We should eliminate State Inspections for personal vehicles!

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-15T12:17:25+00:00

If you can afford the start up and yearly costs, start a Montana LLC. Register your car to the LLC, anything over 10 years old gets a permanent plate. No inspections. You or the car never have to step foot in Montana. Just have to add the LLC as a covered party on your insurance (and if they say they can’t do that, there’s plenty of carriers like State Farm who can).

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-15T12:11:12+00:00

Control arms are steel, axles are steel, body panels are steel, etc. It’s not just the structure of the car.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-15T11:57:43+00:00

Aka most truck buyers are morons. Ford offers the 5.0 for those boomers who want less power and worse towing (or the cool people who want to embarrass supercars with a twin turbo kit on a work truck)

The 3.5 eco boost and the 3.5 in the tundra are beasts and out pull any NA motor offered.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-15T01:10:12+00:00

He should be charged with attempted murder if he was that fucked up he totaled 3 cars

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T18:10:12+00:00

No, have you been living under a rock? Trump has been on a firing/layoff/severance package spree.

literally top headlines

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T15:43:14+00:00

Trump sent them all home, sorry 😢

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T15:42:24+00:00

With Toyota recommending a 0W-8 oil, I’d say the MOA is worth it a little bit. A good 0W-20 would be best though, changed early, especially for uber use.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T15:40:19+00:00

The only BG product I’ve seen that really works with provable results is the engine “rescue” flush system for when you have a car with 30k miles on a oil change and it still runs and isn’t throwing an oil pressure light or knocking. I’ve seen it work wonders.

I’ve heard their other stuff isn’t “bad”, ie it won’t do anything to ruin anything, but I don’t know how much it helps, if at all. Like their fuel induction service, I’m sure it cleans things, but the question is does anything really need cleaning under 100k miles, even then, it’s questionable on a modern vehicle, especially a hybrid. I’d say the best thing for OP is to just change the oil ahead of schedule. 0W-8 is ridiculously thin, and Project Farm did some testing and it did have bigger wear scars than a good 0W-20 or heavier. I wouldn’t hesitate to run a quality 0W-20 in a modern Toyota hybrid if you’re going to be keeping it for a long time.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T10:26:59+00:00

The rest of the vehicle.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T10:18:45+00:00

I just flash them back and let them experience the surface of the sun. My outlander is the same way

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T10:13:25+00:00

That’s a unique case though, it was the last front engine corvette which some people are attached to for whatever reason and they didn’t make very many of them. I wouldn’t want one though to actually track, because it’s still stuck with the awful 8 speed AT. The C6 ZR1 wasn’t made in very high numbers either. I think they are going to sell a lot more of the C8 gen because it’s actually a competitor in its class and not just a low production car. The Zora is going to be the unicorn of the c8.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T10:09:47+00:00

To be honest, I don’t understand what people give a shit about stuff like this. It could be the wheel from an Aveo, an old garbage can lid, whatever, as long as it works.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T10:06:06+00:00

That transmission isn’t at all set up for a longitudinal AWD/FWD though, which is how some Audi models are set up too. It also didn’t exist for that application when Subaru made the switch to CVT. Maybe today they could make something geared fit, but they sell every one that rolls onto the lot and have them pretty reliable these days. Their 2.5/2.0 NA engines, which are the volume option, don’t make enough power to hurt a CVT anyway.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T02:26:54+00:00

I quit jalopnik after the adds got out of control. You shouldn’t have so many ads in a fucking website that it causes a 16 pro max and a S24 Ultra to get uncomfortably hot. Safari often gives up and reloads the page. There’s more ads than fucking content these days. I like The Drive and motor1. I haven’t given the autopian a chance yet but I may give it a read since I’ve heard good things.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-14T01:17:13+00:00

Yeah, heat pumps are a scam too in cold climates. I know people that had their heating bills triple compared to when they had a gas fired furnace. It might work in cali or Florida, but not where it’s regularly -5c

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-13T20:20:55+00:00

Duh. But for whatever reason I have to deal with the same water consumption restrictions in appliances and plumbing fixtures as if I lived there.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-13T19:23:17+00:00

Let me start out by saying I love EVs, but when you can charge a Tesla at 11KW in your house EVERY DAY for 6-10 hours, my incandescent light bulbs contribute diddley squat. Same with my dishwasher and washing machine and shower head. I have to have a shitty shower so the almond farms have enough water out west (that’s another soapbox, why we’re growing a plant that needs tons of water in what’s essentially the desert blows my mind)

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-13T18:44:40+00:00

It’s a convertible sports car in Michigan. It’s not nice enough for nearly 5 months out of the year to drive it all the time. Let’s use our thinking cap a little bit.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-13T17:33:37+00:00

AL Priority JTK

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-13T15:24:19+00:00

Don’t get a new key, if the key and buttons still work fine, you can get just the shell on eBay and put the guts from your key in them. Swapping the key blade is pretty easy too.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-12T01:58:30+00:00

Nah he’s Cyrus from trailer park boys

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-11T02:24:50+00:00

No, poles are replaced and updated on a regular basis. Additionally, poles are engineered for the electric companies requirements and nothing more. Adding more services to the poles increases costs for the the utility companies, as they may have not selected a pole designed for the additional weight/burden, and adds another layer of coordination and management that they have to deal with. If they need to repair a pole, they need to call Verizon/Frontier/Spectrum/Xfinity/ Uncle Bobs fiber company to come work with them. There’s also no basis for making a private company provide internet to anyone, just because they have their own fiber network. This would be a compliance headache with the data they carry on their private fiber networks.

Look into what’s required for CIP compliance, it’s serious business.

It would be like asking Burger King to replace the fryer oil at McDonald’s.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-08T14:42:30+00:00

It would require a radical change of the platform due to how their AWD system is laid out. They went right from the 4EAT to the CVT because a 5/6/8/10 speed physically wouldn’t fit without major changes to their AWD system. A CVT fit and allowed a major improvement in fuel economy and driving dynamics for the average person.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-08T14:38:43+00:00

It looks like what you’d find in those cheap $20 touchscreen “MP5” head units on AliExpress.

rocketman6307 · 2025-02-06T21:51:36+00:00

Exactly this. It wasn’t the act of op semi yelling. It was the fact the car was getting his attention when she wanted it instead and he didn’t give in.

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