Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous (Archived)

stickguy · December 2018

It does handle nice. Wife said it rode well on the highway and she seems to like it. But very chintzy with radio presets at only 12. My Elantra had something like 30.

benjaminh · December 2018

Yes it would be nice if the TLX had more than 12 presets for SiriusXM. There are probably about 20 stations I listen to at least once in a while....

benjaminh · December 2018

We now have 10,000 miles on our 2018 CR-V after just 8 months of owning it. So far so good.

pensfan83 · December 2018

I'm only at 8,500 miles after 15 months, and this is after a round trip last week to Cincinnati put around 600 miles on it. As for gas mileage it was lower this trip, around 26/27. It's either the winter blend gas or the weight of the beer I bought at 50 West Brewing

laurasdada · December 2018

A child of the '60s, music was just in my periphery until a friend insisted I listen to "Who's Next" by (surprisingly) The Who. At that moment, music became important. Who fan since, as well as all British Invasion and that old time rock and roll. But, current fave terrestrial radio station is WERS, the Emerson College station; plays a great commercial free variety of music.

Unless Megabucks calls in the next few hours, telling me to come pick up my 7 figure winnings, no '18 punch here. But, oh how I shop! Isn't that what the interwebs were truly created for, car shopping?

laurasdada · December 2018

Oh, yes, and a happy new year to all! May '19 be the happiest, healthiest, wealthiest and punchiest for all!
Going to a restaurant/comedy show with another couple tonight to celebrate. For me, that's a pretty big night out.

suydam · December 2018

We’ve put 14000 miles on the Volt in 2 years. Now that we are on the West Coast we fly long distances rather than drive except within California. 75% of our mileage is electric, as we only use gas on the out of town trips.

stickguy · December 2018

My son said his G70 garners a lot of attention. People in other cars slowing down to check it out, and he was at a party Saturday and many people arriving after stopped to check it out on the way past.

stickguy · December 2018

Here is something I never knew existed. I have no interest, but pretty cheap. Could make an OK station car!

http://www.eimports4less.com/detail-2015-smart-fortwo_electric_drive-certified_fortwo_electric_drive_passion-used-18373060.html

graphicguy · December 2018

Until you just brought it up, I forgot my TLX even had cylinder deactivation. I’ll have to pay more attention to see if I notice it.

stickguy · December 2018

Was out by myself today so I “exercised” the stereo. Impressive. Vastly better than the base unit my Elantra had. Exercised the engine a bit too. Seems to enjoy that. Nice sound, plenty of power. Handling continues to impress also, with still an acceptable ride. Nice quiet cabin too. The A spec at least IMO qualifies as a sports sedan.

I do need to get used to all the beeps and flashes. Or turn some stuff off. At least I always know if I’m near anything, though when the wife is in the car, she can take care of that aspect.

Mr_Shiftright · December 2018

stickguy said:
Here is something I never knew existed. I have no interest, but pretty cheap. Could make an OK station car!

http://www.eimports4less.com/detail-2015-smart-fortwo_electric_drive-certified_fortwo_electric_drive_passion-used-18373060.html

I've never driven one although some claim it qualifies as the "worst car in the world". However, I think that slur was mainly due to the horrible automatic transmissions in the Smart, so perhaps the EV version makes the car tolerable?

graphicguy · December 2018

laurasdada said:
A child of the '60s, music was just in my periphery until a friend insisted I listen to "Who's Next" by (surprisingly) The Who. At that moment, music became important. Who fan since, as well as all British Invasion and that old time rock and roll. But, current fave terrestrial radio station is WERS, the Emerson College station; plays a great commercial free variety of music.

Unless Megabucks calls in the next few hours, telling me to come pick up my 7 figure winnings, no '18 punch here. But, oh how I shop! Isn't that what the interwebs were truly created for, car shopping?

One of my top 10 albums of all time......

https://goo.gl/images/ZBNcji

Never been a disco or country fan.....jazz and rock is what’s always playing for me. BTW....my son bought me an Apple Home Pod....amazing what kind of sound is coming out of these small speakers.

Play list tonight...having a few close friends over for cocktails, snacks and board games.....

https://goo.gl/images/c2oGQV

https://goo.gl/images/evJjoi

https://goo.gl/images/zdN9PM

https://goo.gl/images/3bWhL8

https://goo.gl/images/wJfi5U

https://goo.gl/images/NSkeEU

stickguy · December 2018

Good selection. Though there were a couple I am not familiar with I’m sure I would like them, based on the other ones.

nyccarguy · December 2018

Happy New Year to all of my Chronic Car Buyers here on edmunds!

kyfdx · December 2018

I can see that you guys are just a few years younger than me... Because you don't realize that all of the good music was made before 1980.

tjc78 · December 2018

@graphicguy
Diana Krall is fantastic... good source material for auditioning equipment too.

