Believe me, I’m well aware of the condition of the roads in Detroit. My work brings me up there relatively often. As someone who has done his fair share of jaywalking, I can also confirm that in doing so, you take your life in your own hands.

Jaywalking across five lanes of traffic on streets with little to no illumination is something of a pastime here.

...secondhand, of course - if at all. What kinda idiot buys a new car, afterall?

I take it your SUV (I’m assuming CUV) issues were transmission related?

The trick here is to put a pan under the thing, spin it until the first drip of oil starts running down the side of the filter can, give it one more open handed spin (let the filter turn the 1/2-2 turns it would make on its own), and let the thing bleed out.

On the one hand, you’re implying I have an oil filter wrench. On the other hand, I’m implying sschwing has a set of leather work gloves.

I would counter that an EJ oil change ain’t bad (just throw a leather work glove on, and give ‘er hell), but that picture is absolutely priceless.

Ask, and the internet will typically provide.

Thanks, I didn’t know I needed these!

Honda Ruckus, They’re about as good as 50cc put-puts go, and they’re cool enough to have an entire mod culture surrounding them. My advice would be to buy new, as they effectively don’t depreciate. On the bright side, you more or less get your money back when you sell it.

If for different reasons, a motocompo would also be a garbage first bike.

Oh, absolutely! My comment was speaking from the make-believe, fantasy, world where people have agency over themselves and act accordingly. In said fantasy world, California hasn’t made legal precedent against contract labor, the ‘ride-sharing’ business model is effectively un-threatened, and those who feel that Uber…

Dude, Great Catch! I completely missed the fact that this lawsuit wasn’t actually tied to the taxi industry. It’s a shame that the ruling is being interpreted the way it is, but I can at least now understand where it’s coming from. Especially with California having state-specific requirements on trucks, and a number…

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...at which point, Uber will more than likely pack up their ball and go home. Leaving all their drivers back where they started before Uber was ever a thing. People seem to forget that there’s nothing forcing people to work for Uber in the first place. If it’s so bad, they can always go to Lyft or - alternately - get…

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While I’m sure that there are folks on this site with more experience than me, I can tell you that the wall thickness on a crash structure is usually more heavily dictated by a tube’s load capacity at a certain % buckle, as opposed to strictly stiffness or unyielded load capacity*. This means that the tubes will be…

*You can’t polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.

I’ll bet dollars to donuts that there’s a plan in place to reduce the total # of workers worldwide, and to eliminate a bunch of the planned Cap-Ex that Ford was going to be needing to keep up with projected growth back in early 2017. Remember, as well, that the majority of Ford’s American plants have been retooled to…