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Reader Question: Investing in a Diesel?

Off Topic eric - March 18, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Carl asks: I am thinking about buying a Chevy Cruze diesel before they stop making the Cruze. What are your thoughts on this? My...

AGWs “Bust” Stage 4 Cancer Patient

Off Topic eric - March 18, 2019

Here's prima facie evidence that AGWs are cretins by definition. A man dying of cancer is Hut! Hut! Hutted! by AGWs... in his hospital room. They want to "bust" him for possessing...

Reader Question: Concrete Barriers?

Off Topic eric - March 17, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Rusty asks: Maybe you have written about this and I missed it, but I have noticed these concrete barriers everywhere. They block out...

Reader Question: Justified taxes?

Off Topic eric - March 16, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Pete asks: I agree with some of your argument that the government is really the owner of your car but you fail to...

AGWs Hut! Hut! Hut! Man Cleaning Up His Own Yard

Off Topic eric - March 15, 2019

Here's video of a man in a Colorado suburb almost shot to death by a crew of AGWs for cleaning up his own backyard. The only reason the man is still...

Reader Question: Safe to Drive Without ABS?

Off Topic eric - March 15, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Susan asks: My car's ABS light is on; is it safe to drive this car? My reply: It's as safe to drive your car...

Video Rant: Four Times the Juice!

Off Topic eric - March 14, 2019

Here's a look at something new - no belts (or pulleys) driving accessories, including the water pump. Everything driven electrically - by a 48 volt electrical system. The 2020 Mercedes GLE...

AGWs Harassing and Collecting

Off Topic eric - March 14, 2019

Here's an example of your Tax Dollars at Work. . . collecting more of your tax dollars. A guy is pulled over for the "offense" of having windows tinted beyond the degree...

An Almost Hut! Hut! Hutting!

Off Topic eric - March 14, 2019

Here's video of a couple stopped by a gaggle of AGWs over an apparent triviality - they drove onto a high school parking lot after hours. The AGWs look like a black...

Reader Question: MH370 Solved?

Off Topic eric - March 14, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Bill asks: So I'm sitting here plugging away at my taxes with the Science Channel (otherwise known as "The White Guy Channel" to...

