The problem is the used car market still hasn't recovered from the pandemic upshot. Prices have come down some but not nearly as much as they should.

If it's burning oil that means it's getting too hot. That's not okay, and this seems like it might be a loss if it's got an electrical problem eating headlights.

Electrical issues like that can spread and I wouldn't want to someday upen up the fuse box or ECU and see something has melted. The newer the car, the more electronics it has for everything, and honestly that just means more parts can fail in the event that it's already got an electrical issue.

I had an 05' mini cooper base model. The radio wouldn't shut off like it should or would turn on by itself. It burned up the 30 pin apple connector you'd connect your phone to. It eventually started having other issues with the electronics (tail lights that were always on (even the third brake light), etc. It also had transmission issues (which I don't believe were related to the electrical problem, but to a recall that requires the transmission be rebuilt). It made it to 130k miles before I sold it (to a used car lot) but only just. Oh. And the hazards stopped working.

Never had engine problems with it but the electrical and transmission issues made it too expensive to fix vs buying a new (used) car. My brother put a junkyard engine in an older focus and right now that's my daily driver while we rebuild my other car.

If it still runs and it's not showing symptoms just do the oil changes more regularly, and fix what you think is reasonable. But think about selling it because it's probably a ticking time bomb.

As an alternative to using a credit card online is a good idea, as good an idea as any for security and anti-tracking if nothing else. But only if you remember to use them.

One other thing is, (and I'm not positive this is true), but people on disability can't have over a certain amount of cash. Giving a gift card makes sense in that instance because it no longer counts as cash at that point.

If that's scouring then there's not enough lubrication, or possibly because the engine is investing dusty air through the intake (bad filter/ not enough filter changes etc). Some scouring is normal over time, but once there's not enough material for the rings to create a good seal you'll have combustion problems. At that point the pistons can't squeeze the aerated fuel/air mixture hard enough to make it go boom and the engine will run badly. A machine shop could machine those cylinders and sleeve them but the camera is a relatively cheap car with an engine that's probably also fairly inexpensive (enough where having this kind of work done wouldn't necessarily be cost effective).

The reason you should change your oil regularly and more than recommended is because over time the filter material breaks down (not the oil), and can also circulate in the engine. Even if it doesn't break down it can clog with particulates from the oil (as oil heats up and cools down etc). Full synthetic is for turbo charged engines. It doesn't have a meaningful effect on the longevity of the engine to use synthetic in place of regular or synthetic blend oil.

All that said, for the scouring, it does depend on how deep the scouring is. If your engine is running rough, and this is the cause, you need a new engine. If not? I would look for other problems).

Is the engine leaking oil, have you had a tune up (did you change spark plugs and coils when you had the tube up), is your engine air filter clean or clogged. Is there a noticeable change in the amount of coolant in the reservoir (while the engine is cold).

It looks like the engine that's likely in your car is about $1300 used. These engines seem really really reliable. It'll cost more than that to have the block machined + removed and reinstalled. Might be worth it to buy a used or rebuilt engine if you can.

I'd say so. That either looks like burning rather than just scouring, but the image quality isn't the greatest making it hard to tell. Burning suggests that something is leaking (head gasket or more than likely a piston ring), and let something other than combustion gases (and fuel) in there. If that's the case you might be able to salvage a block by having it machined, but that depends on whether or not there's enough material and other cylinders don't look similar. It also depends on how rare the engine is and whether a new or used/remanned engine is available for the same or a cheaper price.

Can't tell how deep that pitting or burning is. Don't know what the rest of the engine looks like. If it's got tar in it that started out as oil it probably is junk.

The recommendations are for how much maintenance you need to have anything covered under warranty. If it says 10K miles per oil change, it means 10k is the longest you can drive the vehicle between services before they will no longer cover things under warranty. You should always do regular scheduled maintenance more than is recommended, especially for oil changes.

I think you brought this up as a *whatabout" to something I said as a rebuttal rather than an agreement so maybe check your tone. You didn't say anything in your comment necessarily agreeing with the original comment at any point.

And we should ban them too. I love this argument. We need better user data privacy laws, and this whataboutism does not change the fact that China is a hostile foreign nation.

I can appreciate that people view Google and Meta and so on as very similar in their transgressions. But as was pointed out in the original comment, this is a cost to benefit ratio type of analysis for the federal government and they gain more by keeping Meta and Google going and can enact other measures to prevent that from hurting them (usually reactionary), so to them this is fine. It is and always has been about what the US government can to do protect itself and enrich itself. Enrichment doesn't always come in the form of monetary value.

