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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/29/20 3:38 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 3/29/2020 2:30 PM, wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:11:26 -0400, John wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:26:54 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:50:30 -0400, John wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:22:36 -0400, wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:53:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/28/2020 1:12 PM, Tim wrote: John H - show quoted text - The new Ford 150 looks like a super truck. My SIL got one through the company, and he loves it. - show quoted text -“ Can’t afford to buy new but would love to have one I may change my mind when I start seriously looking. A new vehicle every 3-4 years is one unnecessary luxury I still afford myself though. I seem to be more like a 20 year cycle but I am not as rich as you ;-) I keep thinking I should get rid of my 97 Honda but I can't think of why. I am going to run it till it blows up, call AAA, have it towed, take my tags and mail them the title. Right now we have three vehicles in the driveway and only one driver. I really should get rid of something. I need a truck, my wife won't ride an anything but the Lincoln and I still like driving my Honda so I guess that is that. I keep thinking I want a car. Looking at old Mercedes diesels or something like a Honda civic or crv. The only advantage it would have would be better mileage than the truck. But then I think of the cost of the car, insurance, maintenance, taxes, and gas, and realize it would probably take me about 47 years to break even on the fuel cost savings. So, I still don't have the auto. -- === You can pick up older Mercedes diesels for fairly reasonable prices. We just sold a 2007 E320 with 130K miles on it for $3K, the Kelly bluebook price.Â* The car still looked great and ran very well most of the time.Â* It had begun to develop some annoying electronic glitches however that our mechanic couldn't get a handle on.Â* It was a v6 turbo diesel that developed 400 ft-lbs of torque and got over 30 mpg.Â* The fuel range on trips was close to 700 miles.Â* Except for the glitches it was still a great car that will probably go another 70K miles or more. That's more or less what I've been looking at. Sound like your buyer got a good deal. I wouldn't mind putting a few bucks into it. -- === Our buyer was the local CarMax since that is the quickest and cleanest way to sell that I'm aware of.Â* Since it was over 10 years old they were going to auction it off, and I doubt that they made much money on the deal.Â* I didn't want to be bothered with a private sale and possible recriminations from a disgruntled purchaser. The biggest issue with older luxury cars is maintenance.Â* The cars may be a bargain but parts and service are not. Service is the main reason I have avoided older luxury cars. Many small, private garages are limited in their ability to get parts or even work on them. Even the new BMW's and almost new Porche I had were a problem. Maintenance had to be performed by factory trained techs and the locations are more remote. It's the reason I got rid of the Mini-Cooper I had for a while. Our local mechanic didn't like working on them, so I'd have to drive to a BMW dealer north of Boston for any work to be done.Â* They were the closest BMW shop that worked on Mini-Coopers. One of the reasons why I like Toyotas is because the dealer is about five miles away, and if your car is going to be there for more than an hour or two, he'll dispatch a worker to drive you home and then pick you up when your car is ready. He also has a first class waiting area with nice couches, big screen TV, huge fireplace, and free coffee and snacks. You pay for those snacks. |
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:06:29 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 3/29/20 12:02 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 3/29/2020 11:13 AM, wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 08:04:49 -0400, wrote: I saw a doctor being asked if a CPAP machine could be modified for use as a ventilator.Â*Â* Answer was "No". Also saw another doc who is currently working in a hospital in NYC.Â* He explained the protocols and steps taken when a person is admitted with covid-19 and has difficulty breathing. They are not put on a ventilator initially.Â* They start with a oxygen face mask.Â* If the patient responds well, that's all they do. Often though, the patient will initially seem to do better but then deteriorate.Â* At that point they use another type of oxygen delivery system that is under pressure. If that fails, they go to another oxygen system that I can't remember how it differs, but somehow it's a 'high delivery" system. If that fails the patient is then put on a ventilator. The doc said the ventilator is used when all else has failed and is used as a last resort. I still haven't heard what the survival rate is when measures go that far. === I read somewhere recently that the survival rate for ICU patients on ventilators was about 50%, and virtually all of the 50% survivors had some permanent lung damage.Â* Unfortunately I don't have the original cite for that. The doc I heard said basically the same thing which was a surprise to me.Â* The ventilators that are being talked about so much are the "last ditch" effort to try to save people who are severely affected and the survival rate, as you say and as the doc said, is only about 50 percent ... maybe even less. What we need are massive, city by city rallies of Trump supporters interacting on a close, personal level, especially the ones who bought into their saviour's bull**** of how insignificant the impact of the virus would be. Party on, and then head to Florida's west coast beaches. They are already in Southern Md so you be careful now. The doctor thinks my niece had it and got over it (a few miles down the road from you) but they don't have any tests to be sure. |
