I manage a fleet of about 450 cars — this happens at least 4-5 times a year.

Time to get rid of all except the one you like the very best. I’ve never been a fan of having one unreliable beater. Five of them? You may not admit it, but you’re way over your head.

I hate that they put the inductive phone charger there - legally, it can never be used in BC. If a driver can touch the phone and it isn’t mounted securely to something, it’s a no-go. Cops love standing in plain-clothes at intersections, looking into cars. If they see your phone in a cupholder / passenger seat /…

I always default to something mainstream, common as dirt, and multifunctional. They don’t care about power, but they will love the fact that they can fit a bunch of crap into the hatch of a used Matrix. So, Yaris and Matrix are my basic used car go-tos. You want a sedan? Civic or Corolla. Drive both and see which you…

Have an ‘03 Protege5. Once every four months or so, it will simply stall on it’s own with no notice, and starts up immediately afterwards with no hesitation at all. No codes, no other symptoms, and I cannot reproduce the symptom no matter what I try. All sensor outputs are clean, have the correct amplitudes and are…

Unlikely, if public transport is solid enough. Plenty of condo buildings in Vancouver have less than 0.7 stalls per unit. There are buildings in the planning stages right now with _zero_ resident parking, and meter-only parking within kilometers of the buildings. It sounds wild, but it works. The common thing is that…

Unless they commute more than 160km a day, yes.

What I find shocking is how many Tesla owners (well, electrics in general) don’t have charging stalls at their homes (condo garages, etc) - and they rely entirely on public charging infrastructure.

UV light absolutely MURDERS cars in many states, for sure. An average privately owned car that avoids any serious collisions and doesn’t have any serious engineering flaws lasts 20 without hassle in the Northwest.

Yours are probably not built in the same factories in Mexico / Brazil? Also, in the USA/Canada, cars are simply expected to last 200,000 miles or 20 years without much hassle. Many European countries seem to nearly scrap cars when they’re only ten years old

Had many of them in the fleet at work over the years. Rarely had electrical failures. Had absolutely everything else fail in them, though. Massive oil consumption in the 2.0L gas. Trans failures on the TDIs. Heater core failures on all of them. Beetle headlight assemblies which would not come out of their tracks.…

It’s especially funny in a country where guns are no problemo!

And if you finish your project or decide you no longer need it, you’ll get the majority of your $2000 back. Or all of it.

exactly why Canada uses units of litres per 100km

I’ve always bought BIC cars for winter. Totally disposable. $500 or less. 4 cylinder. Good tires. Japanese preferably, American 2nd, and I avoid old German cars like the plaque. Oil changes, brake pads, and things which cost less than $50 and can be pulled at a wrecker and installed in less than an hour only, nothing…

Considering the base model radio - with the little 3” or so color LCD - in the Jorney routinely crashes and won’t let you even change radio stations - requiring you to turn the car off and back on again — I bet this will be loads of fun. Chrysler’s not exactly well known for the infotainment systems...

Golden Ears bridge doesn’t charge out-of-province plates whatsoever. Port Mann does, but does not collect on it. The staffing, infrastructure and administration costs of operating physical toll booths just costs more than the totally automated camera-based system does to operate — the lost revenue is a calculated…

Tell that to the sealed, non-serviceable electronics module.

Depends how badly you want to buy someone else’s problem. You can get a running E36 M3 for not a lot more than what it will cost to buy this one and make it run - in whatever place you live in — without having to pay to tow it to you. A quick search of my local classifieds finds two of them, for $5500 and $8000 obo.…

They’ll be real. The cost of all them combined would be what, $1 million? $1 million is ___nothing___ in the world of advertisement. This much product exposure for $1 million? Peanuts to BMW.