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There really IS a first time for everything!
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2022 Wrangler Sahara 4Xe, 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR 4WD
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
Gee, I missed the part of the login process where you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I believe about 50% of what's posted here, on a good day. Except for @abacomike - his studs is way too far fetched to be made up.
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2015 Subaru Outback 3.6R / 2014 MINI Countryman S ALL4
Gee, I missed the part of the login process where you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I believe about 50% of what's posted here, on a good day. Except for @abacomike - his studs is way too far fetched to be made up.
I guess you guys changed the honesty bylaws when you did your last logon update.
As for @abacomike, I agree, his stuff is sooo over the top it has to be true. No two people in our galaxy could have the things done to them what he proclaims has befell him.
jmonroe
The admin of the site finally caught on and realized the sign ups came from the same IP address.
He was banned, of course.
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
I also spent a brief moment of history trying to sell Life Insurance, so I find the lack of my sales career sales gets me thinking "I TOLD YOU SO" to those that didn't buy. Of course, no one says this out loud, but I felt the potential dollars for life insurance were more often being spent on Cox Cable and Cell Phones/cell phone plans.
I used to work in family court and my god...I stopped counting the number of folks who claimed they could not afford court filing fees and then walked up with the latest iPhone.
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But, to be fair, there are a lot of honest hard working people around here, who work their b_____ off trying to make ends meet. After a while, you learn which is which, who is who. I'm always good for $3 for bus fare to those whom I know will spend it on bus fare and not a quart of malt liquor.
Fuel mileage records probably don't matter to them.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
When I purchased the 2006 Sedan DeVille, the salesman told me it was a one owner, bought new at that dealership and serviced there. When I was doing the paperwork for the purchase, the finance guy made a point of showing me the title, which was original and showed clearly that it was sold by that dealership in 2006 brand new with something like 2 miles on the odometer.
Parents who were accused of criminal activity and hired private attorneys still got free court appointed lawyers in the child neglect cases! I would have put an end to that real quick by "appointing" their privately paid criminal defense counsel as their court-appointed attorney in the child neglect cases.
jmonroe
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2022 Wrangler Sahara 4Xe, 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR 4WD
I think an iPad from 2014 has had less of a depreciation curve than some of the EV's today.
I currently have an iPhone SE and I just bought my wife a "new to her" Iphone 7 this week. I don't mind having slightly older tech as long as it does what I need it to do.
Massachusetts
2011 Toyota Sienna LE FWD
177,xxx miles
Dark Blue exterior Gray cloth interior
Front bumper has large dent
Interior is almost Taliban special
AC doesn't work-needs compressor
Front brakes are new
Rear brakes-need replaced
Right sliding door has broken cable- so we just use both sliders manually.
Rear door tail gate sensor doesn't work.
Tires are recent.
To fix the one slider I have been quoted $1400.
I am not sure what the cost of the ac compressor is but I am guessing over a grand. I am waiting on a quote.
What is this worth as a trade as is,
Should I fix the slider and ac?
How about private party?
It still runs and rides well.
Thank so much.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2022 Wrangler Sahara 4Xe, 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR 4WD
A quick search for "Taliban" on this thread shows it goes back a long time.
Interior of the Sienna is slightly beat up with missing trim pieces here and there.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
I shudder to think what that interior looks like...
October 2003
This board was 10x more active back then. Talk about a trip down memory lane -- I have no idea why I didn't buy this thing on the spot -- can you believe a used-car manager chasing a customer to sell a four-year-old clean Tacoma for $5,000 even? This was 16 years ago.
Of course, today's Taco is not that Taco.
That's a lot of words, though...
I needed a good laugh today--that Sienna sounds like one of the most awful vehicles I've ever read about on this forum--or at least top (or bottom) 10 maybe. I'm wondering if $3K is optimistic tho? If it were in my driveway & someone showed up with $1800 & didn't give me any hassle, I think I'd take it.
dillydill: "Should I fix the slider and ac?" NO, don't even think it. Just blow it out for whatever you can get. The fact that it still runs well is a huge plus tho.....that's the (only) selling point.....
