Based on how dwarfed our BRZ is now in line for its oil change at the dealer, I think we could park it in an Ascent. Also, the BRZ is a blast in the snow!! It’s only a little tough if you’ve got a lip on there… those don’t get along well with snow pack…

Actual food trash??? The thought of that utterly horrifies me… My TSX turned 10 this past July and it still has no smells and no garbage what-s0-ever (except the occasional napkin stuck in the cupholder to soak up a little coffee that jumped out until I can clean it out).

Pretty much. I have a friend who made the beyond-idiotic mistake of driving drunk (luckily nobody else was involved and she’s been totally sober since). Anyway, when she finally got her OK to drive to work, I had to take her & her car to get fitted with one of them. She could barely manage the humming-thing standing…

WTF… I mean, at least the main ones are in blue, and not bright red jackets, but I gotta think at least 1 driver saw them there. Did anybody notice any reactions from the drivers? That’d be really f’d up if they messed up an easy corner because of those idiots…

My aunt’s first husband died when a car fell on him. It was before I had any memories (maybe before I was born), but knowing that has made me VERY cautious whenever the car is up… Triple checking the stands (when we can’t use the ramps), chocking the wheels… Oof… (and now I’ll be suggesting the wheel goes under the…

My husband would be slightly jealous (he’s not a big convertible fan though), his first car was a ‘71 Cutlass (it was actually the car that brought him home from the hospital :P ). Right before he went to college, each family member had a moment alone with the car as midwestern winters had finally done it in…

An 80s Civic was the first manual I ever drove. Honda makes a crazy easy clutch…

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I’d do a “yeah but” but I acknowledge your notice of the statistically far less number of people walking around with newspapers (or, in my case, books) back then compared with the number of people these days glued to their phones who don’t care about anything except what’s on their screen. Also combined with the…

We figure we’re a good team. The WRX is his DD, so he does the research (i.e. “YouTube Certification”) and main work. I’m there to add the extra hands, cram into the smaller spots, keep track of all the pieces coming off (and making shelves to hold what we need) and stop him from doing stupid things that would break a…

C’mon, he’s a guy… :P (Which means that, yes, he used the magnet thing, and never found anything. Which means that I went out there and found it within about 30 seconds ;) )

We have an ‘05 WRX that has spent all it’s time in the midwest… Every estimated time basically gets tripled, at minimum, to account for corrosion. Oh, and looking ahead of time to see if the bolts even still exist as it’s always 2-days for Subie to get parts in, so it’s good to add that into any repair plan… There are…

My husband was trying to replace the vapor canister purge solenoid on our ‘05 WRX (it’s in the appropriately nicknamed “rats nest”) that broke while he was replacing vacuum hoses in there. I had to go out there 3 times to find where the bolt went for him before I decided to just cram my, what I thought were smallish,…

Yeah, I didn’t even know those cars could turn right!

Cool— added (hopefully) to my knowledgebase of getting stuff off the cars. My husband drove over something (passed someone over undry dotted lines I think?) and the yellow left a bunch of splatter in the wheel wells. Claybar wouldn’t have helped there (the WD40 would have been easier than my scrubbing though), but as…

Check out http://www.iowaregionscca.org And, actually, if you’re Des Moines, there are others closer to your side, I’m forgetting which groups though— ah, Des Moines Valley SCCA… https://www.facebook.com/groups/DMVRSCCA/ Folks are good about answering questions for newbies.

All I know is that I was in full “co-driver” mode and knew there was no way we were stopping and just yelled, “Go! Go! Go!” as we would have be stuck or stalled any other way, and he did. :D I had to yell, “Slow down!!” on the other side as he was still gunning it and thus sliding a LOT on the ice on the other side…

We had zipties for a lot of you folks though. :D (including us, when our fender liner ran off into the woods… even though we’re driving a “more expected” car for this stuff)

Heh— there you are!! Glad you got your car in here. :D

We have a guy in our region who RallyXs an old ‘vette. He’s pretty awesome— he was actually part of an elite group of people on the way to one event who ignored previous warnings about bad GPS instructions and basically forded a river last winter. Him, our ‘05 WRX and an similar era Outback. We all dented something…