When I worked at Toyota, we could reprogram the whole system if we had at least one “master” key (The cars usually came with two master key plus one valet key), if we didn’t have the master key, you needed the security code to reset the system, which if the customer didn’t have (It comes stamped on a metal tag…

If only I could get one with three pedals...

I have a Jetta TDI, my wife has a Corolla.. Occasionally she will put my Jetta in 6th to try to back up :-P And sometimes on the highway I will go to put her Corolla in the nonexistent 6th gear, but it’s got a lockout that prevents going from 5th down to Reverse (Although if one were to let the stick pop back into the…

I’ve seen them swapped, it’s fairly common..

I think a lot of people get confused with the “G20t” thinking the “t” is turbo, when it fact it’s “touring” (Myself included, my brain went “BS! I’ve seen turbo G20s! looked it up and now I stand corrected)

I worked at a Toyota dealership during that era. We had a Suburban with 250,000 miles go for ~20 minutes, a Dodge Caravan with a 3.0 V6 that would still turn over once it cooled off, and an old rusty Ford truck with a 300 inline six that overheated and blew a radiator hose and sprayed coolant all over the lot before…

I thought it was “See What I F*%*@ up Today” or “Sure Wish I Finished Training” (And backwards it’s Two F*%@&s In a White Semi)

I’ll second the keep the Corvette. Especially if it’s paid for, check with your insurance as if it’s not your daily anymore you may get an insurance break too. If it’s not paid off then I can see why you’d consider trading it as adding a second payment sucks. But if you need something fun yet still capable of…

Do you know why Brits drink warm beer?
They have Lucas refrigerators.

win/lose tight/loose

They’re just luck they have that “2.0 TDI engine power” in there or I’d be buying an earlier Jetta/Golf wagon and swapping the 2.0 into it :-P And mine would be going back with a 1.9 LOL

I had an old timer yell at me when I worked at Firestone due to my wife’s Corolla that I was driving at the time.. Said I needed to buy an American car.. He got rather irate when I pointed out to him that my Toyota was built in the USA while his “American” truck was built in Canada :-P

It’s too bad it stipulates “under it’s own 2.0 TDI power” otherwise I’d be buying a Mk4 and swapping engines :-P

I got one of the last remaining blue tinted factory SVX windshields for my SVX, was not quite $1000 for the glass, and by the time it was installed it was just over $1000, which Progressive was happy to pay up until the day of the install when they found out just how much it was, and they balked at it, insisting I…

Somewhere I read emissions results that showed that a “clean diesel” TDI even in “dirty” mode is still cleaner burning than the older 1.9 TDI

Rented one in Hawaii... Reasoning was when we got there, both our phones were dead, and we had no idea where the vacation condo was, and we thought that we had managed to get out without either of our car chargers, and the Caliber was the only rental available that had a 110v outlet (The Focus had one too, but it was…

Once when I was 10 or 11 we rented a car to go to church camp, since ours was in the shop and my dad didn’t want to drive his 8mpg 460 equipped van. We ended up with a Chevy Astro, and after the first burger stop we realized the sliding door didn’t open from the inside, and would only open from the outside after much…

I used to have a 75 F100, 390 (Was originally a 360 but at some point someone put a rebuilt 390 in it, and yes I measured the stroke to confirm) 4 speed manual with granny low creeper gear, 4WD (that didn’t work).. Standard cab, long bed, rusty but ran like a champ.. Got 8 mpg on a good day (The stock tank was only 16…

I was waiting for Dirk Pitt to pop up with an AK47 and a crate of Byzanium.... Thank God for Southby.

I had a guy on a bike do that to me once.. not a motorcycle, but a BICYCLE.. Rode off the sidewalk directly into traffic right in front of me.. I blasted the horn at him, and he slowed down, flipped me off, and then proceeded to mosey along for the next mile or so, right in the middle of the traffic lane.

I wonder if there was a “Prius Repellent” sticker above said exhaust pipe...