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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...
no one to be trifled with: But we know better now, right? // wink
Nunzio: I’m unfairly and inappropriately labeled a “racist” because I’m not too fond of niuggers [Some black...
Erle: I forgot to add that the high speeds were in the mid 1970’s. The road surfaces were damned good then. Drafting on cars was ok...
gtc: Yeah, like the virtual-cybersex scene in that movie. Only men now, are probably going to want that because women are already...
MarkyMark: I do the same thing, and I EASILY get 50,000 miles out of my brakes! Why use up your brakes when you can let the forces of...
Ed: We don’t deserve any such thing. How were we supposed to disallow this from being foisted on us, vote for asshole A instead of...
MarkyMark: That already happened during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The cops came to an old woman’s house, roughed her up,...
Ed: “The pump wiring has a pigtail and nice connector near the frame that you easily unplug, as well as test to see if power is...
Ed: ((((((((((RMD))))))))))
Charlie: @gtc – I am suggesting that this be done automatically by cars, instead of having to do it manually. @Erie – race to...
Ed: 8 for ((((((((absent minded Texans))))))))
Ed: I think the girl with the buzzcut in that pic in the article is that girl who played the Israeli soldier in the film “World War...
Ed: Mike, I have both, but I do still like my old Craftsman 3/8ths and 1/2 inch drive set I bought back in the ’80s. I have a...
Erle: Junk that will fail is an incentive to go with a manual gearbox. I try to time the lights so that I do not have to go from a hard...
gtc: Here is another one…..the electric Parking Brake Garbage. Service a 2018 Civic SI Turbo 6-speed manual, today.You must hold...
Erle: I used to ride bicycles fast. The best was when one could pick up the draft behind the mail semis that would allow 50+ mph on a...
ReadyKilowatt: (In the voice of Hellen Lovejoy) Won’t someone PLEASE think of the SHAREHOLDERS!!!!!
gtc: Ha, I have done that for decades, but have to be careful because some cars don’t respond like you think. I drove a...
Erle: OK, Eric, If I buy one, do I have a way to credit you for the sale? It is a 2019 GTI rabbit with manual in Wisconsin. Do you have a...
gtc: Yep, I can see this will be a future road-rage fire-starter, just wait. And in NJ, they light up just for not moving fast enough,...
BrentP: Dollars to doughnuts in robot cars with no human controls DUI will still be a thing.
Anonymous: Yuck. Eric, that’s just mean. Hilariously mean.
Charlie: A “possibly better” alternative to ASS (very appropriate name) would be to shift automatic trans into neutral...
lost in the fire swamp: The govermin giveth and the govermin taketh away.
The Bobster: Will carjackers discover the trick of standing in front of cars with automatic braking?
Jason Flinders: I have used a 5/16 tool on tight 8mm fasteners. A six-point socket works fine. A 12-point box wrench, or open-end wrench,...
eric: Hiya Graves! Imagine nothing on YouPorn except Mary Barra…
eric: Agreed, Yep… The big fly in the soup, though is the 48 volt battery. I bet the one in the Benz costs low four figures….
eric: Hi Mike, You need an old car, then! 🙂
eric: Hi Patrick, An excellent point. I used to work – or have to drive through – one of the worst parts of DC, in the middle...
Eightsouthman: Back in the 70’s when that godawful 55 mph was implemented and fuel prices had literally doubled, truckers were...
Eightsouthman: I detest the threads on Japanese metric.
Eightsouthman: Try using a 5/16 on an 8mm tight battery connection. Then you get to use Vice Grips till you get a new one.
gtc: If “gasoline” wasn’t the Uncle Cornholio subsidized gas-a-hol shit that gets crappy mileage, the cars would...
Patrick McWilliams: Any time the engine stops without the driver intending to turn it off, it can be dangerous. Considering some of the...
Jason Flinders: For a good time wrench on some old British stuff built with Whitworth fasteners.
Jason Flinders: My old barge is all SAE but I do have some metric tools having owned and worked on other vehicles over the years. Some...
Myles: 16′? He must have a hell of a lift kit on that Subaru. 🙂
Mike in Boston: What gripes me is that I spent my high school years building up a really nice set of Craftsman SAE sockets, wrenches,...
Jason Flinders: Reading Heinlein and van Vogt at an early age is at least partly responsible for my own mindset. Subversive stuff, that,...
Jason Flinders: Subaru uses cameras that look through the windshield rather than radar behind the grille to trigger their saaaaaaaaafety...
Mike in Boston: One can only hope these cretins die slow, horrible, painful deaths themselves; no painkillers allowed.
Jason Flinders: Yes!!! We should not leave anyone out! We need special codes for those targeted by bigots of every stripe! Of course...
Yep: ” But, which costs more and which is more complex?” I’d wager that as production scales ramp up you might find...
Yep: “Also an electric fuel pump does not have to be in the tank either. ” Yep!
farm boy: Can’t wait for mean old Trump to trigger Barra – LOL
Chris: I’m doing the jumper wire thing to mine this weekend.
get used to disappointment: On my old Jeep there is an angled part of the tank and the pump plate is located there so you can get at it...
mostly anonymous all day: Maybe just the “wrong” bystanders haven’t been there?
BrentP: The problem with hooking it up an inline pump like that is the automaker specific fittings. There’s kludgy ways around it,...
BrentP: In tank fuel pump replacement is a factor of how the car is designed. In the mazdas I’ve had all it takes is to pop out the...
BrentP: It’s not just the stop start killing throughput but teachings are now idiotic. Wait 3 seconds after the vehicle in front...
BrentP: The Ford truck auto stop/start is disabled by towing. There are things sold to plug in to make the truck think it’s towing...
