My experience with Crappy Tire wasn't as bad, but still a piss-off.

Sweet. Just learned something new! Thanks.

So, I know theres a lot to love about a Skyline, but what happens if you DON'T love the car?

Just watched the video. And yes, that's still my method for when they give me a car with bald tires in the middle of winter. I figure if I get it down to the steel belts, I'll get better traction.

Thats my method with rental cars. The heat will melt the snow eventually.....

The bigger issue is the floor rotting out from the inside because of all the salt water trapped in the carpet, which takes weeks to dry.

I agree that some cars are fine with it, some don't like it. I've had both.

What do you get when you fail your drivers license more than two times in the Netherlands?

I had a roommate who would fall asleep at the wheel. All the time. And he never learned. I was riding shotgun with him, and was realizing he was falling asleep. So I asked him if I could drive. But no, he was fine. He'd stay awake the rest of the way.

I'm not so sure. High end bicycles use carbon fiber frames, and there are companies that repair them. I'm assuming its not cheap, but it must be cheaper than buying a new frame, and it also must have near original strength, else no one would repair them.

Thanks for clarifying. I'm at work, so I couldn't rewatch it, but I remember it would have been easy to miss the comment amongst their banter.

After that segment, during the segway, Hammond and May were talking and apparently that time was on his third lap. And then he did two more laps with the same time.

From my weight weenie mountain biking days, its all the small things that start to add up at the end. Like weighing multiple identical parts and then choosing to buy the lightest one (due to variance in manufacturing still within tolerance). Do this for every part on a bicycle, and you might save yourself only 10-15…

I had at least a 4 ft pipe on my breaker bar, and was hanging my 230lbs on it. (230*4= 920ft/lbs). Never did get the lugs off. The last shop to tighten them was the Toyota dealership. (And yeah, torque spec is 76ft/lbs).

From my weight weenie mountain biking days, its all the small things that start to add up at the end. Like weighing multiple identical parts and then choosing to buy the lightest one (due to variance in manufacturing still within tolerance). Do this for every part on a bicycle, and you might save yourself only 10-15…

If you're not joking, why would you ever need to put that much force on a quad being loaded into a pickup truck bed? You can easily preload the suspension as much as you'd ever need with a good ratchet strap.....

I bought a FLIRC the other day.

The Contour SVT doesn't have its 2.5L anymore... It has a swapped 3.0L.

Caused by someone driving too slow in the left lane??

That didn't take long....