Happy New Year everyone!

kyfdx · December 2018

tjc78 said:
@graphicguy
Diana Krall is fantastic... good source material for auditioning equipment too.

Happy New Year everyone!

Plus, she is married to Elvis Costello!

ab348 · December 2018

Edmunds video review of their Model 3 Tesla.

https://youtu.be/FESJlsKeYGo

Mr_Shiftright · December 2018

Pretty fair review. He seems to generally like it.

Me personally? I'd never put up with all that touch-screen nonsense.

ab348 · December 2018

Yeah, the fiddly screen and the need to look at it for normal instrument readings is a miss for me. I found it funny when he demonstrated using it to turn on the wipers, he had a hard time figuring out how to turn them off.

If they are running the tires @ 48psi I wonder what kind of tires they are using and how much they are to replace/how readily available they are. No wonder the ride is a bit jittery.

laurasdada · December 2018

Spent a good portion of today making my end of the year charitable donations. Bad news, that puts me a bit farther away from a new car punch. Good news, now I can't lose that $ at the blackjack tables! Not to mention, of course, the good that will (hopefully!) come of the donations.
And, my Xmas blood donation put me at 9 gallons! I'm tired...

Drivingfool · December 2018

Started listening also in the summer of '62, had two older siblings, and the radio was on constantly. Listened throughout the '60's, '70's and '80's. Got my kids into music also as it was always on in the car when we drove places. Now, I love my SAT radio and am always playing it or if in a rental without it, just plug in my iPhone and listen to the many songs in there. Love music and like having it in the background of our life.

coldinohio · December 2018

happy new year

Drivingfool · December 2018

Ditto to everyone else's wishes for the new year!!

carnaught · December 2018

A Happy Healthy, Safe and Prosperous New Year to all in this community!

ab348 · December 2018

Wishing a great 2019 to all the great folks in this forums community!

cdnpinhead · December 2018

Plus one -- best of luck in the new year, everyone.

ronsteve · December 2018

benjaminh said:

We now have 10,000 miles o5n our 2018 CR-V after just 8 months of owning it. So far so good.

15K a year isn't that crazy.

breld · December 2018

Happy New Year to all!

We just signed a contract on the new house, contingent on the sale of our house. So...I will be plenty busy over these next few months.

Mr_Shiftright · December 2018

Oh, no, now he's buying houses!

Drivingfool · December 2018

Truly amazing!! Congrats on the new house!!!

stickguy · December 2018

I want a new house. But after looking for something recently in the basement and realizing just how much crap my wife has stashed, I might be sorry if we do move. Might be better to just stay here until I get carried out in a body bag. Just can't afford to ever retire if we stay, so seems like a poor plan.

why anyone needs that many empty boxes is beyond me. I need to start clearing stuff out of there when she is at work. though that might hasten the trip in the body bag.

fintail · December 2018

Detached houses, single incomes, where I live, lol

So is a house worth like 5 punches?

stickguy · December 2018

maybe where I live. Where he is and a 4 car garage, might be more like 12! If you are getting expensive cars.

cdnpinhead · December 2018

stickguy said:
I want a new house. But after looking for something recently in the basement and realizing just how much crap my wife has stashed, I might be sorry if we do move. Might be better to just stay here until I get carried out in a body bag. Just can't afford to ever retire if we stay, so seems like a poor plan.

why anyone needs that many empty boxes is beyond me. I need to start clearing stuff out of there when she is at work. though that might hasten the trip in the body bag.

Believe me, I feel your pain. My wife isn't a full-up hoarder, but I can see them from here.

stickguy · December 2018

I can just give up and have it all packed in a pod instead, then have it dropped in the driveway at the new place. Deal with it as it comes out of there! Or just live with a Pod in the driveway for the next decade.

28firefighter · December 2018

Congrats, @breld!

Happy New Year, all!! I will not be staying up tonight because our flight back was diverted to Montana for 3 hours due to a medical emergency. No food, no water, not allowed off the plane. Suffice to say, Sam was not understanding. Very very happy to be home.

Michaell · December 2018

Happy New Year, as well!

