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Faith · « **Reply #73380 on:** April 30, 2026, 10:07:04 am »

The first time I drove my wife's car I almost had to call for help. First off, there was no key. That took a while. Then there's that bit where it shut itself off at stop signs. My entire driving experience is based on managing anxiety of stalling at stop signs by having a foot on the brake and gas pedal simultaneously when not in motion because I have been driving cars that might break down at any moment since...well...always. The long and short of it is that replacing the starter and TWO batteries ($500) becomes part of 'regular maintenance'. And then there's the completely unecessary, confusing and distracting video screen for the driver to attend to instead of the road ahead.

Faith · « **Reply #73381 on:** April 30, 2026, 10:11:12 am »

Headlights that turn themselves on and off.... heated mirrors, seats and steering wheel, inflation sensors on the tires, bluetooth, software.... chips... They have doubled the price of the machine by adding costly and unnecessary maintenance nightmares to it. It would be fine if that was confined to luxury cars. But a GD pick-up is 50 g's now.

Faith · « **Reply #73382 on:** April 30, 2026, 10:43:04 am »

My only aspiration left is to become one of those crazy old fcks that drives a lawnmower from like Maine to California on surface roads

Faith · « **Reply #73383 on:** April 30, 2026, 10:45:31 am »

Thank God my wife works. I'd hate to have her know what I do all day, which is not much; but she'd hate it more. I better go cut some tile or something...make a mess. Like I always say - it's presentation. Put a strawberry on plate and double the price - it'll fly.

MarkJ · « **Reply #73384 on:** April 30, 2026, 10:59:03 am »

Quote from: Faith on April 30, 2026, 10:11:12 am

Headlights that turn themselves on and off.... heated mirrors, seats and steering wheel, inflation sensors on the tires, bluetooth, software.... chips... They have doubled the price of the machine by adding costly and unnecessary maintenance nightmares to it. It would be fine if that was confined to luxury cars. But a GD pick-up is 50 g's now.

Spoke to a woman this morning, her new car's ABS was randomly applying the brakes, dealer says they do not yet make the replacement part. But they will sell her a new car.

And that is the scam, it is all about selling you a new car as fast as possible. You can't work on them, and if you know how you have to have expensive scanners and subs for updates.

Best thing you can do if you bought one is trade it in before the warranty expires. Then you get into at what milage can you get the most for your trade which means you are buying a new car even sooner.

Hide and watch, very soon will come the outlawing of driving any vehicle more than a few years old.

MarkJ · « **Reply #73385 on:** April 30, 2026, 11:00:07 am »

"...The more young people use AI, the more they hate it

Caught between fears of job loss and social stigma, Gen Z’s opinions of AI are hitting new lows..."

Faith · « **Reply #73386 on:** April 30, 2026, 03:42:11 pm »

Quote from: MarkJ on April 30, 2026, 10:59:03 am

Spoke to a woman this morning, her new car's ABS was randomly applying the brakes, dealer says they do not yet make the replacement part. But they will sell her a new car.

And that is the scam, it is all about selling you a new car as fast as possible. You can't work on them, and if you know how you have to have expensive scanners and subs for updates.

Best thing you can do if you bought one is trade it in before the warranty expires. Then you get into at what milage can you get the most for your trade which means you are buying a new car even sooner.

Hide and watch, very soon will come the outlawing of driving any vehicle more than a few years old.

I never had ABS when I was a kid and I could fix a car (that I probably paid 500 bucks for) with a butter knife and a roll of duct tape by the side of the road. That's another totally unnecessary gimmick that some anal retentive engineer thought up because not over-complicating things would seem like a lack of progress to someone with that particular neurosis.

Faith · « **Reply #73387 on:** April 30, 2026, 03:45:06 pm »

Really what I'd like to be driving is like a 1989 Dodge Ram or F-150 with dome hubcaps, manual windows and an AM radio.....and I'd pay top dollar too.

Faith · « **Reply #73388 on:** April 30, 2026, 05:20:31 pm »

I had a bare bones 1981 Ranger. I think brand new that thing was 8 grand.

