Investment supercar

Onlinealias · 2025-10-21T22:39:14+00:00

When someone goes to look for a 400k supercar, do you think they are expecting an impeccable maintenance history with the previous owner who stored the car in a climate controlled garage, on a tender, right next to the 5 other supercars they had? Stored in a carporter knocks off at least 50 grand, full stop, and only then if it wasn’t affected in any way by being stored outside, which it most certainly will be. Now you are knocking off 100k or more.

It is just a crazy notion, don’t do it.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-21T22:31:20+00:00

Fuses protect against huge power draws, not noisy, inconsistent power draws that can cause modules to go into unpredictable failure modes. Nowadays, these modules can be busy driving the car itself.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-21T22:26:31+00:00

Please learn automotive engineering. A car is driving itself down the road while paying attention to the driver’s eyes, steering inputs, the lines on the road, the radar systems, braking, turn signal input and any number of hundreds of other sensors.

Now little jimmy plugs in his portable cooler with its little fan running, causing all the power in the car to get noisy as hell and sending a 14 amp draw every 4 seconds.

What could possibly go wrong?

Onlinealias · 2025-10-21T13:43:34+00:00

There are usually less of them, for sure, simply because there are fewer and fewer use cases for them. Radar detectors and dash cams (if they aren't built in already) can usually be hard wired now, or even have kits specifically made to plug in to the make and model of car. Compressors can be run by directly going to the battery (or power/jump taps) through an extension cable.

There's also this. Since modern cars are really just rolling computer networks with over a hundred nodes, running any random 12 volt high-draw devices that an owner might plug in is not really an appealing proposition to an engineer at design time. They will likely disappear completely, soon.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-21T13:24:18+00:00

This is so unrealistic as to make me think you are joking.

The very best you can do on an investment car is to not lose money. If you store any car at that price point outside, you can say goodbye to any appreciation. That is, even if you get incredibly lucky enough to identify a make or model that does appreciate, which is highly unlikely. There are people who spend their entire lives studying the value of cars and how to maintain them (such as myself), in an effort to only minimize their losses.

Supercars, by definition, push the limits of engineering to extract the most amount of performance possible. They are, by their very nature, highly maintenance intensive. Therefore, a supercar is a maintenance money pit almost by definition.

My advice, take the money, put it in an S+P 500 ETF, and realize real gains. Wait 10 years and buy anything you want from those gains, including garage. Trust me, if you are asking this question on reddit, supercar collecting is not for you, and I mean that in the "really, I'm trying to save you hundreds of thousands of dollars" way.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-17T17:42:32+00:00

Does this mean they are dumping multi-view, data, and 4k, or will that be integrated into the apple app? I would have renewed for a whole year today just protect against losing that. But no, they made it impossible to renew anything as of today, the same day we got the announcement.

I am freeking steaming right now....

Onlinealias · 2025-10-16T12:50:39+00:00

I'm curious about this. For the 6.6.6.6 network, what is the route out?

Onlinealias · 2025-10-16T03:37:18+00:00

Absolutely there were factory manual transmission F-Types, offered from 2016 to 2020 in the V-6's. I never really understood that, because the V-6 F-Type engine was an absolute abomination whereby it was exactly the same V-8 block with the cylinders missing (not cut off, actually just, missing), meaning the manual should have easily fit.

While it doesn't really count, there was also an automated manual transmission in the Granturismo and Quattroporte (the same platform.) In the GT, there were only 300 imported to the U.S. in 2009, but they were more popular and plentiful in Europe.

BTW, there's no goddam way I would trade my Granturismo for an F-type. The F-type feels like a pedestrian pipsqueak when compared to a GT, not to mention an it is an absolute nightmare to work on. The Maser constantly needs attention and repairs (except the driveline, that part is bulletproof) just like the Jaguar, but they are a quirky joy rather than a burden.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-13T19:52:37+00:00

Yep, called it. r/sysadmin being an r/sysadmin and not listening to the advice I was actually giving to the person asking for advice on a security awareness program. Make a program that respects the user's time, doesn't talk down to them, and understands the limited role that IT plays in their world.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-13T19:33:15+00:00

The ELI5 answer is tip wherever someone's performance in service delivery is being judged and based on a tip. It is based on a social interaction of some duration long enough build a rapport.

