You mean DEX-CRUEL? That stuff killed my mother’s Olds Aurora...and thousands of perfectly good GM vehicles.

I must have been lucky where I lived. We had excellent MetroPCS (T-Mobile) service so unlimited was only $60 and VZW found a way con my parents out of their UDP (initially their plan was only 4GB shared across 5 people)...They were trying to slowly transition me off their support in college (I commuted 6 miles from…

Not all family plans are created equal (VZW plans are astronomical in price). That was the first thing my parents kicked me off of at 20. No more contracts and subsidized phones. I have bought my own phone full price and used cheap prepaid plans ever since (no issues with service or price).

This is only ok if you have a hired driver or if you’re physically disabled or if you have an electric car.

Who needs keys or key fobs? My first car only needed the ignition key for starting (the car probably was a victim of multiple attempted thefts). You could take out the key from the ignition while driving or shut it off without the key.

I don’t hate TCS. I hate poorly executed TCS. Take Ford’s FWD TCS on the Focus/C-Max, The TCS would activate and get one wheel to gain traction, but not the other causing the front to slide from side to side (This is in light snow, not ice). I have to be very careful with the throttle or switch into low gear when it…

There’s nothing like washing a car in the middle of the night! Without other cars it gives me more time to give my car the care she deserves.

Works very well on my 1 year old Ford C-Max. I must know a good car wash.

I’m not surprised at any of this looking at the geometry of the Southern State Pkwy. Many of those exits are cloverleafs in addition to no shoulders to really speak of. They all need to be converted to Parclo A-4 interchanges to eliminate weaving and some blasted shoulders would really help.

I’ve noticed this to be a ND thing. Many of the areas where this happens in Bismarck are where Michigan lefts would be designed. There is a reason why I always hesitate for a second when the light turns green. Left on red from one way to one way or one way to two way is also legal in MI (not many know it and it is not…

Coming from Lansing, I have found ND to be full of good drivers. There are practically no left lane hogs. Then again I’m not in Fargo and the drunks are still passed out when I commute to work in the morning in Bismarck.

This is NP all day every day! $1200 for a running Sable w/no rust is a keeper.

Flying to see family as a kid and getting involuntarily bumped on an overbooked flight on United. The issue was that us kids (all of us were under 10 yrs old) were involuntarily bumped to another flight out of O’Hare, not my parents. They were to take the flight leaving us behind...parents went ballistic. Eventually…

Children’s tool set? My father would leave hand tools out and I would get my hands on them...I would ask what each one did and instead of it being taken away he would show me what each one did. I would also help him work on his Jeep Grand Wagoneer or his old Land Cruiser. It was how I learned the basics of keeping a…

I didn’t have LEGOs as a kid. My father had stacks of VHS tapes collecting dust and I had a mixture of matchbox/hot wheels cars and 1/18 scale cars. Building with VHS tapes took much more skill than LEGOs because nothing snapped together, everything that you built had to be held together by gravity or friction. I…

Both were bred for its skills in magic!

My uncle has one of these Peterbilts (a ‘72) used for logging. Man those tires and putting those on a log trailer would really help on some of those logging roads in the Cascades (it’s rainforest wet there with tons of mud).

Not a truck stop? Gas one...because the % of diesel users is lower than the gas ones. Never do this at a truck stop...those who have driven trucks cross country have the eyes of hawks and tire thumpers!

I secured financing at Michigan State University FCU for a 1 year old car at 2.79%. That said there was old 90s Subaru that had no miles on the clock that I looked at too. I called after getting the approval and was told that my loan was for anything that had 4 wheels and was not an RV. It was based on credit score…

OMG there is actual space behind the rear seat!!!!