My Wife’s current car, with is a newer lacrosse still has 2 different possible, non-compatible, rear brake pads and calipers. Both calipers use the same rotor, both have the same basic single piston claw design. And this is with all the options entered. It would appear they had 2 different caliper suppliers and rather…

I have no idea what you are getting on about. Sure the parts can have multiple numbers printed on them, but only the part number is parsed out in BMW’s particular fashion. As someone else stated RealOEM.com will show you the new part number of anything that got superseded. Aside from times when a part number was on a…

The e34 535i was actually a 3.4L. It’s one of the few times that even the engine code lied, as it’s engine code is M30B35. But it really is only 3.4L. I think the first gen X5 and X3 always have the correct displacements listed on the side badge, but I can’t recall any other BMWs that have the correct displacements.

That guy does it specifically because Trader Joe doesn’t exist in Canada and has no plans on expanding to Canada. So he runs a pirate Trader Joe store that he stocks by buying things from a US Trader Joe.

The weakest point of a car is still the guy behind the wheel. Autopilot specifically tells you to pay attention to the road. Teslas are inherently no more dangerous than any other car on the road. People that die while autopilot is on should be looked at in the same light as someone that drove off a cliff while…

Running the heater will pull a little additional heat out of the coolant. You shouldn’t need to run it if the cars cooling system is functional, but if it has issues I could see that being needed.

I was thinking about crossing AC out, but if you’ve ever driven across the American southwest in the middle of the summer, you’d deem it a necessity. Plus it does have some pretty important window fog clearing duties.

AM is mono only, you don’t need more than 1 speaker. And backup camera and emergency braking are not necessary.

ZHPs have a stainless steel exhaust from the factory which is amazingly corrosion resistant. Everything on my ZHP from the cats back is OE and almost rust free. I’ve had to replace hangers and the hanger that is supposed to be bolted to the back of my transmission rusted away into nothingness(and was never replaced as…

The fun part is you can’t take an angle grinder to 2 of them, as you’d have to cut the exhaust itself to get to the nut. I’ve had good luck with a nut cracker for the more exposed ones, and usually I can get something to grab the upper, less exposed nuts as they tend to not be quite as bad as the lower nuts. The…

You tie it into the airbag system and it will go off before there is any intrusion into the structure of the car. Short of a serious one-off situation it will sever the battery in an accident full stop. If there are secondary systems in the car that need to retain power, you can provide that with small local battery…

You’ve never met my exhaust nuts. They corrode down to round in roughly the amount of time it takes for you to need to take them off again, but the bolts are made of inconel, which is basically uncuttable with normal tools. The OE ones were press fit and I had to get a mechanic to cut the bolt off with a torch then…

you buy a set of wrenches and a box full of 10mm. Then next year you go back and buy another box of 10mm after you lose all of the initial ones you bought. The 10mm gnomes are efficient thieving bastards.

The flattuce from the chili really helps get that extra push off when jumping. All serious figure skaters know it. Why do you think they play the music so loud? It’s to hide the sound of the skaters breaking wind on their triple axles. That’s why the skating rinks always smell like ass.

Because many(most?) people have a very strong biological drive to continue their bloodlines. It is unfortunate, but biological drives are hard to overcome.

If it’s anything like my e46, nothing goes through the roof. All my wiring runs down the sides of the unibody under the carpet/door sill interface. The bulk of the cabling is on the drivers side in a bundle about the size of your thumb. The only wires that run up the A pillars are for things in the roof, like the…

Ah yes, the Eagles are a team that is well known for abandoning their fans.

I drove a 1984 e30 318i with all of 102hp and manual everything(including sunroof) for the first 8 years of my driving career. It was likely slower than a Versa, but the interior was an infinitely nicer place to sit and it at least had some level of character. I would take a lifetime of driving that e30 over another…

Nowhere on any part of the website did they say a Versa was possible. And of course it was the only car left in that section of the lot. Never again will I rent one, I’d rather pay the cost to upgrade to the next tier.

Hi, I’m Jeff and I also secretly love the X6M.