No more often than a stock vehicle with higher headlights than my car, or a stock vehicle with poorly-aimed headlights, or a stock vehicles with too much load in the back, etc. So perhaps a better law would be “headlights need to be aimed to a given standard”, which seems like a perfectly reasonable law to have.

Then all modifications should be illegal, because none of them were crash-tested. 🤷‍♂️ Except that crash testing of this type is to make sure that manufacturers don’t endanger customers, not that customers don’t endanger themselves.

What problem does this solve? With the enormous difference in stock bumper heights already, it’s not as if an F-150 isn’t going right over the front end of a Corvette. If the goal is to match all bumper heights within some range, that would need to be done at the manufacturer AND aftermarket level - and (depending on…

My daily driver - and indeed, my only car. It gets me where I want to go...and almost always gets me home, too.

Waaat. That’s a really fascinating engineering decision, considering all the weight will be in the back, and there’s only one front wheel. It’s obvious when you really look at it, but I hadn’t even considered that possibility.

Yeah, while I’m very much in the market for this kind of solution, its methods end up being jack of no trades, unfortunately. The inability to use the bike independently of the boat/trailer is the final deal-breaker for me. Sometimes you want to leave home base behind, and go shred a trail on just two wheels; this…

Definitely one possibility! One challenge in doing so is that it’s pretty damned permanent, and makes future repairs more difficult by necessitating a pretty unpleasant decontamination process before you can weld to it again. And of course since I don’t have doors, I need to sandwich the metal in bedliner (or, more…

See, now THERE’S someone who understands the UP, eh!

Welded in the new pans almost 10 years ago now, and despite a decade of doorless daily-driving in the Land of Salt, they’re still good!

Brother, if you have any advice on four-wheel-drive vehicles that are as capable, as well-supported in the aftermarket, as inexpensive on the secondhand market, as simple to work on, as reliable, as easy to cut the doors off, and as fun, but which don’t vaporize after 20 years of dirt roads and salt spray, I am more…

You should come to the UP sometime, and I’ll happily show you around. There are a lot of things about “distance” and “economy” in the area that you might be surprised to learn about.

Oh, yah, you betcha!

Yeah, you know, Michigan rust-free.

Oh, yeah, did this on my 95 XJ a couple years back, in a UP winter where we got more than 200 inches of snow, and the unheated garage was usually -10 °F or less.

Rodriguez also said, “How he walked away from this and survived it. I mean, somebody was definitely watching out over him.”

My old e30 developed a clutch fault like this, in which I simply couldn’t depress the clutch pedal or engage the clutch in any way. Drove it like that for six months, with a 60-mile daily commute, in Michigan winters - meaning rev-matching every shift, shutting off the car at every stop, and using the starter motor to…

Same, except I used four ratchet straps, which has the advantage of being slightly less expensive, and has every other disadvantage you can think of, and several you might not guess.

Or, it’s trashier counterpart: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/386787176471115/

As a marketer myself, I can’t tell you how infuriating it is when someone in a meeting says, “But how do we market to women?” or “How do we market to black people?” I’m like, well, we tell them why our products have more value for them than other products, same as we do for anyone else. Some cishet white men genuinely…

I don’t see what the big deal is. My daily driver ended up in a 30-degree river two years ago, and it’s fine. I mean, other than the thing where it doesn’t always start. And sometimes it just turns off while it’s running. And how the driver seat mount has rusted out. Sometimes the subwoofer amp mounted under the rear…