I just checked Auto Trader out of curiosity, and GT350s are now dipping back into the 40s. A couple months ago, I didn't see one below $65k. As much as I :wub: the GT350 isn't the voodoo a bit of a problem? They vibrate themselves apart or something. :iono: I know there were complaints of oil consu...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/carmax-pauses-share-buyback-after-quarterly-profit-plunges-86-2022-12-22/ I thought I saw elsewhere that Carvana cars are starting to show up on auction sites like Manheim. https://media1.giphy.com/media/5mBE2MiMVFITS/giphy.gif I just checked Au...

Renting a 2012 era Corolla. It’s terribad. The Nissan Versa Note we had before this was better. I will say though. CVTs make the best of these tiny motors. It’s surprisingly peppy at city speeds. And it turns like 1500 rpm on the highway. What? I'm thinking the guy behind the desk accidentally rent...

Crypto bucks are GONE from what I understand, unless you cashed out a year ago. Seems a lot of people are going like 5.99 APR for 84 months :yikes: (based on my conversations with :dillerman: ). Different approach to life. Been heavily debating it myself … live your best years with the best stuff o...

We're about to make popcorn and watch The Rocketeer. I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid and the wife never has.

max225 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 12:03 pm Protection
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3 levels of protection on that bad boy. They whipped out the thesaurus of bullshit for sure.

Just wait until they start tacking on $500 for "Window Wardship" and $2000 for "Engine Escutcheon."

Piazza is the worst. Protection package is “mud guards and wheel locks we install on every car here.” No car had mud guards installed so that’s a flat out lie. In addition to this if you go in to actually talk to them about it, they’ll put a line item in 4 square for dealer prep fee which IIRC was ...

Meanwhile the Honda :dillerman: that's a quarter mile down the street from the Acura diller has 2 Si's on the lot. Market adjustments and other bullshit brings the price up to $36,726 for the Si. Integra looks like a :dill: now. https://pictures.dealer.com/p/piazzahondalang/0378/61f19b29c7871602262...

Just a couple fun H updates. My sister-in-law's Tucson needs to have part of the exhaust replaced because a weld rotted out. The car is only 3 years old. So she's been driving around with what sounds like a straight piped exhaust. Then my brother mentioned he's taking his Elantra N in for a seat be...

So, on October 30 we wrote to LL because the air conditioner wasn't, well, conditioning. This time it was cooler out so we realized that while it stopped blowing cold, it also wouldn't blow hot. LL calls home warranty company, they send a tech out, states unit needs to be replaced because the outdo...

My house is 100% electric in Delaware, which gets just as cold as PA in the winters. I installed a new heat pump back in 2017 and upgraded the auxiliary heat from 5kw to 10kw, because the 5kw was undersized for the house. This upgrade also included a larger gauge wire run because of the load increa...

:fax: said was I was thinking but with more detail. We actually had a system like this at our house in PA of all places. It ran the aux heat frequently in the winter, resulting in $400+ electric bills but no fires. They're designed to run 24/7 for as long as your wallet can take it. Holy shit, in P...

wap wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:57 pm

Huckleberry wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:39 pm

Indeed. I would love a good wagon, but I feel like that's something I will have to build myself.

You'd be just the guy to do it, too!

I've been browsing wagons out of curiosity.

Noice. That lines up nicely with my 2025 timeline of looking at an R. Of course, if the Rabbit keeps going the way it is, I may just hang onto it for longer and extend my ride on the no car payment train. :word: No payment life is a good thing. But I am encouraged about the changes/fixes VW is talk...

More info on VW's capacitive button fix. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a42084776/volkswagen-capacitive-buttons-fix/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_rdt&utm_medium=email&date=112922&utm_campaign=nl29835295&utm_term=AAA%20--%20High%20Minus%20Dormant%20and%2090%20Day%20Non%20Openers So...

Also what’s 1+ ? Intercooler + intake ? That’s mad fast though… my prediction … those 450 wheel hp engines will blow the fuck up before 100k miles for sure. No way can they handle that sort of power reliably long term… that’s just not enough displacement and way too much heat to put through the fac...

Bought an HID kit for the wife's Cherokee. It wound up being $100 cheaper than the last time I checked. This should be no problem for Captain Fabrication. Ha. Yeah, it should be pretty tame by comparison. The relay harness it came with is already terminated, so I may be cutting and crimping as need...

Anybody end up buying anything cool over the BF/CM deals? I loaded up on supps from Animal, bought a few pairs of jeans, and we bought some counter/bar stools for the kitchen from the company we got our table and chairs from. Bought an HID kit for the wife's Cherokee. It wound up being $100 cheaper...

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MexicanYarisTK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 9:54 am Speaking of accord, I spontaneously decided to rent a mini countryman with off turo throughout this week. As far as workload goes, this is gonna be an easier week, so I'll have some driving fun for sure.

I feel like the Clubman is the last wagon one can buy in the US.

I didn't really eat much of anything yesterday. We went over to my mom's for dinner, which was supposed to be ready at 4, but it wasn't ready until a little after 5, which meant I had to drive back home to feed the dog and give him his medicine for epilepsy that is on a 12 hour regiment. By the time...

GM would be out if their truck comes with the 10 speed. Both Ford and GM developed it with their own programming. Maybe it shifts better, but it is the same transmission. I would recommend a Ram 1500. The 8 speed ZF is a great trans, the Hemi is a stout engine, and the coil springs in the rear will ...

It doesn't bother me on my GTI because it releases as soon as I blip the throttle, which is what I do anyway to get moving on a hill. I did drive a C7 and it had the rev match turned on, which did mess with me as I was naturally hitting the throttle to rev match on a downshift and that was screwing...

That's weird. Every :manuel: I have driven from the last 7 years has had some form of a hill assist: my dad's 2016 Colorado, my friend's 2016 SS, my friend's 2015 235i, my 2019 GTI. Even the automatic 6th Gen I had in San Diego had a hill assist. :iono: I find it helps a lot. Many people seem to ha...

Hill starts aren’t super easy in my 2022 Toyota. No hill assist. That's weird. Every :manuel: I have driven from the last 7 years has had some form of a hill assist: my dad's 2016 Colorado, my friend's 2016 SS, my friend's 2015 235i, my 2019 GTI. Even the automatic 6th Gen I had in San Diego had a ...