If people in these yards are anything like some of the weirdos shopping at Goodwill, they absolutely will scamper over and grab whatever it is you’ve put down. Why? Who knows. Will they take it home? Who knows. Are they actually going to use it? Not likely.

It’s one of my favorite “bad idea” fantasies. I came this —> <— close to buying one from a buy here pay here lot. Come to think of it, I think that’s the only place you can buy them from these days.

Actually pigtails and connectors can be infinitely useful. Maybe you’re doing a swap into a car that doesn’t have that connector, maybe your connector is damaged. I’ve heard yards don’t bother preserving wire harnesses because they’re way too much effort to extract, and there’s waaay too much risk that it’s already…

I love how optimistic you always are in your posts about fixing European cars. I wish I had you as a neighbor.

I’ve never run into one of my previous cars, though I’d really like to. It’s probably best, though. Better to not find out it’s been beat on.

I think about this every time I see them (or people in other videos/shows) beating on some poor cars. There’s a really good chance the previous owners didn’t give a rip about it though. At least, that’s what I tell myself.

Agreed. The generation you pictured (especially that one) were just sexy as hell. I’d never own one though, because Chrysler.

And it’s just nerdy enough that it’s not the go-to choice for every asshole with more money than taste that wants a fast car. If they were in my price range I would have one already.

Actually, I can say the same about Mustangs and Camaros (I’d dig driving one of them too). Corvette people really seem to have perfected the terrible though.

Any C4 or later Corvette, simply because of the Corvette crowd. It’s dominated by schmucks and douches, and I shudder to be lumped in with them. The Corvette has always been an excellent fun car and is a terrific bang for your buck. Visually it’s not my bag of chips but man they’re fun.

Take the badges off. Anyone who’s dumb enough to give you a hard time won’t be able to differentiate it from a Mitsubishi once you do. That’s not a dig on the car, that’s a dig on those kinds of people.

They did it because it was either that or go out of business. At one point the company was going under so they made a lot of changes in the business, and one of them was to start making more custom pieces. Apparently Lego builders had been asking for a while and the company was keeping their head down and trying to…

Maybe just hit them with some black spray paint. Or some other color if you’re feeling frisky.

Cool, thanks. I love the idea of tuning but the risk of blowing something up has always ended up steering me clear of it. I have a Volvo right now so $1200 for a diff actually seems cheap! If I had to get a brand new one today, it’d be about $3700, and that’s not even including the Haldex component. They even have the…

Thanks Nicole, I’ll shoot you an email this weekend! It’s interactions like this that have given me the confidence in your company to keep coming back. Hopefully we can get this sorted out.

The most disturbing thing was the parts that I’ve had trouble with (which haven’t been many) were listed as OE. When I put the OE and actual Volvo part side by side, though, they couldn’t have been more different. Different seals, different part numbers, different design. That particular brand may have produced the…

How’s the reliability on the ATS? I was looking at 2010-2012 CTS wagons recently and was wondering just how dumb of an idea one would be. They’re going for $10-15k these days with under a 100k miles and it’s really tempting.

“Anything different happen today?”

I’m a huge fan of FCP and they’re still my go-to for parts, but I really don’t like that they filter bad reviews. Every single one of the “part was great, fixed so and so problem” reviews I posted got published, but not one of the “I returned this part 3 times and still didn’t work, costing me weeks of labor and…

Yeah there are far worse alternatives to the alien plastic. It’s at least interesting to the touch and doesn’t become gross.