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lemko1968

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

ab348 said:

jmonroe1 said:

tjc78 said:

jmonroe1 said:

imidazol97 said:

Yup.

My point was car fires, in any vehicle, are something to worry about. I never said any
particular brand was immune. Even Cadillac.

When you’re talking to him you’re supposed to say even MB.🤓

jmonroe

Yep, like that. A picture is worth a thousand words.

jmonroe

Is that a Genesis? I can't tell...

Genny’s don’t burn...they melt. More environmentally friendly because it saves a lot of pollution.

jmonroe

One month old G80 goes up in flames;

They think it ran over something on the highway that got stuck, caused friction and a spark, and then the car went up in flames. Samething must have happened to the MB I am sure

Just remember that exhaust is hot and therefor your exhaust system is hot. Get any type of flammable item under the car touching the exhaust and you have a chance of the car catching fire.

https://www.ksat.com/traffic/2019/10/10/sapd-car-catches-fire-after-driving-over-mattress/

imidazol97

I would expect those premium vehicles to have undercarraige sprinkler systems just for this kind of occurance with the mattress.

jmonroe1

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Congrats on the purchase. Just hope you can afford to feed a car with a mouth like that.😀

jmonroe

jmonroe1

imidazol97 said:

Oh great. Now we've got everybody on the forum "flaming" each other. LOL

Yeah, like you don’t know who started it.😳

jmonroe

lemko1968

jmonroe1 said:

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Congrats on the purchase. Just hope you can afford to feed a car with a mouth like that.😀

jmonroe

Could’ve been worse! I was also thinking about getting a Toyota Avalon Limited!

imidazol97

jmonroe1 said:

imidazol97 said:

Oh great. Now we've got everybody on the forum "flaming" each other. LOL

Yeah, like you don’t know who started it.😳

jmonroe

I was responding to someone else's post about car fire recalls.
https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/comment/6030354/#Comment_6030354

qbrozen

a buddy sent me pics of a GV80 at the dealership. Good GOD that thing has a MASSIVE grille. Also can't say I'm confident such a high center console will work in an SUV.

fintail

Now that's a surprise. Congrats! Smooth as butter I'm sure.

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

snakeweasel

Not cat related but close, Me and she who must be obeyed ended the day out at the local motorcycle gear shop looking to replace our helmet's (they are both over 5 years old) and I bought myself a nice full faced helmet that fit like a glove and had a photochromatic visor. The helmet was snug and comfortable. I also pick up a new set of gloves since my old one were only gloves in an academic sense and needed replacement. These new gloves were the best feeling gloves of any kind that I ever worn.

Now I cant wait for good riding weather, hope it's an early spring.

snakeweasel

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Enjoy your new ride, now go someplace fun.

snakeweasel

imidazol97 said:

I would expect those premium vehicles to have undercarraige sprinkler systems just for this kind of occurance with the mattress.

Just imagine if it was a police car with ammo in it.

jmonroe1

snakeweasel said:

Not cat related but close, Me and she who must be obeyed ended the day out at the local motorcycle gear shop looking to replace our helmet's (they are both over 5 years old) and I bought myself a nice full faced helmet that fit like a glove and had a photochromatic visor. The helmet was snug and comfortable. I also pick up a new set of gloves since my old one were only gloves in an academic sense and needed replacement. These new gloves were the best feeling gloves of any kind that I ever worn.

Now I cant wait for good riding weather, hope it's an early spring.

You’ll just have to wait to find out what the groundhog says about that.😗

jmonroe

snakeweasel

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

Not cat related but close, Me and she who must be obeyed ended the day out at the local motorcycle gear shop looking to replace our helmet's (they are both over 5 years old) and I bought myself a nice full faced helmet that fit like a glove and had a photochromatic visor. The helmet was snug and comfortable. I also pick up a new set of gloves since my old one were only gloves in an academic sense and needed replacement. These new gloves were the best feeling gloves of any kind that I ever worn.

Now I cant wait for good riding weather, hope it's an early spring.

