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Also, I also fubbed fixing my car last night went a piece of plastic fell down the oil dipstick hole, and is somewhere inside my oil pan. Great….
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Do not worry about any piece of plastic small enough to fall inside the dipstick hole. There is a screen at the oil intake, and if the piece of plastic is small enough to get past the screen, it will be trapped in the oil filter, and if too large to get past the screen, it will just hang out there.
Thank you for your pull-no-punches treatise on the Asian invasion of Carmel Valley. I even saved it in my archives. I am working very hard to figure out whether CV is a long term bet for me and my children, and at the same time wondering whether, if it is a good place to live for the long term, when and if the real estate values will ever get pounded. I can easily see a Chinese invasion propping up the values indefinitely, a la Cupertino, which has few redeeming values besides the domino effect you describe.
