That’s pretty ambitious to install a blower. For the enhanced rental experience Nitrous is where it’s at. I’ve seen installed on a rental 300C, Maxima, DeVille, Mustang, Camaro and a Caravan (all by the same guy).

Friends of mine bought a Chevy Equinox, so I get to fix it for them (you know because I’m a car guy and like working on cars so replacing wheel bearings in this POS must be fun for me).

Or the ones that are convinced that their GMC Sierra is mechanically superior to a Chevrolet Silverado.

Well actually a turbocharger is considered a type of supercharger, so not completely wrong there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superchar…

Yeah, he’s got a Dodge RV he could come tow it back with.

Yeah, miserable is what that entire trip was. The frozen minivan door was nothing compared to being stranded in a shuttle bus, 3 flights cancelled, sick in the Detroit airport, lost my drivers license and of course missed the meeting I was trying to get to. Then no flights home for 2 days so I drove back home through…

Also those power doors don’t like -16deg (F) weather. Had a rental van that tried to open the frozen door just enough to trigger the dome light, but not enough to actually open the door. Eventually figured out how to turn off the dome light, and the following day about 3 hours into my drive it finally thawed out and…

-How many 390lb Chrysler 2.2L engines will fit in the bed? Can I get say two engines, an engine hoist, 3 transmissions and a set of wheels in there?

This was also the time that Carroll Shelby was working with Chrysler, so a prototype Turbo V6 Premier was made by Shelby’s skunkworks. This one got the manual trans as well if I remember correctly.

That works with 1/10 scale RC cars, but not the real ones yet.

Worked at a quick lube for 10 years, the screwdriver through the oil filter is a messy way to do it and won’t work on a really tight filter, it just rips it in half. Use a strap wrench or filter pliers and grab it near the base of the filter or on the edge, the middle is the weakest point and easiest to crush.

AT&T has the same $10 fee.

That’s done on a lot of turbo cars, but not for emissions reasons, it’s for don’t turn the pistons into ashtrays reasons. They allow an overboost of 10-15 seconds which is great for acceleration in traffic, then scale it back before engine damage is done.

My least favorite area to work on in any car is usually under the dash. Even on old cars there’s no room. Changing a speedo in a 41 Studebaker is no easier than a clutch master cylinder in a 2003 Corolla (did both in the same week).

If it’s a front tire that’s stuck find a chunk of wood (firewood, 2x4). wedge it between the back of the wheel and the frame of the car. Start the car and turn the steering wheel in the direction that pushes against the piece of wood. Use the hydraulic pressure of your power steering system to remove the corroded…

I think was 2 years ago we had a kid on a local facebook car spotters page show a picture of the shifter he swiped off the Ford Mustang GT500 at the auto show. It was fun to watch the wrath of the internet fall on him, he ended up bringing it back to Ford if I remember correctly.

Looking at the photos a lot more than just the wheel/tire is missing. if it was loose lugnuts and a missing wheel I would expect to see the brake rotor and knuckle there and none of that is visible in the picture. So it’s possible it got loose hit the center barrier and ripped the knuckle brakes and wheel right off…

Lure them in with the talk of robots, but please make them leave with the desire to develop LED semaphores and other new signal lighting.

We a have a 2013 Limited 1.4 Turbo 6spd. Ordered it new with pretty much all the options (minus xenon lamps and alpine stereo). So far it’s got about 45k miles. Reliability has been decent, had a clutch master cylinder with an intermittent failure and a few squeaks and rattles when the car was new everything fixed…

I’m guessing they like being able to control the resistance like this when testing out the cooling systems and monitoring fluid temps. You can simulate pulling a load up a grade for longer than any actual grade to verify the engine and drivetrain won’t overheat as well as monitoring exhaust temps to make sure the…