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cdnpinhead

dino001 said:

I live in Tampa, so when I go to say Atlanta, there is a constant gradual net incline and then back there is a constant gradual net uphill. The difference can be 3 or even 5 mpg, if there is also some difference in traffic, or wind.

I must be reading this wrong, but it sounds like it's uphill to Atlanta, which makes perfect sense, but coming back down doesn't correspond to . . . then back there is a gradual net uphill.

I'm sure I'm reading something wrong and need help. This is uphill both ways personified. Sounds like when I walked to school.

ruking1

jmonroe1 said:

ruking1 said:

Specify a better grade of car. Lower the deductible. 😎

It's not worth the gas mileage bump.

jmonroe

Well then 500 bucks it is & remains.

oldfarmer50

venture said:

jmonroe1 said:

venture said:

driver100 said:

venture said:

I'm taking my Legacy to the shop today to get the rear bumper cover replaced. My insurance company insists I use Enterprise for a rental. When I talked to Enterprise they asked what brand, model, and year my car is.

Why would they need to know that? It has no bearing on anything. I asked and the lady just said it's a question on the form she is using. I suspect it's a question my insurance company wants them to ask...at least I hope that's it.

She also said I will have to provide a credit card. Why? I'm not paying for the rental.

I might just rent one from the dealer.

I think they try to match you up with a similar car, because that is what the insurance company wants you to have.
They want your credit card in case something goes wrong with collecting from the insurance company and if for some reason there are additional charges...say you use the rental longer than they will pay for....or you damage it.

I think their requests are fair and in line.

Yeah. I agree. I rarely rent a car and it seemed more complicated than the last time I did it.

I ended up with a Murano. Actually, for an SUV, it's pretty nice. It has all the doo-das and gee-haws.

I'll be glad when the Legacy is finished.

I guess I missed the reason you had to have the bumper cover replaced. Can you please say why one more time.

Thanks, a fellow PA tax payer.

jmonroe

I didn't say, but since you asked.



I backed into a mail truck. He has a few hundred feet where he can park and he parks right across from my driveway. He tricked me this time. He parked about 20 feet upgrade so I couldn't see him in the mirror.

Ouch! Just the bumper cover and tail light or was there other problems too? My bumper cover cost $2500.

driver100

jmonroe1 said:

driver100 said:

suydam said:

Well, today my neighbor plowed into my Encore just as I was pulling into my condo complex and rounding the curve. She never saw me — until she hit me. She is a very sweet lady and is quite mortified, so I can’t be too mad at her. The speeds were low, but, wow, my drivers side door looks pretty stoved in. I can open it but it won’t close all the way. It may take a couple of days for her insurance folks to assess the damage. It quite a feeling to suddenly realize that the oncoming person a) is in your part of the roadway b) doesn’t see you and c) is going to hit you RIGHT NOW and there’s nothing you can do about it. Just yesterday I noticed that we had bought the Encore exactly 4 years ago — nary a scratch till now.

Sorry to hear about your crunch....that can happen so easily, people get a little careless when driving in their complex....they assume no one else could possibly driving the other way at the same time.

So we recently had the Encore and the Subie...do these things happen in 3's?

Well they better not. We are going out to dinner pretty soon and I'll be driving the Subie. That thing suffered a parking lot hit-and-run a few years back that cost me my $500 deductible. If you guys remember, that's when I got the 2015 Black Altima as the rental that got a few, "nice looking car" comments. Still not worth the 500 bucks it cost me. :@

jmonroe

Enjoy your dinner at Denny's......are you getting the Bourbon Chicken?

ruking1

You are killin me!

oldfarmer50

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

Gas was $2.27 yesterday....today it is $2.49! What happened?

The cartel is driving up the price of oil again. One of the Wall St. investment places recently forecast a big jump in gas prices. That is always a self-fulfilling prophecy, at least for a while until the market speaks.

