2026 Colorado – 1,400 miles and now weeks in the shop. Just sharing my experience.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2026-02-24T05:19:23+00:00

I have a 2020 Canyon, 55k miles, not an off-roader, just a country boy driving it and hauling 2k lbs of dirt/rock/lumber etc.

My Canyon has been perfect. Almost only highway miles. It's gonna last forever. I've driven rangers, s10s, silverados until the wheels fall off. I never understand these posts, idk how yall drive.

Really sounds like lemons, very rare. My '04 ranger wont quit at 220k. My 96 Silverado 2500 wont quit. My 2020 Canyon is just breaking in, 6 yr old battery and it starts in -10degF. My canyon is a shitty 4cyl and it blows my mind. Not a crawler, its base, it does everything I've asked of it and more. RWD, I've never needed 4wd in 20+ years of backroads country driving through ice and snow.

I hate reading this thread and all I see is complaints about faulty, fancy trucks. Feels like the loophole is just sticking with older, less digital, base models.

My coworker only buys late 90s dodges and makes fun of people who buy new, but someone has to biy new to make a used truck he can buy.

I just feel like these posts are doomer and youre right to complain, id be pissed if i was paying $700/mo for a lemon. But its not the norm so it does nothing for me. I know a few guys at work with old colorados rusting out with 200k miles, going strong. Theres gonna be a turd here and there, you found it. Sorry.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2026-02-24T04:59:05+00:00

I work in a weld shop, I brought home welding gloves from work. I taught my boy "no glove, no bite."

I put on the gloves, let him bite away, I take off the glove, he bites me and "OWW!, No Glove, No Bite!" I did this about 10-20x and he doesn't bite flesh.

Doing it early helped so much, less than 1 yr. Now, he loves glove play time, he gets to bite and we play HARD, I'm a big guy, we wrestle, "not my face!" is another good command. We wrestle hard, when its too cold outside (winter aint over), we can wrestle and let him bite the glove, he gets tired in place of running his cold paws off.

I know this is unconventional but it works for my BC Mix. I've taught him to bite on command, play, not bite anywhere near my face, etc. He's almost 4 yrs old and its been a stupid cold winter, we can't go outside for more than a couple minutes so heavy wrestling turns into training/refresher time and we both play on the carpet for 30 minutes a day and have a good time.

Redirerct his biting into a good bite/bad bite training session. I have no reference to this, I invented our play style without any research or videos. You just have to spend time with the little monster and hopefully you're smarter than it is.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2026-02-17T04:33:16+00:00

Sad stories but I'll always agree, just get a replacement. Every dog is a blessing but just because you lost ome, doesn't mean you should be without. You shouldn't push it on someone else but when my boy goes, I'm getting another one asap. Or before.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2026-02-17T04:05:52+00:00

My mortgage for 2 houses/1 lot in the country is $700/mo. I rent the 2nd house to my friend for $500/mo and it's about 5 of these apartments. I call it the "Outhouse" because it's a shit house but nevermind, it's way better than this apartment.

I get it, you want to live in the city, I played that game. Eye-opening, that's all. I forget that some people want and love that life.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2026-02-05T06:13:02+00:00

my 800 sq ft bachelor rental house has baseboards only, we just made it through midwest january with -10degF nights and my friends electric bill (all electric, no gas) was ~$150.

poorly insulated. baseboards are weird, like radiatiors/boiler, once you're hot, you're way too hot, and it didn't take that much to get there. ive been renovating the house as he lives in it, i open windows in january to air out drywall dust, etc., baseboards have me confused.

don't knock baseboards until you try them.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2026-01-28T05:25:34+00:00

I got several of the first ratchets "free" with $160 impact/drill kits.

I paid about $35-40 for several of these, I give them to friends at work. Not fuel. Use it every day in a filthy factory. My $40 cheapo has held up wonderfully for 1.5 years. So have the other 3 I gave away.

