I agree. My family had a couple of these Takata recalls and it took YEARS for the dealer to say they had the parts in stock.

Because the increase in pedestrian deaths coincided with another invention that tends to distract motorist and pedestrians alike.

That works.

California has a habit of importing power from its neighbors in Nevada, Idaho and Oregon when it is feeling the crunch

The forestry part? There was a House subcommittee meeting about it a few years ago.

I believe in android you can also disable apps until you want to use them, but I have yet to try to see how well it works.

I mean, I take care of the 40 or so acres my family owns. The US government owns 30% of the landmass in the US. Most of it seems to be managed relatively well.

I can appreciate that. I used to live in a state that all of the waterways are dammed up by the US corp of engineers. When we had a drought, they would not keep water for the people in the state. When a city of 8 million people had a 60 day supply of water left, they released that water to help a protected species of m…

California also needs to implement an actual fire mitigation policy that will stop the fires from being catastrophic events. Just ruining their power grid isn’t sufficient.

But why Astro over Express? Or Express conversion with 4x4 package?

Interesting. I for one was surprised by how many Raptors, or Raptor clones, I found around Beijing.

I figure they will get there and find the Air Force’s space plan already has its own landing strip on the moon.

The Merc ones work pretty well, except sometimes it mistakes southern humidity for rain when I leave my garage and the wipers come on for no reason.

That is kinda my point. The OP was commenting on how expensive it is to repair a BMW engine. The estimate to change the timing chain cover was over $5K. That alone totaled the car. I think that is excessive. 

Some states have laws that if you turn on your wipers, you must turn on the lights. So some people don’t turn on the wipers, or at least wait until it is raining really hard before turning them on. 

To be fair, it is because the insurance company said they had to use BMW to do the replacement, and BMW estimated 30 hrs for the job. The labor alone was going to be $4K+. Which was due to the design of the engine, of course. I still think it would have been worth fixing if we found someone to do the job for less. 

I saw an 8 year old 328i declared a total loss because the timing chain cover was cracked in an accident. The cost to repair the sheet metal wasn’t bad and no airbags went off. The cost to replace the timing chain cover was more than the car was worth!!!

Honestly, no. I think my situation is unique, though. We bought it CPO when it had been used for one year. Within 6 months of buying it, the engine had to be rebuilt twice; once for a known issue concerning the wrist pins on the pistons (for which there was a service bulletin about specifying the VINs affected), then…

I feel like a lot of companies are doing weird things to try to boost the side impact scores. The windows in particular are getting smaller and smaller. The C300 looks good, but since we have been doing more drive thoughts during COVID it has become apparent the windows are just awkward to use in a drive through ATM…

Probably has more to do with the crazy hp and torque numbers they are promising. They may need more studs to put that power down, especially if towing.