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oldfarmer50

imidazol97 said:

roadburner said:

Of course either beat DHL; I heard the way to commit the perfect murder is to put the body in a box and ship it via DHL. Use whatever shipping destination you want- no one will ever see that package again...

My laugh of the day!

roadburner said:

Anyway, UPS never has any trouble finding us, but with FedEx it seems that they always miss the first delivery window because the driver can't find our house.

More frustrating is that UPS won't deliver a package ordered to an address unless someone is home--at college off campus housing no less. Duh. Demanded leaving signed note releasing any responsibility if the item is stolen, despite UPS's $100 insurance minimum. Son had to drive to the durn UPS hub 8 miles at the edge of Columbus to get the package that evening: a lady had given me the instructions on the phone when I called after I learned they didn't leave the package.

USPS was the same way around campus at The Ohio State University off campus.

Too much theft. Some people make a full time career of going around and stealing packages. UPS probably had to cut their losses.

Have any of you ever heard of a BMW Z8? I'm aware of the Z3 and Z4. Friend sent me this:

http://www.listingallcars.com/details/2001-BMW-Z8-Used/5895520534302124892

Can't imagine what it cost new.

oldfarmer50

PF_Flyer said:

oldfarmer50 said:

andres3 said:

stickguy said:

Driver, I suspect that a lot of your problem is that agent leaving. These companies are big, messy operations, and if a file is assigned to someone that stops working on it, can take a while before anyone else will. So hopefully your email and agent finally got someone competent looking at it.

absolutely ridiculous that it has been going on this long. eventually someone high enough up has to have it escalated to. and it really is such a simple thing to resolve once the right person looks at it. 2 minutes, stamp approved, and move on.

for a huge insurance company, $2,600 is really pocket change.

I'm surprised more of you don't find the Insurance companies behavior to be more deliberate. I believe that to be the case here and elsewhere. As you said, black ink good, red ink bad.

If I'm an adjuster earning interest on $2,600 for an average of 90 days longer than the best insurance company, multiplied by thousands of claims, that's a lot of black ink. But the truth is it's not $2,600. By low-balling the claim, they know they are delaying the entire claim for someone intent on being treated fairly. It's not like the insurance company says "Here you go, here's 90% of your claim amount up front since only 10% is in dispute." Nope, they delay the whole claim, so it really is interest/earnings on $65K+??? for however many days they can delay it, multiplied by a factor for however many claims they have open at any given time.

You have to remember that insurance companies make a lot of their profit by investing the premium money. The longer they can delay a claim the more interest they earn on those investments. That's a dirty little secret involved in many kinds of insurance payouts.

Hey, can someone tell me how long it takes for your car listing to appear after you change them in your profile? Just updated mine but my old iron is still listed.

Hmm... when I click on your name and look at your profile, I'm seeing "2015 Ford Mustang, 2009 PT Cruiser, 2004 Chevy van, 1995 Lincoln Mark VIII" Is that the correct list and what's displaying on your posts is the wrong list?

Yep, that's it. Must take awhile to change. I just took off the 1988 van and added the 2004.

BTW, I took the old beast to the crusher. Expected to get $100. It crushed for $242. Pretty sweet, almost a third of what I paid for it 6 years ago. They were shocked that it still drove. I was going to sell it for $200 as a parts vehicle. Glad I didn't.

Mr_Shiftright

oldfarmer50 said:

imidazol97 said:

roadburner said:

Of course either beat DHL; I heard the way to commit the perfect murder is to put the body in a box and ship it via DHL. Use whatever shipping destination you want- no one will ever see that package again...

My laugh of the day!

roadburner said:

Anyway, UPS never has any trouble finding us, but with FedEx it seems that they always miss the first delivery window because the driver can't find our house.

More frustrating is that UPS won't deliver a package ordered to an address unless someone is home--at college off campus housing no less. Duh. Demanded leaving signed note releasing any responsibility if the item is stolen, despite UPS's $100 insurance minimum. Son had to drive to the durn UPS hub 8 miles at the edge of Columbus to get the package that evening: a lady had given me the instructions on the phone when I called after I learned they didn't leave the package.

USPS was the same way around campus at The Ohio State University off campus.

Too much theft. Some people make a full time career of going around and stealing packages. UPS probably had to cut their losses.

Have any of you ever heard of a BMW Z8? I'm aware of the Z3 and Z4. Friend sent me this:

http://www.listingallcars.com/details/2001-BMW-Z8-Used/5895520534302124892

Can't imagine what it cost new.

