Recent content by Ws6

Im curious about the handling, build quality, etc. If Tesla has fixed those issues, this is a killer product.

Currently it has Maxlife 5-30 in it. I am scared to mess with the transmission, as I have had horrible luck with them once you start swapping fluid, even for siphon fill. I will definitely keep the coolant issue in mind.

He's one of the few Patreon's I subscribe to.

Of course. I've been evaluating them over the last 4 years on my own channel, but this guy has a lot more kit to test with.

I got a car I never wanted to have, today. I'd pay any amount of money not to have it, even though it didn't monetarily cost me but $45 for the plates. It's a 2005 Buick LeSabre, with 129K miles on it, and I came by it via Texas DMV form VRT-262, Affidavit of Heirship. It was my mother's. So...

One of the guys in the vape community has a ton of equipment and does reviews on various cells. Capacity at various amperages, voltage sag, heat measurements, internal resistance, all that jazz. I found him because on the other side of the house using 18650 and 18350 is the tactical community in...

I have eight 18650s that are now 20-22 years old, and heavily abused. They work well, still. I am sending 2 off for detailed analysis later this week.

25k mi/year

I guess. I stopped keeping cars for very long around that time, though. One of my friends had her 2013 Dodge 1500 have issues at 30K miles, lost the trans, her friend had an SRT8 Charger do the same. A family member had one in their 1500 take a dump at around 60K miles. I dunno, autos are just...

Mustang 5.0, 1988, transmission died. It had set up for 2 years though, so not shocked. 1993 p71 interceptor. Never died, but wouldnt shift under wot so well. 2002 g20 infiniti. Complete catastrophic failure at 115k miles. I had the fluid changed at 110k miles, so my fault. 2010 jeep grand...

It's a heat pump with resistive strips. It works fine, move or sit. Super efficient, as well.

I serviced them. Sadly some were used, and had 60-100K miles on them by the time I bought them, so that killed them, but meh. I just hate slushboxes, although I admit the ZF8 is pretty legit. DCT's, I am not fond of.

Volvo did a whole white paper on the subject, cradle to grave of an EV vs ICE, same platform. From mining the cobalt, to disposing of the car. Seems that EV's take over at around 40-80K miles, regarding "carbon footprint", even in coal areas. Long story short, the EV is just cleaner, any way you...

I've gone through multiple transmissions and an engine once. You put 100K miles on most automatics and they're toast, or at best have some tq converter judder or some other annoyance in my experience.