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Nice! good for mpg. My wife gets miffed when she gets less than 50. I had to pull the belly pans off her car as they were filling up with sand and falling off, so that has hurt highway mpg a bit, and I think the replacement tires (Conti somethings) also hurt a pinch.

Did they bring back 16" wheels? My wife was miffed that any option package on her '21 would bump her into the lower mpg wheels. She really wanted the cold weather package but settled for less, in part due to this.

That's a good point. When someone above you says something is true, often we take them at their word. Starting when we were little, we had to trust in our parents and then our teachers. We were a long ways from being able to dig deep into topics and were stuck with trusting those authority...

IMO Dunning-Kruger. And I mean that from my own perspective of having been "convinced" while never having actually researched. The more exposure I get to new ideas or even just well versed people "mansplaining" the more I realize how little I actually know. Yet I had been quite convinced...

Not sure, not sure we have much evidence here (forget who has a Nissan V6 with over 250k on it, his username escapes me at the moment). But for maintenance I'm not sure that CVT fluid is that expensive relative to other ATF's, and doing a few quarts/liters every 30k is probably about the same...

I remember those old days, cap rotor wires and plugs every 30k or whatever. Finally got around to doing plugs on our Toyota's, 105k and 125k. Not sure why, they sure looked fine to me, but eh, I can live with doing that every 5 years. Probably will only do twice. I just have to remember, the...

Had to do a trip up into the mountains of VT yesterday; saw a low of 30mpg at one point. Apparently doing 80 uphill is bad for mpg? got 36 for the 256mile roundtrip. Normally I get 40-42 with a bit of sedate driving. I know some of the VW's could beat that with a stick but it's a small group...

So multiple generations are to blame?

And one has to wonder if it'll just be better in the future. Better apps, more chargers -> less planning necessary. Rural might still be a problem but wasn't it always? rough roads, long distances between gas stations, no signs, etc. If I wasn't cheap I'd contemplate one. It'd cover 90% of...

I'm on like my third, but I only do simple web browsing on mine. But I've found that about 5 years is all I can expect. Battery life gets poor and it gets slow. I'm starting to think about trading my iDevices at about this point in time for whatever is newest and cheapest. YMMV but figured...

Took the daughter to some dance intensive that she will be at for the next six weeks. Up in VT. Great day to drive, skies were clear, with some of those big fluffy clouds, with visibility for miles on tops of the hills. Nice day, got a bit of rain on the way home but nothing bad. Good day...

The more one invests into some decision, the more they feel a need to continue that path, lest they be found wrong. Hard to admit to error, especially the more invested they are, as it means they spent more time money effort into the wrong thing. And sometimes the alternative is too damaging...

5% hit on 40mpg car means 38mpg. 5% at 15mpg and you won't notice, not when you're spending all that time leaving stoplights at WOT. :)

What's it like to ride an e-bike if there is wind? Whenever I ride my bike and there is a breeze... I feel like god is smiling on me when I have a tailwind, and that I've somehow annoyed them when I have a headwind. Is it any different on an e-bike?

Not too much at home infuriates me, but I tend to avoid tech in the first place. Now at work, would it kill IT or whoever spec's out TV's and meeting devices to buy equipment that works in the first place? Every. Single. Meeting. will take 10 minutes to figure out how the presenter can get...

Growing up I lived next to a theater and would go for free--just had to spend 30 minutes or so helping to clean up the theater when the show was over (single screen, one or two showings per night). I think the cost got up to $2.50 a ticket? in college I think the matinee was a buck. Long time...

I'm getting to the point where I don't like going out. Hard to hit pause in the theater for a bio break. And while the audio is never loud enough at home, it's always deafening in the theater (or it used to be, maybe today it'd be just right?). Plus aren't tickets like $10 now? These days I...

On my Camry I had one pop out (but only one joint). I barely noticed, although I thought it a bit odd that it was cornering on the door handles. "All Camry's do this, right? perfectly normal." Hey, the car was still moving, so whatever was broken wasn't all the necessary.

Enjoy! I find that around 21C I can live without it... but much above that and it's required, especially on highway drives. The wind noise from having a window open is deafening after a while.

Ramping up my workday but worried that if my allergies are starting this early, then the rest of this summer is going to be awful. Spent a few minutes looking at next year's budget. Why does it seem to go out faster than it comes in? No matter the pay raise, there's always something else in...