The only explanation that makes sense to me is an aftermarket remote start that isn’t wired or programmed as well as OE. In my experience, aftermarket electronics are always a poor addition.

I thought something was fishy about that commercial.

I’ll admit I’m kind of surprised this study says 60db is the threshold. That doesn’t seem like it is very loud. I’ll bet an average person is constantly exposed to 60 as a baseline.

Yeah, I find this study totally plausible. I’m sorry, Jalops, and I know that you love your car and think it sounds awesome. Sadly, the world isn’t made up of Jalops who can refrain from doing wide open throttle pulls in front of my house at 4am. In my neck of the woods, it is all Hondas and “tuned mopeds” with…

Why have one inline 6 when you can have two?

It’s hard not to take a guy who shows up for a barfight carrying a hatchet seriously, but the name doesn’t do him any favors. Wonder what he was driving?

Depending on the outcome of this recall campaign and what the govt does to make them remedy this, they may take care of you for that. That is part of the reason VW had to buy back all of the cars that they did. If not, there is a fair chance you can go after FCA for damages.

Yeah, all these turbos work great right now. Nobody seems to think about what it will be like when these cars get old. I hope they will age gracefully, but I might buy stock in PB Blaster and drillbits just to be on the safe side.

I’m with you on this one. Prison is tough on people. Living to see friends and loved ones forget you and the world move on without may not be frontier justice to some people’s minds, but it takes a toll.

I needed to buy a vehicle to replace the wife’s car last year, and a Journey is one of the cars we were considering. They are quiet, comfortable, inoffensive cars to daily. Mind you, I’m not a casual, totally oblivious consumer. I work on cars for a living, and I would say (correctly) that I have a vastly better…

I would say if I were on the market that I wouldn’t buy a truck because it is aluminum, but I wouldn’t avoid one either. Truck weight isn’t meaningless, but for most buyers it is less important than capability, comfort, durability, and price. ANY manufacturer could cut weight and improve fuel economy by making their…

I’ll admit that Tesla has some problems, especially their current failure to deliver the Model 3 in numbers, but I don’t think that Tesla is going to disappear from the face of the earth. At some point, huge businesses have so much momentum and so much traction that they are literally too big to fail. Is Tesla there…

I believe the battery on these is actually all the way in the front of the engine bay on the passengers side underneath the upper radiator core support. That’s where it was on the Impala anyway. A nightmare to get out. You have to unbolt the bracket over it and take it out, unbolt the fuse box above it and move it,…

They could do that too. My thinking was they have a manual that is made to bolt right up to a 2.3 Eco mounted longitudinally in the Mustang. They have manuals overseas, but I don’t know if they would fit the 2.3 EB easily.

It looks like a really nice truck, but I think Ford is attacking the wrong end of the market here. It seems like they are going for the title of most premium midsize truck, and while they may do just that, that isn’t what the previous ranger was about at all. It was all about affordability, reliability, and being…

Yeah, it’s disappointing they didn’t decide to offer a manual. The six speed box from the mustang would have probably dropped right in. Both the Tacoma the GM twins can be specced with one.

Sounds like you know a little about that. Just curious, what kind of mileage have you seen? Would you do it again or go with gas?

Thanks, but my AWD earned its keep this year with this storm getting me to work everyday. In New York they may plow, and you can get most places in a car, But down here, the strategy seems to be to wait for summer. I live next to a pretty heavily travelled road that didn’t get plowed at all, and has just been packed…

I may have hijacked the wife’s Jeep for the last two days. Really lucked out, that tree limb looks small in the picture, but it is about 8" diameter. It missed both the bosslady’s Jeep and my truck by a foot or so.

I once saw a dealer window sticker that specified a $3k dealer “market adjustment” on, of all things, a Mitsubishi Outlander. It was good for a chuckle.