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oldfarmer50

ab348 said:

Posted originally in the wrong place so moving this here.

Noticed my neighbor across the street no longer seemed to have his 1998 Acura CL (Canadian Acura version of a ‘98 Civic sedan with nicer trim inside and a different grille). He had inherited from his late mother’s estate 7 or 8 years ago with about 50000km (30k miles) on it and had been using it as his DD ever since. I got talking to him and he told me that on Super Bowl Sunday he went to the supermarket and on his way home the brake pedal started going almost to the floor. He took it to his favorite shop and they diagnosed a corroded brake line, but after it was up on the hoist they noticed that the rear suspension and unibody parts that it attached to was badly corroded to the point where they would have had to revoke his vehicle inspection certification, meaning his registration at DMV would be voided. He got over 100000km out of it, so it didn’t owe him anything. He says he might buy something brand new to replace it. Scrapyard gave him $300 for it.

The salt devil claims another soul!👹👿

driver100

abacomike said:

As most of you already know, I usually get bored with my cars after a year or so - history here on Edmunds is my evidence of my new car purchasing frequency. So, since my G90 is just about 2 years old (March 29th) and has about 12,500 miles on the odometer, I thought that I should be looking around for a new car as an activity which I hoped would redirect my attention from my severe back pain to new car investigations.

So, my friends, my love affair with my 2021 Genesis G90 continues - especially considering I have a 1.9% finance contract with Genesis Financial for another 3 years and this car still rides and handles as good as the day I drove it off the new car lot. This one's a keeper!!!

I doubt there is that much difference in the ride and comfort of a 2023 G90 compared to yours....especially considering what you would have to pay in the difference.

The real test would be comparing your G90 to one of these babies;

The Best Deal I found was a 2003 with 46000 miles for $12900. It is hard to find one with under 100000 miles.

driver100

oldfarmer50 said:

explorerx4 said:

@oldfarmer50,
Go to the IRS website, download and print them.

Can’t. No printer. I’ll probably stop by the library and have them print one if they don’t have any on hand. I know I’m being deliberately resistant but that’s one of my passive aggressive quirks.

I give you credit O-F, how do you survive without a printer?

stickguy

driver100 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

explorerx4 said:

@oldfarmer50,
Go to the IRS website, download and print them.

Can’t. No printer. I’ll probably stop by the library and have them print one if they don’t have any on hand. I know I’m being deliberately resistant but that’s one of my passive aggressive quirks.

I give you credit O-F, how do you survive without a printer?

my daughter does not have one, so it can be done. I just don't think OF is doing it by storing all his documents that need printing in his iPhone wallet!

driver100

I went to my sister-in-laws park for Hot Dog Tuesday today and there was a KIA K5 GT parked outside....it looked really nice, inside and outside. I have no idea what it would be like driving or even sitting in one, but I thought it looked really nice.


...and I liked it in Wolf Gray;

28firefighter

I have a brand new, base model Kia K5 here on Kauai this week. I’m pleasantly surprised.

cdnpinhead

You've got to watch those Koreans.

First, (back in the '50s) it was "made in Japan" was bad, then we progressed(?) to "made in China" was bad. Some now say that "made in USA (whatever that means these days) isn't necessarily bad, but not up to snuff.

It's an interesting world we live in.

kyfdx

28firefighter said:

I have a brand new, base model Kia K5 here on Kauai this week. I’m pleasantly surprised.

I had a base K5 rental on Oahu, last September. Nice car. (had a Mustang convertible on Kauai)

tjc78

We have a printer. It gets used maybe once a month if that.

tjc78

@kyfdx said:
I had a base K5 rental on Oahu, last September. Nice car. (had a Mustang convertible on Kauai)

I have a Mustang convertible in Long Beach on Friday. Not that it matters because the weather is gonna stink for our entire trip.

Renting a car just for one day to do some things in LA. Using Turo for the first time. $85 a day with all fees and insurance. Car will be dropped off and picked up at our hotel.

Wife has a show there, so we are heading there early for some adult time and I’ll leave early Monday morning before the show starts.

kyfdx

@tjc78 Have you used Turo, before? I'd be interested in how that goes.

Michaell

tjc78 said:

@kyfdx said:

I had a base K5 rental on Oahu, last September. Nice car. (had a Mustang convertible on Kauai)

I have a Mustang convertible in Long Beach on Friday. Not that it matters because the weather is gonna stink for our entire trip.

Renting a car just for one day to do some things in LA. Using Turo for the first time. $85 a day with all fees and insurance. Car will be dropped off and picked up at our hotel.

