The same 5.7L was advertised two years prior as having more than 200HP if I remember correctly. HP measurements went from gross to net in ‘72. Then you throw in emissions, unleaded fuel, and other factors, and engines of that era actually did start to suck.

$600... I bought a 1998 Nissan Frontier 4WD for $600 last year. One of the coolant lines rusted out while I was wheeling and the engine overheated for quite awhile. Then I beefed up the suspension and tires, forcing me to trim fenders (and consequently removed fender liners). The air cleaner atop the intake manifold…

Exactly, and it’s not just suspension and road contact that poses risk to others. It’s the folks that buy eBay HID kits or retrofitted LED ‘angel eyes’ or get rid of their third brake light or add 50” lightbars or KC HiLites or Hellas or use purple/yellow/blue halogen bulbs or tint their lenses or obscenely blow smoke…

Buddy with a 2015 Silverado 1500 tried convincing me that the manufacturer warranty covered accidental damage to his bumper, but that’s also from the dealership that told him they wouldn’t honor the 24/24k service/oil/filter. He paid for his first couple of oil changes until I told him that a Chevrolet dealer has to…

Telemarketers.. I lie to them. I’ve had calls asking me to make an appointment for siding/window estimates, and I agree. No idea where they show up. Calls about an extended warranty on ‘my’ 2013 Toyota Camry (that I don’t own)? Sure, sign me up! At least I haven’t seen a single bill yet.

2003 Monte Carlo SS. The girl I was with was impressed with it enough (obviously) that she wanted to buy it when I decided to get a pick-up truck. We stopped seeing each other before she bought it.

God yes.

My 2003 Monte Carlo SS came with an oil pressure gauge and the DIC even displayed a message when the oil went about a quart below spec of full sump and filter. Oh and it also wrote RPMs to NV memory and gave me a heads-up when the engine had ran for so long so I could get the oil changed.

Aha, I thought you wrote DE in your original!

I DD a ‘98 Frontier XE 5MT 4WD (D22). It has the KA24DE and 134,xxx miles - all original. The KA24DE was available until at LEAST 2002 in the Frontier. I off-road regularly and commute 100+ miles per day during the week. They don’t particularly like going over 75MPH (maybe 80 since my speedometer isn’t accurate to my…

I saved a couple of C2D SFF Dells from being junked. I have Untangle on one and Zentyal on the other, then a Netgear WNDR3400v2 with DD-WRT as an access point. Untangle does routing and Zentyal does DNS/DHCP. The setup does require one of the desktops to have 2 functioning NICs though.

“say I had two copies of a file in different locations”

Also, don’t consider redundancy a backup. A colleague bought a RAID NAS to keep the only copy of his files on, because it was redundant. He downloaded an attachment from a rogue e-mail (important_documents_to_sign_for_prize_OPEN_IMMEDIATELY.pdf.zip.exe) and some crypto-variant damaged every single file because the NAS…

So, the “de-duplication” process is just a complex lossless compression algorithm, or in layman’s terms, a fancy ZIP archive?

Illinois is allowed up to 5 (2 low-beam, 2 aux/fog, and 1 spotlight IIRC) while driving. There are agencies around here that like to hand out tickets for "improper use of lighting system," which would be a ticket for driving with off-road lamps on, high-beams on, beams emitting a light of a color other than permitted…

I've only ever done it in my Frontier.. nothing else I've driven takes to liking it as much.

I was thinking the same thing.

Linus is right: the length of the cable absolutely affects the current (yay, direct current). The gauge of the individual wires also has an affect on this. Some aftermarket USB cables that are shorter and beefier will give your phone a bigger boost as well. When I first found out my Samsung GS4 was packaged with a 10W…

They've always made decent disks. WD has owned HGST for almost 3 years now and I haven't noticed any positive or negative change in the quality since then.

I don't know if there's any documentation on this, but I'd love to pitch in. I've worked on a lot of computers. Replaced a lot of hard drives. Drive sizes are spanned out farther as capacity increases. You used to see 20,30,40,60,80,100,120 GB drives. Now you primarily see 250,500,750,1000,2000 GB drives. However,…