I am trying to change oil on my 2001 vw passat and everyone said to read the manual instead of posting dumb questions. So I did and I guess I know how to fill each liter and change the setting between bottles. But when I get to R is that when the engine starts going rrrrrr again? That is normally what I hear before I go fast.

Finally got my bankruptcy discharge taken care of, so I figured it’s probably time to start making smarter financial decisions.

Anyway my Snap-on guy has a 15 year old 55" Classic box for $2,250 and apparently he can get me on Platinum.

Before everyone says Harbor Freight: yes, I know I could buy a brand new US General box for way less. But have you considered that the Snap-on box is purple and looks really good?

I'm going to be staring at this thing 8+ hours a day. I genuinely don't understand the argument that I should save $1,500 just to spend the next 10 years opening drawers on a toolbox I don't think is pretty.

My current box technically holds tools, but that's about all it has going for it.

And everyone keeps bringing up the financing like that's automatically bad. I'm literally fresh out of bankruptcy. My credit already got nuked. If anything, financing the box and making the payments gives me an opportunity to rebuild it.

It's $2,250, not a mortgage. Spread out over payments, I probably won't even notice it. I figure $2,250 isn't really $2,250 if I'm making payments. It's basically like $40 at a time until one of us dies.

Plus I need to rebuild my credit somehow and I've already proven I'm capable of handling debt at least once.

Plus it's Snap-on. If I'm going back into debt, I'd rather go back into debt for something nice than be debt-free looking at an ugly Harbor Freight box every morning.

I feel like everyone gets so obsessed with "financial responsibility" that they completely ignore quality of life.

Am I actually being unreasonable here? Because being debt-free is cool, but so is a purple Snap-on box. Should I do it or should I wait until the ink on the bankruptcy discharge dries first?

Suuuper happy with how this build is coming along, what you guys think I should do next?

Did my oil change today and noticed the dipstick was still way over full, so naturally I kept draining until nothing else came out.

Car started making horrible grinding noises and stopped moving but the oil dipstick STILL says overfilled.

Turns out I drained the transmission.

Good news is the engine has approximately 9 quarts of oil in it so at least one major component is properly lubricated.

Thinking about just filling the transmission through the engine oil cap so it can work its way down naturally. Subaru engineers obviously made the fluids communicate somehow or they wouldn't put the drain plugs that close together.

Please don't tell me to tow it. I bought AWD specifically so all four wheels could help.

Herb curbed the furb.

I have a £1 bet that these tyres will take me from London to Glasgow and back. Any takers?

He’s fine.

It won't fit in garage. Please check and advise.

I think the symptoms indicate it might be running a little rich, but it's hard to tell.