Locate an Auto Repair Shop in Pahrump, Nevada

Purchased a 2002 Insight about March 2010. Pickes it up in Tucson, Ari. drove it to Pahrump, Nv. (between 500 and 600 miles]. Did not need to refuel. refuel cost me about $23.00.Have really enjoyed the Insight, its style, comfort ( I'm 6'4") Attention getter. IMA came on a few days ago. Called Honda ( I wanted a mechanic in Pahrump to do the job but I was advised that (due to the need for verification of the codes) that I should take it to Las Vegas.When contacting the first dealer in Vegas i was told that I would have to lease a car at my expense. The second dealer advised that the would give me a car to drive while they performed necessary repairs. I guess that reading the various items on the message board added to my knowledge and assisted me in getting the proper information.

I find radar detectors add to my knowledge and awareness as a driver. They increase my survey of the surrounding area as I'm driving, and also help to keep you even more alert than you might otherwise be lulled into doing while driving (especially on long trips/drives). Therefore, I see radar detectors as an effective safety enhancing device since they increase my sensory knowledge as a driver while driving (sort of a 6th sense). 2nd, I don't see speed limits as the "rules" or the "laws" since they are implemented way too low to serve revenue scams and schemes to generate said revenue from the motoring public (unwritten taxes really). The traffic laws should exist to enhance and enforce safety, not revenue generation. ALL Engineers agree speed limits should be set to the 85th percentile standard everywhere, and currently we do not follow this, especially in CA. I frankly don't even think speed limits are necessary at all (see Autobahn and former Montana State). 3rd, I find that most highway patrolmen and police officers on traffic duty are either incompetent, tremendously lazy, and/or both. They also make mistakes (they are human). Therefore, one doesn't have to be speeding to receive a speeding ticket. One can also be found guilty in court despite being innocent because traffic court judges (usually not even real judges) forget that you are innocent until proven guilty and assume you are guilty until proven innocent in traffic court. I think we need to bring back jury trials for infractions to make this fair and just again. Therefore, I find that a radar detector will help me to avoid a situation where the court's and my time will be wasted by an officer hiding behind a planter with his radar gun. Also, it'll help me to avoid being mistaken for a "speeder" when I'm not the speeder as I can avoid being in the "fast lane" and go EVEN slower than the speed limit so as to avoid any confusion or margin of error the officer might have to determine my speed. Their powers of observation really are not that good. Case in point, coming back from Pahrump Nevada to Sunny San Diego, in Nevada my wife was driving the NV portion of highway home, and we saw a NV Highway Patrol vehicle from about 2 miles away (very distant) pulling from a dirt road towards the main highway which was probably a quarter mile away from the officer almost perfectly perpendicularly to our path of travel. He turned right onto our highway and we were then facing each other head on from about a mile away. As he got closer we had already long since slowed down to a very slow 65 since we spotted him so soon on this stretch of highway (I think the speed limit may have been 70 but was at least 65). Anyway, officer's will often testify that they can estimate a vehicles speed moving head-on at over a 1,000 feet away. This is complete non-sense and FOOEY as NO ONE can accurately estimate a vehicle's speed from further than 1,000 feet away, especially going head on, yet officer's will often perjure themselves in court and say they estimated your speed, then took a radar reading, which confirmed the estimate. This is the lawful way to do it. In reality they set their radar units to beep when they catch someone going over a certain preset speed. The officer will then take his eyes off the newspaper or GameBoy or Donut and look at who's coming and go after them. This is the truth of what happens, but inconveniently this won't hold up in court so officer's routinely fib in court. This theory was proven by the Nevada Patrolman, because at about 1,250 feet or so the radar detector went BOOM from his POP radar burst and he had obviously taken a reading of our speed deliberately and suddenly (as if we hadn't yet recognized he was a police cruiser; which if we weren't fully alert, we might not have). But he did this despite the fact we were going about 64 MPH by this time, and the speed limit was over that. So I ask this, if they can estimate our speed accurately at over 1,000 and they are supposed to do so (as standard procedure) PRIOR to using their radar units as a matter of law, then why did he bother radar bursting us with radar to read our speed? He should have obviously known we weren't speeding from a visual estimate. The answer is they can't estimate our speed and have no clue as to how fast you are going at that distance w/o the use of their radar units. I wish I had that phony Ventura County judge in the car with me when that happened to question him (he's one who found me guilty). He blindly accepted the officer's testimony as an "expert" at speed estimation and accepted radars as "god-like" in their accuracy when they are far from it. RADAR is ancient technology really, and not a very good technology at that. It is terribly inaccurate at times, and prone to errors and interference. It really isn't well suited to traffic enforcement at all.

I finally found a 2010 Golf TDI 4 door last week and bought it. I drove the first 125 miles around Phoenix, then hit the highway to Vegas before ending my trip in Pahrump, NV where I filled up for the first time. 545 miles and just under 14 gallons. The car rides very well, is very quiet, climbed the mountain pass (about 2500 ft) between Vegas and Pahrump without a down shift or drop in speed on cruse, and left me quite satisfied with my choice of this vehicle. The TDI and DSG auto work well together, keeping the revs low while the torque brings smiles leaving the lights. I haven't used the sport mode yet, but will after another 1000 miles or so. No complaints. A good, comfortable, sporty vehicle that performs very well and is very economical. I expect to see 50+ mpg highway mileage as the engine breaks in. Why doesn't everyone drive one of these?

I have a sangria red MKS with the ultimate package. After one month, I find the car to be a great ride--quiet, smooth riding yet not "floaty" and handles nicely overall. I am a gadget guy and love the electronic toys. I only have two small nits to pick on this car: The "bookshelf" (actually the door storage) is too tight to put a book in comfortably. My '06 Avalon had door storage that would tilt out so you could put in a book and remove it easily. The only other thing that could use improvement is the keyless entry. Rather than have to go to the driver's door to unlock the car without using a key or the transmitter, I liked that with the Avalon, I only had to walk up to any door or the trunk with the fob in my pocket and any door could be opened. Since I haven't taken any long distance drives yet that haven't involved going through a mountain pass (I live in Pahrump, NV and we go to Las Vegas frequently) I haven't been able to see what kind of mpg it will get on "flat" highway travel. It gets around 21mpg going "over the hump to Pahrump". With a few more miles on the car, I am hoping this will improve.

Does anyone know how to remove the radio from a 2001 Neon? I am not sure how to get it out. Thank you for your help.