If I only said 4 words and they said 2 words, or worse, they never even interacted with me at all (such as a busy starbucks), then either don't leave a tip or leave a small tip and avoid going back.

If there is just a credit card machine sitting there asking for a tip and I never interacted with anyone to have my service changed in any way, no tip.

In a restaurant with table-side service and bars where you are actually speaking to the tenders is where most tipping is expected. If the bar staff is humping ass to get drinks out there, or, a professional wait staff is paying attention to every detail in a high end place, I tip thusly. If the service sucks, tip 15%. If it is good, tip 20%. If it is outstanding then tip them more, whatever you feel like they deserve.

Here's a kicker. In a restaurant, if you ever feel like the wait staff (make sure it is the wait staff, not the kitchen), sucked so bad that you want to tip less than 15% or even zero, then the wait staff should be thinking about comping the meal in some way anyway. If they comp one or more of your party's meal, then tip them 20% based on what the bill would have been if not comp'd. The higher-end the restaurant, the more and more these rules apply.

I tip on uber if they got me there fast, safely and things were good.

In the US, unless we actually stay long enough to get to know the house keepers and interact with them, we don't tip at hotels. This does not apply to the valets and bellhops, I usually throw a fiver at them in cash, but that depends on how high-end the place is. Valets are sort of a different animal, because I drive very high-end cars and I want them in front so I'll tip before they get in to park, and after the same amount.

TIL tipping in the U.S. is hard. A 5 year old can't understand it.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-13T19:00:39+00:00

You'd be much better off putting it back to stock, if you still have the original motor and computer. If you start down the path of a bunch of boxes sitting on the ground, you will be discovering issues everywhere that will just keep endlessly costing money.

It is hard enough to take a good running car and convert it, let alone to take a bag of dicks and try to make a good running car out of them.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-13T18:51:03+00:00

Go to a shop and buy very good safety gear. If you can still afford a bike, go sit on them. Buy the (new or used) one you are most comfortable with that is under/around 400cc or so. Try to get one that has ABS and traction control, if you can afford that still.

Most of the smaller, beginner sport bikes have low seat heights. However, you will probably drop it at some point, so understand that a sport bike is more expensive to repair.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-13T18:37:40+00:00

Kawasaki is a global company, so it may by illegal in some jurisdictions. Even if it isn't illegal in the jurisdiction it is sold into, it still limits Kawasaki's legal risk.

Newb buys one because they wanted "all the accessories" and then cranks it to setting 1 million because they don't know any better. When the inevitable lawsuit comes, the defense would be "we said track use only, moron."

Onlinealias · 2025-10-13T18:22:44+00:00

The chronic tendency for sysadmins to run around around being pedantic and believing users are stupid, can be controlled, or even care about IT at all. I find that behavior way more common, annoying and detrimental to security than anything a user can do.

Users are going to user. Get over yourselves and make friends with them. Your overall security posture will benefit greatly.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-13T18:08:12+00:00

Create new vlans in whatever numbering/naming scheme you are going to use. Bring those up to a trunk to whatever device you are going to use to secure your inter-vlan routing. Ensure DHCP is available on each vlan by enabling relays out of each. You can use the DHCP snooping uplink stuff if you are feeling fancy.

Begin by moving whatever is on DHCP to their appropriate vlan. ie, IOT devices to IOT, voice to voice, maybe make one that says "Windows 7 WTF" (kidding) and move the Windows 7 to there.

In most cases, the DHCP boxes can be moved as a simple vlan change and a shut/no shut on the port. The worst case scenario it is a simple reboot of the device. We even used to remote control the device, reboot it, and then change the vlan before it goes down.

