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Buying used cars is such a goddamned nightmare right now that none of that sounds particularly fishy. I recently sold a car for my full and high asking price to the first person who saw it, and made profit selling another car to Carmax - this being a used car I bought from a dealer recently. Shits crazy. It’s why I’m dragging my parents old dead Forester XT home with me and replacing the engine. The profit should be drat near enough to pay off the rest of my Hyundai!
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The funny thing is that my wife and I recently leased new vehicles and the lenders are still doing the residual values at pre used car value jump levels. This either means at the end I can buy them out and resell them for a profit or use the low residual as a bargaining chip for getting the next shiny shiny. This all depends on prices not returning to where they were within 3 years and even if they do it is not like I am losing out apart from a higher monthly payment unless I just turn them back in and give the lender a bunch of free money (not happening). I assume the residuals are low because the automated systems they use for pricing cars for lease are lagging behind real world prices or they expect them to return to previous levels and don’t want to eat a bunch of depreciation so are taking the risk on people buying them out at the end vs returning them as normal since they may not understand how a lease really works.
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May 3, 2021 21:40
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They say you can tell a lot about the previous owner of a vehicle by the CD they leave in the CD player. If it's country they're probably a redneck. If it's rock they're probably a hoon. Last update. I can't believe i lost sleep over how terrible this could have gone. Obvious recent work done: New hose clamps, disa valve has been off, new rear rotors and brake lines. Date code on the tires is 39th week of 2018 at which point according the car fax it was around 160k when they were manufactured. Someone put a bunch of money into this thing. the tires cost more than half of what i paid for the whole vehicle.       There was never any hail damage, the only damage is a small scrape on the front bumper and a dent on the front of the hood.      It does have the self leveling suspension, but it's all perfectly functional. It seems to have too much rear camber, but it sits nice and high.    The buttons, stalks and armrests have no wear whatsoever. The button on the shifter still has all it's texture.    It was ordered through the individual program with a black headliner, tinted windows, ski bag, high-fi speakers that sound great, and the sport package, seats, steering wheel and suspension. The ski bag has never been out of the ski bag hole before today.     The A/C is nice and cold, it has dual exhaust, all the windows, mirrors, seats, and buttons work. The only things that don't work are the middle lock button and the power steering wheel adjustment, and one headlight. The tick seems to be coming from the exhaust and has gotten pretty quiet. It doesn't even seem to have any real leaks either. It still has the original windshield with stickers about using the phone it's provisioned for while driving. The engine, trans, AWD system, suspension are all solid. There are no clunks or rattles, if it wasn't for the tick you couldn't tell it's running. for 11 l/100km on the trip home which is kinda okay. It still has the original matching full size spare with the original tire on it. There's no indication this thing has 74k kms on it, never mind 174k. It's the nicest vehicle I've ever got from an auction, and that includes the 5 year old king ranch f-150. Powershift fucked around with this message at 21:52 on May 3, 2021 |
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May 3, 2021 21:42
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Sick. All this is really making me want to walk over to my neighbors and put in an offer on their S40. It's been basically idle since the pandemic, but it does run. Don't let the motivational speaking get to you too much though.
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May 3, 2021 22:13
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Someone tried to steal my friend's 2017 Tacoma base-rear end model work truck that had literally nothing in it  Got in by screwdrivering the door lock but then hosed up the ignition trying the same plan to start it, to the tune of $2500 worth of damages. Very bizarre that someone would think they could steal a relatively modern vehicle in that fashion.
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May 3, 2021 22:32
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Powershift posted:They say you can tell a lot about the previous owner of a vehicle by the CD they leave in the CD player. If it's country they're probably a redneck. If it's rock they're probably a hoon. I regretfully left my rage against the machine CD in my E30 that I sold to gabe Newell 
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May 3, 2021 22:37
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Used car price chat: A few years ago I was looking at new Fiesta ST’s at the local dealer, marked down to like $15k or so, and today on my FB marketplace a ‘17 showed up for $20k. Holy poo poo. And this article popped up about someone selling an EP3 Civic Si on Doug Demuro’s site for like $14k and change. I bought mine which is arguably a worse color (silver instead of blue) but otherwise equally clean, and similarly modified and equipped for $4k like a year and a half ago. Holy poo poo again. The used car world has gone insane.
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May 3, 2021 22:58
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Used car price chat: ST's likely aren't gonna get any better any time soon either. I've been keeping an eye on them hoping to find a decent-enough one for around 10k and no luck, and especially not after this last year.
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May 3, 2021 23:07
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Used car price chat: Is it ever going back to normal? If yes, when? Same question for real estate.