Wife has a show there, so we are heading there early for some adult time and I’ll leave early Monday morning before the show starts.

Any specific plans while you’re in town?

snakeweasel

qbrozen said:

Whelp, my tax return was rejected anyway.

Here is the explanation:
The IRS is updating Business Rule F8960-019-04 to include Schedule C (Form 1040) amounts from Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 3. These updates will be implemented by mid-March. Please repeat the Filing steps to resubmit your return after that time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

So you got rejected due to the net investment income bug. That's been an issue for at least a month and its not sure when it will be resolved. You can wait a week or two and refile or you can send it in as a paper return but that would take longer to get your refund.

snakeweasel

oldfarmer50 said:

ab348 said:

Posted originally in the wrong place so moving this here.

Noticed my neighbor across the street no longer seemed to have his 1998 Acura CL (Canadian Acura version of a ‘98 Civic sedan with nicer trim inside and a different grille). He had inherited from his late mother’s estate 7 or 8 years ago with about 50000km (30k miles) on it and had been using it as his DD ever since. I got talking to him and he told me that on Super Bowl Sunday he went to the supermarket and on his way home the brake pedal started going almost to the floor. He took it to his favorite shop and they diagnosed a corroded brake line, but after it was up on the hoist they noticed that the rear suspension and unibody parts that it attached to was badly corroded to the point where they would have had to revoke his vehicle inspection certification, meaning his registration at DMV would be voided. He got over 100000km out of it, so it didn’t owe him anything. He says he might buy something brand new to replace it. Scrapyard gave him $300 for it.

The salt devil claims another soul!👹👿

I would say more like time, the car was 25 years old.

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

...and I liked it in Wolf Gray;

Well there is no accounting for taste. I wonder why God would allow such an abomination like that color car.

kyfdx

I love that color. 🙂

tjc78

@kyfdx said:
I love that color. 🙂

Works well on all the Kias IMO

Michaell

Everybody is copying the Nardo Grey from Audi, it seems.

driver100

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

...and I liked it in Wolf Gray;

Well there is no accounting for taste. I wonder why God would allow such an abomination like that color car.

It's a nice alternate to silver...which is getting a bit boring.

jmonroe1

@snakeweasel said:
In two months when the weather warms up I'll be back to 63 MPG again.

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I never knew that warm tires could provide an increase in MPG like that. I gotta get me some tires like that come Spring.

jmonroe

roadburner

The K5 and the Stinger are the most interesting cars in the Kia lineup- so of course they are being discontinued.

jmonroe1

@oldfarmer50 said:
I’ve always done my own taxes for myself and the farm because I too refuse to pay to have someone tell me how much I have to give the government.

Speaking of the government it is becoming clear that both federal and state intend to harass anyone who continues to submit paper returns. I requested all the forms from the feds in January. Gird the they sent me a postcard saying all the forms were “unavailable” and would be sent later. So far all they have given me is Schedule B, nothing else. NYS is even worse. No library or post office has any state forms and the NY tax department refuses to accept requests for forms and then hangs up on you.

And before you ask, I use paper because I want to.

https://youtu.be/OyVgd3hVJPs

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Kinda the way I do it too. I figure some of my deductions are so unbelievable they don’t know how to go about questioning them.

jmonroe

roadburner

I'm glad to be back behind the wheel of the Clubman again; as I mentioned in the CCBA topic, an intermittent misfire had become constant. Thanks to FCP Euro, I was able to replace all four coils and spark plugs for $125. The fix took all of 45 minutes and the car is back to averaging 40 mpg or more to and from work.

oldfarmer50

driver100 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

explorerx4 said:

@oldfarmer50,
Go to the IRS website, download and print them.

Can’t. No printer. I’ll probably stop by the library and have them print one if they don’t have any on hand. I know I’m being deliberately resistant but that’s one of my passive aggressive quirks.

I give you credit O-F, how do you survive without a printer?

I live a simple life.🤫

qbrozen

that wet primer color has been around for more than a century. Long before Audi was even a thought.

Here are a few examples I mostly found on another discussion on the topic. I've ordered them from newest to oldest.

oldfarmer50

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

...and I liked it in Wolf Gray;

Well there is no accounting for taste. I wonder why God would allow such an abomination like that color car.

It needs some orange accents like on the Mach 1.

snakeweasel

jmonroe1 said:

@snakeweasel said:

In two months when the weather warms up I'll be back to 63 MPG again.

