<insert obligatory joke about taking the lens cap off>

I’m fine with them taking their time since if this things gets up there and fails to unfold properly or has some other malfunction, there’s exactly jack squat we can do to fix it.

I’m a libertarian internationally, conservative nationally, relatively liberal locally, and completely socialist among my family... 

Wow...

Because it’s actually not all that useful. You can’t drive around with it open without risking damage, and anything that’s on the floor you’re going to bother opening the entire liftgate anyway.

$1100/month?  Dude. 

Leather can be very hardy. There are some animals that use it as an outer layer of protection against harsh environments. If it suits their needs then I’d imagine it’s tough enough to stand-up against lamb skin soles.

Its just a few bad stabbles

I think you’re being a little harsh on this guy. He accomplished something pretty difficult to do at this stage of the protest; he made this about himself. That’s got to count for something.

Take it off. Ream the wholes to clean the edges and make then a consistent size. Get the right size plastic hold plugs. Paint them with correct touchup paint. Insert and DONE. Seriously, they look no worse then the sensors on front and rear bumpers and you’ll forget they are even there.

the real answer is to change the laws to not require front plates.

I was wondering what Rosco P Coltrane was up to these days.

You’re wrong. Your aversion to non-functional hood scoops and vents is entirely rational.

I have an irrational aversion to non-functional hood scoops/vents/louvres. In high school there were a handful guys who covered their cars in the kind of plastichrome faux performance shit you’d get from the discount parts bin at Pep Boys. Portholes, hood scoops, you name it. The worst thing was they weren’t bad guys,…

When the sclooting starts the schooting starts.

Oh my god. I am so sorry you’re going through all of that and I hope you can have your surgery. <3

On top of the world virus-ing out and my country burning down around me, I have a co-worker spreading lies about me (the kind of which can result in my being investigated by HR), am scheduled to have surgery this week, might get the surgery postponed if the riots don’t stop, and am miserable from pain because I can’t…

Neutral, the recent events have only increased my love of cars seeing how any day could be your last. I realized my life is too short to settle for cars I don’t love. So I went and traded in my Lexus for a Giulia.

Never, ever use this slide-show format again.

So that straight to the comments link doesn’t work and the slideshow layout is trash....