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Parting is such sweet sorrow...
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:33:57 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote: On 11/17/15 12:57 PM, wrote: What did it cost? $350 to bumfuch, tennessee, for the truck driver, plus $129 for the booking agent. About 600 miles. The one way airfare was about $250. There's some sort of bidding process for the drivers, which the agent handles. Very friendly people, Florida based. I'll email you the contact info if you want. I may be interested in a guy to move a pontoon boat from Dayton to Ft Myers |
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:45:33 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 1:04 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:48:08 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 12:43 PM, True North wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:51:11 UTC-4, Keyser Söze wrote: http://tinyurl.com/oe58qgs On the way to his new owner... Looks in good shape. I believe the 4Runner was based on the Tacoma..or what came before it, maybe a T100?? I thought about one for a minute or two but felt the smoother riding Highlander would suit me and the boss a bit better. Believe the Highlander was based originally on the Camray. Yeah, I believe the 4Runner is built on the Tacoma chassis. Separate frame and body, not monocoupe. It really was a great vehicle, with absolutely no problems and only the usual maintenance items - tires, wiper blades, a battery, brakes...that's about it. Toyota does it right, most of the time. We have had pretty good luck with Hondas but we also seem to do well with Fords.. We paid $3500 for old "brownie", drove it for 10 years and sold it for almost $5000 (Thanks Barack) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Brownie.jpg I also had 2 E-150 Econolines that treated me well and the 2000 Sport Trak we have now is still doing well. My 97 Prelude is still getting the job done with embarrassingly little maintenance. I do like the Japanese approach to ordinary cars. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, et cetera, seem to do a nice job. My sister in law has an Audi, and when it needs a repair, the labor and parts charges seem outrageous, and the damned thing really eats tires. One of the guys down the street has a "5" series BMW, and, to me, it seems entirely too clever and over-engineered. My sports car is that way, too, but the mileage is low, it lives in the garage, and only goes out on nice days. :) BMW is ridiculous. A battery is something like $500. Everything is simply unnecessary complication to a fairly simple task. The Japanese aren't quite as bad but they have some ridiculous maintenance requirements too. You pretty much have to remove the engine to replace a cam belt on my Prelude. (take loose the mounts, lift and tip over about 15-20 degrees along with whatever else you need to disconnect to do that.) I don't pay people to work on my stuff very often but I gave this one to the dealer, a $1000 belt. Our local mechanic just said no. No wonder they lost the war ;-) That is about all I have done to the Honda tho other than a few oil changes and a clutch master cylinder. I did replace the front speakers the other day but that was just for better tunes. Bad design when the cam belt needs to be changed before a tuneup is needed. |
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:46:59 -0800, Califbill billnews wrote:
The Japanese aren't quite as bad but they have some ridiculous maintenance requirements too. You pretty much have to remove the engine to replace a cam belt on my Prelude. (take loose the mounts, lift and tip over about 15-20 degrees along with whatever else you need to disconnect to do that.) I don't pay people to work on my stuff very often but I gave this one to the dealer, a $1000 belt. Our local mechanic just said no. No wonder they lost the war ;-) Bad design when the cam belt needs to be changed before a tuneup is needed. The problem is they made a Civic into a sports car and set the engine back a several inches to lower the hood profile a bit so the crankshaft ended up lined right up with the strut instead of in the wheel well like most other cars. Usually you take off the tire, remove a few screws to get the wheel well out and it is right there. This was a 2 hour job on our old Accord. |
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
On 11/17/15 3:41 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:33:57 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 12:57 PM, wrote: What did it cost? $350 to bumfuch, tennessee, for the truck driver, plus $129 for the booking agent. About 600 miles. The one way airfare was about $250. There's some sort of bidding process for the drivers, which the agent handles. Very friendly people, Florida based. I'll email you the contact info if you want. I may be interested in a guy to move a pontoon boat from Dayton to Ft Myers Well, I suspect the right trailer might be an issue, and, of course, the likelihood your boat will be the only freight. The guy who picked up my 4Runner had at least two more cars to pick up on his way south. |
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
