Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations

stickguy

I know what the math can say about being the fiscally prudent decision, but at this stage of my life, I really don't want to deal with used car drama. Would probably at most do a CPO with a really good warranty, from a dealer that has an impeccable reputation.

and that would likely have to be my car. I don't think my wife would ever agree to a used one for "her" car.

explorerx4

Wife usually goes to the gym in the morning, so I went out to clear the snow/ice from the driveway.
Was out there about half an hour. Cleared one side of the driveway, the sidewalk and the walkway to the front door.
When I got in, checked the weather. Temp was 17 but wind chill made it feel like -18.

kyfdx

stickguy said:

I know what the math can say about being the fiscally prudent decision, but at this stage of my life, I really don't want to deal with used car drama. Would probably at most do a CPO with a really good warranty, from a dealer that has an impeccable reputation.

and that would likely have to be my car. I don't think my wife would ever agree to a used one for "her" car.

That's what we did.. bought a CPO car with an extra 2 years of warranty on top of the 3 years, 4 months left in the original warranty..

You know... being fiscally prudent, and all.

kyfdx

The weather is no problem, as long as you dress in layers.. and stay inside.

ronsteve

jmonroe1 said:

Michaell said:

@jmonroe1 said:

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Sounds like the redo will be ready in time for Christmas. All you need now is a bow and some drinks to toast the new project. OK, you could forgo the bow but not the drinks.

jmonroe

I got a $10 coupon from the liquor store we use; I’ve been thinking about what to get for the holidays.

—————————————————Well, you’re not going to get anything decent with 10 bucks unless you’re thinking of a couple bottles of premium beer. Although you can probably buy a six pack of Yuengling for less than 10 bucks. I know you’re from Colorado and Coors is the beer of choice there but Yuengling is better a lot better.

And if you're in a state that was late to adopt Yuengling, anyone selling it is going to price it like a premium beer (which anymore is $10.99 for a 6-pack). When I used to get it in NC it was priced surprisingly close to Bud/Coors/Miller.

venture

The envelope I mailed to my grandson on Dec. 2 arrived at his home in Maryland today, the 12th.

It’s 187 miles from my house to my son’s house. The envelope traveled almost 2,100 miles to get there.

I just revel in the absurd.

xwesx

Speaking of absurd, I know it isn't a washing machine or clothes dryer, but I thought I'd share this small milestone in my car's life cycle:



It is absolutely absurd how gnarly my instrument cluster looks under the scrutiny of a camera's flash!

explorerx4

@xwesx,
Your first Check Engine light?

xwesx

explorerx4 said:

@xwesx,
Your first Check Engine light?

My first endless CEL. It has a cylinder pressure sensor that doesn't want to quit, and I just don't care anymore. So, I check in every couple of months just to make sure that's the only one there, and, when it is, I let it ride.

jmonroe1

xwesx said:

Speaking of absurd, I know it isn't a washing machine or clothes dryer, but I thought I'd share this small milestone in my car's life cycle:



It is absolutely absurd how gnarly my instrument cluster looks under the scrutiny of a camera's flash!

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Congratulations but that kind of mileage is something I never want to see in a car I own. I’m still hung up when 50K miles was the half-life of cars. I know that’s not the case anymore, and far from it, but I’m spoiled.

My ‘15 Genny just cracked 13,100 miles last week. 10K more and it’s gone. Mrs. j’s ‘18 Subie bought in the Spring of 2019 with 7K miles has around 34K now. Still pondering that one and still spoiled.

jmonroe

jmonroe1

explorerx4 said:

@xwesx,
Your first Check Engine light?

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Look at his gas gauge. When it’s empty in a day or two the light will go out.

jmonroe

snakeweasel

xwesx said:

Speaking of absurd, I know it isn't a washing machine or clothes dryer, but I thought I'd share this small milestone in my car's life cycle:



It is absolutely absurd how gnarly my instrument cluster looks under the scrutiny of a camera's flash!