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I never knew that warm tires could provide an increase in MPG like that. I gotta get me some tires like that come Spring.

jmonroe

It's not warm tires it's warm weather that allows me to switch from the car to the motorcycle.

qbrozen

I witnessed a scary sight on the NJ Turnpike this morn. A GX470 towing a light-duty trailer with a Chevy Tahoe on it. Over capacity for the Lexus and over capacity on the trailer. Double jeopardy. AND he was driving at 75 mph! I was just waiting for something horrific, but it did not happen while I was in the vicinity, thankfully.

henryn

oldfarmer50 said:

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

...and I liked it in Wolf Gray;

Well there is no accounting for taste. I wonder why God would allow such an abomination like that color car.

It needs some orange accents like on the Mach 1.

I have to say I don't care for that one. Not sure what it is. A Mustang GT should be red, or some primary color.

abacomike

@henryn said:
I have to say I don't care for that one. Not sure what it is. A Mustang GT should be red, or some primary color.

But that subdued paint color makes the Mustang GT as DECEPTIVE as a “snake in the grass” while bright red or orange “tells all” what’s under the hood! 🤓🤪

oldfarmer50

henryn said:

oldfarmer50 said:

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

...and I liked it in Wolf Gray;

Well there is no accounting for taste. I wonder why God would allow such an abomination like that color car.

It needs some orange accents like on the Mach 1.

I have to say I don't care for that one. Not sure what it is. A Mustang GT should be red, or some primary color.

Not my first choice either but the accents made it more tolerable.

venture

My Subaru dealer bombards me with inquiries much more than they used to. It has gotten to the point where I am seriously considering moving away from Subaru (and I haven't had at least one for about 10 years).

I took the Ascent in for a recall last week. Before I could even get out of the car, after pulling in to the service entrance, someone approached me about trading it in and tried to show me what trade-in value it has. He used to at least wait until you got out of the car and into the waiting area.

I get mail, email, phone calls, and text messages at least weekly - sometimes more than once a week. You can imagine what it was like when I had 2 of them.

I hope it is helping with sales figures, but they can't count how many they drove away.

I mentioned it to my salesman, and he thought it was amusing.

ab348

oldfarmer50 said:

The little orange accent is the last thing I see on that Mustang amidst that sea of cement gray.

driver100

Florescent Green, Red, Orange, Yellow for under 30 year olds.

Blue, Gray, Black, white for 30+

qbrozen

driver100 said:

... Orange... for under 30 year olds.

I totally disagree!

stickguy

I am going with bright blue, and I am equivalent to 2 30 year olds now!

stickguy

different wheels since this is an XL, but same color.

stickguy

kyfdx

I didn't realize how much bright blue was a pickup truck color, until we got the Tacoma.

stickguy

makes it easy to spot in a parking lot!

abacomike

You guys up in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic States are getting hammered by this record blizzard-like snowstorm. I pray everyone stays safe - and that includes driving and shoveling.

stickguy

storm is just to annoy me. We are getting snow/ice and Friday it is supposed to drop into negative temps again.

at the old house in New Jersey, it was 75 today and supposed to be in the 50s Friday.

roadburner

I drove the C43 on a 112 mile round trip to a county where I'm the special prosecutor in a serious assault case. It returned 30 mpg,which I think is more than acceptable.

jmonroe1

@ab348 said:
Posted originally in the wrong place so moving this here.

Noticed my neighbor across the street no longer seemed to have his 1998 Acura CL (Canadian Acura version of a ‘98 Civic sedan with nicer trim inside and a different grille). He had inherited from his late mother’s estate 7 or 8 years ago with about 50000km (30k miles) on it and had been using it as his DD ever since. I got talking to him and he told me that on Super Bowl Sunday he went to the supermarket and on his way home the brake pedal started going almost to the floor. He took it to his favorite shop and they diagnosed a corroded brake line, but after it was up on the hoist they noticed that the rear suspension and unibody parts that it attached to was badly corroded to the point where they would have had to revoke his vehicle inspection certification, meaning his registration at DMV would be voided. He got over 100000km out of it, so it didn’t owe him anything. He says he might buy something brand new to replace it. Scrapyard gave him $300 for it.

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Assuming your neighbor can’t do it himself, he could have hired a few local teenagers to yank off some of the more valuable pieces and parted them out. He could have gotten a lot more money than 300 bucks for it.

To keep this on topic with the tax discussion here, if he didn’t need the money he could have donated that money to a charity then claimed that as a tax deduction for next year. Yes, there is still some hassle parting out a car but to claim a 15 grand deduction it should be worth it

Most yards around here will come and take the shell left after the car was stripped and still give you some money for the steel alone. Too late for him now, I guess.

jmonroe

28firefighter

@roadburner said:
I drove the C43 on a 112 mile round trip to a county where I'm the special prosecutor in a serious assault case. It returned 30 mpg,which I think is more than acceptable.

