I’m a pro mechanic. We do a pretty in-depth courtesy inspection on every car than comes (business owner pays me, not the customer), and I’ll tell you what; our customers know when there are safety issues, that isn’t the problem. The problem is that you can’t make them do anything about it. 6 months from now they come…

Pro mechanic, so I see shit good honest hardworking people shouldn’t see, and I’m 100% with you. I don’t need the money, I need the peace of mind.

Michigander here.  If only.

I’m a pro mechanic, and I’m in DESPERATE want of safety inspections. I don’t care if I fix their shit, or that guy fixes their shit, or if THEY fix their OWN shit. I’ve got enough money, and I don’t need the extra work. But I see these rolling death missiles either in my bay or busted on the road day in and day out, an…

All Center brake lamps are LED now, and controlled by a Body Control Module, which is network connected, so why don’t they flash when the ABS is active? If the 3rd brake lamp flashed only when ABS is active, it would both get the attention of following motorists, and serve to say, “heads up, shit up here is slick,…

As a mechanic, I love the caliper mounted EPBs, because I hate turning back the pistons in rear calipers (cars with the e-brake IN the caliper). On a newer Fusion, for example, I just connect the scantool and put the rear calipers in service mode and the EPB reverses the pistons all the way back FOR ME. And other cars…

Fix yourself. Wanting to go fast in a classic beetle means YOU are what’s most broken. There is no shortage of therapists both qualified and otherwise, in the greater New York area who would be mildly agreeable to the idea of fixing you.  Stay strong.

Agreed.  I simply wanted to highlight the difference.

That formula isn’t universal, it changes greatly depending on your layout. a bigger rear bar on a FWD/AWD will do precisely as you specify, but adding rear bar only to a RWD car will have the opposite effect and push you into understeer.  #themoreyouknow

I though GM high beams NEVER shut off.  I can’t remember that last time I saw a Silverado with it’s low beams on.  I thought they were just for DOT compliance.

As a fellow Michigander, I’d like to specify “FOUR snow tires”. Soft ones like Blizzak or almost anything made by Nokian. Lots of “snow tires” are far too hard to really be very good.

Having too much front bar on a RWD car and too little or NO rear bar will lead you into a greater propensity to OVERsteer. The reverse is true of FWD cars, which are typically biased to understeer. Adding rear bar without changing the front, tends to neutralize a FWD car’s handling (if you don’t go crazy with the size…

Sway bars.

If you can’t afford to buy a new BMW, you can’t afford to own an old BMW.

Let’s not overlook the fact that if traffic moves through an area at a higher speed, then in a set period of time MORE traffic passes. Traffic volume increases by a percentage, and traffic incidents have been shown to not increase at similar rate. I live in Michigan, our freeways have been 70 for 2 decades now, and…

100% factually inaccurate op-ed pieces, at that.

Congratulations to Elon Musk for being the first human in the history of humans to successfully get a troll out from under his bridge.

I’ll pay $51.36, not a penny more. This is a business, I need to make money from scrapping cars.

Now if we could only teach these window-lickers to zipper merge...