I was dating this girl back in high school and I had a Jeep Wrangler at the time, we were walking to it in the parking lot one day, her and her friend are ahead of me, they proceed to walk up to a Geo Tracker and wait for me to unlock it. I broke up with her a week later. Probably those type of women are the ones…

When I sat down at the stealership to sign the papers on my Raptor, the young guy I bought it from proceeds to literally write "F150 Rapture" on the paperwork. I laughed and said: "Freudian slip? Hell yeah, in case of rapture I WILL be driving a Raptor!" He smirked, but I could tell he didn't get it, I had to…

I have a Supercab Raptor, I tend not to use it as my daily driver but I can easily get 15 MPG highway on long trips, one time I saw 16MPG on country back roads. The short bed works fine for hauling a quad and a trailer full of other off-road toys, also works fine for hauling a small horse trailer and a bunch of…

That's the whole point of Evernote though. The search indexing is good enough that you shouldn't have to obsess about organizing everything painstakingly. Just use good relevant tags to categorize things and let the content of the note and it's attached items build the rest of your search index. I've never…

I drive an '04 TDI with 228,000 on it, I've swapped the clutch and flywheel out with a solid single-mass assembly and did an upgrade on the ECU to add some power. Mine definitely isn't as smooth and quiet as it used to be, but it sure aint slow anymore!

Good to see these occasional examples showing that the US justice system isn't a 100% complete and absolute failure, there is some hope.

I'm not 100% sure if this Crystal Disk Info is free (as in beer) or not; so I'll just say in addition that you can use a number of free utilities in Windows or booted from a Linux diag distro like Parted Magic to query the SMART statistics on any modern hard drive. ddrescue is also a great free GPL utility that you…

In other words, if your machine is remaping enough bad sectors to create an impact on performance, it's either: A.) going to fail to remap a critical sector containing system files soon, which will likely break a frequently accessed file of the OS in some noticeable regard. Or B.) Trip the S.M.A.R.T remap threshold…

Oh, I'm well aware of this! My daily driver is an '04 PD TDI with 230,000 miles and intact factory emissions controls.

Making improvements to the EGR and PCV systems could eliminate that issue, or you could eliminate the EGR and vent the PCV to atmosphere for "race only" applications.

Interesting, I'd never thought of it in relation to the outer dimensions before.

Yay for EGR!!!

Wouldn't 6.2L of displacement be about the tipping point for the "Big Block" designation?

What!? No Scion Cement Gray?? It looks like someone put clear coat over primer...

I 2nd this and Scion's Cement Grey

Just turned over 222,000 on my 04 Jetta TDI, all I get from VW are recall notices!

This is a common issue for folks that lug their TDI's and don't get on it enough. I have an '04 with 220,000 miles on it and I've never cleaned the intake or EGR, though the EGR cooler was replaced under warranty before I bought the car with 130,000 on it. I regularly beat the hell out of this car as it's my daily…

Dear Europe, we have a vastly larger amount of desolate land to travel and shitty to non-existent public transit in most cities as well. We need far more economical, yet not lame as hell to drive vehicles than we currently have available.

It is one of the few F150's that you can get the Boss 6.2L in: Lariat, Platinum, Raptor and Harley Davidson. No technical reason you couldn't have the 6.2 in any other F150 though.

This Mercedes needs more acronyms.