Have you ever tried to remove all the factory Dynamat from a vehicle chassis?

Yeah, you're right, I screwed up. I've made a mental note of it.

Yeah, my science was bad. It's been mentally amended.

Nope'd out of engineering school many moons ago, so I'm a bit behind on science. No more evident than in these replies.

Yeah, you're right, I screwed my science up. But I do like air-dried dishes, and it does help dissolve some bits of food easier.

Oooh, you are evil.

If I recall correctly (this was years ago), the poor condition of the threads built into the oil pan necessitated cleaning up the drain hole before the helicoil could be inserted.

I am a chronic over-tightener.

My girlfriend will make it sound even worse. I don't let her do the dishes because she refuses to wash them on full-hot, which has the dual benefits of both killing every living thing on the plate and allowing it to air-dry completely by the time I've finished washing the rest of the dishes.

My worst mechanic's experience was of my own doing. After over-tightening my oil-pan drain bolt for over a year (ironically, due to my own neuroses about getting oil on my parents' new driveway when I lived there), I was left with a job that I couldn't complete myself — I had a drain bolt that would no longer tighten…

Yeah, let’s rag on an automaker for middling sales of a super-niche vehicle no more than a couple years after a huge recession that only the rich have truly recovered from (the exact opposite market that would buy this car), immediately after praising a Dodge Neon.

Hey, at least it’s not built on the underpinnings of one of the shittiest economy cars to grace this fair earth.

I believe so. It’s been about 18 months since I had it, so my memories are hazy at best.

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B & C concourses are finally adding those power stations in the middle of seating rows.

FCA gets testy if you even remotely think of hooning a vehicle for a picture, professional or otherwise, without either express consent or the presence of a PR flack. At least that’s how it is in the Midwest. Something about tires, fleet companies, safety, yadda yadda yadda.

8-into-1?

The LX is essentially a Toyota Land Cruiser, which I believe shares a platform with the Sequoia. I didn’t even know that they still sold the LC in America; I don’t see a single one on the road.

They’re working on one, actually. It might just not be an RX, but something slightly larger that isn’t as unwieldy as the current GX (which is 4Runner-based). Evidently, Lexus ditched the idea of an RC convertible in order to start working on it:

SUVs have hatches and other things that contribute to additional rear weight. Sedans don’t, so what I’m assuming happened is R-R put a wing back there to generate downforce (which pushes down on the car in a similar way that static mass would have an effect) so the AWD system can be worked out with rough…