I’ll say it again, because it’s so relevant and ridiculous. I had a customer whose car was totaled by flood water, his loan was for 84 months and he was denied GAP coverage on the loan because the length of the terms. He owes $40,000 on a car that was worth $17,000 3 years after he bought it. He put no money down and…

New A4s have a fairly sizable gap between the fender and hood now that the hood extends to over the wheel openings. It’s well over 1/4 inch to extend the bodyline running down the doors and quarter panel. The problem is when your gaps aren’t symmetrical, that’s your first sign something is off. But a wide gap could be…

At least the taxis know where to go. I finally gave up using Uber when I lived in South Loop, 9/10 of my drivers weren’t familiar with the streets and relied on the GPS that was constantly changing, whereas my cab always knew how to get to the destination when I told him where to go.

I’ll preface this by saying as an insurance adjuster the nastiest interiors I’ve seen are the ones with fatalities. This story below is the worst from a repairable car I’ve ever had.

Correct, it’s rolled into your registration. I have friends who are mad they get the charge even for owning a 2010 Honda Insight. But I do understand, the point is to make up the lost revenue. That said I’m pretty sure my 2017 Civic is beating that Insight in the MPG game and I’m perfectly ok with that.

I had it for the first time last year when I was in Texas for work, my first meal in the state. I was very disappointed by my meal compared to the hype. The burger was fine, but I prefer Shake Shack or Five Guys personally. The real disappointment was the fries. Even though I watched them get cooked when I ordered…

Great examples of this depreciation from my job.

Now that I’m seeing these on the street the Z71 in silver and red look a lot more impressive than the current Ram and F150 to me, especially after the 2018 update for the Ford. The Sierra looked better in pictures, but in person the front end is a bloated mess.

The panels are riveted on in certain spots and the rivers aren’t aluminum. Also the truck isn’t 100% aluminum, so a little mixture of snow and road salt splashed on the undercarriage can still lead to galvanic corrosion. We’ll see it with these new GMs too, the only way to keep out the rust is go all steel with a good…

I want a truck, specifically the new Silverado, but it’s hard to justify when we don’t tow anything and only need the bed occasionally. We rent Suburbans or Yukon XLs when we go to Steelers games, there’s nothing as comfortable as those for long trips. Other than that, my dad has a Sierra that we use for occasional…

Yeah, she broke both legs multiple times playing travel ball when she was younger and has always pushed herself way harder athletically than she should have. We did a 5k this weekend and she could barely jog the first mile before we walked the rest. Then she got mad when I did the half marathon the next day, but she’s…

It’ll be too expensive for a Toyota as well. If they had decided to slot this in as a baby LFA, it’d sell better with a Lexus badge. People with enough disposable money to afford the Supra are going to want a different dealership experience and probably a different badge to show that they dropped $50k+ on a car many…

Touché! To be fair she wants the new RDX for when we have kids, I’m more realistic about how much we can afford if she wants to even try and maintain our current travel habits.

My wife is 26, both knees shot from playing softball her whole life. I bought my FR-S when we first started dating and she complained about it the whole time I had it. Now we have a Civic hatch and it’s been ok for the past year, but she’s starting to have some difficulty getting out of that too. Once we’ve got enough…

They denied him GAP because the loan terms were too long. Go figure, sure you can pay for the car at $300 a month for 8 years at 10% interest, but you can't get protection from this horrible financial decision.

I have an insurance customer who owes $40k on a 5 year old Maxima he bought new. Between negative equity at trade in and a high interest rate, he's screwed. Car is only worth $17k and has $14k worth of floodwater damage so it's a total. It's becoming more and more common in my industry to see this. 5 years ago at…

From my memory of the one time I drank it, it's burnt rubber/hair, with no positive quality at all. I was new to town so my wife's classmates tricked me into a shot, and some random drunk guy asked for one too. I kept it down like a champ, some classmates spit it out right away, and the drunk guy asked for another...

More impressive to me is the lack of deformation in the windshield pillar. It’s bad if it collapses, its good if it bends a little, but to transfer all the energy to the roof and quarter panels is impressive. Granted I’m watching on a phone, but the windshield pillar appears undamaged, and that doesn't happen on the…

I’m sure they’re relatively inexpensive compared to what the consumer pays. When I was working at a shop my cost on that $5k sensor was about $4100. That same sensor is under $2k on the current models so the technology is coming down in price, but there are more of them now.

Depends on the severity. A “minor accident” in industry speak usually means no airbags deployed and no major structural damage, so anything from parking lot scuffs to collisions on the highway. I wrote an estimate last week on a 2012 535xi; front bumper, headlamp, fender and wheel were damaged from a semi coming into…