Unrest in Venezuela May be creating uncertainty in the market too.

cdnpinhead

Venezuela could fall off the face of the earth and I'm not sure too many would notice.

dino001

cdnpinhead said:

dino001 said:

I live in Tampa, so when I go to say Atlanta, there is a constant gradual net incline and then back there is a constant gradual net uphill. The difference can be 3 or even 5 mpg, if there is also some difference in traffic, or wind.

I must be reading this wrong, but it sounds like it's uphill to Atlanta, which makes perfect sense, but coming back down doesn't correspond to . . . then back there is a gradual net uphill.

I'm sure I'm reading something wrong and need help. This is uphill both ways personified. Sounds like when I walked to school.

Typo, of course. Meant downhill from Atlanta. Will edit.

oldfarmer50

jmonroe1 said:

ruking1 said:

jmonroe1 said:

ruking1 said:

Para #1 No, been running diesels for over 520,000 miles.

Para #2 Hey buddy, if you don’t like it, don’t read it.👍

And he did it AGAIN. I think I'm going to keep score.

jmonroe

Oh, thank you very much! I’ve decided to let you run for 2020 president all by yourself ! I’m sure you’ll knock out Spartacus ?

And he did it still AGAIN. Now I think he's messing with me. I'm not sure that is legal given the bylaws in here. :@

jmonroe

Wow, you must have a lot of time on your hands. I sometimes go back and correct my spelling or what have you after I reread my posts. I don’t have time to give scrutiny to anyone else.

explorerx4

Venture's backing up incident reminds me that one time I backed into a snow bank with my 2013 Fusion,
It had rear camera and backup sensors and they were clanging away, but I thought it was the wrong side.
My current one has them too, but it has an additional graphic the shows you which side is closest.

jmonroe1

cdnpinhead said:

dino001 said:

I live in Tampa, so when I go to say Atlanta, there is a constant gradual net incline and then back there is a constant gradual net uphill. The difference can be 3 or even 5 mpg, if there is also some difference in traffic, or wind.

I must be reading this wrong, but it sounds like it's uphill to Atlanta, which makes perfect sense, but coming back down doesn't correspond to . . . then back there is a gradual net uphill.

I'm sure I'm reading something wrong and need help. This is uphill both ways personified. Sounds like when I walked to school.

Don't feel bad, I read it the same way. Probably somethig to do with his native Polish language.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50

suydam said:

Well, today my neighbor plowed into my Encore just as I was pulling into my condo complex and rounding the curve. She never saw me — until she hit me. She is a very sweet lady and is quite mortified, so I can’t be too mad at her. The speeds were low, but, wow, my drivers side door looks pretty stoved in. I can open it but it won’t close all the way. It may take a couple of days for her insurance folks to assess the damage. It quite a feeling to suddenly realize that the oncoming person a) is in your part of the roadway b) doesn’t see you and c) is going to hit you RIGHT NOW and there’s nothing you can do about it. Just yesterday I noticed that we had bought the Encore exactly 4 years ago — nary a scratch till now.

Did someone put a hex on the Edmunds posters?

ruking1

Might be?😱I try normally to be where people don’t want to park. @ times I’m not sure it’s worth the effort.

berri

Sorry about your car suydam. Hopefully its towed to a body shop and you can get a rental there.

Aba - toilets have improved a lot from just a few years back, so maybe you should just replace the relic. Mold is too much of a risk where you live to hassle with the old one again.

ruking1

Our “new” ones’ were installed 9 years ago during a remodeling (post financial crash). The plumber subsequently mentioned to flush the toilets @ least twice. Newer valves use less water. Less water not being good for get “stuff” down drains.

abacomike

berri said:

Sorry about your car suydam. Hopefully its towed to a body shop and you can get a rental there. Aba - toilets have improved a lot from just a few years back, so maybe you should just replace the relic. Mold is too much of a risk where you live to hassle with the old one again.