I think MSRP was around $130K. As for the asking price, he might get it. It's quite a car---used the M5 engine. Basically a hand-built automobile with excellent performance and a rare bird that you aren't likely to encounter, if you own one yourself.

explorerx4

At some point, there was a finance guy who worked for our parent company, but sort of was the fall guy for something.
Felt bad for him, but one day just before he left, I ran into him in the parking lot as he was just about to get into his brand new Z8.
I didn't feel so bad for him after that.

imidazol97

oldfarmer50 said:

BTW, I took the old beast to the crusher. Expected to get $100. It crushed for $242. Pretty sweet, almost a third of what I paid for it 6 years ago. They were shocked that it still drove. I was going to sell it for $200 as a parts vehicle.

Did you have to take off the tires and drain the gas tank, etc., for the crusher? Or did they accept it right off the road?

oldfarmer50

imidazol97 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

BTW, I took the old beast to the crusher. Expected to get $100. It crushed for $242. Pretty sweet, almost a third of what I paid for it 6 years ago. They were shocked that it still drove. I was going to sell it for $200 as a parts vehicle.

Did you have to take off the tires and drain the gas tank, etc., for the crusher? Or did they accept it right off the road?

Just drove in and handed them the keys and the title. EZ peasy. Handed me cash. The yard is only about 2 miles away as the crow flies. Could have rolled it that far.

stickguy

I always liked the 8. Had no idea they were going the way of the Ford GT and actually appreciating.

That is Wayne Carrini selling that one.

cdnpinhead

stickguy said:

That is Wayne Carrini selling that one.

I was on business in New England a few weeks ago and drove by his place in CT. Not surprisingly, it looks just like it does on TV, but I always enjoy seeing such things for myself. The junk collectors from Iowa have a place that doesn't look in person anything like it does on TV.

Either way, I watch Carrini's shows all the time and enjoy them a lot.

roadburner

The Roundel editor bought one- on something like a 12 year note.

ab348

oldfarmer50 said:

Have any of you ever heard of a BMW Z8? I'm aware of the Z3 and Z4. Friend sent me this:

http://www.listingallcars.com/details/2001-BMW-Z8-Used/5895520534302124892

Can't imagine what it cost new.

I am not into BMWs but I never heard of one of those until now.

Front end styling is obviously based on the classic BMW 507/508. Nice looking car.

snakeweasel

oldfarmer50 said:

imidazol97 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

BTW, I took the old beast to the crusher. Expected to get $100. It crushed for $242. Pretty sweet, almost a third of what I paid for it 6 years ago. They were shocked that it still drove. I was going to sell it for $200 as a parts vehicle.

Did you have to take off the tires and drain the gas tank, etc., for the crusher? Or did they accept it right off the road?

Just drove in and handed them the keys and the title. EZ peasy. Handed me cash. The yard is only about 2 miles away as the crow flies. Could have rolled it that far.

The junk yard not to far from me will give you a quote online. Plus they will come and pick it up, although you would get $75 less if they pick it up.

fintail

A nice 507 is well past 1MM now and probably approaching 2MM in this insane speculative age, a Z8 might be a fun way to get some style at a lower (but still massive) cost. There's enough hype that it will probably never depreciate.

Mr_Shiftright

Only 2543 of the Z8 were sent to the U.S., (5,703 worldwide) so fairly rare by modern production standards. So each state gets 50! You're not likely to run into another at Cars n' Coffee. Outperforms a Ferrari 360, too.

murphydog

Distracted driving....

Driving the vanpool van home after work and we are at the last light before the freeway on-ramp. Group is chatting about the work week and the weekend when I look a the guy next to me and sure enough he is looking at a copy of Playboy?!?! I do a double take, and my passengers see it as well....

So the light turns green and I start to go straight on to the on ramp when another guy (right of the playboy guy) in the right turn lane flips on his left blinker and proceeds to turn left across 2 lanes of traffic starting to accelerate onto the on ramp.

We agreed it must have been some sort of weird vortex at that intersection or something?

oldfarmer50

snakeweasel said:

oldfarmer50 said:

imidazol97 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

BTW, I took the old beast to the crusher. Expected to get $100. It crushed for $242. Pretty sweet, almost a third of what I paid for it 6 years ago. They were shocked that it still drove. I was going to sell it for $200 as a parts vehicle.

Did you have to take off the tires and drain the gas tank, etc., for the crusher? Or did they accept it right off the road?

Just drove in and handed them the keys and the title. EZ peasy. Handed me cash. The yard is only about 2 miles away as the crow flies. Could have rolled it that far.