You’ll just have to wait to find out what the groundhog says about that.😗

jmonroe

We have spent billions of dollars to set up weather monitoring stations, send up weather satellites and studying weather patterns and with all this scientific knowledge and high tech systems and you want me to see what a rodent that's wrong most of the time says based on if its sunny at the specific time it gets its lazy you know what out of the ground?

jmonroe1

snakeweasel said:

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

Not cat related but close, Me and she who must be obeyed ended the day out at the local motorcycle gear shop looking to replace our helmet's (they are both over 5 years old) and I bought myself a nice full faced helmet that fit like a glove and had a photochromatic visor. The helmet was snug and comfortable. I also pick up a new set of gloves since my old one were only gloves in an academic sense and needed replacement. These new gloves were the best feeling gloves of any kind that I ever worn.

Now I cant wait for good riding weather, hope it's an early spring.

You’ll just have to wait to find out what the groundhog says about that.😗

jmonroe

We have spent billions of dollars to set up weather monitoring stations, send up weather satellites and studying weather patterns and with all this scientific knowledge and high tech systems and you want me to see what a rodent that's wrong most of the time says based on if its sunny at the specific time it gets its lazy you know what out of the ground?

You better not let the folks in Punxsutawney PA hear you talking like that.😫

jmonroe

abacomike

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Congrats, lemko! Lexus continues to manufacture outstanding vehicles - especially the ES350. Hope you have many years of pleasure with your new car!🤓

abacomike

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

Not cat related but close, Me and she who must be obeyed ended the day out at the local motorcycle gear shop looking to replace our helmet's (they are both over 5 years old) and I bought myself a nice full faced helmet that fit like a glove and had a photochromatic visor. The helmet was snug and comfortable. I also pick up a new set of gloves since my old one were only gloves in an academic sense and needed replacement. These new gloves were the best feeling gloves of any kind that I ever worn.

Now I cant wait for good riding weather, hope it's an early spring.

You’ll just have to wait to find out what the groundhog says about that.😗

jmonroe

We have spent billions of dollars to set up weather monitoring stations, send up weather satellites and studying weather patterns and with all this scientific knowledge and high tech systems and you want me to see what a rodent that's wrong most of the time says based on if its sunny at the specific time it gets its lazy you know what out of the ground?

You better not let the folks in Punxsutawney PA hear you talking like that.😫

jmonroe

I had a great aunt who was from Punxsutawney PA. She had a pronounced twang in her speech. When I visited Punxsutawney many years ago, I noticed all the folks there had that same twang in their speech.

Jmonroe - I haven’t noticed any twangy posts from you - are you sure you are from western PA? 😜🤪🤓

abacomike

tjc78 said:

driver100 said:

Just noticed, they stole the tailights and the whole car from a 2017 Mercedes E400

You think everyone stole things from MB.

Some of my MB deals could be described as “steals”!🤪😜🤓

driver100

lemko1968 said:

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Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Nice car Lemko.

snakeweasel

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

Not cat related but close, Me and she who must be obeyed ended the day out at the local motorcycle gear shop looking to replace our helmet's (they are both over 5 years old) and I bought myself a nice full faced helmet that fit like a glove and had a photochromatic visor. The helmet was snug and comfortable. I also pick up a new set of gloves since my old one were only gloves in an academic sense and needed replacement. These new gloves were the best feeling gloves of any kind that I ever worn.

Now I cant wait for good riding weather, hope it's an early spring.

You’ll just have to wait to find out what the groundhog says about that.😗

jmonroe

We have spent billions of dollars to set up weather monitoring stations, send up weather satellites and studying weather patterns and with all this scientific knowledge and high tech systems and you want me to see what a rodent that's wrong most of the time says based on if its sunny at the specific time it gets its lazy you know what out of the ground?

