I get that there will be do-overs etc. Sometimes where the fault is on the part itself. That risk assessment and compensation should just go right into the hourly rate being charged.

I understand they are for-profit establishments. I never said they should not make a profit. I am disagreeing with WHERE they are making their profit.

Why does the part have to have a markup? Just because they can? Is it because it takes time to order a part? Then charge me your hourly rate/60 multiplied by the minutes it took you to order the part. I understand that.

Every time I have gone to inquire about having work done on my car, the shop has always said “I can’t even order it for that price”. It’s not like I’m really hunting for prices either. It is just an order from a GM parts warehouse, or OEM. I am sure this varies by brand.

The aftermarket performance stuff is a totally different world and the shops should be smart enough to refuse apparent bad business. If it does take longer to install, oh well, the customer is eating it, so I don’t know why the shop would care.

The One:1 recently did 0-300 in 11.92. In “practice”. Heaps of crazy.

“Overcharging for parts” makes me rage. I am paying the mechanic for their knowledge of car repair. Not for their part ordering prowess. Make your hourly rate whatever you want, just don’t charge me extra for a part I could order myself.

That Venom would lose bus lengths to the Koni on every shift. Manual trans are just too damned slow in the hypercar arena.

Lets just skip straight to droid carrier tech.

“And when you see one, your eyes immediately drift down to the front fender in search of the two numbers and a decimal point that make all the difference in the world: “5.0.”

Correct, and that lack of emotion is what allows me to make an objective analysis of the situation.

Why is this a hard decision? Waiver them away to others who want them, or just throw them away. Hell, just keep em frozen till you die, then the clinic can trash em.

Facial recognition, Stingray, NSA metadata, ALPR, etc. The MAN can find me in a crowd, figure out who I’m talking to on the phone in realtime, see if that call is terror related, and then where I’ve been in my car over the last umpteen months.

370 WHP, RWD, and snow tires. I have no problems, and according the the Internet I get more snowfall than Chicago. But yeah, if this person is like most people, they are going to be getting shit all season tires and hoping they last 60K. In that case with AWD they can go out in the snow. At least they’ll be able to…

The 14 hosepower is barely worth mentioning. Its the torque curve on the LT1 that is amazing and should result in a much stronger performer than is otherwise apparent. Better curve than the LS7 until like 5000 RPM. Dat’ LS VTEC!

The results for the top cards do not change from 1080 to 1440p. The 980 and Titan also show no appreciable difference at the same resolution. There is a bottleneck somewhere and judging by the full article, this is probably something to do with game optimization. Something is not right.

My favorite is the one I daily (G8 GXP). :-)

If it were an H2 I might be inclined to agree.

Bring a car to your reunion?

20% of our monthly spending is on food. 2 Adults. Running like 1.5X the liberal plan.