Victim was foolish and reported it as an accident... it wasn’t, it was ASSAULT. She should have said what actually happened “Someone intentionally rammed my vehicle with theirs in the middle of the road.”

This is the same company that decided to save a few bucks per car by not having engine immobilizers for several years.

Doesn’t Jalopnik have an editor? One was clearly missing when this guy filed his interminable life story.

Any interest I had in this article and sympathy I felt for the author quickly evaporated once he described deliberately exposing hotel staff, rideshare drivers, rental car employees, tow truck drivers, and god knows who else to COVID. #asshole

God, why do you fuckers always come out of the woodwork? “I’ve suffered more than any of you blah blah!” Yes, yes. Very good. Did you also walk uphill, both ways, in the snow, to get to school?

Or, since he knew about the issue well beforehand, maybe disconnect the knock sensor, coat the female connector with a touch of dielectric grease, then reconnect? An ounce of prevention and all that.

This article reminds of of trying to find online recipes and reading someone’s life story before getting to the point.

I hate to be *that guy*, but really, it sounds like you should NOT have been driving.

Florida. Come on, you know it is Florida.

Do people really do that anywhere? If so what state?

Pro Tip: To get a whole tankful of premium, when the owner goes in to pay, drive away in their luxury car.

If I saw this I’d flick a cigarette at them.

The people who really need to hear this are the asshats literally pouring gas onto the ground because they would rather commit environmental crimes than risk having a drop of low-octane swill touch their FiNe LuXuRy AuToMoBiLe

“...certain oil-cooler issues are difficult to detect...”

Most people on the planet do not own their own vehicle.  The class warfare ship sailed long ago.

Is this, or is this not, transportation?

Funny how as-is laws are always met with “you don’t have to buy it” for the suffering customers, but the defense from that auto sales industry is “we have to buy it”. You don’t have to buy that clapped out altima, my friends. If you don’t buy it, you can’t re-sell it. If you do buy it, you still don’t have to sell it…

So this dealer knows he has a piece of crap, where the crappiness has been actively camouflaged, and misleads and lies to them, and family who is clearly in a desperate state, and they are 1000(sic)% at fault? The professional with insider information who chose to lie has zero blame in this?

Do you think good old Ranko will let you take it off of the lot for a PPI?

This is why consumer protection laws exist, and why shitty red states often pass laws that strip away consumer protections. Ugh.