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Likewise, for “snow” driving on roads, it’s not the 8 inches of snow that are giving traction, it’s what’s underneath it; pavement covered with a layer of ice. It’s the ice traction that is important. Also, when snow wheeling in places that get 120+ inches of snow per year, you’re not digging...

My point wasn’t about front mount vs rear mount, but that hitch mounted plows are not supposed to have just one mounting point, because the hitch serves as a fulcrum for a lever arm, the blade, to apply torque multiplication from the lever arm. Hitch mounted blades are supposed to have...

You’ve hit the nail on the head here. These are more aptly called winter tires or ice tires, rather than snow tires. Ever watch snow wheeling videos or videos of Arctic trucks in open snow fields? Are they using Blizzacks? Nope, they’re using massive mud terrain tires for flotation and large...

I’m sorry you went through all this time and effort for us just to tell you not to do this, but please don’t do this. Having a single mounting point for all of the weight and all of the impact loads, effectively makes your hitch receiver into a fulcrum. It will amplify the torque of asymmetric...

I would definitely get that fixed before warranty runs out. I have a 9 year old Tesla and the steering rack has been doing the same thing for the 9 months or so. It’s not throwing error codes, but it feels overly stiff, only when turning left. It’s just a matter of time before it completely fails.

Haha! You got me. I was like, “dang, I don’t want my underdash wiring getting damaged!” So I went and looked up under there and nope, there’s absolutely nothing up there that’s going to get damaged by having people sit in the front seats. Seems like a waste of time and money.

Hybrid has the same final drive ratio, regardless of 2k or 4k tow package.

We’re talking about hybrids here, not ecoboosts. The hybrid has a 3.37 final drive ratio.

24 fwd is rated at 42/33 mpg. The 25 awd is rated at 40/31, so a 2 mpg drop is expected. Based on your description, my best guess is that the additional 2 mpg loss is because of rain and differences in wind speed and wind direction. In my Tesla, I typically get 320 watt hours per mile in flat...

It sounds like you’re having buyers remorse for purchasing your Maverick and you're trying to build a case that your xl is a lemon so that Ford will buy it back at full price, instead of you having to pay the depreciation to trade it in a on new car with better seats, better stereo and better...

I sent emails to dealers that had a vehicle with all of the options I wanted. Basically I asked for their best price and confirmed there were no dealer add on packages to jack the price up higher than MSRP. Found a dealer that was $500 under MSRP with no extra fees/packages and took it. Only...

You obviously don’t know the math behind it. How much does a 400 watt solar panel cost? $144, here in the US, after being shipped over from China and paying the steep tariffs. How are they making them so cheap? Because they don’t use that much energy to make. Do the math. Sure, the detractors...

My house makes 21,000 kWh of solar electricity each year. That is more electricity than my house and my Tesla use each year. Average annual EV mileage is around 22,000. No oil, no gas, no coal, and no nuclear power used to make any of the electricity used at my house.

Both of my Grandma’s were from the greatest generation. Do the math. EV’s were invented 100 years before boomers were born. Sure, none of them were viable, but the EV’s that boomers created weren’t viable either. EV’s weren’t commercially viable until someone from Gen-X made that happen.

Disclaimer: I don’t live in Utah. From what I’m reading online about Utah legal code, it wasn’t the speed that got him a felony. He had to be doing something else and he got charged with multiple “enhancements”: DUI, fleeing a police officer, road rage, hit and run, causing serious injury or...

it’s not an automaker problem. It is a wireless technology problem. Even with this magnetic circle that is designed specifically for iPhone and attaches to a precise “mag-safe” location on the back of the phone, it still heats up my iPhone and it still only charges half as fast as plugging into...

I usually take my cabin filter out around 100k miles or so and blow it out with air, then spray It with a hose, then let it dry, then re-use it. I’ve bough maybe 5 cabin air filters in my last 40 years of driving. Never had any problems with dust inside the vehicle or restricted airflow, so why...

Moving to EV’s is not some extreme move or self righteous statement made by technophiles. It is the natural progression of our ever expanding society. London started realizing in the mid 1800’s that their “pea-soup” fog was killing hundreds of people from bronchitis every time their city...

??? 105 in Utah is a speeding ticket. 106 is reckless driving. That is a misdemeanor, not a felony.