Old (not old enough) car in the garage

[TBJK]

Right on topic, this week’s Grand Tour is all about the boys proving to their producer that Jag’s poor quality reputation is erroneous by taking 3 of them on a tour in Colorado, to Telluride.

Well maybe not exactly 3.

Also clearly why they were not maintained well.

[TLAR]

The expense of having this done is incredibly high (on transverse engines) since it usually involves dropping and twisting the engine somewhat so the covers can even be removed. I personally consider this as a known design defect since they know it has to be done (service manual) and do nothing to mitigate it - why should they since they hope to get a lot business pushed back to there service departments

That is true of poorly designed transverse engined cars with timing belts but not on your better ones - your Cabriolet for example. Not a luxury model, but it does have a transverse mounted timing belt driven overhead cam engine. and the belt is easily accessible with the engine mounts in place you don’t have to do the hokey pokey either with any special tools to do the job.

[Photomancer]

Yes, my “Free” cabriolet looks to be providing a number opportunities to provide me with ease of accessibility maintenance experiences. Will be more fun when I have a daily driver and can afford down time. With the RAV4, of blessed memory, gone I’m looking to get something else here real quick if possible. Definitely by EOM.

[tomthm]

Let the ridicule begin, but I love a good low mileage American land yacht. 95 Cadillac, Grand Marquis. I imagine that I’m driving it the year of manufacture and bought it new. Then straddle both lanes as I head down the highway.

[Raymond]

Then straddle both lanes as I head down the highway with my left blinker on.

Fixed that for you.

[tomthm]

Oh yeah. Thanks. lol. Truth is, I do love the land yauchts. The challenge becomes avoiding everything else we mentioned.

[Raymond]

The challenge becomes avoiding everything else we mentioned.

The bigger you are, the more and faster they move out of your way.

When I’m in the MX-5 I get cut off constantly and have to move around traffic. When I’m in my F250 quad cab 4x4 people wait for me to pass before pulling out and if I’m barrelling up behind them they almost always move.

[ESmith]

Aerospace has much more strict PM schedules than automotive. They release something too difficult to service, that can’t be explained as an oddball customer request, and they will get a reputation for being expensive to operate, that will likely impact sales.

An airliner manufacturer releases something that spends markedly more time in the hangar than in revenue service it will impact sales … and put likely downward pressure on maintenance contract fees. Also, if the FAA/NTSB inspector can’t easily access it or watch the process it’s apt to spend a lot of time in the hangar.

[tomthm]

Rules of the road. The bigger vehicle rules the road.

[suchsojasco]

I never get out of the way of large pickups. Mostly because I’m always driving the cheaper vehicle. What are you gonna do, wreck your expensive, shiny pavement queen to show me up for only going 10 over?

(hypothetically, of course; I’m sure your truck isn’t a mall crawler)

The best are the ones with train horns. Had one behind me in the overflow lane on 161 over the weekend- when it becomes a shoulder. Tried to get past me, didn’t have enough balls to edge me out of my lane, had to cut all the way across to the right lane- right before the lane exited onto Walnut Hill.

Funny enough, the only time that gambit has failed to pay off, I was in a $35,000 Jeep and the guy who pushed me off the road was in a 2001 Cherokee.

[Photomancer]

May get a vanity plate NO INSUR

[TLAR]

The bigger you are, the more and faster they move out of your way.

You would think that’d it be the rule - but when driving the Unimog on i35 to and from the Space - that often wasn’t the case until they saw the rubber sidewall of the tires close to their cars…then they became a little more attentive to their surroundings…

[carpa]

People never got out of the way faster than when I drove a Ford Escort with body damage on every panel.

[Ferman]

Aerospace has much more strict PM schedules than automotive.

I have a friend of mine who used to work at an airline as a maintenance engineer.
He had many interesting stories to tell which would make one not want to fly in a plane again.