I owned one of those, for 3 long years. '86 Toyota (used) pickup w/rubber seats, rubber flooring, 4 sp., not even tinted glass, but it did have A/C. Kind of a tinny "death trap", had the crash resistance of a tin can I'd guess, but I flogged the thing into Boston almost every night for those years, & it did great. Got some great deals on some used & new furniture back then, & hauled it with the truck. I still have some of that furniture.....
A friend of mine has a 95 Tacoma, cab-and-a-half, with around 60k miles. She just drove that thing from Houston to Nashville last week. Braver than I am…
I do recall driving a 1957 Ford (which cost me all of $100 back in 1970) from Texas to Iowa. Of course, I was a crazy college kid, and I was fully prepared to abandon the thing and start hitch hiking at any time.
That ’57 Ford did make it to Iowa, no problems. Shortly after I got there, I loaned it to someone who totaled it. Long ago and far away
For a second there I thought you were going to say you kept the pickup to make razor blades.
jmonroe
At some point, back in the late 70s or 80s, my younger brother had a Datsun pickup. Yes, so far back it was called a Datsun, not a Nissan. That was a single cab, 4 cylinder, 4 speed. No A/C, no power anything. That thing was probably 10 years old when he got it, and already beat to hell.
We used to go out to his deer lease and see just how far we could make it back into the woods. We had a rope based block and tackle, and when push came to shove, we could pull that Datsun through just about anything. I doubt it weighed more than 2,000 pounds.
It looked roughly like this picture I found on the internet of a 1974 Datsun pickup.
Doesn't have to be THAT old. Here's an 83 Datsun that we owned for a few months back in aught-six:
Looks real clean but blew the intake gasket and was just generally going 'old car' on me, so I dumped it for what I had in it and was grateful...it was fun while it lasted.
are your repair quotes from a dealer or private party? I can't believe a broken cable costs $1400.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
I agree about the cable cost being high, waay too high. That 1400 bucks should be for the compressor AND the door fix.
jmonroe
Thank you!
Q - It's good to have you back, sir!
2007 Volkswagen Passat sedan, black, 2.0 turbo, 6MT. Traded at the local VW dealer...I know where those turn up... One owner, looks like a car half as old.
Interior is clean, paint looks fantastic, some curb rash on the alloys and one flaw: rust on front driver's wheel well. Which is what happens in the rust belt when any sheet metal gets exposed, at all, ever. I believe it's the "2.0 T" trim level. Does have leatherette and sunroof, that's as far as I got.
Just under 100k miles. No price on it yet, and at 13 years old, it's all in the condition, but I thought I'd ask.
[Meanwhile, the sage green 2008 A6 4.2 quattro that looked amazing for its age has disappeared from the trade-in lot and not turned up anywhere. Probably snapped up by an employee. Good luck; THAT car would not be for the faint of heart.]
I'll say Thank You now -- don't like to clog up the forum with 'empty' posts. cheers -mathias
2018 VW Passat SE w/tech, 2016 Audi Q5 Premium Plus w/tech, 2006 Acura TL w/nav
@sda -- a friend had an '04 A4 with that engine... I know all about the high-pressure fuel pump.
I also know about how he hydrolocked the engine, killing it, in a heavy downpour on the freeway -- I guess that's one thing that's easy to avoid if you know it's an issue. Germans don't know from weather.
I still have six thousand miles to go on my present lease... my experience has always been I find good cars exactly when I don't need them.
That particular dealership has the VW AND Audi AND Subaru franchise. All their low-end cars go to the same independent lot, and the people are reasonable. They just got an '05 Outback in good shape, 5MT, 150k, no visible rust, for $3,175. That's a great price, as clean beaters go, but a good look underneath shows more rust than I'd want to buy into.