I agree, but it is up to my service company to make its determination first.  If the toilet needs to be replaced, they are supposed to replace it.  If it’s just a matter of a seal, they will replace the seal and then test its integrity..

I believe if I just want the toilet replaced, they will do it but I will have to pay for the toilet, but not the labor.

henryn

When I bought this house, in 2011, I replaced both toilets. The old ones were circa 2005, so only 6 years old, but I wanted the taller models. Much easier on my old knees.

venture

oldfarmer50 said:

venture said:

jmonroe1 said:

venture said:

driver100 said:

venture said:

I'm taking my Legacy to the shop today to get the rear bumper cover replaced. My insurance company insists I use Enterprise for a rental. When I talked to Enterprise they asked what brand, model, and year my car is.

Why would they need to know that? It has no bearing on anything. I asked and the lady just said it's a question on the form she is using. I suspect it's a question my insurance company wants them to ask...at least I hope that's it.

She also said I will have to provide a credit card. Why? I'm not paying for the rental.

I might just rent one from the dealer.

I think they try to match you up with a similar car, because that is what the insurance company wants you to have.
They want your credit card in case something goes wrong with collecting from the insurance company and if for some reason there are additional charges...say you use the rental longer than they will pay for....or you damage it.

I think their requests are fair and in line.

Yeah. I agree. I rarely rent a car and it seemed more complicated than the last time I did it.

I ended up with a Murano. Actually, for an SUV, it's pretty nice. It has all the doo-das and gee-haws.

I'll be glad when the Legacy is finished.

I guess I missed the reason you had to have the bumper cover replaced. Can you please say why one more time.

Thanks, a fellow PA tax payer.

jmonroe

I didn't say, but since you asked.



I backed into a mail truck. He has a few hundred feet where he can park and he parks right across from my driveway. He tricked me this time. He parked about 20 feet upgrade so I couldn't see him in the mirror.

Ouch! Just the bumper cover and tail light or was there other problems too? My bumper cover cost $2500.

The body shop manager looked at it. That's what he said it needed "unless we find something else when we open it up". A blank check.

venture

explorerx4 said:

Venture's backing up incident reminds me that one time I backed into a snow bank with my 2013 Fusion,
It had rear camera and backup sensors and they were clanging away, but I thought it was the wrong side.
My current one has them too, but it has an additional graphic the shows you which side is closest.

I had turned off the back-up sensors to get out of the garage without the brakes slamming on, otherwise I would have been warned.

I did something similar when I had my Fusion. I was backing in to a parking spot at a baseball game and the sensors were beeping away and were turned all red. I was against an F-150 and just pushing away...lol. No damage to either vehicle for some reason. I waited after the game for the guy driving the truck.

suydam

Here’s how my Encore looks now. Not pretty.

venture

suydam said:

Here’s how my Encore looks now. Not pretty.

Man! What a disappointment.

berri

Ouch, that's gonna cost some bucks

stickguy

looks like a new skin on the way. Probably better than trying to straighten out the old one and ending up with Bondo.

jmonroe1

berri said:

Ouch, that's gonna cost some bucks

Not really. A good body guy with a great buffer and he'll be outta there before he finishes his first cup of coffee.

jmonroe

suydam

I don’t think so, seeing as the door frame is also whack above the window. But her insurance is paying, so it is what it is.

jmonroe1

oldfarmer50 said:

jmonroe1 said:

ruking1 said:

jmonroe1 said:

ruking1 said:

Para #1 No, been running diesels for over 520,000 miles.

Para #2 Hey buddy, if you don’t like it, don’t read it.👍

And he did it AGAIN. I think I'm going to keep score.

jmonroe

Oh, thank you very much! I’ve decided to let you run for 2020 president all by yourself ! I’m sure you’ll knock out Spartacus ?

And he did it still AGAIN. Now I think he's messing with me. I'm not sure that is legal given the bylaws in here. :@

jmonroe

Wow, you must have a lot of time on your hands. I sometimes go back and correct my spelling or what have you after I reread my posts. I don’t have time to give scrutiny to anyone else.