@stickguy - you and my wife would get along well. I can't tell you how many trips I make annually to donate goods from our house. However, the basement in our house is starting to accumulate more stuff than I realize (of course, the last house was a bit larger and had a finished basement, so I can sort of understand). Industrial strength shelves were put up over the weekend and now we need to organize things.

Snow today. All day. Fluffy stuff, so wasn't much effort to clear the driveway and sidewalks this afternoon; I'll likely do it again tomorrow. Maybe a few inches total, so far.

I don't know if we can establish a national house to car punch ratio for this group. Housing prices here in CO are still ticking up, but nothing like NJ or PNW. We've seen about 3% appreciation on our place in 7 months. No plans to move, yet, but the wife is complaining about the winter weather, so anything is possible in 5-10 years.

Every year I submit a guess as to how many punches we'll have, and every year I'm terribly wrong. I'll submit a guess of 32 for 2019, however. @corvette, who was closest for 2018?

xwesx · December 2018

I'm going to be a little more optimistic than usual and go with 39. Likely, I'll be low. But, if @breld actually DOES go through with this whole house thing, then that will probably slow them down, at least a little, on the car front!

Oh, and happy new year! Enjoy this final year of the second decade of the twenty-first century! Seems a little hard to believe that we've burned nearly a fifth of the century already!

stickguy · January 2019

I think Breld and Q (and me) are out of the mix (well, Breld by his standards) so I will go with 30.

Michael, there are 2 NJ's really. North and South. My house in Bergen county would be at least double what it is down in SJ outside Philly.

I do have lots of nice wood Ikea shelves down there. Stuff just keeps piling up on the floor. I did have it pretty well organized, then she brought home a bunch of stuff from her childhood home when her father died. Mostly though it got cluttered up when we cleaned the upstairs (kids rooms now that they are gone - they left, everything they ever had and don't want remains). I sacrificed that space as having all the crap to deal with in one place. It is just hard to get through that area now!

tjc78 · January 2019

Clutter happens. My basement got pretty loaded up when we moved my mom in. I chip away at it from time to time, but still way too much stuff.

ab348 · January 2019

Michaell said:
Happy New Year, as well!

@stickguy - you and my wife would get along well. I can't tell you how many trips I make annually to donate goods from our house. However, the basement in our house is starting to accumulate more stuff than I realize (of course, the last house was a bit larger and had a finished basement, so I can sort of understand). Industrial strength shelves were put up over the weekend and now we need to organize things.

I think life, especially if you've been in one residence for a while, leads inevitably to clutter and too much "stuff". After my basmeent reno in 2017 it became clear to me that I had way too much junk accumulating. I have been picking away at it ever since. Last week I got rid of an old office-sized electric typewriter and metal table for it that I had since university. Hadn't used it in over 30 years.

Michaell said:

I don't know if we can establish a national house to car punch ratio for this group. Housing prices here in CO are still ticking up, but nothing like NJ or PNW. We've seen about 3% appreciation on our place in 7 months. No plans to move, yet, but the wife is complaining about the winter weather, so anything is possible in 5-10 years.

Yesterday on Twitter, a CBC business reporter out of Toronto posted an ad from a local paper from 1964 advertising new single-family homes in a development (near Leslie and Finch for those of you familiar with the area) for about $16,500. That made me look the area up on Streetview and as expected it is now a fully developed neighborhood with mature trees and looked like a nice place to live., not overly posh but certainly middle-class. Then I looked at real estate listings for those streets. Cheapest place I found was $600K, most were just over $1mil, but a couple that had been added on to and recently reno'ed were over $2mil. I responded with that info back to her, and she in turn applied the Bank of Canada inflation calculator to the original price, which worked out to something like $137K. So the original price has inflated at least over 4 times the rate of inflation, generally more like 7 or 8 times more.

Snowy and windy here this morning, not pleasant at all. Supposed to switch to rain later which means I will be clearing slush. Ugh. Just 11.5 weeks to Spring though.

suydam · January 2019

IIRC, Breid bought a house around 2 years ago and his car buying ACCELERATED. So I wouldn’t count him out for 2019.
As to clutter, we had enormous amounts — 3 kids stuff after they moved out, inherited stuff from both parents. As long as we had a large house I kept all of it. But when we moved across the country to a tiny condo I got ruthless. It took a year, but we sold, gave away, or tossed about 80% of our possessions. It was very hard, but we are so glad we did it. Life is much easier with smaller digs and less stuff!

graphicguy · January 2019

Happy New Year.

