Make sure it's not something you'll get hated on for because of some opinion wave. Wouldn't want to buy the automotive equivalent of Snyder's 4:3 aspect ratio.
I can't help the future, I pity the people who bought Chinese.
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car's headliner has taken a shit. for 197k miles and 14 years I can't care much past the stick a bunch of pins in the roof mode right now
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Why haven't you bought a new car yet? Now is probably not a good time due to inflation but come on. You are a car man. Get a new car, man.
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How many birds have smashed into the thing? The car has seen enough death in your hands.
At least 5. All since driving through the country to work.
It's first victim was a cat. Unintentional and unavoidable.
It's first victim was a cat. Unintentional and unavoidable.
Do you drive around roadkill or try and waffle stomp it into the pavement with your tires?
drive over it if its not too big. otherwise around. i dont want a bone in my tire
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I don't believe bones are strong enough to pierce tires. At least not a bone from a small animal.
I wouldn't think so either, but why risk it if you catch a fragment at just the right angle.
I've had about 11 cars this week completely ignore the middle line. The guy behind me today was driving completely in the other lane. Some other guy ran a stop sign to turn right in front of meand I had to brake hard down to 40. No idea why it's so bad now.
Went to the grocery store and hit a rock on the way out. Didn't really notice until the dash started beeping at me. Got another 2 blocks before I realized this wasn't normal 1999-era car beepage, but PAY ATTENTION NOW beepage.
The oil was no longer happy inside my car and was happier coming out through the enormous crack that now existed.
The car is currently sitting in some residential area a neighborhood over. Need to head to the pick-n-pull to find an oil pan and if they don't have one, I'll have to have it towed to a friends house and order a replacement online.
Fun times. :eyeroll:
The oil was no longer happy inside my car and was happier coming out through the enormous crack that now existed.
The car is currently sitting in some residential area a neighborhood over. Need to head to the pick-n-pull to find an oil pan and if they don't have one, I'll have to have it towed to a friends house and order a replacement online.
Fun times. :eyeroll:
Subaru is now 20 years old.Dilbert_X wrote:
Anyway
My Subaru is coming up to 17, engine is getting a bit tired, thats the age I ditched my last two cars - one everything was shot, the second pretty much shot and I was emigrating.
I'd buy the same vehicle again, except its a smidgen small now and a four speed gearbox isn't enough.
My thinking is:
Might as well stick with Subaru, the dealership is nearby, in my opinion they have class leading ergonomics and dynamics, can't really be bothered looking much further. If I had to I'd start with Toyota.
A WRX would be nice, but they're a bit expensive use too much petrol, desirable to be stolen, impractical for daily driving and long distances.
An Outback would be nice too, but they're the 'premium' model so price is premium and so is servicing for no reason except they can. A Liberty is practically the same vehicle at 3/4 of the price.
An XV would make sense but the drivers field of view is stupidly flawed and its a stupid premium over the Impreza hatch for 50mm of extra height and ground clearance.
A Liberty would be OK, its one of the few sedans I don't mind, and compared with the Outback its good value. But if I'm buying a sedan why wouldn't I buy a Camry hybrid? Camry isn't AWD I guess.
Forester is too big and bulky and a bit tall but maybe I'd get used to it, why wouldn't I buy a Rav4 hybrid?
Impreza sedan and hatch - don't like the hatch, flawed field of view, sedan is not bad but won't take a tow-bar which is stupid so I can't tow a trailer so I'd need a hatch.
I'm leaning to the Liberty or maybe a used Outback if I had to buy something tomorrow, maybe my Forester will soldier on a few more years and it'll all be different then.
Decarboning the engine (Subaru spray) helps a lot. Maybe I'll try the oxygen engine clean thing.
Paint on the roof and is fading and oxidising, maybe I'll get it done, or do it myself.
It could probably use a new set of shocks and probably some bushings, its getting a bit bumpy and rattly.
20 years on the OEM exhaust and brake discs isn't bad.
Electric cars should have been more affordable by now but they really aren't.
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what other big expenses do you have? honest question.
pretty laudable to keep and maintain a single vehicle for 20 years, but i would have thought you would have been an early adopter of e-vehicles tbh. surely you get paid enough?
pretty laudable to keep and maintain a single vehicle for 20 years, but i would have thought you would have been an early adopter of e-vehicles tbh. surely you get paid enough?
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I don't really have a lot of expenses, I put away more than 99% of the people in the world earn gross, probably.
I could buy an e-vehicle, they just don't make financial sense, I'd rather have the money invested.
Even environmentally I do too few km to justify the sunk carbon cost of the vehicle.
At this point hybrids are worth it so if pushed I might get one.
There will be a game-changing battery technology, its just not here yet.
I could get one for smugness, easy to recharge during the day when the real cost of electricity is zero or negative (not to the consumer though).
