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tread depth of less than 1/8 inch at shallowest point
Well, the "less than equal quality to original" is certainly open to interpretation. Probably means you'll end up spending more on replacement lease tires.
I'd say I was spot on in my guesstimate in remaining tire tred. Requiring 1/8 an inch equates to 4/32. 4/32 at shallowest point probably would mean a tire at an overall average of 5/32"...about what I usually replace mine at.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2021 Sahara 4xe
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
Sorry to hear about the short life of the Dunlops. Maybe you'll find something that improves the car, and I can attest to the quality of those Continentals I mentioned.
Smart call on Son 1's request. I remember how I treated cars when young
Out here in the northwest, we use real wood, not that candy-[non-permissible content removed] wood grain decal!
Update.
I got my XM bill in the mail today for my special once only reduced rate of $77 dollars a year, not to be given again. No automatic charge to my CC because I splurged for the $2 charge for a bill to be sent in the mail. Guess what? At the very top of the bill is an offer for “Get one month free”. The catch, I have to enroll for automatic billing to my CC. :confuse:
The bill break down goes like this:
Zwinback ½ off 12 months: $77.00
Invoice charge: $2.00
U.S. Music Royalty Fee: $11.78
Tax-State: $0.12
Tax-Local: $0.02
TOTAL: $90.92
If you didn’t get this one time offer you should be able to get it when your present subscription expires.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
To "equal" the Dunlops on the Genny shouldn't be too difficult. A few rubber bands held in place with some sticky tape will meet that criteria. :surprise:
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
I don't know... buy the proper sized rubber bands and I bet you can do without the sticky tape.
The 14k miles on your Dunslops is pretty bad though. You sure Mrs. jmonroe ain't out hot-rodding when you're not around?
Car manufacturers have to be getting some type of deal from Dunlop to put their tires on their cars. Must be some type of, buy one tire at $250 and get the remaining 3 tires free, deal. :sick:
I heard the tred mileage weren't that great on the Traction T/A's. Aside from that how did you like them? They've gotten really good reviews form Tirerack and a few other people I know that have them.
I only put about 8k miles a year on my car, so as long as the ride, traction and comfort are good... the number of miles aren't that important.
a couple of them were still legal as far as tread depth goes.
just monitor the pressures and they should last you a long time.
Here's real woodgrain, and it is ultra eco friendly.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Well, I'm pretty sure of that. She's never even drivin it as best as I know. She doesn't even know where to put the key in. :confuse:
But since you've put some doubt in my mind now, I'm gonna set the alarm clock for around 2:30. :surprise:
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Don't ever be fooled by the word "accreditation". There are associations all over the place---money making operations---who will accredit an "institution of higher learning" if the price is right. If you wax your floors, clean your windows, write a pretty curriculum, and dress up the faculty resumes, I'll get you accredited. I served on those teams twice in my career. Both were BS experiences. When I submitted my list of faults and incompetencies, the response from the association was, "We'll give them five years to correct. Let's renew their accreditation for now." Please!
Just as with cars, there are good schools and bad schools. Private vs. public in higher education is not the proof. Duke is private; UNC-Chapel Hill is public. Both are good schools. Though I live in the South, I am so impressed with Pennsylvania colleges and universities. Ohio is another personal favorite. The proof is in the years of service to students and the students' perspective of their education once completed. If I want my child to attend my former university, then I must have felt that it was a good school. These recommendations are passed on to future generations---by parents, former students, educators, business people, etc. Neither is size the determining factor. Wake Forest and Furman University are small schools. Still, they are excellent schools, and perfect for those students who enjoy more one-on-one time with the professors.
My opinion of "brickless" distance learning schools? I'm not going to debate that issue. They serve a purpose for upper mobility for those adults in the work place. Promotions, increases in salary, and a title by your name are goals that many people want to achieve. You can also achieve those same goals at an institution that has been in place for 200 years. It's a personal choice. You are the one who will tell people where you went to school. I had friends who paid $30K for an MA or PhD from a poor school which required little more than the check book. They made the same amount of money that I made. Did I resent it? I would be a liar if I didn't say yes.
To my Central and West Coast posters: You have many excellent schools. I'm just more familiar with those on the East Coast.
Richard
Richard
Richard
I called and talked to two people with questionable English language skills. The last one said she would have her supervisor call me. Of course nobody has called so I wrote a letter telling them to deduct my monthly fees for the next year from the amount they overcharged me, or refund the money and cancel my subscription.
