It’s been a while since I’ve posted about my car. So, here’s an update:
der5er passed the VA State Safety Inspection today at Wayne’s in Midlothian. But there’s a problem.
On the way to Wayne’s this morning, the “BRAKE” light on the dash came on. I’ve seen this before, and it was just low [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
der5er Passes Safety Inspection — Has a Leak
Girls Don’t Fix — Only Boys Fix Things
Tonight at dinner, Leanna had to go turn off a toy that was not previously turned off correctly. She began to interrogate Sarah as to the method used when turning it off. I stopped the coming fight by saying, “It’s ok, Leanna. It’s off now, you fixed it.”
Cooper piped in with 3-year-old [...]
Adapter Lets Any Car Use Ethanol
This is very cool. An adapter that would let any gass guzzler use ethanol. I’m normally not a green kind of guy, and they don’t yet make one for BMW (let alone a 20 year old 5er), but if ethanol were readily available near me, I would consider one of these for the [...]
Valhalla for piston heads - Jay Leno’s Garage online!
It’s amazing! It’s beautiful! The restorer of all things odd, automotive, and oddly automotive now has his own website! The Jay Leno “More money than brains” garage is now online at www.jaylenosgarage.com/!
Up until now, you’ve had to visit Popular Mechanics to see/read anything about Jay and his cars, and that was pretty [...]