Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous

Michaell · June 4

This article popped up in my FB feed:

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/mitsubishi-had-the-perfect-lineup-in-1992/?aff=f_us_p&utm_source=FB&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=med&utm_content=image_Mitsubishi_June25_MED_Social_dsp&utm_term=med_3p&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMABhZGlkAAAGMMkyJScBHiKXqLXndc-67F071tNNIBA17TftIfWoiyPY3wSw7cb-vuZWglgeIKl4_de-_aem_bgG69uguVFv8ztWgeVyepw&utm_id=6661807325191

tjc78 · June 5

@au1994 said:
BTW…in a Ram Rebel rental this week. Love, love, love the Hurricane 6. Smooth, quiet and quick!

Interior is very comfortable but skewed more sporty-ish and less high end than the other trims.

Ride is great, like old school Cadillac great. I definitely see the appeal.

My friends all call my Laramie a “lifted Town Car”

tjc78 · June 5

Question -
Tom, why do you need such a big truck when you don’t need it for work and don’t do a lot of DIY?

Answer -
My wife’s Amazon haul to bring to the shore -

Ideally if we had brains we would try and order everything for Friday delivery down there but that’s not always possible

au1994 · June 5

tjc78 said:
Question -

Tom, why do you need such a big truck when you don’t need it for work and don’t do a lot of DIY?

Answer -

My wife’s Amazon haul to bring to the shore -

Ideally if we had brains we would try and order everything for Friday delivery down there but that’s not always possible

I know the feeling. We fill up our largest vehicle every time we go to the lake and I just don’t understand it.

Way back, I knew the Crosstrek was a goner when jr had to make the ride up there with a box on his lap. Back was full, dog in one seat and it was pouring so using the roof rack was not an option.

graphicguy · June 5

tifighter said:
I’m late to report a punch from Friday.

Boxster GTS 4.0

I couldn’t let @breld and @kyfdx have all of the fun.

Mercy. Beautiful. Congrats on the punch!

stickguy · June 5

We used to go shopping Saturday morning when we arrived for our week at the shore. But my wife got tired of that so now buys everything she can think of for the week and expects me to pack it somehow. Plus way too many clothes and too much bedding and random stuff we have never used. Kids can move to college (or their first apartment!) with less stuff.

Even with just the 2 of us the Acura would be jammed to the roof. Forget about any chance of a rear seat passenger. So we take the truck instead.

tjc78 · June 5

I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to shop at the island Acme stores on a Saturday afternoon. The Rio Grande and Marmora Shop Rites are also a total zoo.

When we used to go for a week our car was always jammed too.

tjc78 · June 5

This was moving into the campground during Covid.

Enclave was at max capacity.

tifighter · June 5

@tjc78 said:
Question -
Tom, why do you need such a big truck when you don’t need it for work and don’t do a lot of DIY?

Answer -
My wife’s Amazon haul to bring to the shore -

Ideally if we had brains we would try and order everything for Friday delivery down there but that’s not always possible

This hits too close to home…

explorerx4 · June 5

My SIL and family have been experiencing 'vacation packing' creep for years.
When it was just the 2 of them and a dog or 2, everything could fit inside his Explorer.
Then a couple of kids came along, although 1 dog went away.
Somewhere during that time period I gave them my 20 cu/ft rooftop Thule(25 years old now).
Last year, he added a hitch mounted cargo box, too.
He really wants something bigger.

roadburner · June 5

@stickguy said:
We used to go shopping Saturday morning when we arrived for our week at the shore. But my wife got tired of that so now buys everything she can think of for the week and expects me to pack it somehow. Plus way too many clothes and too much bedding and random stuff we have never used. Kids can move to college (or their first apartment!) with less stuff.

Even with just the 2 of us the Acura would be jammed to the roof. Forget about any chance of a rear seat passenger. So we take the truck instead.

We take the C43 and we can usually still carry one or two passengers in the back. If I absolutely had to I’d take the Wrangler but the C43 is such a great cruiser that it would be a shame to leave it at home.

