Okay, thanks.

Another fun thing you can do to aluminum things that you are angry with - like the car rims of someone who you hate - is to take some mercury and leave it in salt water for a few days, and then pour the mercury-ion-rich water on the aluminum thing.

Since you are an expert: is there some way to bleed the air pressure in self-leveling rear air springs (not AIRMATIC) on a 2009 E-class?

Some people have a certain type of anger management issues. Not in that they get angry per se - everybody can get angry - but that when they do, they act retrograde. They do the opposite of what they should in order to get their way.

You are right when I think about it - I have heard more about US company stocks than I would like to. Can’t remember the last time any stock was mentioned in the press about any company over here in Europe. Funny.

The gas lid on my Buick would get stuck and not open when I pushed the button inside the cabin.

Quite often, the design engineer absolutely has the authority to ratify design choices. But they forget it because they are by nature truth sayers. So when the bean counters ask if corners can be cut, designers often comply even though it is well within their power to not.

Yeah - I just now spent an hour trying to understand how I am supposed to reach a certain pipe connector without taking a grinder to the chassis. The instruction video made it look simple, though they used a special tool sourced from the manufacturer.

Jesus, you missed the absolutely stellar Jackie Chan movie Wheels on Meals (1984).

Stellar idea. Then it is just a matter of time before the car industry realizes the benefits.

Why is it that corruption always push terrible things?

My interpretation:

Most things look good when compared to the worst examples.

“Should you get a Subaru?”

Well, the small one we built worked well for evaluating various auxiliary tech. 

Yes. I have a brother not quite as extreme as that, but he is certain that Bill Gates tries to eradicate humanity by means of microchips in vaccines.

This here is what I call “parasitic optimization”.

2nd gear: if you have the agency to deploy a machinery that is a danger to others, you should be responsible through that agency alone, if not by the actual operating of the machinery.

It does however reeks a lot of autism, what with the obsession with rules.

I might be wrong because my knowledge about legal systems is rudimentary;