I have a Wife and family now, I have to keep my stupidity in check within reason.

2014 BMW 335i GT, I ordered Bilstein B6 E.D.C. shocks and struts in February of ‘22 that didn’t show up till around Christmas. I’ve also got Meyle HD lower front control arms to throw in. I am assuming the chip shortage is what hit my part order the hardest. I’ve been minimizing miles on my daily driver for way too…

“Just do all the maintenance and repairs yourself, and you’ll be fine,”

I love that the ad copy itself is like “look at this cheap knockoff”

Ford Mondeo looked a lot like the Passat or other VW family body styles quite a bit.

Absolute Drift even has a whole Zen Edition, it was free on Epic a year or two back. 

My Wife lived in Belgium getting her degree and being an au pair years ago so we are doing a trip out there and I will defitely see Spa and the Nurburgring, The Autobahn and whatever else I can fit in between castles and whatnot. We are going to rent a car and do some countryside driving when the kid is just a notch…

Just borrowing even more from Tarkov!

I still recoil internally whenever I see those yellow guards in the wild. They’re just being dicks at this point. 

Kei gardens are a thing! Love it.

Off road cars will always be awesome, especially factory lifted. This thing looks like the coolest subie you could currently get. 

Tasteful functional upgrades mostly. Slotted discs and top shelf pads, B6 shocks and struts, a modest tune, control arm upgrades, really good tires on good stock rims if your car can be had with them, things of that nature. Those have been my main go-tos so far as I learn on a modern BMW DIY wrenching. Where I save in…

I judge my car’s worth by how many butt lips it has, and this thing is top shelf. 

Those rims are excellent. 

Not all of Colorado, my parents live up in a mountain county that has no emissions standards at all.
I bet if I checked these days it might have changed, but it used to be a locally known little loophole to get away with say... driving a shitbox mufflerless in town. 

For at least a couple years that place has been a source of inspiration to my at home wrenching follies.
I can’t do worse than that reddit most of the time, it is comforting.

The problem being drunk passengers wafting booze breath all over the cabin as well, the detector would have to be on the seat belt or something and even then could be prone to false positives based on a ton of factors including hand sanitizer. There are a lot more factors to overcome before this is used as a…

These are only poised to get priced stupidly in the coming years, snag this while it is still attainable.
Not ridiculously priced or anything, but they are already snagging premiums well sorted making this a decentish price. The rims are in decent shape, as well as some other indicators that this wasn’t treated…

I hadn’t seen that before, thanks -

This is a great article, absolutely belongs cross posted to giz and kotaku.