Managers often work up to 20 hours a week off the clock. For management, very often at the end of a shift, either you have to go home and get in trouble because you didn’t finish what you were needed to, or you clock out and keep working.

I found a pretty solid primer on this...

If it’s the 2.3L MZR, my wife’s old Mazda 3 had Ford stampings on all the major engine components. I don’t remember seeing much in the way of Mazda logos or nameplates.

I think all dealership mechanics are flat rate, but I don’t know about independent mechanics.

What does that have to do with premium cars, or even the article? Any car can have glazed rotors, unevenly worn pads, a bent axle shaft or rim, a tire with a slipped belt or a bulge in the tread, all of which could cause a vibration (among 10,000 other things). They can also all have intentional misdiagnoses, causing…

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Well, LM owns the design for the Viper, so they’d see that money, too.

All guided missiles under testing have self-destruct mechanisms that destroy the vehicle if it flies outside of certain physical parameters.

I just don’t travel enough, any longer. I spent three weeks at Fort Belvoir, then six at Walter Reed, back in 2013, and since then, I’ve only been away for a week, or the random overnighter. I lost my National status, too. Oh well, I’d rather be home with the wife, kid, and dog, anyway!

I missed Gold Elite two years ago by one night, and was SOOOOO pissed.

AFAIK, NASCAR does not use local yellow flags, only full course cautions or red flags. I’ve been watching NASCAR since I was a kid, and usually watch both road course races religiously, and don’t ever remember a local caution.

At least your time in NPTU is in Charleston! I could think of a lot worse places to be for that time period!

Bleach was a fantastic album, too, but never had as much punch to me, as Nevermind did. Maybe it’s just a matter of being a shade too young to have been impacted immediately by it.

YUP!

Break it out! You’d be very surprised at how well it holds up, after 20 years. “Serve the Servants,” “Frances Farmer...,” and “Pennyroyal Tea” just have so much more to them than they did when I was 11. There are layers that I never picked out until I was doing some mind-numbing XML development, and listening on…

Glad I wasn’t the only one!

That was the late-90s, once Limp Bizkit bastardized rock music. This was the mid-90s, where the weirder and more idiosyncratic your song was, the better it charted.

I was a huge Nirvana fan, growing up (I was 8 when Nevermind came out, and with older siblings, fell in love). I didn’t appreciate In Utero until just a couple years ago. I always thought it was more polished, less punk rock, less Nirvana.

Hey Torch -

Oof! Glad I never upgraded from my ‘06 GT! I bought her in ‘09 with 12k miles, now she’s at 66k, and all I’ve done to her are trans and diff fluids, yearly oil changes, one set of tires, and one set of brakes. The tires are getting a little long in the tooth, I just need them to last until September, when I can get my…