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5 Cars You Might As Well Buy New Instead of Used
Yahoo/The Street ^ | 05/30/2013 | Jerry Kronenberg

Posted on 05/30/2013 12:49:52 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: Bryanw92

****** “You can always find a tough guy!” ******

You can also find a Whiner that needs AC in a moving vehicle.

TT

Hell given a choice... I can do without seat belts too
I can roll my own window up and down, love a manual transmission... I do however like Cruse Control but if my vehicle didn’t have it I could make my own. np


41 posted on 05/30/2013 2:26:20 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

30 Grit Wet... occasionally rinse it off in Salt Water

One Sheet lasts a looong loong time

TT

;^)


42 posted on 05/30/2013 2:33:05 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Bryanw92

****** “The Tough Guy steals boxes from homeless people to wipe with...and then returns them!” ******

That response says a whole lot more about you than me...

TT


43 posted on 05/30/2013 2:46:00 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: TexasTransplant

>>You can also find a Whiner that needs AC in a moving vehicle.

Your Awesomeness is the stuff of legends!

I drive without A/C often, but A/C comes standard on just about everything for the past 15 years or so. So, use it or not, you paid for it.


44 posted on 05/30/2013 3:11:34 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: nascarnation
I don't finance. My criteria for buying a vehicle has been for half a century-

1.) I can pay cash (no payments)

2.) It will get me down the road.

45 posted on 05/30/2013 4:44:57 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Alex Murphy

Jelly beans all.


46 posted on 05/30/2013 4:45:39 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: arthurus

Good policy.

I’ve been buying low mile older used Cadillacs from estates at bargain prices with good success.


47 posted on 05/30/2013 4:49:24 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Bryanw92
Until the A/C dies

I don't think I've had AC on but one or two of the vehicles I've had since 1963. I remember a an old Jeep Grand Wagoneer I had 12 years ago that had good air cooling. Crank open the wing vents all the way and drive real fast. I drove it all over the midwest and southeast that way.

48 posted on 05/30/2013 4:51:56 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Noumenon

I currently have a nice 98 Dakota with 195 k on it. I just put a front end under it and fixed a steering leak.I do not expect to get rid of it- barring a wreck, of course- and even then I will see if i can fix it for cheap.


49 posted on 05/30/2013 4:57:24 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Noumenon

I rode in a Buick Riviera a bunch of years ago. It had all the dash controls- radio, air/heat etc on a touch screen low on the dash. I watched the driver deal with it for a minute then told him to either stop the car and let me out or stay the hell away from the dash. That thing was deadly. One could not change the station on the radio by turning a knob one doesn’t have to look at didn’t have to look at. One had to touch a particular spot on on the screen and hold it while watching the numbers go by. At 60 mph that is not good. Similar with AC. What was GM thinking?


50 posted on 05/30/2013 5:03:49 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Bryanw92

You got something against cardboard boxes??


51 posted on 05/30/2013 5:05:18 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: TomGuy

Good point - there is TCO to consider.


52 posted on 05/30/2013 5:19:51 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: Bryanw92

And yet I don’t complain when the AC goes out... which was the whole point ...

****** “After a couple more years, its paid off and then you get used to not making that payment and suddenly, your old car looks really good.

Until the A/C dies.” ******

My only point was ... I don’t care about the AC

Drive On... We have much bigger Fish to Fry... Last time I checked we were still on the same Team.

TT


53 posted on 05/30/2013 6:45:21 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: upchuck
People really like their Silverados

Bought my 2001 extended cab new in December of 2000. Coming up on 13 years, 220,000 miles. Nothing but standard maintenance. Best vehicle I I have ever owned.

54 posted on 05/30/2013 7:37:31 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: Bryanw92

Not so Awesome ... my fishing buddy loves his AC, when I ride with him I bring a Coat and my Knees still hurt. (Same thing with his House)

Again I use AC to defog my windshield during High Humidity Nights ... but if I didn’t have it I would still be just fine.

TT

(Seems like the same conversation I have with my fishing buddy, except he calls me a wimp cause I bring a coat) ;^)


55 posted on 05/31/2013 1:43:40 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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