Breakers installed means nothing. They would need to do a load calculation or use study to determine if you have 100amps left to go. Load calculations involve actual ratings of large appliances and hvac, dedicated lines (hot tub, car charger, etc), dedicated appliance circuits (kitchen, for example) and a overall…

Worst case scenario is you swap the captive pan bolt washer for a cheapo parts store copper one and they wont leak.  Costs a few cents every oil change.  Thy are next to impossible to strip, even when over torqued. Usually wont explode if you hit it. Etc. The one thing that does tend to suck is the 6mm allen type…

Why does a plastic oil pan matter? Because they are known for leaking at the plug and other reasons, leading people to be fearful of the piece of crap to the level that they feel the can only do oil changes via extraction. How could they not know? And it was also a cost cutting measure 100% compared to the previous…

In the case of the SavageGeese GTI review the car had nice tires on it, but the 2nd reviewer for the channel also owned/s a mk7 and said that the new car is much better - regardless of tire choice. I’ve heard this from multiple sources, even though VW of A botched the reviews by mixing tires on test cars (the…

Jason got that part and much of the interior stuff absolutely right. The bulk of the rest of his review is a bit cringe and typical of mk7 owner bias.

What did any of those companies make in 1981 that was comparable? A true 4 seat convertible that is relatively fun to drive. Prelude convertible? Kind of an ugly duckling and a different category. Celica Convertible? Ultra rare and arguably quite different. 280zx a different category as well.

His point still stands however. Pretty much ALL EVs as currently marketed are large battery and going to make widespread adoption much more difficult simply because of the materials that are going to be needed.

They sounded like crap well before any of that stuff hit. I’d argue the worst ones were the GMT400 era trucks, but that might have a lot to do with the specific exhaust mods of the time period.

I would even vote the small block as worse than the VQ - much worse with questionable exhaust mods.

Yeah, we are taking over bridges to do doughnut parties, I am pretty sure the speed limit is more or less forgotten...

I think you misjudge how many cycles those automatic bollards are good for.

I’m sure they will be worth a fortune, but the newer Singers are finer tuned than the first model, IMO.    I never thought that details like the retro side mirrors were a great fit and even if they were good, the newer stuff is just a notch up all around.

I am not sure I am in disagreement with him at all, especially his other posts about crew protocol and personal responsibility.  

Agree, but is it clear they were unloading/loading with spinning rotors? Seems to say they moved the passengers to a safe place and he quickly went back - but didn’t specify that timeline. It’s equally possible that they unloaded and were spinning up to take off again when he went back and that is a much different…

I am not sure everything being loud makes for any better excuse to get closer. I grew up around large farm machinery and a giant loud mess didn’t mean get closer - at least not to me.

Perhaps. But maybe I am just the more cautious type. I grew up around farm equipment - directly exposed, but gave it plenty of distance. In my somewhat limited helicopter experience, my first instinct was never to get close when things were spun up.

Not exactly quiet spinning bits attached to a very loud turbine.

The reports state that the crew tried to stop him, but he was too fast. Combine that with the report of his sister saying no one know why he went back leads me to believe that it’s probably unlikely that the crew told him to go back.

Potentially, because of lack of protocol.

I could see the brake heat issue, but with my digital filler it would be more difficult with a 90deg and the brake is still plenty far away with standard stems on all of my wheels. 45deg is perhaps best, but most normal stems end up closer to 45deg than 0deg, depending on the wheel design.