My reply was to verify the wheels and tires as stock.  Nothing can justify the price.

I was replying to alexlam24 who, along with many others, was questioning the validity of the wheels and tires being stock and original. The price is ridiculous, we all can agree about that.

Stage 3 w/toys on 100 octane is more like 380whp/405wtq on the dyno with 118+ trap speeds to back it up (awful wheelspin until 3rd). I daily mine, 100k miles later, the dealer installed kit is still holding up (by act of God probably).  Dodge advertised numbers are bs.

I just called the owner. There are 7 kilos of an unidentified white powder, thought to originate from Bolivia stashed in the spare tire. The bubble and flowery descriptions are just cover for what is actually a drug deal.

I don’t think he’s as concerned with labor costs as he is with market penetration and profitability in China. 

That was the attraction, a nearly free new car with a 7 year warranty.

Payments had to be like nothing monthly

Being underwater on a zero percent loan is crazy to think about... Guess it’s no different than buying anything “no payments for XX months”. What was the car?

that is the thing that catches most - many don’t understand depreciation hits fast and outstrips your payments, and the rest think “Oh I will drive it into the ground” and 3 years later are shopping for a new set of wheels due to a variety of circumstances

A friend got an 84 month term at 0% (worth it) on a new car, but when she sold it 4 years later the car was worth less than the money she still owed. That’s the real catch.

1st Gear: Maybe he changed his mind because of the drop in stock price and thinks his short position is played out. Now moves into a buy position, creates some positive news ahead of an expected positive report, and voila! He makes a boat load of money.

“enlarges the entire passageway by several fractions of an inch”

why on earth would this level of expenditure and effort be heaped on a 93 shitheap mustang?

Friend of mine worked for GM at the time they released the new style camaro. I got to sit in one of the production mules months before the car was officially launched. I remember how claustrophobic it seemed, how poor the visibility was, and how you sit so low in the car, but everything else about the car seems like…

The frames affected were insufficiently rust-proofed by Dana Holding Corp. of Ohio. An American auto parts company. It’s not even Toyota’s fault. They trusted their supplier and they got burned.

GL with that. Getting a buy back is quite nightmarish. I’d just take the (likely stronger) weld repair and move on. If you’re a real Jeep person, you’re probably going to modify and remove parts anyway.

I’ve been around since 1970.  I remember as a kid, and even through the 80's watching Japanese products, including Toyota compete with Fiat in how quickly their vehicles would revert back to the ore in which they came from.  I also got to PERSONALLY be affected by Toyota’s continued failure to deal with salt in my FJ…

Dude, it’s much more than a spot weld. Don’t get your panties in a bunch

So long as the welder is properly qualified,this is a perfectly good way to repair the fault.There’s no sense sending the vehicle back to the factory

So they actually have infrastructure in place to handle their defects.