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Topic Started: Mar 16 2012, 03:19 PM (23,679 Views)
ilivas

I'm obviously voting for a wrx wagon.

I like the Nissan muranos, and rogues. Although, I'm not sure if that falls into your price range.

Whatever it is. Go with AWD. If you want utility out of it you will want this.
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Tommyb
May 29 2012, 01:38 PM
ilivas
May 25 2012, 02:31 PM
I went to a department store off michigan avenue, and I liked one of the blazers on a mannequin. Awesome, I think I'll pick this up..... Nope.... it costs 12 grand.

30k per year is a lot for a receptionist. They make about half that around here. I know cost of living there is high, but shit. The most expensive high end apartment, with all amenities around here is $900 a month, I think.
Yeeeah...not around here haha. Chicago isn't as bad as New York, but it's still pretty pricey. My last apartment was cheap for the area, and I was paying $950. One bedroom, tiny bathroom, tiny-er kitchen, decent living room. Had to pay for electric, gas, and cable on top of that which came out to like $150 total. You can't really find anything less than that in the city, unless you want to live on the South Side, but there's too much crime down there for my tastes. But that's just one of the prices you pay for city life. Personally, I would rather pay $1200/month for a shitty place in a fun part of the city than $300 for a great place in the suburbs....I can't stand it out there. I grew up there, and it's a great place to raise a family, but there its so godamn boring. I lived 5 blocks from Wrigleyfield, and within walking distance to god knows how many bars, restaurants, beaches, and parks. If I was bored, I just went out and walked around until i found something to do. I love the city and don't ever plan on moving away from it. I know I could move out to the burbs and save a shit load more money, but I just have such a better quality of life out where there is always something going on.

I'm actually up in Milwaukee until September. I'm renting newly remodeld condo (im the first resident) in a Hotel that was built in 1920. Its got like 120 hotel rooms and 60 condo units, which is sweet because there are all the hotel amenities, but with my own condo. Like room service, hotel bar/restaurant, SPA, fitness center, but no pool. Lake michigan is right across the street, and Summerfest is only 3 blocks away. cant fucking wait for that to start up, I alreayd have tickets for RHCP, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper (why not haha) Aero Smith, Chevelle and possibly Cake, but I think they're at the same time as Chevelle.


yeah, I'm the opposite. I like the outdoors, and out door activities (shooting, kayaking, camping, hiking, sports, etc.) so I try to avoid the cities. I also like the relaxed atmosphere. Plus, whenever I'm in metropolitan areas, most people are dicks. Where I live, everyone waves at each other, says hi, very courteous, and not uncommon for someone to randomly spark up a conversation. I'm a fan of small town life. If I need to go to the city to go to a club, bar or concert or whatever, I only need to drive an hour which is nothing for me. I used to be in the city 3 or 4 times a week going to clubs and bars, but I'm starting to slow down now, and I'm losing interest.
Edited by ilivas, May 30 2012, 07:36 PM.
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May 30 2012, 02:41 PM
im pleased with my vue redline, lots of space for stuff...folding rear seats....no squishy ride...looks cool....pretty peppy.... decent MPG.....fully loaded.... doesn't drink 93. Its in your price range but kinda rare and hard to find.

remember sporty things drink the expensive gas.


when i was searching for another car speed wasn't on my list of stuff i wanted... good mpg and space for stuff was.
How about a turbo VW diesel wagon thing.(good mpg, can be faster) volvo makes an ok looking wagon as well.

last year vibe GT, manual and has the yamaha built high revving faster engine.

Rav4 ?

I hate VW's.... so hard to work on, parts are way too overpriced, reliability sucks, and nothing makes sense in those cars.
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yea VW's are werid, I don't like them.
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Tommyb

yeah fuck VW's. My girlfriends parents have an 03 convertible bug that's just like a 3rd car they got back in the day for her and her mom to drive around in the summer. its got 50k miles and they said the water pump was leaking. They said they would have to pull the motor to replace it and her dad called me since he knows nothing about cars and i was like WTF? So I looked up how to change it on line, and the fucking water pump is ran off the timing belt! w...t...f....Im not a master mechanic, but Ive worked on my fair share of cars and ive never seen a water pump run off the fucking timing belt. VW's make their cars hard to work on so they can pay their mechanics
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ilivas
May 30 2012, 07:35 PM
yeah, I'm the opposite. I like the outdoors, and out door activities (shooting, kayaking, camping, hiking, sports, etc.) so I try to avoid the cities. I also like the relaxed atmosphere. Plus, whenever I'm in metropolitan areas, most people are dicks. Where I live, everyone waves at each other, says hi, very courteous, and not uncommon for someone to randomly spark up a conversation. I'm a fan of small town life. If I need to go to the city to go to a club, bar or concert or whatever, I only need to drive an hour which is nothing for me. I used to be in the city 3 or 4 times a week going to clubs and bars, but I'm starting to slow down now, and I'm losing interest.
Yeah, I'm an outdoorsy kinda guy too. I hate that shooting is so inconvenient in chicago, but I can deal with it. I would love to live in the opposite of the city, with a big piece of property and solitude, in a small town environment where everybody knows eachother. I was talking more about the suburbs of chicago being hell. Small town = cool. Suburbs with soccermoms = hell
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Tommyb
May 31 2012, 09:16 AM
yeah fuck VW's. My girlfriends parents have an 03 convertible bug that's just like a 3rd car they got back in the day for her and her mom to drive around in the summer. its got 50k miles and they said the water pump was leaking. They said they would have to pull the motor to replace it and her dad called me since he knows nothing about cars and i was like WTF? So I looked up how to change it on line, and the fucking water pump is ran off the timing belt! w...t...f....Im not a master mechanic, but Ive worked on my fair share of cars and ive never seen a water pump run off the fucking timing belt. VW's make their cars hard to work on so they can pay their mechanics
uhmmmmm, most cars that have a timing belt have a water pump in the mix. Thats why its always a water pump AND timing belt, might as well do both while you are there.

