lol!! I sure feel like I’ve aged 20 years in the last 7+!!

lol!! You’re hardly the one to best judge whether people in your area have an accent.....

I know one who does, and I sure don’t know very many Canucks. Maybe you’re generalizing just a LITTLE too much?

Why did you agree to it?

I think one insures the building for fire, not the vehicle that might be in it.

somewhat gratifying....

And, doesn’t Dave mean HE slid his car into a curb and ruined the tire?

Only problems I’ve had with mine in 165,000 miles and 16 years have been the water pump, the AC evaporator, and the EVAP valve.

Probably pretzeled and in the garbage.

That makes them VERY rare and, hence, valuable, right? For some reason, that works with other cars.....

Ostensibly to keep people from injuring their knee(s) on the keys in the column in a frontal crash.

It says “GMC” on the front, and “Chevrolet” on the rear.....

Take a nap after that lap!

Yup - using both of the latter are completely optional.

OMG - how do the rest of us who don’t and never did have rear headrests ever survive?!

A coil is easy and fairly inexpensive to fix. If he knows that’s what it is, he would have fixed it.

Just getting a code does not necessarily tell one what is broken. It tells one what is affected. There is a diagnostic tree that goes along with the code - that’s the part that even amny “mechanics” skip.

Or guns - they can readily get them - illegally, of course.

They sure can be - anything can be.

I think that requires premeditated murder most anywhere.