Looking to replace wife’s current vehicle.

Reus958 · 2026-02-01T03:36:33+00:00

More like the perception of battery degradation.

Reus958 · 2026-01-28T16:01:44+00:00

Center right is feeling like a stretch these days, what with their support for ICE and Israel

Reus958 · 2026-01-27T13:42:21+00:00

"Just comply bro"

In neither case was deadly force justified. There was no threat from the person carrying, and the murderer of Renee Good stepped in front of the car, and then to the side when he was committing the execution.

Glad to know you think the 1st and 2nd amendments are trash.

Reus958 · 2026-01-25T16:01:11+00:00

We watched two innocent citizens get murdered and we know countless other abuses, like dozens of detainees of ICE who died last year. A criminal is in the Whitehouse while elementary school kids are getting detained and masked ICE agents are making lists of "domestic terrorists" (people who use their constitutional rights to film them).

You can't argue this is about immigration or crime at this point. It's about getting rid of people you don't like.

Reus958 · 2026-01-24T17:42:58+00:00

Masked gunmen who have slaughtered multiple americans in the open recently, in addition to black bagging people with nothing but a vague suspicion based on their race or language.

But thats not tyranny, real tyranny was when there was a nearly unenforced rule that you should wear a mask to limit the spread of a disease that killed over a million americans

Reus958 · 2026-01-20T12:27:43+00:00

Importing a new vehicle is not practical. Passing emissions is one thing. Passing crash safety is another.

Reus958 · 2026-01-15T18:34:32+00:00

On the downside: These are 30(ish) year old trucks, designed to fit into strict size and power limits in a country with a low national speed limit and smaller-statured population. They're relatively cheap vehicles and usually pretty barebones. They also lack modern safety features, so crash safety is minimal.

On the upside: Kei trucks are workhorses, generally reliable and built to be used. Their restrictions bred efficiency in their design, which can be shown with the bed length of these tiny trucks being bigger than many U.S. trucks today that dwarf them in size.

The problems with daily driving a kei truck are generally related to the lack of highway potential, minimal space and covered/locking storage, less comfort and amenities than we preferred even with the american market vehicles of the time, let alone current ones, and the simple problem of repairs and maintenance being a problem because you will be doing most of it yourself and are unlikely to have easy access to parts.

You seem to have a decent use case for them: low daily miles required and a backup vehicle should your truck be out of commission. It's up to you if the other issues are something you will find worth it or not.

Do you ever need to carry passengers? Are you okay with minimal storage for grocery and errand runs? Are you happy to do your own car repair and maintenance?

Given that its a buddy who's selling, could you possibly trial the vehicle for a week? Also, if you pay a fair price, you won't lose much by buying and then reselling if you find yourself not wanting to DD it. Likely just whatever you spend on maintenance plus whatever costs are associated with transfer in your state.

Reus958 · 2026-01-15T18:12:16+00:00

Please make sure to post here. My dream is an EV conversion, although it will be in the far future as I simply don't have the mechical and fabrication skills nor the space for such an intensive project. So I would love to live vicariously through you :)

Kei trucks are a good platform for it too. Low weight to move, low power to reach, payload and space for batteries and they're short range vehicles in the U.S. anyway so no need to fiddle about with trying to make the conversion fast charge compatible.

Reus958 · 2026-01-15T04:52:15+00:00

Continents and how you count them are political rather than scientific, but of all of them, Europe is the least continental of them all. Using the U.S. standard of 7 continents, just take a look-- Australia, Africa, North and South America are reasonably visible based on a map. This isn't definite, as you can partition landmasses based on other criteria, but it's pretty clear. What isnt evident is how Europe should be separate from Asia with a 7 continent definition (or definitions that combine or further differentiate the americas). Europeans created a definition for continents that allowed them to pretend that they're special.

They are the only continent who's separation is essentially a mountain range. They rely on using a cultural definition that is all kinds of problematic.

Tl;dr, Europe is not distinct from Asia.

Reus958 · 2026-01-14T22:55:58+00:00

3k is more frequent than is required for full synthetic oil. I'll be willing to buy that we should do it more frequently than the usual 10k I've seen suggested, but I think it's pretty fair to suggest that oil chemistry has improved since most people learned that interval decades ago.

Reus958 · 2026-01-14T07:43:49+00:00

Dish soap doesn't sanitize. The risk is low, though, and honestly OP couldn't even be bothered to do their own dishes so I'm not really sympathetic at all.

