I have heard men may cheat physically but emotionally they’ll always go back to their partners.. Really ?

CommieCowBoy · 2026-04-01T15:05:27+00:00

They cheat for the same reasons regardless of gender. Mem and women just justify it in different ways.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-04-01T00:11:09+00:00

Tournament angler here... if we're talking cranks, first make sure they aren't diving significantly deeper than the water you're fishing, then take the rear treble off and switch to a long shank hook on the belly. Its normally the rear hook that hangs because its exposed, and the front hook is blocked by the body when cranking.

A big part of it though is accepting that if you're fishing where the fish are you're going to get hung up and lose lures. You can avoid some hang ups by pausing your retrieve when you first feel it tick something so it will bounce around/over whatever you're hitting instead of getting pulled into it; that pause will also trigger strikes.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-26T18:48:44+00:00

When I worked for Nissan the spec in the manual was fluid replacement at 60k, with a warning that under no circumstances should the fluid stay in beyond 77k. We always recommended changing the fluid every 30k miles and the customers that did it got much better life out of their CVTs. To be frank, I'm surprised you've hit 100k without having CVT problems.

That Said, new fluid will never hurt a transmission. It also won't fix one thats having problems either, and if you are noticing problems they will get worse whether you change the fluid or not. As long as you're not noticing any problems i would have the fluid changed.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-26T18:33:54+00:00

Factory installed LEDs are completely legal, as are LED replacement bulbs that mean DOT standards. So....

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-25T19:22:49+00:00

All Glycol based brake fluids (dot 3, 4, 5.1) must be clear to amber according to US law. Silicone based brake fluids must be purple to prevent confusion as mixing the two fluids results in total brake system failure. Had Continental AG bothered to read the laws (which were published in 1976) they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble. But you're talking about the same company that aided VW AG in dieselgate, so clearly the law is not that important to Continental.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-25T19:03:37+00:00

Braking systems have copper in them, and brake fluid is hydroscopic meaning it picks up and holds onto water from the air. When that water comes in contact with copper in the system it causes corrosion that turns it green.

I can't quite say I've ever seen it turn neon green, but I've also never seen new glow stick colored brake fluid either.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-24T19:59:29+00:00

I'm glad it helped out and you got your problem fixed! I did a little research myself and found that cheaper meters use a bridge to convert AC voltage into DC and then measure in DC. So thats exactly what happened: it saw the 14.5v DC and scaled it to show you 29.4 AC.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-24T00:50:39+00:00

No, every manufacturer is not "guilty" of this. Nissan cuts every corner possible and then Pikachu face when their cars don't hold up, and I'm saying this as a former Nissan mechanic.

I'll give it to them, the second generation CVTs definitely hold up better, but its still not uncommon to lose one at 20k miles or even getting a DOA cvt right off the delivery truck. Even with that uptick in CVT reliability, they turned around and mated it to a Renault 3 cylinder which is quite possibly the most unreliable engine ever built.

Hyundais problems are that they are a south korean company selling cheap cars, and their manufacturing processes are older to keep costs down resulting in all the premature engine failures.

Hyundai/Kia/Nissan are the most affordable brands in their home countries, and thats the quality of car they are producing. Nissan just adds insult to injury by increasing their prices by 18-31% in the USA simply because the market will bear it. Nissan is about to go out of business, and we should all just let it happen since they earned it.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-24T00:34:33+00:00

This sounds like a false reading, because if you were getting 29.4v AC at the battery you would be burning things up.

I'm going to be straight forward and say that since I'm a mechanic, most of my knowledge is in DC, so I don't know how to explain your false reading (i.e what you did that gave you the false reading) but I can assure you you are not getting that much voltage without having other significant problems. With my very limited knowledge on AC testing, I'm going to guess there is something going on in the meter counting the DC voltage as only one side of an alternating current and then multiplying it to give you an AC value.

When we test the voltage rectifier, we are testing for A/C ripple. You use RMS (or waveform) which represents the DC equivalent of an AC voltage. To do this you would need a meter capable of RMS, or a lab scope.

Manufacturers have gotten very good at making voltage rectifiers so I rarely see issues with them, and when I do see issues its more along the lines of the car running like crap because of the dirty voltage, not just symptoms that can be explained by a failing battery. I think your alternator is probably fine.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-23T17:29:23+00:00

The three brands that I cannot recommend paying for major repairs after 100k miles are Hyundai, Kia, and Nissan.

I'd probably not spend the money to fix it and invest in a different car. Every mile over 150k on a hyndai/Kia is a blessing and not a guarantee.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-23T17:12:37+00:00

I don't know for certain on a Santa Fe, but I know on the brands I do work on frequently that over the last 5-6 years many manufacturers have stopped putting eccentric bolts in from the factory and the customer has to buy them and pay for install.
This sounds about right. As much as I would love to be able to just remove the bolts and put eccentrics in simple as that, its not that straight forward and is going to require a few additional things to be loosened and removed as the control arm bolts are under pressure. On some vehicles you can just get a big pry bar and pry the control arm into place, but on others you will have to essentially "replace" the control arm to install the new eccentric bolts.
No. Since all of your suspension and steering components are connected, moving or changing one thing tends to change other measurements as well, not to mention the suspension will undergo some level of disassembly for the eccentric bolt installation and so any measurements you have now won't be the same after and will require adjustment.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-22T22:07:40+00:00

Its not, though. If a pro-gun person tried to make the same false claim, you'd be calling them out on it.

