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    Are vehicle owners leaving their tow ball in place subject to to insurance fraud?

    The truck is legally parked and it is not encroaching on a space where only pedestrians are allowed. People walking through a parking lot need to avoid all parts of the parked cars. Any contact with a parked car it is a very high bar to make it somehow the car owner's fault.
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    Rock Auto pricing differential, single vs set

    The trick is should you order four separately, they will send each one from a different warehouse.
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    CT Coronary Calcium Scan

    My point is that this test really doesn't rise to the level of "medically necessary" and that is why insurance and national health plans don't typically cover it. What should someone with a score of zero do differently than someone with a score of 400? Nothing. The test doesn't detect soft...
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    Rear air shocks on a buick

    It should not run on every start. It only should run after you put more weight in the car needing more pressure to get back to the proper ride height.
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    San Antonio police arrest suspect in taillight and tailgate thefts

    There are 40 line items we don't see just in the labor part. The cost of the taillight itself would be on one of the missing pages. It really looks like a collision repair. Only one taillight was replaced. There was $300 of paint labor. San Antonio is in Texas, a place that is not soft on crime.
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    CT Coronary Calcium Scan

    I'm guessing that someone has a patent on the number score and/or the software that computes it. If you ever have a CT of your chest the routine report should say whether there is coronary calcification or not, just not as a number score.
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    Loud and annoying noise from sump/ radon pit, cause and solution

    If you're hearing noise from the sump pump even though there's no water, the float switch is stuck on(*). Easily checked by pulling the plug. I thought the radon fan is usually outside the house so you should not hear much noise from it. (*) Some pumps do not have a float switch, they start...
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    Looking for transmission control module fuse or relay for 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix

    Does the engine just rev up like in neutral even though you are in gear, or does the car strain like it is trying to move but stuck? Does the car roll freely in neutral?
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    Looking for transmission control module fuse or relay for 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix

    Additionally the problem is almost never the PCM itself. If you are doing parts cannon that would be one of the last parts to replace.
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    CT Coronary Calcium Scan

    Consider risk / benefit before exposing yourself to X-rays. Scans that you don't want or need should be avoided. The nice new machines use less radiation and also produce a clearer picture.
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    Looking for transmission control module fuse or relay for 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix

    Do the brake lights work? Do the PRNDL lights on the dash change when you move the shift lever? Shifting is partly controlled by the PCM. Fuses 15, 16, and 21 under the hood are involved. The shift interlock uses the BCM and the TURN/HAZ fuse under the dash. I think the BCM needs to receive...
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    German company making parts to improve looks of model 3

    Might be a market for people who had a crash and need a new bumper anyway.
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    They don't lock their bikes in Japan.

    Most of those bikes look to be not worth stealing. Is anyone in Japan so hard-up and poor that they would risk it? It's also important to crack down on the ways that stolen stuff gets converted to cash. These are usually fairly rich people working on the edge between legitimate business and...
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    UPS MD-11 Crashes on Takeoff

    There were some changes after these crashes though: * Revised landing gear design so in case of severe downward impact it would break away rather than breaking the wing spar causing the wing to come off. This is a more survivable situation since with the wings intact the plane would tend to...
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    UPS MD-11 Crashes on Takeoff

    There have been four which had similar accidents involving bouncing and breaking apart / going out of control on the ground during landing. All four aircraft were a total loss. Though two of those crashes were not fatal, three passengers and two pilots were killed in the other two.
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