Scudrunners

Free advice, from a 20th century dinosaur:

Buy a toolbox.  It doesn't need to be a huge one with drawers,
just a flip-top with a removable tray.

Get some screwdrivers and pliers and wrenches and sockets,
both SAE and metric.  3/8 or maybe 1/4 inch drive if you have
piano hands.  A knife, a hammer, an LED flashlight.

Get some electrical tape and some duct (gorilla) tape and
some zip ties and some 32 thou lock wire.

Get a cheap volt/ohm meter.  Get a tire pressure gauge.

Get a dremel tool with cutoff wheels and grinding stones.

The above is not a huge outlay of cash, but they will last you
a very long time with light use, and they will be incredibly
useful when you have to do basic maintenance around the
house, on your car, your motorcycle, your boat, the airplane.

Get one of those 6 foot folding tables and put your toolbox
on it in your garage, and bolt a $30 vice to one end.

This is not big money, but will benefit you enormously.

And for God's sake, learn to cook, ok?


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You're going to eat for the [i]rest of your life[/i].  Not having a
clue about how to prepare good food is bizarre.

Please do me a favor.  With your new tire pressure gauge, please pump
your tires up on your vehicle to the maximum specified by the manufacturer.

TC says I'm not too bright, but this will increase your gas mileage and
reduce the temperature of the tire in the hot summer due to reduced
sidewall flexing, which is increased with a heavy vehicle load - ie during
vacation.  The cooler the tire, the longer it will last and the less likely it
is, to fail.

Also, do me another favor.  Pop open your trunk and pump up your stupid
tiny space saving spare to it's maximum pressure.  Also locate the parts
for your jack - they're cute, but make sure you have them all - and go
to Canadian Tire and buy a 1/2 inch drive socket for your wheel nuts,
and a 1/2 inch drive extension, and a 1/2 inch drive johnson bar, at
least a foot long, so that you can easily undo your lug nuts in the rain
by the side of the road, next time you have a flat, without using the
stupid little wrench they give you, on the seized lug nuts.

Free advice: put just a tiny touch of copper anti-seize on your lug nut
threads, like a spark plug.  It will make it so much easier to remove,
next time.

Torque in a diagonal pattern.

If you can't change a tire, please feel bad about yourself.  Enough
that you do something about it and learn how to.

Learn how to open the hood of your vehicle.  Learn what fluids should
be checked, and how to top them up, and with what.

I fear for the future.