Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

wrote:
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 5:23:04 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:03:57 -0800 (PST), wrote:

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.

I am still not sure what was wrong with the old sealed beam. You could
get them with very capable lamps in them just about the time they fell
out of fashion and anyone could swap one out for $5 in a couple
minutes.
I broke a headlight on my Honda and the replacement was over $100 used
and I got a deal. It was a pain to replace too.

The adaptive HID headlights on the newer, upscale cars are far superior
to old sealed beams. The replacements you are talking about, I believe,
are the housings. The actual bulb is inside and is small compared to an
old sealed beam. The housings are expensive, but the bulb inside is small
and relatively cheap. The nice sealed beams are a lot more than $5! The
good halogen replacements are more like $15-$30. The incandescent bulbs
are still $5-$10, but are weak and yellow.


But the older lights are not blinding to oncoming drivers.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 12:41:35 AM UTC-5, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 5:23:04 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:03:57 -0800 (PST), wrote:

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.

I am still not sure what was wrong with the old sealed beam. You could
get them with very capable lamps in them just about the time they fell
out of fashion and anyone could swap one out for $5 in a couple
minutes.
I broke a headlight on my Honda and the replacement was over $100 used
and I got a deal. It was a pain to replace too.

The adaptive HID headlights on the newer, upscale cars are far superior
to old sealed beams. The replacements you are talking about, I believe,
are the housings. The actual bulb is inside and is small compared to an
old sealed beam. The housings are expensive, but the bulb inside is small
and relatively cheap. The nice sealed beams are a lot more than $5! The
good halogen replacements are more like $15-$30. The incandescent bulbs
are still $5-$10, but are weak and yellow.


But the older lights are not blinding to oncoming drivers.

The ones that are blinding are the ones that people have messed with, changing out the bulbs for different, brighter ones or a different temperature. Stock, at least on my car, they have a very noticeable cutoff so they shine down and out, but not up into oncoming traffic on low beam. On the garage wall there's a horizontal line about hood level above which there's no light output.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

Keyser Söze
True North wrote:
Buy any guns lately, Ditzy Dan?


"Ditzy has a new handle?"


Don't know who he thinks he's hiding from. I can smell his stench way up here.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

On 11/18/2015 8:55 AM, True North wrote:
Keyser Söze
True North wrote:
Buy any guns lately, Ditzy Dan?


"Ditzy has a new handle?"


Don't know who he thinks he's hiding from. I can smell his stench way up here.


Are you sure it isn't the fragrence eminating from Halifax Harbour. I
hear it's pretty nasty.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

On 11/18/15 8:55 AM, True North wrote:
Keyser Söze
True North wrote:
Buy any guns lately, Ditzy Dan?


"Ditzy has a new handle?"


Don't know who he thinks he's hiding from. I can smell his stench way up here.


Oh. Well, I dumpstered "Jerry Sucks" after his second post here.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 12:43:55 PM UTC-5, 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.

It's Camry, you ****ing stupid idiot.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 8:55:22 AM UTC-5, True North wrote:

Don't know who he thinks he's hiding from. I can smell his stench way up here.

That's your own sweaty ass from sitting on it all day while your Wife works,
****face.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

Keyser Söze
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On 11/18/15 8:55 AM, True North wrote:
Keyser Söze
True North wrote:
Buy any guns lately, Ditzy Dan?


"Ditzy has a new handle?"


Don't know who he thinks he's hiding from. I can smell his stench way up here.


"Oh. Well, I dumpstered "Jerry Sucks" after his second post here."



Good move.....he's just another little turd swirling around in The John's bowl.
I'm gonna get me an industrial sized plunger to unclog that bowl and flush it for good.

Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

On 11/18/2015 12:24 PM, True North wrote:
Keyser Söze
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On 11/18/15 8:55 AM, True North wrote:
Keyser Söze
True North wrote:
Buy any guns lately, Ditzy Dan?


"Ditzy has a new handle?"


Don't know who he thinks he's hiding from. I can smell his stench way up here.


"Oh. Well, I dumpstered "Jerry Sucks" after his second post here."



Good move.....he's just another little turd swirling around in The John's bowl.
I'm gonna get me an industrial sized plunger to unclog that bowl and flush it for good.


Didn't you commandeer one from work before you were put out to pasture?

Parting is such sweet sorrow...
 

On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:06:20 -0800 (PST), wrote:

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.

Yup, forgot about the dogs. Probably have to be the A6.
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