This is going to be good.
2025 Forester Limited, 2024 Subaru Legacy Sport
My son graduated from Penn State with a dual major (in 5 years). IST and communications. He is in the process of completing his on-line Masters from Boston University. Graduation is in May and, as far as I know, it will be the first time he will be, physically, on the campus. I know it will be my first time.
He said it was gruelling - spent a lot of time on it. He works at a huge aero-space company and lives near Philly now so going back to school full time was not an option.
He did a lot of research before he decided which school to "attend". The Boston U program seems to be well respected.
2025 Forester Limited, 2024 Subaru Legacy Sport
Richard
As much as some of those "brickless" schools advertise, I always wondered about their true worth as a higher education institution. Sounds like "you send them money, they send you a degree".
Although my son's University of Cincinnati experience has been good. And, he has indeed learned a lot. I guess I was just shocked at how they do their programs. I know I was "in class" every day when I went to Miami. I had (and still have) boxes and boxes of "blue books" of notes from class lectures. My son stores his notes and papers on thumb drives. Some times only attending class on the first day, when midterms had to be taken, and when finals were completed. All the other course work was done from the assigned "books" and course notes provided on-line by the prof. Not a lot of lecturing was done in some of those classes.
He have some really good state schools though it's often as cheap to go out of state and pay out of state tuition rates than it is to pay in state tuition here.
Rutgers is excellent - enough so that I graduated from there (as if that's proof...). The College of New Jersey, which used to be called Trenton State College is always getting notice on the bang for your buck lists.
We have a lot of schools that had city names in them and changed the college name to avoid association with the city. In all the cases they weren't actually in teh city anyway. Paterson State became William Paterson. Newark State became Kean. My favorite - Jersey City State became The New Jersey City University.....
Well you need to tell her there isn't a key! Someone moved my Genesis the other day at a friends house (blocking the driveway) and came back after a few minutes and said "what's the trick" I said just step on the brake and push the button...."oh that's what the display on the dashboard was telling me"... :surprise:
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic
Don’t knock it. That’s how I got mine but I was a little late getting it. They lost my first check. :mad:
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Don't get those emails any more. Someone, somewhere must have cracked down on them.
I know that even though I had completed my course work, Miami U. wouldn't send me my diploma until I paid for all of my parking tickets. Didn't know the two were related to each other. And yes, I paid....all $175 of it. I didn't have the money. My late Father floated me a loan. First real job I got, with my first real paycheck, he reminded me of that loan. And, he wasn't smiling when he did so, either. HIS bill was the first one I paid out of that paycheck.
Should have asked him for a receipt. I would have it framed right next to my degree hanging on my office wall.
Rutgers tried to do that with my transcripts. "Well, we have a parking ticket for a car registered at your home address"... My mom asked for the phone and I handed it to her. The next day I had my transcripts in the mail. Turns out over the course of the conversation it turns out the car with the parking ticket wasn't mine (which I knew). It was my brother's. He was seeing his girlfriend down there. He never did that again!
He and his twin went to college is Boston where driving and parking is a contact sport.
jmonroe
Thought you went to CMU? :confuse:
Now that brings back a bad memory.
Both sons went to Penn State for their undergraduate. But Son # 1 got a couple parking tickets and they wouldn’t let him take his finals when he was a sophomore until they were paid. I sent him the money and when I said to his mother he should pay it back she said, “OK, but he has to get a job first”. Well, he got a job after his sophomore year and when I brought up the repayment thing his mother said, “I mean a real job, like when he gets out of school”. So, I waited and then she said, “let him get on his feet for a while”. One excuse after another and I still haven’t been paid. :confuse:
I made sure Son # 2 knew the rules when he started school 3 years after his dead beat older brother.
If somehow I ever do collect from Son # 1 the interest will far exceed the LOAN?
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
I took the non-traditional approach to my undergraduate degree ... went to DeVry. They use the "cohort" approach where everyone takes the same classes at the same time - no registration, no electives, all core classes. I got my Bachelor's in 32 months this way (8 "trimesters" at 4 months long - 19 credits per trimester). Started in February 1983 and graduated in October 1985.
Now, both my wife and daughter are looking into programs that use the same approach. Daughter will be getting her BA in a couple of months from Colorado State, and is looking at enrolling in an MLS program (yo, Fezo! might want to ping you someday about your career choices) through Emporia State University in Kansas. Their cohort / on-line program is here in Denver ... mostly on-line, but one Friday night and Saturday each month the class gets together and work with the teachers 'live'. Will still take her two years to get her masters, however.