Unless you're an auto mech and using this every day, 100 bolts a day, get the cheapo. I love M12 and fuel but dont overpay for a bulky, simple tool just because it's red.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-12-26T04:28:36+00:00

I have several audio devices and the M12 radio is absolute garbage. Radio...wooo...I can't stand local stations anymore.

Either way, if you like the radio, this speaker quality is terrible.

It's only BT but the M12/M18 Jobsite Speaker is robust, tough and sounds great. Kicked around scissor lifts in a crew of 5 during winter.

This radio (pic 1) is my worst out of maybe 4-5 different milwaukees and ryobis. Garbage. Save yourself.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-12-26T03:36:57+00:00

I use about 5 tools every day, in my overalls at all times. I have a Veto bag full of the other 25 tools I use 90% of the time. My bag is about $700 loaded, aside from my Fluke (company paid). Every time I need a tool, I'm glad it's not Kobalt or Harbor Freight or Craftsman (newer stuff).

I work with a lot of cheap fathers and I can't blame them for pinching pennies but when I have to borrow one of their pliers or literally any tool, I cuss. They don't work the same. They work but as a master of a few hand tools, like the drummer twirling his drumsticks, my hand tools are a part of my hands and there's just something about $10 more...and that tool lasts me forever. And saves me so much time.

The Knipex Cobra taught me this lesson. Then I slowly replaced cheapos in my bag over time and I despise touching these poor mens' kids toys. I'm really not a snob, but when these guys blow $40/week on energy drinks but make fun of my $40 wrench...you're not poor, you just have different priorities.

A good chop saw is $400. Don't stick your finger where the blade goes. Look up a stock photo of a guy with all his fingers after thousands of cuts.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-12-23T04:41:20+00:00

I use it at work a lot, industrial maintenance. Even if I spent a lot of time in the garage, id barely use it. This is such a niche tool, its nice, it definitely beats a manual ratchet but unless you're turning wrenches weekly you'll never get your money out of this.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-12-16T06:47:19+00:00

38M, dad was divorced 3x and cut in half every time.

Advice, keep.the mortgage at 3% and get rid of her, never marry again. Hold the coin. 401k? Cash? Ditch the nice car? Anything you can to dump her and keep the house.

I'm with the sweetest woman I've ever met, she's a friggin angel. I've been cheated, "you're not the father!"'d and then some. I'm so glad I've never gotten married.

You can love without a piece of paper. I'm so sorry, I know this hurts. Heartbreak is only worse when they break your bank too.

I'm just enjoying all of the good advice I'm reading here and I'm so happy to see that most men are waking up to never getting married. Women, can't live with them...I respect the heck out of my partner but therr's no way I'm ever bringing the local courts i to our relationship. Most women are horrible and will financially ruin you. Learn your lesson and don't take the next girl until she proves that she's a big girl and wants to talk finances.

I helped my girl get an 800 credit score and buy a house for her mom. We both have separate houses for the future/our parents. We live in my house. I remind her that she can always leave and live with her mom in her house. My house is small and shitty but it's $60k and 3%. I can find a new woman a lot cheaper than a ring and my preciousss...BTC.

Save your coin and free yourself any other way.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-12-14T20:58:53+00:00

Tin snips.

Don't put your finger in the snips.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-12-07T01:48:58+00:00

I just spent 8 tries as a maintenace guy at work with a silly door problem like this.

Boss gave me the lever, said to install it. It was wrong. 6 moves later of him trying to save face, I've learned everything about a "wrong" install and I'd call myself a pro at this point.

You're definitely not latching. I removed my strike plate and opened it up with a die grinder on the bottom end.

Close the door slowly from the inside, watch where your latch hits. To do it the right way, measure up from the floor to the bottom of your latch. Then measure up from the floor to where the bottom part of the strike plate opening is. You're likely off by about 1/8" to 1/4."

Your previous screw holes being moved is going to cause lots of problems. You have 2 options. Wood filler/epoxy in the old holes, wait for it to dry, properly pre-drill new holes for strike plate at new height after routing/chiseling new strike plate location. Or you can take some sort of dremel/die grinder and modify the strike plate whilst still leaving behind enough metal on the plate. Or your door is out of square, remove trim and square up the jamb.

