Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations (Archived)

stickguy

Hey, I drove a duster with bald bias ply snows through an upstate NY winter. Then a gremlin. I earned my fishtail chops. My wife, well, I don't think she will be up for that.

But looks like mid December will be forking out for tires too! Ouch, with Xmas, and the DP on the new car showing up on the CC bill! Not to mention payments starting.

ab348

It's not a "farm truck", it's a race truck. They just call it that.

Not a fan of that show.

breld

@abacomike - that's so amazing for your grandson. My 14 year-old is in pretty competitive baseball, though he's not at the same level as your grandson. Congrats! It should be a fun journey!

Mr_Shiftright

driver100 said:

For anyone who thinks electric cars are a new idea;
1905!

I would give anything to have that charging unit in my living room!

Mr_Shiftright

suydam said:

28firefighter said:

I beat up on Cleveland because my wife is from there. I actually like the town quite a bit, but the weather on the east side in winter is brutal. 

I was just there in October when the weather is beautiful. Cleveland is a wonderful city. Yes, it snows, but not that much more than any other Midwest city. And someday, maybe, the Indians will win a Series. Hopefully in my lifetime.

Oh the Cleveland Triangle----quarterbacks and coaches who go there suddenly disappear from the face of the earth.

Aliens?

isellhondas

driver100 said:

Mr_Shiftright said:

If you are putting a car into livery service it might make sense to bear the expense of pushing a car to 300K or 400K, but for the average owner one has to wonder.

I drove taxis when I went to teachers college. That would be about 1970. Most of the taxis were worthless at about 120000 miles, but a few guys loved there cars and got 400000 miles out of them. But, to do that, those cars were really babied and they got the best of care. In those days the really cheap, but made a lot of money guys, used toilet paper rolls for oil filters.

It has to be remembered that back in 1970, most cars didn't make it to 100,000 miles without valve jobs, engine overhauls etc. The oils of 50 years ago weren't very good either.

There was a company called Frantz that used to hawk the merits of their aftermarket filters that used a roll of toilet paper to filter the oil instead of a conventional filter. They were very controversial at the time but they sold quite a few mainly at county fairs etc. Some people thought they were great and others said they dropped oil pressure and that the paper would break up and wreck the engine. Haven't heard of these for years!

suydam

Mr_Shiftright said:

suydam said:

28firefighter said:

I beat up on Cleveland because my wife is from there. I actually like the town quite a bit, but the weather on the east side in winter is brutal. 

I was just there in October when the weather is beautiful. Cleveland is a wonderful city. Yes, it snows, but not that much more than any other Midwest city. And someday, maybe, the Indians will win a Series. Hopefully in my lifetime.

Oh the Cleveland Triangle----quarterbacks and coaches who go there suddenly disappear from the face of the earth.

Aliens?

Truly doomed in football but the baseball and basketball teams are quite good.

oldfarmer50

stickguy said:

Hey, I drove a duster with bald bias ply snows through an upstate NY winter. Then a gremlin. I earned my fishtail chops. My wife, well, I don't think she will be up for that.

But looks like mid December will be forking out for tires too! Ouch, with Xmas, and the DP on the new car showing up on the CC bill! Not to mention payments starting.

I take back any insinuations I might have made. Driving a Gremlin with bald tires in a NY winter? You should change your handle to Bluto.

Here's some incentive to make a permanent move to 'Toga:

graphicguy

isellhondas said:

driver100 said:

Mr_Shiftright said:

If you are putting a car into livery service it might make sense to bear the expense of pushing a car to 300K or 400K, but for the average owner one has to wonder.

I drove taxis when I went to teachers college. That would be about 1970. Most of the taxis were worthless at about 120000 miles, but a few guys loved there cars and got 400000 miles out of them. But, to do that, those cars were really babied and they got the best of care. In those days the really cheap, but made a lot of money guys, used toilet paper rolls for oil filters.

It has to be remembered that back in 1970, most cars didn't make it to 100,000 miles without valve jobs, engine overhauls etc. The oils of 50 years ago weren't very good either.

There was a company called Frantz that used to hawk the merits of their aftermarket filters that used a roll of toilet paper to filter the oil instead of a conventional filter. They were very controversial at the time but they sold quite a few mainly at county fairs etc. Some people thought they were great and others said they dropped oil pressure and that the paper would break up and wreck the engine. Haven't heard of these for years!

