Locate an Auto Repair Shop in hillside, New Jersey

Hi all! Just took delivery of my 2012 Murano LE. All seems fine, except the intermittent wipers don't work! When you push the wiper lever down one click (to intermittent setting) the wipers just go "on" (as if you pushed the lever down another notch to the "on" setting). Turning the sensitivity dial does nothing. Was at dealer this AM and they could not find the problem. Need to leave it next week for a full day for diagnosis - for a car with 70 miles on it?! Anybody experience something similar? I've had several Murano's (last was a 2010) and never had a problem with wipers. Dealer: http://route22nissan.com/ Hillside, NJ

"Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles. The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius’ battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare. “The acid rain around Sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside,” said Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin during an interview with Mail, a British-based newspaper. All of this would be bad enough in and of itself; however, the journey to make a hybrid doesn’t end there. The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in Europe. From there, the nickel hops over to China to produce ‘nickel foam.’ From there, it goes to Japan. Finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the United States, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single Prius battery. Are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce? Wait, I haven’t even got to the best part yet. When you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a Toyota Prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50 percent more energy than a Hummer � the Prius’s arch nemesis. http://onemansblog.com/2007/03/27/prius-outdoes-hummer-in-environmental-damage/

I trenched new electrical to my house one time. Did it all but the utility had to come out and hook up the meter to the house and the other end to the service in the alley. Put in a gas stove at my latest house and paid the plumber since I'm lousy at soldering. Even he had to get the gas company to do the hookup though. Doing your own work doesn't necessarily excuse you from the permitting and planning process but plenty of people put up garages or decks using a "plan" scribbled on the proverbial napkin. The guy who bought my last house put in a tall retaining wall. No idea if he went by the book, but in that hillside area, you were supposed to submitted drawings with an engineer's stamp for retaining walls over 3' high. Lots of people skip the permits of course, but that can cause insurance and new financing issues. Just like repairing cars. Screw something up and you may get sued, whether you are your own mechanic or whether you hire a pro.

That road you describe is likely downhill, wide, not densely traveled, and smooth - perfect for exceeding arbitrary limits and the revenue scam that comes with. Exactly! Precisely! Wide lanes, smooth pavement, light traffic, no cross traffic until about 1/2 mile past the bottom of the hillside. It is a long stretch of downhill, so depending on your gearing, driving a "legal" 55 at the top of the crest will get you to 75 MPH near the bottom with little to NO throttle input.

cool, glad you were able to open them. This showfield is a little valley with the hillsides rising up pretty steeply on either side, so they want all the cars secured in place. As for fire extinguishers, I think most car shows require you to have one in your car (gotta confess I didn't, as I left mine in the LeMans ) This show does have a good variety of cars from all years. In the past, I've tended to take pics of mainly the 60's, 70's, and occasional 80's car, but this time around, I tried to get out a bit more. Oddly, one of my friends was whining that he wished there were more 70's cars there! Almost sounds like something I'd say! But, a lot of money comes to this show...you can almost smell it on a lot of the people. And for the most part, people like that don't buy 70's cars!