You better not let the folks in Punxsutawney PA hear you talking like that.😫

jmonroe

That's about the nicest thing I have said about that woodchuck.

jmonroe1

abacomike said:

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

jmonroe1 said:

snakeweasel said:

Not cat related but close, Me and she who must be obeyed ended the day out at the local motorcycle gear shop looking to replace our helmet's (they are both over 5 years old) and I bought myself a nice full faced helmet that fit like a glove and had a photochromatic visor. The helmet was snug and comfortable. I also pick up a new set of gloves since my old one were only gloves in an academic sense and needed replacement. These new gloves were the best feeling gloves of any kind that I ever worn.

Now I cant wait for good riding weather, hope it's an early spring.

You’ll just have to wait to find out what the groundhog says about that.😗

jmonroe

We have spent billions of dollars to set up weather monitoring stations, send up weather satellites and studying weather patterns and with all this scientific knowledge and high tech systems and you want me to see what a rodent that's wrong most of the time says based on if its sunny at the specific time it gets its lazy you know what out of the ground?

You better not let the folks in Punxsutawney PA hear you talking like that.😫

jmonroe

I had a great aunt who was from Punxsutawney PA. She had a pronounced twang in her speech. When I visited Punxsutawney many years ago, I noticed all the folks there had that same twang in their speech.

Jmonroe - I haven’t noticed any twangy posts from you - are you sure you are from western PA? 😜🤪🤓

Pretty sure that “twang” is a century old residual effect past down by previous family members due to standing out in the cold in the wee hours of the morning in early February waiting to find out what their famous rodent will say about the coming of Spring.

As for me, I don’t need twangy posts to get my point across. I just tell it like it is.😎

jmonroe

roadburner

Thanks to Rooney the Wonder Dog, we don't need no stinkin' groundhog to predict the weather at Casa Roadburner...

jmonroe1

roadburner said:

Thanks to Rooney the Wonder Dog, we don't need no stinkin' groundhog to predict the weather at Casa Roadburner...

That’s a pretty positive way to put the odds in favor of an early Spring.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Very nice. There seems to be a trend for members here to buy white cars.

tjc78

@lemko
Welcome back! Enjoy the ES, isn’t that 3.5 2GR a wonderful engine?

driver100

oldfarmer50 said:

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Very nice. There seems to be a trend for members here to buy white cars.

It's a general trend....white is the #1 color.
29% white, 19% black, 17% gray, and 11% silver.

graphicguy

oldfarmer50 said:

Are you really that worried about your safety or is it as you said not wanting to drive a vehicle with even a potential problem after paying many thousands. Me, I’d take the car back with a veiled threat of legal action if anything does happen after you gave them a chance to fix it.

Cars these days are such complex computers on wheels. Yesterday I was in my son’s Fusion and as he pulled out of the driveway the wheels spun a bit on the ice. A second later a CEL came on with a warning to service the Stabilitrac system. The light went off about 30 seconds later but now I’m wondering if that computer is somehow screwed up.

I’ll throw the code reader on it later to see if it set anything.

More concerned that they really don’t know what causes the fires. Seems like it’s one thing (ABS?). But according to this article, it could be “unknown”. It’s the unknown portion that worries me.

https://www.motorsafety.org/2019-kia-stinger-recalled-for-mystery-fire-risk/

Not commenting on its likelihood. It’s the possibility that if it does catch fire, and it’s near my house, my house catches fire, too. Not likely, but catastrophic if it does happen.

graphicguy

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Welcome back. Cool car. Congrats!

I personally really like the Avalon TRD! So, I understand why one would be on your radar.

bwia

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Nice parking job if it was done unassisted without automatic parking. At first the Lexus big grill was off putting to me but I have evolved in taste and perspective and now I'm liking it very much. Sounds like you had a "December to remember" moment. Very handsome car; enjoy the ride and congrats.

stickguy

catching fire in the garage is certainly not something you want. Though if it happened here, would really shorten the timeline to get the junk in the house cleaned out and ready to move!

28firefighter

The fire-in-garage risk is what I’d be most concerned with at this point given how little information they have.

stickguy

well, I would hate to do it, but if worried about it just park out on the driveway, not too close to the house.

carnaught

lemko1968 said:

jmonroe1 said:

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Congrats on the purchase. Just hope you can afford to feed a car with a mouth like that.😀

jmonroe

Could’ve been worse! I was also thinking about getting a Toyota Avalon Limited!