Wait, your temperature is metric but everything regarding distance is in miles?

oldfarmer50

driver100 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

Ford just sent me an offer for a free battery check. How nice but I imagine that the battery will be fine but they’ll find a couple thousand in other things I “need”.

These days, they are trying everything possible to get you to bring your car in for a check up.....so that they can nail you for something.

I just received a Christmas card from another Ford dealer wishing me happy holidays and a special on oil changes.

explorerx4

@jmonroe1,
Still 155 miles until empty.

oldfarmer50

jmonroe1 said:

xwesx said:

Speaking of absurd, I know it isn't a washing machine or clothes dryer, but I thought I'd share this small milestone in my car's life cycle:



It is absolutely absurd how gnarly my instrument cluster looks under the scrutiny of a camera's flash!

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Congratulations but that kind of mileage is something I never want to see in a car I own. I’m still hung up when 50K miles was the half-life of cars. I know that’s not the case anymore, and far from it, but I’m spoiled.

My ‘15 Genny just cracked 13,100 miles last week. 10K more and it’s gone. Mrs. j’s ‘18 Subie bought in the Spring of 2019 with 7K miles has around 34K now. Still pondering that one and still spoiled.

jmonroe

For most of my adult life I ran my cars up to mileage like that. Now I have 3 vehicles under 35k miles and the fourth is a throwaway hooptie which still has half the mileage of other cars its age.

Car Nirvana for me.

corvette

explorerx4 said:

@jmonroe1,
Still 155 miles until empty.

He's not going to make it to Prudhoe Bay on that.

ab348

@xwesx , looking at the roster of vehicles in your profile, I’m wondering which one has a 180mph speedo?

corvette

@ab348 - I'd say the Q7. Looks like an Audi cluster, and 27.3 MPG sounds about right at -12 degrees C. But a stock TDI will not get anywhere close to 180.

stickguy

it will when you set it to kilometers.

jmonroe1

explorerx4 said:

@jmonroe1,
Still 155 miles until empty.

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Still, that’s when the CEL goes out.

jmonroe

ab348

stickguy said:

it will when you set it to kilometers.

That's what the 270 indicator is for.

venture

Signing in every time, even when just switching forums, is starting to get tiresome.

The kids must be trying to fix things again.

jmonroe1

venture said:

Signing in every time, even when just switching forums, is starting to get tiresome.

The kids must be trying to fix things again.

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Fortunately I don’t have that problem but then I did include a Christmas tip with my last dues payment.

jmonroe

kyfdx

venture said:

Signing in every time, even when just switching forums, is starting to get tiresome.

The kids must be trying to fix things again.

We aren’t seeing that issue.

tjc78

No sign in issues here either

Don’t have your browser clearing cookies when you exit? That would do it

xwesx

snakeweasel said:

Wait, your temperature is metric but everything regarding distance is in miles?

Metric temperature, I suppose it is! Never thought of it that way. Anyhow, I don't see any compatibility issues with Celsius and miles. I have the option of swapping the readings as I see fit, so I do. I like to use C because I have many friends who are furrin'ers and use Celsius, so it makes it much easier for me to both translate temperatures and share on a common scale. Being in Alaska, temperature is a common topic of discussion (who knew)!

xwesx

ab348 said:

@xwesx , looking at the roster of vehicles in your profile, I’m wondering which one has a 180mph speedo?

Oh, sorry. That's the Audi Q7 TDI. Too many assumptions on my part.

