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I'm in the market for a '26 Cadillac, but would settle for anything from '24-'28, Realistically, I'll probably have to get a Model A while I wait. In any event, it's getting A/C, hopefully in a way that can quickly uninstall & reinstall. Does this make me a princess? And, if so, is Late...

yeah, that was actually in what had been my father's '98 F-150. And then the gas incident happened, and I had to buy one. I just left it in, and could tap in the reset sequence by braille as I drove. [I hand-pumped the fuel out of my ETC to make it easier to drop the tank, and my brain...

nah, he needs to add a few square feet of chrome to compensate!

I thought I posted this a day or two ago, but apparently not. If your foot is on the brake when you turn it off, the parking brake is engaged, regardless of incline. Personally, having learned to drive on a manual in the hills, and mostly having lived in unloved places, I've always set the...

Wait, you can do that? I need to take up golf if I can use the maverick as a cart! 🤪 When we were dating, I made a comment about "genuine naugahyde," and she had no idea what I was talking about. So, thinking quickly, I went on about the great herds of naugas in Brazil, and how they were...

My wife wanted to keep her mother's jeep when she stopped driving. Aside from being too expensive for us to just add as a car at the time, "You got in and out three times the same day--and were in pain for three days!" But she still occasionally grumbles about it. So when getting her the...

in forty some-odd years, I've driven exactly two vehicles in which I didn't have to put the seat all the way back: a 1974 BMW 2002, and a late model BMW convertible at an auction. In both cases, the seat could go back almost far enough to touch the back seat! I'm 6'2", with short legs for my...

I forget, do those get delivered by the Easter Bunny or by Santa Claus? 🤔

My father, knowing that those spiels were coming ("I am required to read this to you"), brought a book in with him. At that point, he pulled it out, and asked, "let me know when you're done." The exasperated employee caved and shut up. :crackup: A year or two later, I came to terms on my new...

the sound that your suspension makes when it snaps at 70mph? 🤔 I fly in them, so I do! 😱 something about holes in the side suddenly appearing at 30,000 feet that I want to avoid . . .

I had expected to. And then they sandbagged me with the arbitration agreement--there is no chance of my going back to that dealer (or the other one owned by the same group). I probably would have walked if the vehicle had been for me, but my wife's heart was set on it. And if they'd brought...

ahh. clear proof you're a married man, and not new at it! :teehee: there are also really cheap short range sensors for Arduino, but you're not likely to get the precision you want. Maybe put it on the floor pointed towards the front of the seat? Or count revolutions on a pulley. That's...

As stupid as this sounds, an auto zone in Tucson told me that this was illegal, and that they could only read them. Uhm, then how am I supposed to know if replacing the EGR worked? I've never heard such nonsense in CA or NV, and now have my own.

there are (or at least were) countries in Europe with French fry police, or whatever they called them. They would walk the street sniffing parked diesel cars, seeking those that smelled like French fries. Their fuel taxes were so high that people had figured out that it cost less to fill up...

yeah, mine's an '06, so heavily Ford. It's been sitting sine 2015 waiting for a new engine, probably this fall or by mid next year. And it's going to be a ford 2.5, which is the same engine, but built harder (it was a joint project; ford owned a third of Mazda n those days).

They're going to be on the hook for, at least, state minimums to the third parties (which won't really put a dent in this kind of damages). They can probably sue him to get it back (good luck, taking 12c/week from prisoner #877676's 40c paycheck), but the liability is locked in. I can't...

I would, but that would mean actually remembering to measure such things not once, but twice! :eek: I had said for years that I had never remembered to take both an initial and final specific gravity reading when fermenting beer, but then I looked through an old notebook and found that I had...

when comparing power, remember to lop about a third off of HP & torque for 1971 & earlier, as they reported gross horsepower, rather than the net horsepower for 1972 and later. For most vehicles, there was no real change from the 1971 to 1972 engine, but looking at the reported figures side by...

you could rig a simple Arduino circuit that would run each motor to the end of the track to zero it, and then run them the other way a specified number of milliseconds. A little tricker would be to add an extra couple of buttons to more easily program it, but till a minor project.

The Cadillac Northstar (1993) was one of the first modern fuel injected engines, and the reason that Cadillac was, afaik, the only american brand involved in the Top Tier gas standard (which was to guarantee enough cleansers to boost compression). It had a 10.3 compression ratio, compared to...