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I had to get my car tint re-done today. When I picked up my car, it started reporting a "Keyless Start System Problem"! I change the batteries of both my key fobs, and the problems continue to happen. How could getting my car tint redone result in a Key Start System Problem? Any ideas on how...

Down here, the extended warranty is for the compressor seal only. If your compressor develops a leak, that's not covered by the extended warranty. If your evaporator develops a leak, that's not covered by the extended warranty. Both of those things happened to me in the past 2 years. Same...

I just got my evaporator replaced on my 2016 civic. I'm so lucky that I had bought an extended HondaCare plan that expires this year or 100K miles (and I'm way under that due to covid + job change). The repair got smutz on my seats, scratches here and there. I think HondaCare has paid out a...

Being that the weather has gotten better here lately, I decided to open up the windows and turn off the climate control system on my EX-L. It's hard to believe, but I'd never turned it off before. That's when I noticed that while idle at red lights, the car would shake / vibrate a lot. Like so...

Sedan length: 182.7 Hatchback length: 177.9 Difference: 4.8" Out of curiosity, does anyone know why the hatch back is shorter? Wouldn't it make sense to keep them both the same length so there's more parts sharing, and to give the hatchback even more cargo space?

Is the idea to spread the pressure more evenly across the cushion? Curse Honda for not making this removable or putting a gap at the bottom!

I finally switched my rear facing car seat to be forward facing. The strap that goes to the mount point on the trunk deck reallllllly squishes the rear headrest. Did I install this right? There's no way to remove that head rest? What do other people do about this?

Ugh. My battery kicked the bucket yesterday and I got stranded. I ended up paying $150 to AAA for a new battery- the guy said it was made by East Penn Manufacturing, but who knows. He showed me AutoZone's Duralast Gold was $159 - but later I saw that Costco sells Interstate for $78. Did I...

San Francisco has about 67 car break-ins per day. https://projects.sfchronicle.com/trackers/sf-car-breakins/ The car burglary scene has gotten so competitive that Bay Area car burglars now have to commute to Los Angeles to ply their trade...

Nope. Have a boring mechanical watch.

I've noticed that while I'm driving in my EX, my iPhone XS Bluetooth periodically disconnects and then reconnects with the car. This is especially problematic when I'm using a bluetooth headset, and the car disconnect/reconnects - temporarily stealing the call from the headset. Has anyone...

Take a Marketing class. In Marketing, it's called "Sell the story." Nike: You'll be a real athlete (will you really?) Gatorade: You'll be a real athlete (will you really?) Axe body spray: You'll be amazingly attractive (will you really?) GoPro: You'll finally go surfing/skydiving/mountain...

1. Humans are herd animals. So it's only natural that when "everyone" on the street seems to suddenly have an SUV parked in the driveway, you feel the need too. 2. Americans are very informed. Just look at how much money is being spent educating them :)...

Kinda/sorta. Yes, sedans will be popular again when that happens. But SUVs/CUVs are a secular trend - the resurgence of popularity of sedans will be a small bump in the road of SUV/CUV takeovers. I'm sure Ford didn't take the decision to stop making sedans lightly. But ultimately, typical...

The US market is stuck in a a few death spirals: Death spiral 1: Vehicles keep getting taller/bigger, so mass market consumers feel that they need to get taller/bigger vehicles for safety, which in turn lead to taller/bigger vehicles/infinity. Death spiral 2: Vehicles keep getting...

Can someone refresh my memory on the different "grades" (I can't think of a better word) of windshield? There's OEM... 3rd party? aftermarket? What's the name of the type where it is "made for the OEM, but doesn't have the OEM brand on it"?

On the topic of "sheet metal != strength", here's one of my favorite videos: 1959 Chevy Bel Air (so much strong metal!) vs 2009 Chevy Malibu (not so much) tldr: modern engineering wins. (As an aside, when this video first came out, there were a ton of disbelief- the most popular conspiracy...

This Edmunds article where a reporter went to work undercover at 3 different dealerships always stood out in my mind: Archived at: http://www.dougsrepublic.com/PDF/carsalesman.pdf

W Where did you buy this?

Interesting - that's super lame that if all 4 tires lose pressure, the trigger won't go off. I was wondering why I couldn't find a screen that showed the actual tire pressure unlike on my spouse's BMW. Bummer that Honda went with a cheaper solution to the regulation, but I guess this is a...