Just a tip: I got the nest thermostat today from Newegg for 175, free shipping.

Just a tip: I got the nest thermostat today from Newegg for 175, free shipping.

Tatra is Always the Answer. TIATA.

They’re driving an Audi SQ5 TDI. The fuel pumps are lubricated and cooled with diesel. They just ran it out of fuel. They have just shortened the life of the fuel delivery system, a pricey proposition on a TDI, especially given that they have a propensity to send teeny metal shards throughout the injectors when the…

Man, I hear what you’re saying, but if it was mine, I would swap it. I was driving my wife’s 328d, and as I went on the exit ramp, I screeched the brakes today because I was pushing on the non-existent clutch. Manual all the things!

Funny, I’m so used to voting CP, that I accidentally voted CP when I meant NP. Bargain down a bit for the manual transmission swap, and your well on your way to Citroen bliss. If I had a bit more cash...

I saw these ‘starfish’ cars all over the place; this is the JAC S2, a tidy little SUV with a CVT and probably a good choice for a DDS with a PhD into some S&M.

Many years ago, at an all-hands meeting at Adobe, we got to hear Fred Snow, who was the VP of sales or some bullshit, and told us an anecdote about being in Mexico and speaking to street kids, telling them that “He had money, and he had friends”, and also not to worry about the Global South and piracy, “let me know…

Love it, but the right hand drive and the rot make it just a bit too much. Don’t hate me, but for a DD, I want left hand drive.

It’s a car full of watermelons, luggage, and people, and I suspect driven with verve at 100 MPH. My GTI easily gets the rated 34 MPG, and sometimes 37 when I’m driving more carefully on the highway (fuelly computations, not the built-in computer), but that’s because I’m driving alone. I was surprised at first as well,…

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Yeah. Seems like a lot of folks don’t know, woodpeckers aren’t eating wood, they’re chowing down on beetles and bugs that have infested the wood. If they’re going to town on your house, that generally means the wood is rotten, or full of termites, and they’re getting the bugs that have infested your siding. Likewise…

That tree must be completely full of bugs- not long for this world.

Pill EE Ate ed. Jesus.

Duh, mk4 TDI manual.

Two kids in convertible car seats, rear facing, 2001 Golf until 2 weeks ago. It can be done, you’re just not getting anyone else back there for drives of any significant distance. Fact is, 2 TDIs gets you better fuel economy than most of the suggestions here.

Breathe, dude, breathe. Just because we don’t agree doesn’t mean you need a coronary. Oregon’s gas taxes are lower - and this is going to BLOW your MIND! - BECAUSE they mandate pump attendants to pump your gas. It’s a subsidy designed to provide jobs. Whoaaaaaaaaaa. It stands to reason then that if they didn’t have so…

The exception was diesel, you can pump your own. I used to fill up myself at the bio station west of PDX.

Hmm. Get gas in Vancouver Wa, then in Portland. Which is cheaper? PDX.

What I wouldn’t do for an AWD Diesel Sport Wagon with a manual transmission from a Japanese, German or French marque. It doesn’t have to be brown. I wouldn’t mind 250 or so HP, and adjustable suspension like on my GTI. That’s not so much to ask. Harsh ride when I’m taking the curves, soft when I’m driving my…

I’ve looked far and wide for a red GTI. They simply don’t exist in manual in the trim I want near me.