Yesterday I was surprised to find myself annoyed by a hybrid vehicle. You see, usually when a vehicle annoys me, it's either because it's an SUV, or if it's a small car, it's because the driver is taking up an equivalent amount of space on the road as if they were an SUV. Well, not as if they, the driver, were themselves an SUV, but you get my ( Read more... )

So, a few weeks ago, I had my car vandalized. It also may have been a theft attempt, but if so, those were some pretty stupid thieves. In any case, the only obvious damage was a mangled key hole on the drivers side door. Looked like someone had jammed a screwdriver in there and thrashed it around a bit ( Read more... )

I haven't talked about cars for a couple of months, so here's an update.

Maddy mentioned in a recent post that we're planning on moving. It's true. We realized recently that as fun as it might be to maintain an old ramshackle house with a huge yard, even though there's no point in investing any money in something we don't own, it would be more ( Read more... )

A few days ago I spent $75 filling up my gas tank. It was only a little over 16 gallons, so you do the math ( Read more... )

You can't drive in the rain without working defrost in your car. You just can't -- it's too dangerous ( Read more... )

A while ago, I bought a diesel car in hopes of converting it to run on waste-vegetable oil. Well, that conversion is expensive, and the car doesn't get great mileage in the first place and so I've been rethinking things ( Read more... )

Statistics are generally a bunch of meaningless numbers, but even more so when you're talking about ideas that are vague to begin with ( Read more... )

Friends, meet Daisy:


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So after taking my dashboard apart, pulling the instrument cluster from the car, disassembling it until I could hold the tumblers of the odometer in my hands, and then taking that apart, and fixing the spindle they rotate on, and then putting it all back together, my odometer worked ( Read more... )

(still can't think of a name for the mercedes. suggestions?)

No, my new car is not a fixer upper. In fact, it's almost in mint condition.

The fixer upper is meLong before we purchased it, I decided that whatever our next car was, I would try to teach myself to do most of the maintenance myself, to save money. I've always been pretty good with ( Read more... )