I always love when they try to charge me for “TPMS service kits.”

Bitch, please. If it’s my wife’s car, the TPMS is part of the ABS system. If it’s my car, it’s 22 fucking years old and predates mandatory TPMS by almost a decade.

How is the owner working on it without having the nose in service position?

What about those of us who have issues with touchscreens? Am I going to have to carry a stylus just to operate my car? Tesla is fucking stupid.

All of them. As long as it keeps rolling, it’s good enough.

I got to drive one of those once. It was awful. Hot, terrible visibility, awful seating, you name it. I’d still buy one if I had the funds.

This is the electric sheep the androids dream about, innit?

Early Jaguar V8 cars tend to have starting issues, particularly in cool but not cold weather. The engine management defaults to rich mixtures too fast and washes the cylinder walls down so the engine loses compression and won’t start. If it’s actually cold, the car will start. If it’s warm, the car will start. But…

So many things that piss me off about the police statements on this one. They had to ram his vehicle off the road, and yet he was “taken into custody without incident” in a procedure they characterized as a “traffic stop.” Dafuq?

I have done dual circuit conversion on all of those cars. And it’s not as bad as one might think.

I will say that driving the car as designed to be driven, instead of treating it like a modern car, will most likely result in safe operation for years.

Check the adjustment on the rear brakes. An easy first test is to pull the handbrake. It should only come up 3-4 clicks. If it comes farther, there is a problem.

There is an adjuster on the backing plate with a square drive end on it. Turn it clockwise to adjust the shoes closer to the drums. You should feel a positive…

The feeling as the MGB slid sideways down the hill into the ditch at 40+ MPH, right before it flipped three times.

So, I recently bought this painting. It’s nice. The artist sold a “digital version” with some added effects for almost four times what I paid for the original watercolour.

I don’t get it. At least I actually own a real thing.

Edit: For some reason, the art isn’t uploading.

One of these days!

I have never been embarrassed to own any of my cars. Even the shitboxes. But I do have a related story.

Way back in the mists of time, I was a manager in the Sears Auto Centers. The way we were organized was with a dual chain of command; there was a Auto Center specific corporate chain, but if we were attached to a…

Well, for one, you aren’t buying the correct shitboxes. Shitboxen? I dunno.

And I have never had a fire in one of my Japanese cars.

The only American cars I drove were in high school and belonged to my dad (1976 Cadillac and 1985 Ford LTD), and were therefore better maintained and (to be honest) more wisely purchased…

How many were British, French or Italian? I’ve not had any Swedish cars catch fire (knock on wood), and I’ve never owned a domestic brand.

Sometimes I think the only reason my VW never burned was because diesel isn’t particularly flammable. I wouldn’t have particularly felt bad if it had burned to a crisp, though.

I haven’t had that many catch fire. Not more than three or four, anyway. And if the same car does it multiple times, do the fires after the first even really count?

I didn’t have to pull any fuses. It just quit on its own; no comms with the module. I’ll fix it eventually.

I live for sketchy cars.

Had an MGB that I always carried a 5 gallon jug of water in the trunk. Not because it would overheat, but because long freeway trips would catch the driver’s carpet on fire. The water was to put that out.

First car I bought with my own money was a Peugeot 504 diesel. You couldn’t put anything…

A couple things:

The F150's evergreen sales numbers are probably in no small part to fleet sales. While it is true at one level that sales are sales, and a purchased vehicle will be on our roads one way or the other, fleet purchases skew the data as to what the average consumer actually wants.

This is not to say they…