Those triangles are only visible when you have your lights aimed directly at them - and in SE Ohio, there’s no such thing as a straight road. That also means by the time you do see the buggy and it’s triangle - at night, on a twisty backroad, possibly in the rain - you should already have been slowing down.

Not automotive-specific, but it’s one of my favorite tools:

I thought the same thing until I bought a cheap (Walmart) battery ratchet when I did the valve rockers on a 3.6L Pentastar. I kept seeing them being used in the how-to YouTube videos, and at first I thought it was just mechanic flexing. But then I used it.

My toxic trait - and source of financial ruin - is that I keep buying Chrysler products.

The issue with the dealerships, is that most are tacked onto a CDJR dealer.

When I went to pick up my used Grand Caravan at a large CDJR dealership in Cincinnati, they were doing construction on part of it, so we had to go in through the Alfa Romeo/Fiat wing. The folks working that part of the complex were not pleased…

On the flip side, the Corolla might sell a million, but the margins on small cars are incredibly thin. My experience with more recent Corollas is that they don’t feel as well-built as they used to. My wife had a 1998 Corolla VE - no options except for AC and 3-speed automatic - for 10 years. Yes, it had an oil leak…

After owning three 1990s Dodges, I vowed that I’d never own a Chrysler product again. But now I own a 2014 Dodge, and it’s...ok, yeah, I’m an idiot but whatever. And I still really want a new Grand Cherokee.

Agreed. I experienced enough vicariously through various acquaintances that made me steer clear of anything with a GM 60° V6 in it. 

My experience with Fords has been hit-or-miss. The few that I’ve driven as rentals in the last five years have been flaky, except for a Fusion Hybrid that I really liked. I drove an Edge that had an issue with the steering where it would “stick” on-center at highway speeds. And the less said about the DCT, the better.

GM got their act together after the bankruptcy - they kinda had to. Honestly, though, most of the stuff they were releasing around that time - the Lambda SUVs, the Malibu, Cruze, etc. - were pretty good, but still had some issues that got worked out by the time the next generations of those vehicles were launched.

I…

The way people talk about it, it’s like they imagine someone at the plant just taking a big saw to the end of a V8 to make a V6 and calling it a day.
Honestly, it just makes sense, especially with old OHV V8s. Once you’ve engineered everything required to make a good, reliable V8, why not just blueprint a version that…

Anytime I see a Molon Labe, III, or Gadsen Flag sticker on a vehicle, I give them a wide berth. Because their IS a gun in that truck, and they will shoot first*.

**I am a licensed CCW and I keep a .380 in my vehicle, but it’s locked in the floor compartment, and the only stickers I have on my vehicle are a Baby Yoda, a…

<<insert quote about broken GMs running forever here>>

I had a Dodge Neon, and I had several friends and family that had Cavaliers/Sunfires. Having driven and spent time in both, the difference was the Dodge was actually fun in spite of its unreliability. Cavaliers are the cockroaches of the compact car world - I’m always shocked at how many of them are still on the road,…

And don’t get me wrong - West Virginia is a beautiful state (in some areas) with good, honest, hard-working people living in it. But it’s also full of stubborn, “ain’t no one gonna tell me what to do” pride and tribalism. The ones who realized that they were being taken advantage of by the industries that claimed to…

On the outside looking in (literally - if I step outside right now, I can see West Virginia across the river), we’re all aware that every WV politician’s goal is to convince its constituents that coal is still - and will forever be - king. They’ve been getting their lungs blackened, backs broken and land poisoned for…

I don’t think the American brands deserve the hate they get from the “I’ll never buy a Ferd/Doge/Chebby because I once owned a used 1993 Lumina and it was awful” crowd. Yes, their reliability is average, but nearly every new car is far, far more reliable as far as “does it start every morning” daily-drivability.…

It’s all about balance, which is...hard, because it takes education and a willingness to do it.

We buy individually-packaged foods in plastic cocoons, because if we don’t, food goes to waste - and food waste is a huge issues. 40% of food produced in the US goes in the trash before it’s consumed.

Also, many of these chemicals are chosen because they work better than any other. DDT is terrible but it’s also one of the best defenses against insect-borne disease that we’ve yet found. Likewise, they’ve never been able to find “just as good” alternatives to things like R12 refrigerant, Teflon, certain pigments, etc.…

We have a small hatch for my wife’s 50-mile-round-trip commute and day-to-day driving - or quick day trips (or even weekends) to wherever when it’s just me, my wife and our five-year-old. We even managed a few 2-3 night vacations with it, but it gets cramped when your kid is still in the stroller and pack-n-play stage.

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