Sure this stock holder had the right to vote on compensation the same as any other common stock holder. In a typical CEO compensation package the board approves of some kind of performance based pay tied to stock performance or whatever other metric and the CEO is paid based on that. TSLA exceeded those metrics by a…

Ownership aside the GM 302 is such a cool engine. It gets overshadowed by some of the other GM engines like the 396, 427, and 454 but this engine is the best GM engine maybe ever. It revved to 7,000 rpm from the factory!

Plaintiffs? As far as I can tell it is a single shareholder name Richard Tornetta. He had all of 9 shares when he sued them. That’s not exactly a huge shareholder.

Fisker

I read the same couple of quotes on the ruling that are regurgitated in every article that are roughly this :

Yes, which is why technicians can justify the pay they get.  You aren’t paying a tech just for the hours worked, you are paying them for the knowledge and experience to do it right and in a timely manner.

2nd gear- So the shareholders, effectively owners of the company, vote to pay out the CEO of the company based on performance goals that did occur and somehow this is a legal case?  I’m just not seeing what the plaintiffs case is?  The judge initially ruled the way she did based on the premise that it was not in the…

What is the heat gun by the engine bay for?  Some last minute soldering and heat shrink?

On most cars all the power window switches flow through the drivers switch (that way you can control all windows from that switch and an input from the driver interrupts the passenger window switch such as a lock out function).  Chances are the switch is starting to fail.  Obviously LS swap with a T56 and call it a…

I’ll add to that and say the transmission’s have a filter and it should be changed.  You usually need to drop the pan to do it but it is a thing that occasionally needs to be replaced.  And for goodness sake take the magnet and clean it off while you’re in there.

I think at some point after doing my 4th timing belt I decided 1. I will never own a vehicle with a timing belt again and 2. if I do for whatever reason decide to do that I will hand it over to someone else for the labor.

Every 1 hour job is a snapped bolt away from becoming a 3 hour job. Had to do an alternator on my Dakota, easy peazy right on top, take of belt and a few bolts and you are done. Snap a large bolt in an inconvenient place and spend quite a long time drilling and tapping a new hole plus a trip to the parts store for an…

In Europe they passed extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws that require manufacturers to be responsible for the recycling of batteries. This incentivizes battery recycling and creates an actual market for batteries to be recycled.  I think only 10 states have EPR laws and there is no national law in the U.S.…

I worked at a dying dealership where there wasn’t enough work to support the amount of techs that worked there.  One of the problems is you need to retain master techs and state inspectors or you can’t perform certain types of work.  The other problem is to work on the warranty work that no one wants to do in the…

Yea at some point OEM’s had to change up their process for chroming metal either because of environmental reasons or cost. Apparently older chrome didn’t really have that problem and at some point in time when the process changed it caused delamination/corrosion build up over time.

Elios!

They could be worth negative money.  It’s kind of unclear who the burden of recycling a car falls on.  I don’t think the OEM’s are going to go back and scoop up there old cars once the batteries become unusable.  It is vastly more expensive to recoup the raw materials from a battery than it is to simply mine more at…

I prefer polished or brushed aluminum anyways. On of the big problems with chrome rims is the chrome can oxidize and de-laminate from the wheel over time. This can push the tire of the bead and cause a slow leak.  Saw it hundreds of times on Lincolns.

In case of emergency break release cable.

A car that is already timeless will probably continue to do so... The 911 stays the 911.