#64
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:06:29 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:On 3/29/20 12:02 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 3/29/2020 11:13 AM, wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 08:04:49 -0400, wrote: I saw a doctor being asked if a CPAP machine could be modified for use as a ventilator. Answer was "No". Also saw another doc who is currently working in a hospital in NYC. He explained the protocols and steps taken when a person is admitted with covid-19 and has difficulty breathing. They are not put on a ventilator initially. They start with a oxygen face mask. If the patient responds well, that's all they do. Often though, the patient will initially seem to do better but then deteriorate. At that point they use another type of oxygen delivery system that is under pressure. If that fails, they go to another oxygen system that I can't remember how it differs, but somehow it's a 'high delivery" system. If that fails the patient is then put on a ventilator. The doc said the ventilator is used when all else has failed and is used as a last resort. I still haven't heard what the survival rate is when measures go that far. === I read somewhere recently that the survival rate for ICU patients on ventilators was about 50%, and virtually all of the 50% survivors had some permanent lung damage. Unfortunately I don't have the original cite for that. The doc I heard said basically the same thing which was a surprise to me. The ventilators that are being talked about so much are the "last ditch" effort to try to save people who are severely affected and the survival rate, as you say and as the doc said, is only about 50 percent ... maybe even less. What we need are massive, city by city rallies of Trump supporters interacting on a close, personal level, especially the ones who bought into their saviour's bull**** of how insignificant the impact of the virus would be. Party on, and then head to Florida's west coast beaches.They are already in Southern Md so you be careful now. The doctorthinks my niece had it and got over it (a few miles down the road fromyou) but they don't have any tests to be sure. I wonder if she touched the same gas pump that Fat Harry did? If so she might be a carrier. -- .. ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 3/29/20 5:00 PM, Justan Ohlphart wrote:
I wonder if she touched the same gas pump that Fat Harry did? If so she might be a carrier. You know what is really sad here? You. About three quarters of your posts, maybe more, are juvenile insults aimed at me. You really have nothing intelligent, clever, or funny to say about anything, do you? And a few of your FLEEG compadres here are in that same little boat. What a sad sack of **** you are. |
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:47:31 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/29/20 5:00 PM, Justan Ohlphart wrote: I wonder if she touched the same gas pump that Fat Harry did? If so she might be a carrier. You know what is really sad here? You. About three quarters of your posts, maybe more, are juvenile insults aimed at me. You really have nothing intelligent, clever, or funny to say about anything, do you? And a few of your FLEEG compadres here are in that same little boat. What a sad sack of **** you are. And about 95% of your posts are attacks on the conservatives here. What a horrid sack of **** you are. -- Freedom Isn't Free! |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/29/20 5:00 PM, Justan Ohlphart wrote: I wonder if she touched the same gas pump that Fat Harry did? If so she might be a carrier. You know what is really sad here? You. About three quarters of your posts, maybe more, are juvenile insults aimed at me. You really have nothing intelligent, clever, or funny to say about anything, do you? And a few of your FLEEG compadres here are in that same little boat. What a sad sack of **** you are. Sounds like you describing yourself and your posts. |
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:47:31 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 3/29/20 5:00 PM, Justan Ohlphart wrote: I wonder if she touched the same gas pump that Fat Harry did? If so she might be a carrier. You know what is really sad here? You. About three quarters of your posts, maybe more, are juvenile insults aimed at me. You really have nothing intelligent, clever, or funny to say about anything, do you? And a few of your FLEEG compadres here are in that same little boat. What a sad sack of **** you are. === 'Airry, you've been making juvenile insults aimed at almost everyone on this group for over 20 years. So what does that make you? What a sad sack of **** *you* are. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:30:08 -0400,
wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:11:26 -0400, John wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:26:54 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:50:30 -0400, John wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:22:36 -0400, wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:53:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/28/2020 1:12 PM, Tim wrote: John H - show quoted text - The new Ford 150 looks like a super truck. My SIL got one through the company, and he loves it. - show quoted text -“ Can’t afford to buy new but would love to have one I may change my mind when I start seriously looking. A new vehicle every 3-4 years is one unnecessary luxury I still afford myself though. I seem to be more like a 20 year cycle but I am not as rich as you ;-) I keep thinking I should get rid of my 97 Honda but I can't think of why. I am