KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

blindjoe posted:

Its a few pages back, but I own a 2014 Pathfinder, I got it Dec 2013.

At the time, it was a reasonable 7 seater (the 2013/14 highlanders don't fit adults easily in the back row) that was $200 a month less on the lease than the highlander.
It was also rated at something like 7 l/100km (33 mpg)

Pros:
Back seats are nice, has a really nice tilt and slide that works with LATCH car seats
I have the platinum, the around view camera was amazing comparitively
CVT makes it really smooth driving
Can tow 5k lbs
$200 a month over 48 months paid for half of my buyout
Good in the snow

Cons:

Has had 3 transmission replacements under warranty, first one after 9k km.
- last one the day after I paid off the lease
- there was a class action lawsuit that extended the warranty which is why I bought the lease
- CVT had to be reprogrammed so now it drives rougher
Has had 2 Transfer Cases because it likes to leak oil onto the exhaust and smell burning. Seems like it is doing that again, and now its not under warranty
Gets 21 mpg. Has never gotten 30, not even crusing on the highway
Towing 5k lbs makes it poo poo out transmissions (see above)
On changing the brakes, I saw the suspension a-arms use a horizontal rubber bushing for motion instead of something that turns on the right axis, so the rubber is all cracked
Uses one off 20" tires so tires are expensive and for the longest time the only options were the ones that came on the car


Basically its a lifted altima wagon that they stuffed extra seats in the trunk. If the transmissions didn't fall apart, it would be a reasonable car.
I would get one for cheap (and I did, I bought mine for $22k after the 4 years, dealers wanted $30k cdn for the same car with more km) but not if you have a choice for something else. Plus the real answer is minivan if you need the third row.

Rhyno posted:

One of my high school chums is an air traffic controller at a large airport in the midwest. He posted on FB that less than half the TSA agents in his airport are still showing up to work and the NATCA (their union) is pondering telling members to also cease showing up for work. He is also clear that he does not speak for anyone or the union but this is what's being talked about.


So uh, better fly while you can.

Kazinsal posted:

Wellp, after two years I'm probably selling my FR-S. Nine hundred a month () including loan, insurance, parking, and gas isn't worth it when I can take a bus and a train and walk fifteen minutes for a grand total of half an hour extra and five dollars a day.

Sucks, but apparently car ownership costs in Vancouver got a lot worse since I was last here...

Rhyno posted:

They're still badass little cars. If I'd been in a better position financially I'd be driving one of those instead of the Miata.

NitroSpazzz posted:

We did some digging trying to figure out why the Pathfinder was so much cheaper than the Highlander and the transmissions making GBS threads themselves after 15k or less was a common theme. Ultimately took them off the list of possible vehicles completely because of that. We're going to test drive a Ford Flex, even though they're ugly and Ford, and a Minivan or three when the Highlander arrives just to be sure we aren't missing anything.

Car shopping for her has made me start getting the new car itch. Just for fun I checked trade-in on my car $100-700, guess I can't count on that to help much.

NitroSpazzz posted:

It was either consumer reports or a forum where wife found several people who had it go out in the first 5k. So yeah, Nissan completely poo poo the bed on the trans. I didn't realize they were ALL cvt, that explains the weird acceleration I noticed. More noticeable on heavy acceleration but I found it to hang after you let off the gas for what seemed like a full 1-2 seconds. Merged onto the interstate at full throttle and thought the pedal was stuck when I lifted, not a good feeling.

Explains why you can find a 25k mile, three year old one for <$20k fairly easily. Stinks because otherwise it was a nice vehicle, pretty much on par with the Highlander.

ilkhan posted:

Haven't felt the same thing with the fiancee's Outback. It's a CVT, but it does fake gearing too.

STR posted:

Seafoam that bitch and check the timing, that motor shouldn't ever ping on 87 unless it's like 130 degrees outside. The F23 is pretty overbuilt (so long as you keep oil in it, it loves to mark its territory via the front and rear crank seals, also the cam seal). They don't usually start smoking until they're well past 200k, unless they've been run low on oil or don't get wound up often.

They really hate being run low on oil though. Especially since Honda didn't use cam bearings on them (or, really, any of their oldschool 4 cylinders). But it'd be telling pretty loud knock knock jokes if that'd happened (they'll run longer than most other Honda engines with knock knock jokes, but they won't be happy).

Now that I think about it, I don't even know if any other F series had a knock sensor. The F23A1 definitely had one, I'm not sure if the F22 family (90-97) got one though. I know the D series, even VTEC versions, didn't have one until 1996 on USDM cars.

cakesmith handyman posted:

Hope this isn't the innocuous 1st chapter in the book about WW3

everdave posted:

I’m not too hyped about the Supra but if my small town dealer gets one I’ll go and try to take it out, if I come in one of my JDM imports probably have a good chance. At least it’s priced “reasonable”.

redgubbinz posted:

If there's one image to sum up the Trump presidency, this probably wouldn't be it but it'd be in the running.

Geoj posted:

Pretty much this, doing the "right thing" got me fired and put me in a potential financial bind (what if my current employer had had to push my start date back a month?) Most employers don't give you notice when you're being laid off or fired, so why should it be mandatory that employees do when they leave?

Unless an employer has been particularly good to me I intend to never give notice when leaving a job again.

keykey posted:

If I had a boss that lovely that didn't remember I had already given 2 weeks notice, given it was the last day, I would have looked him straight in the eye and deadpan said "Well then, I'll do you the favor... I. Quit!" Then walk off, because gently caress it... Already gone anyway.

keykey posted:

Any Atlanta goons in here? If so, what is your experience living there? Extra credit if you’re a out of state transplant.

nm posted:

Are you sure he wasn't loving with you?
When I quit my last job with like a month notice (union, government job, so no downside, plus certain lawyer ethics stuff) my boss (who I liked) made a lot of "we're gonna have to let you go" jokes (he also was an old dude who liked old man jokes.)

Adiabatic posted:

I made it 33 seconds. Anyone beat my record?

Fender Anarchist posted:

The revving mustang jackass whose garage is on my building finally kept it up for long enough for me to walk out and confront him. Well, apparently this time it was one of his buddies in a 370Z, there were like 4 of them standing there. Their excuse was "oh yeah it's a stick shift", cause apparently that necessitates banging off the limiter like 12 times in a row to move a car around, right? Then he changed tacks to straight up "Well, you know, if there's a problem, you can take it up with the front office! "

I am not enough of an rear end in a top hat to be doing this kind of poo poo.

T-Square posted:

Welp, my co-worker just put in a week's notice, citing our worthless Office Manager as her reason for terminating employment. This fucks me, because I too am trying to get out. However, this recent turn of events has lead our controller of 30 years to finally get it through our General Manager's head that he needs to get rid of our Office Manager (who is his ex-SIL), or she's cutting ties.


She told me she wants me to step up and be trained to replace our Office Manager.


I don't want to be the Office Manager.


I'm pretty sure our controller realized that I'm not planning on sticking around when I said that I don't think I'm interested. She wants to follow up in "a day or two" and I don't have any offers for employment yet, because I just started looking.

Rhyno posted:

As a loving idiot who stayed in a retail job for 13 years because I felt I had no other skill set, yes, absolutely splash out and look for new jobs. Change is awesome.