Craig....I remember being at the Ohio State Fair standing with my Father watching a “miracle carburetor” demonstration claiming that, once installed, would return 100 MPG. The deal was the oil companies and car manufacturers had consorted to keep it out of the hands of the general public.

I’ll assume moving to fuel injection was the death blow to that product!

stickguy

Farmer, one day I will get there. Even better, a few months ago I got to tour Jim Taylors private collection in Gloversville. Very impressive.

Toga still might happen. I've shopped houses and can make that part work. The wife is all for it. Already has sister and brother in Amsterdam, and recently her 2nd brother bought a house in toga (part time use now, will retire from long island in a few years). Plus her 3rd brother is about to retire and is talking about moving up from the D.C. Area. Plus our son in Albany. Would just be leaving the princess off on her own in Delaware, but she will make do.

Will give me an excuse to buy a 4WD truck too!

berri

Cleveland is an interesting topography for the Midwest. The east side rises more than you seem to notice in elevation the further east you go. So you tend to get more snow east and less in the western suburbs. Oh, and throw in Lake Erie being rather shallow for a great lake.

Aba, I think the auto stop seems to work pretty well and I'd throw in blind side monitoring with today's obstructed greenhouses. However, lane drft warning may need a little more work.

nyccarguy

"Hey, I drove a duster with bald bias ply snows through an upstate NY winter. Then a gremlin. I earned my fishtail chops."

yeah, yeah, yeah @stickguy. You also had to walk 6 miles to school every day, uphill both ways, in the snow...

abacomike

I’m having big problems trying to pull up this forum site or any Edmunds site.  I can’t pull it up on my desk top at all.  Only on my phone - but it takes forever to load.  I checked my speed and both the phone and desk top are running at 70+ mbs downloads.

Anyone else having problems?

suydam

None here. Can you access other websites? It might be your internet service.

thebean

I'm fine with this site also. No speed problems.

oldfarmer50

stickguy said:

Farmer, one day I will get there. Even better, a few months ago I got to tour Jim Taylors private collection in Gloversville. Very impressive.

Toga still might happen. I've shopped houses and can make that part work. The wife is all for it. Already has sister and brother in Amsterdam, and recently her 2nd brother bought a house in toga (part time use now, will retire from long island in a few years). Plus her 3rd brother is about to retire and is talking about moving up from the D.C. Area. Plus our son in Albany. Would just be leaving the princess off on her own in Delaware, but she will make do.

Will give me an excuse to buy a 4WD truck too!

Didn't you hear, the entire Gloversville area is over run with [non-permissible content removed] storm troopers according to the local paper. Probably one guy with a German helmet in mommy's basement talking tough.

If I were you, since you have family in Amsterdam, I'd buy one of those big textile baron mansions on Guy Park Ave. from Amsterdam's glory days. You could get 5,000 sq ft. For a few hundrered thousand and live like a king amongst the struggling poor.

oldfarmer50

abacomike said:

I’m having big problems trying to pull up this forum site or any Edmunds site.  I can’t pull it up on my desk top at all.  Only on my phone - but it takes forever to load.  I checked my speed and both the phone and desk top are running at 70+ mbs downloads.

Anyone else having problems?

Past few weeks when posting it takes so long for the words to appear that spell check gets confused and makes up different words. Makes me look like more of an idiot than I really am.

Pages have loaded slowly since they changed to the new system. I always assumed it was my old IPad or cable system. Right now I'm having no problems but sometimes I have to type letters in individually very slowly.

abacomike

suydam said:

None here. Can you access other websites? It might be your internet service.

It was Comcast’s problem.  Everything seems OK now.  Thanks - temporary technical difficulties- so they said.

PF_Flyer

What it was/is (I think) was an ad server problem. And it seemed to depend on what path anyone's particular location took to what servers. 7 miles away, my wife had zero issues at work (I ran her as a remote test ) yet here at home, ANY site that had ads from a certain ad seller would either grind very slowly or not open at all. Facebook wouldn't even try to load here, although it seems to be back now. But it wasn't a Comcast/ISP issue as I was just fine on any site that wasn't using those ads.