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May 3, 2021 23:12
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builds character posted:Is it ever going back to normal? If yes, when? Same question for real estate. new car prices are rising sharply and those owners are keeping them longer due to 84 month financing. it might level out in a few years if the chip shortage eases. houses: nope, hosed forever, gonna get worse. Canadian houses in toronto and vancouver are now a million dollars north of where the correction should have happened.
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May 3, 2021 23:16
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When's the economy going to break? I took a glance a rates today, and I thought I got a good deal last year refinancing to 2.75%. Now I'm thinking of refinancing again.
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May 3, 2021 23:24
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Powershift posted:
at this rate I'll forever be a road warrior. Just need to build a shop to pull behind....
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May 3, 2021 23:40
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The only chance I'll have of owning a home here is if my mother passes away unexpectedly (I really hope not) and I get to have her 520sqft bargain $363k house she bought in 2004 after my parents divorce finalized. The house I grew up in was really really great but my piece of poo poo father purposefully got foreclosed on basically so that's forever gone It's why I have been thinking about moving somewhere 'cheap' like where my friend lives just outside Seattle lmao.
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May 4, 2021 00:41
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TheBacon posted:The house I grew up in was really really great but my piece of poo poo father purposefully got foreclosed on basically so that's forever gone Hope his nose graft went well after he cut it off to spite his face.
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May 4, 2021 00:42
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Powershift posted:new car prices are rising sharply and those owners are keeping them longer due to 84 month financing. it might level out in a few years if the chip shortage eases. I'm hosed because I'm about to move back to the US and need to buy a house and at least one car, maybe two RIP my bank account
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May 4, 2021 00:54
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Tyro posted:I'm hosed because I'm about to move back to the US and need to buy a house and at least one car, maybe two Well. If it comes down to a choice between the two, remember this. You can live in a car, you can’t drive a house
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May 4, 2021 00:56
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honestly thinking about doing the smart thing and selling both cars edit: then buying a white FC RX-7 Turbo II 
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May 4, 2021 00:59
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Powershift posted:You can live in a car, you can’t drive a house You can if its both.
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TheBacon posted:The only chance I'll have of owning a home here is if my mother passes away unexpectedly (I really hope not) and I get to have her 520sqft bargain $363k house she bought in 2004 after my parents divorce finalized. The house I grew up in was really really great but my piece of poo poo father purposefully got foreclosed on basically so that's forever gone lol its not cheap outside of seattle
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:honestly thinking about doing the smart thing and selling both cars The perfect plan
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BraveUlysses posted:lol its not cheap outside of seattle The islands aren’t too bad. Vashon seems nice.
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BraveUlysses posted:lol its not cheap outside of seattle Ohio is only 2300 miles outside of seattle. Ugh, I'm probably gonna be looking around seattle too.
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BigPaddy posted:Hope his nose graft went well after he cut it off to spite his face. He's a piece of poo poo I basically stopped talking to before that happened, but the call in the afternoon while I was at the DMV to deal with registering my first car saying they will be there to put a chain on the house at 0600 the next morning was fun and cool. BraveUlysses posted:lol its not cheap outside of seattle it is compared to the bay area 
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May 4, 2021 01:36
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TheBacon posted:it is compared to the bay area My grandmother-in-law lives in Santa Barbara. That area has million-dollar sales with a demolition permit in hand.
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Advent Horizon posted:My grandmother-in-law lives in Santa Barbara. That area has million-dollar sales with a demolition permit in hand. Ya I grew up in SF, it’s wild. Although full tear downs are rare due to zoning permit whatever stuff, but many frequent 1 wall reminding standing ‘tear downs’
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What I hear from the two realtors I know is that the biggest driver in the market in Chicago right now is Boomers downsizing. They're selling their big, family homes and buying up all of the ~1,200 sqft starter homes for tens of thousands above asking because they have the money to bully other people out of the market when they've set their sights on a property Who buys the Boomers' old houses en masse, allowing the market to behave like this, they don't tell me. But it's nice to at least know why home ownership will be out of reach for a couple years. Again
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May 4, 2021 03:11
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Real Estate Investment Trusts are buying them to rent out.
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Are the boomers even selling? It sure seems like they’re downsizing but keeping and renting out the bigger house. Here’s everything on the market near my house:  A couple thousand houses, several large condo complexes, a couple trailer parks, and one house for sale.
