In any other use of the handbrake, though, you're either parking the car (wheels stopped, zero wear), or you're trying to hoon the car (wheels quickly stopped, little wear.) Using them as a friction brake without locking the wheels is going to do a LOT more wear than those other scenarios!

They last forever if you use the parking brake as a parking brake, since there is effectively no wear on them. Start using it as a regular brake, and that shoe material wears down rather quickly!

This seems like great advice if your goal is for people to needlessly wear out their parking brake shoes in the winter. A better solution for most people is to use winter tires, let Electronic Brake Force Distribution (on more modern cars) do its job, and call it a day. If you aren’t driving like a Muppet, you won’t…

This alone wouldn’t prevent me from purchasing a vehicle...

The media does hype things, but the CDC does not.

Because it only takes 30 seconds, allows me to track my fuel economy accurately, and makes for some fun data to look at. It's not like those 30 seconds are better spent browsing Facebook while I wait for the tank to fill up.

I don’t keep the receipts for more than a week, but I log every single fill-up in my app, which includes address, etc...

That’s like saying, “Using your horn to honk at someone who pissed you off is no different than driving around constantly laying on the horn 100% of the time you are driving.” But okay. The two are no different. Sure ;)

“Just slow down instead of being an asshole.” What exactly makes me an asshole about using a light bar on a dark road when nobody else is around? Or are you referring to my flashing an oncoming vehicle that has their high beams on? If so, I find it unfathomable that you “safety warriors” think that flashing another…

Says the guy who basically admits to blocking the left lane, and then described the road rage you'd do to someone who tried to pass you on the right because you were blocking the left lane. Your posts are nothing if not entertaining :P

When did I say I didn’t have ample time to react? Here you go putting words in my mouth again. I didn’t even come close to rear ending him. I was following at an appropriate distance. He didn’t like that I asked him to move over, and slammed on his brakes. That's what a brake check is. It sounds an awful lot like…

Lol. I describe it as a brake check because the person slammed on their brakes to make a point, instead of moving over. That’s what a brake check is. Doesn’t matter how close or far the vehicle behind is.

I don’t tailgate people. Ever. I remain a fair ways behind them, patiently. I always give them at least a good 30 seconds of them not passing anyone at all before I give them a friendly flash of my lights to say, “Hey do you mind moving over so I can pass you properly?” That doesn’t warrant a brake check at all.…

Yup! They're pretty good, though I'm told they can be also made a lot brighter by modding them with a "clear" lens instead of the "dimpled" lens they come with. Something to look into down the road :D

Ooo, a lot to unpack here. First off, if you aren’t actively passing someone, you shouldn’t be in the left lane. So yes, if you’re blocking me from going the speed “I personally want to go” and you aren’t passing anyone, you are a left lane hog. You don’t get to camp out in the left lane just because you’re doing a…

I didn’t walk 3 feet in front of my car, so that I was outside of the focused beam and say, “Well, that’s not bright at all!” I actually had the car on jackstands up front, and stood 20 feet away, so I was standing directly in the line of fire. It is incredibly bright, but I was still able to look at it without crying…

This is a 20", single row light bar. Not a 50", dual-row death machine. Is it brighter than my high beams? Yes. Is it as bright as the sun? No. A brief flash isn’t all that deadly. I’d know. I walked in front of my car to see how bright it was. I didn’t die. I didn’t go blind. You know what is more blinding? Staring…

It is not at all hypocritical of me to say “fuck people who drive around with their light bars on all the time” and then say “I have flashed people here and there.” Those are not conflicting statements. At all. They are entirely different things. But sure. Because I’ve flashed my light bar for a total of a few seconds…

Not my fault that tons of people drive around with their high beams on all the time.

Your solution to a left lane hog is that *I* should slow down? Lol, you're ridiculous.