Recent content by BillyHW

Sometimes I think the tire repair shops deliberately litter the road with nails and screws to drum up business.

I look forward to hearing Mariah Carey every Christmas. Also George Michael.

How does extra abrasion help bed in the piston rings?

What have you learned from all your used oil analyses?

Please stop making things up.

How much did these people pay for the reservations in the first place? Do you get your money back if you don't buy?

Maybe this is the one time I would take a Goodride over a Goodyear:

In Ontario they won't let you sell a car if the date code on the tires is over 6 years old. Personally I wouldn't buy a tire with a date code over a year old, unless I got a really good deal on them. I would buy from a place that does high volume like Walmart or Costco so that you are more...

Some people are swearing by Chinese tires? Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone?

Adguard doesn't block anything. I said YouTube in Firefox. What sort of crazy person would use the YouTube app?

In addition to the uBlock Origin add-on for Firefox, I also recommend the Video Background Play Fix add-on. It will let you listen to videos in the background while inside another app, or with the screen off.

So because I'm neurotic about tires and keep looking at other people's tires, it happens surprisingly often that I notice people with directional (usually winter) tires mounted backwards on some or all of the wheels. Why do people do this? Are they just that clueless? How can their mechanics...

The one that keeps breaking for me is actually the recirculation door on the far right passenger side. It is behind the glove box and to the right.

A tool to find awesome remote destinations is a prison to you? EV people are trying to force everyone into EVs.

I am being completely serious. I live for road trips. Whenever I get some time off work, I just look at Google Maps and try to find a new place I can drive to to get as far away from people as possible. Last August I just jumped in the car after work and decided to drive to Alaska. This...