Thanks for taking the time to reply! It’s feedback like yours that makes it all worthwhile. I look forward to continuing to provide you, personally, with my deep and complex insights.

Soooooo

My wrangler does this at some stations. Always the same stations, reliably. Two attendants (oh, New Jersey) at different stations have told me this is common with JKs and they both had the same fix. They turn the whole handle/nozzle upside down and balance it with the hose sticking up in the air. Works perfectly every…

Haha!! I can appreciate that but I fall into the obsessively straight tassel camp myself. I’d probably do the same if I had the GTI daily. As it is I can’t bring myself to put the volume on an odd number in the Jeep and the air vents always have to be clocked symmetrically. Oh my god that seems crazy when I type it…

My wife refuses to use the volume knob in her GTI for this exact reason. I’m with you though, it’s the principal and I rage every time I change the volume. If Ford can get it right in an F150, how are VW and BMW lagging behind?

Here it is, a well packed JK trunk...

I decidedly did NOT grow up with my parents wrenching. We did some other projects but I had to learn on my own that I was into cars and bikes. It’s funny though, my dad recently picked up an ‘04 Grand Cherokee as part of his plan to move down by the shore (and drive and fish on the beach). The truck needed the…

I ordered my new work truck with the 7.3. I follow the ‘never be the guniea pig’ rule but it was time for a truck and I was feeling reckless. I drove the Tremor package F250 with it and, while I didn’t wring it out, it had some grunt. I was thrilled with the 3.5 ecoboost in an F150 and satisfies with the 2.7 so this…

Damn right I’m pissy, the Gladiator sucks

You’re probably right. Function in an off-road oriented pickup is irrelevant. $40k is super expensive for a 2020 pickup. The market is probably just softening.

Ok then literally, the gladiator offers the shortest, narrowest, shallowest bed that I can find in a current pickup. And it does it with an obnoxiously long overall length. That makes it less fun to drive and park, a giant pile of wasted interior space for those who would have opted for a regular or extended cab, and…

It could have been better. Every Wrangler pickup conversion was better. Every concept truck was better. Of course it was going to come with compromises, it’s a midsize. But I was willing to make compromises for something kinda functional with removable doors and a manual. This is non-functional. The bed is useless…

I go all summer without doors to lock. Or a roof. I leave the Jeep empty and I don’t worry about it. Half the time I leave the keys in the ignition.

Gosh, the truck that doesn’t do anything well is selling for cheap after the hype dies down? Seriously though, the bed is the size of a child’s sandbox. The “cab” is pretty much the entire wrangler unlimited. The truck is comically long and narrow so it’s garbage for being a pickup, garbage for being a commuter and…

I just upgraded 7-10 on my office computer. It was free (thanks to the handy guide posted here last week), quick and with only minor annoyances. The network permissions got a little wonky, none of the other computers could see the newly 10ed machine. I got that mostly ironed out. The only other issue is I lost a…

Wow a WRX that doesn’t make me immediately wretch. It’s been a long time.

I know this because I’ve been through the options for an F350 about a billion times recently, Ford charges $125 for a Universal Garage Door Opener. It’s already optional on the pickups. I think the CD players are baked into even the base option radio, how much could they possibly be saving by omitting a $5 CD player…

I would drive the ever loving F out of that

I said the bike letters and numbers are bad. But at least CBR1000RR looks at worst like a file name while ID Space Vizzion looks and sounds like something a first grader concocted

Can VW PLEASE rethink this naming strategy. I hate it with every fiber of my being. They are pandering to exactly zero people with this nonsense and I, for one, can’t begin to imagine what I’d say if I owned one when someone asked me “what do you drive?” It’s bad enough when people ask me what motorcycle I ride and I…