Oh gods, yes!

Ah, yes. Anytime I see the $4 piece of clear plastic in the center of a grille, I know the $4000 millimeter wave radar unit sits behind it.

Hydration can work or f—k you up on this stuff. Case in point, when I was living in AL I had to pee in a cup every couple months to make sure the painkillers I’m prescribed are being used for their intended purpose. On multiple occasions I would test clean. That throws up red flags. So we did a test.

Worked at Acura for many trips around the sun. It was always the same jokes when one of these pulled in

Agreed. I have been on the New Jersey, Alabama, North Carolina, and Iowa. Those things are just awesome. It brought me to think of “overgunned” whenever I saw one.

Many many moons ago when I was at university in Ohio, there was a guy with a serious hard-on for Conquests. So much so that he bought a red one, designed his own subframe, and shoehorned a Mopar 318 in it. The thing was surprisingly quick. Any time I see one I remember that red one rolling by with a V8 rumble.

Yes. Yes we could. >:)

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So, haha funny story here. This lady brings in her car one day. It was summer in the Tampa Bay Area, and her HVAC fan was out. Simple enough on those cars. The wiring harness was not capable of handling the current from the transistor controller to the fan. It burns up so we replace a sub harness. We (the technicians)…

For shits and giggles one day I brought up a 2015 Hyundai Tucson Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicle in my parts catalog. I navigated my way to powertrain and got the part number for the actual power unit, aka fuel cell. When I ran the part number through my DMS, it was in excess of $99999.99 so the computer could not give me…

Also, FWIW, over the years of working at dealers I have known scores of sales people. The vast majority of them are good honest people trying to get the car you want for you. It just felt like to work at this particular dealership, you had to have a prerequisite of psychopathy.

The sales people at this particular dealer were real high caliber of folks. These guys were the embodiment of all the stereotypes surrounding sales people. They were really slick. While they never actually stated in concrete words that an owner never had to change their oil, they very heavily insinuated and hinted…

Yes. Some geographical regions have a larger number of morons per capita. And the last region I lived in certainly had a very high moron to population ratio.

Dead serious. These conversations happened.

Hyundai has a warranty procedure that is crap. And too often (and I put most of the blame on the sales staff for this) owners assumed since it had this great 10 year warranty, you never had to buy anything to maintain them. Ever.

You know I’m on board. The down payment will be plunked down when my 6MT SH-AWD TL kicks it. However, since that may be a while I’ll get the Sport Hybrid MDX first.

Thank you.

There was more freaky shit. At the time I was a damn good Acura technician. The morning of my accident a tow truck driver came to parts looking for some sensor on the rear beam of an MDX. Our parts guys were having trouble finding it. So they called me over and we all worked it out together. Driver left to go to…

How about the time I got hit by a truck on my motorcycle. My wife was down the street eating lunch. She and her friends saw all the first responders hauling ass down the street from the restaurant. She joked to them, “Oh shit. Somebody’s dead.”

After a few minutes of deep thought, an idea hit me upside the head like a can of ginger ale. Well, I was thinking about your situation and not paying attention to the Canada Dry closing on my skull at subsonic speeds. But alas after the concussion wore off, cracked block.