In 1992 we took the E24 M6 to Orlando for the BMW CCA Oktoberfest and then spent another week traveling up the east coast to visit Colonial Williamsburg. In that case the car was definitely maxed out with regards to cargo capacity.

jmonroe1 · June 5

roadburner said:
My quote of the day, courtesy of Throttle House host Thomas Holland:
"I would rather wake up to a horse's head in my bed than the X3 in my driveway."

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Are you now threatening us with snippets every day?

jmonroe

tjc78 · June 5

explorerx4 said:
My SIL and family have been experiencing 'vacation packing' creep for years.
When it was just the 2 of them and a dog or 2, everything could fit inside his Explorer.
Then a couple of kids came along, although 1 dog went away.
Somewhere during that time period I gave them my 20 cu/ft rooftop Thule(25 years old now).
Last year, he added a hitch mounted cargo box, too.
He really wants something bigger.

When we did the "Griswold" road trip in Dec '23 I had the entire bed of my truck filled. Not sure how we would have done it in anything smaller. I know our XC90 wouldn't have handled it... maybe the Enclave if we cut back a bit.

We definitely overpacked for that trip, but to be fair it was nearly two weeks.

roadburner · June 5

explorerx4 said:
My SIL and family have been experiencing 'vacation packing' creep for years.
When it was just the 2 of them and a dog or 2, everything could fit inside his Explorer.
Then a couple of kids came along, although 1 dog went away.
Somewhere during that time period I gave them my 20 cu/ft rooftop Thule(25 years old now).
Last year, he added a hitch mounted cargo box, too.
He really wants something bigger.

I think one reason some people love minivans is because they don't have to think about packing efficiently- they just throw half of their home's contents into the thing and hit the road.

jmonroe1 · June 5

tjc78 said:
Question -

Tom, why do you need such a big truck when you don’t need it for work and don’t do a lot of DIY?

Answer -

My wife’s Amazon haul to bring to the shore -

Ideally if we had brains we would try and order everything for Friday delivery down there but that’s not always possible

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As the saying goes, “if you’ve got it flaunt it”.

jmonroe

roadburner · June 5

This could be tempting:

stickguy · June 5

The minivan was a problem. Wife got so used to it that she couldn’t recalibrate to something smaller.

stickguy · June 5

Interesting article on the Subaru. If they came out with a manual trans crosstrek WRX I would have to seriously consider that.

jmonroe1 · June 5

roadburner said:
This could be tempting:

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If this was @breld posting that would be in his garage by sunset today.

jmonroe

qbrozen · June 5

Speaking of Amazon, the brainpower over there astonishes me sometimes. I got 4 boxes today with 1 roll of vinyl wrap in each, while each box could easily fit 6 or 8 rolls.

Since someone will ask: this is for the Suzuki. I chose a red copper metallic.

suydam · June 5

stickguy said:
The minivan was a problem. Wife got so used to it that she couldn’t recalibrate to something smaller.

I had no problem transitioning at all. Once the last kid left the house, my minivan days were done. Terrific vehicle for those years, AND time to be adults again. That said, now that we have grandchildren, I traded in the Volt for the Blazer EV. Gotta have somewhere to put those car seats when they visit!

tjc78 · June 5

@qbrozen said:
Speaking of Amazon, the brainpower over there astonishes me sometimes. I got 4 boxes today with 1 roll of vinyl wrap in each, while each box could easily fit 6 or 8 rolls.

Since someone will ask: this is for the Suzuki. I chose a red copper metallic.

