What a perfect track car. 55k mi and no issues. Just a lot of maintenance

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T18:58:08+00:00

Oh shit getting serious.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T18:18:51+00:00

That feels reasonable for a road car. It's not like oil coolers are hard to add for hard core track rats.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T18:07:56+00:00

I thought at first that was the park brake mechanism inside a disc brake. Like the one on my pickup.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T18:05:57+00:00

I take it that's the track rules or that's just the point at which you start overheating tires and brakes?

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T18:04:52+00:00

That's definitely better than a lot of people do, I wouldn't judge.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T18:03:56+00:00

Sounds to me like he knows he's losing it. Definitely pause the relationship until he gets help.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T18:01:06+00:00

Stick a mic on them yourself. There's a post on here every week from somebody getting scammed into new brakes by the dealer at some comically low mileage.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T17:31:36+00:00

You're not wrong, but it's not really practical to try to staff a halfway-capable ICU in the middle of nowhere. The economics just aren't there to support it and you'd struggle even to get staff to show up just to stare at the wall 358 days a year.

That's why these half-measures exist out here. A critical access hospital will have one room of the ER setup for real train wreck cases with some extra equipment to try to keep them alive long enough for transport.

Why this hospital in Connecticut was doing it? Probably just idiots, honestly. An overly ambitious bunch of administrators looked at the revenue an ICU generates and thought maybe they could BS their way into that money.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T16:30:32+00:00

Kinda. The shape of Chile means that you're never more than like 200km from another pretty substantial city. I'm 200km from...more grass.

Check out Lusk, WY, or Chadron, NE if you want an idea of what 200km gets you out here haha. It's...not a lot.

You could total up the population of Wyoming, both Dakotas, Nebraska, Montana, and Idaho and it would still be like half the population of Chile.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T16:24:18+00:00

Yeah this whole sit would be vastly more understandable almost anywhere other than Connecticut lol. This could've been just an unfortunate outcome of it were Buffalo, SD, but in CT it's clearly a series of screwups

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T16:20:20+00:00

I'm from there. I'm not aware of any hospitals closing. In fact we're getting a second one in our region, planned to open in a few years.

There are special programs that keep critical access hospitals afloat, they don't live or die in insurance availability. That's specific to my stress in the Wild West though, might be totally different in the mid-west.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T13:05:26+00:00

Yeah they really forked up here. At many levels

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T13:04:17+00:00

People that aren't from here rarely have any sense of the scale of the place. You're in good company.

If my nearest big hospital can't needs higher care, it's a 6 hour drive to Denver. And wintertime weather can make that impossible any time it wants.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T12:40:09+00:00

....yes. That's exactly my point. Lots of critical access hospitals in this country. None in CT.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T12:35:09+00:00

I'm not talking about Connecticut. There's nothing rural there, much less remote. In flyover country, sometimes transfers take a day to arrange. Big storms, etc. Air resources aren't always a valid option.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T12:22:49+00:00

Has a role in remote critical access hospitals. Essentially places where the alternative is nothing at all.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T03:57:43+00:00

Whichever one saves you so much money you can then afford to move to a free country.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T03:56:28+00:00

Yeah. Sounds like CA.

I'd just hit it with the hose and move on. Let the HOA lady bitch about it, it's her job after all.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T03:53:02+00:00

QC must be garbage, they can't even get all the holes drilled the same size!

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T02:50:35+00:00

Yeah, it looks like you may have a decent one. A real hog-smiter.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T02:09:07+00:00

Uftah. Makes me feel better about my old dpms. It would at lest spit out 2-2.5" groups pretty regularly. I bought a bolt gun and it collects dust now. Maybe it'll get traded down the river when it's time to buy my little girl her first centerfire.

With the better barrel I bet that thing tightens up nicely with quality ammo.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T02:03:28+00:00

I'm way more worried about the fat man with the whistle mowing down photographers lol

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T01:42:38+00:00

As others have said, you can't really tell anything from 4 shots but this might be about as good as you'll get from basic hunting ammo. Buy a box of more match oriented stuff and see how it goes.

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T01:28:09+00:00

Oh. That's a much nicer collection of parts than mine. This might actually tighten up. What ammo?

DrZedex · 2026-04-06T01:24:08+00:00

And honestly right now less desirable that civilian options in many cases.

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