But, all this talk about miles, and I have to remind folks that I now have a pickup with ~435,000 miles! In comparison, this one still feels like it is in its mileage infancy! At this point, my lowest mileage vehicle is my 1969 C20, which, IIRC, is just a hair over 75,000 miles. That's more than 20,000 lower than the next one, the Crosstrek, with about 97,000.

xwesx

And, for whatever reason, the economy gauge is way off. It tends to read highly optimistic. For example, this time of year, I tend to calculate fills at about 20 mpg (400 miles for 20 gallons of fill), and it will go as low as 18 or so when temps get quite cold. I can see as high as 30 in the summer, but then the on board computer is telling me I am getting 38/39! It's annoying, but I use it to impress the unknowing.

ab348

tjc78 said:

No sign in issues here either

Don’t have your browser clearing cookies when you exit? That would do it

I find that various Windows updates will randomly wipe cookies or other saved items which is a real pain. Just another mystifying Windows flaw.

venture

ab348 said:

tjc78 said:

No sign in issues here either

Don’t have your browser clearing cookies when you exit? That would do it

I find that various Windows updates will randomly wipe cookies or other saved items which is a real pain. Just another mystifying Windows flaw.

I just had an update.

If I want to go to Cronic Buyers, for example, I usually click on "Home" then My Bookmarks. Now that makes me sign in again. If I scroll up to the top of this page and click on My Bookmarks, it works OK.

driver100

xwesx said:

Speaking of absurd, I know it isn't a washing machine or clothes dryer, but I thought I'd share this small milestone in my car's life cycle:



It is absolutely absurd how gnarly my instrument cluster looks under the scrutiny of a camera's flash!

Yeh, have you ever heard of Swiffers?

driver100

jmonroe1 said:

xwesx said:

Speaking of absurd, I know it isn't a washing machine or clothes dryer, but I thought I'd share this small milestone in my car's life cycle:



It is absolutely absurd how gnarly my instrument cluster looks under the scrutiny of a camera's flash!

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Congratulations but that kind of mileage is something I never want to see in a car I own. I’m still hung up when 50K miles was the half-life of cars. I know that’s not the case anymore, and far from it, but I’m spoiled.

My ‘15 Genny just cracked 13,100 miles last week. 10K more and it’s gone. Mrs. j’s ‘18 Subie bought in the Spring of 2019 with 7K miles has around 34K now. Still pondering that one and still spoiled.

jmonroe

That's like under 2000 miles a year.....cheaper to use Uber.

corvette

To keep this topical, my neighbor had some sort of new appliance unloaded this afternoon, but I couldn’t tell what it was. Pretty sure it wasn’t a dishwasher, but possibly a range.

xwesx

corvette said:

To keep this topical, my neighbor had some sort of new appliance unloaded this afternoon, but I couldn’t tell what it was. Pretty sure it wasn’t a dishwasher, but possibly a range.

Pics or it didn't happen!

snakeweasel

xwesx said:

snakeweasel said:

Wait, your temperature is metric but everything regarding distance is in miles?

Metric temperature, I suppose it is! Never thought of it that way. Anyhow, I don't see any compatibility issues with Celsius and miles. I have the option of swapping the readings as I see fit, so I do. I like to use C because I have many friends who are furrin'ers and use Celsius, so it makes it much easier for me to both translate temperatures and share on a common scale. Being in Alaska, temperature is a common topic of discussion (who knew)!

One year when I took the bike out of winter storage I was going down the road looked at the speedometer and was amazed at how fast I was going and how it didn't seem loke I was going that fast. Then I noticed that somehow the display got switched to metric.

roadburner

I'm counting down the last three weeks of my term. In the past couple of months I resolved the two double murders (one netted me a couple of interviews on a true crime network- for what that's worth) and today I settled another murder and probably will settle one more. I've had to turn down four job offers; at this point I'm one year older (67) than my father was when he started his eight year term as circuit judge. I could not imagine working full time for another seven years. I am getting back in the retired judge program in April, but the assignments are voluntary. At most I'll take 5-10 days a month to finance my automotive and motorcycling obsessions.

jmonroe1

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

xwesx said:

Speaking of absurd, I know it isn't a washing machine or clothes dryer, but I thought I'd share this small milestone in my car's life cycle:



It is absolutely absurd how gnarly my instrument cluster looks under the scrutiny of a camera's flash!

