On newer VWs the first thing you have to do to service anything near the firewall, is move the accessory tray to the 'service position'. To do that you have to remove the front bumper cover, then pull the tray forward.
VW/Porsche/Audi seems to have settled on VW performance, Audi parts availability and Porsche cost. Reminiscent of European heaven/hell jokes.
What? 80s cars were plumbers nightmares. Emissions controls added onto old designs. Computer controlled carbs (granting the Honda version was better than the quadrajunk). Bad early turbos with 50k mile lives. End of the 80s was better, but 80 - 84 in particular was a lowpoint.
Engines got simpler again with EFI and oxygen sensors. But the cars themselves got over complicated shortly after.
Jay Leno was last funny decades ago, before he had a TV show.
He's also too expensive.
But anybody would be better than the morons on American Top Gear.
I'd pick the host from 'pinks', the girl with the big tits from extreme 4x4 and Myth Busters and any retired popular NASCAR driver available (to get the rednecks watching).
Modern cars contain fewer ECUs. What used to be a separate ECU is now a thread.
100+? Nonsense, that never happened. Cadillac Alante had about 8, likely the worst in history. 2 is about average 1 for the engine, 1 for brakes. Perhaps another in the tailgate (that was just installed to save wiring costs) and a fourth for the entertainment system.
People only file reports for things that are insured and worth filing a claim on (rate will go up, never file for little stuff). Depending on neighborhood that will be between 10% and 25% of thefts. Nice crime rate reduction.
I don't expect a task force, but I do expect the cops to do something about patterns of things like theft from cars etc. They don't care. I also expect them to do something with evidence like pictures of the criminals in the act. Again they don't care and can't be bothered.
If you have a picture of someone breaking into your car, don't report it. The report will be used against you if you personally find the fucker and break his legs and arms.
I know exactly where 90% of the neighborhood crime lives. The sober living house cluster about 2 miles away.
When stuff gets stolen, the cops will fill out a report so you can file an insurance claim. That is _all_ they will do. If you bitch, you might get a little 'stick time' yourself.
The cops like it this way. People quickly learn how useless the cops are, they stop filing reports and the crime statistics get better.
The fact used cars don't duplicate phone features is a plus not a minus.
In 10 years this car will be an orphan with no parts available and no existing manufacturer. They will be about as common as Deloreans were 10 years after they stopped production.
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How would you know? You haven't done anything to it.
On newer VWs the first thing you have to do to service anything near the firewall, is move the accessory tray to the 'service position'. To do that you have to remove the front bumper cover, then pull the tray forward.
VW/Porsche/Audi seems to have settled on VW performance, Audi parts availability and Porsche cost. Reminiscent of European heaven/hell jokes.
If someone wants your car they get a key, a lock cylinder and an ECU from a junkyard and bring it all with them.
Of course the '2004' part makes your car immune from professional car thieves.
Real professional car thieves just use flatbed tow trucks anyhow. Nothing can stop that.
By the time the cars are out of warranty and free from the stealership most of the needed computer tricks (codes etc) have been figured out.
You often can't work on a one year old car, but why would you?
Cats last much longer when stored in the garage between tests.
What? 80s cars were plumbers nightmares. Emissions controls added onto old designs. Computer controlled carbs (granting the Honda version was better than the quadrajunk). Bad early turbos with 50k mile lives. End of the 80s was better, but 80 - 84 in particular was a lowpoint.
Engines got simpler again with EFI and oxygen sensors. But the cars themselves got over complicated shortly after.
The main difference is the car makers put the effort in to make sure none of the parts are too good and last too long. Precision scheduled wear out.
I would be hard for them to find any that _aren't_. It's baked into muslim culture. Only the bottoms are gay, the tops are just normal muslims.
Maybe 10% of muslims are purely straight, about the same % that are gay in western culture. The ones where nature outweighs nurture...
Rail is either optimized for passengers or freight.
America's freight rail system is better than europe's by any reasonable measure. Cost / tonmile etc.
Chapman was a notorious asshole when drunk. Er, arsehole.
You don't have to win, you just have to _hurt_ the motherfucker.
Next time, he will find someone who believed his kindergarten teacher's lies and doesn't defend himself.
What? It's not reasonable to be a pussy.
Study some history you twat. The best way to get hit repeatedly is to not do anything about it.
Self defense is reasonable.
Jay Leno was last funny decades ago, before he had a TV show.
He's also too expensive.
But anybody would be better than the morons on American Top Gear.
I'd pick the host from 'pinks', the girl with the big tits from extreme 4x4 and Myth Busters and any retired popular NASCAR driver available (to get the rednecks watching).
What kind of moron is ashamed of 'tax avoidance'?
Tax avoidance is legal by definition. Anybody not doing it should be ashamed.
Apple owns the chump market. Duh.
It also caps their market share.
Modern cars contain fewer ECUs. What used to be a separate ECU is now a thread.
100+? Nonsense, that never happened. Cadillac Alante had about 8, likely the worst in history. 2 is about average 1 for the engine, 1 for brakes. Perhaps another in the tailgate (that was just installed to save wiring costs) and a fourth for the entertainment system.
People only file reports for things that are insured and worth filing a claim on (rate will go up, never file for little stuff). Depending on neighborhood that will be between 10% and 25% of thefts. Nice crime rate reduction.
I don't expect a task force, but I do expect the cops to do something about patterns of things like theft from cars etc. They don't care. I also expect them to do something with evidence like pictures of the criminals in the act. Again they don't care and can't be bothered.
If you have a picture of someone breaking into your car, don't report it. The report will be used against you if you personally find the fucker and break his legs and arms.
I know exactly where 90% of the neighborhood crime lives. The sober living house cluster about 2 miles away.
In American English all roads are highways. You are looking for 'divided highways'. That number is about 1/4 the highway one.
That the death rate in America for all roads.
Freeways/divided highways are about 1/4th that.
Wait till someone attaches a piece of jagged metal to the robot..
The robot will 'key' all the cars near it's patrol route.
60 seconds. Literally laughing.
When stuff gets stolen, the cops will fill out a report so you can file an insurance claim. That is _all_ they will do. If you bitch, you might get a little 'stick time' yourself.
The cops like it this way. People quickly learn how useless the cops are, they stop filing reports and the crime statistics get better.
He has a bad case of the 'Chomskys'!
The fact used cars don't duplicate phone features is a plus not a minus.
In 10 years this car will be an orphan with no parts available and no existing manufacturer. They will be about as common as Deloreans were 10 years after they stopped production.
I'd like to see that starting with ECUs for normal cars.