Electromagnets pull out the ferrous metals, other methods separate the plastic from the aluminum but I don’t remember exactly how, it’s been years since we learned about this in class.

And stripping complete motorcycles for recycling component by component is very labor intensive - a huge waste of taxpayer money…

Why would you auction them, when they will almost certainly just end up on the streets again, doing the same thing? Selling them out of state just makes the same problem worse for some other city - this is a problem all over the US.

And many of these - if not most of them - are stolen and/or have obliterated or…

Mr. S Leather in San Francisco is the place for you!

I was a dealer service manger in Manhattan some years back. I could not imagine a more ill suited personal vehicle for NYC driving than a Hummer EV, other than maybe an original H1. Awful, nerve wracking.

Oh, trust me, the IRS can and will check that if the people get audited, and California can too if those Texas tax residents rent or own a California house, apartment or car or get stopped by the CHP habitually driving a Texas registered car to or from work anywhere in California. Speaking from experience, when I took…

1st gear: Tesla has badly blown - by several years, usually - every new vehicle launch date that Musk has ever announced AFAIK, so why would he be accurate this time? Investors and potential buyers can take his announcements, add two years, and still not be confident that it’ll be delivered into customer hands by…

Every EV someone else buys instead of a gas car is hundreds more gallons of gasoline available to you (and every other gas car driver out there) each year.
Not kidding - the 17,000 miles on our EV is 653 gallons I didn’t buy that someone else needed. With just 1 million EVs on the road in California, if each owner…

In case you’ve been asleep for the last year and just woke up, the current average used car transaction price in the US is around $28,000, up a whopping 28% or so from a year earlier.

You could lease a new Bolt EV for $107 per month, $107 down last year.
New Bolt EVs are going to be $26k MSRP for the MY2023.
Used Bolts are going for as little as $20k right now, with the new battery pack that gives 259 miles of range and has a fresh 8 year, 100K battery warranty.

So I have no idea what you’re…

There is no downpipe on that car, ball and socket from the manifold to the cat, and the front 02 sensor is in the exhaust manifold. But the rear 02 sensor is in the cat, so that’s another $74.99 for a Denso sensor from rock auto.

Upon further research, if the Fit is an automatic he may be stuck with an OEM replacement…

Fishy ad and seller, lots of red flags.

1) The truck has no plates on it, as in none. That’s a bad sign because in California the plates stay with the car forever, and if you don’t have the plate number you can’t check to see if there are any back DMV fees and outstanding parking tickets on that plate.

2) “maryland…

Seller can also sell it legally on a PNO without a smog check.

I would absolutely fix the Fit, assuming it’s in decent shape otherwise.

2008 5 speed Fit, CARB compliant (meaning, higher quality) replacement cat assembly : Walker pn#82893 is $575.79 at Rockauto.com, before shipping and 5% part discount.

That’s absolutely true. But just about every new EV on the road is going to be a more affordable used EV for subsequent owner(s) down the line, and a bunch of those used EVs will be replacing older, more polluting gas cars and trucks.

An EV conversion that equaled the range, power and charging speed of a dead stock $26k 2023 Chevy Bolt would likely cost as much (or more) as just buying said Bolt brand new.

Good luck with that, as long as we have the industry wide chip shortage and all the other supply chain issues too. And as a former dealer service manager (and ex GM master tech) who assigned all the prep and PDI on every new vehicle we sold - nobody wants to buy stripped new cars or trucks. That stuff is sales lot…

Took some city to city bus rides in Mexico last month, can confirm that their buses are way nicer and a very pleasant place to sped hours of travel time. When I took Grayhound from Philly to Lubbock to pick up an Ebay car years back, it was just hellish. You couldn’t pay me to ride Grayhound again for anything longer…

Dafuq are you talking about? Carjackings get reported immediately, police cars have things called radios, many jurisdictions have been using automatic optical plate scanners for years now that scan every plate on every car they pass by, as well - parked or driving.

And no cop is going to believe that story, do you…

Carjacking as you’re describing it (especially using a gun or other weapon) is a violent crime and would justify a police pursuit under Washington state law.

Well yes, chinese made domestic brand cars are garbage by the time they’re 15 years old, in large part because most of them were garbage when they were brand new back then, around MY 2007-8. They don’t age like a fine wine, y’know?

There were more than a dozen domestic Chinese auto manufacturers selling cars in their…