my old ass 92 honda had a timing belt driven water pump, nothing new really.

but pulling the engine...... yea thats new. :screwyouguys
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May 31 2012, 10:34 AM
Tommyb
May 31 2012, 09:16 AM
yeah fuck VW's. My girlfriends parents have an 03 convertible bug that's just like a 3rd car they got back in the day for her and her mom to drive around in the summer. its got 50k miles and they said the water pump was leaking. They said they would have to pull the motor to replace it and her dad called me since he knows nothing about cars and i was like WTF? So I looked up how to change it on line, and the fucking water pump is ran off the timing belt! w...t...f....Im not a master mechanic, but Ive worked on my fair share of cars and ive never seen a water pump run off the fucking timing belt. VW's make their cars hard to work on so they can pay their mechanics
uhmmmmm, most cars that have a timing belt have a water pump in the mix. Thats why its always a water pump AND timing belt, might as well do both while you are there.

my old ass 92 honda had a timing belt driven water pump, nothing new really.

but pulling the engine...... yea thats new. :screwyouguys
really?? Damn...I guess I'm ignorant haha.

Also, maybe you can answer this for me. The tech said that the "german" anti freeze in the car is corrosive, and if it's been leaking from the water pump inside the engine, chances are it's corroding some seals and whatnot. I've heard before that certain antifreezes can be corrosive, but not really sure.
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but regardless of the water pump thing actually being somewhat normal, the car is still a pile of shit. It burned through

Problems within 50k miles
-3 left headlights (in under 10k miles of eachother)
-bad roof motor (or whatever you call the motor that drops the top)
-all guages shut off randomly, thats been fixed 3 times and still does it
-car drops down to 3rd gear every once in a while and wont go past 3rd unless you restart the car
-Roof gets stuck in the down possition about 30% of the time, also been fixed multiple times.
-sometimes the trans wont shift until 4k+ rpms, even when driving normally

I'm sure there are more, but thats all i can think of. And this car is well maintained. Always has scheduled services for filters, oil, brakes, tires, whatever, and its always been garage kept. Ive had multiple friends have tons of shitty issues on low milage VW's before...i will never by a VW.....

....unless i can find a good deal on a TDI....love those diesels haha.
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sn00zie
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yikes sounds like a hunk of garbage.
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Tommyb

Yes...hence why it's back at her parents house sitting in the garage haha. Her dad tried to sell it in November, but he thought he could get a better price in the summer so they just let it sit in the garage.
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Hmmm... i was looking around, and in most places they talk about raising the engine a few inches. And if you're going to do it, don't forget to fix camshafts and crankshaft positions :)

Corrosive german antifreeze... never heard of that. Maybe is a little bit corrosive with some seals, yes, but i hardly doubt it.
And think that, if it would be corrosive, why would they use it? If it's corrosive for the engine, it would be corrosive for the cooling system too. BTW, if you have to replace the water pump, just replace the coolant...

And TDI... kinda old, injectors only giving one pre-injection and mechanically driven. But with a main injection pressure bigger than 28000 psi. Perfect spreading in the combustion chamber, good amount of power. And the typical variable geometry turbo used in the VAG group... sometimes it fails, but it's just a little vacuum actuator. That's what make the different between TDi engines and the rest of diesels around... BUT since 2007-08 VW is producing TDi with common rail and electronic injectors, so it lose the feeling of the previous ones.

Audi, VW, Seat, Skoda... all of them use TDi engines. So go search :)
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I also do not understand the corrosive anti-freeze. Anti-freeze is supposed to help against corrosion?
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LED flash lights........ i've always thought they were super cool, until yesterday.

Im doing some bathroom light fixture replacement.. and of course I can't have any light on, so im just letting what natural light I can get in help me out.

works fine... i see i gota do some paint... get that done... clean up the wiring, now im ready to start putting stuff up and i just ask the wife to get a flash light. She brings in the LED one and lights it up and suddenly it just white washes EVERYTHING, im painting and i can't tell the painted surface from the unpainted, the colors of my wire are white washed... everything, I said AGH turn that thing off.

Finished what i had to get done and only used that when i actually JUST NEEDED LIGHT.

Anyone else notice this when using a super bright white LED light in a near dark room with almost no other light source?

If i had to do telco work there is no way i could use one of these... slate from gray.. violet from purple..... it would just wash all the color away.
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Tommyb

hmmm.....that's weird. I have a few LED flashlights but never used them for that kinda stuff. Usually just keep on in my glove compartment for emergencies/engine work

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yea i never noticed either cause I just used them for basic lighting.
But when I needed it for work, yikes... bye bye most colors.

Maybe its just cause mine is super bright white?
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ilivas

I pretty much only use LED flashlights. They're crazy bright though, which is what is appealing to me. 300 lumens out of a flashlight that weighs a few ounces, and can last 20 hours is great.

It's probably the color temperature of your light. It's definitely not suited for looking at colors. Best light to discern colors is D65 lighting like used in a department store. Use a dedicated work light with a stand, and incandescent lighting for tasks like that.
Edited by ilivas, Jun 1 2012, 12:47 PM.
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yea I like them for walking around at night... they are great. but wow, 1st time i used them in such a setting, will be my last as well haha.
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rainy trip.
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I hate when the merc goes from 3rd gear to 1st and then starts spinning at 30mph
Most of the times i get "scared", i always expect it to go down only one gear and no spinning :S
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