I wondered the same thing. That’s as bad for treadlife and traction as the stanced crew. The recommendation from the factory is to get close to an even contact patch based on the tire size, weight rating, and weight of the vehicle

Did not know that about Toyota’s acceleration, I blamed it on drivers just like Audi

18k miles? 18,000 miles??!! Theres missing an oil change long and then theres insane. And you’re deeply into the second. And the Germans recommend longer? I've pulled 5w-30 out of vehicles that went 10K and it was water thin. 

In most automatics, the pawl that holds the car in “park” is pretty small, and they do wear out over time. You ever put a car in park on a hill, let off the brake, and feel the car roll back? Then, when you put it in drive, there’s a noticable “clunk”? That’s wear. Use the parking brake.

The myth that higher octane fuel has more power.  Higher octane fuel resists detonation more than lower octane fuel, but doesn’t contain more power.

I don’t care what anyone says.

“lifetime” fluids. No, your transmission is not service free...it just means they don’t want you checking the levels yourself and making sure its serviced at the dealer. Every single dealer will recommend a replacement interval for that fluid.

I mean it depends on if it was a one-off or typical of their relationship. If she was indeed a toxic parent, I can understand him not wanting to have anything to do with her (the usual caveats about Tarantino being a Weinstein enabler who puts his actresses in unecessary danger aside)

I posted this already to the author and as usual I’m grey. -

Exactly. Out of 44mm rental units in the US, 24mm are owned by independent landlords, the vast majority of whom own fewer than 5 units and have a full time job outside of being a landlord. People don’t seem to understand that most of these properties are mortgaged, not owned outright, and the spread between rental…

Every landlord I know is just barely making ends meet. It is not their duty to society to provide a free home to people who refuse to pay rent, take care of the property.

It seems rather silly to punish landlords who are just trying to feed their own children. 

And what are they doing about stopping the banks from foreclosing on landlords homes because they couldn’t pay their mortgage because they were forced to allow people to live in their properties rent-free?

It’s one thing for a landlord to evict a paying tenant simply to relist the property on AirBnB at a higher price. It is another thing entirely to evict a tenant who hasn’t paid rent in several months and isn’t likely to be able to pay for it in the future. It is incumbent on the social safety net to care for such…

These type of articles always assume landlords are all super rich, or corporate real estate companies. There a many landlords who are middle class, who have to pay mortgage and property tax and maintenance fees. Eviction bans, while perhaps the best course of action to prevent even higher rates of homelessness have…

If it doesn’t exist, develop a standardized system to identify what type of regulation is required for individual businesses and industries categorized by the type of data handled, the risk of that data being exposed, and the impact of downtime or changes as a result of external manipulation. A plethora of piping,…

TSA employed only six staffers on its pipeline cybersecurity division, responsible for overseeing 2.7 million miles (4.4 million kilometers) of pipeline across the country.

Real question though, where are delivery drivers supposed to take a piss if they need to and they are in an entirely residential area and don’t feel comfortable asking a stranger getting an amazon order if they can use their shitter?

I am doing Valve stem seals on my BMW 850. Took me a couple hours for the first valve. Half that for the second. 22 valves Left to go. You do get better at it. Going to knock a bunch of them out this weekend. 

My rule of thumb when doing a particular job the first time is to take whatever time estimate is given in the DIY article/Youtube video and double it.

This would literally take me a month, and I still wouldn’t have fixed the FACE-DIRECTED SAFETY EXPLOSIVE.