Love Diana Krall...have actually seen her perform a couple of times. She puts on a great show.....extremely talented jazz pianist and an even better jazz vocalist. After playing Monopoly for 4 hours last night, I finally lost by landing on Boardwalk.....with a hotel....my last 2 times around the board.

My friend who I mentioned was cited for a DUI several weeks ago showed up. He’s fighting the charge because he says he was not “Mirandized”. Prosecutor offered reduced charges. But, he says his lawyer feels good about his charges being dismissed. But, the prosecutor keeps asking for and being granted continuances, driving up my friend’s legal fees.

He feels he will win the case, but at a pretty significant legal bill!

ronsteve · January 2019

kyfdx said:
I can see that you guys are just a few years younger than me... Because you don't realize that all of the good music was made before 1980.

I'll give you about 1985 or something in the latter half of the '80s, with just a few exceptions. And I turn 48 this month.

corvette · January 2019

au1994 was the closest with a guess of 42 punches for 2018. Here's the final tally - please let me know if I missed any:

2018 punch list (total 44):
01/19/18 28firefighter 2017 Mercedes C300 Sport 4matic P3 (ex-service loaner lease)
01/22/18 jpp5862 2016 VW Touareg TDI Lux
01/25/18 rny41 2015 Acura TLX 2.4 30k
02/02/18 breld 2015 BMW i3 REX 20k
02/12/18 tifighter 2013 Mercedes E350 Cabriolet 45k
02/28/18 boomchek 2001 Honda CR-V xxk
03/17/18 breld 2017 Kia Sedona LX 10k CPO
03/17/18 breld 2018 Land Rover Discovery diesel
04/09/18 carnaught 2018 Toyota Prius IV
04/20/18 tbirdmarco’s mom 2018 Nissan Rogue SV
05/14/18 28firefighter 2002 Saab 9-3 Viggen 4-door 106k
05/21/18 sb55’s daughter 2014 Kia Soul+ 90k
06/06/18 steine13 2018 Chevy Cruze hatchback
06/25/18 benjaminh 2018 Honda CR-V
06/26/18 breld 2017 Toyota Prius Prime
06/28/18 henryn 2018 Ford F-150 Supercrew
07/02/18 benjaminh 2018 Acura TLX 2.4 Tech package (lease)
07/03/18 john4546 2018 Honda Accord Sport
07/13/18 breld 2018 Audi Q7 Prestige 10k
07/25/18 breld 2017 VW Golf R 17k
08/10/18 tommister2 2018 Toyota Tundra CrewMax Limited
08/11/18 mjfloyd1 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL Unlimited Rubicon
08/24/18 breld’s stepdaughter 2018 VW Jetta SEL
08/26/18 28firefighter 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Sport (convenience, FCW, nav)
08/29/18 breld 2017 Mazda Miata RF 8k
08/31/18 qbrozen 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio (lease)
09/03/18 jpp5862 2008 Volvo C30 84k
09/08/18 corvette 2012 Infiniti G37 71k
09/22/18 breld 2017 Porsche Macan S xxk
09/28/18 tifighter 2018 Tesla Model 3 Performance
09/28/18 ronsteve 2015 Acura RDX AWD Tech package 39k
10/04/18 pensfan83 1997 Honda Prelude Base 182k
10/30/18 anonymousposts1 2018 Toyota Camry XLE
10/30/18 anonymousposts1 2018 Toyota Highlander SE
10/31/18 anonymousposts1 2008 Toyota Sienna XLE 132k
11/19/18 Mr_Shiftright 2008 Volvo C30 112k
11/23/18 roadburner 2015 BMW X1 xDrive 28i M-sport 31k
11/28/18 au1994 2019 Subaru Crosstrek
11/30/18 jpp5862 2019 Toyota Tacoma Off Road Premium (lease)
12/08/18 qbrozen 2018 BMW X2 5k (lease)
12/14/18 stickguy 2019 Acura TLX A-spec (lease)
12/19/18 breld 2018 Audi A5 Sportback 6k
12/20/18 stickguy’s son 2019 Genesis G70 3.3T (lease)
12/26/18 qbrozen 2018 BMW 330xi 3k (lease)

ab348 · January 2019

Total would have been even higher if @breld hadn't gone into slump and only bought 9 cars last year.

carnaught · January 2019

My guess for 2019 is also 38 punches. Thanks @corvette for great record keeping.

Again, Happy New Year to all.

roadburner · January 2019

I'll say 40 punches for 2019.

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