I get what you’re saying about the less technologically adept maybe having trouble with this, but I really wonder when we’re going to consider “finding a prominently placed PDF brochure on a car manufacturer’s website” to be within the price of entry for society. The Internet has existed in one form or another for…

I hope it goes something like what Subaru does with their owner’s manuals. You can go on their website, select a model, and have access to all the glovebox materials as PDF’s going back quite a while. I know it goes back to ‘13, as I’ve looked my car up on there. Pretty sure it goes back at least to ‘05 where I looked…

It’s almost definitely cheaper to pay for hosting some PDF’s and for bandwidth than it is to print paper brochures that have to be shipped, stores, and the process repeated all over any time a change needs to be made. I’d imagine that the data they might be able to collect is just icing on the cake. It probably is…

I haven’t looked in a while, but last I knew, Wii and GameCube games were *expensive.* Unless you end up running across a treasure trove at an estate sale or something, this isn’t a cheap hobby.

Sick burn!

I can’t help but wonder over what term this actually would be good advice. I figure that short term this is always a bad idea. Longer term, maybe not? It probably depends on the services the Suburban would need over that term, and even major services on something with drivetrain parts as common as that probably aren’t…

Definitely. All those jabronis are liars. AC doesn’t break that often anymore, is a drop in the bucket in terms of weight on a modern pickup, and it’s a genuine quality of life item in hot and/or humid climates. When it’s 95° ambient with 97% humidity and you’re stuck in a traffic jam, they want to tell us that…

Something something fool me once something something…

Because most people don’t actually know what Libertarianism is. They just think it’s small-goverment conservativism and don’t actually understand how an unregulated Capitalist economy evolves over time.

You’re talking about handling a disaster. That’s special circumstances and everybody knows that it’s temporary. Everybody’s willing to work a little harder when they’re got a literal disaster in their face.

Never mind that the 1940's America the MAGA people seem to be envisioning — along with the wars and the racism — includes the culture where a person could have a house and a car, while their spouse stayed at home raising the kids and managing the household. That same person was able to put food on the table, save, and…

Commercial airplanes get tons of maintenance and checks. Private cars get washed if they’re lucky.

There’s a diagram right in the article showing only a wire attaching to the steering rack.

Not even. They don’t even see each other anymore. Except maybe for the weirdos who still have Bajas, but they’ve always been the lunatics in the family.

I live in one of the areas of the country where every third car on the road is a Subaru. There’s no “community” anymore. It’s just normals buying the same cars all the other normals buy. The “community” died out about a decade ago.

I’m rather surprised about this comment about the driver’s instruments being obscured by the steering wheel. Every Subaru I’ve experienced since I started messing with them in the early ‘00’s had a tilt steering wheel, telescoping steering wheel, and a height adjustable seat. Most, possible even all twelve, had all…

I agree. I’ve got three Subarus in my household and there’s been a total of twelve in my household and immediate family in the last five years. They haven’t been weird for a while. The last truly odd one was an ‘05 that was claimed by the God of Rot.

It’ll be garbage to drive *and* when it gets neglected like most cars owned by Americans do, it’ll break and leave you completely unable to steer!

I would like to point a couple things out.

Oh, definitely. Now that I’m in “middle age,” I’ve also got a standing policy to drink two pints of water and take two ibuprofen after any meaningful wrenching session to avoid my lower back locking up on me. I’ve grown sick of finishing a project (or phase), washing up, plopping on the couch for a breather, then…