Yes, smaller interiors hold less air volume, but your breath and body are still putting out condensation at the same rate they always do. This is why your smaller car seems to fog up faster than a larger one. A smaller car with more people in it will have multiple moisture wicks running unless your passengers have…

Chances are excellent that your car does this without you even knowing it. If your car has an indicator light to show that he AC is on, when you press the defog/defrost button that light will come on because your car is drying the incoming air before sending it to absorb the moisture out of the standing air in the car.

You’ve never paid attention to your car, then. If your car has an “AC On” light to indicate that the AC is in fact running, you’ll notice that almost every car made after 1999 automatically turns on AC when the defog/defrost button is pushed.

This is a good point I hadn’t considered. If nothing else, C4C has been excellent for obscuring real numbers of survivors vs ones that would have survived but were junked. I still feel it’s about $500 over priced, though. But I’m also positive someone will buy it for that price thinking they got a great deal, so more…

Considering a few key details, I’m thinking this is borderline No Dice. I mean it’s a 1999 SUV, which is a true-r SUV than today’s wagons in high heels posing as work boots, so there’s that. But it’s also 21+ years old and has a lot of rubber and plastic parts in the engine bay that are on their way out if they…

I get that aspect of it, and I agree entirely, I just think a certain demographic is responsible for not only being complicit, but also for brainwashing as many of those of younger generations into also being complicit as they can, and resisting violently any attempt to correct it by the rest of us. Maybe my blame is…

When Boomers are the major voting block, and they just almost reelected the worst president in US history that showed himself to be an incompetent huckster for the full 4 years of his reign, I think they’re still the enemy. Boomers are also responsible for Biden being the best the Democrats could cobble together in…

Or they could retire into the economy they voted into existence. Fuck em if they can’t lie in the bed they’ve made for the rest of us. Maybe they should have thought it through before letting corporations act as individuals? Before they allowed multi billionaires to avoid taxes? Before they fell for trickle down…

Are you also narcissistic enough to require the last word? This is going to be fun.

“When Rednecks fall into money” should have been the title.

Ah, maybe it was every 15k. I had thought I was miss-remembering when that number popped into my head so I erred on the side of caution and said ‘at most 30k’. He was told it’s because of the low-friction requirements and super tight tolerances to hit the efficiency numbers they were looking for, so the oil breaks…

Clearly you are unimaginative enough to actually think your internet trolling attacks are hurting me more than thoroughly amusing me. I do feel for you a little, but you’re also obviously old enough to be considered a legal adult so most of it is on you. Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and all, ya know?

Good to know, and probably a good thing I’m a procrastinator.

Show us where the evil environmentalist touched you. You obviously have some pent up aggression that finds its way out through some rather pathetic ad hominem attacks. Are you a boomer with early-onset dementia, or just playing as one while you lick their boots and beg for their table scraps?

You’ve apparently never owned one (unless you’re talking about VWs, then okay, we get it).

I think like Auto Guy said, it’s that we tend to neglect maintenance as a society. Most Americans want to hop in, turn a key/push a button and be off without anything else to worry about. Oil changes are the most most people are willing to do with their cars other than consumables they can’t ignore (tires and brakes…

Salt hasn’t done in any of my German cars so far, but that was definitely a curse back in the day when paints and coatings weren’t as good. But the maintenance is the nail on the head; we Americans aren’t great at it because we’ve been spoiled I guess. You can theoretically get away with ignoring a Honda and a Toyota…

I get that, but in my experience a lot of owners of German cars are meticulous about keeping records probably for this reason (at least with BMWs anyway). I could see why one might avoid one where the owner didn’t bother to keep these kinds of records, I suppose. I might be inclined to take the risk at the right…

What’s wrong with German? I drove my 1st E90 sedan to 200k (I was a harsh owner, I might add) and it ran fine up until something electrical went due to a leaking windshield I hesitated to fix for some stupid reason. I was going to fix it, but life has a way of getting in the way and it will be going to Cars for Kids…

All sarcasm aside, snow tires are no joke. AWD doesn’t give you help cornering or braking in icy conditions; snow tires do. Legitimately they make it feel like I’m driving on dry, or near-dry pavement all winter long. It’s life changing and if you bother to go that route, saves you the added cost of AWD (and not just…