On 11/17/2015 3:39 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:45:33 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 1:04 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:48:08 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 12:43 PM, True North wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:51:11 UTC-4, Keyser Söze wrote: http://tinyurl.com/oe58qgs On the way to his new owner... Looks in good shape. I believe the 4Runner was based on the Tacoma..or what came before it, maybe a T100?? I thought about one for a minute or two but felt the smoother riding Highlander would suit me and the boss a bit better. Believe the Highlander was based originally on the Camray. Yeah, I believe the 4Runner is built on the Tacoma chassis. Separate frame and body, not monocoupe. It really was a great vehicle, with absolutely no problems and only the usual maintenance items - tires, wiper blades, a battery, brakes...that's about it. Toyota does it right, most of the time. We have had pretty good luck with Hondas but we also seem to do well with Fords.. We paid $3500 for old "brownie", drove it for 10 years and sold it for almost $5000 (Thanks Barack) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Brownie.jpg I also had 2 E-150 Econolines that treated me well and the 2000 Sport Trak we have now is still doing well. My 97 Prelude is still getting the job done with embarrassingly little maintenance. I do like the Japanese approach to ordinary cars. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, et cetera, seem to do a nice job. My sister in law has an Audi, and when it needs a repair, the labor and parts charges seem outrageous, and the damned thing really eats tires. One of the guys down the street has a "5" series BMW, and, to me, it seems entirely too clever and over-engineered. My sports car is that way, too, but the mileage is low, it lives in the garage, and only goes out on nice days. :) BMW is ridiculous. A battery is something like $500. Everything is simply unnecessary complication to a fairly simple task. BMW makes some superb cars but their complexity, rigid maintenance needs and constant revisions to the computer system is what drove me away from them. Between my wife and I, we had 7 different BMW's over the years including two M5's (the first of which BMW took back due to too many problems), a Z4 (wife's), a 740, a 750, a 335ci (wife's) and an X5. Got tired of all the "special" maintenance requirements, even though they were covered with the purchase. The M5's were the worst. Constant problems with the software which controlled just about everything. I left the 750 in our garage in Florida for one summer that we were not there. Put a BMW battery minder (trickle charger) on it. Came back the next fall and it was dead. I then discovered it had *two* batteries. A BMW dealership came and put it on a flatbed to be serviced and have new batteries installed. Batteries were not covered by warranty. $900. Went back to simple Ford products. They do the job, maybe not in as an exciting fashion but don't require much more than regular oil changes. |
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:41:43 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 11/17/2015 3:39 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:45:33 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 1:04 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:48:08 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 12:43 PM, True North wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:51:11 UTC-4, Keyser Söze wrote: http://tinyurl.com/oe58qgs On the way to his new owner... Looks in good shape. I believe the 4Runner was based on the Tacoma..or what came before it, maybe a T100?? I thought about one for a minute or two but felt the smoother riding Highlander would suit me and the boss a bit better. Believe the Highlander was based originally on the Camray. Yeah, I believe the 4Runner is built on the Tacoma chassis. Separate frame and body, not monocoupe. It really was a great vehicle, with absolutely no problems and only the usual maintenance items - tires, wiper blades, a battery, brakes...that's about it. Toyota does it right, most of the time. We have had pretty good luck with Hondas but we also seem to do well with Fords.. We paid $3500 for old "brownie", drove it for 10 years and sold it for almost $5000 (Thanks Barack) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Brownie.jpg I also had 2 E-150 Econolines that treated me well and the 2000 Sport Trak we have now is still doing well. My 97 Prelude is still getting the job done with embarrassingly little maintenance. I do like the Japanese approach to ordinary cars. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, et cetera, seem to do a nice job. My sister in law has an Audi, and when it needs a repair, the labor and parts charges seem outrageous, and the damned thing really eats tires. One of the guys down the street has a "5" series BMW, and, to me, it seems entirely too clever and over-engineered. My sports car is that way, too, but the mileage is low, it lives in the garage, and only goes out on nice days. :) BMW is ridiculous. A battery is something like $500. Everything is simply unnecessary complication to a fairly simple task. BMW makes some superb cars but their complexity, rigid maintenance needs and constant revisions to the computer system is what drove me away from them. Between my wife and I, we had 7 different BMW's over the years including two M5's (the first of which BMW took back due to too many problems), a Z4 (wife's), a 740, a 750, a 335ci (wife's) and an X5. Got tired of all the "special" maintenance requirements, even though they were covered with the purchase. The M5's were the worst. Constant problems with the software which controlled just about everything. I left the 750 in our garage in Florida for one summer that we were not there. Put a BMW battery minder (trickle charger) on it. Came back the next fall and it was dead. I then discovered it had *two* batteries. A BMW dealership came and put it on a flatbed to be serviced and have new batteries installed. Batteries were not covered by warranty. $900. Went back to simple Ford products. They do the job, maybe not in as an exciting fashion but don't require much more than regular oil changes. My next car will be an Audi A5. I love 'em. -- Ban idiots, not guns! |
