Well...........I’ve never been able to do FWD brakestands without line-lock or the parking brake set.

Guy was talking about his Neon. This one goes along with double-clutching. Kept saying how clean and smooth he is in cornering. Something about how he used to have to double-clutch but it was taking too much time. Him and his buddies upgraded the clutch, supposedly took his synchros out and now he doesn’t have to…

Opposite holds true as well. Some people think that since the GXP Grand Prix came with a 5.3, that it was identical to the pickup 5.3 in size.

1998 Nissan Frontier with big tires and a manual.. hated driving it in the summer. A/C on meant it felt like power to the wheels got cut in half.

“I got a new trans in my Duramax and the shop said it’s built to 700HP so with my new blow-off valve and exhaust tip I should be pushing 725ish”

HA! A buddy of mine has a newer Nissan with a CVT. 0-60 is NOTICEABLY slower when ‘slapshifting’

I cringe every time that commercial airs.

To add to that, A/C cutout circuits are usually set up so that at wide open throttle, the A/C clutch is disengaged.

NEW SAFETY FEATURE ON CARS!!

A couple of years ago, my neighbor sold me his 1998 Nissan Frontier. It sat, untouched, for years until he finally caved and sold it to me. He had a battery tender sitting on the hood, never saw it plugged in. The day I bought it, it cranked and fired no problem. Interesting. The battery was 5 years old at that point.

Girl I hung out with for awhile, in her drunken stupor, says “my dad has a Ferrari!” Next time I see him, he says he doesn’t understand why I’m so interested in such a dumb car. We walk out to the apartment carport and he takes the cover off of his Mondial. “Oh.” I think I was more excited to see the Boxster owned by…

Bingo. Installed a lift kit on a 2012 JK in the summer of ‘15. Exhaust flanges had to be released with a torch. The same day, my 1998 Frontier got a flatbed and new muffler, with zero sheared or troublesome bolts.

I went through THREE sets of wiper blades, TWO sets of wiper arms, and a wiper transmission one winter because my wipers would sometimes cycle as soon as I turn my car on, despite being turned off even when I shut my car off the night before.

Those of us who’ve been following LH for the last decade are used to Lifehacker going hand-in-hand with Gizmodo. I have to say, Eric, that without content like this (tech stuff) I wouldn’t even read LH anymore. Keep up the good work, man.

I love the colored Mountain Dew bottles outside of the states. My sister brought me back one from Romania.

It’s all the truck a normal person will ever need, because telling them that it’s a unibody, transverse-engine, AWD-but-only-mostly-FWD-unless-you-suck-at-driving won’t make it any less of a truck to them.

If you don’t have any cargo, that donut is going on the rear of the truck. It’s front wheel drive.

Maybe add a voltmeter in-line to make sure some terrorist isn’t trying to pump 120V into your phone.. trust nobody!

See, I don’t get it. The aero piece doesn’t require special tools on any applications I’ve seen them, and even on the 2010 Taurus I had, they were 1/4 turn thumb-screws. The only mistake I’ve ever seen is the aero piece not being slid into its ‘alignment guide’ toward the front.