Oh fuck.

I have direct experience on this issue. It is Hotel California blasted on repeat at 2:45 AM when your idiot college housemate gets home from playing keyboards in his shitty blues band at a biker/meth bar. Hotel California both sucks and is extremely long, and hearing it for the third time in a row makes manifesting…

Here in California we have green waste bins for pretty much anything that used to be alive. It’s great. Everything can get turned into compost, which reduces landfill use and helps our local farmers, etc.

Uh, what? I’m a 2.5T CX9 owner, and have never heard of any issues on any of the 247 or Revolution forums (and believe me, they’d bitch).

The Coyotes aren’t good, but they’re not wrist-slittingly bad. 300 games is the last 3 and a half seasons, where they’ve been a slightly below .500 team. Oliver Ekman-Larson is a fantastic player who is fun to watch, and you’d probably watch his soul get crushed in real time, but still.

My FIL has a Scion with a recalled Takata airbag, and Scion/Toyota are supposedly “waiting on parts” or whatever and not scheduling recall replacements. I don’t understand how “we recommend not driving the vehicle, but won’t provide a fix” is allowed.

Fact: no baseball team has ever overcome a 5-0 deficit.

Uh, you don’t take highway 17 to get to Half Moon Bay, you take 92. 17 goes to Santa Cruz.

Man, I had a sky blue ‘73 280SE 4.5 I called “Lola” and my friends called “the East German diplomat car.” I loved that thing. It caught fire while I was warming it up. Cruising in that thing was so much fun. Wood interior, and the most comfortable horsehair seats.

Diesel?

Nope. The piston travels the same distance regardless of boost, how the fuel is injected, etc., and that distance determines whether the engine is an interference engine or not. The side effect of making an engine an interference engine is that it will have higher compression for a given cylinder size than a…

The low chance of catastrophic failure vs. an infrequent maintenance interval. Granted, it’d be a lot more annoying with a 60k timing belt interval, but e.g. Volvos generally got 10 years/110k miles between belt changes. $6-800 every 7-10 years isn’t bad.

I think it was Seattle where Tom seemed pissed off most of the time, like he had a constant grinding headache.

Apply more ketchup.

Yes indeed! But not for cartridge style filter housings used by Volvo.

Last time I went to a lube n’ go type place, they told me after they were done that they couldn’t find the right tool to remove my filter, so I should probably get that taken care of. So thanks for telling me, I guess, but that doesn’t actually help me accomplish what I paid them to do....

We have a CX9 with the SkyActive-G 2.5L. I read that Mazda routed the coolant lines away from the valves in this engine to keep them hot, since carbon buildup doesn’t generally occur above 400 degrees.

When you’re building up a set of tools for wrenching, do you subscribe to the “buy quality up front” school or “buy inexpensive and replace anything that breaks with a better one” school?

Hey. Great points here. My first idea is for you to shut the fuck up.

The rebates you’re talking about are much less significant than what the cash you’re giving them could do for you instead.