Someone isn’t accepting ICBC’s first offer.

Just buy a manual Civic or Corolla. The stock cool factor is approaching zero depending on who your friends are. But parts are cheap and repairs are easy. They both retain their value decently, so you could probably buy 1 and sell it a year later without a big loss. All the while having a car that won’t leave you…

Almost nobody ever wears their seatbelt.

Any powered ratchet is pretty useless if the fastener is tight. All but the top end IR impacting air ratchets are only good to about 50 ftlbs. You’re still going to have to break the fastener(s) free with good old brute force.

It’s the same reason all cars have similar profiles, crash standards.

I’m not going to lie and even suggest I would own one. But the visual package does make it a hell of a lot more interesting than the vanilla hell a regular Traverse is.

My point was more that cars aren’t designed to deal with -40, so things like squeaks aren’t uncommon.

While it obviously had obvious deficiencies, that 2.3 was a monster.

Why would you go through the hassle of making a video with 5 different oil filters for the same application torn apart and not have an OEM one in there? Shouldn’t that be the bar everything else is graded against?

Honda knows how to program one.

These ratings are made up of much more than mechanical reliability.

At -40 there’s a small squeak in my dash when the interior is still cold. Uh ya, it’s minus fucking forty outside.

If you’re going into it blind, as long as you’re referencing legitimate sources there really aren’t any bad sources. The problem is when someone only uses A source and takes it as gospel.

Sounds like your buddy’s car was a real gem. Either way, there are dozens of accelerometers in modern cars that could be tapped into so they could provide a source to operate such a cutoff.

Early ones were in the trunk I believe. So it isn’t that much of a reach to assume that if your rear struts or shocks were worn, the motion might exceed the threshold.

The rescue squads are supposed to be trained in the different methods required. At least that’s the kind of thing they’re supposed to be doing in all the time between fires.

Something along the lines of Ford’s old impact sensing fuel cut-off.

I worked with a guy that had done R&D work on (for the sake of keeping it simple) electric motors and gearboxes. The company switched to a Chinese manufacturer and almost immediately started having failures they never had before. According to him, someone was probing him about the failures, he took a hammer, swung it…

A local contractor that fabricates most pieces of our local electric utility’s steel pole system switched to Indian steel around spring. Sometime in early summer the towers were being erected and simply caved in on themselves.