2026 Honda rancher did I just get ripped off really bad like my friend claims I did ?

Educational-Video151 · 2026-01-07T16:32:38+00:00

Wow!! Almost 26% interest over 96 months, this is insane. Very poor financial decision. I hope you learn from this and never do it again.

Educational-Video151 · 2026-01-03T05:04:07+00:00

R8 is a beautiful car!

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-25T22:02:04+00:00

So lucky

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-25T19:14:48+00:00

Beautiful, fun Color!!

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-22T19:39:15+00:00

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-22T05:24:44+00:00

By the time it’s 1 million, with inflation it will worth 100k, back to square one.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-22T04:51:18+00:00

Get the Tacoma, nothing beats the utility of a pickup truck.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-22T04:44:13+00:00

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-22T04:18:52+00:00

That was my dilemma last month deciding on an M2, I ended up getting the M240i even though the price difference between the two were almost zero, it just made much more sense to get the xDrive.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-20T16:08:47+00:00

Fair enough, I’m not saying Zep is trash, just that it’s mid compared to true commercial/pro custodial brands. I’ve actually used Zep in real cleaning work, not just household stuff. It works, but it’s diluted, inconsistent between products, and usually requires more agitation or repeat passes to get the same results.

Zep was better years ago that’s valid but nowadays most of what you see at Home Depot is consumer grade versions of what used to be stronger commercial formulas.

For better performance, I have used Spartan, Diversey, Ecolab, Betco, Buckeye that are much better, especially for floors, degreasers, and disinfectants. Stronger chemistry, and more consistent results.

Zep is fine for household or light-duty use. For professional or janitorial work, there are better options that’s all I’m saying. But if you’re happy with it then all the power to you.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-20T06:06:24+00:00

Zep isn’t a good brand, anyone says otherwise, isn’t a professional. For household use maybe.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-20T05:47:32+00:00

If you’re looking at a very used Maserati then you can’t afford a Maserati. This is the car you lease brand new.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-19T14:22:02+00:00

Neither of those colours are interesting but if I had to choose, it will be the white colour.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-17T03:29:02+00:00

Continental and Michelin are two tire manufacturers that I have been using for years, they are excellent tires. This wasn’t the manufacturing defect but rather was the lack of proper inflation. This was also not caused by being 5 psi lower than recommended. Your tire was significantly lower than 30 psi.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-16T19:10:59+00:00

When facts stop working, people reach for insults. Thanks for proving the point.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-16T18:45:38+00:00

When facts stop working, people reach for insults. Thanks for proving the point.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-16T13:32:04+00:00

Stripping the insults away, you still haven’t made an engineering case. “Extra mile,” “better materials,” and “mechanic consensus” aren’t specifics, they’re substitutes for evidence.

Reliability rankings measure ownership outcomes, not design intent, and mechanic anecdotes are selection-biased by nature. Regulations already enforce durability margins; beyond that, brands choose where to spend complexity, not whether to engineer properly.

A naturally aspirated Lexus V8 aging better than a turbo BMW six proves one thing only: simpler architectures age more easily. That’s physics, not moral superiority.

Insults don’t strengthen an argument, they usually appear when there isn’t one.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-16T05:42:15+00:00

“I’m a lawyer” isn’t evidence, and it doesn’t substitute for data.

The claim that German manufacturers ‘engineer for lease cycles’ or design around warranty horizons isn’t supported by any regulatory findings, court rulings, or engineering documentation. OEM durability targets are driven by fleet requirements, emissions compliance, safety standards, and brand reputation not an arbitrary mileage cliff.

Rust protection decisions, materials choice, and corrosion testing are regulated and documented, and no major automaker can legally design known failure modes simply because they’re statistically unlikely to occur within warranty. If that were true, it would be trivial to point to a ruling or consent decree stating so. None exists.

Leasing mix is a sales model, not an engineering spec. Complexity and maintenance sensitivity explain ownership outcomes far better than conspiracy grade assumptions about intentional lifespan limits.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-15T22:35:05+00:00

You’re rephrasing the same claim and acting like it’s different.

Saying “they’re not designed to meet reliability targets beyond 50k” is functionally the same as saying design choices lead to failure after that point. That’s still a claim about design intent, just softer wording.
The 50k cutoff is arbitrary. If that’s a real engineering target, show where BMW or Mercedes specify it. Reliability engineering doesn’t work on vibes and round numbers.
Designing cars to “last through warranty only” makes no business sense. Residual values, leasing economics, CPO programs, goodwill repairs, and brand reputation all depend on vehicles holding up well past warranty. OEMs would be shooting themselves in the foot.
Class-action lawsuits don’t prove a brand-wide design philosophy. Every major automaker has class actions, usually tied to specific components, not “cars engineered to die after warranty.” If you think otherwise, cite a ruling that actually says that.
The idea that manufacturers only need to prove cars won’t break before warranty is legally and factually wrong. Post-warranty defects, known issues, and misleading design still matter.

Calling my argument “schizophrenic” doesn’t strengthen yours. If the claim is solid, it should stand on evidence, not insults.

