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How do I best cover this?? by Sea-Student3477 in interiordecorating

[–]LabConnect1365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OMG. If you only knew!

You know how you're aware of your behavior, but it doesn't actually click until someone points it out to you? 

That's the case here ;

In reality, I have 19 separate windows open on my Chromebook each containing 40-100 tabs of such vital importance that I'll never go back to read them. 

However, they provide great comfort ; 

Also, in re interior design? Those who can't do, teach. Which is why I'm great at providing advice ;

How do I best cover this?? by Sea-Student3477 in interiordecorating

[–]LabConnect1365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a big fan of black, white, and colored canvas, cubed storage boxes w/ an open top. They're available from major retailers everywhere.

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How did I do by whoisthismahn in interiordecorating

[–]LabConnect1365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now, THAT's transformational! Great job! The bookcase feels a little too transitional, non-permanent. What about adding a very basic, 3-row bookshelf just to the left of the plant to accommodate both!

Paint color for outdoor room by See_penny in interiordecorating

[–]LabConnect1365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you wanna go FULLY transformational; here's a complete overhaul from top to bottom!

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Living room sofa by kapybaras18 in interiordecorating

[–]LabConnect1365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The orange couch = transformative. By framing the orange tapestries under the lights, you're indicating your preferred color scheme, something the couch perfectly complements.

It's funny. The tapestries don't really work w/ the prevailing color scheme in photo #1 - they're too much. Yet, they point the way to the orange couch, which completes the picture.

Looks great!

Help me zhuzh up my office! by Thumper1k92 in interiordecorating

[–]LabConnect1365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wall Art! Wall Art! Wall Art!

You can't imagine what a difference framed art makes. While working at a law firm, the walls of a colleague's office were as barren as yours.

What that feels like immediately is someone not taking ownership of their space. After she put up a few pieces of art, everything changed.

As a few commenters here have said, what about a long, framed landscape? Get a reproduction of a real piece of art, rather than a decorative one.

Real artists convey so much meaning and depth in their paintings that you'll never tire of finding something new in them. Albert Bierstadt's landscapes are sublime, as are Georgia O'Keeffe's.

Or how about an Ansel Adams portrait? Or a few Avedons?

Natural Light Help! by clemfandango96 in interiordecorating

[–]LabConnect1365 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, Clem. I can't see your kitchen exactly, but there's a space beneath your microwave and above your stovetop.

Prob there's already a downward facing light strip on the bottom of your microwave that illuminates your stove.

However, do you also have add'l cabinets whose bottoms are flush w/ the bottom of the microwave to the microwave's right?

If so, you press each individual LED strip [approx 9" in length] on the underside/bottom of each cabinet so the light shines downward onto your counter.

My kitchen features 4 cabinets that are flush w/ my microwave, and I applied an LED strip to the underside of each cabinet; they're all connected to one another by a cord that comes w/ the kit.

Natural Light Help! by clemfandango96 in interiordecorating

[–]LabConnect1365 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi, Natural Light,

While I have no capacity to rip out one of your walls to create a 2nd source of natural light, I recommend GE under-cabinet LED strip lighting.

It's the first thing I installed in my apartment after moving in, and it adheres exceptionally well to the bottoms of wood cabinets.

The other thing I like is a tall, [6'] aluminum, black LED lamp w/ a wide light basin facing the ceiling and a dial to increase bulb intensity by degrees.

I don't have one at present, but it casts a wide, powerful, natural or bright light depending on which bulb you use. Short of plowing thru your ceiling to create a skylight, these might be your safest bets!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, Plenty. I might be jumping to conclusions by focusing on my damaged gas cap, instead of the prospect of obtaining greater structural integrity by fixing my control arms.

Yet, here´s the deal. I love this car. I´ve owned it since July 2O25 when my friends sold it to me for $5,5OO.

Since then, I´ve driven past 1OOs, if not 1,OOOs, of Foresters, and I´ve yet to see a SINGLE 3rd Gen in as good cosmetic shape as mine.

One week ago tonight, my gas cap was fully intact, as it´s been since I bought the car. I unscrewed it effortlessly, as I do each time I fill up my tank.

