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The worst is trying to drain a car with hot Z1 that has about 60k on it. It thins to about the consistency of water and comes out fast so it makes a splashing mess everywhere. And it smells like someone lit a diaper full of hair on fire. Blah. At least its just a spill and fill.

Too early to tell if the new stuff is any better long term. We finally just exhausted our supply of Z1 last month. We get DW in 55 gallon bulk drums, and I've done one drain and fill on the RSX with it since we got it. No noticeable difference yet, but it shifted fine before that too...

Dude. Find the problem and get it fixed. The airbags are there for a reason.

Been there done that. Hooked up with a girl in my class during tech school. All the guys were all over her. She was a cutie, but also scandalous as [censored]. Pathological liar, but also quite a shag. Watch out for the tech school girls. Tread with caution. Can't remember the specifics of...

If you have the time to monitor Amazon prices day to day, you can get some amazing deals. Amazon has really good prices even without the price dips. I just ordered about $500 worth of tools from them, MSRP of over $800.

Yes indeed. Gas is going up. In the last few months the futures price of corn, oats, wheat, and soybeans has also doubled. You might not eat much corn, but the food you eat does. So get ready for a nice spike in the price of groceries in 2011. A hint of good news though, natural gas storage is...

Maybe not Snap-On quality, but mostly made in the USA. Easy availability at Sears and many auto parts stores. Their "Import Car Filter Wrench" is super useful for Toyota oil filter removal. Seems like they have a lot of auto specialty tools that are pretty decent quality, I will definitely...

Lets face it, everybody cruising around in some sort of (electric, hybrid, natural gas, hydrogen, etc) personal mode of transportation, it’s not going to happen. It’s a pipe dream. The days of happy motoring are (almost) over. Sure, it’s not going to happen tomorrow, next month, next year, or...

Apparently it's been a bumper crop year in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. My stepdad has been bringing home plastic grocery bags full of em' in the last month. Being unable to go to the parents house as of late, I had my mom break out the food dehydrator and dry a bunch of em up. Just received my...

I apologize in advance, but this race to the bottom is extremely weak. If you can only afford to add a 55 calorie beer to your dietary budget, maybe you shouldn't drink beer. I often drink beers that are 200-300 calories per 12 oz, but they taste phenomenal. I refuse to drink low calorie beers...

TL;DR As a long time renter, I will say that 100% of landlords are somewhat shady, and will spend as little money as they can. If something is broken, you may have to complain more than once to get anything done. That's just the nature of rentals. The good thing about renting is that if...

Bosch plugs suck in anything other than German cars. I've seen Honda engines fail emissions with Bosch plugs, and then pass after changing to NGK.

I'm not married, but we live together and are about *this* close to being there. I actually stalked her, I had a crush on her in high school and wanted to find out what became of her years later. So I Google searched her name and found it mentioned on one of her friends MySpace profiles. So I...

Call me a label whore or whatnot, but Weber is the only brand of grill that I will buy. Second to none, IMO. Growing up as a kid, all we ever had were the Weber charcoal kettle grills, my parents are still using the exact same ones that we cooked on all those years ago. The line of Weber gas...

Navi units are convenient, and I'm strongly considering one for my move to San Diego. On the other hand, I'm old school. All roads lead to somewhere. A good internal compass always helps. I can point North wherever I'm at. 200 bones is a lot to spend on something I would only use infrequently...

Although 95% of my tools are Snap-On, all of my ratchets are Matco. And I've had great luck with them, over 5 years being used everyday and have never broken one.

99-03 transmissions were bad. 04+ are much better, rarely see any failures.

Misspelling complex or infrequently used words is one thing, but it seems that nobody these days can seem to figure out the difference between too, to, two/their, there, they're and other very basic grammar. It's almost like a very basic form of illiteracy. The problem is that I think it's...

Beyond beautiful here in MN this spring, most days for the last few months have been 60 or above during the day. Haven't had any frost since the earlier part of March.

Agree with Mechtech, by the time the battery conks out, it's probably time for a new one. 2 years or so is all you can really expect out of most phones these days. If you really just want a new battery, I would go OEM. Not all batteries are made in China, the one in my Blackberry was made in...