Anytime I was feeling good that a repair had gone really right, I got a surprise at the end, and it was never good. The one that really was badly timed was when I was doing shocks on my ‘79 Trans Am. It was done, totally finished without a hitch. I had done it in my driveway and I was cleaning up and I somehow forgot…

VB is, of course, correct. I am currently in Nevada and most of my cars are back in Ohio. MOST of them work fairly well...

This is where you should have a “Remove Before Flight" flag on the ignition.  A lot of motorcyclists use something like that so they don't try to ride off with a disk lock in place. In the old days I'd put tape over the ignition lock if I had drained oil or something. 

Well, the benefit is you now have a right angle extension. Perfect for hard to reach bolts.

Bradley, next time take an 18" (or 24" or something along those line) breaker bar and wedge it in between the brake pedal and the driver seat leg bolster. It’s super easy if you have power seats (and doable even with manual fore-aft adjustment). Saves you from needing to get another person and that pedal can be held…

Bradley’s 37 (or something) cars and bikes, each in its own glorious state of (dis)repair, are strewn across the land like Nick Cannon’s children.

That’s why I got one that has an electric yellow lead that you loop around the throttle. 

I dont always make mistakes when I work on my vehicles, but when I do, I almost always find out after I’ve buttoned everything back up and go to drive it.

I have a motorcycle disk lock that I only use when touring. I have had nightmares about forgetting that thing and creating this exact scenario days from home....

Wow a mistake I havent made.................... yet 

“, a four-mile Uber ride to pick it up,...”

Been here, done this. The laugh of realization is mostly staving off the urge to throw something through the window

They could probably just resurrect the name of some long-ago discontinued Toyota model and go from there.

Lol I suggested a name change on the last bZ4x post about the price reduction. It’s an absolutely terrible name.

It’s meaningless to begin with. Ha! you were the first sucker (and beta tester) for a thing that can’t even get up a small hill? My little turbo 4 banger Mitsubishi was climbing mountain passes, in semi deep snow, on all seasons with 0 effort. what a joke of a vehicle.

No steering wheel controls?  What are we, animals?

A comment above explains that it is not a bonus in the American sense for an Austrian salary, so potentially just a bad translation there. However, there are employee contracts in America that include a pre-determined end of year bonus. I have a guaranteed bonus that can increase with certain metrics, but still have a…

Thanks for this context. It sounds like it isn’t a “bonus” at all, but rather part of the normal compensation. So this is essentially wage theft. 

The word bonus is a bad translation. Salary in austria is split into 14 parts.
12 monthly paychecks + one paycheck for summer holiday and one for christmas. So juli and november you get double the amount you get the other months. None of this is “optional” or a “bonus”, its simlpy how the law works in austria.

The working employees probably earned their bonuses, but executives seem to have not done a very good job.  They probably all got their bonuses already though.