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Was your son in the car?
 
jonnyghost said:
Was your son in the car?
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No, he was at home with me.
She was going to a class and driving a tad too fast on an exit ramp that drops from 60mph to 20mph.... and spun out, backwards down a hill and hit a few poles, curbs.... I guess it was a good wake up call for her because it did shake her up pretty good.
 
That vehicle looks pretty much junk already, your right not worth trying saving it. And driving car and van is really different in handling when it comes to curve.

sonocativo said:
No, he was at home with me.
She was going to a class and driving a tad too fast on an exit ramp that drops from 60mph to 20mph.... and spun out, backwards down a hill and hit a few poles, curbs.... I guess it was a good wake up call for her because it did shake her up pretty good.
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It's too bad to see this van being badly neglected. If you take good care of it, it will last longer and more safer on the road. Safety comes first for everyone involved. It may not be long to have this van being sent to the crusher.

I sold one of my old suv to the pick n pull company. So someone can use a good parts out of it and then goes to the crusher. It just costs more to get it fixed to become roadworthy after 260k maintained miles. Major oil leak is one of the reasons I sent my old suv to retirement. Sometime things are not worth fixing when the vehicle does not have much value in it.
 
Calvin said:
Sometime things are not worth fixing when the vehicle does not have much value in it.
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I totally agree. We have a pick-n-pull close by here too, so my hubby or his friends often go there to look for a specific part. It works well when you're repairing a vehicle that still does have some value to it.
 
Yeah, I had an UPS mechanic told me about the Pick n Pull that buys junk or unwanted cars that people want to get rid of their property. That junk yard is handy and much cheaper than dealer or aftermarket stores. If the parts are in good shape, it may be worth to extend the life of the parts a bit longer. It's great to be able to reuse the parts than just scrap the good ones away.

AlleyCat said:
I totally agree. We have a pick-n-pull close by here too, so my hubby or his friends often go there to look for a specific part. It works well when you're repairing a vehicle that still does have some value to it.
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Where i live all the pick and pulls crushed what they had when the price of scrap got really high. Not much left to pick or pull.
 
Too many junks coming in, they had to let some of the "bones" to be crushed to make room for new incoming junks.
 
And this is fact, more and more people keep their cars much longer than they were in the past. Average now is 11.5 years I think. I have this Cherokee Sport for 11 years next month and have no plan to sell it or get rid of it. Have plan til everything falls apart, thats when I will have it head to junk yard and junk yard may not get much out of my Cherokee. Most of parts on my Cherokee is originals. I spent about $2K on maintenance in the last 11 years, that is how reliable it is and STILL running strong. I paid average of 10.6 cents each mile out of my Cherokee, can't beat that deal. Oh it does not include gasoline, oil changes and tire replacements. I think Cherokee has 5th set of tires already. All tires were bought from same place, so I always get free tire repairs, rotation, and so forth.

50 years ago, seeing car hits over 150K miles was very rare, today we have seen them hitting 300K already. Quality has improved considerable, but damn its so expensive.
 
diehardbiker said:
And this is fact, more and more people keep their cars much longer than they were in the past. Average now is 11.5 years I think. I have this Cherokee Sport for 11 years next month and have no plan to sell it or get rid of it. Have plan til everything falls apart, thats when I will have it head to junk yard and junk yard may not get much out of my Cherokee. Most of parts on my Cherokee is originals. I spent about $2K on maintenance in the last 11 years, that is how reliable it is and STILL running strong. I paid average of 10.6 cents each mile out of my Cherokee, can't beat that deal. Oh it does not include gasoline, oil changes and tire replacements. I think Cherokee has 5th set of tires already. All tires were bought from same place, so I always get free tire repairs, rotation, and so forth.

50 years ago, seeing car hits over 150K miles was very rare, today we have seen them hitting 300K already. Quality has improved considerable, but damn its so expensive.
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Is $2K include 5th set of tires?
 
diehardbiker said:
Oh now I see where you got it. Nope, $2k not include sets of 5 tires.
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You maintain your car yourself? I've seen some customers who spend $100 or less for lightly maintenance especially in oil services with discount coupons. I don't like customers cuz they won't buy anything such as brake jobs, air filter etc...Cheap azzes..what cars they have is small cars like Asian. If customer bring coupon for oil service, I'll check their service history to see how much to spend on the repairs, if small repairs then I won't check any fluids or other things, just drain oil, change filter, refill oil period.
 
