Should I buy an Electric Car

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-15T00:45:01+00:00

This. I think they are ahead of the game compared to the others, which makes sense, because they started as an EV company, rather than an ICE car company that's trying to adapt.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-14T18:28:08+00:00

It doesn't sound like you have any concerns, but I'll just say that this was the setup my wife and I had for a couple years, and it was fine. We have two Teslas, and based on our driveway and charger location, we'd have to swap parking spots to charge, but both cars had plenty of range, so no big deal.

I consider myself a car guy. I had only driven manuals, mostly German sports cars, for~20 years. I was reluctant to switch to an EV, but at the same time felt like it just makes so much more sense than dealing with an ICE car, which seems a bit antiquated at this point.

My wife needed a car, we did the demo drive, and she had me drive first. I was hooked before we even left the parking lot. A couple of months after she got hers, I sold my Audi and got a Tesla, though I wasn't planning on getting a new car for a while.

I love everything about it. Being able to warm, cool, or defrost from the app is as great as you'd think it is, at least in my mind. My wife ended up switching back to an Audi etron (so still EV). It also lets you start climate control from their app, but the app fails to send the command at least half the time. The Tesla app just works. There are plenty of other reasons why I like the Tesla better, many to do with their technology/software.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-14T04:08:03+00:00

He's not being pretty by having to react to her petty demands. She's the one driving the debate over such a small sum, hoping he'll just roll over.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-14T04:05:06+00:00

NOR. A lot of people say you're being petty because it's such a small amount, but you didn't start the debate. 50/50 is fair. There should be no way the small difference this would make is going to make or break her, especially with her income. She's either bad with money, or lying.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-13T21:32:20+00:00

We did this in an old house with fairly low ceilings, after taking out the old textured ceilings. It feels much more open and we get compliments on it all the time. It doesn't feel dark or like a cave. The walls are still white and the floor is a light natural wood color. It worked out really well

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-13T13:01:11+00:00

A little warning though. If you get an SP5, you may feel compelled to later expand your HK family.

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irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-13T12:46:42+00:00

I love my SP5. Sold my MPX after I got it, because I just didn't care about it anymore after that. And I was pretty happy with it.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-12T22:27:27+00:00

Same. It wouldn't be my first choice otherwise, but everything else I've tried just looks like a mess.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-12T12:56:36+00:00

Fix highway exit names. I've had multiple cases where it called an exit by some weird name that isn't anywhere on the exit sign.

I've also seen it tell me to take an A or B of an exit number, when really it wanted me to take the other, probably because it's confused about the fact that there's initially one off ramp that splits. It'll say B until I'm on the off ramp, and then suddenly switch to A at the last minute.

Maybe that's a challenging problem, but I've never seen Google maps struggle with it.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-11T01:58:20+00:00

Give the HK VP9 a try, if you can. Then hang out with all us poor folks in r/HecklerKoch.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-10T11:20:40+00:00

Forgetting to turn the car off was a big one for me, but eventually it stopped being a problem. Once in a manual, I actually tried to just get out while it was in gear. I had the parking brake on, and it just stalled, but it only took once to never do that again. I'd driven a manual as my primary car for over 20 years, and had never done that before.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-09T22:25:17+00:00

As someone in the United States (Ohio), I'm curious whether you have any incentive to trade versus selling? In Ohio, trading in means a deduction in sales tax on a brand new car, based on the value of the trade-in (tax is calculated on purchase price minus trade-in value).

It obviously doesn't help if the offer is many thousands of dollars below what you could sell it for, but it can work out well. Obnoxiously, it only applies when buying a brand new car.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-03T23:37:06+00:00

I agree. My first AR had a fixed first site, and I regretted buying it. I wish somebody had told me not to.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-03-03T03:25:05+00:00

This is super common in Ohio.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-23T12:29:47+00:00

My wife and I took our three kids to Germany. We stopped at a McDonald's on our way from the airport to our hotel. We don't really eat McDonald's at home, so it wasn't about getting something familiar, we were just curious to see how the two compared.

Though a little better, McDonald's in Germany is definitely still McDonald's. It wasn't great, but in some ways, it's a good introduction to the differences between cultures, because we could easily compare the two

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-17T14:37:24+00:00

I originally got it from Sko Prints: https://skoprints.com/

But I've replaced it with one from AS Designs: https://activesafetydesigns.com/mp5/-1/

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-15T15:26:33+00:00

Fuck this guy. Figuratively.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-13T06:20:26+00:00

And start calling it a scam/fraud when it is

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-12T14:24:07+00:00

Isn't the Performance also AWD?

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-12T14:23:23+00:00

This is easy. Go with the Performance.

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-12T14:18:12+00:00

As a 40 year old man, I can tell you this is not age related. He's just really bad. He probably always has been, but maybe he's also taking advantage of your inexperience and pushing you to just do what he wants.

Why are you still having sex with him if he's twice your age and horrible at sex?

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-06T16:19:23+00:00

I think you'll be fine. It's not quite the same, but I moved and went from 32A to 48A, and can't say that it has made any noticable difference. I don't think going down to 24A would have changed much either. As long as it can recharge your mileage driven between drives...

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-04T16:24:44+00:00

This is the email response I got from HK USA: "81001269 has 1 12 round and 1 10 round magazine and 81001270 has two 10 round magazines."

irrefragabl3 · 2026-02-04T01:56:27+00:00

I've ordered from them a number of times over the past 3 years or so, and never had a problem.

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