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:41:46 PM UTC-5, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/17/2015 3:39 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:45:33 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 1:04 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:48:08 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 12:43 PM, True North wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:51:11 UTC-4, Keyser Söze wrote: http://tinyurl.com/oe58qgs On the way to his new owner... Looks in good shape. I believe the 4Runner was based on the Tacoma...or what came before it, maybe a T100?? I thought about one for a minute or two but felt the smoother riding Highlander would suit me and the boss a bit better. Believe the Highlander was based originally on the Camray. Yeah, I believe the 4Runner is built on the Tacoma chassis. Separate frame and body, not monocoupe. It really was a great vehicle, with absolutely no problems and only the usual maintenance items - tires, wiper blades, a battery, brakes...that's about it. Toyota does it right, most of the time. We have had pretty good luck with Hondas but we also seem to do well with Fords.. We paid $3500 for old "brownie", drove it for 10 years and sold it for almost $5000 (Thanks Barack) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Brownie.jpg I also had 2 E-150 Econolines that treated me well and the 2000 Sport Trak we have now is still doing well. My 97 Prelude is still getting the job done with embarrassingly little maintenance. I do like the Japanese approach to ordinary cars. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, et cetera, seem to do a nice job. My sister in law has an Audi, and when it needs a repair, the labor and parts charges seem outrageous, and the damned thing really eats tires. One of the guys down the street has a "5" series BMW, and, to me, it seems entirely too clever and over-engineered. My sports car is that way, too, but the mileage is low, it lives in the garage, and only goes out on nice days. :) BMW is ridiculous. A battery is something like $500. Everything is simply unnecessary complication to a fairly simple task. BMW makes some superb cars but their complexity, rigid maintenance needs and constant revisions to the computer system is what drove me away from them. Between my wife and I, we had 7 different BMW's over the years including two M5's (the first of which BMW took back due to too many problems), a Z4 (wife's), a 740, a 750, a 335ci (wife's) and an X5. Got tired of all the "special" maintenance requirements, even though they were covered with the purchase. The M5's were the worst. Constant problems with the software which controlled just about everything. I left the 750 in our garage in Florida for one summer that we were not there. Put a BMW battery minder (trickle charger) on it. Came back the next fall and it was dead. I then discovered it had *two* batteries. A BMW dealership came and put it on a flatbed to be serviced and have new batteries installed. Batteries were not covered by warranty. $900. Went back to simple Ford products. They do the job, maybe not in as an exciting fashion but don't require much more than regular oil changes. Yeouch! They saw you coming. Nothing special about the batteries, you can pick up a "gold" top of the line battery for $150. Ten minute job to change it. My old Audi burned out a headlight, and the stealership wanted $250 to put a new bulb in. I bought the bulb off Amazon for about $50 and did it myself in about 45 minutes. Had to remove the air filter box and air pipe to the intake to get to the back of the headlamp, but it was no big deal.. My new Audi requires an oil change every 10,000. I bought the first four services when I bought the car at a reduced price. There's no other special service required for it. I do realize that they are, like BMW's, more expensive to repair out of warranty than many other vehicles. When the 5yr, 100,000 mile CPO warranty runs out, it'll be someone else's problem. Otherwise, it just like any other car... wears brakes, tires, and other "consumables" just like anything else. It's just really nice while its doing it. :) |
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:57:29 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:41:43 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 11/17/2015 3:39 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:45:33 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 1:04 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:48:08 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 12:43 PM, True North wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:51:11 UTC-4, Keyser Söze wrote: http://tinyurl.com/oe58qgs On the way to his new owner... Looks in good shape. I believe the 4Runner was based on the Tacoma...or what came before it, maybe a T100?? I thought about one for a minute or two but felt the smoother riding Highlander would suit me and the boss a bit better. Believe the Highlander was based originally on the Camray. Yeah, I believe the 4Runner is built on the Tacoma chassis. Separate frame and body, not monocoupe. It really was a great vehicle, with absolutely no problems and only the usual maintenance items - tires, wiper blades, a battery, brakes...that's about it. Toyota does it right, most of the time. We have had pretty good luck with Hondas but we also seem to do well with Fords.. We paid $3500 for old "brownie", drove it for 10 years and sold it for almost $5000 (Thanks Barack) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Brownie.jpg I also had 2 E-150 Econolines that treated me well and the 2000 Sport Trak we have now is still doing well. My 97 Prelude is still getting the job done with embarrassingly little maintenance. I do like the Japanese approach to ordinary cars. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, et cetera, seem to do a nice job. My sister in law has an Audi, and when it needs a repair, the labor and parts charges seem outrageous, and the damned thing really eats tires. One of the guys down the street has a "5" series BMW, and, to me, it seems entirely too clever and over-engineered. My sports car is that way, too, but the mileage is low, it lives in the garage, and only goes out on nice days. :) BMW is ridiculous. A battery is something like $500. Everything is simply unnecessary complication to a fairly simple task. BMW makes some superb cars but their complexity, rigid maintenance needs and constant revisions to the computer system is what drove me away from them. Between my wife and I, we had 7 different BMW's over the years including two M5's (the first of which BMW took back due to too many problems), a Z4 (wife's), a 740, a 750, a 335ci (wife's) and an X5. Got tired of all the "special" maintenance requirements, even though they were covered with the purchase. The M5's were the worst. Constant problems with the software which controlled just about everything. I left the 750 in our garage in Florida for one summer that we were not there. Put a BMW battery minder (trickle charger) on it. Came back the next fall and it was dead. I then discovered it had *two* batteries. A BMW dealership came and put it on a flatbed to be serviced and have new batteries installed. Batteries were not covered by warranty. $900. Went back to simple Ford products. They do the job, maybe not in as an exciting fashion but don't require much more than regular oil changes. My next car will be an Audi A5. I love 'em. The A5 is a two door A4, too small for me. I want the A7, it's a fastback version of the A6. An S7 would be even better, but they think too much of them. |
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
On 11/17/2015 5:03 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:41:46 PM UTC-5, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 11/17/2015 3:39 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:45:33 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 1:04 PM, wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:48:08 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 11/17/15 12:43 PM, True North wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 12:51:11 UTC-4, Keyser Söze wrote: http://tinyurl.com/oe58qgs On the way to his new owner... Looks in good shape. I believe the 4Runner was based on the Tacoma..or what came before it, maybe a T100?? I thought about one for a minute or two but felt the smoother riding Highlander would suit me and the boss a bit better. Believe the Highlander was based originally on the Camray. Yeah, I believe the 4Runner is built on the Tacoma chassis. Separate frame and body, not monocoupe. It really was a great vehicle, with absolutely no problems and only the usual maintenance items - tires, wiper blades, a battery, brakes...that's about it. Toyota does it right, most of the time. We have had pretty good luck with Hondas but we also seem to do well with Fords.. We paid $3500 for old "brownie", drove it for 10 years and sold it for almost $5000 (Thanks Barack) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Brownie.jpg I also had 2 E-150 Econolines that treated me well and the 2000 Sport Trak we have now is still doing well. My 97 Prelude is still getting the job done with embarrassingly little maintenance. I do like the Japanese approach to ordinary cars. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, et cetera, seem to do a nice job. My sister in law has an Audi, and when it needs a repair, the labor and parts charges seem outrageous, and the damned thing really eats tires. One of the guys down the street has a "5" series BMW, and, to me, it seems entirely too clever and over-engineered. My sports car is that way, too, but the mileage is low, it lives in the garage, and only goes out on nice days. :) BMW is ridiculous. A battery is something like $500. Everything is simply unnecessary complication to a fairly simple task. BMW makes some superb cars but their complexity, rigid maintenance needs and constant revisions to the computer system is what drove me away from them. Between my wife and I, we had 7 different BMW's over the years including two M5's (the first of which BMW took back due to too many problems), a Z4 (wife's), a 740, a 750, a 335ci (wife's) and an X5. Got tired of all the "special" maintenance requirements, even though they were covered with the purchase. The M5's were the worst. Constant problems with the software which controlled just about everything. I left the 750 in our garage in Florida for one summer that we were not there. Put a BMW battery minder (trickle charger) on it. Came back the next fall and it was dead. I then discovered it had *two* batteries. A BMW dealership came and put it on a flatbed to be serviced and have new batteries installed. Batteries were not covered by warranty. $900. Went back to simple Ford products. They do the job, maybe not in as an exciting fashion but don't require much more than regular oil changes. Yeouch! They saw you coming. Nothing special about the batteries, you can pick up a "gold" top of the line battery for $150. Ten minute job to change it. My old Audi burned out a headlight, and the stealership wanted $250 to put a new bulb in. I bought the bulb off Amazon for about $50 and did it myself in about 45 minutes. Had to remove the air filter box and air pipe to the intake to get to the back of the headlamp, but it was no big deal. My new Audi requires an oil change every 10,000. I bought the first four services when I bought the car at a reduced price. There's no other special service required for it. I do realize that they are, like BMW's, more expensive to repair out of warranty than many other vehicles. When the 5yr, 100,000 mile CPO warranty runs out, it'll be someone else's problem. Otherwise, it just like any other car... wears brakes, tires, and other "consumables" just like anything else. It's just really nice while its doing it. :) No question they are nice cars. I enjoyed driving them but too many issues ... especially with the M5's. I bought it (them) to drive and enjoy, not to be constantly going back to the dealership with computer problems (red cog of death symbol on dash) and notices for software updates. The Porsche that I eventually got to replace the last M5 was a different beast altogether. No fancy computer controls. Just 450 hp coupled to all wheel drive through a six speed manual transmission. Car was awesome, trouble free and could run circles around an M5. Well, not really but it was definitely faster, handled better and got about 22 mpg on average. |
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