MarkJ · « **Reply #73389 on:** April 30, 2026, 05:52:44 pm »

Quote from: Faith on April 30, 2026, 03:45:06 pm

Really what I'd like to be driving is like a 1989 Dodge Ram or F-150 with dome hubcaps, manual windows and an AM radio.....and I'd pay top dollar too.

You can find them but they are not cheap anymore. A nice one will run you from 15 to 36 grand.

MarkJ · « **Reply #73390 on:** April 30, 2026, 05:54:41 pm »

Quote from: Faith on April 30, 2026, 03:42:11 pm

I never had ABS when I was a kid and I could fix a car (that I probably paid 500 bucks for) with a butter knife and a roll of duct tape by the side of the road. That's another totally unnecessary gimmick that some anal retentive engineer thought up because not over-complicating things would seem like a lack of progress to someone with that particular neurosis.

On some new vehicles you can't even change brake pads without an expensive scan tool to rejigger the computer.

Faith · « **Reply #73391 on:** April 30, 2026, 06:30:13 pm »

Quote from: MarkJ on April 30, 2026, 05:52:44 pm

You can find them but they are not cheap anymore. A nice one will run you from 15 to 36 grand.

I was talking 1989 prices. That’s probably about where my life peaked. I was so free, I had so much promise….

Faith · « **Reply #73392 on:** April 30, 2026, 06:40:42 pm »

Gas is $5 here.

Waco 1954 · « **Reply #73393 on:** April 30, 2026, 07:32:40 pm »

Quote from: Faith on April 30, 2026, 08:06:18 am

New data says more patients are going to urgent care instead of their primary care doctor

"(WXYZ) — Do you go to urgent care or your primary care doctor? With access getting tighter and urgent care clinics popping up everywhere, more patients are choosing between fast care now or continuing care that may come with a wait. And doctors say it's a choice that can have real consequences."

""(We have) one primary care doc to 5,000 to 7,000 Detroiters in Southeast Michigan. That's not enough," Dr. Mann said.

For many patients, getting in to see their own doctor isn't easy, especially with the long waits and limited hours.

"I usually go on a wait list for about two weeks with my family physician," Crabtree said.

I don't have a "primary care" "doctor". I go to urgent care. Doctors are 90% fraudulent. That is the most over-rated profession on Earth. I never met a doctor in my life that wasn't blinded by the Dunning Kruger Effect. This country should be printing doctors instead of importing brown, non-christian foriegners with FAKE degrees from FAKE universities in SHITTY little countries. I'm not going to a doctor unless they're a white man that doesn't golf.

Realistically, I could take a two-year crash course at like a community college and I could perform a heart transplant. Nothing a doctor does is hard because they don't do much. They treat one species and 90% of the 'ailments' are psychosomatic because 90% of the human population are a bunch of whiny little bitches that think there's something wrong with them because they advertise disease on tv. It says right in the Bible "Physician heal thyself". What Jesus was saying in the form of parable was: Walk it off, bitches. You'll live longer if you don't think you're sick.

My wife asked me who I wanted to pick as my primary doctor. I said without knowing "The Irish guy". Whatever clinic it is....not that I care...there was bound to be one white guy and statistically, they're all at least part Irish....I think everyone is somehow.

my insurance will cover my primary care physician 100%. It will not cover 100% of an elective visit to urgent care unless I have cut off a limb therefore I have to schedule my appointments with the primary care doctor usually, there’s a three month wait time. NOBODY EVER PROMISED ME A ROSE GARDEN…

Waco 1954 · « **Reply #73394 on:** April 30, 2026, 07:36:35 pm »

Quote from: Faith on April 30, 2026, 05:20:31 pm

I had a bare bones 1981 Ranger. I think brand new that thing was 8 grand.

Our current vehicle is a 2000 Ford Ranger with a 3.0 V6. It has 144,000 miles on it. I have replaced the transmission and when the frame became too rusty me and some friends located or should I say scavenged enough steel pieces to re-weld the frame completely until it’s better than New. I don’t think I will ever have enough money to have a truck with four valves per cylinder and twin turbo chargers with an 11 speed transmission worked on.

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