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kia ya gotta stay away from the turbo4. their v6 for the most part seems dependable. so far. i don't have a bunch of customers with mazda products.....

gm started somewhere around 2010 to 2012 with the active fuel management. chrysler started with it at least in 2010. the 3.5/3.7 v6 ford engines with the waterpump in the engine......it's expensive cause the engine's gotta come out to do the job. once the pump's leaked, it's not IF the engine's gonna fail....it's a matter of WHEN. and right now, there's a backlog of engines for those. i forgot about that. DI that is. virtually anything with DI will carbon-foul the intake valves. and the injectors are super expensive to replace. and the high-pressure fuel pump tends to fail.

just like many of their asian counterparts......get them equipped wrong.......like something bigger with a little engine....and they suck. oil. i've had 3 over the past few years that the owners let them run dry because of this. and that was within the scheduled maintenance too. what i generally tell anyone that's looking at euro-junk........they're generally VERY nice for the first couple of years. so lease it. if after that 3 year lease, you still like and want it, then turn it in(before it has chance to develop big problems) and lease another one. if i were gonna recommend any eurojunk, it'd be mercedes, even though i hate working on them.....they seem to be the most reliable. from my experience anyway

yea. that's hondas version of the variable displacement. chrysler uses it too on their hemi v8's. can't remember if it's on any of their other v8's or not. it's actually a very ingeniously simple system that's controlled in an over-complicated way....but works VERY well. till it doesn't as i mentioned above. i don't have a ton of experience with failures of this system on the hondas as yet.....but on gm's it's normally either #1 or #4 lifter failures. lifter replacement on their engines requires removal of the cylinder head. i had one that the lifter itself didn't fail, but rather the plastic(yea i know) tab that holds the lifter in proper alignment had broken. lifter rotated 90degrees and proceeded to peel the cam lobe like an orange. and fling metal shaving through the entire engine. i had a 10 charger that one of the control solenoids failed, so they wanted all of them replaced. boy was that a fun job. would've been relatively easy if every single one didn't stick in the bore so badly that they broke coming out. with the v6 those are great choices. with the 4banger? junk.

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i'd look into a ford expedition, or the chevy tahoe or whatever the gmc version of that is. the thing to be careful with on the gm's though is the variable displacement. all of their 5.3 and 6.0 engines have it. it works fantastic. so good that you don't know it's working. right up till it fooks ya. then it sucks. the newer expeditions, i don't have much experience with at all, but i haven't heard much bad about em either.

i didn't see or know about the baking soda thing before i went to bed last night. i'd washed her with blue dawn before i even brought her inside, and then used ivory soap on her face area. dried her off, and i either got most of the odor or i went nose-blind to it. i'll know today when i talk to moms home care woman.

my gsd just chased one. and caught a face full of it. i think i got most outta her........can't smell it in the house, but goddam is it strong out front.......

he'd be locked away somewhere under the shity never to be heard from again.

i think this is a good place to start...... https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/ccw_reciprocity_map/nj-gun-laws/

rock island makes some really good stuff.

ok. was down at bobs little sport shop last night dropping off my 1911 for some work. i saw a 1911 in 10mm in the case that i had to check out. it was by alpha foxtrot. i've never heard of them before. the gun felt REALLY good in my hand, trigger felt great, and i feel like i really want one(but then who DOESN'T want another 1911, right?). so.....anyone have any experience with this caliber in a 1911? like it? what about the brand? anyone heard of them? thanks!

they were obummer appointees

sounds amazingly like the president of the united states is threatening about half of the united states citizens, doesn't it?

nothing is ever that simple. but we've been ignoring the one thing that would make them think twice, and that they do to us all the time....hit them in their purse. and the judges, ag's, prosecutors? all of those who went against this knowingly, need to be sued professionally and personally.

yaknow? i ain't seen any as yet this year......

nah. they're just throwing a hissy fit thinking they're gonna get away with it. hopefully they'll get spanked. that's not on him. if he's unloading, placing in a lockbox that's fastened in the vehicle, then he has complied with the law. if it's stolen at that point, then it is on the legislature, and/or the judges that just reinstated this crap, and perhaps they should all be sued accordingly. that all said.......i'm hoping that the 2a groups are "judge shopping" like the left does to find a judge that'll kill this latest problem.

it's about nj being allowed to move the goal posts. again. and sadly they'll get away with it somehow.

i personally am not fretting holster draw. i am fretting the moving of the goal posts. and i am fretting the fact that so many are over-looking that.

i thought that was part of the ny crap that was put on hold?

so you're ok with the entity that doesn't want anyone outside the "club" to be allowed to carry setting the standards that we have to pass?

this was the course of fire i shot...but the paperwork is labeled as hqc2

i'm pretty sure that the "well regulated" part had nothing to do with training, but rather keeping your equipment in good working order. that will ensure none of that in this state. if they can find a way to deny us, they will. as evidenced by their moving of the goal posts right now.

just went and checked my folder. it was hqc2. that's not gonna cut it, is it? although upon talking to him, he thought it was 1. and the pd has our copies of our quals. we had to turn in copies i believe.

when i shot that course with my beretta, i hit 59 outta 60. the one i missed was at 15 yards. at 25, don't forget that you've got support there....you can lean on the "cover" for support.