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BigPaddy posted:Real Estate Investment Trusts are buying them to rent out. That's the only thing that makes sense to me, but that's probably also why they wouldn't tell me who was doing the buying. Landlords are... people I've been vocally critical of E: Advent Horizon posted:Are the boomers even selling? It sure seems like they’re downsizing but keeping and renting out the bigger house. The house doesn't have to be publicly listed to be sold. My realtor took us to a couple of showings on the "realtor only market". One was a still lived in house that the seller didn't want to let a bunch of random people tour because of her small kids, the other was a unique property that was actually a little 900 sqft house with 5 expansions put on it, including a basement and attic, and the seller was real cagey about who could look at what on the house The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 03:40 on May 4, 2021 |
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BraveUlysses posted:lol its not cheap outside of seattle My house outside Seattle was cheap. $30k and a few hundred hours later it's almost structurally sound and livable again. cursedshitbox posted:Ohio is only 2300 miles outside of seattle. Your truck's always welcome on my plot of land (about an hour's commute away)
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1 bed/1 bath condos in my 'hood last about 30 minutes on the market if they even make it there. In my building from the early 70's, one just went for $490k, thanks to NEWSOM and the SOCIALISTS
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So I got vaccinated 2 weeks ago (first dose of AZ) but noticed for the past couple days my nose has been somewhat stuffed and had a periodic hacky cough although my lungs feel fine (not congested). I assumed it was from yard work (power raking lawn and having it all blow in my face) and otherwise feel fine... even been doing cardio training every day for the last 3 days, but according to the provincial self assessment tool I need to either be tested or isolate for 10 days. And presently Alberta is turbofucked with new infection spikes. I really don't think so though, I literally feel pretty much 100% otherwise. Oh the irony of coming down with COVID after I've been implanted.... Used chat: I'm going to be getting a new company silverado within the next few months.You can absolutely bet I'll be looking long and hard at the buyout for my existing 2019 Z71 1500. And congrats on the score Powershift.
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A few things: Whats an Italian tuneup? - is that like the quick carb rebuild where you rev the gently caress out of it, then slam your hands down over the carb and let the engine suck the poo poo out of the carb? I woke up early today, showered, picked up my dusty laptop bag, packed up, got in my land cruiser and drove... to work... at an office.... I haven't felt so human since last March. Whats the consensus on a newer (2-3 year old) Volvo XC90 for my wife? Edit: um.... is the pandemic still a thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g9MHIL_9qI
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Italian tuneup just means revving the piss out of a car/driving it to redline like you stole it in the theory it cleans out carbon buildup on the plugs or something (as a result of driving it too timidly).
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The original name apparently came from the ~1950s, when people in the US would drive fancy imported European sports cars like they were big-engine, low-revving classic American cars, so the plugs and everything would soot up and make the engines run like crap, a big problem before the days of EFI. A good hot blast on a fast road would clear out everything and make it run well again. And I'm sure the mechanics didn't mind, either. Warm it up, run it to the redline, drive it at high revs for a while, 3rd gear on the motorway is good. Get the engine really cooking, burn off any moisture in the oil. Most people generally don't rev above 3000 RPM and are too "nice" to their cars. I feel it whenever I have get a car share car that has only ever driven in the city, some hard acceleration and a good blast on the motorway really does make everything feel more smooth. Diesel cars are especially bad for this, because their EGR valves generally activate at a certain RPM (around 2500 on a normal diesel car), and it's perfectly possible to drive a diesel basically forever at such low revs. That leads to the EGR valve fouling from soot buildup and repairs/replacements. If you drive a diesel, run it properly warm ideally every time you drive it, and don't be afraid to rev it. My diesel Panda was really bad for this, after a week of city driving, I could blow a huge sooty cloud out the exhaust on the first motorway on ramp.
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See also: apprentice tune up.
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Italian tuneups were a thing earlier than the 1950's, it's been around since..... ummm..... basically Italian cars were a thing. Anyway much to my relief finally got a 5G implant booking for late June. Gimme the loving vaccine already!
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Ether Frenzy posted:Italian tuneup just means revving the piss out of a car/driving it to redline like you stole it in the theory it cleans out carbon buildup on the plugs or something (as a result of driving it too timidly). Ah the old Bill Cosby in his Shelby trick. "Gotta get the gunk out"
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:honestly thinking about doing the smart thing and selling both cars BigPaddy posted:Real Estate Investment Trusts are buying them to rent out. LobsterboyX posted:Whats an Italian tuneup? - is that like the quick carb rebuild where you rev the gently caress out of it, then slam your hands down over the carb and let the engine suck the poo poo out of the carb?
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It happened with more modern cars too, my mum owned a 2002 Rover 25 hatchback which she drove about 7 miles a day to and from work all at leisurely pace. It went for a service one time and the mechanic said it needed to be run hard for a couple of hours so the key was handed to me, a crisp £20 note placed in my hand for petrol and I was told to have fun. It really did feel restricted at first but a few long blasts up the motorway and some back road work it felt lots better.
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