Huh you don’t use brake pads on an EV? Also brakes are stupid easy to do. I wouldn’t call out those.

Fumbling with paper maps and printed directions. It’s incredible to think how systems like CarPlay have made that whole process a trivial 1-sentence request.

Thank God I don’t have to run a car charger to my portable CD player, connected to my tape adapter that needs wiggled the right way into the car’s tape deck. The portable CD player needed to sit level on the center console, and even with shock protection would from time to time skip over speed bumps and other bumps…

Not shocking at all. Customers who fuck up in stupid ways always say some guy who works there told them they could do whatever they did. 

It’s a 2018 Ram. I can tell you, with 100% certainty, that the information center on his instrument cluster tells him when an oil change is required. It’s not ambiguous in any way. It literally states to get the oil changed.

Here’s another thought from the wrench-turner.

Just pony up for the motor.  You really won’t buy that nice of a truck for 15 grand, and in this market, I’m not sure what a really late model DEAD truck would fetch. 

There’s a substantial difference between “not on time” and “I haven’t figured out how to access the onboard computer and may have starved the engine of lubrication for thousands of miles but certainly won’t admit to that when I’m trying to garner enough media attention to geta free engine.”

I’ve never heard of an oil change mechanic suggesting longer intervals. Mine always lie and say it’s due before it’s actually due.

“Putting those together with a Gladiator Rubicon (MSRP $47,260) gets you a total of $93,735.”

Either your “hot take” ain’t so hot, or you’re calling me ridiculous. In 2019 I hired Tom to find me exactly the car I was looking for. He did and it was a great deal. And it was nearly 500 miles away from me.

I mean, this cost her what? A few hundred dollars between airfare and gas a couple days of driving? On a car that starts at over $50k?

I mean... that does sound pretty cool.

I had an in depth reply to why this is in another article lost to time and Kinja’s sorting mechanisms, but the short answer is that it has to do with sweet sweet advertising dollars.

Would Falcon Heavy launch have received so much buzz if it had the standard slab of bricks inside instead of a car of equal weight, with cameras and a mannequin to get great photos? When was the last time millions of people gathered around to watch a Lockheed Martin or Boeing test launch?

Sending the Roadster into space was incredibly good marketing with little to no downside.

Boot the props. 

That’s what you get when you don’t have a pay before pumping policy at the gas station.

Yes, IIRC, the military was giving these away to police departments. The only catch was the local constabulary had to pay for shipping, which was usually about $15,000.

“The sheriff for Brookside’s Jefferson Count, Mark Pettway”

Missouri closed this loophole a few years ago. SB5 states: