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Latest Reader Question (March 28, 2018)

News/Other Stuff eric - March 28, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Lynn asks: My concrete drive is darkened with moldy dark residue. When a vehicle parks there and after it leaves there is a very...

Latest Reader Qs (6/24/2017)

News/Other Stuff eric - June 26, 2017

Here are the latest reader Qs along with my answers: Gary asks: Can you recommend a reliable crossover in the $20,000 or less range? My daughter will be doing a lot of driving...

Update on the Mercedes Diesel “Scandal”

News/Other Stuff eric - April 30, 2016

Daimler AG appointed investigators from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to help gather documents and e-mails on its diesel-engine emissions, part of a probe requested by the U.S. Department of Justice. The investigators are...

Ohio Hero Hassles Man For Sitting In Front of His Own House

News/Other Stuff eric - September 5, 2014

A man in Youngstown, Ohio recently captured captivating video as he stood up for his Constitutional rights when a police officer began harassing him for no reason as he sat outside...

Celebrating Our “Freedoms”

News/Other Stuff eric - July 2, 2016

The Fourth is not far away... calendar-wise. But the Spirit of '76 is long gone. In most states, we "free" people aren't even free to buy fireworks ((other than pathetic sparklers and...

Reader Question: 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser?

News/Other Stuff eric - October 11, 2018

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Jack asks: Any thoughts on the 2018 Toyota LandCruiser? Reliability and quality? Worth the price? My reply: This is an excellent large SUV... excellent,...

Heroes Go To Town on Man …

Features eric - December 2, 2013

Who dared to film them after they issued a parking ticket:

Latest Radio: On With Bill Meyer

News/Other Stuff eric - October 28, 2018

Here's the audio clip from last week's chat with Bill Meyer over at KMED radio in Oregon. We talked about all kinds of teeth-aching things! . . . Got a question about cars...

Buzz Cut “Hero” Gets Upset at Comedian

News/Other Stuff eric - December 13, 2016

Steve Hofstetter was doing a show at the Mohegan Sun and one of his jokes was about bad cops. However on this night a Hero was present in the audience. He was...

Border Heroes

News/Other Stuff eric - March 18, 2015

In a shocking incident caught on video, Border Patrol agents in California forcefully pulled a man out of his car and drove off with his distressed wife and 4-year-old son simply...

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Anonymous: Is this it? Can’t listen to it right now [at work] https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=TqPNgMipjeQ
Nunzio: It truly is both hilarious and sad how self-blinded our society has become, that they can ignore that giant black elephant....
swamprat: He was the greatest congressman of all time. He let the cat out of the bag for sure. I have tried to find this on youtube. Of...
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: James Traficant’s U.S. Bankruptcy Speech The Bankruptcy of The United States United States Congressional...
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: The Baboons in Congress know they seat over the Bankruptcy Foreclosure. If they mention it let alone challenge it,...
gtc: Richmond VA has had most all of their signals synchronized to keep traffic moving, for at least 50 years. In the 80’s, I could...
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: We are a Bankrupt and foreclosed Nation. and have been since 05 JUN 1933 from Wilson’s betrayal with the...
swamprat: This is back in the news. Tick tock. I’m looking at 300s right now.
gtc: lol! Don’t you know? He was the sportscaster rival of Howard CoPayment! Where did you grow up? Lolol!
eric: Hi Tom, I like music – and sometimes turn up the volume. But I turn it down when I’m in public, around other people. It...
eric: Hi Tom, My main concern with a used Tesla – or any used EV – would be the state of the battery pack. Just like any...
Richard Preston: Who is Bob Acosta? Lol
tom: One train of thought I have frequently regarding large scale car repairs is, “the devil you know is better than the devil you...
Tom: What say all you readers about *used* Teslas? The cars have been coming into the market, albeit slowly, over the past few years, and...
tom: I combat this by pulling up next to them in my drag-piped Harley, and wail on the throttle while the light is red. Then dump the...
eric: Hi Tom, Agreed; that’s cheesy also. But the difference here is that there has been almost no comment by the...
tom: How does this jibe against dealers sale ads, which go like this, “New F150 from $17,999*!” Then you look at the * and it...
Eightsouthman: Since there’s a chert filled road we have to run to get to the pavement….but mostly don’t and use the...
Eightsouthman: Nun, we have an old movie, a whodunit thriller. It has Rochester playing the part of the chauffeur for a rich guy. There...
Eightsouthman: I leave the list on the cooktop too often too. And the wife often says to get something else. I just reply, “put it...
Eightsouthman: You can get good warranted crate engines cheaper than GM. One of two of these places builds GM crate engines since GM...
Eightsouthman: Yep, and I have those little cheap ratchet 12 points I bought at HF. I have other wrenches, just can never seem to find...
eric: Hi Nunz! Stern never apologizes. He tells people to turn the channel. Never, ever apologize. It chums the water.
eric: Thanks, OP … I haven’t yet encountered ASS in a manual equipped car; sigh. I thought that was still an out.
The Handler: It’s actually quite hilarious how people deliberately ignore the giant black elephant in the room when they debate...
The Handler: It’s disturbing how their “culture” became mainstream so quickly. We see it in ads (ex: McDonald’s...
The Handler: That’s what my grandmother called them. It was a term gracious southern ladies would use. The area they lived in had a...
Mark: I used to be big in building model rockets when I was a kid. I havent heard anything about this hobby in 30 years.
ReadyKilowatt: Well, the dollar’s “world reserve” status is because the oil can only be bought using Federal Reserve Notes and nothing...
OppositeLock: My manual transmission Ford Focus RS has ASS. It’s not too awful, though. It only turns off the engine when fully...
OppositeLock: I work for a developer of these technologies who sells them to OEM’s. We’re not very well known, and like it...
Nunzio: I bought some of those before I switched to Gatorskin tires….. They were so heavy, I ended up throwing them out without...
Nunzio: Sounds like ya need some Gatorskin tires! They’re still pretty darn light and perform well….but hard for anything to...
Nunzio: Ed, remember a while back, some celeb got in trouble for using the word ‘niggardly’- even though it has nothing to do...
Nunzio: You know how to silence an Italian, Jason? Cut off his hands! HAhaha….I DO talk with my hands- so much so, in NY Jews used...
BrentP: better watch out those strawmen you’re building could catch fire.
BrentP: Tubes got to be very low quality. Many years ago I purchased thorn resistant tubes. I haven’t had a flat since.
Ed: The old people back home said “nigra”, and that was meant as a polite way of referring to the race of the people they...
Ed: 8, I make a list, then leave it lying when I go to town. Recently I started just emailing myself a list to my phone. ‘Course,...
Ed: Yep. I have two ratcheting battery wrenches, a 5/16ths and an 8mm. The trouble is that they both have blue plastic handle covers and...
Jason Flinders: You beat me to it, Nunz. For example the use of the word nigger in “Huckleberry Finn” was not intended as a...
The Handler: Trashy whites that act like niggers = wiggers. Wigger gangs are the main source of the crime (burglaries, home invasions,...
Ernie: Umm… Whitworth? Yeah, I have to deal with it occasionally. And yes, some sizes are the same or functional equivalent. Just...
Shotgun Chuck: Probably scared of hitting bicycles. But according to some people here, that’s just how it should be and they should...
to5: The bicycles are no longer cheap or easy or inexpensive to repair. I gave up on bikes 15 years ago due to the constant flat tyres,...
Shotgun Chuck: Pollution is just one of many unhealthy things that happens when you try to cram too many people into too small an area....
local fisherman out for a pleasure cruise: Sixty-nine grams of prevention is worth a half a kilo of cure.
dread pirate anonymous: Oh yeah, I have worked with those, uh – “types.” They are very clever and can write code like...
Eightsouthman: And negroes referred to pore white farmers as “po buckra”. Pore white farmers probably didn’t take too...
DavidC: Nice review, Eric. Like the 48-volt system, the MBUX system is a complicated, expensive solution that consumers aren’t...
Eightsouthman: Marky, an old adage I learned to be true. A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into. $600 for nearly...
Eightsouthman: eric, here’s a ditty by AutoWeek or when I quite them, Auto every other Week. https://autoweek.com/articl...
Eightsouthman: Call China, ask them!!!
Shotgun Chuck: Just ride bikes instead; it won’t be much less annoying but at least you’ll have the moral high ground!
MAGA: MY Ass Gets ANALyzed (By the Gov)
Shotgun Chuck: In other words, the difference between what works on paper and what works in practice. Something academics and...
Roscoe: The GM tech center here in Austin loves to hire foreign software developers out of the local OPT diploma mills otherwise known as...
Roscoe: We have one charging station in my office’s building in Downtown Austin, and a 40 degree high a few weeks ago had all the...
BrentP: Energy based currency. The control mechanism of technocracy. Also it’s equalizing socialism. No matter what you do you only...
BrentP: 12V car batteries will cause problems when shorted to ground too. P=VI The idea for 48V systems is reduce the current draw. The...
Anonymous: Why have the townspeople not strung this cretin up in the town square?
Bill Jones: The English system feels right because it’s humanistic: based on units that are common in everyday life, rather than...
Nunzio: Most of the time, there was never any pejorative about “nigger” or any other term- they were just informal terms one...
ReadyKilowatt: Mercedes mechanics better hit up Snap On for insulated tools. I deal with 48V power in my job. Not exactly as dangerous as...
Tuanorea: Damn 8! Thanks! Paul Harvey the soothsayer https://youtu.be/0NV0gk7KpEg
ReadyKilowatt: Increased emissions from power plants will be paid for with carbon credits bought on Al Gore’s exchange. Same type of...
a decent fellow: I’ve found that a carb with a good working choke will more likely start in really cold weather, but then it takes...
BrentP: Displaced emissions do not count so out of sight and mind. If they tried to get to 100% at the charger they would be sitting...
no one of consequence: PS: I did replace the front struts and rear shocks myself. It was a very simple job. And of course front pads and...
BrentP: I can remember when paying for a Mercedes meant paying up for a car that would just plain last longer. Not any more.
dread pirate anonymous: We have a 2006 (one of those REALLY sweet deal things) and honestly at 13 years 100K+ it’s been a pretty...
FarmerChet: Overpriced, plastic-y, will have interior noises in 3 months, visit the dealer every 3 months for electrical problems and...
brazos_bend: Eric, Browsing Teslaclub.com yesterday I noticed that you are asked to NEVER fully charge your Tesla at any station and only...
Nunzio: Well-said, Jason! Sadly, the ranks of white trash are growing exponentially these days- as the skools propagate liberal fairy...
dread pirate anonymous: Back in the late 1970s you could get on the Alaska R/R and ask them to drop you off at mile marker X in the bush....
dread pirate anonymous: 2wd or 4wd? 1500 or 2500? These days, unless you live far south, a half ton 2wd pickup isn’t much worth...
Tuanorea: Jason Flinders, “When you get down to it, the term “nigger” really describes a state of mind. I have known quite a few whites...
michael67: I would also ask: can you (or are you willing to learn to) do the work yourself? If so, a lot of the other potential...
Gabe: And since it’s all electronic, it’s no longer an “emergency” brake; a purely mechanical backup for when the...
Tuanorea: as you wish, “In fact, one could argue that the federal interstate highway system was a direct gov-funded competition to...
Anonymous: My company rig, a 2015 Ford F150 has ASS. I used to have to push the over-ride every time I started the truck. For some...
Mark: A friend of mine rented a PT Cruiser when we arrived for a ski vacation in Denver. I groaned when I saw it. He called it the party...
Tuanorea: Brent, “Dollars to doughnuts in robot cars with no human controls DUI will still be a thing.“ I sure hope so. Who would want to...
Jason Flinders: When you get down to it, the term “nigger” really describes a state of mind. I have known quite a few whites...
geoih: I think these engineers have solved a spherical-chickens-in-a-vacuum problem, and now want to program all the real chicken farms...
Eightsouthman: Yesterday I made a left turn on a green light, had to wait for it since it was red when I got there. I wasn’t a...
Eightsouthman: The wife has to go to the doc yesterday so I got an app. and went too. I was gonna make a list, not a long one, but just...
eric: Hi T, I still prefer the mechanical pump – and carburetor. Simple, effective. Cheap. Going to EFI does improve cold start and...
Tionico: There is one more safety issue with a switch to 48 VFC electrical systems on cars. The higher voltage can be VERY much more...
Tionico: Nah….. the special fittings are readily available as spares for most, and anyone with a reasonable level of skill can fit...
Tionico: you are not talking about developing new battery technology using that lead, are you?
Tionico: bought my Ford one ton van (Powerstroke) seven years old with 130K on the clock. Original pads were down to about twenty...
gtc: The self-righteous feminazis would love that wouldn’t they? Gaaag! They’d probably invite Hillary on for a 3-some with...
TheBurningTruth: Wonder what the depreciation will do to these in a year or three? Much more affordable fun then, plus probably low miles...
Wikoli: Thanks for the confirmation Brent.
not much time to dilly dally: Forgot to mention the in-line filter along the frame was already removed, so pump running and no fuel...
MarkyMark: As one who used to cycle a lot, I’ll simply comment on groups of cyclists. In NJ, they’re supposed to ride single...
TheBurningTruth: Q: How is Stevie Wonder’s and Helen Keller’s driving similar? A: They both drive with one hand on the wheel...
TheBurningTruth: More Ass Getting Agony…
mostly anonymous all day: Assuming you can find the relay – duh! Run a hot wire from the battery, hear the pump running, and now...

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