————————————————
Congratulations but that kind of mileage is something I never want to see in a car I own. I’m still hung up when 50K miles was the half-life of cars. I know that’s not the case anymore, and far from it, but I’m spoiled.

My ‘15 Genny just cracked 13,100 miles last week. 10K more and it’s gone. Mrs. j’s ‘18 Subie bought in the Spring of 2019 with 7K miles has around 34K now. Still pondering that one and still spoiled.

jmonroe

That's like under 2000 miles a year.....cheaper to use Uber.

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Not much prestige doing that.

jmonroe

xwesx

roadburner said:

I'm counting down the last three weeks of my term. In the past couple of months I resolved the two double murders (one netted me a couple of interviews on a true crime network- for what that's worth) and today I settled another murder and probably will settle one more. I've had to turn down four job offers; at this point I'm one year older (67) than my father was when he started his eight year term as circuit judge. I could not imagine working full time for another seven years. I am getting back in the retired judge program in April, but the assignments are voluntary. At most I'll take 5-10 days a month to finance my automotive and motorcycling obsessions.

Congrats! You've served a long tenure overall, so might as well enjoy the fruits of your labor.... Again!

oldfarmer50

venture said:

ab348 said:

tjc78 said:

No sign in issues here either

Don’t have your browser clearing cookies when you exit? That would do it

I find that various Windows updates will randomly wipe cookies or other saved items which is a real pain. Just another mystifying Windows flaw.

I just had an update.

If I want to go to Cronic Buyers, for example, I usually click on "Home" then My Bookmarks. Now that makes me sign in again. If I scroll up to the top of this page and click on My Bookmarks, it works OK.

Every few weeks or months the system kicks me out and I have to sign back in but not every time. I began thinking it was jmonroe trying to collect dues.😂

oldfarmer50

roadburner said:

I'm counting down the last three weeks of my term. In the past couple of months I resolved the two double murders (one netted me a couple of interviews on a true crime network- for what that's worth) and today I settled another murder and probably will settle one more. I've had to turn down four job offers; at this point I'm one year older (67) than my father was when he started his eight year term as circuit judge. I could not imagine working full time for another seven years. I am getting back in the retired judge program in April, but the assignments are voluntary. At most I'll take 5-10 days a month to finance my automotive and motorcycling obsessions.

That’s pretty much how I retired. I went from full time bus jockey to part time car jockey and loved the reduced stress.

stickguy

I don't even want to work a real job at going on 63. The thought of doing it at 67+ is horrifying!

qbrozen

At 51, I don’t want to work a real job. I haven’t wanted to work a real job my whole life, though.

sda

roadburner said:

I'm counting down the last three weeks of my term. In the past couple of months I resolved the two double murders (one netted me a couple of interviews on a true crime network- for what that's worth) and today I settled another murder and probably will settle one more. I've had to turn down four job offers; at this point I'm one year older (67) than my father was when he started his eight year term as circuit judge. I could not imagine working full time for another seven years. I am getting back in the retired judge program in April, but the assignments are voluntary. At most I'll take 5-10 days a month to finance my automotive and motorcycling obsessions.

Congratulations! Enjoy!

venture

oldfarmer50 said:

venture said:

ab348 said:

tjc78 said:

No sign in issues here either

Don’t have your browser clearing cookies when you exit? That would do it

I find that various Windows updates will randomly wipe cookies or other saved items which is a real pain. Just another mystifying Windows flaw.

I just had an update.

If I want to go to Cronic Buyers, for example, I usually click on "Home" then My Bookmarks. Now that makes me sign in again. If I scroll up to the top of this page and click on My Bookmarks, it works OK.

Every few weeks or months the system kicks me out and I have to sign back in but not every time. I began thinking it was jmonroe trying to collect dues.😂

It wouldn't let me in at all a little while ago..."a malformed request" or something like that.

Now things seem to be working OK. Time will tell.

