Not adultery, because his brother was dead at that point, but getting your sister-in-law pregnant and bigamy, sure.

Sounds like a “too close to call.”

I’m sorry, if throwing an EcoBoost in a malaise-era Chevy is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

Pretty sure that’s a lambo, bro

As someone who takes a lot of car services, Toyota Avalon is the #2 choice. Lincoln MKT really is #1, if I have the choice. Weirdly, I have not seen any liveried Chrysler 300s in New York, so it’s possible that Doug is right that they’re better than Avalons, as well.

That’s not really accurate. The Corvette is amazing, but so is basically the entire Cadillac line-up. Their various trucks are healthy, if trailing the F-series. There are some problems with their line-up, but I’d say the company is generally heading in the right direction. Their middle- and down-market cars,…

Anecdotally, you see a lot of people going bankrupt with car loans that are way above their financial capacity. There may be something of a bubble in car prices driven by the availability of credit and the appetite of the market for CDOs backed by car loans.

why not some kind of turbo 4-banger or something else small and light? It would probably fit the chassis better, still provide more power than the stock engine, and add lightness.

I saw one of these on the road for the first time ever a couple of months ago. I honestly couldn’t believe it was a real truck, and made my fiance google whether Lincoln had, in fact, made a truck.

I was told to stop doing it because of battery damage, but also learned red-red/black-black. Never bothered to verify either way, though. Can report that it works either way.

How would you ever know?

It’s not the chain itself, it’s the guides. BMW made the guides out of plastic, and all kinds of things cause them to get brittle and shatter. Use the wrong oil, don’t change the oil often enough, allow the tensioner to wear out so that there’s a rattle in the chain for the first fifteen seconds or so after you start…

Seriously? Can you post a tutorial? Also, where did you get guides for $100?

Having recently researched a similar car, a lot of it is going to come down to maintenance history. A lot of things should already have gone wrong and been replaced. This thing should be on its third timing chain tensioner (every 60,000 miles), has a strong chance of already having its timing chain guides replaced…

How in god’s name do you intend to do all that for $1,000? The timing chain guides alone are a few hundred.

Whenever I see the Tour de France on TV I always think the same thing. Wow, those guys are in terrific shape—I wonder what sport they’re all training together for?

Thanks, I did. The main thing bugging me was that I had heard terrible things about the timing chain guides, but I got comfortable with the service history and with the reliability of well-maintained guides.

The velcro shoes we give to kids who can’t master bunny ears also use NASA technology. Just sayin’, lots of NASA technology out there.

Hijacking this thread a little—what are people’s thoughts on E39 540i Tourings? There’s one that I’m thinking of getting that’s selling in the $5,500 range, but it’s got about 140,000 miles on it. Bluebook says I’d be overpaying by $800, but I don’t think the seller will come down very much, and at 120,000 miles the…