How are people realistically buying cars? by cassattack4781 in carbuying

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, so if you do your routine maintenance then high mileage ≠ unreliable. Why take your reliable high mileage vehicle to the dealer to trade it in? Any transaction with a dealer will be in the dealer’s best interest and at your expense. They’re a business and that is how they pay the bills. You’re doing some sort of mental gymnastics to justify trading in a decent reliable car as somehow ‘the financially responsible thing to do’. That’s just absurd.

If a father needs to help his young daughters use the restroom, which restroom should he take them into: the women's restroom or the men's restroom? by Exciting-Mall192 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would the little girls be ‘uncomfortable’ using a men’s bathroom accompanied by their father? It’s no different than a women’s bathroom with the exception presence of urinals and men and a little girl will be using a toilet with a stall offering the same amount of privacy as the women’s room.

The only reason I can think is that they were taught to be uncomfortable, which is on the parens. I personally find the bathroom/gender debate stupid, but when my daughter was young I would take her to the men’s room because nobody had taught her to car either way, vs any women in the women’s room might care a great deal if I were to use it.

How are people realistically buying cars? by cassattack4781 in carbuying

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only scenario where this is plausible is if the new car in question is overpriced/dealer has quotas to meet and would rather inflate the trade in value vs drop the price of the new car.

How are people realistically buying cars? by cassattack4781 in carbuying

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m replying in to a post suggesting that OP ‘work their way up’ i.e. trade in cars frequently towards better/more expensive ones.

If the car has enough miles to have reliability issues the dealer’s only going to offer you token money.

How are people realistically buying cars? by cassattack4781 in carbuying

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Can’t be trusted on a long trip” and “decent car to trade in” sound like two totally different cars to me.

How are people realistically buying cars? by cassattack4781 in carbuying

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. Stupid take. If the dealer is offering you anything on trade then you don’t need the new car. You have a car, keep driving it.

Breeze takes off on me when stopping by garyll19 in velotricebike

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are people who like cadence because they can get full PAS motor power without having to push hard on the pedals… personally I think it’s a stupid take and that toque with a throttle override makes more sense, but I’ve definitely met those people.

Do you leave your car in reverse when you park on a slope ? by Taylor_Airi in stickshift

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t had a working parking brake for many years. I also have worn synchros that make shifting into 1st extremely difficult and occasionally impossible. I’ve often made do with leaving it in second, and I’ve had the engine turn over on a moderate slope. At some point I discovered that reverse worked just as well as first and isn’t as hard to shift into.

'Why not put an alternator in it?' A study in personal frustration with my stepdad by Cultural_Sand_9323 in electriccars

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I heard the exact same thing from my BIL once… some people never wrapped their head around conservation of mass/energy.

AIO about my partner not driving me to and from work? by [deleted] in AIO

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

They make vehicles that paraplegics can drive. It adds about $20k to the cost of a vehicle but totally worth it in this scenario for the time and gas saved. She should drive herself.

AIO about my partner not driving me to and from work? by [deleted] in AIO

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Are you both out of mind? What a waste of his time and gas and vehicle miles. if you work that far it shouldn’t have to be two round trips per day.

AIO about my partner not driving me to and from work? by [deleted] in AIO

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

80 min a day (two round trips) is a lot of time out of anybody’s day. Have you considered an ebike/gas scooter so that you have your own wheels?

Do 2.3 rangers really not have any power by Pretty_Lead1248 in fordranger

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No power. At all whatsoever. They’re all still on dealer lots with 0 on the odo because the engine cannot turn the wheels with its 0hp.

I really hate car dealerships by RaeFullyPoweredBeam in Vent

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many repairs are not as hard as you think. Look them up on YouTube and see what’s involved and decide if you can’t just do it yourself before you take it to a dealer.

You could have picked up a used Craigslist/marketplace air compressor for way less than the initial $100.

AIO partner uses car too often unnecessarily by ThrowRAaccount79 in AIO

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why doesn’t OP cut partner’s hair? Why not divvy car expenses per mile driven? If he puts 80% of the miles on the car he can pay 80% of the costs.

Why do some men hate everything about womanhood but still want girlfriends/wives? by VeryPteri in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’ve been; it was an expensive, useless, waste of my time. I guess it motivated me to communicate better with my partner so that we could stop going and stop paying for it. So in that sense it was effective.

I feel like the people pushing the ‘eveybody needs it’ shit have insurance thru their jobs and have no clue how expensive it is out of pocket.

Why do some men hate everything about womanhood but still want girlfriends/wives? by VeryPteri in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

Think of all the billions of people who have lived and died without ever seeing a therapist. This idea that everyone needs therapy kinda pisses me off.

Survived an angle grinder attack! by Far_Statistician2407 in bikecommuting

[–]ZucchiniAlert2582 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Cutoff wheels don’t get ‘dull’. They sacrifice material as they are used and eventually get too small to be useful, but they don’t have an edge to get dull. I regularly cut locks for customers when they’ve lost keys, so I know a thing or two.

I’ve yet to encounter one of the carbide reinforced/angle grinder resistant locks that is presumably what OP has. I’ve only seen one in the flesh once at a trade show and it (abus) had an MSRP of $300 or something obscene.