didn't work anymore thus needed to be kick started. But I loved that thing. I double locked it to a few poles every…

We bought a house in the East Bay Oakland area 3 years ago. The yard was and still is made out of rocks, sand, cactus and other desert type plants. At first I thought it was ugly. Come the drought I've come to appreciate it. No lawn to mow!

I did print photography for a bit. I got in as a graphic designer on the cusp of when print was going out and digital was coming on . Have to say I don't miss the chemical smells.

nope. Strike one: it's a jag meaning loads of future problems. Strike two: parts to fix this will be insanely expensive .

thanks for confirming my previous statement in regards to typical engineer behavior by trying to overcompensate when they are incorrect. The only thing you were correct on was my improper term of galvanic corrosion which means you must understand precisely what I meant. The rest of my statement was absolutely correct.

once more... Anti seize is not a lubricant.

I have a really difficult time understanding how even though you're an engineer that you don't seem to understand basic metallurgy. Whenever one places dissimilar metals together you will get electrolysis which becomes even further pronounced when heat and moisture become present... Such as the case with a spark plug…

Given that many a "engineered" device has been proven to fail due to a faulty design then I don't exactly put a lot of weight in your credentials. I work on the "engineered" machines after they've actually been used for extended periods of time and hence beyond the typical comprehension of the average engineer's…

Could be! Might also be because you guys didn't really buy Toyotas and Hondas much, much later than we did and those cars really are reliable machines. Over here if it doesn't last 200,000 miles or more... its basically junk. Most I've known who had VWs seem to get about 100-150k on the things before they're done.

Look- I actually went to train as a small engine mechanic and that was my job for years. We used anti-seize all the time and for good reason. You have a tractor or other piece of equipment that was from a regular customer then chances are you'd have to remove the rusted-up muffler, head bolts and of course spark…

I've heard that a lot. My Mother in law's was built in Germany. Its a piece of crap. A friend of mine owned a VW Beetle made in Mexico. It was a piece of crap.

Not the same thing. High heat Anti-seize is actually made to be used on spark plugs and in fact... if you'll notice at any parts counter they carry small tubes of it for people getting ready to change theirs. The material is also partially metallic and hence not actually slippery as you claim.

Some of those use some kind of weird "Zero Centrifugal" clutch or something and it seems like those had quite a few problems. The one in my mother in law's lasted about 45k before it failed.

I'll let others try it then. The sort of misleading thing about VWs is that when new, they are indeed very nice. So nice that its hard to imagine that they could ever have a problem. But then they do.

Smart man! I know this is horrible advice... but my brother NEVER changed his and when he sold it ( this was a Ford Ranger) it had 250,000 miles on it. We did change them preparing to sell it and when we took a look at the plugs there was hardly anything left of the protruding electrode. The good thing about…

5 cars each with an average of 200,000+ miles over the years and I've never had a problem using this. Truth be known once the crush washer flattens out you're good to go. I have worked on other people's cars where the spark plug was so heavily rusted into the block that the threads became stripped.

and... want to make your life easy in the future? Make sure to put a bit of high temp anti-seize grease on the spark plug threads. It'll make removing them a LOT easier in the future.