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driver100 · November 27

jmonroe1 said:

@oldfarmer50 said:

I don’t think I’ve ever been in a dealership long enough to see what amenities they have. The Kia dealer had a coffee bar of some kind and I don’t remember seeing anything at Ford. Not that it mattered because I can’t think of anything that would make me want to hang around. I hand them the keys and jump in my ride home.

Maybe if they had steak and lobster but otherwise no.

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At my Genny dealer you have your choice of steak OR lobster but not both.

jmonroe

It's time for you to get a new Genesis. I hear that these days they come and pick up your car, and leave you with a loaner while they work on your car!

Michaell · November 27

28firefighter said:
There is always a chance, but my guess is it’ll be AWD. Realistically? I’ve gone across the pass with a front wheel drive car on decent all seasons and it’s fine as long as you follow the warnings and chain up if required.

It started snowing on the passes this week so they should ask about whether they have chains available, though I doubt they’d actually need them.

Beautiful time of year out that way! There is an amazing spa lodge out there called Posthotel that is so cool this time of year.

Thanks for the info.

Would chains be provided? My sister asked that question last night, and I had no idea. I've never had them available on any car I've rented over the years.

Michaell · November 27

oldfarmer50 said:

Michaell said:
I need some help from the WA contingent

My sister and BIL are flying to Seattle next week and driving to someplace called Leavenworth - 2.5 hours away.

They have an SUV reserved; any chance this will NOT be AWD? I’m thinking not, but wanted to ask. Remember, they both are CA natives with little experience driving in winter weather.
Why not call the rental agency and ask them? We rent a lot of FWD cars and SUVs even up here in the snow belt. I believe if you call ahead they can try to accommodate you.

I'll have them do that - thanks for the tip!

28firefighter · November 27

@Michaell said:
Thanks for the info.

Would chains be provided? My sister asked that question last night, and I had no idea. I've never had them available on any car I've rented over the years.

I’m actually not sure about that but worth asking. Again, it’s so early in the season I truly doubt you’d need them.

imidazol97 · November 27

Wishing a joyous Thanksgiving to everyone.

jmonroe1 · November 27

@imidazol97 said:
Wishing a joyous Thanksgiving to everyone.

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Same to you and the rest of yinz.

jmonroe

jmonroe1 · November 27

@driver100 said:
It's time for you to get a new Genesis. I hear that these days they come and pick up your car, and leave you with a loaner while they work on your car!

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Way too low of miles to get rid of it, less than 14K miles. Doing that would never let me know how good their soup is. Further, I don’t want to spoil myself by having someone come and getting my car. And another thing, I can’t get a V8 again, I wouldn’t know how to act if I got 20 MPG or more.

jmonroe

explorerx4 · November 27

Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating it and Happy Thrusday to the rest.

driver100 · November 27

explorerx4 said:
Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating it and Happy Thrusday to the rest.

I celebrate 2 Thanksgivings, the one in Canada that was on October 13th, and the one today when I am in Florida. I am walking over to my neighbors (I spelled it neighbours the first time) to celebrate!

driver100 · November 27

jmonroe1 said:

@driver100 said:

It's time for you to get a new Genesis. I hear that these days they come and pick up your car, and leave you with a loaner while they work on your car!

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Way too low of miles to get rid of it, less than 14K miles. Doing that would never let me know how good their soup is. Further, I don’t want to spoil myself by having someone come and getting my car. And another thing, I can’t get a V8 again, I wouldn’t know how to act if I got 20 MPG or more.

jmonroe

Your car is 10 years old and you have 14000 miles on it, that's like 1400 miles a year, 125 miles a month 30 miles a week,........have you ever heard of Uber!

xwesx · November 27

28firefighter said:
There is always a chance, but my guess is it’ll be AWD. Realistically? I’ve gone across the pass with a front wheel drive car on decent all seasons and it’s fine as long as you follow the warnings and chain up if required.

It started snowing on the passes this week so they should ask about whether they have chains available, though I doubt they’d actually need them.

Beautiful time of year out that way! There is an amazing spa lodge out there called Posthotel that is so cool this time of year.

Yes, and extra points if they take Highway 2 over the mountains to Leavenworth rather than the more common I90 route. It is certainly the more scenic option if they are fortunate enough to make the drive during daylight hours!

Leavenworth looks like a neat place. I've only driven through a couple of times, but it has a Bavarian theme to the whole town (or, at least, the whole downtown area), and it is particularly beautiful at night during this time of year.

xwesx · November 27

Michaell said:

Thanks for the info.

Would chains be provided? My sister asked that question last night, and I had no idea. I've never had them available on any car I've rented over the years.

I think I can safely estimate that the chances of that are exactly ZERO. The best she might get is a window scraper / snowbrush combination. The good news is that WA DOT does a great job of maintaining those roads, so there is little chance of drama unless some yahoo caused a small pileup, because WA is super-trigger-happy about closing the roads for that sort of thing. My first time on 2 (that I can recall) was due to that very scenario on I90... after spending about an hour stranded on the road before finally being able to make my way to an exit, back-track to 97, and then work my way around.

Michaell · November 27

xwesx said:

28firefighter said:
There is always a chance, but my guess is it’ll be AWD. Realistically? I’ve gone across the pass with a front wheel drive car on decent all seasons and it’s fine as long as you follow the warnings and chain up if required.

