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The $75K limit applies to modified AGI. The 401K contribution limits are $23K (up from $22,500) for 2024. That means prospective shoppers interested in the Previously Owned Clean Vehicle Credit can make up to $98K in 2024 and still qualify so long as they make the necessary 401K, etc. contributions.

Brake pad lining wear is usually not eligible for warranty replacement, but other aspects of the braking system are. I've replaced pads and rotors under warranty during a previous stint as a Ford technician. It's usually up to the technician to distinguish between abuse and a repair subject to...

The $5 million is only the cost of initial equipment installation. Engines fitted with DPF suffer a lifetime penalty of reduced fuel efficiency due to increased pumping losses, an increase in maintenance downtime and cost due to cleaning of clogged DPF, and fuel wasted from being injected and...

I'm confused. Which is it? That's true. California's median housing cost is significantly higher than other states, yet the California median household income isn't. California is down in fifth place or so for annual income. That's a lopsided scenario. It means Californians are making...

https://dof.ca.gov/forecasting/demographics/estimates/e-2/#:~:text=Net%20international%20migration%20to%20California,%2DCOVID%2D19%20pandemic%20levels. "Domestic out-migration slowed in 2022-23, to a net domestic migration loss of 260,400 people. Natural increase—births minus deaths—added...

California is a writing a step-by-step instruction manual on how to hemorrhage a population at unprecedented levels. Last year, about 10% of new Tennessee residents came from the state of California. Over twenty thousand people left California to live in Tennessee, arguably the state most polar...

You didn't actually read the study, did you? https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/real-world-phev-us-dec22.pdf It's a study from 2022. The study is absolute garbage. Let's say we wished to perform a study on how often PHEVs are plugged in. How would we go about that? Hmm, maybe we...

Hertz rental vehicle access usually does get removed from your account when the key card is swiped. Why is it necessary for you to use the key card though? Isn't your walk-away lock working?

You went by doing approximately 67? We can tell you're lying through your teeth, even through the internet. Not only were you speeding, but you did so while ignoring the Move over law? You deserve every ticket and fine they can throw at you.

In my garden shed resides a tool box/cart that was deformed by the front end of a 2003 Mercedes SL500. The toolbox/cart was originally parked in the front of the garage bay. One day, while pulling onto the bay, the notorious brake failure issue reared its ugly head. By the time my foot found the...

You have the drive UNIT(s) and battery warranty remaining. The rest of the drive TRAIN was only covered under the now-expired 50K miles basic vehicle warranty.

Residential charging is the golden ticket to cheap EV ownership. Tesla conveniently does not use the electric charging cost per kwh THAT THEY THEMSELVES CHARGE in their misleading fuel savings calculator. Oh, the irony.

Not necessarily a misconception, it is a reality in some cases. I've paid $.37 a KWH for supercharging in a gas station parking lot that sold gas for $2.70 a gallon. The electricity cost included zero in road tax. The gasoline cost included $.47 a gallon in state and federal road tax. Even...

Hertz has not been removing their Tesla vehicles from service at the 50K miles basic vehicle warranty expiration. Hertz is on the hook for these repairs after 50K. The necessary repairs for PCS failures, legacy PTC heater failures, compressor failures, octovalve failures, etc., can cost well...

Interesting conclusion. My pickup uses Light Truck tires with inflation values between 65 and 70 psi. I wouldn't call its at speed behavior twitchy, though. It handles more like a boat with a stuck rudder.

The linked video is helpful but may also be confusing and misleading to the North American members on this forum. In North America, headlights are aimed level, not with a 1% downward inclination as is the requirement in the EU. There are specific procedures for two different headlight designs...

Not to be a stick in the mud but I have to point out the 3 you referenced has 19" wheels. That comes out to $40,500 in today dollars. The Corolla you referenced is an LE no options. Sells for $22K not $24K.

Getting off topic but where are you finding inventory 3s? There havn't been any 3s available in the south for weeks now. The only option in the south is new order base for $39K and LR for $48K. Hertz's base models haven't depreciated at the same rate as their LR according to your examples.

Forget Covid pricing. Hertz's cars have depreciated 50% from today's $48K cost. The $60K covid cost results in an even higher depreciation rate.

Sure, but Hertz is selling 2022 Corollas with similar mileage for $18K which is only a 20% depreciation hit. Model 3 took a 50% depreciation hit, Corolla took a 20% depreciation hit. Not a good look for the EV rental biz.

Woah...shots fired! $112K annual AGI for heads of household and $75K annual AGI for single filers is LOW income to you?

There are a significant number of 2022 LR AWD Model 3s with 40-90K miles listed on the Hertz website for under $25K. These very cars cost $60K when Hertz purchased them in 2022. That's $35K in depreciation in only 2 years. It gets worse. $25K is an artificially high value because the price is...

If that bolt did break, there'd still be a piece of the bolt stuck in the nut plate. That's an area that looks very difficult to get extraction tools into. This is definitely not a simple roadside repair. No wonder they tow strap jerry rigged it.

Ratio changes are possible and even quite common on mechanical systems. Lincoln's system contains a mechanism inside the steering wheel, where the steering wheel would normally be permanently fixed to the steering shaft. Turning the steering wheel does not always result in a one-to-one turn of...

From the twitter post: "That one bolt broke is not concerning to us at all, and we wouldn’t hesitate to push even harder next time." Yeah, OK bro. I happen to like vehicles that steer in the direction "I" point them. Kind of a self-preservation kink I got going on.

Really? I actually enjoy Taco Bell regardless of the consequences. I'd happily drive an ICE for a lifetime of free Taco Bell.

I find it hard to believe, too. You'd think the outer tie rod ball joint stud would shear off LONG before the inner bolt would shear.

From the InsideEVs article: "...and on the second day, a stock bolt from the Cybertruck’s rear-right inner tie rod broke, rendering the car undrivable." So it was the inner bolt.

I may have misinterpreted your earlier post as a rebuttal to blaming the administration for revoking tax credits. Are we no longer talking about the InflationRA but shifting the conversation to Vance's (dead on arrival) bill?

Signed into law by the administration. Your point is?

I am simply highlighting the hypocritical response to each administrations' past actions on EV tax credits. The 'all bark and no bite' administration threatens to revoke EV tax credits. Reception: the sky is falling, the sky is falling! The 'snake in the grass' administration actually revokes...

Keep in mind, the only Presidential administration that has yanked the EV tax credit thus far is the Biden administration. When the the InflationRA was signed, it effectively revoked the tax credit available to all EVs built outside the U.S., and did so with hardly a moment's notice. Where were...

American vehicle manufacturers have been using nylon locknuts on steering and suspension parts for a while now. They are 'single-use' nuts; service manuals explicitly state they must be replaced every time they are removed. Because screw the technicians, apparently. Now you can't just grab a...

Removing the $0.28 a gallon in fuel subsidies wouldn't put gasoline anywhere near $7 a gallon. ICE driver pay $0.18 per gallon of gasoline ($0.24 in diesel) in Federal road tax; EV drivers pay zero dollars in Federal road tax. Would ICE drivers suddenly switch to EV if we removed all subsidies...

Pearl white and pearl red paints are called multicoat because they have one additional layer which contains the pearl material. The typical non-pearl paint jobs consist of three layers: primer, base coat color, and protective clear coat. Pearl paints have an additional layer of clear coat, with...

I propose a battle to victory for this steer by wire vs throttle by wire debate. We take two separate cars and start driving somewhere fun; let's say Tail of the Dragon. I'll roll a dice and exactly that many minutes into the drive I will cut the steering wires for the driver who prefers steer...

All high voltage components in electrified vehicles are regularly monitored for isolation faults via onboard hardware/software. Isolation tests are necessary for safety reasons. Insulating materials in the high voltage components break down over time due to various reasons. Humans do not survive...

There is no such thing as Tesla paint. The vast majority of automotive paint used by both auto manufactures and repair centers is made by one of only a few paint manufactures: PPG, Sico, etc. Doesn't matter if you have a $20K Versa or a $2 million Ferrari. The paint comes from the same barrel...

Why does the specific paint matter? How did the type of paint used even come into the conversation? That's such a weird question to ask of the person who most likely wasn't even involved in the paint process.

There are supporters of electric vehicles and there are supporters of an ALL-electric vehicle fleet. Very important distinction to be made there. The former is justifiable. The latter truly is lunacy.

Where are you getting this 112 cu ft number from? A model 3 has less than 100 cu ft of passenger volume. A Camry is definitely larger. A Model 3 is almost exactly the same size as a Civic. 97 cubic ft vs 96 cubic ft of passenger volume. Model 3 starts at $38,990 vs identically sized Civic at...

Are you going to ignore the common-sense recommended replacement at 4/32" and run them all the way down to 2/32"?

Make sure you load/raise the suspension to ride height when you're checking the rear toe links. You won't be able to detect worn rear toe links if the suspension is just hanging/drooping free because the weight of the suspension puts so much strain and pressure against the worn link, it will...

The Nissan Leaf and Mitsu Mivec were the only two EVs readily available to the Japanese a decade ago when the country had that big push to install an EV charging infrastructure. In hindsight, it seems like complete insanity to install a country-wide charging system for these two cars that were...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/Japan-s-EV-infrastructure-is-aging-as-market-fails-to-take-off Japan was the first country to make an actual effort to install an EV charging infrastructure. Now the infrastructure is aging and the country is having a hard time justifying replacement...

Anything is possible. The probability of this failure occurring while driving is about the same as the probability while parked.

The technician determined the left body control module had been attempting to operate with an insufficient ground path. I'm guessing the operating current in the body control module eventually found its own path to ground, frying the module in the process. The technician replaced 'VCleft' which...

The Hertz phone-as-key has been unreliable in my experience. The first three days of use it worked flawlessly. Then the rental started randomly disappearing from my Tesla account. I'd become aware of this when the Approach unlock would stop working, forcing the use of key card unlock. The rental...

The GM in dealerships usually have near-zero experience with the nuts and bolts of cars. They are mostly Six Sigma MBAs who know marketing and margins. You talk to them about brake pads and inspection requirements; you might as well be speaking French. In the context of federal and state...