If my car is under warranty (as my truck is), it goes to the shop except for fluid changes. No mods, no tinkering. Once it is out of warranty, everything is fair game. I built a set of ramps to get under my cars a bit better, and I have plans to buy a vehicle lift once some debt is paid off. I am lucky enough to…

I totally agree that aluminum is a different beast, and will cost more to repair than steel. But my bedside panel doesn't just bolt off, especially with my spray-in bedliner which covers the top of the panel. Unless Ford has these as bolt-on panels, I still think it will be cheaper to repair in place for minor…

They should have not included the sensor in the comparison. That would cost the same regardless of the aluminum body.

When I was rear-ended in my Sierra, they fixed the panel, not replaced it. Skilled auto shops can still do that significantly cheaper than replacing the panel. No one even tried to quote me on panel replacement.

The bill would eliminate the paltry $35 million cap on fines for delayed auto safety recalls. Will it pass? Congress considered similar reforms in 2010 but never passed them. Expect the industry to fight it tooth and nail, too. Plus, there's the question over whether more money and more power will actually make NHTSA…

The 2018 ogee scandal will be all over future news.

WI DMV? It did not turn out well.

When I graduated college, I took a $28k/year sales job. The company went under 2 years later and I decided to explore starting my own brand of one of the products I sold. Got my company started while on unemployment for 6 months and have been doing it for the last 9 years. Now I have 2 full-time employees and 2…

A lot of people ask why I would want to live in the Midwest. "Flyover country" comes up a lot. But my mortgage is under $80k at the moment on a 4br, 3500sqft house with an excellent school district. And my commute is 10 minutes. What do you have on the coast that are worth being a slave to a $350k mortgage?

My 65 Tempest has a 2 speed Powerglide. It works surprisingly well.

And it's amazing what you can diagnose with a multimeter.

All of these products reek of desperation. Even if I had enough money to buy a Ferrari with cash, I wouldn't be caught dead with Ferrari branded anything. It's like that episode of Friends where Joey pretends to own the Porsche in front of the building, and starts wearing Porsche apparel. He looked like a tool, and…

34 here. We went to the Caddy dealership to look at their offerings, and the salesman didn't even go with us on the test drives to show us the features. Just handed us the keys and pointed us at the car. He didn't think we could afford a new Cadillac (we can, and much more).

Because this is a Gawker site.

16 yr old car with a savage title for $10k? CP.

This looks like an STD mercedes got from Chrysler.

Nailed it.

Bahahahahahahahaha! That's rich. They will pull out a TSB showing that burning 2QTs is "normal". I traded that car in after I saw how many other people were having the same issue. That 3.6 is garbage.

Why is your response shaded grey and pending approval? Can't contributors catch a break on Kinja?