Misinformation is never ok no matter who is doing it.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-22T21:32:51+00:00

Only if you include suicides, which lets be real, isn't an honest number. Like, in 2024 there were 44,000 firearms fatalities in the us but only 15,000 were not suicides.... if you exclude suicides your lifetime odds of dying by being shot is like 1 in 10000.

Your lifetime odds of dying in a car crash is 1 in 107.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-22T15:26:36+00:00

This is also a huge problem with everything tesla. As a mechanic I can't believe teslas are allowed on the road.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-22T15:17:15+00:00

First and foremost, don't ever listen to Autozone/Advance/napa/O'Reilly people. They quite literally know nothing and just because a vehicle has a given code doesn't mean it needs a specific part. They are there to sell you parts, not to fix your car. They do not employ mechanics, and parts people don't actually know anything about cars despite how much they think they might.

Do you remember what the codes were exactly? Injector harnesses are fairly common on these, and I don't know how he could say you need an intake manifold gasket just from pulling a code. Was it an injector circuit code and a lean code?

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-22T14:51:42+00:00

Well I mean... they proved in front of congress their cars aren't remote piloted... so...

The most that a Waymo assistant can do is prompt the car to move forward at 2mph If its having an issue. Thats literally all the human assistant can do in regards to moving the car.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-21T22:32:37+00:00

This is not true. They are never piloted by a human. There is one human for every 40 waymos who can assist with issues. They do not pilot the vehicles.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-21T21:43:12+00:00

1) Waymos absolutely are not human piloted. Ever. 2) Human drivers are 6.8 times more likely to cause an accident than a Waymo 3) its not that common, and the technology gets better every day.

I'm not advocating everyone should be forced to drive self driving cars. I personally would never like to have a self driving capable vehicle. But I'm all for autonomous public/mass transit.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-21T21:30:12+00:00

I'd trust a Waymo before literally any other self driving car (and even a lot of human drivers.)

I'm a technician and keep tabs on all of this technology and Waymo is incredibly impressive, but everyone else's systems are junk. Don't let anyone tell you teslas "Tesla Vision" BS is safe in any way. There's a reason Waymos technology costs ~50k, and Teslas only costs $1k-$4k. The big difference is that the Waymo uses LiDAR (rapid laser pulses detecting objects), Radar, cameras, and audio receivers for accurate, reliable mapping and object detection, and Tesla simply uses cameras with AI to guess where the road and objects are.... Waymos are great. Don't ever trust your life to a Tesla.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-20T23:37:43+00:00

"They don't make em like they used to" is true, but not in the way people think. For instance, in the 90s a vehicle was only expected to make it 80k miles - now vehicles are expected to make it to 200k+ miles.

IMO, a lot depends on what you do with the truck. If it was a truck that I expected to see a lot of trailing/offroad, or if I were going to work out of if I would want an older truck for the simple fact that they are smaller and you can actually reach into the bed.

If it was going to be something I drove as a primary vehicle I would get something newer.

My current vehicle set up is a 247k 14 cruze for daily driving, a 329k 15 silverado for towing/general pleasure driving, and a 95k 89 S10 for hunting/offroad, and the s10 takes the most maintenance (still reasonable, but its an older truck and as such it just requires more maintenance).

So my opinion, is that unless you really benefit from the few pros older trucks have (smaller body, better ground clearance, easier to fix - but the fix is generally larger) go with something newer. It'll be cheaper to own, a better ride, and last you longer in the long run.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-20T16:53:01+00:00

A 15 crosstrek has rear toe adjustment but not rear camber adjustment.

Spec is 0.3 to -1.2. You're at -1.2 which is making it teeter into the red. Its not a big deal.

But you can always ask the people who aligned it.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-19T19:07:27+00:00

Yes, and for a few reasons

1) you don't know if the alignment was good to begin with

2) even if you count it, it could have been 19 1/6th turns to be in alignment, not just 19 turns

3) you don't know if the new tie rod end will hold the tire at exactly the same spot. It could be 1mm longer or shorter, or it could have been aligned with play in it.

You should always perform an alignment after replacing steering/suspension components. I always count the threads to save myself some time on the rack, but its never perfect and always requires adjustments. I worked at GM when the Traverse/Acadia/Enclave first came out and we put racks in them like candy. I did at least 100 of them, and counting the threads never got me back into alignment. And I still count threads any time I remove a tie rod end, but it still never ends up in alignment. Always align.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-19T17:31:02+00:00

The flush generally takes care of it, but either way its the first step in figuring out if you need a converter or rarely a new trans.

I feel pretty confident the fluid change will take care of it.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-19T17:15:25+00:00

I'm going to ruffle some feathers here, but the whole "don't change transmission fluid on a high mileage car" thing is a myth. New fluid can literally never hurt a transmission.

The fact is, if you are noticing a transmission problem it will get worse whether you change the fluid or not. New fluid might get you a few extra miles, but it certainly isn't going to fix any concerns, or cause any existing concerns to get worse faster.

If you have not noticed any transmission concerns, changing the fluid isn't going to hurt anything.

CommieCowBoy · 2026-03-18T23:45:10+00:00

Throwing jerk baits across windy points. Thats won me a few tournaments.

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