Random Thoughts

[skinsmarydu]

I feel this. Carpe Diem momento.

Si.

 

[SkinsOrlando]

Looks like an exciting end the the Masters cometh

 

[Skinsfan1311]

Looks like an exciting end the the Masters cometh

Yup!!

 

[SkinsOrlando]

Wow, Rory you had it, playoff time

 

[Chris]

Painful to watch. 😬

 

[heisenberg]

Painful to watch.

Not anymore

 

[Chris]

I feel like I just played 19 holes. What a crazy ride.

 

[Mark The Homer]

Our 2011 Honda Fit this morning...

 

[skinsmarydu]

Yeah, my dad's Celica had about 500k on it when he gave it to my brother. Solid brands. I must say, tho...I survived a head-on collision in a Subaru. (The car didn't, but I did.)

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

I've got a Civic that turned 200,000 this weekend. I feel inadequate.

 

[skinsmarydu]

I've got a Civic that turned 200,000 this weekend. I feel inadequate.

I drive my dearly departed husband's 04 Canyon, sitting at close to 155k. I have mechanic friends.
I'm gonna pull a Clark Howard (financial guru) and drive it until it won't go anymore.

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

I drive my dearly departed husband's 04 Canyon, sitting at close to 155k. I have mechanic friends.
I'm gonna pull a Clark Howard (financial guru) and drive it until it won't go anymore.

I drove this car when I was an Uber driver so the miles added up quickly. I no longer do that now and buy gas like once every 2 weeks now so I think this car will last a while. .

 

[Skinsfan1311]

I've got a Civic that turned 200,000 this weekend. I feel inadequate.

Mrs. Skinsfan 2009 CR-V has 170K.....I guess that makes hers the baby here....

 

[Skinsfan1311]

I drive my dearly departed husband's 04 Canyon, sitting at close to 155k. I have mechanic friends.
I'm gonna pull a Clark Howard (financial guru) and drive it until it won't go anymore.

Damn right! Car payments suck. We drive 'em until the wheels fall off or, in the case of my old Silverado, when it falls apart.......

 

[Boone]

My Toyota Tacoma is about to hit 200,000.

I will drive it until it expires.

 

[RedWolf]

I wish I could say I took my Maserati out this weekend and I'm up to 14 miles. But that's not true 🤣🤣🤣

 

[RedWolf]

Damn right! Car payments suck. We drive 'em until the wheels fall off or, in the case of my old Silverado, when it falls apart.......

My CRV got stolen here in Miami. I was in the Dominican for 10 days. Kind of a long story. I made money off of the insurance. It had 14,000 miles on it and nine months to pay it off. Immaculate condition

Now I only use Uber and save around $1k a month

 

[SkinsOrlando]

I finally let go of my 2013 Civic SI last weekend, it was just becoming a money pit at 198k and I drive about 2000 plus miles a month for work. I got a 2022 CRV special edition with 11,500 on the odom. Next year Mrs. SO wants the new Prelude (currently has a 2011 Accord EXL with 278k on it) so long story short, who wants to help my go fund me next year to pay for that .

 

[Mark The Homer]

Honda's seem to have good longevity. Just don't get into a crash with one!

Re the 2011 Fit above, we had to replace the radiator a while back - maybe ten years ago? Then a few years later, we had electrical problems and it turned out some mouse or something chewed through some wires somewhere. Solved that, but it wasn't easy. We had to repair the A/C at one point, and it needs another repair now - when it warms up a bit.

Then a couple years ago, a front axle broke out of the blue. No warning. Interestingly, the very next day, we got a letter in the mail from Honda advising us to make an appointment at our nearest Honda dealership and get a free replacement the front axles because there is some kind of design error in them that causes them to break early with no warning! Are you kidding me??? I swear we got the letter the very next day after it broke! I am not making this up. We had already had the car towed to our house by AAA the day before. And paid for it. Honda reimbursed us. And Honda towed it from our house to the dealership.

And the last repair was the clutch just 3-4 weeks ago. Original clutch. Clutch and flywheel replaced. Other than those things, there is just a minor engine oil leak. It drips just a bit. I haven't done anything about that yet - I just keep a close eye on it. No need to add oil between changes. Synthetic oil.

We've swapped out the serpentine belt once or twice. Brake jobs periodically. Ignition wires, spark plugs, air filter. But it still drives real nice. It's tight. The suspension is good. It still feels like new.

That's it!

So therein lies the problem. You got an old car which runs great. Who's going to buy it? How much is it worth? To the public, it's worth almost nothing. A junk yard would give me something for parts. Trade in might give me $300. But to me, it's worth thousands, because it's still reliable. We just drove it up to Hartford last weekend! Easy peasy.

P.S. And yes, it's really really really nice not having car payments.

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

The only time I had a car payment was when we took out a bank loan to buy a used '88 Bronco II. That remains our favorite vehicle we've ever owned. 16 MPH was tollerable as gas was affordable in the 90's. It measured bumper to bumper the same as the Celica I was driving but it was just so handy and fantastic for trips. We would move a bunch of luggage to the front passanger seat and with pillows set up a recliner like bed backing to the driver's seat to read and nap. It sat high so the wife loved it for her daily driver.