Especially with diesel being $6/gallon here. You would think people would figure out that idling your 6.7l diesel for 25 minutes costs you a lot of money at $6/gallon. Like, the kind of money that gets you a christmas card from the Saudi royal family.

X5 pass inspection for this year. Put it on sale. :(

protect your hearing; teach your teenager how to work, too
 

I also have that same hearing combination; what are the "teenager repellant devices" you speak of? Manual-labor jobs, manual-shift cars, and cell-phone signal jammers would be the only ones I know of.

It's just the Boomer (born in 1950) in me that makes me suggest those; I retired from my job at 65.5 (though I wanted to work longer), since I was the only one willing to do the grunt-work needed sometimes, and my body just wouldn't cooperate. The kids (18-22 years old) that upper management sent me wouldn't/couldn't do the hard work, or were "late to work/late from lunch/always on their phone" when I needed them. I spent more time babysitting than getting things done. And we all know they don't shift manual transmissions. Hahaha.

I admit I never took much care of my hearing, from the '60's rock concerts, gun shooting, and drag racing pastimes I had, to my job(s) in industrial environments, where I just used hearing protection occasionally. I got my tinnitus at a George Strait concert in 2014, but wondered why then, and not when working on engines or in the drag race environment, years before. Inevitable, I'm sure.

Wow, never run across one of those. I can still definitely hear above 17kHz as learned during my stereo tuning. Wonder how annoying that thing actually is? You said it's uncomfortable... I bet. :confused:

The good news is that they are generally just set up at the entrances to discourage loitering. But it generally knocks my tinnitus up a notch for a few hours.

natural repellant emitters
 

I never heard/detected one, before my tinnitus set in; I've tried to detect the frequency on several video/audio links, but can't.

However, I know of several people (some politicians, too) that are natural repellant frequency emitters, that still repell me, even with my tinnitus. My ex-wife is one of them.

Oil, air and cabin filter changed.
Transmission filter changed (still looked new) and found an electrical guy who is rebuilding the MAF (fingers crossed) with new hot film and connectors.

Grabbed a tailgate light and switch assembly from a rolled over 2005 4.8iS.

Siphon jet shit the bed!![emoji2959]

You'd think I'd be swimming home in this rains it pours scenario........[emoji849]

We also had to move to a different compound another 45km outside Riyadh by the camel souk that has no shade and a beautiful bouquet of turds from the shit plant added into the camel smell....[emoji25]

Plus side date night is cheap out here!!
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Siphon jet usually can be repaired. Just needs an o-ring and some teflon tape (and a zip tie to prevent self destruct)

Yeah, I bought a new fuel pump and this one will be my spare once repaired.

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