That’s small potatoes, compared to my viral “drink a gallon of oil challenge”!

So do Teslas if owners read the damn manual:

I have a Y and the “% remaining” it calculates/estimates when I get to my destination is usually spot-on (or close enough). Like you, I don’t even look at range anymore as I only care about how much battery I’ll have left, especially if I know that I’m not going to be able to charge at my destination.

It’s the…

I’ve just experienced this in a non-Tesla EV. Yesterday I did quite a bit of highway driving in my Ioniq. At higher speeds, the remaining range readout would often drop by 2 km or even more for every km driven. Today I’ve been driving around town with the climate control off, seeing the range drop as little as 1 km…

Yes so easy in a total loss vehicle

To be fair to Tesla, My 2017 Outback does essentially the same thing- when I fill up for a long drive, the car will tell me that I have a range of say, 440 miles. As I’m driving, at first that range will go down to match the miles I’m driving, followed by the range going back up as the miles go by, until somewhere…

Waited 9 months for repairs on my ‘19 Subaru Outback!

Oil pump issues? For 6 months, without any fixes?

I’m trying to think of a chronic oil pump problem that would not lead to expensive engine problems down the road. There better be a warranty extension for this.

It must be nice to be able to get the newspaper to cover your service problems. I couldn’t get that done in the three months I wanted for my Nissan Altima to be fixed (several years back) or the ordeal that just ended today on my Cadillac XT4 and its own check engine light coming on.

Unconfirmed sources indicate the State of California has sent in its venerable CHiPs units to assist with cleanup.

An empty seat is a ticket unsold to the money minds who make air travel tick.

I am 39 years old

It seems like hammer-nail thinking: our urban planners in North America saw the rise of the private car as a panacea for actual planning work: rather than working with the geographical constraints to build urban centers that prioritized accessibility for all (including those without cars) to reach a wide range of…

‘Your destination is a five minute walk!’,

A lot of auctions prohibit the use of OBD Scanners as well. Not that you couldn't sneak it in but they do actively try to keep them out.

Alot of those auction places don’t allow code readers on the premises either.

To tell you the story of the rental car, first I have to tell you another story. Back in my first year of college, I was dropped off without incident, the last time that would happen. For the next two years, eight out of nine trips had a breakdown the day before, the day of the trip, or the day after. This included a…

Not sure if you’ve been to an auto auction for dealers, but typically there isn’t time. Big ones like Denver, Riverside, Dallas, etc. might run 1000 cars through 8 lanes simultaneously in 2-3 hours. And the gates open 3 hours before the sale. So you have 3 hours to find what you want, check it out on a huge lot, and…

Well, I know at least 364 people who have pretty good car rental stories: