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Most OEMs design to 80th percentile. 6'4" is 99th percentile. I'm 6'1" and I barely fit in most vehicles. My head hits the headliner in our Mach 1, unless I slouch really bad. In the Bronco, having my son's car seat in the back pushed my seat too far forward and I physically didn't fit, so...

I totally feel your pain!! I was with Allstate for 14 years when my wife got hit in her Jeep (150mph collision, she was going 45ish, moron was going 100+). Allstate pulled some extremely rotten stunts when I filed it under our own to subrogate. I was later told that our agent was "churning"...

Do NOT use any interior product on exterior trim. Even the "AutoZone" bottles labeled for outdoor trim do not last longer than week (Back to Black, Trim Restore, Etc). I bought a bottle of Chemical Guys VRP thinking it would help, nope. It's decent on interiors but awful for exterior. Also...

The only notifications I need in life are: If a family member, friend, or business associate calls with something important If someone rings my doorbell and they aren't a solicitor That's it. All other notifications should remain silent and hidden in whatever poorly-programmed app they came...

I used to use Chemical Guys JetSeal. Now, I use DuraCoating Technology GraphX6. At most, dealerships may use a spray sealant that lasts all of 24 hours. But, most vehicles leave the lots completely unprotected. Add in the "I don't trust dealerships" factor, and I'll do my own maintenance...

I absolutely agree, and I advocate for dash cams. Truth needs to prevail in all cases. I'm just stating reality that the most irresponsible people on the road are typically the ones with the least insurance and least assets, so if they slam into you, you're screwed no matter what. In my...

I've driven all over the US for work, and I used to live outside the Boston area. Northerners are more aggressive for sure, but something about SC is a 50/50 mix of ultra-aggressive and ultra-slow. That's why it's more dangerous. Add in, to your point, lack of enforcement and it's a breeding...

You will not find worse drivers in the entire country than in South Carolina.

I tell the dealer not to wash the vehicle. I bring it home, detail it inside and out, seal the paint and trim.

I put in a dash cam a week after my son was born. We were driving home from the hospital and someone crossed the double-yellow at us (extremely common occurrence around here). I had to go off-road to avoid being hit head on with a newborn in the back. Dash cam went in the following week...

Evil is what distracts - Franz Kafka We, as a society, peaked in the 90's.

My wife figured out how to turn that off. My phone was connected to AndroidAuto and every group text I was part of kept screaming that chime through the speakers. It was awful. If I remember correctly it was both settings in the vehicle and in the phone to finally turn that off. I wish there...

You hit the nail on the head. I think the ultra-loud pneumatic systems cause more harm than good. A nice loud 12v horn will do the job properly without getting anyone angry enough to pull out a Hi-point 9mm in traffic (though some people will do that if you don't let them merge from the...

Pros: Very loud, gets people's attention Great for scaring deer away from the road at night (see one, blast it, they all avoid you) Prank potential for people who appreciate a good prank (not random people in public, they hate it) Cons: Very loud, gets people's attention (often the bad kind)...

You are correct Reminds me of the "Quarter Pounder" vs "Third Pounder" dilemma though, in regards to the general public being too intentionally uninformed, and shouldn't really be qualified to operate equipment. A minor buffer such as fuel tank level makes sense, but for practically...

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I would never trust brake-by-wire. It's why I don't trust throttle-by-wire, why I despise electronic steering, and SDV technology. To make these systems truly safe, there needs to be a redundant safety circuit and controlled failure mode, which adds even...

I couldn't agree more on the dual HVAC. [laughs in thermodynamics] Maybe Ford should design bathtubs with dual climate control, let me know how well that works out :crackup: As for door locks, I liked it best in the 90's. Key or fob, single relay. Hit a button, all doors unlock. Hit...

Honestly, I'm pretty happy with the trim package I got. All I cared about was having 4 doors and the 2.7l (since a 5.0l wasn't an option...). I don't do off-roading, so the fancier 4A stuff wasn't appealing to me- just extra weight and worse fuel economy. Mine's as base as it gets otherwise...

I don't name vehicles. Call it superstition or just plain pattern recognition, but every time my wife has named a vehicle we bought, that vehicle winds up getting annihilated, the offender has little or no insurance, and we lose.

I wouldn't worry too much about Skynet/AI. Most of the framework was built by pretentious Redditors who claimed they were programmers during Covid, got hired by companies that would hire anything with a pulse, and have routinely churned out diarrhea-tier software ever since. That's a large...