Agreed. Also backed up by the fact that the snap point is really close to the hub. It found the stretch and twist point near the tire and snapped it right off. 

I’ll bet he torqued the shit out of a lot of things, he just doesn’t understand that “3 ugga chuggas on the impact” isn’t the recommended torque spec.

I think we all know the likelihood of that happening is on par with McConnell and Pelosi hooking up in a backroom at the Capitol.

My 01 Tundra’s 2uz is like that, 278k miles and it has “enough” oil pressure to not die so I keep driving it.

I’ve always wondered who buys all those tires that I’ve preventively replaced over the years. (Always figured that getting quite down to the wear bars on a tire is rolling the dice. Tires have a hard life, hitting potholes at freeway speeds and all that, and generous tread means much better foul-weather performance.) I…

Sounds like he tried to use the impact gun to start the nuts instead of starting them by hand and cross-threaded them.  If you do this, by the time you realize it, in most cases the threads are destroyed and the nuts are jammed.  Then when you reverse the impact the stud shears.  Impact guns are not proper assembly…

had the same problem on my veloster, lube guy had to have used an impact wrench, ended up using the screw driver technique.. messy but affective!

This will sound insane, but, if I understand the story correctly, he intends to drive the FC back.
The FC.

This will sound insane, but, if I understand the story correctly, he intends to drive the FC back.
The FC.
Whiskey.  Tango.  Foxtrot.

While the LX was in my possession, I found that the steering wheel does not go up or down. It has a power-adjusting steering wheel, so I think that the switch itself is wonky. The sunroof switches also have some painter’s tape over them saying DO NOT TOUCH. I obeyed the tape. lol

Find a spot between Illinois and the Rockies to swap out those warped rotors. You do NOT want to be driving through the Rockies on warped rotors, especially not on the return trip with the FC Jeep in tow.

Looks like you lucked out on the tires, no obvious cupping and it sounds like there aren’t any issues.  Good deal.  Did you get a chance through throw some grease at the slip joints?

I hope so. Plastics are certainly better overall, I will give them that.

They’re usually pure shit because they want you to upgrade to a model with HID or LED lamps. And being in the industry, I’ve seen enough issues with LEDs that I’ll steer clear of them until forced to do otherwise. HIDs are an even bigger scam. Gotta love the look on a customer’s face when you tell them a bulb is $300+.

When eventually such cars are considered classics, it’ll be interesting to see how people cope with failures of that sort of thing— the spares will all be gone from the pipeline, the particular technologies will be long obsolete,  and replacements will have to be hand-carved out of unicorn hooves by people with an…

One thing that I am not sure is an improvement is plastic covers. Sure a stone might take out the glass one, but in my experience that is about 1/20th as likely as the plastic to fog up and require at least a polishing if not replacement. Meanwhile, my 25 year old glass covers are a bit pitted from 185K miles, but…

It’s a $500 difference between the halogens on my truck versus the optional LEDs. If that LED goes out, I’d have to replace the unit. If my headlight goes out, I replace a $30 H11. The halogens in mine perform perfectly fine. LEDs are a scam, and it’s not a coincidence that they’re styled much nicer than their halogen…

This. I specifically bought my Ram 1500 without the LED lighting package. If a taillight goes out I replace A $30 bulb instead of a $600+ lamp.

I’ve seen my share of issues with LED headlamps themselves, but if you have to replace one that was busted, they’re far from cheap, even when the LED element isn’t the actual head light.

As a child of the malaise era, when GM colonnade coupes were sort of the default (young) family car, a few frequent automotive style topics of conversation I remember: 1) rectangular and quad headlights were a must, round= very outdated 2) antenna masts considered abhorrent- but (less effective) cosmetically…