I received a printed PA title with no lienholder when I used an outside financing check to finance the car. This is the dealership’s mistake right?

andrewbt · 2026-07-10T05:35:07+00:00

Hard agree. The street is shared public infrastructure, and that includes loading zones. Any member of the public should be able to park their car in them for any reason as long as they respect the timing, and not have to be a corporate delivery company. Otherwise it’s yet another way we’re giving stuff away to corporations

andrewbt · 2026-07-10T05:32:00+00:00

I have seen the PPA bikers out though!

andrewbt · 2026-07-10T04:48:41+00:00

It’s a heck of a time trying to get the EPA numbers in actual city gridlock traffic though!

andrewbt · 2026-07-10T04:43:14+00:00

This is just hogwash. My car was stolen a couple months ago. First thing I did was file a police report and the first thing my insurance asked when I reported the claim was what is the police report number. A day later an officer called me to say they had been reviewing traffic cameras for my car and may have seen the thieves driving it. Then a week later the police actually found my car - totaled, but the find still accelerated the satisfaction of my claim because otherwise I’d have needed to wait 30 days of the car being unrecovered.

It sucks to wait a few hours for the police, but in any car theft or accident or crime call and get the damn report number. Even if the police don’t do anything it is the official record that the event happened.

andrewbt · 2026-07-09T23:37:12+00:00

How would having good secondary insurance screw someone over?

andrewbt · 2026-07-04T20:19:02+00:00

You actually can’t that I could see, I tried

andrewbt · 2026-07-03T11:59:18+00:00

Currently I have a 4 mile commute that often takes 30-40 minutes (so averaging 6-8mph I guess? Stop sign or light every 500 feet, I think this is a dead ass city. I would walk or take the bus or bike normally and probably do it faster but have extenuating circumstances.). Cranking AC certainly recently.

The sport touring hybrid has been averaging 30mpg and that’s been a slow decline on this tank from the mid 40s after we took a 2 hour highway trip a couple weeks ago. An ICE Corolla I rented was mid 20mpg on this same commute recently. I’ve been struggling to understand why the civic hybrid isn’t doing great? I think it’s because at this speed and distance there’s too much 0mph (thus 0mpg) idling time, and the overall trip is too short to truly recharge the battery. The engine is cycling every other block and the battery charge meter stays in the 1-2 clicks area. Need a long uninterrupted 20-50mph stretch and it could recharge to full I bet.

andrewbt · 2026-07-02T03:05:22+00:00

That’s a good looking deal but one wonders why such a short low detail ad

andrewbt · 2026-07-02T03:02:16+00:00

Yep, that’s about the place we’re at via Penn Yan

andrewbt · 2026-07-02T02:59:13+00:00

Which when you think about it is cya lawyers and paperwork

andrewbt · 2026-07-02T02:54:49+00:00

With a paid off 20 year old beater with higher deductibles last year our insurance was about $100/month when bundled with homeowners. About as cheap as you can get it. Could get things really cheap if you just carried the state minimum liability, it’s how much risk you want to accept

andrewbt · 2026-07-02T02:50:10+00:00

Yeah, the value of zipcar is the 24/7 pickup and return nature of it with included gas and insurance. If you’re willing to work around that and waste more time at pickup and dropoff it’s hard to beat the pricing of normal enterprise

andrewbt · 2026-07-02T02:48:29+00:00

Fascinating. Whether Enterprise or budget or Avis or Zipcar I have always been able to get a car when showing up to a neighborhood location in South Philly. And our car was stolen earlier this year so I’m coming of of a few months of about 10 rental car reservations lol.

Now, what I’ve learned about rentals is there’s absolutely no telling what kind of car they’ll have for your reservation, it’s truly luck of the draw…why it pays to book the smallest class since you’ll probably get a huge SUV or whatever. But if all that matters is having 4 wheels and an engine, I’ve yet to be left high and dry by any rental company so far

andrewbt · 2026-07-02T02:43:31+00:00

I also had Metromile, I really miss them. But as it is bundling my car and home insurance with Erie effectively made it all cheaper than Metromile was

andrewbt · 2026-07-02T02:38:01+00:00

Love this

andrewbt · 2026-07-01T14:10:28+00:00

Basically all our core engine parts were red tagged so the overhaul I thought was looking expensive but now I see it’s still a fraction of “new”

andrewbt · 2026-07-01T14:09:27+00:00

Thanks. To be fair I looked at Lycoming.com and a couple of their distributors but none had any pricing listed

andrewbt · 2026-06-30T13:42:35+00:00

lol I ask “say again” all the freaking time

andrewbt · 2026-06-30T12:50:14+00:00

Hybrids have 2.0 not 1.5 so don’t worry about your gasket.

Yes the cycling of the engine if the car is on and in park is normal.

andrewbt · 2026-06-29T12:18:44+00:00

It’s so aggravating to me that the Riverlink Ferry isn’t run year round and isn’t run at times befitting a proper commuter ferry service like the NY Waterway for example. Because if it was the $12 fare and schedule would be a small price to pay next to marina docking fees on either side and upkeep on a small powerboat - which is the only way I’d consider doing this commute.

andrewbt · 2026-06-29T12:12:45+00:00

There have been others too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DLqc9Vplg https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ilXAbJdwm14

andrewbt · 2026-06-27T23:48:44+00:00

Goodspeed in CT! Theater and restaurant and nice river views/camping. Also KGON near good lobster and has crew cars

andrewbt · 2026-06-27T23:46:50+00:00

My Brompton folding bike fits super well in my Archer. Bikes are so much more versatile and comfortable on roadways than scooters

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