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Wow, that sure beats the Hyundai Santa Fe I had last month, with 224 miles on it, my new personal record low. I'm still thinking of writing a review on it. For awhile, I think they were saving the high-mileage beaters especially for me! Gross!

They needed a new guy to re-arrange deck chairs....

A simple $200 mixup..... Could happen to anyone! o_O

This magical blue oil sounds like the stuff I mix with the gas for my 2-cycle snowblower. Same color!

The line has to be drawn somewhere. It's a slippery slope - today's chirp becomes tomorrow's derelict vehicles, untended waist-deep weeds, overturned appliances and rotting boats in the yard that we're constantly being warned about if we live in non-HOA neighborhoods.

I've known a few.

+2 I mentioned earlier once owning a CJ-7..... When it was running right and I wasn't throwing money at it, I loved it. The other times, not so much. It was truly one vehicle that needed a reliable "normal" car to keep around as a backup. I never did fully solve some of the issues with the...

I'm still trying to figure out what is the difference. Is it the tent on the roof?

You know, I just KNEW someone was going to challenge my post, which in reality was only a generalization. They sure sold a lot of them in the fifteen years prior to that; right up there almost at Ford Explorer numbers. Again, only a generalization. Will sales continue to drop? Sure, maybe...

Aye, there's the rub. They already DO sell like hotcakes.

I had a 1980 CJ-7 for a couple years.... It was nice around town at 30 MPH. At highway speed the aftermarket hardtop rattled constantly despite me trying all manor of tricks to stop the rattle. No, I never did take it off road. What really killed my enthusiasm for the vehicle was it's...

I have a single rotor (I've forgotten why just one) that's been on the shelf for 20+ years. It's still oily and wrapped in plastic..... Looks brand new!

Gene probably hates that song because Paul wrote it.

Awwww, who doesn't love the barnyard manure smell of Blaster Surface Shield?

To borrow a phrase from David St. Hubbins: "Dozens of office chairs explode each year; it's just not widely reported".

They still exist where I live, apparently. Place anything metal out by the curb and it'll be gone by sunset, usually much sooner. I've may have been wrong all along about brake rotors..... I thought they were kind of a really-low-priced steel? Regardless, I still get rid of them by putting...

I use Surface Shield..... Similar to Woolwax and Fluid Film. Yes, it has an interesting smell, kind of like a barnyard. Get the flexible applicator to be sure to get the stuff inside any holes or openings in the frame.

I used to get a lot of flats - A LOT - when I lived in Peoria IL and they used cinders on the road in the winter instead of salt. Tiny, razor-like shards which would embed themselves in the tire and eventually puncture the inner tube. No phones back then so I had to either fix it on the side...

I cannot help but wonder: What if you get the temperature slightly wrong, how much could the level possibly vary? A millimeter? More? Less? Some cars require you to run the engine at idle speed on level ground, until the fan cycles on and off X-number of times. On a cool day, that can take...

+2 The roads used to be full of Mopar minivans blowing blue smoke.... Those were the ones with the Mitsubishi engine.