Recent content by zzyzzx

The Mazda has cylinder deactivation. The Honda has a CVT. I'd test drive the Rav4 and Ford Escape.

How long do I have before the axle self destructs? Potentially quite some time, as in years. Your mail ordered axle should get to you in time.

I am looking for one that doesn't have the bend at the end just so I can stick it down spark plug tubes to clean them out before removing spark plugs.

Didn't everyone make or made 1.5L or engines? A quick internet search suggests so.

True. but that stop gap often lasts for years and is way more economically viable to anyone who can DIY. Some people just want to stop gap until the transmission goes.

No, it's a slot cut making the head gasket vulnerable to failure. Honda did it too.

I understand that people do this and/or head gasket sealers and it works most of the time. It's just that most of the time, people wait until it's too late for this to work, or don't DIY anything and take it to the shop, and shops always only offer the most expensive remedy available. Source...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-home-prices-losing-steam-160825776.html US Home Prices Are Losing Steam With Most Big Markets Below Peak

Feel free to correct here: I know that tiny engine like this probably aren't going to last as long, but given the smaller size isn't it going to make it much easier to DIY replace the engine?

That will buff right out True for the New Yorker

True. But a better way to think about it might be to look at spending per capita by state: But this source is better because it gives actual figures...

The Homeless Industrial Complex on YouTube by How Money Works One of the top comments: I literally just spoke to a lady who's worked with the homeless for the last 10 years. She told me it's a business designed to extract the tax dollars and that she wants out of her job once her kid is a little...

NOS can be a decade old as well.

NOS might have bad a seal already.