Haha, I love that they actually made a video teaching BMW owners how to use their signals. It’s like the jokes write themselves...

Definitely. Only once, though.

Yeah, I said the exact same thing a while back in another post. My car had 2009-dated tyres when I got it last year and even though there was still some thread left in the tyres they were completely useless in the wet. And that’s on a 100hp FWD hacthback.

Just drill a little hole in the firewall by the turbo. Bam, lots of turbo noise. Worked for me (though the “drilling” part wasn’t exactly intentional...).

Most transverse engines I’ve come across require lifting the engine in some way to change the timing belt. It’s usually not that bad though.

Transversely mounted Vee engines. Transverse inline engines (except Volvo’s retarded transverse bi-turbo I6) are usually some of the easiest engines you can work on.

Not fair, I want a girl.

Are you implying there are other reasons for having children?!

Children’s toys are getting really realistic these days. Next thing you know they are making BMWs with no turn signals!

Tokyo Drift!

Not lack of patience, just a sense of self-preservation. Try merging into a highway with a short on-ramp at an uphill on something with a 20-second 0-60 time. You probably can’t.

Portugal, for instance. Nobody here buys gasoline-powered cars at all as they get absolutely raped on taxes AND at the pump (gasoline costs, on average, 30-40% more than diesel. No wonder Lisbon’s air is unbreathable.

Is your V70 a first or second gen? I find my 850’s rear wiper frequency in the “first-speed” setting to be pretty adequate. Maybe it could be a bit slower if you’re driving on the highway but then you might as well just shut it off completely.

Interesting. The Volvo 850 suffers from the same problem (broken plastic odometer gears), although I never heard anything about resetting the trip odo while in motion having something to do with it. I think I’ll always reset mine while stationary from now on though, just to be sure.

I’ve always wondered this. Does a starter motor have enough power to bend valves if you try cranking an engine with wrong timing? I figured you would just hear a “click” and nothing would actually happen.

I can think of a couple GM vehicles...

This isn’t a racetrack, though.

I think there was some regulation about diesel exhaust having to end facing downwards.

That issue is actually fixed now, thankfully, but back when it stopped going in reverse I just parked at a nearby street which was 45-degree parking each side and uphill, so I just had to get the clutch in and let it roll back in order to back out of the spot. Parking at work was pull-through so no issue there, and…

If that was the case, I wouldn’t have to think about lecturing people on how to drive the car because it would never leave the garage.