“Everything breaks sooner or later” is a cop out in this case, because this is *a lot* sooner, and multiple failures of a critical safety component that most automakers figured out how to make properly decades ago.

Depends on where you live - outside storage can be $100/mo+ in philly and $225/mo in the east bay, if you can find it. That extra ~ $2,600/yr really adds up when you’ve got a trailer because that’s the cheaper option. BTDT

Came here to post this, thank you.

Depends on the state - for example, in NJ for years *zero percent* of state gasoline and diesel tax money went to road repairs, it all went to debt service. No, I’m not kidding.

It’s not. The vast majority of these are trailers of varying sizes (from tiny pop up tent trailers to huge triaxle fifth wheel units and everything in between). These are usually are dirt cheap to run, tag and insure in most places as long as you’re not paying to store them, and there’s a lot of pent up demand to…

Rock auto is definitely a good resource for planned work like this. Great write up, BTW. Looking forward to more articles like this. PS - my 2005 Cummins Ram is still going strong, had it since new. With only 130k on it, I hope to have it for another decade or more. Here’s to no EGR, DPF, SCR or urea injection!

Nah, you’ve got it exactly backwards: eveyone I know who drinks Yuengling usually drinks higher end craft brands but has it as a reliable fallback for when they want something cheaper that’s dependable.

Don’t flatter yourself, the second stage is the only one happening here. 🤣

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Nah. And nah. Congratulations, you’re fully living down to the “preachy, annoying vegan” stereotype!

That’s great. But until they are widely accepted by track authorities and sanctioning bodies as safe they’re no point in buying them for track use.

Ah, hyperbole. Try not to sprain any muscles with the over the top virtue signaling! And remember, your fossil fuel use is also killing the planet. 😀

Synthetics don’t work for track use; they melt in a high speed slide.

That’s a lovely German money toilet. 200k miles? CP all the way.

Yup. Angle grinder to flush with the surface and air hammer out the center with a punch attachment. Way faster

I love em, had a 1964 doublecab, but they’re still deathtraps on the road in actual accidents. Like this one, where the driver was lucky to have lived. Two severely broken legs, broken hip, plates and screws in all three areas, eight inch wide deep cut to forehead requiring stitches. And more. A month in the hospital.

The next time I’m back at GM-ASEP I’ll ask the head tech who leads the shop at that campus which specific part he was talking about. Considering he was the shop foreman and lead master at a huge Chevy dealership beforehand, I’m inclined to believe him though.

You might want to look into the Smyth pickup conversions for Jettas and Chargers. Trey are very affordable, are cleanly styled and look to be well made. Sounds like they would fit your needs perfectly.

Electrical parts fail too, and on electric cars those parts can be blindingly expensive. Like the voltage controller on a Chevy Volt, which is $21,000 for the part. It rarely fails, but when it does, that’s often the end of the car if it’s older.