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Hmmm, AI hasn't been on the trails much! I think add a zero, for most of the CRFXXXF bikes for an actual head rebuild, if ever... As a teenager I don't ever recall an air cooled honda bike even burning oil a little? And we've been looking at 10-15 year old ones now and some pretty abused...

Most are, but the odd deal comes up. Used tires already on rims for your vehicle can be a great deal, I got a set of nearly new Xice for $400 a few years back. Or the used tire shops here are around $50/tire mounted and installed, and I just make it clear it can't be too old or a mystery brand...

Read your agreement and see if there's any weasel words in there for increases, and even if there is, just talk to Honda finance with your agreement in hand, and go back to the simple terms summary. I imagine they can undo the increase even if they can legally add it?

Get the date code, look for cracking, uneven wear, look inside for a line on the sidewall or rubber dust or crumbs which means it was run low long enough to make that tire not safe to use. Bring your own tread depth gauge, and check them all. I buy used pretty often and have never had a...

It would be good to have a notebook too, and I guess the counter argument is, how do you have a relatively clean motor without doing regular oil changes? I put everything into a google doc and its got version history, so it is easy to see when all the entries were put in. Also whoever inspects...

I suspect there's some advantages to offering the same vehicle line up in the US and Canada? Until quite recently it didn't really matter where their N.A. headquarters is, so it makes sense to try to convert the canadian 10% of the N.A. market to US buying patterns, or just ignore the...

The old part of Quebec city is very tight for sure, as lots of it 300+ years old. But I find almost anywhere in the province of Quebec, the vehicle make up on the highway is noticeably different than Ontario.

If you can't access the nut to back the shoes off, use both hands and rotate the rotor back and forth as you pull, or pry one side out with a bar and rotate the rotor, there is a bit of a lip on the drum and the shoes are sticking. I've never been able to back off the shoes on the Focus rear...

I assume the battery will be under the bed and it will have something like 40-45% front and 55-60% rear weight distribution. So with snow tires it will climb up a pretty steep hill in the snow. My Focus is around 60%F 40%R and it climbs the hill on my snow covered driveway remarkably better in...

Our car market is also influenced by the US market, but in some areas like Quebec, there seems to be less pickups and large SUV's, and more wagons, hatchbacks, and manual transmissions. I would have no problem with a Sentra wagon, but a sedan is not nearly as useful for me... In most of the...

Yeah, I think the US standards for safety and emissions have now been designed to favor big and/or expensive pointlessly complex vehicles, which I don't really want. Personally I would rather have the vehicle selection of almost anywhere else, even New Zealand which is 5M people, 4000 miles of...

I pretty sure groceries in Canada are now cheaper than the US? 2% Milk here at the No Frills store is $4.20 US per US gal. It seems our market is divided into the cheaper chain stores where the same items are 20-25% even 1/3 less, than a mid or upper grade grocery store chain. Both chains...

Will your car have a problem? no, and if you don't plan to go over 200k miles with it, oil viscosity probably doesn't matter at all. I think in general its better to run 0/5W30 in vehicles that see some higher oil temps(my subaru sees 210-220F in the summer with smaller hills) and computer...

A $20k one would probably be quite the adventure! A guy I know took is 1996 Miata to California for the PCH, and did much of route 66 on the way too... No Suburban supercruise interstate boredom for him.

I'm a bit torn on the 100% tariff on chinese EV's here in Canada. A $25k EV with 400+km range would do us just fine as a 2nd vehicle, and I do require an imported chinese EV to pass all the safety tests, just like an imported chinese GM SUV, and the chinese manufacturers could easily do that...

There probably are a couple good years of subaru in that age range, but you have to figure out what they are, as there's also a few bad years for head gaskets or oil consumption, or CVT's. Also for that price range, I'd rather buy privately with a book full of maintenance records, in front a...

Private plane then? ;) I do agree though, I did some very long drives when I was younger too, and its kind of neat to see gradual geographic/climate changes that you only get by doing the miles on the ground, but now I like the small campervan setup combined with a "drive less/see and do...

Yeah, this is what we came up with. Any of the midsize AWD SUV's are pretty good I think? Some 2wd cars have some decent clearance too, for some unmaintained roads. My Focus does pretty good with slightly oversize tires with a bit lower air pressure, but you have to really stay on your line...

This sounds like a question on a psychological evaluation? I have met a few people that thought they were the most interesting person in the room though, which sometimes is interesting to listen to them, for a while, make mental notes on how to not do that myself... :LOL: I do find it...

Well, from WW2 onwards, they seem to be doing most things pretty good, and the population is well read, and very keen not to repeat history... I searched for the worst neighborhoods in Frankfurt, here is one... https://maps.app.goo.gl/vUA8S311qdeDeG9b7 Not too bad eh... Hillbrow, Johannesburg...