The seller says that the TIPM or Total Integrated Power Module is either not connected or is missing entirely.

It seemed for some time that cheap used A4s were kind of a swanky alternative to used Civics etc. Young people aspiring to a Fast and Furious aesthetic could be more dui prone. Maybe.

Lived in the south for a few years, which is a truck haven. Drinking and driving was also a fairly common occurrence too. Combine the two and this doesn’t surprise me.

There was a fascinating article in the most recent road and track about the guy who invented TEL, and the immense profits he made by choosing it over safer alternatives.

My wife’s uncle actually has a Mark LT, though I imagine it’s more because he got it used for a good deal. They sold for a good deal less in the pre-owned market than a comparable King Ranch or Platinum model of the same generation. He’s a rich guy, but he does real truck stuff with it like pull trailers, haul…

A no fly zone means shooting down Russian aircraft. That’s an act of war on our behalf and means there are many fewer bad decisions between life as we know it and MAD

These dipshits need to read the room. The time for their whining has passed.  The real fight for freedom is being waged by Ukrainians.

My response by paragraph:

As a 40-something year old person, old enough to remember when the Soviet Union was on the nightly ABC news with Peter Jennings, where it was a country that made international headlines when the first McDonald’s opened there, and when Reagan made them enemy No 1 it is astounding how rapidly Russia’s status has reverted…

Articles like this one remove all doubt for me that I have become An Old. Mostly, I don’t get the allure of heading out on St. Patrick’s Day (or Cinco de Mayo, or NYE). You head out to a bar, pay a fortune for what are almost always shitty drinks, spend hours in a crush of drunk people whose goal mostly seems to be to…

Yes, but more. The characters are the best at what they do - ridiculously so - but they are also all damaged in some way. And coming together as a team is a way for them to heal and grow. Plus it’s funnier.

The Chicago area has the second largest Ukrainian population in the US. There are a LOT of eastern European drivers here.

I’ve only seen one episode, but it seemed to be basically ‘Mission: Impossible’ only with criminals instead of spies.

Probably a lot. Also polish and bulgarians and other states with lived experience of Russian aggression.

Generally when a person keeps running into the same problem with multiple different people it’s instructive to look at what the common denominator is.

Well, a Russian invasion of your country is an actual threat to liberty, unlike mask and vaccine mandates.

Corporations get years to correct financial mistakes. Meanwhile the common citizen gets their lives destroyed in just weeks if someone else makes a mistake. Consumer protections in the US is garbage. Contact your representatives! Tell them to do their job and make life better for us.

It’s a really tough sell that the Republicans use a dirtier rulebook than the Democrats.

> Switched to Naugas after Khan Noonien Singh got wacked.

We raised Corinths back on the farm when I was a kid.