My Dad had this problem a long time ago with his 1997 Toyota Corolla. He would always pour a bit of Formaldehyde in part of the HVAC and let it evaporate slowly over a couple of days. After that, it would smell like formaldehyde for a while and then just fine for the next year or so, when it would start to foul up…

My 2006 Rav4 V6 would do this every once in a while when accelerating hard from a stop. Still does, so the new owner says.

Not really a quirk, more like a Gremlin. You know, the ugly ones from the movies? My 335xi tried to kill me for over 3 years. It would work great whenever it was dry out, but every time I needed to emergency brake in the wet or snow, it would pull very hard to the left for the first 1-2 seconds of braking and then…

BMW too. You can set it based on who’s key was used to open the door. My wife likes the single blink, I like the triple. Bugs the crap out of me when we accidentally swap keys or she touches the driver’s side door handle to open the car even though I’m driving. Well, that and the fact that it sets the seat way too…

That would be our 2006 Chrysler Sebring convertible. This was also in Hawaii (big island). We wanted to rent a convertible, and that was all they had. My wife said “Well, it doesn’t look too horrible.” But, I knew... I knew... It was an automatic... It was a Chrysler... It was a... See-no-bring.

Had something similar happen to me. Fell asleep once while driving (and only once, in my entire life). Felt a muffled slap on my face as if someone hit me with a very large and soft mittened hand. Woke up just in time to get out of opposing traffic and right before a semi plowed into me.

Those ventilation tubes after the intakes look so primitive, especially after viewing how large those intakes really are.

Gotta take the shittyest bike you can and the best lock you can afford. It will get stolen. Or at the least appropriated by someone so coked/methed/smoked up who just wants to get into bed as fast as possible.

Don’t know if they still do it, but one of the Goth groups in SF (that open-Monday club, can’t remember the name) always built a real Thunderdome and strung people up on bungies with padded sticks for battling it out with each other. Really really cool....

They first got connected in 2001 with a real shitty WiFi service just good enough (barely) for Email. Back then, everyone would look at you with evil squinty eyes if you mentioned that you were off to email your significant other. Or, simply lambast you for not disconnecting completely. And since I was pretty much…

Someone very seriously told me that BMW cars were “bimmers” and BMW motorcycles were “beemers”. Or maybe it was the other way around. Not sure if that’s really a thing.

I got a 2008 3 Series. Still waiting. Called BMW USA. They said even if they eventually have a fix, they won’t honor mine as my car is no longer registered in the US. Germany apparently doesn’t have a recall on the inflator yet, so they won’t honor it either. Contemplating when I’ll allow it to be put on a trailer,…

2008 335xi here, 146K km N54

I drive regularly from Munich to Lucern and I can attest to how exhausting it is to drive fast. I drive a 335 xi (definitely need AWD sometimes in the winter) and have the potential to drive fast each trip (on the German stretch). But, I never really see the point in going faster than 120 mph and usually just sit…

Great. Got the receipt but don’t have proof that I ran Linux on it. It YLODed a long time ago and didn’t come back after trying a hairdryer or thermal paste... Ripped the HDD out to pop into one of those slim 12GB models, so there went even more evidence. But, I could attest under oath that I wanted to run Linux when…