What had you driving so slowly to achieve such efficiency?

jmonroe1

@ronsteve said:
This new service is the first time they have truly rubbed me the wrong way, given that they tried to sell it to me for my 15 RDX, and it's billed as a DI fuel system service... BUT I don't have DI.

You’re a really nice guy to have paid for work on someone else’s car.

jmonroe

andres3

Are the Police stupid or just false propaganda promoters?

https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/33302975/the-full-line-tiger-woods-year-feb-23-2021-car-crash

" An analysis of the black box data found that Woods was traveling in a straight line, no brakes were applied and there was no steering input detected until some slight steering movement late in the recorded crash sequence.

"Had [Woods] applied his brakes to reduce his speed or steered to correct the direction of travel, he would not have collided with the center median and the collision would not have occurred," L.A. County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Michael Downing wrote in the report.”

Yet from the above statements they supposedly conclude:

"Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office concluded that Woods "was at fault in the collision for driving at unsafe speed for road conditions (inability to negotiate a curve in the roadway)." An analysis of the black box data found that Woods was traveling in a straight line, no brakes were applied and there was no steering input detected until some slight steering movement late in the recorded crash sequence."

It’s important to use critical reading comprehension and not just regurgitate law enforcement’s often incorrect summaries, conclusions, and abstracts. With no braking and no steering input until it was too late, it’s clear speed had nothing to do with the crash; it was simply distraction, fatigue, and/or drunkenness causing no reaction for a curve until he bumped a center median and couldn't recover.

It’s clear from the above quotes that the turn was navigable at the speed driven with just a little turning input. In other words, speed was not a factor.

jmonroe1

@driver100 said:
I doubt there is that much difference in the ride and comfort of a 2023 G90 compared to yours....especially considering what you would have to pay in the difference.

The real test would be comparing your G90 to one of these babies;

The Best Deal I found was a 2003 with 46000 miles for $12900. It is hard to find one with under 100000 miles.

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And even harder, maybe even impossible, to find one without the vinyl top.

jmonroe

stickguy

jmonroe1 said:

@ab348 said:

Posted originally in the wrong place so moving this here.

Noticed my neighbor across the street no longer seemed to have his 1998 Acura CL (Canadian Acura version of a ‘98 Civic sedan with nicer trim inside and a different grille). He had inherited from his late mother’s estate 7 or 8 years ago with about 50000km (30k miles) on it and had been using it as his DD ever since. I got talking to him and he told me that on Super Bowl Sunday he went to the supermarket and on his way home the brake pedal started going almost to the floor. He took it to his favorite shop and they diagnosed a corroded brake line, but after it was up on the hoist they noticed that the rear suspension and unibody parts that it attached to was badly corroded to the point where they would have had to revoke his vehicle inspection certification, meaning his registration at DMV would be voided. He got over 100000km out of it, so it didn’t owe him anything. He says he might buy something brand new to replace it. Scrapyard gave him $300 for it.

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Assuming your neighbor can’t do it himself, he could have hired a few local teenagers to yank off some of the more valuable pieces and parted them out. He could have gotten a lot more money than 300 bucks for it.

To keep this on topic with the tax discussion here, if he didn’t need the money he could have donated that money to a charity then claimed that as a tax deduction for next year. Yes, there is still some hassle parting out a car but to claim a 15 grand deduction it should be worth it

Most yards around here will come and take the shell left after the car was stripped and still give you some money for the steel alone. Too late for him now, I guess.

jmonroe

there are a lot of people without the tools, space, or abilities to do that kind of dismantling of a car. Plus, if it is that far gone from the rust devil, you are going to be taking it apart with a torch and grinding wheel.

roadburner

28firefighter said:

@roadburner said:

I drove the C43 on a 112 mile round trip to a county where I'm the special prosecutor in a serious assault case. It returned 30 mpg,which I think is more than acceptable.

What had you driving so slowly to achieve such efficiency?

Except for about 10 miles of interstate, the rest of the trip was on rural two lanes. I still tended to drive at around 65 mph. Even then a brodozer just had to pass me.
For once an especially twisty portion of the route wasn't infested with the usual timid nitwits who take corners at 15 mph below the advisory speed while riding the brakes the entire time. As a result I was able to push the car a bit harder than I have previously. I was very impressed by how the car handled the tighter corners, and how early you can get back on the power.