Even if they got caught up on the word ‘perform’, the job was still not performed. The tires weren’t attached correctly. Therefore the job was not in fact performed. A tire rotation performance includes lug nuts...

Good luck suing the state owned mechanic shop in a country like China. You'd likely be jailed for even calling them out. Free market isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we have.

So if you want the lug nuts tightened properly, how DO you ensure that the shop “performs” that? If the state of Michigan does not consider lug nut tightening to be implied under the work order’s “rotate tires” line item, then are they really expecting shops to spell out “tighten lug nuts to factory specification” as…

Eqaully appalling is the fact that it costs $70k in lawyer fees, to sue to recover $40k. Something is very wrong in a system like this.

Corvette dynos 560hp at the wheels....

“falls short of expectations”

WTF

Perception does trump reality, but I have to say, I had a rental Chevy Malibu last week while I was in the US, and it was well made, quiet, extremely fuel efficient, and comfortable. Conversely, two weeks ago, I test drove a 3 year old Lexus CT200h—cheap interior materials, very noisy, and to be honest, not terribly…

Old man Ford paid high wages for the time, so that his employees could afford to buy his cars.

If you drive around Youngstown, you’ll notice a disproportionate amount of GM vehicles. One thing GM hasn’t considered as they shed their US workforce is they are also shedding their customer base. Towns with a plant are GM towns and they buy GM cars and trucks. If you eliminate your core buyers, who is left? Most…

Bingo. In fact - overpaid.

GM only makes ~10% profits over their expenses on a good year. Just because they’re making Billions doesn’t mean they’re “making handsome profits”. They’re also spending billions to get there.

That’s obsolete union ingrate logic for ya...they’d rather destroy themselves and everything around them than be satisfied with what they have and do their job...

They’re working to secure more U.S.-based auto plant jobs at a time when GM production is increasingly shipped to other countries even as the company is handsomely profitable.

Tesla’s SOP is to replace the whole board. Some third party is replacing just the memory chip for about $399.

I’ve seen this before. Someone in software is debugging something, ramps up the logging, fixed 6 the problem and either forgets to turn off the logging or the software manager re-tasks the software person to something else. A few years ago I showed up to investigate why a piece of equipment wasn’t working. The 2TB…

I own a Subaru and don’t vape.

1. Buy Subaru with no money down, 72-month, $1000/month loan

1. Find a solid body from the south.

As a Chrysler product from the '90s, it's going to be really easy to find a ZJ that needs a new transmission anyway.

I’ve mentioned this to David with every rust heap he buys. There are hundreds of ZJ’s that’ll take the body harness, engine harness, pedal box, and driveline from the rust bucket. All of these are selling for basically scrap value, just sitting around here in the south, rust free.