The wife is still working on her Bachelors. For the past couple of years, she's been doing the distance learning thing through CSU for a degree in Human Development and Family Studies, but the on-line folks and the brick-and-mortar folks don't seem to be communicating that well. Her experience as a distance learner has been all over the map - some good, some not so good, depending upon the teacher. She's currently enrolled in a 400 level Psych class - there are only 6 assignments the whole semester. 3 papers and 3 100 question multiple choice exams. Other teachers have discussion questions due weekly, plus you're expected to comment on other student's answers.
Now, she's found a program that will get her a Bachelor's in Early Childhood Education using the cohort model. She'll start this summer by spending a week on campus (about 3 hours from us in Alamosa) attending classes. For the months of July and August, she'll go to Colo Springs every Sat and Sun to attend class. There will be on-line assignments as well. During the school year, she'll do most of her work on-line, with only 1 weekend per month "in class". She'll do this straight through the summer of 2012, when she'll get her degree.
To keep this on topic, she'll be doing her commuting in her '08 Saturn VUE.
imchaelll - you know I loved grad school way more than I love actually working in the field but it's not at all a bad field. I wonder of I'd had online options back then if I'd have gone that way but the year I spent in grad school was one of the best years of my life. It was a great experience.
Yeah, and they’re thieves too. And like I said a while back, on top of that they’re sneaky little devils changed the name of the school before I got out. They used to be Carnegie Tech. :surprise:
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Not quite that much but it would put a nice dent in the prices for the 4 new tires that I got for that beauty yesterday.
Well north of $1100 OTD including an alignment. :sick:
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Sounds like there might be a good tire story from the sales frontline in there. What kind of tires did you get for $1,100? If Dunlops your monthly Edmunds dues will be doubled. :sick:
You also have Princeton. I visited a friend there last year. Arriving late at night, I thought that I would never find the campus once I exited I-95. Suddenly, in the middle of the dark night, it popped up. I was beginning to think that I was doomed to spend the night with the cows and horses.
Please answer a question for me. In the South, along I-95, you find motel and restaurant signs posted at nearly every exit. Not so in New Jersey, Connecticut, etc. If you don't have a reservation with an exit number, you have one hell of a time finding a motel. We've noticed this over the years. I can't tell you how many times i have driven off at an exit in your state, gone into these little towns, and couldn't find a motel to save me. Now, we try to make it to New York before stopping for the night. That's a 12+ hour drive for us.
Richard
Best,
Richard
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
It takes a special kind of person to be an effective teacher... multiple that by 10 to be a special ed. teacher.
I didn’t get anything yet. I’m still researching. That price was for Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus at NTB. Don’t know how good they are, yet, but some research should settle that mystery.
Also got a price on Yokohama Avengers (I think) that were just under $1100 at another store but that store doesn’t offer lifetime balancing, which is very strange because everyone else seems to offer that. So, if I go back for balancing every 5/7 K miles (which is my track record) and have to pay each time, that place shot themselves out of the water.
If Dunlops your monthly Edmunds dues will be doubled.
There ain’t a snow balls chance in hell of that happening. Edmunds will have to get their money from some
new suckerex-lurker that comes on board. :surprise:jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
Now you're dating yourself :P I got a call from them last weekend asking for money, err, donations. I said nope. You didn't give me any money, I won't give you any either. I do donate my time (CMAC).
Back on topic. I always wanted a car in college, but never had one. :sick:
Richard, thanks for the feedback, but my wife is long past her teaching days.
For the past 10 years, she has been the Director of Early Childhood for a small school district not far from where we live. She oversees 4 preschool classes at two sites, 2 childcare rooms (pre-K and mixed age 2.5 to 4), and the before and after school program for kids up to age 12. Approximately 25 staff report to her. Not bad for a lowly AA degree (we joke that her job comes with "golden handcuffs").
And, she is in the process of obtaining $30K in grant money to open both an infant room and a toddler room in her program, so she will be able to take children as young as 6 weeks old.
She interacts with EC kids through early intervention groups and has been working with the Colorado Department of Education to help establish professional development standards for all child care workers in the state. Plus, she is certified to teach EQit (Expanding Quality for Infants and Toddlers) as well as Touchpoints (Dr. Brazelton's method of interacting with young children and parents).
