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svelteParticipantI miss the Ranger too. Rented a 4×4 extended cab for a trip to NorCal one time and loved it! Was planning to get one eventually but they discontinued it.
svelteParticipantHa! My son just sent me a text saying that Ford stole Acura’s thunder, then I see your post. 🙂
That Bolt, though derivative of i3 and Escape, is simply gorgeous – hope it makes it to production unscathed. And the Volt – that’s what it should have looked like first time around! Great design.
Love, love, love the VW Cross Coupe GTE. Man I really hope that makes production as-is! But it won’t. Sigh.
January 10, 2015 at 10:58 AM in reply to: In escrow – Overreacting to inspection/disclosure/water issues? #781845svelteParticipantI don’t know, none of that would scare me away.
I might ask for extra time to do a mold inspection and to re-inspect repairs made, but otherwise I wouldn’t run.
You might also come up with some rough figures for what it would cost to fix it right later on if it turns out the problem(s) return because they weren’t done right the first time – to help alleviate your fear that you’ll be out a fortune.
On our current home, we had the sellers do some repairs and they completed them…technically…they were half-assed and I noticed during the walk-through but we loved the house so I just said whatever and decided to redo them myself later on. That way I know they are done to my standards…judging by the other repairs the seller had done to the house over the years I figure he thought he was doing my repairs right according to his standards. It’s just his standards aren’t very high. 🙂
svelteParticipantSentencing:
– 1 year electronic home surveillance
– 5 years probationhttp://www.10news.com/news/mother-of-the-year-to-be-sentenced-in-rape-prank
– Pleaded guilty to stalking
– Felony solicitation of rape, solicitation of sodomy, and ID theft charges dropped in returnsvelteParticipantCongrats Flu!
Now, let’s see if you can get everything back together without having extra parts when you’re done.
“Geez, I have no idea where that should have went…”
ha!
svelteParticipantYeah I read about the Merc NJ->GA move.
My first reaction was it made no sense.
My second reaction was that it must say the US HQ is just a figurehead. Real decisions are made on the other side of the ocean.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]I read very quickly but retain nothing …
My wife reads slowly but retains everything[/quote]Man, that describes our marriage to a T.
I skim but really go fast…which gets me in trouble sometimes.
My wife takes forever to read something, but once it is read she has it down.
I think that makes a good combination…
svelteParticipant[quote=Blogstar]In my dream we were arguing that “innie” or “outtie” belly buttons are not really proof of who is or isn’t a superior person.[/quote]
What? Two people dreamt about Brian?
Now I’m starting to freak.
svelteParticipant[quote=moneymaker]My dad used to heat stuck stuff up with a torch and low and behold out it came. I don’t remember wether he heated the bolts or the thing the bolt was attached to but it sure worked for him. Never tried it myself, I would probably accidently weld the two things together with my luck.Now a lot of engines are made with aluminum alloys so don’t know if it is a good thing to try.[/quote]
They don’t get to the good stuff until 4:45
A guy in an even worse predicament with the bolt head broken off:
But this may be the best solution for your situation:
svelteParticipantYeah the one and ONLY time I took a car to a quicky lube place, it was my Miata. I took it in for an oil change. When I got home, I popped the hood and looked. The oil filter, which is installed sideways on Miatas, still had the layers of dust on it from sitting installed in my car for months!
I called them up and bitched about cheating me. Bring it back in, they said, we’ll do it right. Over my dead body I said – and I’ve never been to a quick lube place again. That little incident lost them LOTS of money.
It also taught me to mark things that I am about to have replaced or rotated. I mark my tires LF, LR, RF, RR with a magic marker when I take them in for rotation. I mark my spark plugs with little dabs of nail polish. I pretty much double-check everything now…but haven’t found another cheat like I did with the Miata.
[In the 80s my dad took his Cutlass in to Aamco to have them look at the tranny. They tuned it up and sent him on his way. A year later, a mechanic asked him when he got the Aamco transmission – he was shocked! He had owned the car since new so he knew it should have a factory transmission. He took Aamco to court and lost – judge was of the opinion the replacement was probably better than the old one. Probably correct since he drove the car to 300K without another transmission issue. 🙂 ]
svelteParticipantOy. Thanks for the post and especially the pics.
It is bringing why I quit working on my own cars flooding back to my brain. Things like this happened to me too.
It often ended up costing me more to do it myself – especially factoring in my time and tools I had to buy.
svelteParticipantNot to take any flights to or from Indonesia.
svelteParticipant[quote=flu]
That’s more than the previous stimulus given to people…And we know that the majority of the people in this country are going to spend it.Also, I think airlines will do will, travel will pick up, and transportation will do well (Fedex and UPS probably will have fatter margins)….
.[/quote]Hmmm. I like your thinking…I’m going to mull it over.
I have noticed oil company stocks haven’t went down as much as I would have expected given recent oil prices, so they don’t appear to be the best place to profit.
svelteParticipantFolks here talk like all of California has the same economic situation – just not true!
As has been pointed on other sites, there is really a stark difference between coastal areas and inland California…especially if you get outside of the LA basin.
Prices are much, much lower in the central valley.
You can’t compare places like Bakersfield, Fresno, Stockton, Chico, and Redding to San Francisco, LA, and San Diego especially in terms of home values.
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