Her current ride meets #3 just fine.  But soon the time between needed repairs will decrease so it’ll be on the daily plan.  So whatever car she gets needs to be reliable enough for frequent trips to the parts store for the aging Accord. I say keep the Chum Bucket as the project to learn on and go with the Mazda.

Check Indian dealers too. Last time I looked the closest RE dealer was like an hour away, checked on Tuesday and the local Indian dealership now carries them.

Well, the wypipo in charge of the Descendants of Confederate Traitors have the power to get the chair back just by putting up the banner for 24 hours. But given who they are and what that banner says about them... I mean, it’s beautiful. I’m white, but not the kind of white person who’s cool with racism, slavery and…

Oooohhhh! The luxury of hitting the optometrist is something I miss!  Just noticed my Ray Bans with double scratch coating, going on two years old now, are scratched.  My second shot is coming due in a couple of weeks.

I don’t normally get food delivered to my house. Then I got Covid and didn’t want to infect the rest of the population. Thank the gods for one of those delivery services. 20% tip? Nah, I knew that the driver was busting his or her ass AND making sure my wife and I got food while not infecting anyone.

APR has a bunch of parts for the VW motor that’ll let you get north of 450 hp, but at that point the starting place for all the needed changes are inside the motor. There was a review of the Golf R with that motor here, parts cost was just short of $20k, no mention was made of labor. So, sure, I guess if you wanted a…

I had a couple of guys I worked with that were heading to a job in a box truck one morning. It’s bright and sunny and we issued dark safety glasses for days like this. Both dudes were wearing them.

Not a huge NBA fan so here I am, at work, trying to figure out how the hell you google that to find out if that happened... Ahhh, ‘Paul Pierce pants’. Well... no shit...

Wheel apparently. And some tuners are pushing that to 500 which sounds dangerous on stock internal parts. I don’t think I’d expect anything over 350 to reasonably be expected to last 100k miles. Especially the 500 hp tune. At that point you should honestly be expecting to rebuild the motor frequently along with having…

Apparently you can push the EA888 up to 400 hp with stock internals. I’m also positive that having that much power in a GTI would make me soil myself.

A quick look and some of those seem to come from bad door seals or the roof antenna not being properly sealed.  My MKIV Golf had clogged sun roof drains and that was a constant annoyance until I tracked down the problem, then it never happened again. I’ve seen very small leaks at the front doors in HEAVY rain at speed…

Yeah, I’ve heard about that in those cars.  But it doesn’t seem to be something that happens to all of them.  A coworker LOVES his Subarus and it seems that, just like a VW, if you do frequent maintenance on them, they’re perfectly happy to let you run them into the ground while delivering mile after mile of driving…

I sold my 2010 TDI back to VW in 2016, used the cash to buy a lightly used Jeep product and wow was that a bad idea. I tried not to cave and go back, but after a 100 mile road trip in the Jeep that left my back in so much pain, I couldn’t fathom another long trip in that piece of garbage.

Agreed, I’m driving my 4th VW and haven’t had any wallet emptying issues. Nothing has ever exploded and left me stranded somewhere and I’ve sold the car, still running, at the end every time. MK2 Golf w/ 205k miles, MK4 Golf w/275k miles, MK5 Jetta w/ 150k miles and the MK7 GTI is creeping toward 55k miles. But…

The newer gen EA888 engines are pretty damn good.  And you can get a ton of power out of them before turning them into a grenade.

That’s right! The last article I read here was about a bear getting stuck in someone’s Subaru. Article noted that ‘if you live in bear country, keep your car locked’ then said the person lived in Connecticut.

He’s the best part of any Drive to Survive episode.  Guy is seriously funny and hams it up frequently. 

Yeah, I think my second shot is going to be even worse.  I’m taking day 3 off to recover from day2 when that rolls around.  And good idea on stocking the shelves, I was quite woozy or dizzy so driving will be on the list of banned activities.

UConn alum as well, I’m so old that I remember being able to go to the women’s games for free with my student ID at Gample... but damn that was a mugging.

Holy shit, that was a mugging, not a foul.  I don’t watch lots of basketball, I never played much either. Played lots of soccer... but they did teach us the basics of the sport in gym class and you can block as long as you don’t move and that was not a block, that looked more like a tackle.