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It's pronounced "Deer-Tay"
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Hot sauce? As time passes, Mac and cheese appeals less and less to me but I’ve found hot sauce makes it palatable again, and I enjoy it again. Cuts the unctuousness or something.

I can never tell if these guys are full of shit (on purpose) or just bought the car from someone who lied to them. For instance, I had a buddy in high school with a truck that had stick on hood scoops. He literally believed they brought air into the engine bay until I explain that he needed a hole in the hood for that

Molto Bene! Mamma Mia! Pasta Parmigiana!

Ambylances. xD

When working on things, do not be afraid to pick up the 1/4" ratchet. I see many guys using 3/8" ratchets for small jobs, getting small amount of turns when you could use the 1/4" ratchet.

As I get older I learned to just pay someone else to do the hardest and dirtiest jobs.

MICHAEL!?

Dude, forget the car parts...why the hell are your knives and pots in the dishwasher?!? Just...stop.

Nope. As I recall they’ve got a split in them so they just slip right on. I want to say I picked up some silicone grease from Oreilly’s and that took care of it. My father’s XLR had a similar problem a few months later (rear sway had been replaced after someone rear-ended the car) and that took care of it.

If that had been an old Ford 4x4 truck, that may have been necessary. Yep, you have to the wheel bearing, the hub, and force the lugs out of the hub/rotor assembly to change the front rotors on my old pickup. Nobody knows what Ford was thinking with that idiotic design.

Here’s my Saab 9-5 at school. Because Texas.

I worked commercial at an auto part for years. Most chain shops like Tires Plus, Firestone, and Midas as well as others need you to get the parts from them to cover their asses. If the part fails, they aren’t paying full price for a part you bought online and they have the warranty on the part from my store. The

Does the Montreal Screwjob count?

In California, a shop is legally required to warranty any parts they put on the car, so most shops wont put on any customer provided parts so they don’t end up warranting (sp?) some cheap eBay parts delivered from Hong Kong.

I dropped my first gen Focus at the then-trusted family mechanic to have the rear drums replaced, because fuck drum brakes.

Car was given back with 35 miles more on the odometer, and a destroyed fifth gear. Owner claimed it must have been my fault.

Bright side: learned how to swap a trans myself. Downside: drove 200

From your linked Baja story:

Shit man, throw a Baja Blanket on it and you’ll never care what’s there.