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I have used Ram mounts on our boats to hold up some pretty heavy (Raymarine GPS/radar/plotter displays, 4-5 pounds) devices and had no problems with anything coming loose, or being unreadable when underway. In the JT, I have a Bulletpoint arm for my iPhone. It works fine, but the setup would...

Unfortunately, ours has a steel wheel spare. Once a year, at oil changes, on your birthday, or anything else that reminds you to work the spare mechanism is all that matters.

PSA for those of you who live where there is ice, snow and salt and are new to pick up trucks. You want to drop the spare inspect and clean it once a year. That works the little crane, and it forces you to get rid of the wheel eating caked salt crud that accumulates on the top of the wheel...

If you Jack it up, you’ll need plywood or blocking under the stands to prevent bases from sinking during freeze/thaw cycles. And if you Jack it up you may want to consider removing the tires, or adding locking lug nuts (depending on location). That said, I stored boats on trailers through...

Use the proper size for the wires heat shrink crimp connectors. I’ve been using them on boats for about three decades now without problems. I’ve even used them in bilges where they could be submerged from time to time We had a solar panel on the cabin of the current boat when we bought it...

Sounds like I have about a decade on you kids. Trust me you’ll wish you could still do the stuff you did when you were in your sixties soon enough.

No argument draining from the bottom is the cleanest way to go. Boats do present the problem of either not being able to get the drain plug out (let alone, a decent sized drain pan under the engine) or lack of overhead clearance to pour fresh oil in. On previous boats I had to use a mini...

We have a Reverso system on the boat. It not only sucks the oil out of both engines, but by flipping a switch will also pump new oil back into the engine. Considering each engine holds 20 liters of oil, it really makes a nasty job much easier.

In the past four years we’ve put 400 hours on each of the two Volvo D6s (5.5 liter in line six) in our boat. The only additive I use is Startron enzyme treatment because the fuel sits in the tank. Obviously we are using marine diesel, but it’s the same as highway without the road tax. Marine...

A plumber did this to a nearly full 175 gallon home heating oil tank in our basement so he could change the filter housing. It worked like a charm. (He also removed and plugged the gauge and vent tube while using the vac.). He also added a shutoff valve between the tank and the new filter housing.

9600 miles and it happened on the highway going over a set of bridge expansion joints. I took it in to the dealer and they checked everything and then replaced the steering dampener. They told me the replacement part number was different from the oem, the suggestion being it was an upgrade...

Sorry I mistyped. The 3.0 eco diesel gets an 8HP75. From what I can tell, the transmissions designated “8HP” are made by ZF, and the versions starting with 850 are the fca license ones. The 850RE & 845RE are both manufactured by FCA and performance specification wise identical to the ZF...

The 850RE 850HP are versions of the ZF 8HP transmission family. These are built under license from ZF by FCA. The RE is the gas version and HP is the diesel version. This transmission is used in a number of European brands, it’s in the wife’s SQ5 and a friend’s Porsche Cayenne as well as a...

Looks cool, not sure it would be fun to get the hardtop panels on & off on a regular basis, and it would definitely suck cleaning snow off the windshield or changing wiper blades.

I hadn't thought of the Subaru, but it definitely is a wagon. Audi and Volvo make them, although I don't think they import it to the US.

SUVs whether made by GM, or Lamborghini , all Jeeps, and crossovers are in the eyes of Federal Regulators, trucks. No discussion this is by definition. The reason you can no longer buy a “station wagon” in the US (unless you want a Merc) is because it is an automobile. What’s the big deal? The...

Silly boy, Keep the car, ditch the Ford, get the Glad.

And it also looks the the airflow goes through into the inner area under the hood. Probably working on the notion that any reduction in air pressure is positive. Driving in snow and icing headlights was one of the things that initially held back the implementation of led technology in the...

The led headlights on the wife’s SQ5 and my P4S have some kind of heat source and will keep the snow from accumulating. The Glad: nope, nada, zip, nothing. That is kind of ironic because Glad was supposed to be my winter alternative transportation.

Ok I'll bite, 2022 Glad - Needed a small truck for the dog, dump & home depot runs, and because we have a large boat posing as a summer cottage, i.e. I needed a sensible vehicle. Have owned Ford & GM/Chevy full sized trucks, but never a Jeep, and the roof comes off. 2019 Audi SQ5 - Its the...