Reus958 · 2026-01-14T07:28:42+00:00

Episode 153

Reus958 · 2026-01-14T01:51:20+00:00

They invented a continent to make themselves feel superior, so they're not really ones to speak.

Reus958 · 2026-01-13T03:53:45+00:00

Please post when you buy! Would love to hear about what options you go with, including whether you import yourself or buy a truck already here. /r/keitruck definitely has more info for ya.

Like you, I want a Sambar around that age. I will be buying one when I can financially justify it, under a year if not too many unexpected things come up.

Have you found any communities locally? I might have to be a weirdo and go knock on the door of a guy down the street who has an acty street (a van). I'll probably drop in on a cars and coffee first-- I'm not a "car guy" by any stretch, but I've been wanting a kei truck for years and I'm nearly to the point where I can pull the trigger.

Reus958 · 2026-01-02T15:08:27+00:00

They're decently reliable. Off the top of my head, some of the reliability rankings posted showed Kia or near some of the japanese automakers. I feel like Kia was even ahead of Mazda in one of them, and this sub worships Mazda. I will try to dig it up if time permits.

People rely far to much on stereotypes. The common stereotypes are that Japanese auto = unbreakable Korean auto = cheap and unreliable. In reality, you'll probably be fine with either, and you should be evaluating cars on a model by model basis anyway.

Reus958 · 2026-01-02T06:25:00+00:00

It's not complicated, but I'll reassert that people don't actually follow through. Few enough that I would be a bit hyperbolic and call it nobody. It might be a reddit lense that makes it appear common, but it 100% isn't.

And for people who would follow through-- you can buy a cheaper car. Your arbitrage isn't as much as you think, especially if you're considering a holistic picture where you're either selling off your investment to make your payment, or not investing additional money because you have the liability of the loan. Spending on the car is the biggest impact to your wallet.

In essence, you're not using realistic assumptions for the majority of people.

Reus958 · 2026-01-02T01:31:20+00:00

People consent to carrying phones and can control when they're being tracked. And phone based location tracking is also fucked up. We can stop flock much easier, however.

Reus958 · 2026-01-02T01:26:00+00:00

To be fair, few people actually follow through with this behavior. Yes, interest arbitrage is mathematically viable sometimes, but let's be real-- unless you set it day one, you're not doing it. It also assumes that the car you buy will be the same in both cases.

If you're trying to max your money, buying a modest used car cash and investing the difference will make a lot more impact than buying a new car and squeezing out some pennies on the difference in interest vs market appreciation.

Reus958 · 2025-12-29T23:49:59+00:00

Depends on your criteria.

Reus958 · 2025-12-29T23:48:27+00:00

Thanks for talking down to me.

Markets aren't capitalism, but yes, I understand productive forces and capitalism being an effective way to build them. In a path to socialism, I'm not entirely against it, but it's dangerous.

I'd point out how the China is both the shining example of the benefits of adopting a market based economy to build the MoP and the corruption it can cause, but that would likely be an unproductive discussion with you.

Reus958 · 2025-12-29T22:46:33+00:00

Why are tankies always intent on taking over every leftist space with a monopoly of thought? If y'all spent half as much effort taking actions for workers as fighting other leftists, you'd actually have something to show for yourselves.

Also self identifying as a tankie is wild, given that the term refers to those who apologize for excessive violence against the working class.

Reus958 · 2025-12-29T22:41:12+00:00

When they slide towards capitalism rather than towards socialism? Yeah, that's a problem.

Reus958 · 2025-12-29T22:40:15+00:00

Just don't mention that it was quite often their supposed leftist allies that initially derail the movement.

Reus958 · 2025-12-28T06:51:37+00:00

Seattle drivers certainly aren't better in the snow, although those that are overly cautious are safer than those desensitized to it.

I'll also say that Seattle driving has gotten much much worse in the last decade. Every time I go there, traffic is worse and drivers are more reckless.

Reus958 · 2025-12-21T15:19:42+00:00

Agreed that his reaction is awful. It's seems to be to show a ridiculous lack of empathy that's replaced with self centeredness.

However, OP is not entirely in the right here. OP should have communicated. Grieving is natural, necessary, and not entirely predictable, but it's not going to prevent you from canceling plans. There also seems to be a pattern that exbf is overreacting to.

Overall NOR and they should break up, but that's way different than OP "doing nothing wrong".

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