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Our latest acquisition had a bad contact and 5% limo tint over the 20% in the glass making everything behind the B pillars uncomfortably close to opaque. After soldering the contact back on and peeling off the film, my solution to function testing "out of season" was to turn the defroster ...

That's more true than it should be because of the short-term mentality encouraged in business schools and boardrooms. I firmly believe too many of the wrong pennies are being pinched and the companies themselves would be money ahead spending more in development and manufacturing to save on the back ...

The advertised EyeSight features that would be potentially relevant are adaptive cruise and automatic emergency braking. Other manufacturers put both those features on Amish vehicles and one would hope there's not a lot of overlap between those who would spec a third pedal and those who would be pro...

Funny, other manufacturers manage to integrate those features with a proper transmission...

With respect to the first question, it depends. Many newer cars can completely shut off the injectors in a mode commonly called DFCO (Deceleration Fuel Cut-Off), but older injected vehicles and especially carbureted ones will probably keep some small amount of fuel flowing. That amount of fuel is un...

The only clutch failures I have experienced have been with the hydraulics. In my experience, they haven't been total failures. Using the clutch normally still produced enough disengagement to help. Rev matching had to be much better than was normally necessary, but still not nearly as exact as is re...

The studies are a little "loaded" looking only at the following vehicle. Every time I've had AEB activate it's INCREASED my chances of a rear-end crash by abruptly braking for a right-turning vehicle for which I've already made adjustments so it will be out of the travel lane before I get ...

It's a four-door "classic" Beetle with a Continental kit and a generic '30s nose.

The scangauge isn't necessarily any more accurate than the speedometer. The only potential inaccuracy it takes out of the system is the input and display elements of the speedometer (whatever form those take in any given vehicle), and that inaccuracy is as likely to be in the opposite direction of t...

Only one of my manuals is EPA-rated and stock. Looking at that one and comparing to the revised numbers, I have multiple tanks at approximately 115% of the highway rating and an overall average of almost the highway rating, about 115% of combined.

You say that like activists getting wrapped around the axle on the negative aspects of the status quo and demanding changes that turn out to be net harmful is something new. As but one example, the plastic bags now viewed as a scourge on the world by environmentalists were forced into near-universal...

Ridiculous. Nothing innovative about that, and no expensive time in the lab to discover the operating principle. Obvious to a four-year-old. That should be laughed out of the patent office.

17 here. Significantly different if weighted by current typical mileage, as the babymobile gets driven out of necessity a lot of the time and it's the youngest by a significant margin.

'89 Grand Marquis.

Absolutely. My first car was built with a 3.27 axle. I would get around 24 on the back roads between cities and about 12 commuting in city traffic. When I put 3.55s in it, I got more like 20-22 on the back roads, but the city commute went up to close to 15.