But you can always do this to it:

Neutral:

Because no one is aware that Honda knew about the defect for years. The press simply isn’t doing a good job telling them.

Meh, the parts are more expensive, but it has been designed so that parts are, for the most part, easier to replace. The total cost differential is pretty minor unless you’re a shady website fabricating a story (ahem, Edmunds, ahem)...

Here’s the thing people need to remember: the buckling load a column/beam can withstand is proportional to its length squared. In addition, the supercrew is expected to have heavier loads, so the member will need to withstand a greater loading in impact situations. So you have two things working against the SuperCrew…

Honestly, bondo isn’t hard at all.

It’s the subsequent paint job and blending it in that takes real skill.

1st: Don’t look now, but the Canadian dollar has lost a lot of strength over the past year. We’re back to mid 2000s rates of 1.20-1.25 to 1...

The work looks like it was well-done (at least visually), the car looks like it is in fantastic shape for its age, and these cars, while far from sporty, where superbly comfortable drivers.....

But $19k CDN?

CP.

I’d jump all over that lease deal, too, if I could get it. Heck, an average car lasts about 16 years. Buy one for $20k and that’s $1,250 per year or $104 per month. That doesn’t count any repairs that you’ll surely have over 16 years... and already you’re over what that lease deal cost. Some companies just have sweet…

At the same time, Ford doesn’t guarantee anything about capacity degradation (neither does Tesla, FWIW, though Nissan does). So in that regard keeping the cycles low could be important for a used one - because otherwise you could pay for one with a battery that “works” but doesn’t have any significant range.

30k? That’s nothing! (actually its pretty normal for an ex-rental). I had a boss once who got a company lease car every year. There were no mileage limits on the lease, just a ridiculously low monthly payment. He routinely put 50-55k per year on those leases. That was the late 90s, so instead of buying a car for $19k…

Yeah, that’s what I meant - a ton of highway miles would mean that the battery would not be going through large charge/discharge cycles and would likely be in better shape than a more modest number of miles where the battery had been cycled a ton...

The miles bug me a bit - but at the same time, by records the car was only 28 months old when returned off its lease. With 79k miles over 28 months, I’d wager the first owners operated it more like a conventional hybrid than a plugin - that many miles suggests a lot of highway driving, not charge,short drive, charge,…

Last car I bought (Mazda6 purchased through my insurance’ co’s relationship with truecar), base new was cheaper than base CPO under the dealer’s “no haggle” price.

That’s right - new with 36 miles on the odometer was cheaper than 1 year old CPO with 30,000 on the odometer.

I thought you surely must be joking on the price.

Nope... Local Ford dealer has a 2013 C-Max Energi with 79,381 miles and leather seats listed for $11,573, and a second with a few thousand less miles for a few hundred more. If I could find a mechanic to truly check the vehicle out and test the battery capacity, I’d be…

You want a great car with looks that kill you? Try the Transit Connect Wagon. At best its tolerable, in some colors it is just hideous. But try to find *anything* with the features, space, and price point to compare.....

yeah, but if you had to get off on lower Wacker..... man, that might be too much... I value my life too much to be caught walking down there. :P

All depends on what is causing the PT Cruiser to be a “money pit”.

If you’re not having major engine or transmission problems, the best thing you might do is go to Harbor Freight and invest in some basic hand tools. Then go to your public library and see if they offer repair and diagnostic guides for free (mine does…

Except when I do that hear, all I get are ancient hondas with high mileage or ones where the automatic transmissions are disasters, meaning you’d be buying another money pit.

Wait - they want me to pay $4.99 for the .stl?

Oh, heck no. I’m not giving you that much so I can print your advertising for you.

GE got the right idea when they put their jet engine model online for free.

Here’s all you need to know:

No matter how good or bad things are going, management will always say they can’t afford what they currently pay and they want big cuts. The union will always say that management can afford the moon and the stars. Then they’ll let their egos get the better of them and things will get ugly,…