David, I’m sorry. I just don’t think that you will end up with a vehicle worth having this time through. I am a welder (certified and everything) and I wouldn’t work on this. The frame is too far gone, and I know what you have for equipment and talent isn’t up to the task. The equipment and talent that I have isn’t up…

I used to use paint stripper - on old furniture and on vehicles. I can’t anymore. Even with the thickest chemical resistant gloves within minutes my hands are on fire. And I never touched that stuff directly, just with a scraper or paintbrush. That shit is awful. 

Most of the newer ones have a heater in the DEF tank. The first year that DEF was common in Canadian diesels they figured this out. 

I’ll comment to you, but only once. It seems as though in your hatred of racism, you might be a teensy bit racist against white men. Why do you hate Whitey so? I get it, things have been unfair for a long time. I’m a white man and I’ve done nothing to you. My personal behavior is not acting like an out of control,…

Can I just go on record and say from my privileged position in ice cold Canada that the whole thing looks like a total shitshow.

David, I get it. You want to save them all. You see one, you know in your heart that it just needs some love and attention and nobody on earth could do that better than you. So you put yourself out there and get another Jeep. Your heart is bigger than your means and abilities. My sister has the same problem with cats…

It doesn’t make me physically ill, but that’s not for lack of trying.

That’s exactly the first thing that I thought of. I have a suspicion that it will be super hard to color match because of all of the layers. A few years ago we had a Buick Enclave in Crystal Red Tintcoat; the rear passenger door got damaged and needed a new door-skin. I was quoted $7000 for the repair because they…

I got this. My friend Mike was getting married and wanted those of us in the wedding party to rent a white car, Grand Am if possible but I rented a Taurus because that’s all they had. The wedding was in a Vancouver suburb and kind of on the edge of two jurisdictions.

I work in the oil industry in Alberta. Everything is remote, roads twist and turn and end suddenly, and often the places I need to go have had very little vehicle traffic for years.

I was driving my Ford Festiva in heavy Vancouver traffic on the TransCanada and the engine temperature began to hit the red zone. I pulled over, popped the hood and no drive belt was to be seen. This was further complicated because I was with my heavily pregnant wife on a two hour pass from the hospital - we were…

This isn’t a mental health issue. Neither parent is claiming mental incompetence as a reason for this child’s neglect. It is pure indifference to the suffering of a child under their care that causes this. If I had to guess, mom had issues with the baby daddy and chose to take them out on his offspring; stepdad didn’t…

It was December 1999. I had to move from Inuvik NWT to Vancouver BC because my wife was pregnant and needed more medical care than was available up north. She has already flown down, so I had to drive our Geo Tracker down by myself. To those who have never made the trip, there are very few places to fill up on that…

There was a sweet spot for diesel in the late 1990's to early 2000's. The early TDIs got ridiculously high fuel mileage and lasted for ages. Then Dodge put a Cummins engine in their trucks and you could have a full size truck with tons of torque that got fuel mileage similar to a large car.

I used to do a lot more than I do now. I’m 47 and crawling under a car or kneeling to do brakes is actually painful. I have a lot of projects to get to; some of them would only take a few hours to do so that I could finish and get a vehicle ready to sell.

You shut your whore mouth!!!

As someone who’s income is literally dependent on oil being more expensive, I am grateful that the price might be on the rise. If oil is too cheap, the oil companies cut back on every expense except dividend payments. This puts a lot of people out of work.

David, you need a bit of a refresher on how to remove rusted bolts. First, spray with some form of penetrating oil and let sit. Lots of spray. Lots of sitting. Then comes the heat. As others have said, don’t heat the bolt, focus the heat on the nut or whatever the bolt is fastened into. You want to heat things up to a…

I have a 2005 GMC Sierra. In the four years that I have owned it, the electrical system has had a ton of gremlins. The worst, though, is for the dual zone heating. About 40% of the time it will give the driver what it is set at; 30% of the time it will produce air nearly hot enough to weld with, and the other 30% of…

Yes, it sure does. Once in a while as a show-off is maybe okay, but I learned the hard way in my wasted youth that your regular shifts with the clutch will start to grind every time.