If the hydraulic suspension collapses all you have to do is take it to some old guy in Tokyo. 

I think the stow and goes improved with each generation. Maybe the Pacifica ones aren’t bad. You know what minivan had a rear seat like a ‘48 Chrysler? My 1990 base model (so bench rear seat) Trans Sport.

Cars I actually drove: 2018 Pacifica and Toyota Sienna. I know, Chrysler, but the Pacifica was nicer in every way. There was a pre-facelift Caravan at work. It felt like driving the box it came in. 

I think the PT’s are very well styled even if no one else does. It’s the only retromobile that isn’t based on any single old car model. I’ve never driven one but did a road trip in a Neon once and it seemed OK. The one thing that kept me away from getting some late model one when I bought a car a few years ago was the…

Besides being dangerous crashwise, with live axle RWD the floor has got to be five or so inches higher than in a FWD minivan. So, no.

The compressor has an electric clutch on it so it doesn’t do anything if it’s not on. In the olden days Chrysler used to suggest turning on the AC once in a while in the winter to keep the compressor lubed or something, but modern cars turn the compressor on to dehumidify the air for defrosting so if they need the…

I thought water pumps typically leaked but kept spinning - that’s my aging car experience anyway. (Please enlighten me - what breaks other than a gasket of housing leaking?) I woulda waited for a leak.

But was that the VW engine, the Peugeot engine, or the Chrysler 2.2? I had #1 and #3, both to around 130K, and somehow never needed an alternator. 

Keep driving. The compressor will eventually fail. They all do. 

I assume your hand was bleeding and you had some oily black grit in your eye.

I don’t know much about wrenching but learned the screwdriver/oil filter thing at some point. Thanks for stealing my brilliant solution. I was so gonna kill it here. Now have sadz. 

People: a brake is the thing that slows down and stops your car. What shitty parts do is break. 

I’ve had a couple LED household bulbs fail. My couple year old microwave oven has an LED bulb to light the inside. Started flashing sporadically and eventually failed. There is no removeable panel to replace it. It might be wired in for all I know. Not finding out.

On a 1990-96 GM Plasticvan (yeah I know, I had about the last one on earth and sent it off three years ago) the aero headlight bulbs are changed by opening the hood, reaching in, turning them them a half turn on the bayonet mount, and pulling it out. Same on a Corsica.

If the stupid Tesla driver just stuck to driving in those little tunnels this wouldn’t be a problem.

I remember intentionally driving the family Falcon wagon through water deep enough to seriously slow it down without it losing a beat. Of course it didn’t take much to seriously slow it down.

Both the hatch struts and springs are probably made by suppliers. Japanese car companies introduced the concept of being really tough on quality of supplier parts years ago. Part of this was just in time delivery from suppliers partly so they wouldn’t build up an inventory of parts that were defective . But shit…

German plastic is % recyclable. Unfortunately it often recycles itself after a few years. 

It looks more like a convertible top. You can always get one for anything. It just takes canvas and sewing. 

The Soul is funky/boxy/arty and the Seltos is more normal.