Can’t wait to see how that turns out!

stickguy · June 5

Let me rephrase. She was happy to downsize to driving an RDX. she just never accepted the fact that she couldn’t just pile up everything imaginable to pack like when I had the minivan to stuff it into. Our system is she piles up everything to bring in a staging area. I have to somehow fit it all into whatever vehicle we are taking. Some fun conversations have come out of that!

roadburner · June 5

jmonroe1 said:

roadburner said:
My quote of the day, courtesy of Throttle House host Thomas Holland:
"I would rather wake up to a horse's head in my bed than the X3 in my driveway."
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Are you now threatening us with snippets every day?

jmonroe

The full video for context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smf-mSRMvNk

tjc78 · June 5

@jmonroe1 said:
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As the saying goes, “if you’ve got it flaunt it”.

jmonroe

Not flaunting anything … I’d doubt that is more than $200 worth of stuff.

Wife is “stocking up” for summer.

jmonroe1 · June 5

qbrozen said:
Speaking of Amazon, the brainpower over there astonishes me sometimes. I got 4 boxes today with 1 roll of vinyl wrap in each, while each box could easily fit 6 or 8 rolls.

Since someone will ask: this is for the Suzuki. I chose a red copper metallic.

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I’ll bet there is a cardboard box salesman somewhere who vacations at the beach several times a year.

jmonroe

nyccarguy · June 5

qbrozen said:
Speaking of Amazon, the brainpower over there astonishes me sometimes. I got 4 boxes today with 1 roll of vinyl wrap in each, while each box could easily fit 6 or 8 rolls.

Since someone will ask: this is for the Suzuki. I chose a red copper metallic.

UPS Charges a small fortune as well. I have a few local vendors I buy from. For the most part, they will have the salesman bring it to me in his own personal vehicle. Sometimes things get back ordered. This one company I buy from usually has some kind of t-shirt or hat or other swag to give away. It gets printed on the packing list. I got an order driven by the salesman once. They ZEROd the t-shirt (or whatever it was). I got the t-shirt the next day. It shipped out UPS. I called the guys who own the company and could see the smoke from their ears from here. Their place is out on Long Island.

xwesx · June 5

explorerx4 said:
My SIL and family have been experiencing 'vacation packing' creep for years.
When it was just the 2 of them and a dog or 2, everything could fit inside his Explorer.
Then a couple of kids came along, although 1 dog went away.
Somewhere during that time period I gave them my 20 cu/ft rooftop Thule(25 years old now).
Last year, he added a hitch mounted cargo box, too.
He really wants something bigger.

Haha! Rooftop Thule? Check. Hitch-mounted carrier? Check.

But, we often don't have the interior too overloaded. The hatch typically has just the daily camping gear, and the rear seat contains a person or quick/protected access stuff like the food box, rain gear, pillow, etc.

jmonroe1 · June 5

tjc78 said:

@jmonroe1 said:

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As the saying goes, “if you’ve got it flaunt it”.

jmonroe

Not flaunting anything … I’d doubt that is more than $200 worth of stuff.

Wife is “stocking up” for summer.

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What I meant by flaunting was you have a truck that can haul a lot of cargo, so why not use it. I assume you’ll have no problems with its capacity.

jmonroe

corvette · June 5

One for @roadburner near my local watering hole.

oldfarmer50 · June 5

tifighter said:
Forget a Land Cruiser. Here’s what a similar year 4Runner with 89k miles went for yesterday-

Somebody with more dollars than sense bought that.😢

breld · June 6

With kids home from college (at least sporadically), we are taking full advantage of the garage space. There's a Kia K5 hiding there behind the Tiguan.

Kudos to my wife for moving her Genesis over to allow me to pull into her spot last night!

suydam · June 6

Wow! When our kids were teens and my Dad lived with us, we had 4 or 5 cars around, but they didn’t look all new and sparkly like these!

tifighter · June 6

@breld said:
With kids home from college (at least sporadically), we are taking full advantage of the garage space. There's a Kia K5 hiding there behind the Tiguan.

Kudos to my wife for moving her Genesis over to allow me to pull into her spot last night!

My eyes never made in past that mower. Mercy!

nyccarguy · June 6

tifighter said:

@breld said:

With kids home from college (at least sporadically), we are taking full advantage of the garage space. There's a Kia K5 hiding there behind the Tiguan.

