The problem is that most engine bays are so darn cramped these days that you can’t get the bottle positioned to do this without having some really long funnel. Sure, with the long funnel you can get it not to splash all over the place, but now you have a long, oily funnel in one hand and a quart of oil in the other,…

That’s the catch though isn’t it? There was a time when my wife and I would hit the thrift stores all the time, mostly because we couldn’t afford to go buy new stuff. I dug through thousands of old vinyl records trying to find something worthy of taking home to either play or sell to a vintage record store. Try…

Or just use a 20 year old diesel and run it on vegetable oil.  Sure, the oil needs to be warm, but you’ll get farther on oil and you won’t need to keep feeding logs into your wood-gas furnace.  Just warm up the fuel, start the vehicle and away you go.  Batteries will still be an issue though.

They sell stuff like this, I use TruFuel (both 2 and 4 cycle) for the different machines.  For the mower, it gets that at the end of each season and spends the winter with it in the tank.  Now I’ll only use the 4 cycle stuff in the snow blower and generator and the 2 cycle for the yard tools.  The mower gets regular…

Use that canned fuel, synthetic actually, they sell premixed. Unlike pump fuel, that stuff is good for 3 years. For a mower or snow blower, I’ll run them dry toward the end of the season and then fill it up with the canned 4 stroke stuff. Always use the canned stuff in a generator.

Yeah, but they have the A110 South Beach Colorway version... it would be a bloody crime not to bring that to the US and at least have a showroom for it in Miami.

Guaranteed! I was driving down a parkway where I live and started to smell McDonald’s french fries.  There is not a McDonald’s anywhere close to this road, and even if there was, you shouldn’t smell french fries for 5 miles straight.  I realised that there must be a diesel that was converted to use Waste Vegetable Oil…

Probably, I’m sure that might do the trick as well.  But you typically need to supply an ozone generator with pure oxygen.  Having used one for a project many years ago I can tell you that given the choice between a couple of large bags of coffee (smells nice, very quite) and an ozone generator (does not smell nice,…

Well, my 2010 Jetta TDI did it for 170k miles without an issue and I’ve never heard anyone gripe that it failed.  You would get some kind of error code and then your turbo would die so it would be pretty obvious.

Wimp, I just lowered the car onto the wrench with the floor jack. (I’m not exactly sure, but I may have actually done this... slowly... now that I think about it... I’m pretty sure I did it like that or I used the jack on the wrench.)

Well, I used s similar method to de-stinkify hotel rooms. I was working a job in Jersey around the time Hurricane Sandy did its thing. Once the roads opened again, I was back at it but literally every hotel room was taken up by people responding to that, so for about two months I only ended up getting ‘non-smoking’…

Ahhhh... it’s like baseball preseason. One week before the actual season starts, we get DTS. I may just do what I did last year, the wife was away for the first F1 race weekend so I just watched F1 practice, qualifying and DTS all Saturday.

Pretty sure this is a VW-AG thing. Every newer VW & Audi do this, probably Skoda, Seat, etc as well. A quick search of some forums points to an auxiliary ‘low energy oil pump’. When you unlock the car it’s prepping for a ride, after turning off the car it’s circulating oil to cool the turbo.

You need to empty the ‘Fart Buffer’. I suggest a ride down a bumpy dirt road with the windows wide open. Repeat this process until you can ride down the road with the windows closed. Repeat as needed and if you’ve had a particularly grueling drive, stomp the ‘Fart Buffer’ when you exit the car.

Just remember, if anyone asks, we went out for ice cream and you’re a sloppy eater.

When they don’t fully get that message, I slide over a little bit and hit the rumble strip.  That noise usually wakes them up enough to look in the mirror and see that someone wants to pass.

Just outlaw bunker fuel period.

Just ‘everyone’ bro...

Yeah, it’s quite expensive.  This and the AMG wagon look like so much fun and then you see the price tag.  If they only offered the RS3 with a hatch, it would be  like a mini version of this thing for half the price.

Years ago someone taught me the ‘cookie test’. You have 4 cookies, 1 each is emitting alpha, beta, gamma and neutron radiation. You can eat one, give one away, put one in your pocket and hold one in your hand. Neutron rad is bad so give that one to someone you don’t like, beta is blocked by thin shielding so in your…