It started snowing on the passes this week so they should ask about whether they have chains available, though I doubt they’d actually need them.

Beautiful time of year out that way! There is an amazing spa lodge out there called Posthotel that is so cool this time of year.

Yes, and extra points if they take Highway 2 over the mountains to Leavenworth rather than the more common I90 route. It is certainly the more scenic option if they are fortunate enough to make the drive during daylight hours!

Leavenworth looks like a neat place. I've only driven through a couple of times, but it has a Bavarian theme to the whole town (or, at least, the whole downtown area), and it is particularly beautiful at night during this time of year.

It is my understanding that my nephew's girlfriends family visit Leavenworth each December specifically to see the decorations. This trip will be special because a certain question is going to be asked, which is why my sister and BIL are going.

oldfarmer50 · November 28

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

@driver100 said:

It's time for you to get a new Genesis. I hear that these days they come and pick up your car, and leave you with a loaner while they work on your car!

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Way too low of miles to get rid of it, less than 14K miles. Doing that would never let me know how good their soup is. Further, I don’t want to spoil myself by having someone come and getting my car. And another thing, I can’t get a V8 again, I wouldn’t know how to act if I got 20 MPG or more.

jmonroe

Your car is 10 years old and you have 14000 miles on it, that's like 1400 miles a year, 125 miles a month 30 miles a week,........have you ever heard of Uber!

I only have 19k on my Mustang. Same year as Jmonroe’s Genny.

stickguy · November 28

That makes us look like road warriors. 29k in 5 3/4 years and 11k in 2.5

fintail · November 28

Michaell said:

oldfarmer50 said:

Michaell said:
I need some help from the WA contingent

My sister and BIL are flying to Seattle next week and driving to someplace called Leavenworth - 2.5 hours away.

They have an SUV reserved; any chance this will NOT be AWD? I’m thinking not, but wanted to ask. Remember, they both are CA natives with little experience driving in winter weather.
Why not call the rental agency and ask them? We rent a lot of FWD cars and SUVs even up here in the snow belt. I believe if you call ahead they can try to accommodate you.
I'll have them do that - thanks for the tip!

There's an apparently little known recent regulation that requires the carrying of chains for WA pass travel in winter. Not sure if it has ever been enforced, however.

By the weather models we appear to be heading into yet another warm spell, maybe presaging another disappointing winter (in terms of cold and snow - last year we got about half of normal), if they are doing this in the next week or two there's a good chance the drive won't be bad.

Michaell · November 28

I think they are flying up the middle of next week.

driver100 · November 28

oldfarmer50 said:

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

@driver100 said:

It's time for you to get a new Genesis. I hear that these days they come and pick up your car, and leave you with a loaner while they work on your car!

——————————————————-

Way too low of miles to get rid of it, less than 14K miles. Doing that would never let me know how good their soup is. Further, I don’t want to spoil myself by having someone come and getting my car. And another thing, I can’t get a V8 again, I wouldn’t know how to act if I got 20 MPG or more.

jmonroe

Your car is 10 years old and you have 14000 miles on it, that's like 1400 miles a year, 125 miles a month 30 miles a week,........have you ever heard of Uber!

I only have 19k on my Mustang. Same year as Jmonroe’s Genny.

What I have learned is that your car won't be worth much more than one with 80000 miles on it.
My 2014 C250 is worth about $6800 if I sell it to one of those "We Buy Cars" sites and it has 48000 miles on it...it looks and drives like a new car. I am pretty sure I can get $11000 for it privately.
If I sold it to "We Buy Cars" I'd get $6800, and then I'd have to spend $16000 to $20000 to get a car that would be as good as the C250.

corvette · November 28

driver100 said:
If I sold it to "We Buy Cars" I'd get $6800, and then I'd have to spend $16000 to $20000 to get a car that would be as good as the C250.

That sounds like an expensive way to get a backup camera.

benjaminh · 3:38AM

A video a couple of days ago by the car care nut had an interesting discussion about when to let go of a car. In contrast to a few of his videos suggesting things like how to keep your Toyota until 300k, this one was about figuring out when switch to a new car in a sensible way even if your current car has been good to you.

His main advice was to try to come up with a plan for how long you're going to keep your car, or even just to realize that when you get a diagnosis for thousands in repairs that maybe you're getting a message that it's time to move on. This was advice pitched not to chronic car buyers like most of us, but for people who might try to hang on to their cars past the point when it made sense.

My 2018 Acura TLX is now at seven and a half years and 93k. Even going beyond the maintenance minder and having all services done at the dealer total costs there are at $2700, compared to the estimate from Edmunds that even the first five years of owning a TLX will have an average maintenance cost of around $6k.

But now I'm approaching all of the things for the 100k or so service, although for some of those I'm going to wait till the maintenance minder actually tells me something should be done. Although I've had all services done by the only Acura dealer in town, for things like the $525 valve adjustment I might get a quote from a local Honda dealer, one of which has 15% off labor costs for cars over 100k...Valve adjustment as far as I can tell is all labor and no parts.

Things cost less in Louisville than many places, but even here a $50 oil change at this point seems low, although I realize its their loss leader to get you in.

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