Recent content by T.O.Blackwing

Buy or bye or A.I. yai yai? E.g., check out its rendering of the side vent, the WTF engine, and shifter from God-knows-what. Big thumbs down on such shite.

No, never, really, but on the other hand I have not been driving it that much lately due to travel and, before that, winter. I was alarmed at first because I never noticed anything like this before even though I’ve owned this 24 and a 22 before it for a total of 4 years now, but after...

Why? That would only hurt us as owners.

I used exactly that marker but the color is a bit too light, also doesn’t really “stick”. Maybe if my scrape were more minor, more of a scratch, it would have blended better.

Nope, finally got around to trying it, not quite the right color. Still looking: I’d like to think that some manufacturer must have had an exterior paint color similar to the bronze wheel color at some point.

What I did today is I let my BW wet fart onto the garage floor when I started it to move it a couple of feet in the garage today. It even left skid marks!

New zonks?

The new CT5 platform isn’t just being developed for North America but China, too, is my guess. Unless the models have diverged in recent years, I believe the Chinese get the same chassis but with pissy communist engines. This reduces the engineering and design cost per unit considerably...

After hooking it up you can route it nice and tidy like this and then close the hood

You can set Waze to send audio alerts. Also, at least for me, this is for when I’ve got a long night drive ahead, not spirited backroads driving, or when I need to get somewhere as quickly as possible on a freeway without getting a ticket.

ambient lighting is off, too, it’s almost funereal, but in a cool way

… glass half-full reply: legit little issue, sure, but at least we HAVE buttons, unlike so many other vehicles of all makes, models, and classes these days.

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Speedo, minimalist fuel gauge and tach, current gear (yellow if rev match is on) in a very small font, currently relevant idiot lights (like headlamps “on”, and high beams on auto), is the sum of it, if I remember correctly. You also continue to see whatever you’ve configured on your heads-up...

Funny you should say that. I backed into a spot with a curb on the passenger side before visiting my sister. I noted the curb when I stepped out of my car and I thought: Don't forget to exit in a wide arc when you turn out to leave that spot. I visit my sister. I leave. I forget about the curb...