My Renault R5 was great, so small you saved money and the big fabric sunroof allowed you to air it out quickly

I want to believe the cops were completely in the wrong but perhaps this guy was trolling for an arrest, 18mph ? maybe just a crappy driver

I would assume this increase ties in with the availability of cheap hacking tools to change the mileage

I live in Western Canada and even if the plow has gone across the road you often have accumulations of snow and have no option but to drive on it. This however seems a complicated and expensive solution.

1998 or so driving from eastern Quebec to Miama got pulled over north of Savannah GA, I admit I was probably going 10 over but the cop has a huge attitude and starts having a fit when he sees my drivers licence is only in French. Demands passports from everybody in the car, passenger is actually a lawyer from Angola…

Cop

Im thinking an impact on the front wheel would tear off the control arm mounts, on most cars you can replace the shock tower as it is glued and riveted in place, this thing it would be the whole front casting

So it was an act of God

Which is only slightly better than fake parts in some cases, my dad worked in aviation safety and said that parts from wrecks would come on the market with some weird paperwork that they knew was fake but hard to prove, an airliner in Columbia crashed and parts were for sale within a week even on Ebay

I suspect that they service centres do not do any motor repair so they just swap in another one

He could be selling time expired original parts or ones repaired by non approved shops, aircraft parts have literally a raft of paperwork to identify them for safety reasons, you can have a heater with and without paperwork and they can be identical but you cannot install the non papered one in a plane.

Wonder if the parts were fake or just the paperwork ? either is bad the former is worse

Some of the early Lear Jets had some circuit breakers that you could shut off to get more speed  called the ‘go faster’ switch. My dad was an aviation accident investigator and was looking at the wreckage of one and first thing they checked was the breaker position if they existed

My concern is the gigacastings, if you have any damage to them it would write off the vehicle

Today Edmonton got about 1cm of snow, saw a Wrangler going through an intersection and it spun out, there is barely any ice but he had big ass off road tires that are probably hard as a rock

I’m guessing Alfa Romeo was just outside this list

Years ago in BC if your insurance lapsed for a period they would send the cops to seize your plates got woken up early one Sunday in Penticton staying at a girlfriends, turns out her husband hadn’t paid the insurance bills, and she neglected to let me know she was married

Bring back the Astro !! ruh roh

Hang on a minute, lads; I’ve got a great idea