The junk yard not to far from me will give you a quote online. Plus they will come and pick it up, although you would get $75 less if they pick it up.

That would be great for a non running car. Around here there are dozens of itererate scrapers that will haul your junk. My son's friend used to do that. He asked permission to leave one car in my side field and then quickly dropped off a half dozen or so more. Some of them were fixable and he got them running but it got to the point where the town took exception and made him remove them all except one.

Eventually the economy in China slowed and they bought less American scrap steel. Prices dropped and he left the business. Shame. He brought in an interesting variety of cars. IDK, at $250 a pop I'd junk cars all day.

oldfarmer50

murphydog said:

Distracted driving....

Driving the vanpool van home after work and we are at the last light before the freeway on-ramp. Group is chatting about the work week and the weekend when I look a the guy next to me and sure enough he is looking at a copy of Playboy?!?! I do a double take, and my passengers see it as well....

So the light turns green and I start to go straight on to the on ramp when another guy (right of the playboy guy) in the right turn lane flips on his left blinker and proceeds to turn left across 2 lanes of traffic starting to accelerate onto the on ramp.

We agreed it must have been some sort of weird vortex at that intersection or something?

He was probably reading an interesting article. Really....Playboy stopped printing nudie pictures.

driver100

murphydog said:

Distracted driving....

Driving the vanpool van home after work and we are at the last light before the freeway on-ramp. Group is chatting about the work week and the weekend when I look a the guy next to me and sure enough he is looking at a copy of Playboy?!?! I do a double take, and my passengers see it as well....

So the light turns green and I start to go straight on to the on ramp when another guy (right of the playboy guy) in the right turn lane flips on his left blinker and proceeds to turn left across 2 lanes of traffic starting to accelerate onto the on ramp.

We agreed it must have been some sort of weird vortex at that intersection or something?

That is really weird, there is a guy out there who still reads Playboy!

venture

Someone down the street just got something similar to this, but almost everything is black. There goes the neighborhood.

iluvmysephia1

He was probably reading an interesting article. Really....Playboy stopped printing nudie pictures.


What's weirder than what you're saying, driver, that there's still a guy out there reading Playboy, is the above statement. Huh? Wow - that kind of changes things...from how they once were, doesn't it? Mr. Hefner must be up to several other money-making ideas, then! As if he doesn't already have enough cash as it is.

thebean

You sure it was Playboy and not Al Bundy's favorite magazine "Big 'Uns"?  

driver100

iluvmysephia1 said:

He was probably reading an interesting article. Really....Playboy stopped printing nudie pictures.


What's weirder than what you're saying, driver, that there's still a guy out there reading Playboy, is the above statement. Huh? Wow - that kind of changes things...from how they once were, doesn't it? Mr. Hefner must be up to several other money-making ideas, then! As if he doesn't already have enough cash as it is.

How the big one's fall!

Playboy subscribers. The top-selling issue was November 1972, at 7.16 million copies. And then it saw a real decline:
1975: 5.6 million circulation
2006: 3.0 million
2013: 1.2 million
2014: 0.96 million
2015: 0.82 million

Merchandise still brings in over $100 million, but that is down substantially too. I don't think Hugh cares any more...as long as he can live in the mansion.

oldfarmer50

driver100 said:

iluvmysephia1 said:

He was probably reading an interesting article. Really....Playboy stopped printing nudie pictures.


What's weirder than what you're saying, driver, that there's still a guy out there reading Playboy, is the above statement. Huh? Wow - that kind of changes things...from how they once were, doesn't it? Mr. Hefner must be up to several other money-making ideas, then! As if he doesn't already have enough cash as it is.

How the big one's fall!

Playboy subscribers. The top-selling issue was November 1972, at 7.16 million copies. And then it saw a real decline:
1975: 5.6 million circulation
2006: 3.0 million
2013: 1.2 million
2014: 0.96 million
2015: 0.82 million

Merchandise still brings in over $100 million, but that is down substantially too. I don't think Hugh cares any more...as long as he can live in the mansion.

If I remember correctly, he sold that too.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50 said:

driver100 said:

iluvmysephia1 said:

He was probably reading an interesting article. Really....Playboy stopped printing nudie pictures.


What's weirder than what you're saying, driver, that there's still a guy out there reading Playboy, is the above statement. Huh? Wow - that kind of changes things...from how they once were, doesn't it? Mr. Hefner must be up to several other money-making ideas, then! As if he doesn't already have enough cash as it is.

How the big one's fall!

