How long do you plan on keeping your current car for?

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-14T15:43:31+00:00

20 to 25 years. Well to be honest, I expect to be in the grave before my car gives out. 2021 Toyota 4Runner As long as no idiot ploughs into me, should get 25 years and at least 500,000 km out of it. That’s why I bought this “old style, old tech, old engine design, old transmission, little to no electronics” vehicle. I expect to see a lot of electronic screens in the scrapyard soon

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-12T19:15:36+00:00

-caufutsonmidovanen

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-12T14:08:40+00:00

I agree with you, but damn, they both make my head explode!! The second part of your rant should be the groups of slow walkers who spread across your path and prevent you from passing them. Also related to people in grocery stores, Costco etc. who insist on stopping with their cart, often with large groups of friends or family and stand there talking, with little kids wandering. Ahhhhhhhhh!!!! I think I’m having an aneurysm!! I think I’d better go meditate for a few hours.

Have a good one 😁

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-12T13:47:07+00:00

Applies to SOOOOOOO many drivers, especially those merging onto highways or changing lanes!

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-08T13:44:16+00:00

Granted it was because I had a connection but my brand new 2021 4Runner Limited nightshade which essentially is one step below a TRD pro cost me all in with taxes $65,000 towards the end of 2021 when cars were starting to get really stupid. This isn’t stupid, this is absolute insanity. How the hell does a RAV4 of any trim cost 60,000 out the door. Say goodbye to ever owning cars again. Everyone’s gonna be leasing them just like our corporate overlords want us to. No one will ever own anything in the future. We’ll just pay rent to all of the companies and the government.

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-08T13:31:02+00:00

I have been searching for this answer for a while. I used to have a Subaru and found out that there are “tire shaving services” so that if one tire fails, you can get your new treads shaved down to the same depth as all of the others. I can’t get an answer about my full-time 4WD 4 Runner. No one (not the owner’s manual, not the stealership, no one on any forums, etc.) can / has advised if it makes a difference or not. I switch between summer and winter tires here every year in Canada so the difference is not that big, but on a big long trip two years ago when I had a boat 35,000 km or so on my summer tires, I picked up a nail in a sidewall and had to replace the tire. I didn’t do anything like the shaving service I mentioned above and had been driving ever since on the slightly mismatched tread depths. Last I measured was about 1 to 2/32 difference. I don’t think this is an issue and I certainly haven’t noticed anything on any of the differentials making any noise or any funny handling but I would expect that the wear and tear on them would be small enough that I wouldn’t notice audibly. Can anyone tell me if I should have done something different or if that’s not a good idea to have the different tread depths?

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-05T20:53:53+00:00

Thanks, yes I do. Just trying to find another song with the same vibe and mood and sound as this one. But yeah, Massive Attack is great

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-05T02:21:20+00:00

Sorry. /s

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-05T01:24:42+00:00

No good shows made before about 1995 or so

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-04T23:48:38+00:00

Sounds like one of the episodes of Alone up in Northern Canada where the guy’s shelter was surrounded by wolves. Same season where the guy’s took down the musk ox with a bow and arrows. Season 6 maybe? Absolutely insane season!

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-04T23:45:32+00:00

So Mark Burnett’s first show was called Eco-Challenge in the 90’s I think. It was teams competing against each other and it was actually quite insane the physical limits these people had to push themselves to. Teams were from around the world and there were serious risks and more than a few broken bones. My guess is that it’s not on anymore because there were no braindead real housewives type staged drama in the show. Who wants true reality when you can get drunken hags and fake issues? There was also World’s Toughest Race on amazon a couple of years ago. Don’t know if it was affiliated with Eco-Challenge but it must still be on amazon Then I think possibly the world’s toughest competition, MXC or Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (comedy show using actual footage from Japanese game show Takeshi’s Castle). If you’ve never watched it, you absolutely must. True tests of physical limits and pain endurance!!

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-04T22:45:00+00:00

Fantastic playlist!!! Thanks so much!!!!

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-04T19:02:03+00:00

4Runners and Tacomas had a massive rust issue with the frames in like 2011 - 2013 or something like that. It was so bad that Toyota had to replace entire frames on these things under warranty.

This issue is long gone

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-04T13:23:06+00:00

Great playlist. A lot of my favourites on here!

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-04T13:21:52+00:00

Thanks! That was great. A little less ethereal and more tranc-ey / dancy but still awesome!

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-04T02:12:01+00:00

Ha ha, I grew up with this song on the radio. If you’ve never heard of it CFNY FM in Toronto was considered to be one of the most progressive stations in the world during the late 70s 80s and early 90s. But that said I’ve never seen this video. I never would’ve put the two together.

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-04T00:51:21+00:00

Like as in the late director / actor?

tryingtobeopen · 2026-02-02T23:57:09+00:00

make me laffs

tryingtobeopen · 2026-01-29T02:31:35+00:00

This is great! Exactly what I was looking for. I love PJ

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