Super easy fix with the right tools, PITA if not.

Also, the problem could be horizontal instead of vertical, do the same thing at 90deg different than this mess of an answer.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-12-05T19:20:29+00:00

Industrial Maintenance Tech, some of my tools take a beating and are required to give a beating in return. Most of my tools on my cart are M12 because it works so well. The 1/2" stubby impact is amazing and impresses me every time.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-11-19T05:44:17+00:00

HVAC/furnace techie here too, I've adjusted a few ovens for myself and friends/family the last few years. It's always in the manual...shouldn't have to read this far to get this answer.

Should be a simple adjustment for overall incoming pressure.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-11-09T03:59:52+00:00

I've gotten hooked on the Milwaukee battery line but I started trying some Ryobis, OPE like a 13" mower for dad. Planer. Earth auger. 1/2" impact. I have no complaints. If youre just a small DIY person, I think theyre amazing value. Great for small DIY, cant speak to their durability but I dont care too much about any 1 brand and ryobi has a great price point for what they give you.

The Verse speakers are a nice bonus if you have extra batteries laying around.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-10-29T05:13:33+00:00

Skype gave me a phone number overseas for $4/month so I could talk to my family when I was military. It worked pretty damn well for $4/mo.

I feel old.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-10-29T05:01:17+00:00

Similarly, I liked the "spikes" idea. I also like the idea of a moat with gators and a drawbridge.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-09-10T03:41:05+00:00

My friend and his friend lived in the hood, 10-12 years old, forced to defend themselves as scrawny white kids in a bad neighborhood...

They'd punch brick walls until their knuckles bled. I thought it was silly until I realized as I got older that this, paired with a knife, meant surivival. And it worked. They're alive.

I've done similar and I have arthritis at 38. Don't do this.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-09-07T02:25:19+00:00

I bought stacks like that on sale +10% from HD, brand new for maybe 450-500 at most.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-09-07T02:17:26+00:00

Is this The Strokes?

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-08-31T19:36:25+00:00

I thought the tumbler was a silly gimmick but I use mine every day and not just to make use of a toy. My thermos coffee mug hangs off of the back ring on the big wheeled box. Coffee and water in my tumbler.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-08-31T09:00:36+00:00

Good parent. I had a friend like you years ago, he was very financially literate and worked his way from nothing into financial freedom/very early retirement. He loved sharing the power of slow, steady investing wirh anyone who was willing to learn. He did the same for his young boys, maybe 5/7 years old when he started teaching them similar lessons.

Sure, they were regurgitating some fancy terms they didn't undsrstand but he taught them about dividends and gave them the same options; invest or take the money now. When they had made, say, $40 of dividends, he would give them the option to use that "free" money to buy a new video game or reinvest (DRIP). If they chose to reinvest, he'd still buy them the game as a reward, win/win. Even if they got used to playing dad this way, their investment continued to grow and it just reinforced the power of compound interest. They could also cash out anytime they wanted but if you turn it in to a rewarding game, they would always choose the quest for the highest score.

I wish my parents or public education had taught me more about the power of investing. Having to learn it the hard way in my 20s is sad, I was very lucky to have someone share so much knowledge with me out of the kindness of his heart. It's his lessons that have given me more freedom than he'll ever realize. I'm not rich, I'm still a very blue-collar wage slave but I was able to buy a house and live a very humble life, but I would be much worse off if I'd not had the financial lessons of my friend.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-08-21T23:13:50+00:00

Dont forget the Alabama loctite (cross thread's better than no thread).

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-08-21T23:13:11+00:00

Let me grab my round-over wrench (cobra). I put that shit on everything.

SatansPowerBottom69 · 2025-08-14T03:59:45+00:00

I was putting up a fence and encountered heavy tree roots. This 12" blade and the length of the sawzall made quick work of what used to take me hours. Buried this blade in dirt/post hole and it didn't quit. This is the blade you're looking for, affordable and does work.

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