Playboy subscribers. The top-selling issue was November 1972, at 7.16 million copies. And then it saw a real decline:
1975: 5.6 million circulation
2006: 3.0 million
2013: 1.2 million
2014: 0.96 million
2015: 0.82 million

Merchandise still brings in over $100 million, but that is down substantially too. I don't think Hugh cares any more...as long as he can live in the mansion.

If I remember correctly, he sold that too.

The way I heard it he sold it BUT he can live in it and pay a favorable rent until he decides to leave, one way or the other.

As for how many girls can live there with him, you'll have to obtain the sale/rental agreement for those details.

jmonroe

driver100

venture said:

Someone down the street just got something similar to this, but almost everything is black. There goes the neighborhood.

I saw a Chryco 300 with blackout chrome and wheels.....actually did make it look pretty substantial. Reminds me of your neighbors Rolls Royce. Maybe you could get the Chrysler and no one would ever know. Looked something like this:

driver100

jmonroe said:

oldfarmer50 said:

driver100 said:

iluvmysephia1 said:

He was probably reading an interesting article. Really....Playboy stopped printing nudie pictures.


What's weirder than what you're saying, driver, that there's still a guy out there reading Playboy, is the above statement. Huh? Wow - that kind of changes things...from how they once were, doesn't it? Mr. Hefner must be up to several other money-making ideas, then! As if he doesn't already have enough cash as it is.

How the big one's fall!

Playboy subscribers. The top-selling issue was November 1972, at 7.16 million copies. And then it saw a real decline:
1975: 5.6 million circulation
2006: 3.0 million
2013: 1.2 million
2014: 0.96 million
2015: 0.82 million

Merchandise still brings in over $100 million, but that is down substantially too. I don't think Hugh cares any more...as long as he can live in the mansion.

If I remember correctly, he sold that too.

The way I heard it he sold it BUT he can live in it and pay a favorable rent until he decides to leave, one way or the other.

As for how many girls can live there with him, you'll have to obtain the sale/rental agreement for those details.

jmonroe

I believe, if memory is right, he is allowed to remain in the house as part of his agreement.

Playboy only has about 180 employees left, and about 60 are in the mansion....not sure, just what their jobs are though

qbrozen

Wife is leaving for the store and still in the driveway when she texts me "Rover has low coolant light on." So I jead out the door to find her heading down the driveway. I stop her and say "so why are you driving it away?!" She responds "I figured it wasn't a big deal." SIGH!

driver100

qbrozen said:

Wife is leaving for the store and still in the driveway when she texts me "Rover has low coolant light on." So I jead out the door to find her heading down the driveway. I stop her and say "so why are you driving it away?!" She responds "I figured it wasn't a big deal." SIGH!

Oh, the WARNING lights are just to make the instrument panel more colorful! :@

Mad magazine used to have stupid answers to stupid questions......unfortunately that phrase always comes to mind when I hear a stupid question. Not saying anyone is stupid, we all do it, and we all don't know about every topic, it is just something you want to do....give a smart [non-permissible content removed] answer.

driver100

We went out this evening in the Ford Escape.......had to use the bum warmers.......almost burned my [non-permissible content removed] off!
Do they ever get hot and fast. It was only 44F out and it felt like it was freezing cold, glad to be going to FL in one week!

I said to my wife, the Escape is extremely competent. Has all the features you really need, blind spot, rear camera, touch controls, pretty comfortable, fair handling, lighting inside is attractive, ergonomics are well thought out, instrument panel looks upscale, lots of heat and fast, a/c works well, etc. . I was thinking how much today's cars have compared to cars of the early 2000's, and this is basically a mid range Ford.

The MB of course does everything a little better, but, this car has very good value for the money.

oldfarmer50

qbrozen said:

Wife is leaving for the store and still in the driveway when she texts me "Rover has low coolant light on." So I jead out the door to find her heading down the driveway. I stop her and say "so why are you driving it away?!" She responds "I figured it wasn't a big deal." SIGH!

qbrozen said:

Wife is leaving for the store and still in the driveway when she texts me "Rover has low coolant light on." So I jead out the door to find her heading down the driveway. I stop her and say "so why are you driving it away?!" She responds "I figured it wasn't a big deal." SIGH!

That's how my niece blew up her mom's Jeep. Not sure if she thought it was a big deal but the boy she just had to go see certainly was.

stickguy

I hope my wife wouldn't do that. More likely that she just would not notice the light until it was too late!

