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So I’m in a rental (loaner) Sienna for a couple of days while my truck is in the shop. I’ve had two days in it solo, so I can write about driving dynamics but not so much life with kids in it. This particular van is a light metallic silver with light colored interior. While the predator grill...

This is pretty wild. After a few weeks in the Tacoma hybrid, I’ve noticed that sometimes if I need to launch quicker, it had the same feel of a stick as the driver would release the clutch under load until it hooks. Did some reading - there is no liquid torque converter in this transmission...

2025 Tacoma Limited, one week and 500 miles. Here’s the review after one week of ownership. BLUF - I like the truck, very much. we traded our F150 XL for it and I’m coming from a large, quiet, excellent driving, highly capable half ton with gobs of space and well-sorted dynamics and tow/haul...

A week with a 2021 BMW X3e (hybrid) Well, I said I would report on it after having some time in it, so here goes. Here’s the review. This is my first in-depth time in any BMW product, so I’m largely not familiar with anything the brand has built since the late 90’s, as several of my friends...

I figured out something very cool today. We’ve had a problem where it’s hard to open the garage door from within the vehicle when arriving home at night. We’d figured out it was related to the house lighting which are now all CFLs and LEDs. Everything was fine during the day, but most nights...

ZTR uses 11x4 tires and wheels. They are 11 years old, and one has had to be re-seated so many times the sealing surfaces are about done. For the time spent yesterday, it’s time to replace. What’s the bitog go-to? Another set of pneumatics? PVA foam (risk flat spotting)? Something like those...

“It’s me, me, I’m the problem it’s me.” - Taylor swift Don’t read this unless you are bored. My wife and I took a stroll through a few dealers last week. I’m considering trading the F150 since we don’t tow a camper any longer, and my commute has gotten longer, and you’ve probably read my posts...

I posted the bulk of this in another thread but mostly it belongs here. We just brought home a 2024 rav4 hybrid (AWD) for my wife. It is far more impressive as a DD than it should be. It handles wonderfully - instant power, and is decently calm at putting the power down until you really dig the...

We took a trip to Norway to visit family, and while in Oslo had the opportunity to ride in their buses. Goodness. These were 2 segment buses that had a pivot (hinge?) in the middle. So they were long. They had excellent seating, solid AC, and air ride. They’d drop 3” at every stop, and then...

Ok so this is getting a bit more real with the wife and I, this is in the lead running for a potential DD. I’d much prefer a sedan in many ways - a 328 manual or even 528 sedan … but I commute in to town with all of the bro-trucks and service vans with unfortunately the regular tailgating and...

this was also posted in the “what are you doing today” thread, but it will have more future value I think, over here. Copy: ************ 2015 CRV, (CVT), 5 qts of ATF drained/filled. 85k miles. This was interesting. CVT had drain/fill at 50k with Honda hcf-2. No issue, no change in any...

In a moment of desperation, irritation and impulse buy, I picked up ryobi’s inline 40V blower/mulcher vacuum. our trees exploded, I’ve not dealt with it, haven’t had the time, and mulching with the mower reached the end of the line. the store didn’t have what I wanted, so it was either the...

A good friend of mine just picked up a 2016 Yukon xl with the 8 speed. After driving it a couple days and getting it good and warmed up, the transmission notably shudders in most shifts. 130k miles on it. Google tells me this is a known problem and a class action lawsuit hit at some point. I...

It’s been a good run. My ariens ztr originally had a rather small sealed lead acid battery. It was perhaps 1/3 the size of the standard garden tractor battery. That sucker lasted 7 years with no care. It got rather weak at 4 years and I might have to bump the starter a couple times to get it to...

I’ve never had to do this so much to a honda. I have a 2 year old EU2k. It’s probably got 80 hours on it, and has been bad about surging after sitting. I’ve had it apart 3 times, and clearing the pilot tube every time fixes it. All my fuel has stabil in it, and i added a fuel filter the last...

I’ve got a frankenbrew pressure washer.. an AR pump mated to a predator engine. It gets used 4-5 times per year, 3-5 hours each time, and always stored with pump saver run through it with the rope pulled a few times. yesterday I ran it about 3 hours, and it never made full pressure, the engine...

A few of us decided to get together and revive an ‘11 Elantra that had been sitting for 3 years. the owner had left the gas tank full, but obviously the tires were flat, it was covered in so much crud, battery was dead, etc.. the owner was able to clean it, install a battery and pump up the...

My son‘s car. He’s moving with a rental truck in a few days, so I drove his laden 2018 civic up a few days ahead of him. His is a 1.5T with the 6MT, civic sport trim. My daily is somewhere between an 18 F150 and a 14 Lexus GS. my wife has a mid-teens crv. i didn’t realize the true gold mine...

while I’ve been offered test drives in friends’ EVs for several years now, I’ve repeatedly declined until Friday. I ended up behind the wheel of dual motor model 3. As a former stick-shift driver, this vehicle awakened several memories for me. I can see them being highly desirable in dense...

I’ve been noticing a change in the starting note in my f150 lately and started paying more attention to the battery voltages. I’ve got a small digital voltmeter mounted. In other posts I’ve noted the stock behavior: - 12.4v cruise - 14.4v deceleration - 13.5v when lights are on or AC is on the 2...