I could buy an e-vehicle, they just don't make financial sense, I'd rather have the money invested.
Even environmentally I do too few km to justify the sunk carbon cost of the vehicle.
At this point hybrids are worth it so if pushed I might get one.
There will be a game-changing battery technology, its just not here yet.
I could get one for smugness, easy to recharge during the day when the real cost of electricity is zero or negative (not to the consumer though).
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yeah i was under that impression. but, if it's not prying too much, forgoing an EV to invest ... for what, exactly? you've got a few decades left, max, and no children. buy the fucking porsche taycan now, my guy.Dilbert_X wrote:
I don't really have a lot of expenses, I put away more than 99% of the people in the world earn gross, probably.
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Alpha as fuck.
Nyte is definitely a tesla driver who sniffs his own farts
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Talks about his Tesla and investments in crypto over hotpot.
Nah, over a super hyped but blase 1 Michelin star restaurant meal that he can't wait to post on social media with pics and reviews of every course.
Cash in the bank is security for the future, or should be, I need to buy some gold.uziq wrote:
yeah i was under that impression. but, if it's not prying too much, forgoing an EV to invest ... for what, exactly? you've got a few decades left, max, and no children. buy the fucking porsche taycan now, my guy.
I'm sure having a Porsche Taycan would give me minimal actual pleasure and a lot of liability, plus its a depreciating 'asset'.
A$175,000 could buy me a whole lot of things which I'd like to have more and get a lot more use out of, and would be unlikely to get me carjacked or a home invasion.
I have bought nice things over the years and they've generally been a liability or a disappointment or both.
eg The one new car I bought within two weeks my father dragged a ladder across the front and my sister drove it into the house - which took the shine off the car and the whole experience.
I don't even like having a new car, the steady buildup of scratches and dings is something I don't want to care about.
Overall microtreats are more cost effective and enjoyable so I'll stick with those, plus being able to quit work if I feel like it.
Every job so far I've quit with no plan for what to do next, I can take no shit and not worry about the consequences, its liberating.
I might yet by an EV over a dino-wagon, the options seem to be Toyota/Subaru, Hyundai, Volvo. I'm not buying Chinese or Tesla, although Polestar seems to be the pick of them all.
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i hope you're using 'cash in the bank' colloquially because that's a terrible way to invest that 80% of your salary that you're doing nothing pro-social or useful with. don't you know you should be diversifying your portfolio into meme coins and NFTs? musk, milei and that dune-looking guy from el salvador are going to take us to mars! (financially speaking)
any car is basically a depreciating asset unless it's like a rare collectible, no? as for dings and scratches: annoying and value-destroying, certainly, but it makes it more 'yours'. it adds patina, shall we say. i feel the same way every time i drop my new phone for the first time or find some inexpicable ding on my latest macbook. it's irritating but you move on and it doesn't affect your enjoyment of the actual thing/its function.
your meatsack is your biggest depreciating asset at this point and i think you should get the hell down to boca raton and have a good time.
any car is basically a depreciating asset unless it's like a rare collectible, no? as for dings and scratches: annoying and value-destroying, certainly, but it makes it more 'yours'. it adds patina, shall we say. i feel the same way every time i drop my new phone for the first time or find some inexpicable ding on my latest macbook. it's irritating but you move on and it doesn't affect your enjoyment of the actual thing/its function.
your meatsack is your biggest depreciating asset at this point and i think you should get the hell down to boca raton and have a good time.
that's because all your hobbies are extremely gay. cats are boring and gun clubs are full of dweebs. i recommend you spend $75,000 on a hi-fi. they hold their value pretty well - bonus !!!I have bought nice things over the years and they've generally been a liability or a disappointment or both.
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Well whatever psychological tic it is, and I'm a perfectionist in some things, does mean that things have to be perfect for me to care about them.uziq wrote:
any car is basically a depreciating asset unless it's like a rare collectible, no? as for dings and scratches: annoying and value-destroying, certainly, but it makes it more 'yours'. it adds patina, shall we say. i feel the same way every time i drop my new phone for the first time or find some inexpicable ding on my latest macbook. it's irritating but you move on and it doesn't affect your enjoyment of the actual thing/its function.
I'm guessing Boca Raton is one of those places with lots of people.i think you should get the hell down to boca raton and have a good time.
I'm not fooled, I know this is one of those "Dilbert, why don't you come out for a few drinks, just people you know, you can leave when you like" things, and then I get stuck with some harpy who "just happened" to turn up "by accident" and I have to pretend to be a deaf Russian and drink more than I really planned for a couple of hours.
I have a pair of Bose headphones, thats literally all I need.that's because all your hobbies are extremely gay. cats are boring and gun clubs are full of dweebs. i recommend you spend $75,000 on a hi-fi. they hold their value pretty well - bonus !!!
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