Good to hear and update on Maté! I always enjoyed his writing and he was the first one to pull me out of the grays here.

You might have had your phone volume very low in the first case and all the way up in the second. Our Pacifica is highly sensitive to the phone’s setting just like you described.

I’m also impressed with the number of exposed screw/rivet heads needed to keep that fake wood in place. Fake wood: more powerful than any adhesive known to man.

Hope you held a little money back because the AC needs a recharge.

The absolute worst was on my partner’s Volvo S60 where the GPS warning would go away eventually if you didn’t accept it. However, if you later tried to use the GPS it would allow you to go through all the inputs of finding the location you wanted but when you told it to “go” it would inform you that you hadn’t…

The bigger issue around here recently has been people just leaving their fobs in their cars. Thieves just check for unlocked car doors then try starting the vehicle.

Don’t kid yourself, that is a Frightener trying to escape that airbag. Do you really want Jake Busey loose in your car? ND.

I owned both an ‘88 Topaz and an ‘89 Tempo. The Tempo was...ok.

The RU18YET plate on the slammed and stanced 350Z that also featured a “shocker” bumper sticker told me absolutely everything I needed to ever know about the driver. Being stuck is traffic near that vehicle was enough to make my skin crawl.

Unless somehow I just missed it I can’t believe that NHSTA tool was made live without the ability to filter by vehicle year and model. Not very useful for an individual who doesn’t have their VIN handy.

I wanted to say NP, but I just can’t get past the fact that this is 100k more miles and 7 years older than my 2007 sedan that I sold in 2013 for $500 less.

Ha, yes! I’m glad you like them , but to each their own. For me they just remind me of all the seriously crappy cars I grew up with.

User name checks out.

Came here to say the same.  The city may have been laid out by an organized plan, but that plan absolutely sucked.

Old Man EMU springs? Johnny Bench approves.

Most importantly, did they teach you how to avoid hitting trees?

Umm, I’m pretty sure that is the perfect cake for Sandra, not Jason.

But Tobias is ok, right?

We’ve found the the grill fetishist

Park this Sonnet in a ‘70's kitchen and play a “Where’s Waldo” type game.