I usually sign in every day because I scan my system almost every day which destroys cookies, et al.

imidazol97

That's really nice.

venture said:

oldfarmer50 said:

venture said:

ab348 said:

tjc78 said:

No sign in issues here either

Don’t have your browser clearing cookies when you exit? That would do it

I find that various Windows updates will randomly wipe cookies or other saved items which is a real pain. Just another mystifying Windows flaw.

I just had an update.

If I want to go to Cronic Buyers, for example, I usually click on "Home" then My Bookmarks. Now that makes me sign in again. If I scroll up to the top of this page and click on My Bookmarks, it works OK.

Every few weeks or months the system kicks me out and I have to sign back in but not every time. I began thinking it was jmonroe trying to collect dues.😂

It wouldn't let me in at all a little while ago..."a malformed request" or something like that.

Now things seem to be working OK. Time will tell.

I usually sign in every day because I scan my system almost every day which destroys cookies, et al.

Sounds like what happens to me. I use 3 different browsers, but primarily I use Brave. If I have just rebooted the "machine," I can log into Edmunds on their form. If I've been browsing around the web through various sites and try to do a fresh login, I get the malformed request message.

What I did is just logged in on Chrome and don't use that browser except for Edmunds.
And I also made another instance of Brave and labelled it for Edmunds only. I have a bookmark for Edmunds but even when I start to type the word forums, it autocompletes the URL, and I hit enter and voila, I'm there.

The other instance I use for all the wandering. I'm wondering if Facebook puts something on the computer or does something that Edmunds won't accept or won't accept Edmunds' login?

Now when I start Brave, I have two login personas, and I just click on which one I want to use.

stickguy

Liquor is the same in other states. I assume all of them.

Michaell

Not with a bang, but a whimper - T.S. Eliot

That's how I would describe the end of my professional career. Next month will be two years since I was laid off from my last company.

Since then, unemployement benefits and a series of part-time jobs, along with starting to draw down on my retirement funds and the monthly interest generated from my inheritence, have kept the creditors at bay.

While I am still applying for new positions, I am losing my optimism for securing something, given my age and the state of the job market.

Not that I was looking for a big retirement party and the proverbial gold watch, but I was at least hoping to determine on my own when I would quit work and start retirement.

The good news is that my retirement funds are in reasonable shape, so long as I don't take too much from it on an annual basis - at least, that's what my investment counselors at Fidelity tell me.

I am starting to look at ways to reduce the expense side of the ledger, primarily the size of my mortgage payment. I've got a fair amount of equity in my current home, and if I use that as a down payment to purchase something, somewhere, in the $400K range, my mortgage will be cut by 1/3, even with the higher interest rates.

Just trying to figure out where that might be is the issue - certainly not the Metro Denver area.

corvette

Can’t buy it at all at self checkout in CA - the attendant told me I’d have to go through the regular line. Of course, I picked a slow moving one and the lady in front of me was splitting her purchases into two transactions.

jmonroe1

oldfarmer50 said:

venture said:

ab348 said:

tjc78 said:

No sign in issues here either

Don’t have your browser clearing cookies when you exit? That would do it

I find that various Windows updates will randomly wipe cookies or other saved items which is a real pain. Just another mystifying Windows flaw.

I just had an update.

If I want to go to Cronic Buyers, for example, I usually click on "Home" then My Bookmarks. Now that makes me sign in again. If I scroll up to the top of this page and click on My Bookmarks, it works OK.

Every few weeks or months the system kicks me out and I have to sign back in but not every time. I began thinking it was jmonroe trying to collect dues.😂

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No refunds after the first month.

jmonroe

driver100

corvette said:

To keep this topical, my neighbor had some sort of new appliance unloaded this afternoon, but I couldn’t tell what it was. Pretty sure it wasn’t a dishwasher, but possibly a range.

I hope it was a dishwasher. Maybe you could ask him and let us know.