At the moment, the criteria for being "director qualified" is pretty low in Colorado, but she knows that the writing is on the wall that the standards will be getting tougher, hence her desire to at least get the BA. I've told her that once she gets the BA, she should apply for a grant that will cover all costs for her Masters in Early Childhood Development.
She'll be ready to retire once she's gotten all this education.
But, I do agree with you that budgets are shrinking in school districts all over Colorado. Fortunately, she works for a district that had some severe financial problems some years ago and have learned to be fiscally responsible. They are OK for the upcoming ('10-'11) school year, but the '11-'12 school year may see some issues. Not likely that my wife's programs will be affected, however - since they are tuition funded, they don't cost the district too much over the course of a year.
That's the same way I feel about that stuff. Don't you just love those calls and mailings?
Cars guys must think alike.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
the springs alone were $50. i just noticed the bill has some good detail about the springs,so next time i go to lowes, i will have to see how much they get for them.
at least now i have the right 'stuff', so it should last a while.
anyways, it looks like egghead's search for a school of higher learning might be over.
still waiting on the financial aid package from one more school, but i think it's going to be south bend.
her sister's 'almost' mater, not yet, made her a great offer, but i think she wants to blaze her own path. she could definitely hit us up for a new car if she goes there (redhawks).
I know I couldn't do it.
I love the way they have names for different behaviors. When I was in school, those kids were called other things. They were called Troublemakers, Bullies, Dummys etc. Nobody catered to them.
And, you know, those kids usually caved in to peer pressure and they straightened out.
Oh, and the male teachers gave SWATS! All of them carried a swat paddle in their desks. Some were handball paddles with holes drilled in them. Some teachers were creative and built their own paddles.
You bent over and "took one". Some were brutal!
And, you know, they did the trick. A lot of these kids received no desicpline at home but they all feared getting a swat!
And when we got home we wouldn't dare tell our parents about how some mean teacher swatted us! We would have been in even worse trouble!
Today, the schools and teachers would be sued if they did this and that is a shame!
A bunch of us did that when I was in the service.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
if my parents offered me a new car in exchange for a 'lesser' school, i would have done it. my kids will not compromise their education for a nice trinket.
Invoice charge: $2.00
U.S. Music Royalty Fee: $11.78
Tax-State: $0.12
Tax-Local: $0.02
TOTAL: $90.92
Whoa. I thought your price was $77. Where did the extra charges come from? Are those documentation fees or $11.78? If that fee is not variable or avoidable, then it should be in the $77 to which you agreed.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Having gone to Catholic schools through high school, as did my son, I can say that corporal "behavior correction" wasn't foreign to either my son, or myself. Plus, if you couldn't do well in course work (or refused to do the course work at all), they booted you out into the public school system. That's pretty good motivation to do well. You didn't want your peers to know you couldn't "hack it" in parochial schools.
That’s the “come on down” we’ll talk price.
Are those documentation fees or $11.78?
Well, they better not be DOC fees cause everyone knows how I feel about those. :mad: It is a Music Royalty Fee, just like it said on the bill and I knew this going in from my conversation on the phone with the young lady at XM. I knew exactly what the total was going to be before I got the bill and I agreed to it. Let's remember, $2 of that total was my choosing for having a bill sent in the mail so that I avoided having an automatic charge to my CC every year. It’s not like dealing on a car where you get a price at the negotiating table then move to the back room to get hammered.
If that fee is not variable or avoidable, then it should be in the $77 to which you agreed.
I would have liked the total bill to have been $77 but it wasn’t. Little did they know, if I couldn’t have gotten that one time $77 price, I would have paid MSRP. I really like satellite radio but that’s just me. Like Mrs. jmonroe has been known to say “you always get what you want”.
Happy Bunny Day everyone.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
As for paddles, mine was the lower end of a boat oar drilled with holes. The very sight of it brought many students to immediate correction. Today, I would be in prison, not for using it but for "having a weapon on campus". :sick: I rarely used my paddle in the old days. I found that one-on-one conversations produced better results. I wanted my "children" to realize that there was an adult in their world who cared about them. I think that the little talks were more beneficial. Now and then I had a "bad seed" that only the paddle could correct. Unfortunately, many of those children are now in prison or have been murdered. I am comforted by those who became GOOD doctors, teachers, lawyers, congressmen, ministers, engineers, AND car salesmen.
Richard