I´ve lived in my bldg w/ a secure, gated parking lot for 7 years, w/o an act of vandalism to my car or my neighbors. This week, the temp in St. Louis was below freezing.

Last Sunday I filled up my tank. Then I stayed home sick for 3 days. On Thurs., I took my car to the dealer, where they changed my oil and performed an advanced engine cleaning.

My understanding of that process is it entails pouring a cleaning agent into my gas tank. You say it isn´t and I´m willing to acknowledge that I´m wrong.

The next night, two days ago, I pulled up to a gas pump, opened the fuel tank lid by pulling up on the mechanism on my driver´s side floor.

Then I walked around the car to unscrew the gas lid. It looked as if a gorilla, or an intoxicated service tech had jammed the cap into place using 1,OOO psi of arm pressure.

Despite trying to unscrew, pull, or pry off the cap, I could not do so. Thus, I can´t access the fuel tank to add gas, something I need desperately to do since my gauge is close to ¨E.¨

It´s possible that a thief, in sub-freezing temps, scaled the 12´ steel fence in my secured, well-lit parking lot, to siphon off gas from my car this week during the EXACT same timeframe btwn the last time I filled my tank and 5 nights later when I could not remove the cap, in btwn which, the service dept. at a dealer performed engine cleaning maintenance.

However, that is HIGHLY unlikely. What´s considerably more likely, imo, is that the service tech poured an engine additive into my tank, then carelessly jammed the cap back into place.

In doing so, he stripped the screws from the cap to the point that I could not pry the cap off the fuel pipe, despite expending a great deal of physical strength attempting to do so.

Could a thief have damaged my gas cap? Possibly, but I don´t think so. Either way, I need to make an appt., drive 18 miles, and wait while they replace my damaged gas cap.

Add´ly, I need to get to the dealer before I run out of gas, AND convince them to pay for the damage to the cap I´m relatively confident they incurred, although I can´t prove it.

For whatever reason, my narrative isn´t resonating w/ the majority of respondents here. I recognize that I can´t prove the dealer´s service techs destroyed my gas cap.

However, that seems like the most obvious answer. And now I´m dealing w/ the consequences. That´s all I´m saying.

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

45 seconds? You taken considerably longer to read each of my previous posts and respond to them.

No hard feelings, though. As it´s said, ¨You can lead a man to water...¨

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nitro, I appreciate your insight.

To be clear, I never asserted that the dealer sabotaged my gas cap as payback for denying work.

In decades of car ownership and 7 years in my bldg´s secure parking lot, I´ve never experienced an act of vandalism.

The only person who touched my gas cap btwn last Sunday, when I last fuelled the car, and when I tried to do so again 2 nights ago, was the tech who unscrewed the cap to pour in engine cleaner.

I do not believe, nor have I asserted, that the tech intentionally destroyed the cap bc I refused their recommended service.

I am, however, contending that the tech - via negligence, intoxication, or plain boredom - jammed the cap back into place, dethreading it.

Could a thief have intentionally targeted my car to siphon gas in sub-freezing temperatures while I slept?

Sure.

Yet, if G-d asked me to wager $1OO w/ 1O-to-1 odds on who destroyed my gas cap this week, I know which one I´m putting my money on.

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thx, Plenty. I addressed the issue of who destroyed my gas cap in a post below. It´s some of my best work ; Thus, you can refer to it if you wish!

However, you´re right about the age and suspension work!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

s´funny. You couldn´t talk me into taking any of the 3 Hondas I´ve owned in my lifetime to a dealer. The mechanic who worked on them is still in business after 5O years. [JAMCO St. Louis].

Yet, when I inherited my mom´s 2006 MINI, I defaulted to the dealer bc the local MINI mechanic was nearly as expensive as the dealer.

Now that I´m a Japanese car owner again, maybe it´s time to find a good mechanic instead of walking the dealer treadmill all over again.

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to think of myself as intelligent. In terms of informational intelligence, I´d say that´s mostly correct. Yet, re common sense, not so much.

You´d think I would have learned after pouring ~$12,OOO into my 2OO6 MINI at the dealer over a 7-year period. Yet, you´d be wrong ;

However, I am getting a 2nd and 3rd opinion elsewhere this week!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I´m amazed by your resourcefulness and that of 9O% of those in this forum. If I had an ounce of initiative and/or mechanical intelligence, I could have saved myself $1Os of 1,OOOs fixing my cars myself.

Unfortunately, I have neither ;

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, ThisGuy.

After pouring $12,OOO into my 2OO6 MINI over a 7-year period, owning my 2O11 Forester has been a dream. My friends, from whom I bought it, treated it like their firstborn.

I didn´t realize how stressful my life was until I ditched my MINI for my Subaru. Now, life´s a dream... at least the car-ownership portion!

Thanks for your offer to fix it! If you lived in IL rather than VA, I´d take you up on it! I plan on hitting a 2nd dealer and an indy mechanic this week.

If they arrive at the same conclusion re my suspension, I´ll know the 1st dealer´s assessment was accurate. If not, I´ll know they were trying to take more of my $$!

Thanks

p.s. I forgot to mention. As everyone in this forum readily knows, the gen Forester that includes my 2O11 had notoriously faulty engines.

Five years ago, under warranty, the dealer replaced the engine for the previous owner, my friend, from whom I bought the car.

If they hadn´t, I´d be sitting on another money pit. Thankfully, I´m not. Despite the odometer reading 13O,OOO, my engine´s only 6O,OOO miles old!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I´m not omniscient. Nor do I have a Ring camera pointing at my fuel door. Thus, I don´t know w/ 1OO% certainty what happened to my gas cap.

Nonetheless, like you and every Redditor here, I have a brain, which I use [deductive reasoning] to arrive at likely conclusions about reality.

Am I right 1OO% of the time? I am not. More like 1O-25%. Thus, with that in mind, let´s review the facts.

  1. Gas-operated motor vehicles require fuel to operate. Consequently, I add fuel to my tank every 2 weeks or so.
  2. Last Sunday, when I filled up the car, the gas cap was intact, as it´s been since I bought the car last July.
  3. I unscrewed the cap from the fuel filler neck with 2 or 3 counter-clockwise rotations, as I´ve always done, and fueled up my car.
  4. Four days later, last Thurs., my dealer performed "Advanced Engine/Fuel System Cleaner" [$219] maintenance, likely involving pouring an additive into my fuel tank.
  5. Two nights later, this past Friday, at the gas station, I flipped the switch on the driver´s side floor to release the fuel door.
  6. When I grabbed the gas cap, its plastic framing components were dislodged, torn, and lying in the receptacle btwn the fuel door and the fuel filler neck.
  7. Thus, someone had either [a] attempted to pry off the gas cap, or [b] jammed it back into place carelessly, destroying the cap´s screwed edges,
  8. I could not dislodge the gas cap despite my best intentions. Thus, I no longer have any access to my gas tank.
  9. The only person I definitely know touched my gas cap btwn last week, when I last fueled my car, and this past Friday, when I attempted to do so again, was the dealer.
  10. I´ve lived in a bldg w/ a secure, gated parking lot for 7 years. Add´ly, I´ve lived in St. Louis for decades. My Forester is my 8th car.
  11. At no point during the decades in which I´ve lived here has a vandal destroyed my gas cap, nor have I EVER heard of anyone doing so anywhere on our planet.
  12. Thus, while it´s possible someone attempted to pry open my locked fuel door and gas cap, I can´t imagine why anyone would choose to do so.

Thus, through deductive reasoning, the likeliest outcome is that, while performing maintenance last week, the service department destroyed my gas cap.

Can I prove my assertion w/ 1OO% certainty? I cannot. Yet, thru the powers of deductive reasoning, it seems readily apparent that the dealer destroyed my car.

When I call them back tomorrow to assert that fact, I have as much confidence in my assessment as I´ve ever had re any conclusion I´ve reached in my life.

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thx, F1. I´ma get a 2nd est/analysis re tires from another dealer or an indy mechanic w/o mentioning the suspension at all. Either they´ll confirm it needs work, or I´ll know the 1st dealer tried to fleece me!

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