If you're upset at your own government (or government adjacent tech entities) gathering this type of data from users, you should be for banning them too, not keeping tik tok.

I've always wanted like... A townhome. But the problem is anything like that (even away from city/population centers but still near enough to commute is astronomically expensive.

They aren't protecting you. They are protecting themselves from what you may give their enemies. Don't think just because the federal government is doing something "for the people" that nominally it's not about the government itself. National security is literally the government protecting itself by protecting its citizens.

Two car lengths on the highway is not enough car lengths to make a meaningful difference in the event of a crash or giving you time to react to an emergency situation up ahead.

That being said, I respect that you leave any car lengths at all and it's probably better than nothing. Especially since other drivers see any more than that as a challenge to enter that gap. Which is dangerous as shit and they are wrong but won't learn even after they wreck doing it.

Considering how many mean tweets he's just blocked people for or erased, he apparently is?

I still have the scar from the head wound but you can only see it in winter time when I'm paler, and it's sort of receded some into my hair line. Even then. It's very faint. I don't have any scars on the leg (that I can see anyway) Or my back. It's the kind of thing that didn't seem scary or worry me at the time, but looking back I know I could have died. I think I don't remember a lot of things because I was on painkillers for a good majority of the time.

Of course the other thing is that I have to go off the accounts of people who were there at the time and they were mostly kids (and one person's mom) who couldn't give the cops a good description of the guy or the car or anything.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10815000/

Short answer: In adults not in children. Yes. Longer answer in the link.

Does it count if I don't really remember it? I was 8. It was a week before summer break. I was waiting for my mother to come home from work (sitting on the front steps to our house). A friend of mine called me across the street. I went. I didn't make it to the other side. Hit and run driver crashed right into me, dragged me half a block and left me for dead. Neighbors said he didn't even look back. They never caught him. I don't remember waking up in the ambulance. I had a head wound and a broken leg (compound fracture, pierced the skin). I remember them having to set the bone and then take me to another hospital (a children's hospital). I remember being drugged. And waking up to my mom sleeping in the chair next to me. I have no memory of anything from the time I was crossing the street to the time I was in the ICU at the first hospital. They wouldn't let me move my head. I don't remember being scared or in pain or anything until they had to set the bone to straighten out my leg to splint it.

Even the aftermath (10 weeks in a body cast that went from my breast bone down to cover everything but the toes of my broken leg) is kind of a hazy mess. Except that I then fell down the stairs and broke my arm too. Added insult to injury.

That's true. That means the circulated air coming from that filter is clean. The problem is there is no air barrier between that air once it's in the cabin, and any of the passengers, the cargo space, or behind any of the interior panels where dust builds up very fast. Peanut allergies are one of the most prevalent allergies, and can be some of the most severe, where even breathing in air contaminated with peanut oil can cause an anaphylactic reaction. People often forget that this dust gets deposited behind the panels the passengers and crew interact with and it accumulates to what I would consider to be significant levels (6-8" layers).

I don't like or trust NFT's and honestly, I don't think anybody else should for the most part. I feel the same about a lot of new crypto. But I don't necessarily distrust blockchain because of that. I think it has its own set of problems, in that where the record is kept is important and therefore a target. We already have problems with leaks of PII. Any blockchain database that stores the data to ID people will be a target too.

This is silly. At some point I should take a belly panel off and show the amount of dust that builds up inside planes. We don't even clean that out when we overhaul. Just the bits that have electrical wiring that could cause a fire. It is not ridiculous to think that some of that dust (and therefore allergens) could be recirculated into the air through the ventilation system simply because there's not a lot except plastic/composite paneling separating passengers from it (dust covered insulating material).

EU laws in EU countries prohibit the registering of vehicles that don't meet certain guidelines that would protect pedestrians, yes?

So, the EU banned these trucks because they present a danger to pedestrians, and someone modded one with rubberized bumpers to get it registered. That's it. That's the story.

What is the point of limiting this to the tablet that doesn't work well as a smart dock for multiple users (something it was marketed to do), and pro phones? The new streamer is a $100 device and it's not included? This is garbage. There's no reason for it unless Google is trying to get more people to buy the pixel pro phones. I was lead to believe they sold better than their smaller counterparts and now, all the sudden they do this? Trying to justify that thousand dollar price tag, huh Google.

I don't want that though. I'd rather have schedules and toggles than an AI.