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I liked this one. Score a win for the little guy. In a rare 9-0 decision - the United States Supreme court ruled that builders and owners may challenge counties in court for excessive permits and fees to use your own land. In a nutshell - they ruled that the county fee must be based on some...

Reuters is claiming Tesla is dropping plans for a low cost vehicle. "according to three sources familiar with the matter and company messages seen by Reuters. ..... The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary...

Seems we never hear much about other parts of the world unless there are some politics surrounding it. There was a 7.4 richter scale earthquake in Taiwan. This is a pretty stunning 31 second video. I hope you can see it without logging in to twitter.

Not a whopping deal, but for those interested in 10W-30...

Probably not surprising since they never seemed to get much traction, but according the the WSJ Fisker is filing for bankruptcy. Also surprising was Nissan is supposedly in talks for them to provide some sort of EV pickup truck? Seems crazy given Nissan's lack of capital currently also...

Dominion installed smart meters. They sent 15 emails that it was going to happen, like it was some sort of coming out party or something? Now they continue to spam me about my smart meter like I am missing something? They have now resorted to paper mail - I am supposed to sign up and get an...

Never seen construction like this - not sure what you call this levered over tab crimp on construction for the base plate. Not that it matters, just have never seen this before. This is a cross for the ubiquitous 7317 size Nissan / Honda filter, FYI.

A couple weeks ago I bought a 24F AGM from Walmart - Clarios build. I tested it in Walmart, and my little tester said it was in good shape. I brought it home and put it on my 1A Noco trickle charger in AGM mode. It took about 24 hours to go green even though my tester said it was pretty much...

As posted on X (twitter). Obviosly all markets are local. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGdifXUWMAAoc_v?format=jpg&name=900x900

Didn't know where to put this - hope here is OK. Puts life into perspective - be thankful for what you have. There was no creator given - but I found it @ Alex Friedman on Twitter (now X)

I have 5 quarts of Mobil1 0W-16 AFE I bought a few years ago when I was less educated. The good news is that it was on rebate. So what to do with it? I am not running it in my Toyota - it will be getting 5W-30 EP on its next change. I am thinking of giving it to Habitat Restore thrift store...

I need to re-screen a bunch of window screens - mine are all faded and probably close to failure. The Spline in the window currently is 1/8 solid it appears. All the spline I find online is hollow core? Does this matter? Any suggestions on a good roller tool? I know - this sounds pretty...

I have two Nissan transfer cases - both call for Matic D - they also have a foot note that in Canada they can use Dex3/merc. The transfer case is the same - all these vehicles assembled in TN - so I assume Dex3 is fine anywhere. Read here there pretty much the same also. I switched to Max Life...

We have all lamented on the crazy prices of cars in the last few years. Seems Newsweek has made it official. "60 percent of American households currently cannot afford to buy a new car, based on Census data. For individuals, the numbers are even worse, with 82 percent of people" Also -...

Threw this Hengst filter on an order from Rock Auto. Was hoping it was made in the plant her in South Carolina, but this one is made in Poland. Seems like a nice heavy filter. However it has fewer inlet holes than any other filter this size I have seen. Compared to the OEM Nissan filter -...

Changed plugs tonight. My VQ40 just rolled past 170K. I changed them the first time early around 70K. Factory spec is 105K miles. These are factory spec NGK Iridium plugs. Same thing went back in - purchased from RA. One of the boots came out broken. I have had this issue before. There is one...

My daughter needed a car for a short drive to work a few days a week. After looking for used one weekend I decided to just give her my Xterra for now, so my +1 car is gone. Since I have been looking more - mostly online, but some in person. I have noticed a trend. Cars with 150K or more miles...

I sort of hope this is a fake, but if it hasn't happened yet, I presume some day it would. The old joke used to be that if microsoft made cars, every once in a while they would just quit. Everyone would have to get out, walk 360 degrees around the car and get back in. This would be accepted as...

Contemplating getting something like this. The heat here is pretty hard on batteries. Anyone run these? Do you think they help? I can see them holding heat in just as much as they keep heat out? Is this stuff something special or basically just reflectix? A roll of reflectix is much cheaper...

I hope this is the right category. This popped up on my amazon page. Don't need it - but it seems like a good price for GearWrench, and it includes all the oddball in between sizes that the cheap sets exclude but you run into occasionally if you mess with enough old junk like I do.