Dude, you drive a diesel. “Dirty oil” on the dipstick ain’t no way to tell how fresh the oil is on a diesel — new oil is gonna turn black almost immediately after running it through the engine for a few minutes.

They never said it was more rigid than older cars, they said it was more rigid than if the crease wasn't there. I'd bet they started showing up when they started really going after efficiency, and going after thinner sheet metal for the weight. Thicker metal didn't need it, thinner metal does.

20,000lbs??? Did he fill all the empty spaces in the doors and bed with fucking concrete? Or just the empty space in his noggin?

The 4 cylinder engine has to work harder to make that same horsepower to move down the road. I used to be able to tease 30 mpg out of a full size Dodge Ram with their rendition of cylinder deactivation on their Hemi V8. My Colorado can only get into the upper 20's with it’s V6. It has the Holden engine that has to be…

Yeah, no.

People often seem to not realize that burning fuel is actually what makes power, not just the size of the engine in which the fuel is burned. Yes, a larger engine might not be as efficient in some cases, but the smaller engine has the same problems, just usually in different rpm bands. A powerband is just that, a…

I still think its piston slap...which really isn’t that big a deal. Keep good oil in it and it will run forever with a tiny amount of cold piston slap.

Boosted motors usually run lower compression, and thus have less engine braking as well. My FoST is only like 9.3:1 and does not engine brake very well.

There’s a huge difference between a hydrostatic drive and an automatic transmission. John Deere has been using planetary transmissions in their tractors for decades.  Their power shift transmissions are like an automatic with a manual valve body and no torque converter.  Planetary transmissions hold up just fine to…

The newest automatic transmissions on the higher trims have the up and down shift buttons. They’ll lock the torque converter up earlier and keep it locked longer. The pcm won’t let you lug the engine too hard and won’t let you down shift if it’ll send the tach into orbit, but they behave much like farm machinery has…

AFAIK, all of the modern HD trucks’ tow/haul modes have ways to ensure engine braking when towing...

Regardless of when it was bolted together, that is fundamentally a late ‘70s car.

Exhaust brake usage at idle increases the load, cylinder temperature and EGT. It makes the exhaust a bit cleaner to prevent the DPF from filling too quickly. Some applications require running the engine at low or no load and the engine will run too cool, or won’t warm up at all if the ambient air temp is too low. Bad…

My semi-stock Wrangler came with LEDs, and the height is right at most people’s rear view mirror. They are annoyingly bright. I get people flipping the mirror down when i pull behind them. I get people pulling over, or my favorite, putting their high beams on as they drive opposite me on a 2-lane roadway (yes, lets…

Think about it this way: Downshifting for engine braking saves some wear on your brakes. It also increases wear on your clutch, synchronizers, and throwout bearing.
Just decide which of those parts you’d rather replace sooner, and make your decision from there.

He’s most likely abnormally large for the same reason that human beings are occasionally abnormally large — a growth hormone issue, pituitary tumor or some similar disorder.

Gigantism is not unheard of in animals, although in the wild most critters afflicted by such disorders don’t survive long. Knickers, though, is a…

To be fair, that’s an Australian cow. It’s size is greatly exaggerated by the Mercator projection.

Non-sequitur. The fact that any given car marker closes plants at a different rate than any other given car maker tells us nothing about either.

The article is mostly positive, noting what’s broken, but also noting that they are enjoying it. Should people not be aware of what they can and cannot expect from a game? If someone is wanting to lay down their money, should they not have some sense of what it is that they are getting, especially since it’s been over…

What concerns me is the filtering, K&N’s have shown in quite a few test to allow more particulate matter into a motor than the OEM paper element.