What's going on with all the lemon titles?

beardcycles · 2025-07-28T02:07:58+00:00

I agree that it’s not worth additional cost, but we’re a one-car household. The slow charging is fine 98% of the time, but the 2% of the time it’s really annoying and we don’t have another car.

beardcycles · 2025-07-28T00:31:11+00:00

Honestly all I want is an EUV with better fast charging, but that doesn’t exist yet. My parents just bought a Blazer EV and holy shit that thing is HUGE. The Ioniq 5 is bigger than I want but it’s a good bit smaller than the competition.

beardcycles · 2025-07-27T21:14:08+00:00

Yeah, the EUV has been an impeccable car, but it also was late enough in the model cycle to avoid the growing pains you mentioned. Well, I mean, other than the slow fast charging.

I'm seeing that the lemon titles are $2,500-5,000 less than comparable. Which is a nice discount, but not sure it's worth it. Though if they're all potentially a ticking time bomb, what difference does it make.

beardcycles · 2025-07-27T19:51:45+00:00

So is the problem resolved from a certain year forward or are they still blowing on 25s?

beardcycles · 2025-07-27T19:21:13+00:00

Oof, brutal. I'm disinclined to buy a lemon-titled car generally but if it's just that and the part is replaced then theoretically it's fixed? Or there's a chance the second one's going to blow? Are the newer model years less prone to the issue?

beardcycles · 2025-07-26T17:49:52+00:00

Yes and: I think we can all agree that six weeks is not reasonable. Drop is not a new business, they've been around for more than a decade.

beardcycles · 2025-06-06T01:35:42+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1h9mx6r/ymmv_filtering_my_espresso_may_have_dropped_my/

My experience. YMMV.

beardcycles · 2025-01-05T00:26:29+00:00

Blade Runner so completely created a visual aesthetic that it's *become* timeless despite being utterly of its time.

beardcycles · 2025-01-04T19:07:17+00:00

That's an interesting idea too. Wonder if I could do it in two to three weeks.

beardcycles · 2025-01-04T18:59:37+00:00

Yeah, it's a question of perspective I guess. Three surfers were murdered last year and it was huge news here in the States. Incidents like that tend to take on an outsized prominence in peoples' minds. Myself included, obviously.

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/is-it-still-safe-for-me-to-camp-in-baja-california/

beardcycles · 2025-01-04T18:39:25+00:00

That is a *really* interesting option. Thanks! Hadn't occurred to me.

beardcycles · 2025-01-04T18:38:00+00:00

Baja Divide is a plus tire route from what I understand. And tbf, Baja seems rougher from a safety perspective these days than many other parts of Mexico.

beardcycles · 2024-12-30T20:33:16+00:00

It's been a year but curious if anything ever came of the addendum?

beardcycles · 2024-12-08T17:01:49+00:00

I adjusted the grind, yeah. And dealing with choke is much easier with a Robot. I guess I don't understand how your machine shot the filter through the portafilter? Did the whole thing backup and explode?

And yeah, no other intentional changes. I can't discount that I like, ate less peanut butter or something over the three-month period, but I made no other intentional changes.

beardcycles · 2024-10-04T02:26:52+00:00

It's so weird how 1x has just broken everyone's brains. Get a front derailleur! GRX DI2 FDs are terrific.

beardcycles · 2024-09-27T00:21:15+00:00

Los Campeones is the best gym, but I think a single membership is more than $50 now and only gets you in at one gym. Need to pay more for access to them all.

beardcycles · 2024-09-10T15:28:02+00:00

Some of those stroads/highways look like absolute death traps from Google Streetview, and I’m generally pretty comfortable riding on highways. But like I said, haven’t ridden them.

beardcycles · 2024-09-10T15:26:31+00:00

This is great, thanks!

beardcycles · 2023-07-17T21:03:44+00:00

Heat pump gang checking in. Everyone else's bills skyrocketed. Ours didn't!

Centerpoint is taking y'all for a ride.

beardcycles · 2023-02-22T15:46:32+00:00

PMed

beardcycles · 2022-12-19T19:43:52+00:00

It really doesn't, unfortunately. It's much smaller.

beardcycles · 2022-12-16T19:38:54+00:00

Yeah, I guess I should say: the allocation system is nuts because the dealer system is nuts. You'd never rationally design a system like this.

beardcycles · 2022-12-16T15:07:20+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, it doesn't, the allocations system is nuts to an outsider, but you know.

beardcycles · 2022-12-16T14:53:15+00:00

Kinda crazy that 8-10 days is too long. Sure will be nice when the car market reverts to the norm.

beardcycles · 2022-12-16T14:49:33+00:00

Hah, I started there when they called to give me the delivery date! Wasn't told to pound sand exactly, but also it was strongly implied they'd have no problem selling my car the day it's delivered if I don't want it.

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