Good night great people of the Mech!

Tomorrow is "replace the struts day." I'm super looking forward to a morning of just straight-forward wrenching and cursing at my spring compressors for being slightly sub-optimal. ;-)

I'm trying to convince myself to not put the old swaybar from my WRX on the back of the Forester. I don't really want the teenager car to be too nimble....

@BobCross - But you do want him to have a good car, I hope. If putting the rear sway bar in place will help him keep it on road, this is a good thing, right? Just a thought.

Car stays on the road fine. Sway bar makes the turns more exciting. Exciting is not a great feature in the hands of teenage boy

Having under/over-steer can make things exciting as well. Your child; your car; your rules ... I have no issue with this.

Almost every car is biased for understeer because the casual driver panics when the back end starts coming around. Plowing in the turns for the casuals is easily solved: going to fast, goofball!

I was only thinking of putting the other sway bar on there because it would make the car more fun for me ;-)

Oh ... My ... Goodness.

@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 My thoughts exactly

Do we have an award for most incomprehensibly dangerous question of the year?

@NickC - This one would surely sit right near the top.

If not the pinnacle!

One other thing which it would do is take away the ability to brake on that tire. It would also mess up traction control (if so equipped) and ABS.

I do hope he wasn't being serious

He then suggests using an angle grinder - when clamping was allowed here (it was banned a couple of years ago), people tried that - then got arrested for criminal damage...

I thought the clampers usually put them on a front wheel too...

@NickC - Yah I'm wondering what kind of "clamp" it is ... I believe they are still used here in the States, but if you get caught cutting them off, it's like you stated. Not only destruction of property, but evading (or attempting to evade) a ticket is not a good way to go. Even with a grinder, they don't just "come off" ... it takes a little bit to go through it. This leaves the perpetrator in a bad spot for a while ... good way to get busted.

Also agree with you, usually these are on the front wheels.

Also, some of them are pretty easy to defeat by letting all the air out of the tire. I'm not going to tell him that, but ... yah.

Maybe I'll teach my son how to write sudoku solvers tonight. That'll be nerdy

Step 1: Install a local Gitlab instance. ;-)

@BobCross awesome.

I'm going to put the front wheels of the Solstice on furniture dollies and try and drive around the neighborhood. (I own zero front wheel-drive cars.)

Immediate crashing sound.

My car has been through everything else - time for a proper collision.

Here's a fun one: I left a semi-coherent-yet-oddly-articulate negative review on google for the body shop that installed the wrong very poorly-painted bumper on my G35.

The owner left me a voicemail about an hour ago.

:/ Maybe they'll fix it after all, haven't had time to return his call.