Good luck with it. An aging Rover. What could possibly go wrong?

speaking of LRs, I really like this one. Wonder how they drive? Love the looks.

http://www.landrovercherryhill.com/used/Land+Rover/2016-Land+Rover-Discovery+Sport-751170880a0e0a6b19ca8adc1f6222ab.htm

explorerx4

Blue Land Rover looks nice, but haven't heard much good about the 9 speed and the 2.0 seems overmatched in a vehicle that heavy.

oldfarmer50

Help me out here.

A few days ago I changed the list of vehicles I own on my profile. I clicked on 'change profile', put in the new vehicle and then clicked 'save'. Do I have to do anything additional to make the changes appear here? My posts still have the old list.

qbrozen

stickguy said:

I hope my wife wouldn't do that. More likely that she just would not notice the light until it was too late! Good luck with it. An aging Rover. What could possibly go wrong? speaking of LRs, I really like this one. Wonder how they drive? Love the looks. http://www.landrovercherryhill.com/used/Land+Rover/2016-Land+Rover-Discovery+Sport-751170880a0e0a6b19ca8adc1f6222ab.htm

Wife commented last night how much she likes the new Disco.

LR2 seems fine. Coolant was not even at the low line and only took a pint to bring it to max. Told her if light is on today it is probably one of those lovely electrical sensors.

venture

I'm not sure I get this:

oldfarmer50

venture said:

I'm not sure I get this:

Simple. You were driving on a street named after Henry Hudson.

stever

Can't charge your EV there.

Mr_Shiftright

qbrozen said:

Wife is leaving for the store and still in the driveway when she texts me "Rover has low coolant light on." So I jead out the door to find her heading down the driveway. I stop her and say "so why are you driving it away?!" She responds "I figured it wasn't a big deal." SIGH!

I had a friend just do that with his Boxster. Light went on, temp gauge started to peg. So he pulls into a gas station, fills it up with water, and KEEPS DRIVING....never stopping to think "Hey, wait a minute---what happened to all that coolant in the first place"?

So it overheats again---calls me up, and I tell him to have it towed immediately.

Water pump.

Cars seems okay but I bet a few thousand miles have been taken off its life.

driver100

stickguy said:

I hope my wife wouldn't do that. More likely that she just would not notice the light until it was too late!

Good luck with it. An aging Rover. What could possibly go wrong?

speaking of LRs, I really like this one. Wonder how they drive? Love the looks.

http://www.landrovercherryhill.com/used/Land+Rover/2016-Land+Rover-Discovery+Sport-751170880a0e0a6b19ca8adc1f6222ab.htm

Looks nice. Has 1200 miles on it....does that mean it was a demonstrator, or someone got tired of it?

driver100

stever said:

Can't charge your EV there.

lol.....it could mean not a place to go if you have anger management issues!

Mr_Shiftright

Also no inlet apparently.

venture

oldfarmer50 said:

venture said:

I'm not sure I get this:

Simple. You were driving on a street named after Henry Hudson.

I should have explained. I took that picture through my windshield as I was stopped at a T intersection.

I wasn't going to go straight through. I wonder if some do?

venture

stever said:

Can't charge your EV there.

LOL. Good one.

iluvmysephia1

With the extra explanation, it is making more sense, venture. It means that you can turn left or right and go down the street either way, but neither way will lead to a street that leads out of that particular neighborhood or street that you're turning on to.

Whew!

stever

I always understood those signs to mean dead end. Never seen one at a T intersection. Maybe the cemetery is on Hudson and they wanted different language.

iluvmysephia1

Yes, and looking up the hill from that intersection, it looks like someone owns an above ground swimming pool for their back yard. That what it looks like ta you guys?

Mr_Shiftright

stever said:

I always understood those signs to mean dead end. Never seen one at a T intersection. Maybe the cemetery is on Hudson and they wanted different language.

Hey, whatever happened to Truth in Advertising?

driver100

venture said:

I'm not sure I get this:

Maybe we can put this to rest:

U.S. Federal Highway Administration rules state: "The Dead End sign may be used at the entrance of a single road or street that terminates in a dead end or cul-de-sac. The No Outlet sign may be used at the entrance to a road or road network from which there is no other exit."
Dead end (street) - Wikipedia

PF_Flyer

Maybe it's just to let confused EV drivers that this is NOT a place to charge up

driver100

Why not make signs clearer;
"There ain't no other way out!"

stever

I was once given directions in New Orleans - "Go to the dead end and don't go nowhere's else".

Obviously I missed a turn because I'm not still there...

You know those "this page intentionally left blank" pages? The DOT has one: