Very familiar with the Jackson roundabout — that’s where I see most vehicles switching lanes at will within the roundabout (usually it’s the outside lane of the roundabout cutting through the inside lane — even if there’s a car there). The other one I pass through often is intersection of County Q / Hwy 164, where…

Just made a similar comment re: Wisconsin. I don’t know all the specifics, but suffice it to say, in Wisconsin if you’re near or in a roundabout, be very cautious around truck trailers.

I agree, a left turn signal as you enter is really confusing and will probably make others think you are about to head into the roundabout going counter clockwise (wrong direction). I would signal on way out if you need to.

Based on how I see people use them, here’s how they function:

You’re probably talking about rear-install of front-facing seats. Rear facing seats are another ball game, especially when you consider the amount of recline that most car seats ask for (there’s usually a ball/level integrated in the car seat, or a line that is supposed to be parallel to the ground, etc). Who knows,…

Agreed. We had a Plymouth Voyager (Dodge Caravan) that was on its 4th tranny, needing a 5th, when we got rid of it. Did we drive it past 200k by choice? Heck no.

2 years rear-facing. If you can survive that time, keep the GTI. Just keep in mind that 1) if your GTI is a 2-door and 2) you really, really don’t want to use the 4Runner (you’ll question that logic very early), you’ll probably want to sell the GTI after about a week.

...said the guy who has never done it himself.

I know a lot of people with the Odyssey. While it’s a great vehicle, I would never choose a new or almost new model for starting out a family. Same could be said of the Sienna, or any larger vehicle...be prepared for the next 10+ years where your kids treat it like their personal garbage can. If you go this…

You make a good point....those rear-facing seats eat up a ton of room and on a hatch, I doubt there’s enough room (front-to-rear) for the seat + driver. On top of that, once the kids graduate from an infant seat (click-in/click-out) to a rear-facing seat that is fixed in place and you have to actually buckle the kids…

Amen to this one. There are so many insanely enormous strollers out there these days, but they’re not all that way. If you love your GTI, you’ll be completely annoyed with a stroller that can’t fit in back — and the annoyance will be at the stroller, not the GTI.

I have my fair share of childrens and I fully approve of this post.

Stupid, maybe. Awesome? Yes.

My brother did this to his Rabbit, except he used electrical tape — he cut it in thin strips (like 1/8" wide), offset them on his tailights at 45 degree angle, staggered (tape/light/tape/light/tape). My oldest brother still gives him crap about how long he spent doing that. I was young at the time, but recall that…

This reminds me of the ‘67 Dodge truck we had. My dad bought it for $500. It had glass packs on it and an awesome rumble — sounded like a monster truck even though is was really slow. My brother would always rev the engine at stoners walking down the street when we drove around town. To this day (some 25+ years…

Guy I went to high school with did this to his Civic (I think it was a first-gen). He hacked off the windshield too. Cops busted him for driving it around, then later on he got in trouble for trying to ditch it way up river in the mountains (IN the river).

I used Never Fog once when I was in high school (had an ‘80 Rabbit that had horrible defroster). Seems to me that instead of fogging, it made moisture condense. —- Whatever the case, I just remember that after I applied it, a thin layer of ice would form on on the inside of my windshield when it was cold. Never…

All comes down to reasonable care / reasonable cause. Did the employee(s) have a reasonable expectation that the car would stall again? One stall by itself is probably unlikely to meet that threshold. For the business, it all comes down to a) when did they know — or when should they have known — that a perilous…

In my former life I was a claims adjuster, we insured mostly grocery stores, but occasional car washes (I hated those claims....people get a lot more excited over a scratch to their car than they do for, say, a broken arm...)

I’ve lived in Utah, and live in Wisconsin now. Suffice it to say, they are polar extremes when it comes to the public’s view of drinking. There are a lot of people in this state where I live that overestimate their ability to drive after having a few. In my opinion, current DUI laws aren’t being enforced very well.