Kudos to my wife for moving her Genesis over to allow me to pull into her spot last night!

My eyes never made in past that mower. Mercy!

I'm at the point in my life where I would take the completely empty garage over the 7 cars inside it. Believe me, I LOVE the 911, The Cayman, & the BRZ.

28firefighter · June 6

Probably just the angle but the BRZ looks so small compared to the others in there.

tjc78 · June 6

@breld said:
With kids home from college (at least sporadically), we are taking full advantage of the garage space. There's a Kia K5 hiding there behind the Tiguan.

Kudos to my wife for moving her Genesis over to allow me to pull into her spot last night!

Looks fantastic…. Although it’s missing a Mini

kyfdx · June 6

What kind of jerk has two Porsches in the garage?

tifighter · June 6

Sold the A/T wheel set from the Model Y this morning. My basement thanks me.

au1994 · June 6

The garage pic should be a poster!

au1994 · June 6

I am at about 11 months with the JGC. At 13,500 miles so over the allowance. That’s 25 months from now me’s problem.

Good: Very comfortable, quiet and roomy. Averaged 19.2 mpg so far, which I think is good. Nice features, love the pano roof and the infotainment is easy to use and wireless Carplay has been flawless. Power train is fine. Not super quick off the line but it moves about just fine and has plenty of power to pass when needed. It is noisy when it does that.

Bad: There’s a rattle. I tried a little tape on door jambs as this was a known fix on Wranglers, nope. Took it in and they diagnosed back headrests and replaced but its back. Very frustrating because I hate a rattling vehicle. There’s a funny blind spot due to the A pillar position. I’m used to it but I can see why a few reviews have complained. Lastly the fuel door is plastic and it obviously took the paint differently than the body because it’s a good shade lighter.

I’m pleased but am going to make an issue of the rattle, it’s that bad.

I’ve got 25 months to consider my next ride!

jmonroe1 · June 6

tifighter said:

@breld said:

With kids home from college (at least sporadically), we are taking full advantage of the garage space. There's a Kia K5 hiding there behind the Tiguan.

Kudos to my wife for moving her Genesis over to allow me to pull into her spot last night!

My eyes never made in past that mower. Mercy!

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Now that’s a problem!!

jmonroe

mjfloyd1 · June 6

roadburner said:
This could be tempting:

Japan only and CVT only

pensfan83 · June 6

We leave for London tonight so today was spent getting foreign currencies, some snacks for the plane ride, and fretting over our own Amazon deliveries for some necessities for the trip. It's been an extremely hectic few weeks work wise so I am definitely looking forward to unplugging completely for 2 weeks.

nyccarguy · June 6

pensfan83 said:
We leave for London tonight so today was spent getting foreign currencies, some snacks for the plane ride, and fretting over our own Amazon deliveries for some necessities for the trip. It's been an extremely hectic few weeks work wise so I am definitely looking forward to unplugging completely for 2 weeks.

Awesome! Enjoy your trip!

corvette · June 6

Unexpectedly, my car (and everything else) budget went up again. Got notified this afternoon that my company is giving everyone in my department a significant non-merit pay bump, out of the normal annual review cycle (which won't be affected), to keep us competitive. Happy Friday, everyone!

oldfarmer50 · June 6

breld said:
With kids home from college (at least sporadically), we are taking full advantage of the garage space. There's a Kia K5 hiding there behind the Tiguan.

Kudos to my wife for moving her Genesis over to allow me to pull into her spot last night!

That looks like Jay Leno’s garage except with newer cars.👌

oldfarmer50 · June 6

“ I’m pleased but am going to make an issue of the rattle, it’s that bad.”

I remember stories of cars with rattles back in the 60s and when they removed the door panel found beer cans inside.

ab348 · June 6

I'd have loved getting a unmerited pay bump.

oldfarmer50 · June 6

ab348 said:
I'd have loved getting a unmerited pay bump.

I got one last August and they never even told me.🤯

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