Ordinarily I'd agree with you but it's so obvious with this guy it's laughable. It's not hard to notice. If Ray Charles was still around even he could see it.

jmonroe

sda

berri said:

Sorry about your car suydam. Hopefully its towed to a body shop and you can get a rental there.

Aba - toilets have improved a lot from just a few years back, so maybe you should just replace the relic. Mold is too much of a risk where you live to hassle with the old one again.

When I was dating my soon to be wife, her brother visited her in her new apartment that had the then newly introduced 1.6 gallon flush toilets. He flushed the toilet, it clogged and water and poop ran over. Yuck. He quickly said to flush “big job first”, “paperwork second.” Two flushes. Lol, yet no issues since!

explorerx4

I feel like some of us are headed here:


Took the picture last weekend where one of my kids works.

28firefighter

Bummer, @suydam. That’ll buff right out. 

ruking1

Well,... how about them PATRIOTS?😎

explorerx4

Guess someone shouldn't have used their Patriots VISA card.

ab348

My newish Gerber Viper is an outstanding water saving toilet. Nearly 2 years on and it never needs a second flush.

[Deleted User]

Wow, looks like our forum members are having a bad luck streak with body damage. Glad no one has been injured. My field engineers average about 45,000 miles a year on company vehicles and we run into fewer accidents than this group has. Crossing my fingers this is the last of it for awhile.

suydam

Yes, very glad no injuries. It’s a car. It can be repaired.

driver100

oldfarmer50 said:

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

Gas was $2.27 yesterday....today it is $2.49! What happened?

The cartel is driving up the price of oil again. One of the Wall St. investment places recently forecast a big jump in gas prices. That is always a self-fulfilling prophecy, at least for a while until the market speaks.

Unrest in Venezuela May be creating uncertainty in the market too.

I read a shortage and converting to more expensive summer grade. In the Fall they convert to expensive Winter Grade...................so they tell us.

driver100

ruking1 said:

Might be?😱I try normally to be where people don’t want to park. @ times I’m not sure it’s worth the effort.

I leave my car a little further away from other cars...then when I come back I am surrounded! :@

driver100

suydam said:

Here’s how my Encore looks now. Not pretty.

I wonder if a new door would be cheaper and faster? Damage looks like it is all contained to the door. Have you contacted the insurance company and is she being cooperative?

What a mess....and not going too fast.

driver100

Thought it was time to show off my Pfister again:

suydam

She contacted her insurance as mine told me to go through hers. They’ll send an adjuster out in the next day or so. She is a friend of mine so she is mortified. Nothing worse than hitting your neighbor as opposed to a stranger you won’t see again after you exchange insurance info. I know, because I did it myself many years ago. Had all 3 kids in the van, and youngest kept yelling! Drove me nuts and I told her to shut up. Next thing I know BAM! I’ve backed right into my neighbors car as they were passing by. My youngest said, “That’s what I was trying to tell you.” !!! Ah, life keeps us humble.

jmonroe1

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

driver100 said:

suydam said:

Well, today my neighbor plowed into my Encore just as I was pulling into my condo complex and rounding the curve. She never saw me — until she hit me. She is a very sweet lady and is quite mortified, so I can’t be too mad at her. The speeds were low, but, wow, my drivers side door looks pretty stoved in. I can open it but it won’t close all the way. It may take a couple of days for her insurance folks to assess the damage. It quite a feeling to suddenly realize that the oncoming person a) is in your part of the roadway b) doesn’t see you and c) is going to hit you RIGHT NOW and there’s nothing you can do about it. Just yesterday I noticed that we had bought the Encore exactly 4 years ago — nary a scratch till now.

Sorry to hear about your crunch....that can happen so easily, people get a little careless when driving in their complex....they assume no one else could possibly driving the other way at the same time.

So we recently had the Encore and the Subie...do these things happen in 3's?

