I bought a new truck in 2018, and while I have no plans to trade it in even though I could probably get close to what I paid for it, I’m still glad I bought when I did and am not looking for a new vehicle now.

It almost makes up for buying my house in 2006 at the top of the market.  Almost. 

Yeah, the manager at Enterprise is probably like “meh, send it”

I really feel bad for whoever owned that Pacifica or whatever that he stole.  It’s got to be awful to get a call from the cops that they found your stolen car, stuck in the side of a house after it got hit by a train. 

It’s not a question of if individual packages can fit in it, it’s a question of how many individual packages can fit.

While I do think an off-the-shelf vehicle may have made more sense, it still should be a larger vehicle than the current LLV’s, because the use case of what the post office delivers has changed…

Fuzzy steering wheel covers. I can’t imagine how that affects handling, plus I could see it getting gross really quickly.

I once blew a tire on a Ranger by running over a wrench, which lodged inside.

When I got it replaced, the tire place decided instead of remounting the spare under the truck, they would just throw it in the bed.

Traction control

Several years ago I was driving an old Plymouth Voyager just like the one whose dashboard is in the picture in bad weather. I hit a patch of ice on a bridge, lost control and somehow managed to weave across 3 lanes of I-95 multiple times without hitting anyone before getting it under control.

Really…

This is a car enthusiast site, I suspect nobody here thinks this is bonkers.

The only difference is that normal people are doing it for normal cars. 

The article says the guy at the lube place told him 15,000 miles. It’s unclear when he actually changed the oil. It does say that the oil light was on and he ignored it, and that he hasn’t said how long it was on for.

If you have a warning light on your vehicle, it’s generally a good idea to look into it. 

I have a 2018 Ram, although it’s not an EcoDiesel. On mine, there’s an oil life display on the left side of the LCD display that’s in the middle of the gauges. It counts down how much percent you have and when it gets to 5% it turns red, and also dings whenever you turn the truck on. You can switch it to display…

In a normal bankruptcy under US law, they would typically try to pay employees first, out of whatever cash is on hand or what they can get for selling the assets - everything from the boat to the office furniture to the company trademarks. Whatever is left then goes to other creditors.

Of course, this isn’t a US…

I hate when someone parks their cruise ship at the pump just to run in and buy cigarettes.

It’s Theranos for cars!

Since 18-20 year olds are already allowed to driver intrastate in a lot of states, I’d be much more interested in their accident rates than of teenagers overall.   Teens who have CDL training and whose career depends on their driving may be better drivers than the average teen. 

But after you buy all of David Tracy’s cars, what would you spend the other $52,000 on?

Yeah, this isn’t an example of the used car market in general being crazy, this is an example of the (marginally) collectible car market being crazy. 

As an East Coast resident who takes a lot of road trips, my answer is “any regional fast food chain that isn’t in my area”. Culver’s, Taco John, Del Taco, Whataburger, Taco Time, In N Out, Jack In The Box. Anything I can’t get locally.

The Starbucks near me has gone drive-thru only some days due to the pandemic and staffing shortages, so drive-thru may be the ONLY way to order sometimes.

Years ago, I took an IT training class (in Novell Netware!) from a place that was around the corner from a McCormick spices plant.

You could smell cinnamon, and I commented to the instructor how it must be cool to work at a place that smells like that.   He said that day was great, but the days they made fake butter,…

I don’t know if things have changed, but back in 2016 I tried to list my LaForza on BaT and they refused, saying it wasn’t unique enough (even though they had never sold one at the time).  So CaB may be an option people who get rejected from BaT. 

I ended up selling it on eBay, which is also where I bought it.

CaB…