Recent content by cpetku

Choose 20" or night edition. As in life, some options are simply mutually exclusive. Marry one sister or the other, you'r not allowed to have both. Ever hear you cant have your cake and eat it too? All of these are options that you choose from...

Oh well, since we can't use age old words to describe rear ends and boxes, what if Tungston (with HO) owners/orderers identify as RHO owners/orderers? Does this mean that their truck can use the RHO lanes on the unpaved roads? If you like this give it a thumbs up for the old meaning. If you...

If you can't reproduce it as a bug, sell it as a safety feature...

After our company was acquired, my VP's limited HR skills resulted in appointing all of his direct reports as Global Chief Engineer of ... for the product line he had responsibility of. I hated the title as it implied too much, but my peers embraced it. Since I had direct reports as well, I...

And, they announced reductions in Italy. While I like the concept of the Ramcharger, I'm starting to wonder how stable long term support will be. Oh well, they have a year to get my confidence back up. GM lost it with about a two year delay in the Silverado EV. Hopefully RAM doesn't balk as...

Right, that was last October and it showed up incorrectly on a news feed I was looking at this morning. However, Engineers support production and who knows what confusion Stellantis has caused this week. From experience, if there is a repeating issue with a component during assembly, it gets...

Or slowdowns based upon recent layoffs

You got your vehicles wrong. The "Model A" with a simple oil slinger for the rear main (no seal) is what needs a catch can. Sorry, no hemi in that...

Call me a dinosaur, I remember the very early in-cabin oil level detection systems, they weren't visual. We just kept our ears open for the tappets to start singing. My model A has a mechanical fuel level indicating system (cork float and fulcrum) where the fuel is even visible from the...

Personally I don't trust the Oil Quality sensors. Had a friend that relied upon one with her EcoTeck engine (GM) only to have the dealer tell her that it didn't work reliably and to change the oil every xxxx miles. Later she found out that advice was also bad since that engine design burned...

I may not have been too far off with that comment. It looks like batteries from cell phones, power tools and EV's all go to the same place. Since they get recycled, there is little to no argument against end of life, just the initial mining of materials. I would expect EV batteries are more...

My 2007 Grand Cherokee CRD has about 170K on it with turbo still going strong. Only had two turbo issues so far and both of which I wrenched myself. Turbo Actuator (replaced due to interal wire broke) and Muffler (idler pully bearing failure caused serpentne belt to wear a hole in the turbo...

I'm glad I didn't compare all the plastics in a truck (interior, tires, insulation, o-rings, weather stripping...) to a discpicable plastic straw. That would have really set-off a debate between the east and west coast over killing the planet. I doubt anyone in California would be able to buy...

All I'm saying is the same groups that are arguing that EV's will kill the planet should be arguing against modern cell phones. They both serve a purpose at a cost. I have personally reworked several iPhones for battery and screen issues, but I know that many use a cracked screen as an excuse...

The last question is why I'm buying into the idea of leasing (if the residual is high enough). I find the marketing videos of the RAM EV designs to be more service friendly than the GM. While both show battery cells are installed from the top of the pack, the RAM video shows the completed...