But it IS nice to know it wasn't just ME

stickguy

I was having issues earlier, but just with the forums. Took forever to load, if finally did. Other sites were normal. So who knows. Seems fine now.

abacomike

PF_Flyer said:

What it was/is (I think) was an ad server problem. And it seemed to depend on what path anyone's particular location took to what servers. 7 miles away, my wife had zero issues at work (I ran her as a remote test ) yet here at home, ANY site that had ads from a certain ad seller would either grind very slowly or not open at all. Facebook wouldn't even try to load here, although it seems to be back now. But it wasn't a Comcast/ISP issue as I was just fine on any site that wasn't using those ads.

But it IS nice to know it wasn't just ME

Crazy - I very rarely have problems with my connectivity - iPhone or Desktop. But everything was a bit screwy there for awhile. But now, all seems to have resolved itself.

28firefighter

Comcast just had a nationwide outage for about 30 minutes.

stickguy

oldfarmer50 said:

stickguy said:

Farmer, one day I will get there. Even better, a few months ago I got to tour Jim Taylors private collection in Gloversville. Very impressive.

Toga still might happen. I've shopped houses and can make that part work. The wife is all for it. Already has sister and brother in Amsterdam, and recently her 2nd brother bought a house in toga (part time use now, will retire from long island in a few years). Plus her 3rd brother is about to retire and is talking about moving up from the D.C. Area. Plus our son in Albany. Would just be leaving the princess off on her own in Delaware, but she will make do.

Will give me an excuse to buy a 4WD truck too!

Didn't you hear, the entire Gloversville area is over run with [non-permissible content removed] storm troopers according to the local paper. Probably one guy with a German helmet in mommy's basement talking tough.

If I were you, since you have family in Amsterdam, I'd buy one of those big textile baron mansions on Guy Park Ave. from Amsterdam's glory days. You could get 5,000 sq ft. For a few hundrered thousand and live like a king amongst the struggling poor.

I thought about it. But don't want to live there. And if I did, it would be up on the hill. Down by guy park, it gets scary! But you are right, houses go cheap. But would rather spend more for Saratoga or ballston spa.

abacomike

28firefighter said:

Comcast just had a nationwide outage for about 30 minutes.

Wow, nationwide? That is something. It must have affected many millions of computers and WiFi connected to an Xfinity hot spot.

abacomike

Spoke with my grandson at length last night about his college prospects. It seems that he has applied to 10 colleges and universities thus far and has heard back from 2 so far - both accepted him and both are interested in him for baseball scholarships.

He has an extremely mature head on his shoulders. He said he does not want to think about going into the major leagues until he is finishing his junior year in college. That's when he will consider baseball as a career - but not before. He likes the idea of teaching and/or coaching - but "grandpa" made several suggestions to him - like computer science/technology, business administration, to name a few. If things were different, I would have suggested accounting, but with major changes in tax law and simplification of the tax code, that might not be the best direction to pursue. Many of his cousins are currently attorneys or are in law school, but it takes a certain type of individual to go into law and I don't think he is the type.

He still wants to visit the college in Nebraska because they have an excellent sports program in baseball. He has many months to consider his future and I suspect he will be getting many offers from colleges and universities in the form of scholarships.

We shall see.

abacomike

By the way, you disbelievers out there. My BMW 740 just turned 11,000 miles and is 11 months old (new?). Every time I look at some of the cars out there, the more I know I will be staying with the 740i. I don't feel like taking the big depreciation hit like I am used to taking - and for what it's worth - there really isn't anything out there that is "better than" what I now have. It still rides like a new car and handles like a new car. It has all the creature comforts one would want in a car and its safety features are top-notch.

I'm driving up to my brother's for Thanksgiving and my BMW is a great road car. I don't think I've owned a car with 11,000+ miles on it for over 20 years. It's already had one oil and filter change and will be due for another in 6500 miles. My Michelin tires still have lots of tread on them, so tires won't be a problem for quite some time.

Yep, this one's a keeper!

suydam

It’s great when you have a car you love. Such a pleasure to get in it every time!

thebean

oldfarmer50 said:

Past few weeks when posting it takes so long for the words to appear that spell check gets confused and makes up different words. Makes me look like more of an idiot than I really am.

Pages have loaded slowly since they changed to the new system. I always assumed it was my old IPad or cable system. Right now I'm having no problems but sometimes I have to type letters in individually very slowly.

At least you've got an excuse.

stickguy

Make has gone so far up the food chain, it's really hard to improve on what you got. And if it is the perfect fit, why bother to change?

imidazol97

abacomike said:

It's already had one oil and filter change and will be due for another in 6500 miles.

