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Are your HDs doing curbside pickup? I can order online at the local Rona building supply store (funny name at this point in history) and call them when I get there and they'll come out and put it on the curb and leave, then I pick it up and also leave.
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Hi folks. Looking for some help/advice from some other Albertans. I’m trying to sell a 2002 Mazda Tribute with about 98000 km. It was my grandmothers car in Ontario and I inherited it and brought it out to Alberta 2 years ago. She rarely drove it except groceries and stuff. Had to put $1800 into it to pass the out of province inspection, but since then it’s been fairly reliable. I’ve been preparing it for sale and brought it to my local Fountain Tire for an oil change and to change over the winter tires. I’ve been going to this FT for 4 years and I trust the guys there. A couple day’s before my appointment I took it out for a spin and it just wasn’t accelerating. Turns out the throttle accelerator cable got stretch out and needed replacement, which isn’t a big repair. They did that repair, and took it out and it was still acting up. They did some investigations and the whole catalytic converter system is apparently hosed and they estimated $3000 repair (with new parts, tax, labour). Like I said, I’m trying to sell this car. I had it listed on kijiji for $5k and had a lot of interest, but now I don’t know what to do. Nobody would buy it as-is (i think). My wife has a crappy 2012 Versa so I’m considering trading in both cars to a dealership, if a dealership would take them. UPDATE: just sold it as-is. geese fucked around with this message at 00:04 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 12, 2020 14:49
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I thought emissions had a federally mandated 180k km warranty, no? I'm glad you sold it, but I think any dealership should have fixed it for free.
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May 18, 2020 06:49
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First full blown tornado warning this year. Touchdown about 25km due south of me, moving NE so towards the Town of Taber. Weather radar was pretty colorful this afternoon/evening.
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Jun 14, 2020 03:52
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I guess NE calgary got totally hosed by hail too. 2 inch hailstones in some places, houses and cars pretty messed up.
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Jun 14, 2020 03:58
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Yuck. Some car dealerships near here have started putting netting over their entire lots to stop hail damage. Guess is they probably can't get insurance anymore so it's cheaper to do that. Other radar of the storms
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Jun 14, 2020 04:05
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Haha holy poo poo gently caress vinyl siding forever
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Jun 14, 2020 05:08
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Happy Canada Day goons!
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Jul 1, 2020 18:30
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  I need to go to Edmonton for a few days next week. Has anyone been through the mountain parks lately? Mrs. and I are thinking of taking advantage of the lack of tourists to hit Jasper/Banff/LL on the way back. Are they as quiet as I hope the would be? Or have the masses of foreign invaders just been replaced by masses of fellow albortions?
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Jul 1, 2020 20:38
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No idea what the traffic is like, but my brother did tell me they just finished repaving the 1A west of Castle Junction, so that's open again. (east of is still closed.) He also said it was quiet for him. I was thinking about running up the icefields parkway this weekend...
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Jul 1, 2020 21:07
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Posting from Jasper right now...the weather is kind of lovely with rain but it’s pretty quiet for a Canada day weekend. I’ve been here on Canada day before and it’s crazy packed. Mostly Alberta and BC plates here. No traffic at all. We’re heading down the ice fields parkway tomorrow for a night in Lake Louise. We were also in Canmore/Banff at the beginning on June when things just opened up and it was completely dead. All the hotels are discounted significantly so it’s a good time to go.
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Jul 2, 2020 00:18
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So whats better do you think.... book online or do a walkup?
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Jul 2, 2020 05:07
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We drove down the parkway to lake Louise from jasper today and there was no traffic at all. Lots of hotels with vacancies. We’re actually staying at deer lodge in lake Louise tonight for $300 and they’re usually $500+ under normal circumstances. And they have a vacancy!
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Jul 3, 2020 02:53
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Non-clapped out SC400 coming up for auction next week https://www.maauctions.com/details/autolistingyeg_1_2019.aspx
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Jul 18, 2020 15:59
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If you mean the tan one, it was repaired very poorly quite a while ago. the right rear quarter is off-color and rusty.