Sure, for two reasons. First, yes I am dirty cheap. It does work sometimes but not all the time. Secondly, I don't know which mechanic I would trust.

Sometimes I get to the point where I let somebody does the repair. My neighbor works at service station did help me sometimes.

I have seen enough of mechanic rips off.

Speaking of my new truck, its likely Im going let some mechanic do some serious ass job that I can't do on my own. I won't mess up with Turbo, injectors, egr cooler replacement. I am planning on replace my EGR cooler to bulletproof EGR cooler cause I wanted to keep my truck for as long as I can. I know it won't be cheap! :(

Any Deaf diesel mechanic near me, I would love to chat and pay em to replace these Ford junk parts that I just mentioned above. And yes I said Junk, just like Chevy, oh god not Dodge! and asian trucks shares their problem as well.

I wasn't expect to lose my previous job, and don't know if I will ever hold high paying job ever again. Yeah, it was shock but I love my truck too much already. :Ohno: I may end up declare as permanent partial disabled by tomorrow afternoon, plus with Deaf as primary disability, sucks to be me!

deafsmogtech said:
You maintain your car yourself? I've seen some customers who spend $100 or less for lightly maintenance especially in oil services with discount coupons. I don't like customers cuz they won't buy anything such as brake jobs, air filter etc...Cheap azzes..what cars they have is small cars like Asian. If customer bring coupon for oil service, I'll check their service history to see how much to spend on the repairs, if small repairs then I won't check any fluids or other things, just drain oil, change filter, refill oil period.
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I forget to edit my post#73..... One female customer use coupons for oil services, just spend $60ish for 4 oil services in one year. What car she have is Toyota Prius... She never buy air filter or cabin air filter or tires that we recommend as maintaince preventive. Some of my techs or me will leave oil filter and just drain oil and refill without replace a new filter. If she come back again for oil service then we will replace a new oil filter. We check service history first to see if they are VIPs or cheap azzes... Hands down to VIPs....
 
deafsmogtech said:
I forget to edit my post#73..... One female customer use coupons for oil services, just spend $60ish for 4 oil services in one year. What car she have is Toyota Prius... She never buy air filter or cabin air filter or tires that we recommend as maintaince preventive. Some of my techs or me will leave oil filter and just drain oil and refill without replace a new filter. If she come back again for oil service then we will replace a new oil filter. We check service history first to see if they are VIPs or cheap azzes... Hands down to VIPs....
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Switch to Diesel tech.

No switch cabin air filter for long time and then inside car will smell nasty or too dirty when turned A/C or heat on. :barf:

99% of driver/customers can't said No to me whatever I recommend as maintenance, parts need to replace/repair, brake shoes minimum lining thickness is 1/4",even one light out. They don't want to get pull out and get ticket from DOT. They will lost their time for business travel and lost money from fined. :aw:

That's right DOT will give you the warning or ticket for one light out or and ticket for less than 1/4" brake shoes lining.

DOT should do same thing to all vehicles.
 
To fix the van she will need 2 new rims, fuel tank, fender, headlight assembly, possible a-arms and depending if she bent the rear axle??? Possibly 3 new tires as well. So she just had the infiniti inspected, one tire failed so she bought a new set for the front and getting re-inspected today so she can get plates. Shame, the van was very nice, fully loaded Walt Disney edition ( DVD system, leather, dual power sliders...ect...)
 
The Highlander said:
Switch to Diesel tech.

No switch cabin air filter for long time and then inside car will smell nasty or too dirty when turned A/C or heat on. :barf:

99% of driver/customers can't said No to me whatever I recommend as maintenance, parts need to replace/repair, brake shoes minimum lining thickness is 1/4",even one light out. They don't want to get pull out and get ticket from DOT. They will lost their time for business travel and lost money from fined. :aw:

That's right DOT will give you the warning or ticket for one light out or and ticket for less than 1/4" brake shoes lining.

DOT should do same thing to all vehicles.
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If DOT would do that, about 95% of the vehicles on the road would be impounded today ! You wouldn't believe the cars on the road today....lol
 
Here in NY, not really that high 95% no way, probably 25% since we have inspection up here, but in Pennsylvania its better down there since they are strict with inspection regulations. I remember back then it was used to be every 6 months, now its yearly.

But those states that don't require inspection, you might be right.

sonocativo said:
If DOT would do that, about 95% of the vehicles on the road would be impounded today ! You wouldn't believe the cars on the road today....lol
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