Long string of seat swaps? If this ever happens to my wife and I, we ask the people sitting next to us if they mind swapping so we can sit together. Have not had anyone refuse yet, but if they did that’s their prerogative and we have to deal with our choices.

That couple in your story should have been kicked off the…

Radiator is high pressure and a lot hotter temperature than this will ever get. 

So you didn’t watch the video at all I take it? There are two specific examples of this happening in the video. Once on a car that the insurance company totaled out. Person bought it, did this exact repair and has driven in 27k miles since. Then the car in the article.

The point is that one fitting for a low pressure…

You’re acting like these are guys that, with no experience, started up a shop to fix Tesla’s and do it without knowing anything about the cars. The two guys not named Rich Rebuilds were literal Tesla technicians with 24 years of experience working on Tesla’s between them. Stop acting like they have no clue what they…

That was part of the mix-up and nobody on either end caught it. They didn’t go into much details but everyone was surprised by it. 

So you didn’t watch the video enough to see the testimony from the other owner who had this exact fix done 27k miles ago? Sounds like a fix to me that ended pretty well.

What makes you think the brass coupling will warp?

You could dry brine a whole cow with this much salt. 

You’re literally telling them to “stick to cars” and we all know how that worked out with Deadspin. So please shut up. 

Seriously.  If it was designed or built by a human, it will fail at some point in time. 

The real takeaway from this video is why did he intentionally go to a worse steering “wheel”.

God, no.

Am I missing the link to the actual video?

#fightforrighttorepair

Not only did they use 20oz of gasoline, they turned on the air compressor so they could get that perfect fuel:air mixture. 

This is something I would expect out of Cleetus and Cars.  

Who said he works where he lives? He could travel a lot, welding on oil rigs, etc.  Heck, he may be an underwater welder, which I hear makes even more than a lot of money.

This is the correct answer. 

SAME!

Does nobody remember Tommy Boy when they stopped at the gas station to use the water at the pumps after cow tipping?  I personally have never seen water pumps at the gas pumps but I know they exist. 

And here I am in an apartment complex that people have outdoor tents setup wrenching on their vehicles all the time.  Plenty of trucks with flats been sitting for months and, to my knowledge, nobody complains and the complex is fine with it.