OMG. I am having trouble believing this--two oil changes on the same car! LOL
I was passed by a 750 Li ? today on the way to lunch. Heavy riding wide car.
How does it compare to 740L?

When was the last time you owned a car and had two oil changes on it, not including the second change if
it was at a store when you traded it in...

@suydam has it right. If you have car you love driving, no need to look elsewhere.

isellhondas

graphicguy said:

isellhondas said:

driver100 said:

Mr_Shiftright said:

If you are putting a car into livery service it might make sense to bear the expense of pushing a car to 300K or 400K, but for the average owner one has to wonder.

I drove taxis when I went to teachers college. That would be about 1970. Most of the taxis were worthless at about 120000 miles, but a few guys loved there cars and got 400000 miles out of them. But, to do that, those cars were really babied and they got the best of care. In those days the really cheap, but made a lot of money guys, used toilet paper rolls for oil filters.

It has to be remembered that back in 1970, most cars didn't make it to 100,000 miles without valve jobs, engine overhauls etc. The oils of 50 years ago weren't very good either.

There was a company called Frantz that used to hawk the merits of their aftermarket filters that used a roll of toilet paper to filter the oil instead of a conventional filter. They were very controversial at the time but they sold quite a few mainly at county fairs etc. Some people thought they were great and others said they dropped oil pressure and that the paper would break up and wreck the engine. Haven't heard of these for years!

Craig....I remember being at the Ohio State Fair standing with my Father watching a “miracle carburetor” demonstration claiming that, once installed, would return 100 MPG. The deal was the oil companies and car manufacturers had consorted to keep it out of the hands of the general public.

I’ll assume moving to fuel injection was the death blow to that product!

I remember that! Weren't those "Pogue" carburetors or something like that? I also remember "Cow Magnets" that if duct taped to the fuel lines were claimed to boost fuel mileage by a lot. Out of curiosity, I googled Frantz Oil Filters and they are still in business! Pretty nice website and they are looking for dealers too! Anyone?

graphicguy

Edmunds site seems to be a bit funky....more often than not. Not sure if it's because I use a popup blocker (I do). But, it seems to freeze randomly....almost like there's a code issue.

isellhondas

I'm not having that but it took me five minutes to write a three line email using Yahoo just now. I would type the word and wait and wait and then it would appear!

driver100

Mr_Shiftright said:

driver100 said:

For anyone who thinks electric cars are a new idea;
1905!

I would give anything to have that charging unit in my living room!

You mean that electrical gadget or the young lady?

driver100

abacomike said:

I’m having big problems trying to pull up this forum site or any Edmunds site.  I can’t pull it up on my desk top at all.  Only on my phone - but it takes forever to load.  I checked my speed and both the phone and desk top are running at 70+ mbs downloads.

Anyone else having problems?

I think it was from that sudden stop you had today.

driver100

isell thanks for the info about Frantz Filters. Now I know I wasn't imagining toilet paper filters.

explorerx4

@abacomike,
Make sure you family vets those schools he is interested in.
One of my nephews just graduated from a well known sports academy in FL.
Yes, that one.
He signed to go to a junior college. Coach told them no more than 30 recruits, turns out they had 60 instead.
My opinion is coach got a kickback for every recruit he could keep there until the kids had paid for the first semester, then cut a bunch of them.

tbirdmarco

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-hEN1Ump0GQ

imidazol97

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/06/comcast-xfinity-slow-outage/

abacomike

imidazol97 said:

It's already had one oil and filter change and will be due for another in 6500 miles.

OMG. I am having trouble believing this--two oil changes on the same car! LOL I was passed by a 750 Li ? today on the way to lunch. Heavy riding wide car. How does it compare to 740L? When was the last time you owned a car and had two oil changes on it, not including the second change if it was at a store when you traded it in... @suydam has it right. If you have car you love driving, no need to look elsewhere.

Actually, the only real difference is the engine.  Mine is an inline 6 with dual turbo - 320 hp and 335 ft lb of torque.  The 750i is a V8.  Bodies are identical in length, wheelbase and width.  For 2016, 2017 and 2018, they only sell the “L” (long wheelbase) in the US but dropped the “L” designation since they don’t sell the short wheelbase model.  If the 750i you saw had the L designation, it was not a newer model - could have been a 2015.

