Yeah, the depreciation is pretty crazy, probably because of all the taxes/insurance/MOT issues. Like on Wheeler Dealers I’ve seen them buy cars for absurd prices, even when you convert to dollars.

It’s not the MOT that sends cars to their deaths prematurely. If cars are unsafe or polluting too much (due to broken parts) they should be taken off the road and fixed/scrapped. It’s the absurd depreciation and equally absurd insurance premiums in the UK that kill cars before their time. Imho.

I’m glad I am not the only one who has this opinion. I owned one for about 2 weeks before it puked its guts out on the highways (rod).

My experience is 50/50. One was so completely plagued with valvetrain noise death rattle and electrical gremlins (the annoyingly intermittent variety) that I pulled it out and started swapping an older Mercedes diesel in. Of course, this is after replacing every sensor and electrical component on the vehicle. All…

Now if that Jeep was in Arizona it could have kept driving forever. No inspections of any kind, as long as it can pass the joke of an emissions test here it could keep rolling forever. Heck, some parts of Arizona don’t even have emissions testing. Don’t get me wrong, I do see the point of MOT, but it does prematurely…

As I write this I’ve had my Cherokee for some 9 years, and I’ve rolled it once and really put it through the ringer. (was my first car) Tomorrow I’ll be replacing the entire cooling system (for ~$200 mind you) for the car and plan to drive it until it explodes. I don’t think I could have asked for a better vehicle…

I’m still trying to figure out where the 4.0L I6 got its reputation for reliability. The two I had experience with as a kid were the least reliable lumps I’ve ever experienced including one in a ZJ that threw a rod at 60,000 miles. They are ubiquitous and cheap/easy to repair, but reliable isn’t a word I’d use for…

Again yes I realize that after I couldn’t edit the post

yes, I realize that after I couldn’t edit. If would have read the stream you too would have know that I already apologized

So you need to show up to the funeral in a rubber suit?

Then you need to live in the snobby ass part of the town.

If you’re so uptight about what your neighbors do, legally, on their own property, I kindly suggest you move to a neighborhood with an HOA.

The country is at odds because asshats like you feel the need to rag on what other people do with their property.

I mean clearly the mailbox thing is supposed to be a trailer shaped middle finger, but it’s one I wholly endorse. The way I look at it is this: the moment they can tell him he can’t do that, which on the surface of it is pretty innocuous, what’s the next thing they tell someone they can’t do? Park their lifted truck…

It’s his trailer. At his house. Both of which he either pays to own or use. Why should he have to pay to store it some place else, when it’s probably orders of magnitude easier and cheaper to do so at his house? Just because his WASP-y neighbors get the vapors from looking at it? Get outta here.

If these neighbors were smart, they’d take these pics and put them on io9.

It’s a clean, white trailer. What the fuck are people so upset about? They should be so lucky that he doesn’t paint a giant mural of that Trump racing truck on the side of it now. Would the prefer some crusty old Winnebago instead? The audacity that people think they can tell someone else what to do with their own…

And yet somehow they’re infinitely better than your reading and comprehension skills.

A friend of mine recently shared his will with me. It stipulates, that each attendee of his funeral will be given a Tazer. A battle royale is to ensue with the last person standing to receive the balance of his savings and investments.