Entune is trash, that’s why.

Seeing over things is exactly why my Mom has been dailying a Wrangler for the last 30 years. I think it has even been the same Wrangler for the last 30 years, but I’m not 100% on that.

Has “Meh car Monday” been moved to Wednesday?

Right, but according to this article it’s never coming to this gen of RAV4. 

Two passengers in one seat? Was it side by side, or was one riding in the other’s lap?

“It only infuriates me slightly (just slightly!) that the cladding around the wheel arches don’t connect with the cladding along the bottom of the car.”

Toyota and BMW are basically the only Android Auto holdouts at this point. It’s stupid and no way in hell would I buy a brand new car in 2019 without Android Auto. 

We even tried it out ourselves and fit a whole 55-inch TV box (horizontally), a guitar case, a suitcase, three bankers boxes, video equipment and two passengers comfortably in the front seat.

Counterpoint: all of those cars looked ridiculous and I’m never ever going to buy something that looks like a freaking insect or egg or dorky glorified golf cart. Whereas this actually looks GOOD and is more reminiscent of the stuff Honda used to build and sell here in the early-mid ‘90s.

Extended warranties on a used Mercedes are generally a good idea. However, I would only buy an extended warranty from the manufacturer, not a third-party. Given the age of that Mercedes and the price of that warranty, that is warranty is from a third-party, and I would not buy it.

Tell your cousin to live a little. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of owning an out of warranty German vehicle. Is today the day I have to sell a kidney? WHO KNOWS! So exciting.

Whoever decided that should be exposed and goofed on endlessly. It’s the single most annoying thing on some new cars, like the automatic seat belts on some cars a long time ago.  

Maybe. Really depends where you are. Only tick I’ve encountered (on my shirt luckily) was at 7500 feet. Granted it was the woods and a lot of fauna around.  Seems they like places with more moisture around. 

You’ll learn that Subaru and VW fans tend to be the biggest apologists, and any thing negative said about their brand will bring out the worst fanboys.

I wish I knew it was a common problem! Every time you joke about head gaskets around here a bunch of uber-Subie fans jump down your fucking throat that that’s been fixed for 15 years, and yet apparently they all still leak oil like a sieve so maybe all those people can jump in a tar pit?

Likewise, overall reliability means nothing without ownership/maintenance records to back it up.
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Reliability reports miss out on these key points, which IMO, make them pretty useless.

I think you’re wrong. In a recent lunch table chat among co-workers about next cars they want, they (about 8 people) unanimously called the Outback a wagon. All but the person who suggested it scoffed at it because they wanted a CUV. They draw a distinction between the Outback and CUVs, despite Subaru’s advertising.…

I’m not justify what Subaru is doing at all, but that is par for the course for all carmakers. You hear horror stories of dealerships trying to weasel their way out of warranty work all the time with all of them.

“A good friend of mine recently had his 2008 Outback “die” (ie, catastrophic and beyond reasonable repair) and he immediately went out and bought a 2019 model. Something about Einstein and insanity...”

Obligatory idiotic post about head gaskets in an engine no longer produced.