Back when I had a ‘97 Outback, I paid closer than average attention to that transmission. Turns out there was an external dropping resistor you could replace that would bump the fluid pressure up on it, which supposedly could help with transmission failures in the SVX, though at the price of much rougher shifting.…

You also won’t be able to drain any spaghetti here.

I’m also surprised that wasn’t in there to begin with, particularly with how much food there is strewn all over and how truly ineffective it is. The fact that you have to eat the entire contents of a cafeteria to heal up is...dumb. It increases the utility of the medkits (I guess), but with the whole food crafting…

I would tend to agree, but I can see why many people would do it anyway. Plane tickets are expensive, often can’t be refunded, and are tied to travel plans made months or years in advance that are often difficult or impossible to cancel or change. If people weren’t confronted with the idea of having to lose many…

That movie is fantastic.

Your 2019 Forester had electric steering. Dafuq?

And yet three generations have a significant percentage of members that don’t understand that the “red genie lamp” is “low oil pressure,” which means “turn the engine off now before you grind it into fine metal dust” as opposed to “put some oil in when you get around to it.”

I don’t want seamless integration with other apps. I don’t want an app at all. We keep cars for a long while and we can’t depend on these folks to keep those apps up to date nor their backends working for longer than a couple years.

I figure my family’s a pretty typical use case. We live semi-rurally. I work from home and my wife commutes 50-100mi/day depending on the particular work day’s activities. We own our home. We have space in the breaker box and (I think) a large enough service to comfortably install a 40A charger. There’s no public…

NY is too. Tons of fun come time to get a replacement catalytic converter. May as well junk the car most of the time.

You would think. If you’re on a public road, you’re no longer using it for farming. All the tickets.

My observations seem to indicate that if there’s some kind of on-road hokum going on, there’s a Prius involved 60-80% of the time.

It may have been unfair for me not to mention that those experiences were several years ago.

When you put it that way, I’m inclined to agree that it’s more that we need to change how they sell cars rather than how we expect to receive them.

It wasn’t for a Mach-e or even a particularly expensive car (it was for a Nissan Altima!), but I once stopped a test drive over a salesman like that. Dude was whining about backing it up into a spot using the backup camera lines to judge distance. It had the fairly common green/yellow/red zones. I dared to get it into…

Blind, braindead cop must be really persuasive, because he convinced the legislature to pass a law on the subject.

It might! No idea. IANAL.

I don’t think the reasoning flows quite as you’re putting it, but you do make a solid case for getting rid of the buy-cars-off-the-dealer-lot model and moving to one where you go check out some representative demo cars to determine what you need, order what you want, and it appears later.

You would think, having run as many companies as he has, that Musk would understand that using company finds for personal stuff has a name: embezzlement.

I didn’t realize these were actual ads for an actual dealer. I just figured the guy wither worked at a dealer with a good sense of humor who let him make silly videos on his downtime or something.