I resemble that!

carnaught

Hey, anybody heard from our pal, @houdini1 ? Correct me if I’m wrong but, long time, no see..

jmonroe1

Hey @carnaught, I just noticed this...you need one post to get to 3000. Go ahead and post something. It can be meaningless. We have a poster buddy that’s made a career in here doing that.

WAITING.

jmonroe

driver100

......at least my meaningless posts are brief and to the point.

stickguy

for no particular reason, I watched a video on Youtube about new electricity generating methods (geothermal) which led to a bunch on battery and storage technology. There is all kinds of neat stuff going on in that field. If some of the real exciting stuff works out, there will be good options to store from renewable (solar or wind) and batteries with way more capacity. Exciting stuff.

if batteries can get cheap while jacking up capacity, EVs really will take over (especially if the new tech allows for quicker recharging). And mass storage capacity certainly helps renewables.

our local commuter train operation (also run the bridges, and must be hemorrhaging money right now with ridership down) recently put huge solar arrays in the station parking lots (side benefit, covered parking!). Considering the trains are electric, I imagine their utility bill was quite high. If they can get most of their power from the solar, should really be cost effective.

jmonroe1

driver100 said:

......at least my meaningless posts are brief and to the point.

Feeling guilty? I didn’t say it was you...that wouldn’t be polite.😎

jmonroe

carnaught

jmonroe1 said:

Hey @carnaught, I just noticed this...you need one post to get to 3000. Go ahead and post something. It can be meaningless. We have a poster buddy that’s made a career in here doing that.

WAITING.

jmonroe

LOL: e-eye, e-eye oh....

carnaught

driver100 said:

......at least my meaningless posts are brief and to the point.

There ya go, @jmonroe1. Hello, @driver100.

driver100

Carnaught....you are stuck at 2999....you must have a limiter on your account.

driver100

Hey, mine stayed the same too!

driver100

It seems you have to do 2 posts to get credit for 1. I'll have to up my input....it is hard writing about nothing.

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

......at least my meaningless posts are brief and to the point.

Only you can get to the point in a meaningless post.

jmonroe1

driver100 said:

It seems you have to do 2 posts to get credit for 1. I'll have to up my input....it is hard writing about nothing.

Coulda fooled me. It never bothered you before.😳

jmonroe

ab348

driver100 said:

It seems you have to do 2 posts to get credit for 1.

Has Edmunds been sold to a government organization that has imposed a 50% tax on posts?

imidazol97

Someone was talking about car fires. As I roam the interstates in certain parts of our area, I see the remnants of car fires as black spots on the berm of the road. There have been fewer than typical lately.

I can't think of any on a 25 mile drive strip right now.
Admittedly one occasionally was a tractor pulling a semi trailer that burned, but I always feel sorry for someone who had a bad day or night when their car caught on fire leaving them along the roadside carless.

driver100

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

It seems you have to do 2 posts to get credit for 1.

Has Edmunds been sold to a government organization that has imposed a 50% tax on posts?

It's like all the other businesses around, they are cutting back so the people left have to do twice the amount of work....and it is tiring me out.

jmonroe1

imidazol97 said:

Someone was talking about car fires. As I roam the interstates in certain parts of our area, I see the remnants of car fires as black spots on the berm of the road. There have been fewer than typical lately.

I can't think of any on a 25 mile drive strip right now.
Admittedly one occasionally was a tractor pulling a semi trailer that burned, but I always feel sorry for someone who had a bad day or night when their car caught on fire leaving them along the roadside carless.

Maybe the increase of insurance company investigations into car fires has led to the decrease. 🤨

jmonroe

lemko1968

driver100 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

lemko1968 said:

Been away a long time. Just bought this Lexus ES350 last month.

Very nice. There seems to be a trend for members here to buy white cars.

It's a general trend....white is the #1 color.
29% white, 19% black, 17% gray, and 11% silver.

My wife’s car is white too! Hers is a 2016 Buick LaCrosse.