Very interesting post and comments. Due to living in a high fire-risk area of the California foothills, we have moved most of our valuables to a storage locker that seems to be located in a low fire-risk location. We have videoed just about everything in the house for insurance purposes, but didn’t know about…

As we went through the new toll tunnel in Seattle we realized that the pay-by-mail system simply would not work on our car, at all. We had just leased it and it only had the paper tag in the rear window, so no license plate to photo. So, it would be the same for red light cameras, right? Asking for a friend.

I was helping one of my kids and family replace a headlight yesterday. Turns out they had never owned a car long enough to need to replace a headlight.

I have owned a Prius since 2006, so I really do care about mileage. I was commuting about 100 miles a day round trip at the time. After some job changes was working mostly from home and now fully from home, but I purchased a new Prius a few months ago.

The powers that be designed a conversion plan that was designed to fail back in the 70's. Show US units with metric secondary. That is designed to let users ignore the metric. Had they switched it and put metric as primary, then people would learn the metric as they would have to look at both.

I drove by a Nissan Truck dealership yesterday. They had lots and lots of trucks in the lot to sell and it was a large dealership.

Pace matters. When I walk with my slow knee-impaired spouse it seems to do nothing for me. When I walk at my faster pace, I feel like I actually walked, not sauntered.

Why are there not serious consequences for lying on reports submitted? If we lied on official document submitted, we would be prosecuted. It seems that the police can lie, change the lie, lie again, and be no consequences for those actions, let alone the abhorrent actions by these officers of the law.

My sibling, as a young driver, drove the family Honda wagon (1976 I think) through a puddle too fast, sucked water into the engine and bent at least one connecting rod. Our local dealer got it covered as part of yet another recall or bad part service, head gasket or something. We drove it for a week or so like with…

Yeah, it might. We have some vinyl seats from the ‘84 Olympics that the plastic cover has melded with the vinyl.

I purchased an AWD 2020 Prius recently and it drives very nicely in the snow. My spouse just last week leased a 2021 Rav4 Hybrid. It will be interesting to see how similar/different they are to each other in the snow.

And with the sales volume of the F150 Ford will make huge inroads into the psyche of America by offering a better truck that just happens to be an EV.

I didn’t have the fancy tool to remove the brake drum from my ‘64 F100, and didn’t even know if it exists. I wedged some screwdrivers in place to provide the force. It didn’t move. I banged on it, didn’t move. I left them in place and went to do something else. A few hours later I heard the drum fling off and onto the…

I love that the reason for the rate hike is “security” while Republicans are calling the insurrection a day at the Capitol picnic while those in charge of rate know that they don’t want the insurrectionists at their place.

When I went to a physical therapist for my thumb I was warned that crack knuckles only in a linear manner, not bending. I bent my thumb too far and the pop resulted in what is probably a tendon coming off of it’s proper location. Now it hurts upon certain movements and it has been this way for years now. Time to see…

When I bought my ‘67 VW Squareback in ‘78, the first thing I did was to replace the low back seats with later year high back seats, and replace the lap belts with 3 point belts.

As for splinters, get the proper tool. Far better, far easier, more hygienic. Splinter Out.

As for competition shows, add in American Ninja Warrior. Although each competitor really wants to win, the all cheer on everyone else wanting them to do as well as possible too.

Add-on spot mirrors. I have them installed on every vehicle including on all of my spouse’s leased vehicles.

Yum! Thanks for the tip.