I’m a big fan of “lifting” with my legs to loosen the lugnut with a breaker bar (as opposed to “pushing down” to break it loose) for that reason - if you push down, you have less control, whereas lifting with your legs, you can easily and gradually increase the force you apply.
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If you are on the side of the road with a flat, sometimes all you have is that short lug wrench. I would say that you should have an impact wrench, or at least a good breaker bar.
- A headlamp is extremely handy
#6 if using penetrating oil let it sit for a little bit. This could help stop broken rusted bolts
“I hate fun and screw everyone who isn’t me.”
Apparently about a ~3% difference. Minimal yes, but not zero.
wheel design by Max Headroom
Can’t un-see “jacked up vagina”. Thanks for that.
These Chevy Equinox wheels get me every time.
Any wheel where the number of spokes is not evenly divisible by the number of visible lugs.
This awful CRV wheel. Ugh.
Manual transmissions are overrated for daily driving.
Station wagons are better than SUV’s.
+1 for the Maverick, and the rebirth of “small trucks” in general. We have a ‘99 Tacoma that can do everything you need a vehicle to do. It does nothing great, “good enough” as you said, but it does everything in a way that no other vehicle does.
This begs the question though: if you do have to pay just as much attention to the road with these semi-automated systems as you would driving a regular car, then what’s the point of it? If it’s just as easy/hard (depending on your perspective) to drive a car without these assists, why spend the extra money on them?…
I got sick of the eternally sagging headliner in my dad’s Dodge W-250 and took a stapler to it. Worked better than I’d expected, to be honest.
I see that you have also driven in Florida.
Another vote for chicken tax. It really stifled American ingenuity on small trucks.
While civil asset forfeiture isn’t specifically automotive, it so often involves cars I think it should count here.