I have an easier idea: give it to me.

I am gonna throw in my 2005 Honda Accord V6 6-speed. It looks like almost all the other Accord coupes out there save the wheels. Those slotted five-spoke alloys are unique to the 6-speed manuals. And the manual V6 cars are so fun to drive.

Indeed, no offense taken. The inspection sheet is as honest as the facility that sells it. There are good honest dealers and there are also less-than-ideal dealers. The sad truth is that the latter outnumber the former. I should have included that above. My mistake.

Allow me to contribute my twopence as a former used car mechanic at a dealership. I find no fault with any of these questions. But I would like to point out a couple things. First, most dealers clear very little on used vehicles. They get them at wholesale or trade-in price, have to clean them up, checked…

I mentioned in another story of how I had associated with Dan through my employer, a Clearwater, FL Acura dealer. His wife Susie would come in to have their TL serviced. She is just as down to earth and nice as her husband. I know the guys at the dealer have expressed their condolences to Susie.

I had the privilege of meeting with Dan on many occasions. Since he lived in St. Petersburg and raced for Honda, the dealership I worked for (Crown Acura) would provide him his Honda and Acura vehicles that were given to him in his racing contract. Honda would send us a non-inventory vehicle with orders to put every…

Ha! I remember him from many years ago when he was a Ranger in the Babylon 5 universe. He was the commander of a White Star that was asked to go on a suicide mission for an intelligence operation. Funny thing is that I cannot see him as a bumbling comedy dad like he was in "Malcolm".

Sorry, I liked it back when I was 7. That one was WAY cooler.

Great minds think alike....

Thanks for the advice, but the magnesium supplement is not an option for me. My insomnia is so severe and chronic that I only recently accepted it in my life as is. I stopped sleeping well when I was going through puberty. I am 31 now, so it has been about 17 years of insomnia. I saw sleep specialists, had tests…

You are absolutely correct in that the patient does need to be aware of what they are getting into. I considered my lesson learned years ago when I was pumped with the antipsychotic meds to help my insomnia. After that, I tried to learn everything I needed to know about any medication that was suggested to me. I…

Let us not forget that the docs will peddle the "newer and more effective" antidepressants after spending only 15 minutes with someone. And that these "newer and more effective" antidepressants can have such drastic side effects that it is not even worth it. Not to mention that some medication's "mechanism of action…

I am going for gold and say it is a 2012 TL. From the limited view, I cannot tell if it is a SH-AWD, but I can tell it is an automatic.

Hey Matt, call me crazy (or a technician, which I am), but is that review done from a 09-newer Acura TL?

It is one of a few changes I made, but it has helped. I should have more clear that my shedding pounds was not solely because of sucralose. My bad.

I have replaced sugar in my needs with sucralose aka Splenda in my tea and baking. I taste no difference and have been losing weight since. Hopefully I won't get a funky cancer from it.

I see a real problem here. There are medications out there that alter chemical reactions in the brain to change or desensitize the way pain is felt. The freaky thing is that these meds can be dual purposed as antidepressants. I know that some SNRIs (Serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) are used to treat…

Gimme "How It's Made" and "Through the Wormhole" and I will be not so mad with Netflix.

As a master technician myself, I agree with almost everything stated in this op-ed. Looking at the comments, I cannot help but feel a little miffed. I am in agreement that there are techs out there that look for the money rather than the repair. But there are some very good techs that look out for the customer. I…

I have started getting back into astrophysics simply because of recent developments in quantum theory. I really believe the groundwork for breaking the FTL lies in quantum mechanics, quantum tunneling, superposition, etc. I believe that the shortest distance between long distances is zero. Once we uncover the grand…