Well they better not. We are going out to dinner pretty soon and I'll be driving the Subie. That thing suffered a parking lot hit-and-run a few years back that cost me my $500 deductible. If you guys remember, that's when I got the 2015 Black Altima as the rental that got a few, "nice looking car" comments. Still not worth the 500 bucks it cost me. :@

jmonroe

Enjoy your dinner at Denny's......are you getting the Bourbon Chicken?

Are you serious? I don't even know how to spell Denies.

jmonroe

abacomike

driver100 said:

Thought it was time to show off my Pfister again:

Doesn’t look like it “holds” enough! 

venture

After all the rain lately saturating the ground and the wind storm that blew through here for a day and a half, the tree guy is coming today to remove this tree before it falls on the road and takes the electric lines with it. I'll miss it.

driver100

suydam said:

She contacted her insurance as mine told me to go through hers. They’ll send an adjuster out in the next day or so. She is a friend of mine so she is mortified. Nothing worse than hitting your neighbor as opposed to a stranger you won’t see again after you exchange insurance info. I know, because I did it myself many years ago. Had all 3 kids in the van, and youngest kept yelling! Drove me nuts and I told her to shut up. Next thing I know BAM! I’ve backed right into my neighbors car as they were passing by. My youngest said, “That’s what I was trying to tell you.” !!! Ah, life keeps us humble.

lol suydam, .....just a few seconds of inattention and it can happen. Made me laugh because that makes me recall having kids in the car.....also I appreciate my poor parents putting up with us kids - wish I could tell them how much I appreciate what they did for us, and during much more difficult times.

driver100

abacomike said:

driver100 said:

Thought it was time to show off my Pfister again:

Doesn’t look like it “holds” enough! 

Hold enough what......water?

driver100

The potholes are so large back home near Toronto this year.....the cops have a new way of catching speeders!

ab348

There he goes again, lording about his designer toilet over the rest of us proles...

imidazol97

suydam said:

My youngest said, “That’s what I was trying to tell you.” !!! Ah, life keeps us humble.

Priceless.

Sorry to hear about your car. Keep us informed about the repairs.
Or is it time for a new car?

bwia

driver100 said:

Thought it was time to show off my Pfister again:

There's a joke here but perhaps Edmund's won't let me speak these words.

houdini2

sda said:

berri said:

Sorry about your car suydam. Hopefully its towed to a body shop and you can get a rental there.

Aba - toilets have improved a lot from just a few years back, so maybe you should just replace the relic. Mold is too much of a risk where you live to hassle with the old one again.

When I was dating my soon to be wife, her brother visited her in her new apartment that had the then newly introduced 1.6 gallon flush toilets. He flushed the toilet, it clogged and water and poop ran over. Yuck. He quickly said to flush “big job first”, “paperwork second.” Two flushes. Lol, yet no issues since!

The smaller capacity flushes were mandated by gov. to save water. Instead it led to more water usage because people had to flush 2 or 3 times instead of once.

houdini2

suydam said:

She contacted her insurance as mine told me to go through hers. They’ll send an adjuster out in the next day or so. She is a friend of mine so she is mortified. Nothing worse than hitting your neighbor as opposed to a stranger you won’t see again after you exchange insurance info. I know, because I did it myself many years ago. Had all 3 kids in the van, and youngest kept yelling! Drove me nuts and I told her to shut up. Next thing I know BAM! I’ve backed right into my neighbors car as they were passing by. My youngest said, “That’s what I was trying to tell you.” !!! Ah, life keeps us humble.

Reminds me of the time I went over to clean a neighbors driveway after a big snow while they were out of town. It was around Christmas, he had some Christmas light wiring under the snow which I immediately sucked into the snow blower. As I was getting it all untangled, my wife, who was watching from our porch started yelling unplug it, unplug it, you are going to get electrocuted. I told her to stop yelling it was a gas snow blower. She yelled back, unplug the Christmas lights ! Oh, I said.