going to run it till it blows up, call AAA, have it towed, take my tags and mail them the title. Right now we have three vehicles in the driveway and only one driver. I really should get rid of something. I need a truck, my wife won't ride an anything but the Lincoln and I still like driving my Honda so I guess that is that. I keep thinking I want a car. Looking at old Mercedes diesels or something like a Honda civic or crv. The only advantage it would have would be better mileage than the truck. But then I think of the cost of the car, insurance, maintenance, taxes, and gas, and realize it would probably take me about 47 years to break even on the fuel cost savings. So, I still don't have the auto. -- === You can pick up older Mercedes diesels for fairly reasonable prices. We just sold a 2007 E320 with 130K miles on it for $3K, the Kelly bluebook price. The car still looked great and ran very well most of the time. It had begun to develop some annoying electronic glitches however that our mechanic couldn't get a handle on. It was a v6 turbo diesel that developed 400 ft-lbs of torque and got over 30 mpg. The fuel range on trips was close to 700 miles. Except for the glitches it was still a great car that will probably go another 70K miles or more. That's more or less what I've been looking at. Sound like your buyer got a good deal. I wouldn't mind putting a few bucks into it. -- === Our buyer was the local CarMax since that is the quickest and cleanest way to sell that I'm aware of. Since it was over 10 years old they were going to auction it off, and I doubt that they made much money on the deal. I didn't want to be bothered with a private sale and possible recriminations from a disgruntled purchaser. The biggest issue with older luxury cars is maintenance. The cars may be a bargain but parts and service are not. That is one thing about my Prelude, Turn it over and it is a Civic so parts are available and if you are OK with after market parts, cheap. I haven't really replaced much but Advance Auto seems to have it. |
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:30:08 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:11:26 -0400, John wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:26:54 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:50:30 -0400, John wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:22:36 -0400, wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:53:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/28/2020 1:12 PM, Tim wrote: John H - show quoted text - The new Ford 150 looks like a super truck. My SIL got one through the company, and he loves it. - show quoted text -“ Can’t afford to buy new but would love to have one I may change my mind when I start seriously looking. A new vehicle every 3-4 years is one unnecessary luxury I still afford myself though. I seem to be more like a 20 year cycle but I am not as rich as you ;-) I keep thinking I should get rid of my 97 Honda but I can't think of why. I am going to run it till it blows up, call AAA, have it towed, take my tags and mail them the title. Right now we have three vehicles in the driveway and only one driver. I really should get rid of something. I need a truck, my wife won't ride an anything but the Lincoln and I still like driving my Honda so I guess that is that. I keep thinking I want a car. Looking at old Mercedes diesels or something like a Honda civic or crv. The only advantage it would have would be better mileage than the truck. But then I think of the cost of the car, insurance, maintenance, taxes, and gas, and realize it would probably take me about 47 years to break even on the fuel cost savings. So, I still don't have the auto. -- === You can pick up older Mercedes diesels for fairly reasonable prices. We just sold a 2007 E320 with 130K miles on it for $3K, the Kelly bluebook price. The car still looked great and ran very well most of the time. It had begun to develop some annoying electronic glitches however that our mechanic couldn't get a handle on. It was a v6 turbo diesel that developed 400 ft-lbs of torque and got over 30 mpg. The fuel range on trips was close to 700 miles. Except for the glitches it was still a great car that will probably go another 70K miles or more. That's more or less what I've been looking at. Sound like your buyer got a good deal. I wouldn't mind putting a few bucks into it. -- === Our buyer was the local CarMax since that is the quickest and cleanest way to sell that I'm aware of. Since it was over 10 years old they were going to auction it off, and I doubt that they made much money on the deal. I didn't want to be bothered with a private sale and possible recriminations from a disgruntled purchaser. The biggest issue with older luxury cars is maintenance. The cars may be a bargain but parts and service are not. That is one thing about my Prelude, Turn it over and it is a Civic so parts are available and if you are OK with after market parts, cheap. I haven't really replaced much but Advance Auto seems to have it. The vehicles for at least 20+ years have been pretty impressive for needing repair. When you understand how much more technology is in the vehicles and really how few problems most have in the same amount of time, most 50-60’s cars were worn out. My 2004 Chevy 2500 in 150,000 miles still ran great. Seats were getting broke down, they changed the front hubs at 60,000 miles, but was probably my own fault for abusing them. Forgot and towed the boat back 150 miles at freeway speed in 4x4 mode. One hub made noise and the dealer mechanic said the other was a little out of tolerance, so replaced it also. And the CD changer went out, so replaced with an Alpine nav unit. And a fuel pressure regulator at 140,000 and power steering hose at 150,000. Oh, a water pump at maybe 110,000. Brakes at 80,000. |
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