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I'll go ahead and jump the gun. It's not 2012 in the US just yet. We have 90 minutes to go in the mid-west. 2012 means to me that the mark of 10 years of BITOG is just around the corner! I wish you all the best in the coming year.

Quick background. My mom was injured in a car accident last week and is bedridden for probably a few months. I'm thinking of getting her a netbook so she can use it for email/web/Skype. I'm thinking the quickest and easiest thing to to is pick one up that already has Win7. Get rid of McAfee if...

Has anyone else seen this documentary by one of the Top Gear guys? This was to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the American Apollo moon landings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDrj2dPrTY I caught it this week when it was aired by BBC America. Very good show about what it took to go to the...

I'm looking for Subaru maintenance resources like a Subaru forum, good sources for parts, even a simple maintenance schedule. Due to health issues with my father-in-law, I'm needed to step in to maintain my mother-in-law's 2001 Subaru Forester. It is currently at 107,xxx mi. I suspect the...

Interesting. "There will always be someone crazy enough to buy a Ferrari." Ferrari posts their best year. http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/business/ferrari-bucks-crisis-fiat-may-delay-new-models Guess the benefits their workers get, that make UAW beni's look Spartan, didn't impact their...

Coverage from sources regardless of your inclination. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90041709&ft=1&f=1001 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353234,00.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/08/07/bcnchina107a.xml China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 1:41am BST 09/08/2007 The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United...

Anyone ever changeout a fuel pump on a Chevy Astro? I'm helping my brother-in-law with his Astro (1998 4.3V6 with about 162K) which is not starting. Troubleshooting points to the fuel pump. The pump cannot be heard running when cranking and the relay is definely working. Looking for a...

Was going to replace the O2 sensor on my wife's best freind's Civic today. CEL was giving codes for both rich and lean - car was running poorly and dieing when warmed up. Should have been an easy swap but I get the manifold heat shield off only to find two good sized cracks radiating in opposite...

Let's agree not to take this political - at least within our own country's politics. But I would think we should all be united on this. http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/01/24/google.china.ap/index.html Towing the line of a communist nation is just wrong. Not blaming Google specifically because...

Department of Energy source dispells the assertions that biodiesel takes more energy to make than it produces. American sourced energy sounds good to me. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5081558

The other post about the worst cars of all time reminded me that there are some awesome car designs that deserve to be brought back. Let me start with a few that come to mind for me in no particular order. The VW Thing/Kubbel Wagon: The perfect cross-over vehicle. The best attributes of a SUV...

Did my first bike commute to work today. Started out at 5:45am arrived at 6:35. 50 minutes for my first attempt at a 9.5 mile commute. Nice to say good morning to people you see along the way. Return took exactly 60 minutes because of 90deg temp, fatigue from this morning, and a longer route to...

So I'm prepping the car for vacation and was due for a new air filter. Picked it up from the dealership, OEM. Got it out of the box at home and it is a conventional paper element with about a 3/8in sheet of foam (dry, non-oiled) on the intake side of the paper filter. It's tacked on very neatly...

From an email forwarded to me. Enjoy. "Watch out for little old ladies..! An operations manager for Jack in the Box was late for a meeting and called his boss to tell him he was running late. As he was leaving the voice mail message, he witnessed an accident and went on to provide "play by...

How long ago did the example cited occur? I'm sure the current group II+/III dinos will hold up a little better than those of years past, but this is the primary reason I run a full syn in my turbocharged car.

Oil was in from May till mid-Nov. One good, long highway trip of 1500mi back in June. The rest is in town, driving with some highway. About 70%city/30%highway. Uses no oil at all. Blackstone analysis as follows: Al: 2 Cr: 0 Fe: 7 Cu: 7 Pb: 0 Sn: 0 Mo: 63 Ni, Mn, Au, Ba, K: 0 Bo: 90 Si: 3 Na: 5...

So I offered to change out my wife's best freind's timing belt. This is on a '99 Civic 1.6L auto SOC. The dealer quoted her $700 for timing belt, water pump, and drive belts (3 of em). I've changed timing belts on other cars in the past and never had a rough time. Got all parts for $120...

Despite Redline's claim of high tech base stock and high concentration of moly based FM's, I just don't see a performance advantage over low tech but proven Delo in UOA's. Opinions?

Hey guys, A friend of mine has a 98 Isuzu Amigo with 110,000'ish miles that has started shifting hard at low speeds. Smooths out after it is warmed up. He was talking about taking it in to a shop to get it looked at when I suggested he check his fluid level frist. He told me that the manual...