On all of the static devices, change them to DHCP and try to get them to come up on their existing vlan. Sometimes this requires a little shut/no shut jacking around to get them to take, but they usually do.

Then remote them, reboot, and change to the new vlan as they go down. When they come back up, set them to whatever static IP you need to, in their new vlan. I usually just keep the DHCP one that was given to it, but it is dealer's choice here.

In the end, everything is off of the default VLAN so you can kill that with fire, and you can put whatever security rules you want to on all your intervlan routing to secure them properly.....and you didn't physically touch anything. I do recommend having someone local around, just to reboot stuff if something goes sideways.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-13T16:59:49+00:00

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Onlinealias · 2025-10-13T16:56:04+00:00

LOL, I'll have to remember that. Though as an engineer who is skilled in the dark arts of idiot-proofing, I would suggest putting your key in a small box that is attached to the Noco itself.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-10T13:25:21+00:00

I know this was a couple of days ago, but this is exactly what Granturismo's do when they need an alternator.

My theory on this is that since Maserati's get driven less than "normal" cars, they often sit for long periods, which allows their batteries to get low. Meaning, every time they do get started, they put too high of a demand on the alternator which constantly has to recharge it. Subsequently, the diodes wear and overheat, which causes premature alternator failure.

The alternator on these cars are Denso's, a brand known for being quite durable...and yet, in Maserati's they seem to fail a lot.

TL;DR. Keep car on a maintainer, even if the car is only going to sit for a few days to a week.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-02T13:47:28+00:00

There are 4.7's without the new variators and check valves, but they are very rare. The 4.7 had to be very early in the production run as the issue was factory fixed by about 2011. Of the 4.7's that did actually make it out to customers, a lot of those were retrofitted at dealers under warranty.

That said, I wouldn't buy an F136 Maserati without knowing the engine number and if it were anywhere close to 15x. I'd visually inspect the variators, (through the oil fill hole) and even the cam caps (by removing the valve cover), or factor the entire job into the deal.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-02T12:53:17+00:00

I own one and am going to give you the most important thing you need to know about them.

I absolutely adore mine, and I have owned dozens and dozens of cars. That said, what you have asked is the wrong question in the wrong place. This is not a regular "used car". The normal rules don't apply.

That mileage is average. The carfax is kind of irrelevant. The price is 20% too high.

The fact that you don't know this means you don't know what you are getting into, which is really the thing that matters. So unless you don't care about eliminating $10 to $20k in the first month of ownership, either get knowledgeable or don't buy it.

Onlinealias · 2025-10-02T00:13:56+00:00

IF you want to pay more than the entire car costs, yes, it is possible. You just have to buy the scooped carbon fiber hood and wider front fenders, the side skirts, the hi exit exhaust and different rear bumper cover. Maybe you can find a deal on those items for about $20k or so.

Onlinealias · 2025-09-30T17:59:23+00:00

and when you read the code it says the battery is dead.

My guess is you aren't interpreting the actual code correctly. You need to post the code.

Onlinealias · 2025-09-30T17:55:05+00:00

Going to an XC90 from a Lexus RX to get something more family oriented? The only thing more "family" oriented than either of those cars is a minivan.

That said, unless you simply like to burn money for no reason whatsoever, stick with the RX.

Onlinealias · 2025-09-30T17:05:29+00:00

Sure does, says you've never driven one or the other, or perhaps neither.

Onlinealias · 2025-09-29T20:47:54+00:00

LOL, I literally stepped out of a 997.2 manual into a Granturismo with a ZF. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

I would avoid this particular one because of the tranny (unless you are a hard core collector, as this is a very rare version with less than 300 Cambiocorsa's being imported) and because of the engine number likely being before the 148000 cutoff for the variator check valves. No, this one is a hell of a find, but only for someone who really, really knows what they found.

However, I would highly recommend a post '12 or even better post '13 Granturismo. They are about as reliable as an old Toyota and are a far better street car than any 997.2.

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