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Ballaban, you have been on point all week.

They ended the $2000 Customer Loyalty bonus on Nov 2 and replaced it with a $1500 bonus through the end of the year. This is a marginal increase from what you would have received in October without a fancy new bribery program.

45 minutes late to the party... hope I still make the cut!

“These are not the diesels you are looking for.”

I completely agree. This one is at least confirmed by Mazda, so the rotary shall return to life!

Yeah it was just a rumor started by some Aussies. It still gets one’s hopes ups thoughs.

Remember when the Mazdaspeed3 was supposed to debut at Frankfurt?

Frank’s is usually too garlicky to use in wing sauce recipes. Tabasco is a good base sauce when you’re adding your own flavors. As a standalone hot sauce, it’s hard to beat Frank’s on many things... especially fried chicken.

Same here. When people think hot wing sauce is just Frank’s and butter I laugh and blend up Tabasco sauce, thai chiles, habanero peppers and some other special ingredients that make your scalp sweat buckets and your poop melt porcelain.

I went with “Silicon Valley” with the intent of excluding Microsoft from the list, since they are in Redmond as you mentioned. I’ve heard that Sync 3 is better, but I haven’t gotten my hands on it yet.

It’s similar in my Jetta. There’s no option under the Audio or General Settings. I think the BT Audio pairs when you pair it under the Phone settings, but it’s been a long time so I don’t remember exactly. The Multi-Function Display in the cluster seems like the obvious place, but you can only use it to connect to a

*Gets in Nissan Altima rental car*
*Discovers there is no physical menu option to pair phone*
*Starts driving*
*Uses voice commands to pair phone to bluetooth, because hands-free*
*Four menus deep into voice activation and sitting a a long red light, Altima informs me I must be stopped (parked) to pair my phone*
*Begins

Replacing the shocks on my 2002 4Runner (from the Northeast/Virginia). Every bolt was so hopelessly corroded, I had to Dremel/Sawzall the ones I could reach. It also involves puncturing the metal exterior of the shock with a screwdriver to keep it from spinning around. Easy job turned into a full weekend.

“There’s more than one way to boil a taco, I always say.”

If you own a black car it says you must love the look of swirl glistening in the sun cause there is nobody short of Larry Kosilla up for maintaining that nightmare (Full disclosure: I’m on my first black car and now it’s out of my system). Pearl whites hide scratches beautifully.

Thanks for the shout out!

This is actually the 2014 model. The 2015 has an extra tanker on the back for AdBlue storage.

When you play the [automotive] game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

Who wore it better: Bangle or Kardashian?