I have not owned a car that had 2 oil changes for over 20 years.

abacomike

explorerx4 said:

@abacomike, Make sure you family vets those schools he is interested in. One of my nephews just graduated from a well known sports academy in FL. Yes, that one. He signed to go to a junior college. Coach told them no more than 30 recruits, turns out they had 60 instead. My opinion is coach got a kickback for every recruit he could keep there until the kids had paid for the first semester, then cut a bunch of them.

The schools he applied to are all 4-year schools and all are offering 60%-80% athletic scholarships. Also, remember he gets an additional scholarship for academics from his mother’s work.  So st most it will cost him room and board.

All the schools are highly rated for baseball programs.

berri

Should he focus on college teams with a good baseball program, or strong academic college in a big sports league (SEC, Big 10, PAC 12, etc.) ??? Pro sports are competitive, injuries can happen in college sports - sounds like a smart kid too, so he needs a good Plan B as well.

jkissell

Any chance you have a list of the models that have highest residual values?  I did a quick search but not having much luck. 

Michaell

jkissell said:

Any chance you have a list of the models that have highest residual values?  I did a quick search but not having much luck. 

Off the top of my head, Toyota Tacomas and Jeep Wrangler 4-doors have the highest residuals.

driver100

I thought most of you could relate:

A wife was curious when she found an old negative in a drawer, and had it made into a print.

She was pleasantly surprised to see that it was of her at a much younger, slimmer time.

It was taken many years ago on one of her first dates with her husband.

When she showed him the photo, his face lit up.

"Wow, look at that!", he said with appreciation,

"THAT’S MY OLD 1949 FORD 4 DOOR
and Ed’s 38 Plymouth, behind it !”

oldfarmer50

jkissell said:

Any chance you have a list of the models that have highest residual values?  I did a quick search but not having much luck. 

Narrow that down to car type and we can help. There are an awful lot of opinions just waiting to be expressed here.

Sports cars like Corvettes or Mazda MX 5 come to mind. As Michaell said Jeep Wrangler. Also most anything from Honda or Toyota.

Look at lease calculators as they usually have that data.

oldfarmer50

driver100 said:

I thought most of you could relate:

A wife was curious when she found an old negative in a drawer, and had it made into a print.

She was pleasantly surprised to see that it was of her at a much younger, slimmer time.

It was taken many years ago on one of her first dates with her husband.

When she showed him the photo, his face lit up.

"Wow, look at that!", he said with appreciation,

"THAT’S MY OLD 1949 FORD 4 DOOR
and Ed’s 38 Plymouth, behind it !”

If she had been with him that long she would be use to that.

driver100

oldfarmer50 said:

driver100 said:

I thought most of you could relate:

A wife was curious when she found an old negative in a drawer, and had it made into a print.

She was pleasantly surprised to see that it was of her at a much younger, slimmer time.

It was taken many years ago on one of her first dates with her husband.

When she showed him the photo, his face lit up.

"Wow, look at that!", he said with appreciation,

"THAT’S MY OLD 1949 FORD 4 DOOR
and Ed’s 38 Plymouth, behind it !”

If she had been with him that long she would be use to that.

If I need to know what year something happened in....first I try to remember what car I was driving at the time!

driver100

jkissell said:

Any chance you have a list of the models that have highest residual values?  I did a quick search but not having much luck. 

Just google "cars with the highest residual rates"

The short quick answer is:
6 vehicles with high resale value. ...
2017 Honda Fit (subcompact) ...
2017 Subaru Legacy (midsize car) ...
2017 Jeep Wrangler (compact SUV/crossover) ...
2017 Toyota Sienna (minivan) ...
2017 Chevrolet Silverado HD (full-size pickup) ...
2017 Lexus RC (entry-level luxury car)

But, do you really want to choose a car, SUV or truck just based on that? I think unless one of these cars is a close fit, you will get tired of it quickly and trading early may cost more in the long run.

nyccarguy

jkissell said:

Any chance you have a list of the models that have highest residual values?  I did a quick search but not having much luck. 

Toyota 4Runner
Lexus GX470
Honda CRV
Honda Civic Si
Honda Civic Type R



what are you looking to do?  Buy & Hold for 5 years?  Buy and sell after a year or 2?  Lease?

Some cars with high residual values don't lease particularly well, while others do.  Some manufacturers inflate their lease residuals as a way to subsidize the lease.