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Jul 19, 2020 22:59
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lovely. I dig the Volvo more anyhow 
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Jul 20, 2020 06:29
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Jul 28, 2020 15:05
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nooooooooooooo. I was dead at 19 degrees doing yard work. only supposed to be 31*c here but that's still way too much for me. And of course being Red Deer, there's also a risk of thunderstorms.
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Jul 28, 2020 16:57
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JFC Welcome to November
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Oct 28, 2020 04:38
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Welcome back to slidebite's Alberta weather channel where one of us celebrates hot weather and the other resignings himself to more torture It's OK buddy - it's short lived. 
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Jun 14, 2021 14:41
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+32 in Three Hills today. hardly any cloud. Too hot to wear my watch. Absolutely rude. Work suuuuuucked.
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Jun 15, 2021 02:19
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I get the sense we're in for a nasty storm season this year.
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Jun 15, 2021 02:31
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Definitely a lot of energy being built up in the atmosphere. Could be a little sporty. We skirted the storms yesterday but I could see an absolutely wicked thunderhead east of me at sunset which was gorgeous.
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Jun 15, 2021 14:59
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Based on the amount of lightning (that a failed to get pictures of) dancing around in the clouds over my house last night, yeah this is probably the beginning of a good storm season for the province. Which means fire season is going to suuuuuuck this year as well.
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Jun 15, 2021 15:14
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Stay safe Alberta goons 
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Jul 30, 2021 18:38
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Currently, I think it's more likely to be the prison scene with Rorschach. It's the rest of the country that should be staying safe because you're now locked in with us. I would like to offer my condolences for our provincial government.
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Jul 30, 2021 18:45
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I listened to an interesting interview on CBC with a harvard immunologist and she says it's a reasonable to relax, but I can't help but think rolling back quarantine and *testing* of all things is bizarre. It's smells of a Trump method of getting lower numbers by not testing  It's almost like Kenney is trying to get thrown out next election.
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Jul 30, 2021 19:39
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Somebody tell Hinshaw to blink twice if she issued that directive under duress
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Jul 30, 2021 20:17
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Haha no poo poo. Find out of her kids are at home or on "vacation" with Uncle Shandro
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slidebite posted:Haha no poo poo. Shandro is the one who had that weird story about getting harassed by some anti-masker chuds and having to throw his kids over a fence to get them away from the hee-haw murder squad. You'd think out of all the people in the government, he'd want to stick it back to 'em.
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I remember burger baron being mentioned a few times, just came across this on CBC. Looks like a documentary will be coming out next month. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/burger-baron-documentary-1.6142205
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slidebite posted:I remember burger baron being mentioned a few times, just came across this on CBC. Looks like a documentary will be coming out next month. Yeah I'm looking forward to that one. Looks interesting. I also really, really want a mushroom burger.
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Yeah I would like very much to do that cross province burger baron TM2TW.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Yeah I would like very much to do that cross province burger baron TM2TW. Not an empty quote.
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 That would be awesome.  I had no idea there were so many  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_Baron#Locations quote:Caroline Kelowna BC is surprising to me and easily the outlier with Raymond (ironically the closest one to me) being the runner up for remoteness?
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/racetrack-alberta-carstairs-motorsports-1.6218964 So, this seems to be further along than I thought. Appears to be all asphalted and planing for a spring opening as long as winter isn't too harsh. I did not realize it was right off the intersection of Secondary 581 & QE2. That is super easy to access.
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Yeah the OG site was off the beaten path a bit but the one that actually got county approval is super convenient. I meant to go take a look while they were grading it but ugh, summers always end up being just a little too busy.
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I'm real excited to be able to put in some track time without trailering or riding up to Edmonton (which I never bothered to do) Was at dinner with my brother tonight and he was really impressed by Area 27 out by Penticton too
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Oct 24, 2021 03:41
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Where should I be looking for black Friday / Cyber Monday deals on clutches? TDot Performance has a 10% off coupon. Unfortunately, even after that discount it's still more expensive than ordering an ACT from Togue Tuning out of Ontario.
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It's not much, but autopartsway.ca has a 10% code BLK2021
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