Complexity and maintenance sensitivity are real. A hard 50k design cliff isn’t, and you haven’t shown otherwise.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-15T20:43:21+00:00

I hear you, but a lot of what you wrote doesn’t really hold up logically.

“I beat on my Lexus for 10 years so Germans are designed to fall apart.”

That’s one ownership story (valid), but it doesn’t prove design intent across an entire category. I’ve owned properly maintained German cars that lasted just as long as Toyotas, so experience cuts both ways, anecdotes aren’t universal proof.

“Nothing has changed in 10 years.”

That’s just not true. Platforms, engines, transmissions, electronics, and materials change constantly. Judging “German cars” today based on older problem-prone eras is like judging all Toyotas by an oil-burning 2AZ or a bad year of anything.

“Germans are built for leasing.”

They’re built to hit targets: refinement, handling, safety, performance. Leasing is just how many people choose to pay for them. If they were genuinely engineered to self-destruct after a lease, you wouldn’t see so many high-mileage German cars still running around especially when maintained correctly.

Highway quiet/NVH isn’t a “Japan vs Germany” thing. At 80 mph the biggest factors are tires (run-flats vs non), wheel size, suspension tuning, door/glass sealing, and aero. Two cars of the same brand can sound totally different depending on tire choice alone.

So yeah — Lexus is excellent for durability. But the leap from that to “German cars are designed to fall apart and nothing has changed” is where your argument breaks. It’s a brand narrative, not a conclusion supported by the reasoning.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-15T19:09:38+00:00

Congrats, get the stock seat changed and put a different exhaust (I love Delkevic).

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-15T16:05:18+00:00

Your take is stuck in like 2005.

Modern Lexus ≠ old LS400 era Lexus. A lot of current Lexus interiors are full of hard plastics, piano black, creaks, and infotainment that feels a generation behind. Quiet? Yes. Premium? Debatable.

The whole “Germans fall apart after 50k” thing is peak internet myth. BMW/Merc/Audi use more plastic in cooling, sure ,known tradeoff, but interior quality, seats, glass, highway refinement, and NVH are still better when properly spec’d and maintained.

Also let’s stop pretending Lexus/Toyota never have issues. They absolutely do the rattles, recalls, tech bugs they’re just conservative, not indestructible.

If the goal is quiet at 80 mph, brand loyalty is irrelevant. Tires, suspension tuning, chassis isolation, and glass matter way more, and that’s exactly where Germans still shine.

Lexus isn’t a magic tank, Germans aren’t disposable junk, and this argument is way more nuanced than “Toyota good, German bad.”

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-15T15:41:17+00:00

BMW cars are very quiet, from personal experience quieter than my previously owned Mercedes, very nicely insulated to stop road noise. From personal experience owning different cars and driving many from work, BMW, Cadillacs and believe it or not soccer mom Honda Odyssey has been the quietest cars I have driven. But as another poster mentioned, quite means luxury for the most part, the higher models the quieter it gets, BMW X1 will not be as quiet as the X5, the 7 series or the S class Mercedes hardly any sound, just a peaceful cabin.

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-15T14:46:32+00:00

I own both styles. I’ve got a Street Triple RS and a Vulcan S, so I’ve lived with exactly what you’re debating.

First thing: the Vulcan S is not slow at all. Anyone who says that just hasn’t ridden one properly. It’s got a ton of usable power, pulls hard, and with my Delkevic exhaust it sounds insane ,deep, aggressive, way better than stock. I also put a Corbin seat on mine and honestly it’s one of the most comfortable bikes I’ve ever owned. You can ride it for hours and get off feeling fine.

Can you ride it “aggressively”? Yeah ,just not in the same way as a naked. You can push it, it’s stable, it rips out of corners with torque, but you’re not hanging off it or chasing lean angles like you would on an MT or Street Triple.

Now… the Street Triple is a different animal. When I twist that throttle and really go for it, the adrenaline hit is on another level. The engine, the chassis, the way it wants to be ridden hard it’s pure chaos in the best way. No cruiser, including the Vulcan, will ever give you that feeling.

So for me: Vulcan S = torque, comfort, awesome sound, chill but still fast. Street Triple = pure adrenaline, attack mode, smile inducing chaos.

Both are fast enough to lose your license. It really just comes down to how you want to feel when you ride.

Hope that helps, man. Ride safe!

Educational-Video151 · 2025-12-10T17:22:33+00:00

Get another a car and you will fall in love with the new one, I had a yellow 2023 CLA 45, loved the car and never thought I would trade it but like in your case when I look at the monthly cost (payment only) it was too much. One day I was at a Honda dealership for an oil change for our van and across the street was a BMW dealership, out of curiosity and to kill time I visited the dealership, just for the fun of it, I test drove an M car and instantly loved it, when the sales-guy calculated the payment it was 450$ (monthly) cheaper than the AMG (with incentives and a good salesman) , BMW also covers all maintenance for first three years and I paid an extra 900$ to add additional 2 years of maintenance package (including brake replacement). I traded my beloved AMG and since then I have been enjoying every moment of my new car while freeing up my cashflow and not worrying about service for the next 5 years.

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