I remember years ago, I worked at a body shop and had a customer come in for the roll bars in his Mini deploying and damaging the convertible roof. His insurer denyed the claim because it occurred while he was autocrossing. I explained SRS modules typically deploy based on speed differential, or to the layman like…

Can confirm. I have 1 Aldi within 30 minutes of my house in coastal Virginia, but have 3 Lidls within 15...

A place I used to frequent had it figured out. They called them “American Nachos”, they were thick cut homemade potatoe chips, covered in a thick chili (beef and bean, fairly spicy) and then topped with beer cheese. Chili was meaty enough to not make the chips soggy and acted as a barrier from the cheese. I miss…

So since I met my wife

Apparently the issue isn’t with the product, but with how the owner is using it, therefor it’s not a warranty issue. Similar to when you take a RX8 for a bunch of short drives and never let the glow plugs do their thing. You end up flooding the system, it’s user error. Now with DEF you need to drive a decent distance…

I talked to a Ford tech recently while denying an insurance claim for a “bro” on his 2017 F-350 that needed a new fuel and DEF system. We’re in a fairly urban area, and apparently for these new diesel trucks to go into a regen for their DEF they need to be driven for a considerable length of time. A bunch of short…

Oh my wife is so pissed at me now. Got out of bed with after the Eller goal and couldn’t stop pacing...

I want my first car again. An 89 Prelude SI. I’m secretly hoping to find one that’s right hand drive and cheap enough to justify with the wife. My other dream is 89 Chevy 1500, regular cab, long bed for hauling stuff, mainly bicycles that cost more than I’m willing to pay for said truck at the moment. I was born in…

My wife works in prosthetics and they’re trying to help a patient who really wants to use a manual again. It’s not going to well as even the nicest limb on the market can’t move the same way your natural arm can when it comes to the motion for shifting. Most R&D dollars go to lower limb prosthetics since way more…

VA used to charge hybrids and EVs an additional $64 at registration each year to make up the gap, but apparently they changed it to EVs only while I was out of state... I just remember I had a friend pissed he was paying that tax, thinking it was a tool to get consumers to buy more trucks instead.

Even new cars make me weary since they get damaged and repaired sometimes before the first buyer get the keys. I’m an insurance adjuster, if you saw the amount of garbage cars being bought and then “repaired” and sold with clean titles you’d be weary too. Unless it’s a CPO and I can inspect it/research it’s VIN on my…

I sold my 2013 FR-S to the local Carmax a few years ago and it was the least stressful car experience I’ve ever had. I kept track of my VIN to see what they were asking for it. In October 2015 they were asking $19k for it, so roughly $2500 over what they paid me. They were also listing it as a clean vehicle, even…

About 6 years ago my (future) father in law was pushing me to try and make homebrewing into a full business plan since I had no college debt and a decent paying job with plenty of free time. We looked around, our market is roughly 2-3 million people locally and heavy on tourists, and we only had 5 independent…

That’s my point, it’s idiots who only care about themselves doing this stupid stuff. I’m pointing out the absurdity that he asks who crosses a street.

Better question, who races a Mustang against an Altima...

**Caps fan here** I’ve done worse punching trees rather than cuss at people who pissed me off in public since it can get you thrown in jail for a night in our city... that said, I need those hands in good shape in case these boys actually pull off a win tonight.

Yeah, my wife is on a plan with her parents since they own a small business and get a discount, and I’m with my family since my mom gets a discount through her job. If my wife and I were to get our own plan, it’d be easily $120 a month with fees, etc... I have a Samsung S8 through my job, but A) am an iPhone man, and…

I’m an insurance adjuster in a decent sized east coast metro area. I can’t tell you how many of my customers have the iPhone X or whatever and are driving 15 year old Suzukis that “weren’t” pieces of shit before the accident... the demographic tends toward late teens-early 30s minority, both men and women. The number…

I’m 28 and have been on my family plan for Verizon for the past 14 years. I can’t figure out the math on getting my own plan and making it work in my favor from a financial point. Honestly, of my peers, the only ones not on their family plan still are the people with a poor relationship to their parents. I can’t…

I had a 2018 Raptor overtake my rental Accent on the highway the other day and couldn’t help but laugh out loud at the sound of his exhaust. My cowork thought I was crazy, so I dropped the rental into low gear and when the revs shot up over 5k he agreed that the little 4 cyclinder sounded better than that turbo V6.