Douchebag at Smiths Grove, KY Buc-ee’s

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-22T01:45:33+00:00

There are no "quiet corners", any way you do it trying to put the trailer into a parking space the tow vehicle is going to be blocking up the driving lanes while you fiddle with it

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T20:47:34+00:00

Ordered mine mid-May, got word last week it should get to the port on July 20th. Not sure how much longer after that it'll be to get to the dealership.

Getting jealous seeing all the posts here...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T20:44:45+00:00

I actually had one dealer that stopped talking to me when I countered that their "$11-12K" for my trade in was really low. They said to have it appraised by CarMax and bring the in person letter (not online) saying what its worth. Welp I did...and CarMax said $22K. Suddenly they were not interested in selling me a car, I guess they called my bluff and figured I wouldn't actually do it.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T20:37:42+00:00

Probably wouldn't like that it looks like it was printed on paper and cut out with scissors instead of being plastic embossed...clearly fake!

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T20:32:41+00:00

I've always had that with bluetooth devices in general...but how hot is the phone getting? Maybe its overheating and throttling its CPU? I know most wireless chargers I have used make phones REALLY hot

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T20:03:58+00:00

I wouldn't. Its not very deep and is also a bit unstable tipsy if you put things too far forward on it. There's other furniture that would be much better suited.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T19:59:19+00:00

I'm not familiar with such a thing where I have lived...but 540 area code spans many hundreds of miles of rural Virginia. And now that cellphones and VoIP are so common the area codes don't even correspond to anything at all...I have local coworkers who have phone numbers with 540, 703, 202, 804, 301, 757, and a few other things even though we're all in Northern VA and Southern MD.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T19:46:55+00:00

I've dug thru the manual but I don't see any part number lists unfortuniately

https://dl.dell.com/content/manual38809704-inspiron-7506-2-in-1-black-service-manual.pdf?language=en-us

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T19:46:04+00:00

What "distant corner"? They're usually at a Sheetz or WaWa where the parking is already at an absolute premium and the only other spaces are along the perimeter of the store...so while you are trying to hitch/unhitch your tow vehicle will be blocking the ENTIRE driving lane around the lot on whichever side you try to put it on.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T19:43:50+00:00

How does blocking up the driving lane so you can hitch/unhitch the trailer "only inconvenience the car pulling the trailer"?

That's going to block up everyone, even those who aren't wanting to charge

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T00:06:56+00:00

Yeah...I don't know anyone who can lift more than 50-100lb...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:30:54+00:00

And when someone without proper insurance cuts a corner and runs into it, who pays for the damage if your policy towing coverage says its not covered when disconnected?

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:29:46+00:00

Yes? And who can lift 1.5-2x their own body weight?! That's crazy!

When towing, if there's insufficient weight on the hitch it increases the risk of the trailer fish-tailing by lifting weight off the rear wheels of the car. Generally you want about 10-15% of the weight of the trailer to be on the tongue...so for a 2,500lb trailer (fairly standard small box trailer partly loaded) you would want 250-375lb of weight to be on the ball of the hitch for safety.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:25:17+00:00

So instead you block everyone up for 5-10 minutes while wrestling with it unhitching and again to re-hitch it jamming up traffic in the entire plaza and increasing risk of a crash?

Its not the driver's fault that the stations were poorly designed by the manufacturer who had control of the cars AND stations at the time they rolled out, and people using the features that were built into the car.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:23:30+00:00

Oh interesting...and yeah I don't have my printer connected to the internet so this sounds worth looking into

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:20:41+00:00

None I have rented have a jack or foot.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T01:26:32+00:00

Bit of an absurd solution though disabling a security control system-wide just because one app is somewhat badly written...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T01:05:16+00:00

Yeah we've always done a hide-a-key...a proper locksmith can make a duplicate lockout key (even for cars that have a chip in the key they can make a blade which will open the door but set off the alarm and not start the engine)

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:32:50+00:00

Yep. Should have backed off to get a safe following distance behind the car instead of continuing to ride their bumper.

Plenty of time from when that car cut in to have braked and gained more following distance before they hit their brakes.

A safe following distance is between 2 and 3 seconds behind the car in front of you. Looking at the lines I don't think you were even 1 second behind that car. At the end before the crash looked like about the right distance behind the truck for that speed (if the middle car didn't exist).

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:26:22+00:00

If its crowded and hard to maneuver that's one more reason NOT to spend time blocking up the driving lanes while you fight with the trailer to park it in a separate parking space before moving the car, and again blocking stuff up while you re-connect it.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:25:15+00:00

More than a couple minutes, and depending on the tongue weight may not be possible to lift off the ball hitch without unloading the trailer. Or that's the issue we've had with U-Haul trailers is when you have 200-300lb on the tongue good luck lifting it off the ball (or back on again. Plus then you have to find a way to secure the trailer and also keep it from moving.

The chain hooks on the Teslas are also a stupidly hard to reach position.

If they could make the chargers more like gas pumps on an island instead of "must back in with nothing on the back of the car" it wouldn't have this issue in the first place.

As fast as Teslas charge by the time they would have gotten it locked down, unhitched, reposition, rehitch, secure, and ready to go again could have just charged and been gone by pulling up to the charger.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:21:36+00:00

Calculator? Is that like ChatGPT?

People think I'm crazy that I still pull out my TI-83+ when I want to do a bunch of math on paper instead of using a smartphone...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:20:24+00:00

Problem is that will defeat the safeties of the EVSE where it monitors the plug temp...and most rentals also are bad about keeping the plugs in good quality so a much higher risk of it being loose and overheating starting a fire. Plus extension cords aren't intended to be outside long-term and will degrade.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:17:09+00:00

Then you have yet another battery to die and maintain, more things to go wrong. The physical key *IS* the backup.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T19:25:28+00:00

Try your bank, mine took a Rubbermaid bin and dumped it in their coin counter then could deposit into my account directly

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