Lol! Dude that’s a lot of trouble to save 1 second of rotation per start up. You burn through a month’s worth of saved wear before your engine warms up on your drive.

Just need to follow up the polish with some automotive clear coat. 2 or three light coats will seal the lenses up and auto paint has UV protectants in it because it lives outdoors. You’re right though, without it, the lenses will fog up in no time.

It’s amazing how well an $8 can of clear coat works to protect against UV. Have done to multiple cars after a polish and it lasted for years! Noi need to go buy the fancy $30-$50 UV protectants.

That’s my response. “$20k buys a lot of fuel...”

Right. And if you have multiples of something, just change them all if it’s not ridiculously expensive. Things like coil packs, wheel bearings, tie rods, ball joints, and brake light bulbs aren’t that much of a hassle to change all of. Chances are if one coil pack failed, the rest are on the way. If they are only $30…

That’s a concussion. Assuming he survived...

Seems like a good rule. If the car is otherwise dependable, why change it? Every car needs maintenance. A new car will delay it, but at what cost?

If it keeps going out, I wonder if you have a wiring issue. Maybe a corroded plug with resistance that is bit too high creating localized heat that shortens the life of the bulb. Might be worth checking if you can replace the plug.

Maybe, but I doubt the used car lot cares to figure out which ones are good and which ones are utter POS. I think it’s best if the person who is going to be driving on the tires picks where they want to cheap out. Leaving it up to someone with no skin in the game seems risky.

I mean, instead you would have totaled a newer car. The sales tax you would have paid for the first car, let alone for the replacement car would have cost at least the $2k you lost on the repairs. Seems like it would have been a wash.

Exactly. Get some nice hot gasses flowing through the system to clean everything off. Really slosh that oil around. Maybe shake some stuff off whatever. Who knows if it actually helps, but my cars keep running well so I’m gonna keep doing it.

I wanna see what happened to the wheel and tire after it fell off. I’m sure it put a dent in something.

They should call it the “oven edition.” Even in the NE I hate my black on black leather interiored car in the summer. My AC is good, but it takes approximately 60 second for my car to heat up to baking temperature after I shut it off. Next car is going to have a grey or tan interior.

release the service brake between setting the parking brake and either releasing the clutch or putting the vehicle in park. It puts the weight of the vehicle on the parking brake.

One trick I have developed to keeping older cars is to just fix them when they break and to just replace worn out parts. I don’t know how many people I’ve talked to that are thinking about replacing their car because it needs shocks and struts. One guy said he wanted to get a new car because his current one needed…

I like the exteriors of infinities and don’t care much that they haven’t changed much. I can see the car-buying public being uninterested in an unrefreshed car though. Also not sure about the interiors, but I’m sure they need updating because tech moves fast.

If they figure out that you did commit crimes, “but the crimes aren’t really why they were out to get me” is not a great defense.

Pretty sure 90% of the potatoes I cook have had eyes removed from them. I’ve never experienced what you’re talking about. I think you should be looking at what else you ate that night as the cause of your distress.

Since his main sponsor’s name is now on the team, you can bet they are paying the team for him to be there.

It’s too bad Hulkenburg couldn’t find a similar gig.