I would say as part of prepping is also removing any loose items in the cabin and trunk. The last thing you want is said loose item to bang around and damage the car, or you. :p

“...make sure lug nuts are torqued to spec...”

If that’s a consolation, it doesn’t happen only in America.

I think people miss the fact that hail is one of the less predictable weather events. There’s lots of situations where it could happen based on the forecast but very few where it can be predicted as likely until an hour or two before.  There are parts of the US where if you didn’t leave the house every time there was…

Shoving onto the elevator or train before even letting people get out first. Raised by wolves.

For what it’s worth, these jackasses don’t appear to have pulled over, as it looks like they are actually stopped in the middle of the fucking highway....

It’s right in the Constitution. The right to block passage. Somewhere with the part about soldiers in your house. I swear it’s in there somewhere.

I carry a few heavy blankets in my car and car cover for just such emergencies. The blankets will absorb the impact of the typical stuff in my AO ( not the Texas level stuff I see demolishing homes obviously ) when it comes to hail and the car cover acts as ballast holding them in place. 

I was once forced to take shelter from a tornado .under an overpass on the KS turnpike. Back then (before cellphone warnings), it was possible to get caught by surprise like that. I was driving a semi, lightly loaded, and the tornado was heading towards me from the side. Most of the 4-wheelers on the highway that day…

It’s usually people avoiding hail, though. I didn’t encounter it so much until the last ten years, as if something is affecting our weather patterns...

I’ve been around this - twice if I recall correctly. Hail storms. Just creates a traffic disaster. Unless you’re on a motorcycle  just don’t.

“nobody actually wanted small sedans and hatchbacks”
Honda, Hyundai/Kia, and Toyota would beg to differ.

In all seriousness, though, this kind of thinking is what caused Chrysler/GM to suddenly have no appealing, affordable or desirable cars when the bottom fell out of the economy or when gas prices rose - so they had to go hat-in-hand to the government for a bailout.

You’re either the pinnacle of naivete or an absolute idiot. Prisons are full of people boxed into plea deals or convicted because they thought they had nothing to hide and the police used some circumstantial connection to infer guilt of something.

I don’t have anything to hide, but my life is none of their business.

Until they find a BS reason to have probable cause (air freshener in your window...) scan you car then now start drawing other conclusions on limited data.  Laws have not kept up with the time, items that should require more protection for the police to get data from are “ok” from backdoors like this.  they need to…

“harvested customer info” is a dramatic way of saying “remembered the name of a device that the device owner willingly linked to the vehicle”

Without screens and shitty in-house technology, car companies can’t justify their prices increasing 10% a year. So screens it is! Despite negligible improvements in technology. 

I booked DMX at a show in Atlanta around... I want to say it was Halloween 2011. Anyway, I didn’t really know what to expect. At that point in his career, DMX was something of a novelty name to add to a bill. Our other acts that night were all pretty standard EARMILK fare, and our audience was probably just old enough…

That was probably it. The gist being that they make so many RS’s because it ends up being their most profitable car at those margins.  And the hilarity of all the RS owner’s thinking their cars are rarer than GT3's...but they aren’t.