If his high school friends complain about what they get a ride in, they aren’t his friends and they can walk.

Proper winter tires and FWD is better than AWD with shit tires.

Any time someone who knows nothing about cars asks me what they should buy, my goto response is Toyota or Honda. Exciting? No. Unique? No. Are they reliable? Yes and cheap to fix if and when they do break.

Was it in Virginia where the mechanic was charged after a couple’s brakes failed killing them both, a short time after the inspection? If so, they could be facing charges worse than a simple suspension of their license.

North of Minnesota, where we allegedly have tough DUI laws, we let you walk more often than not.

In the last few weeks local gas prices have gone up by 20%, up to 30% depending on the time of day and phase of the moon. By the end of summer we’re told to expect that to be a 50% increase over a few weeks ago and oil prices are only going up. Or at least projected to.

Someone once tried to tell me the problem was glare. If glare from 2 bulbs at the bottom of my bumper that point immediately down at the road produce too much glare for you, you need to reconsider driving. It’s also technically illegal here to have them on when there’s no fog.

Around here if you actually try to enter the traffic flow at speed, you get looks from everyone like you’re crazy, because nobody knows how to do it.

OBD II was only created to standardize emissions related codes and data interpretation. Anything beyond the few wires and information required by the standard is up the the manufacturer. For anything beyond standard drivability it’s pretty much useless.

I worked at a dealership in a fairly large automotive group, there absolutely were fake used car ads on their site. Some of the weren’t taken down, some of them were cars that hadn’t even been traded in. For the latter I”m pretty sure they were cleaning an taking pictures of cars nearing their lease return dates when…

GMs will run longer poorly than most vehicles will run.

My sister and her husband were in a similar situation a couple of months ago. They went with a brand new one with a few less bells and whistles in favour of a full warranty period and better financing rates.

It’s not about being fair, it’s about every citizen’s right to a trial as stated in the Charter Of Rights and Freedoms and punishment being handed out BEFORE a trial where you have a chance to defend yourself.

Showing likely reduced performance on a rusty car is a null point if you have nothing to compare it too.

One province to the West it’s already 5 demerits and soon will be an instant 3 day suspension. But they give you 24 hours before it kicks in, so if you rely on your vehicle for work you get to be fired in person.

No winter.

That’s actually a pretty generous yard, unless you have a mcmansion.

Or they just completely ignore what engineers say because they make too much money from photo radar enforcement.

I have to agree and personally I think that intent has to play a large part of any enforcement. A couple of weeks because you’re trying to get parts and time is completely different from something that will never move under it’s own power in the foreseeable future.

Part of me now realizes that I could pony up for that personal favourite 1991 car for sale locally and get collector plates for it.