Any truck driver worth his salt already needs to know how to do basic repairs on a truck. Also, most drivers that deal with any specialized kind of load need to know how to drive the machines they are loading (excavators, loaders, etc) as well as how to work with their trailer and use chains to properly secure their… Read more

Insurance is not an issue at all. I have experience in the specialized trucking field and most of the specialized (wide and heavy) trucking companies are part of a self-insured type of insurance called captive insurance
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Looks a lot better in my opinion. Also, I am already seeing a lot of the current Volts starting to get reduced
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I think GM is finally heading in the direction of leaning out all the mess they previously had and I do not see any large benefit from an FCA partnership.
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It looks to have a little microswitch in the middle of it all so breaking apart is very likely
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I’m sure that choke knob could be made up with the proper OBD2 cable, tuning software, Arduino and some duct tape.
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This, I have been helping a friend try to find a new 6MT for two weeks and it seems they only exists in digital images
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It is hit or miss. All of them advertise that they will help rebuild your credit but in order to do so they need some sort of bank support on their back end. Since a lot of these use their office file cabinet as the bank, nothing gets reported. The only exception is almost all failures to pay will get reported.
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Oh yeah, I am an avid visitor of all the salvage auctions in the area for buying cars and parts for all my projects and the breakdown of the buyers at the auctions is usually 5% project guys like me, 5% Exporters, 50% Junkyards and Dismantlers and 40% Buy Here Pay Here Dealers. Some of them have their own large… Read more

The hood is kind of odd but only 510 were made in 1997:
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There are also a lot of shady Buy Here Pay Here dealers that sell salvage or title washed cars like the ones I mentioned previously: http://hoonable.kinja.com/how-scam-artis… Read more

Buy Here Pay Here Lots are a whole crazy animal. I had contracts with some lots for GPS tracking devices. The devices we sold and installed could track the car as well as disable the starter for non-payment and about 60% off all devices installed would get engaged at some point. The Buy Here Pay Here dealers are… Read more

How about UberPool and a promo code. 10 mile trip for $0.14 arriving for NYIAS

The electric power steering bit was the best. I am glad I found a good inspection station for my cars because many of the state inspection places around here live off of converting customers from an inspection to an unnecessary flush of some sort of fluid and will try to upsell you till the end of time while you are… Read more

He should have told him that it does have 16 valves along with an additional 8.
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It just needs to lose the lime green touches and it will be a great little car.
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The automakers have done pretty well with sending me notifications for recalls but the main issue I have is shortage of parts. Many times the letter will come in but the parts are a month out. I also think that recalled cars can be assigned to a dealer that is local to the owner of the car. This way dealers can have… Read more

Oh yeah, I have seen all kinds of quick fixes. One truck in particular had a rear differential filled with sawdust and after a couple of weeks it started squealing. Another Mitsubishi I saw had the valve cover taken off and the whole valvetrain packed with grease to quiet it down. Most people are lucky to not run into… Read more

The kind of people that do this buy cars that are in need of repair and apply short lasting quick fixes and when the car breaks down after a few days you are stuck as their name is not on any of the paperwork. Read more

I see it all the time around here and you used to be able to search the sellers number to see if they have multiple cars listed but now they have gotten smarter and set Google Voice or another call forwarding number. Read more