BrentP: There is only one inch system. There are two three metric systems. DIN, JIS, and AISI metric. These define what bolts get what...
gtc: I dunno Eric, maybe it IS Grab-Ass, for Uncle and the the Auto-Execs. Especially considering the force-feeding of shitty gas-a-hol,...
ET: It’s likely that the intended consequence is to up the cost so that electric and hybrid cars can compete. With ASS, a hybrid...
MarkyMark: Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes with the wrenches! I can see a 7/16 or 9/16 nut and know exactly what wrench to grab. When...
Wikoli: Eric, Glad my ’18 F-150 5.0 has the disable switch on the dash. And, the ASS seems to be automatically disabled when...
Anonymous: Metric is a more simple system, yes. However, most Americans, my millennial self included, think in inches. My eyes can see a...
MarkyMark: I like the metric system because everything is based on units of 10, which makes it easier to convert from one unit to...
BrentP: As an engineer in the USA I must deal with both sets of units. I must deal with standard parts in both sets of units. in-ft-lb...
Anonymous: One of these days? Nope. If the first 22,593 of these encounters with state animals hasn’t, they never will. We get the...
MarkyMark: Eric, the same thing is happening in airliner cockpits now that aircraft are so automated. There’s theory that this...
ken: Went to the site and left my comment but all the other comments approved the change. I’m sure those nice folks at the DOT have...
SPQR70AD: what a pain is the ASS
eric: Amen, reinkefj! Heinlein is among my favorite authors…
reinkefj: “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write...
ReadyKilowatt: The Jeep likes to nag me to keep my hands on the wheel while on a very long straight section of road. One thing that this...
SPQR70AD: also the engine works a little harder when the alternator is running at full sail trying to charge the system
SPQR70AD: for 45 years I have heard conservatives bombard communists with tons of pure indisputable facts AND IT NEVER MADE A DIFFERENCE....
ReadyKilowatt: Almost a perfect analogy. All sorts of downside with doubious benefits.
MarkyMark: Wow, just wow! What can one say to THIS?
Anonymous: That’s pretty much standard procedure even on full size pickups.
local fisherman out for a pleasure cruise: If you’re waiting at a stop sign to get onto a street with heavy traffic, or waiting to...
ReadyKilowatt: As soon as you let the pressure off the brake pedal the engine starts again. If someone did it they’d probably blame ASS...
as you wish: Well, we used to have railroads to move goods and people across the country. In fact, one could argue that the federal...
not left handed either: Manual isn’t even an option in many vehicles anymore.
no one to be trifled with: Yeah, it’s going to work really well driving up through the woods to get firewood.
dread pirate anonymous: One of these days, bystanders are going to see something like this happen and decide not to let it go. It’s...
Anonymous: Read my lips. from my cold dead hands will I give up control of MY truck. to ai.
dread pirate anonymous: I’ve found that the best thing you can do trying to stop on ice at lower speeds, is just throw the...
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: Mary Barra announced that Cadillac’s future is ALL Electric Vehicles. GM CEO Mary Barra: The Future Is...
eric: Amen, Anonymous… I haven’t flown in years because of this and do my best to stay as close to my abode in The Woods as...
eric: Hi Peter, You can still avoid ASS in a new car… just shop for one with a manual transmission. They haven’t yet figured...
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: …AAAAND. IF we dedicate ALL mining of Lithium and Barium to electric cars we couldn’t even replace 1 or...
no one of consequence: Yeah, but what about if the driver just forgets to put it in Park, and walks away? No key to remove because it...
dread pirate anonymous: Years ago I heard on the radio, I think it was Ralph Emory, interview Ronnie Milsap. He and his band were out...
Eightsouthman: Good morning eric. I see a direct connection with you and the private school at the start of your education. I was also a...
Peter Smith: Test drove a new Land Rover to replace an aging LR3, damn thing shut off at a stop light and the fucktard salesman said...
ReadyKilowatt: I doubt these systems are any more efficient than a belt and pulley. I’ve read that a bicycle chain is more than 98%...
Nunzio: Ten for….. ya GOTTA have a Ringmeat Mongoloid Dickweed in there somewhere!!!!!!
Anonymous: SICK of this. Can’t leave my home without fear of AGW. Used to (not that long ago) see the town cop leaned back in his...
ReadyKilowatt: They don’t sell cars, they offer a “transportation service”
Tyce: I experienced this first when I rented a car in Europe last year. It was a manual transmission, so the ASS would restart when you...
brazos_bend: My car pool buddy’s 16′ subaru emergency automatic braking disables itself when it is foggy here in Houston, or...
Tuanorea: How could anyone be so unkind To arrest a man for drivin’ while blind? https://youtu.be/q7UPSpoV̵ 1;A
Eightsouthman: An old college buddy just sent an e with lege members emails and phone numbers so we could protest the destruction of...
eric: Hi Eight, My parents provided me with lots of books; adult books when I was still very young. I devoured them. Reading has always...

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Reader Question: My Problem With the Metric System?

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AGWs “Bust” Stage 4 Cancer Patient

Reader Question: Concrete Barriers?

Reader Question: Justified taxes?

AGWs Hut! Hut! Hut! Man Cleaning Up His Own Yard

Reader Question: Safe to Drive Without ABS?

Video Rant: Four Times the Juice!

AGWs Harassing and Collecting

An Almost Hut! Hut! Hutting!

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