Try the Sylvania Ultra ones. The flood lights I have from them truly go down to about the 10% they list. I’d guess around 20% or below, it’s tricky with a standard dimmer switch to get it dimmer and keep it on, but it can be done. Color output is nice, too - right about that 2700 K range (as opposed to FEIT’s 2700K…

SO MUCH THIS.

I’ve got a Fusion that I drive. I get 2 mpg more than the city rating, and about 4 over the hwy rating. I simply don’t gun it constantly... and amazingly enough, the people in the lane next to me who do? Well, I’m right there with them 5 miles down that city road. It isn’t helping them one bit - just…

It’s amazing to me how expectations have changed over the years.

When I was a kid, we had a Camry as the family (4) vehicle. We made do. Today we use a Mazda6 that is MUCH bigger than that Camry ever was (and yet more efficient and safer). Still works for us, but sometimes I see where other people come from. Car seats,…

I’m told that St. Louis isn’t hot or humid.

Yeah - you go sit out in the outfield of Busch Stadium in August and tell me it ain’t hot or humid as hell there.

Was it actually repaired or just bandaged?

Many manufacturers are replacing the inflators but with other ammonium nitrate powered ones that are subject to the same defect. It resets the clock on the thing’s risk of blowing up like a bomb, but doesn’t eliminate the defect. It’s meant as a patch until a permanent…

So the official word from Ford Corporate - there still is no redesigned part in place to fix this problem, and they don’t have an estimated date to get them, either (last year I was told Dec. of 2017 by the dealer, now Ford says no date is estimated).

For SOME vehicles, in SOME locations, they will swap out the…

“hopefully recycled”? GMAFB.

Do you simply “hope” lead acid batteries in cars are recycled? Because virtually every single one is. And their scrap value is a fraction of that of a NiMH or LiIon battery. If you don’t see that recycling rates for hybrid and electric vehicle batteries will be damn near 100%, you’re…

No, but apparently you are. The mining and production methods are MUCH cleaner than these old stories make them out to be (ie, the Ni mine in Canada everyone complains about emitted its worst pollution 60 years ago and has since cut its pollution to the tiniest fraction of what it was now.) And these batteries are…

Maybe we should all start screaming about toxic lead acid batteries in cars. I mean, the mining and smelting methods to get that lead used to be absolutely horrid. We’ll just ignore that things have improved, or that lead acid batteries are so heavily recycled that they actually are the source for nearly all lead used…

Good grief, that was a sad display, wasn’t it?

And how do you figure that? Because of overblown hype about battery production?

So I’ve seen those Costco ones and I’m not a fan - they don’t dim enough before going out. That said, the Sylvania ones I really like are cheaper than dimmable CFLs, have a nicer temp to the light, and are actually are only a hair more expensive than traditional incandescent when on sale.

I was no fan of Bush, but I do…

How?

Have a manufacturer that supplies an enormous percentage of the world’s airbags fudge up their designs royally for over a decade, that’s how. There wasn’t enough spare production capacity worldwide to fix this quickly.

Do you mind shipping one to a Cincinnati area dealer then, if you have so many?

Same freaking thing here. Ford has projected availability of parts as this December - about 18 months after the recall on my car. Fortunately, it only affects the passenger side airbag for me, so I can still use the car to commute.

And another FU to Honda, for reportedly knowing about this problem for years before…

Neutral:

Absolutely, even if it has been indirect. I despise wasting money. As such, I’m always looking to maximize efficiency, and that means buying a vehicle that suits my actual needs (ie, a family sedan, not an Excursion or Crew Cab that will be empty 99% of the time). And that also means that mpg is important -…

Plenty (considering I’m a Mech. Engineer with plenty of experience in failure and fatigue - in other words, its MY JOB). Generally, though, its companies that search for me that take me up on them. Companies I’ve bought products from that I mention above generally are loaded with hubris and a false belief that no one…

Canada and California could be the real limiting factors here. The US auto market has proven itself big enough to warrant domestic variants of designs and also to have an overweighting towards large engines vs. other markets - for example, you’ll find the Focus in europe running an engine lineup similar to the US, but…

As of 2015, per EPA data, it looks like we had already achieved 38% of the cuts we had promised by 2025. So half way there in terms of time (from the 2005 baseline, not the implementation date), and almost 40% there in terms of cuts. With coal power plants phasing out in favor of much cleaner renewables and natural…

Yeah - 400 lbs would be a very small moose. Those things are massive, and a whole nother level of hurt if you hit one of them. :)