Good halogen headlights also have a nice sharp cutoff. My 26 year old sports roadster has better headlight than what you drive, I can almost guarantee it. The Hella 7" E-Code headlights and the Cibie Z-Beams are widely regarded as the high-point in headlight tech in real world use. Yes, HIDs and LEDs use less power,…

Couple additions.... Dog “dirt” bags in their little keychain dispensers are the BEST way to get rid of “used” diapers. They are designed to reduce the smell of dog “dirt”, so they will do wonders for your crotch-fruit’s “jobs”. They are SO MUCH CHEAPER than ziplocks and they pack super small and you can clip the…

XTerra, LandCruiser 70 series or 80 series, Jeep TJ, Nissan Frontier.

Not going to say NEVER thought I would own this car, but I will say I didn’t think I would be owning it at this point in my life. Bought a 2015 Wrangler while my wife was pregnant! Sold a nice practical wagon, and bought a 2-door top heavy, poor handling, vehicle with bad crash test ratings and poor fuel economy with…

Wrangler is the perfect beach car. Hot summer day? Top off, doors off, cooler in the back... If you get the 4-door, you can take 4 of your friends, and still have room for that cooler. You can drive on the sand if your area allows it. (I have seen bagged jettas make it across the sand in Pismo...) and, when you are…

Bought the last 4 vehicles we have new. Why? Well, trucks get beat on, so wife got her 2000 Tacoma right off the lot. Was a special order that the orderer turned down. Unusual combo, but exactly what she had been looking for on the used market. V6, 5speed, 2wd, SR5 Tacoma. That is probably the rarest combo of any…

That was interesting when my wife and I flew back from Dublin, Ireland. We re-entered the US while still in the airport. Nearly missed our flight as we didn’t realize we had to do the USA Customs line. It was interesting as they showed us pics of our checked bags to make sure that they were ours. We didn’t have to…

So, you’ve been reading “The Man in the High Castle”...

Cargo areas are just as pressurized as the rest of the plane, otherwise Fluffy the family pet who was crated and stowed in the cargo area would die on every flight. There is 1 pressurized bulkhead in the plane and it’s the back of the cabin.

Even had the lower ball-joints fail? Let me tell you how much fun THAT is. First off, they are in tension, not compression. Ball Joints don’t like to be in tension. The car hangs off of the lower ball joints. When they wear, you will have about 45 seconds of “Funny, the steering just got very tight...” followed by…

The 4.0 thermostat issue. You MUST change the thermostat every 30k miles or it will eventually lock closed and kill the motor. That’s how my parent’s got a ‘98 for like $2k and dad swapped in a new 4.0 and they drove it for another 120kmiles....

Anytime somebody says Rubicon while speaking english sentences, you should assume the Rubicon Trail in nor-cal. It is famous even outside of off-roading circles. In a scale of 1-10, those who have never seen or heard of Fordyce rate the Rubicon a 10 in difficulty. But, over the years, it has been graded and ruined so…

While I am sure that this button is there... the picture from directly to the side shows an odd reflection of the leading edge of the steering column cover.

Pretty sure what they’re actually seeing is a reflection of the front edge of the square steering column cover where it’s not obscured by the round base of the steering wheel.

Outside totally, inside partially.

I bought my JK brand new and had it covered in mud in the first 600 miles. There are a few of us nutjobs out here...

My 2015 JK has buttons on the front and back of the wheel. 3-button on the back of each side of the wheel. Right hand controls volume and audio source, left hand is either track skip or tuning.

The Splash was 2wd only, but you could get that bed on the 4wd. My parents briefly owned a 4wd Ranger extended cab FX4 with the stepside bed. Was actually quite useful. If you fill it to the top of the bedrails with topsoil, you were at the max weight the truck could carry.

If you’re in the right gear to make all of this work, boost is nearly instant. “Turbo Lag” is really a thing of the past.

The trick to getting rid of the understeer was to chuck it into a corner while lifting off throttle, then when the ass end rotated, floor the gas and it pins the back where you left it and it carries that angle around the rest of the corner.