The LED taillights did not come with the LCI on e46's across the board. They were added in a few years after the LCI. IIRC only the coupes got them initially. I’m not sure the sedans ever did, but I know at least some LCI sedans don’t have LEDs as evidenced by my ZHP with halogens.

There are multiple S50’s out there with 1k hp or more.  I wouldn’t exactly call them fragile.

What makes you think that it’s cheaper to run through a new design for the refurbished ship? If anything it’s probably worse since you can’t change the dimensions of the ship very much so you have a much more constrictive box to work in. They aren’t going to rip out the guts of a ship to replace it’s structure then…

Based on that ratio, there would be 2.75 Tico’s left afloat. I’d hate to be assigned to the 3/4ths Tico...

ships at sea take a massive pounding, doubly so for a naval vessel which is going to spend more time at high speed than any other large vessels. Over time this starts causing fatigue damage to the structure of the ship itself. Fixing this fatigue damage would require gutting the entire ship down to the hull, replacing…

Most will probably sit in the mothball fleet for a decade or two before being scrapped. Some will likely be sunk as part of an exercise to give active duty ships and crews experience with surface combat. It’s unlikely that they will be sold as they have exceeded their projected lifetime of 30 years and are out of date…

Any particular reason they would stick with the Mk 41 over the Mk 57 PVLS the Zumwalt uses?  It seems like that wildly increases the ship’s survivability and frees up centerline space for other things, like guns, lasers, and aircraft pads.

There is no reason an artillery round can’t be shot down, it’s just more difficult than shooting down a missile. Especially if you can hit the round a couple dozen miles out. at that range you don’t need to actually destroy the round, just hitting it and either killing its guidance or compromising its aerodynamic…

I guess I’m the exception that proves the rule? I’ve not had any issues with ECS, aside from self-inflicted ones like not checking the in stock status of a part. And every time I messed that up I’ve called them, gotten a real person on the phone in very short order who removed that part and got the order shipped out…

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…