Couldn’t agree more and as Alcoholics Synonymous states, do this with all your equipment. Wherever possible I’ll download a PDF of the manual and add it to a folder or PDF reader so I have it with me at all times. It’s something I started to do when I got into digital photography and it has saved my backside on many…

Do it! As many others have suggested, buy it new and keep it forever. You can also put your journalism on it’s head. You write for Jalopnik now and you can review it as a new car. In 20 years you can write a “from new to jalopy” article when your writing for ImSoRichIOnlyDriveNewStuffnik.

Fixing driver behaviour is a hell of a task, especially once something has become endemic. Generally the driving here in Finland is very good, the driving test is hard, penalties for poor behavour are expensive and means tested. That’s not the root of it though, it comes from something deeper in the culture. Whether…

Guess its time to pitch my dirigible tunnel boring machine again.

Ok, I disregarded you advice about not spending time on the Sterling kit site. I found Tesla coils, cool! I also found this bit of copy, which is so “creative” I suspect Google Translate was involved.

I have to agree. Moving everything off the main screen and dumping one level deep is a big step backwards in terms of usability and safety. The Driving menu now being just a big grid of buttons is just terrible. About the only thing I don’t miss is trying seven times to swipe across to get the trips and TPMS data…

I thing Doc Hudson does a damn fine job of explaining it.

You read my mind, I was just about to post a clarification on sidelights and parking lights using a Mercedes light switch to illustrate. I was going for a W124 rather than a 190, but it’s close enough! I was also going to mention the VAG group solution. So than you, you saved me some time there. The only thing I’ll…

There’s a lower tech solution to always having to stop at red lights :-)

That’s lovely and reminds me of my old VR6 highline, purple on purple. Someone had committed the heinous crime of using clip-on wheel weights on your front alloy wheel though!

I’ve had a VR6 golf and enjoyed it quite a lot, apart from the intermittent ABS fault. That vacuum cleaner though…

I used to go to school in Guildford, which was also home to the Dennis lorry factory. On occasions, whilst being driven home along the Hog’s Back (A31) you would see a lorry chassis out on test from the factory. They looked just like this, with some daring chap in a high, exposed position giving it beans.

I believe it’s a stock part, but haven’t checked. If I remember correctly it powers all of the 12V systems until the car is powered up and is charged when the main battery is charging. Seems to be a bit of a weakness that it can’t trickle charge off the main battery, so leaving a Tesla unused for a long time can bork…

Indeed!

I’m English and still like to think that the French get on their bicycles, wearing a blue and white shirt, beret and a string of onions around their neck, when getting a baguette.

I’m English and still like to think that the French get on their bicycles, wearing a blue and white shirt, beret and a string of onions around their neck, when getting a baguette.

There are some obvious things that come along in life to remind you that you’re getting older. But I never expected that remembering when cookie monster was “all cookies, all the time” would be one of them. Also, only big bird can see Mr. Snuffleupagus.

Whenever these cars come up I feel compelled to remind everyone that if you come from the UK, this is a Zimmer.

Agreed, besides the alarmingly loud hum at 50KM/H when they were new (studded version), they’re the business.