My ire was rising...

I once had a 1982 AMC Eagle with the 4.2l I6 engine that because the air cleaner wing nut somehow went missing ended up having a ‘FORD’ wingnut from my old car thrown on there in a pinch. This thoroughly confused a garage I took it to to have a carburetor issue diagnosed. The mechanic honestly came into the waiting…

Is the video supposed to cut out at 20:18 or is that my connection? It keeps ticking along at the bottom, but everything is black from that point forward.

My understanding was that it meant ‘second’ for some odd reason. Oh well, live and learn.

Newer LCD sets have largely compensated for this, but it’s still visible in some situations and/or to a discerning eye.

Mostly what I took away from this is that there are ~219,000,000 CRT sets now cluttering up our landfills and the shorelines of underdeveloped countries that we’ve strong-armed into taking the bulk of our e-waste.

CRTs don’t get soap opera effect, either. Newer LCD sets have largely compensated for this, but it’s still visible in some situations and/or to a discerning eye.

Making their workers come to work everyday was kind of self-serving for automakers, it seems weird that they’ve forgotten that and are now chasing a small reduction in overhead to the determent of car sales. And it isn’t jus their own workers who now won’t be coming to work every day, there’s a bunch of cleaning and…

This is very well put, thank you.

What about us poor souls without a spare tire? My car originally came with run flats :(

That part of the car (the piece under the doors) is called a rocker panel. I believe the seam you caught your toes on is called a unibody seam, but I’ve been out of the game for a while so I may be wrong there.

The real angel here is your landlord who’s turned a blind eye to your shenanigans that have, almost assuredly, destroyed his house and property. Of course, that could mean his patience has finally worn out and he self-reported...

It’s called a ‘pop start’.

I would be fully willing to go with the later as well if Mr Harrignton had made the still incredulous, but at least slightly believable claim of a single instance of that happening. I’d be extremely skeptical at more than 1 but less than 3, however anything resembling or hinting at more than 3 is absolute bullshit and…

It’s impossible to believe because removing the VIN plates would serve absolutely no purpose to a car thief that was only stealing the car to joy ride in or riot with. It took me no time at all to see through the absurdity of that claim, why are you still struggling with it? It’s a simple calculation of effort vs…

...speculation that the public safety commissioner just randomly makes shit up in a televised press conference.

Dude, I worked at an OEM for 31 years. I’m well versed in the myriad of ways various serial numbers can be used to identify a vehicle. The VIN plates pried off reflects more on the idiocy of these clowns who were driving around doing stupid shit. And yes, this was all reported by the police. They also understand a…

One of them even fired 3 rounds at a car full of civilians. Was that legal, in your opinion?

The other cars I’m referring to that were driving around causing chaos were beaters with missing license plates and pried off VIN plates. All were stolen. When pulled over, the occupants ran leaving behind their “equipment”.

The fact that someone with a violent precedent and erratic drug-influenced behavior may have been a reason for detaining someone with physical force, but not an excuse for maintaining that force to he point of lethality.