*several venereal diseases. And lice.

So this more saved me by proxy. At some point in the ‘70s(I was born in ‘83) my father had a BMW Bavaria. He was driving with my mother, he had a seatbelt on she didn’t when a drunk ran a redlight and hit them head-on at 50+mph(so a combined closing speed approaching 100 mph). If you know anything about cars from the…

Lane departure, if properly programmed, can be pretty good. One of the less observed things it does is promote the proper usage of turn signals. If you fail to activate your turn signal while changing lanes it gets angry and starts shaking the wheel. If you do use your turn signal though it does nothing. I had it in a…

My father worked in the Philly shipyard, albeit years after the Philadelphia Experiment supposedly too place, as an electronics apprentice. He actually has a fairly plausible explanation as to how it the conspiracy started.

Lack of brake ducts would do it. Bringing a 5,000lbs car dumps a ton of heat into the rotors, and if you don’t have any ducting to direct air over them to cool them off, you could easily cook even the freshest of brake fluid. Looking at some pics online, it does indeed appear the Model S lacks brake ducts(as well as…

That car went 3 laps. While that is better than a model S, it is far short of what an M3 will do. The only other report of a Model 3 on the track I’ve found was that it went 9 laps and completely ate its brakes. The car they are expecting to go up against the M3 will weigh more, and have more than 2x the heat…

This and the whole ‘stash a pitcher in the outfield’ thing are some of the neatest ideas to roll out of a managers brain in a long time.

C&D’s other big beef with the Model S was that the brakes just went to the floor after the first or second hard braking. It never gave up entirely but the pedal apparently got super-soft. It was still fairly quick though, running around the same time as a Hellcat until it went into limp mode. It’s final time at VIR…

Well the trick is to just not tell your insurance company you track the car and get track-day insurance to cover the gap. If the car wrecks, you file with the track-day guys not your insurance company. It usually costs about the same as 1 month of normal insurance for the 2 days, and a second driver is free.

Technically, wouldn’t it’s class basically be itself? I can’t recall any other electric performance sedans in the $78k +/- $10k range.

“During steam-driven explosions, ballistic blocks up to 2 m [1.21 Altuves] across could be thrown in all directions to a distance of 1 km (4.97 furlongs) or more. These blocks could weigh a few kilograms (Batmans) to several tons(tonnes),” the USGS said. “Smaller (Attoparsec) rocks could be sent several kilometers…

The payoff for having to replace the cooling system as PM is that it’s nearly impossible to overheat the car as long as the PM is done. I’ve done HDPEs in 100+F temps and it never even skipped a beat. Other cars were going into limp mode after 10-15 minutes but I was going full tilt for 30 min with the A/C running and…

aside from the thermostat(which just has a heater line), there aren’t any electrical parts that need to be replaced along with the refresh. The Radiator, pump, thermostat, and expansion tank cost ~$350 if you go with the OEM parts, you can limbo under $300 if you dip into OE parts. Adding in all the hoses costs…

Exploding plastic is what usually kills the e46's cooling system. I’ve not had it happen yet, but I’ve been told it can be quite dramatic. I have an all-metal expansion tank to install the next time I do an overhaul and I’m really considering going with an all-metal radiator as well.

You shouldn’t have ended up at $1500 in parts. Last time I did mine it was $300-400 for OE/OEM parts, $500-600 if you replace all the hoses as well. $1500 is what you spend if you do everything with BMW branded parts.

I think that falls under #1 “how dangerous will a breakdown be?”

at first it was water pump, but they revised the part(twice. rev 1 had a plastic impeller that fell apart, rev 2 had a metal impeller that weighed too much and ate the bearing, rev 3 has a composite impeller that does not get eaten or weigh too much) and the newest one is pretty bullet proof. The current method of…

there are 3 functions. You forgot “how much damage can this cause if it breaks?”

It’s not just that it’s the largest BMW plant in the world. They actually make so many cars that it makes BMW the #1 vehicle exporter in the US by value. That one plant makes up roughly 15% of the US vehicle export market.

I never said I’ve not made mistakes, I certainly have. What I haven’t done is make any obvious mistakes that cost me my life. These people aren’t being killed because they walked away from a running car sitting in a garage. Had they done that they simply would have come back to a stinky garage with a non-running car…