For the record, I accidentally wrote “Oil Fitler” in my initial draft, and I’m not sure why I changed it given how badly this filter wants to ruin lives.

That, my friends, is how you quickly and accurately identify a fascist.

If this website is a disgrace, be a fucking adult and stop reading it. Good lord you’re pathetic.

The solution is to brick these damn things. 

This is a technology so rife with abuse it should never be allowed. It is only going to get worse. Just wait till a serial killer uses this.

VW having problems with electronics and software? Quelle surprise!

Disagree strongly, the “R” word in this case used in a derogatory sense is not acceptable. As a father of a beautiful girl who has Down Syndrome it breaks my heart to read comments like this. Imagine if someone said that idea is so “Abby”. I can’t change your comment, but maybe in the future you can think about how…

The grille seems to have survived relatively intact. 

Jiffy Lube once drained the gear lube out of my transmission and then forgot to put fresh gear lube in.

Didn’t he write Dracula ?

“The old standby Honda Ridgeline is newly updated.”

Hopefully it comes back with a hybrid AWD.

I don’t know if that says more about the state of the brake fluid the state of your soul!

At least the Lincoln Colonoscopy helped remind it’s target demographic to get their yearly checkup.

Six years. Also in retrospect my mom may have paid the repair out of pocket so they weren’t involved anyway. It’s been... over twelve years since then.

this van fucks

Exactly. I imagine early car salesmen had to field equally tangential questions when getting people to switch from horses.

I once bought a brand new Jeep Patriot.

I’m at 18. And trending up.

Here’s the gesture I use to tell auto makers to stop putting controls for the entire vehicle behind failure prone touch/gesture controllers: