{"id":163,"date":"2008-01-12T14:08:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-01-12T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T18:08:29","slug":"crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what a $1,000 repair bill look like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img_0271.JPG\" title=\"Oil cap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img_0271.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Oil cap\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; milky &#8220;stuff&#8221; on the bottom of your oil cap is bad.\u00c2\u00a0 Means coolant is in the oil.\u00c2\u00a0 Bad.\u00c2\u00a0 As I suspected, the culprit is the low intake manifold gasket.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmclassaction.ca\/\" title=\"GM CLass action\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s a well know screw up on GM&#8217;s part.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Too bad there isn&#8217;t a class action against them in the US.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that I&#8217;d get much back&#8230; but still.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate to say this &#8211; but I will probably not buy another American made car.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve ever had, and I have yet to have one last me much past 100k miles.\u00c2\u00a0 I still think the unions completely screwed up the automobile industry around here, but that&#8217;s a rant for another day.\u00c2\u00a0 Look up the cost per car that American companies pay <em>just for benefits<\/em> for their employees.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not saying paying for benefits for your employees is a bad thing&#8230; but when you pay like $3,000 for every car that comes off the line compared to &lt; $1,000 that other companies pay&#8230; I don&#8217;t see how you can compete without cutting corners.<\/p>\n<p>Ok&#8230; off to Home Depot&#8230; have a couple little projects to do today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what a $1,000 repair bill look like: Yeah&#8230; milky &#8220;stuff&#8221; on the bottom of your oil cap is bad.\u00c2\u00a0 Means coolant is in the oil.\u00c2\u00a0 Bad.\u00c2\u00a0 As I suspected, the culprit is the low intake manifold gasket.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=163\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}