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Adiabatic posted:February goal is to habituate budgeting so I can save for some upcoming purchases. YNAB is awesome and I'm also listening to some podcasts. Any advice? I don't think others around here think too highly but Dave Ramsey will do a couple things when you listen: Whip your butt into shape (financially) Make you realize that there are people in far worse circumstances Give you hope and a plan. I used to listen to him a TON and learned good habits to follow. Regularly listening kept me motivated. This July will mark seven years since I have been (consumer) debt free. The only thing I owe this world is my house payment, which is modest at my current income level. My wife and I didn't have any credit card debt (and actually never have), she had some student loan debt; pretty modest after getting her undergrad. I think it was about $8K? We both had car debt, but pretty reasonable. We made a few dumb choices early in our marriage (one dumb car choice, one buying a condo dumb choice). We have gotten better at not making dumb choices, and if we do we just pay in cash  There are so many pixels in this gif it is hypnotizing.
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Rhyno posted:I hadn't thought to check! Looks like a big nope on that. A mid 90’s Lightning would fit the bill perfectly. Particularly one with rad decals on the side.
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I watched precisely zero minutes of professional football. That includes today. NBA is the best league and it isn’t even close.
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The most soul crushing rental I ever got was a Nissan Versa. The thing felt like it was made out of recycled water bottles and was slow as balls. The only thing to its credit was absolutely pounding the balls off the thing in "city" conditions it just sipped fuel and returned like high 30s or 40 MPG. After a few days with it I think I only put like $15 worth of gas to fill it back up again.
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Ferremit posted:I think the US Verse only got the 1.6L and automatic- my missus has a 07 Tiida (Versa) and that’s got the 1.8L twin cam and the 6 speed manual and that’s a hoot to flog around in. It’s got enough power to get out it’s own way and the six speed is really nice to row. I wish it was an auto...it is a CVT  For photo backup any sucker with Prime has u n l i m i t e d photo storage. You can also include RAW files in that storage.
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Adiabatic posted:How's everyone? Anybody keeping up with their resolutions? Didn't really make any resolutions but did make a goal. That goal is to buy/import a kei car (a Jimny) and I am bordering obsessively checking the auctions all the time. It is getting old so the first good one that pops up I will literally fight anyone who tries to outbid me for it. This is Kakers fault and I thank him for it.
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Feb 8, 2019 16:52
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KakerMix posted:Next week I'll get a taste of the Delica life and will probably go "why do people like these so much" OR "wow Delicas are rad" and tell everyone that doesn't want to hear it how great they are Pic of Kaker two weeks from now 
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I suppose this is a good time to repost my dad's restored 1967 (iirc):  that’s very handsome. So today was my birthday  can’t complain about much. Wife met me after work and we went to top golf, came home snd had dinner. Then grabbed the kids from the neighbors house that we swap with for free babysitting to eat cinnamon rolls. I know you’re supposed to eat cake for birthdays but it’s like number four on desserts I want to eat  Officially entreating mid-30’s is weird and good. Life is in a good place. Far better than I could have imagined. Me ten or fifteen years ago wouldn’t have believed this is how things would work out. So many good people in my life, including random internet people on a dead comedy sub forum about cars. You’re all good people.
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Just got jostled out of bed by a fairly decent earthquake. It’s 5:00 in the morning. A little aftershock just happened ten minutes after. Guess who’s brain isn’t going to let him fall back asleep!!!
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Feb 15, 2019 13:14
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meatpimp posted:Ummm.... you? Yes. Holy balls that is such an unsettling experience.
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Feb 15, 2019 13:17
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Seismic reporting shows my city was the epicenter. It was a 3.3 with decent duration followed by a small 3.8.
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Feb 15, 2019 13:26
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That red dot is not a half mile from my house as the crow flies 
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T-Square posted:Do you guys remember Genesis Coupe guy that splashed people driving through puddles? Didn't he once go to jump his car and hooked up the cables backwards?
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Mildly entertaining the idea of selling the Flex and getting a late 100 series or pre facelift 200 series Land Cruiser for the family wagon. Mrs Heroic didn’t nix the idea immediately. Good idea or GREATTM idea? What thread here would I venture in to learn more?
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Does this mean the forums have peaked and there is no way to go but down? 
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Tremek posted:snip Is there a place where you have posted more about your Cruiser misadventures? I literally posted last page about thinking of getting a late 100/pre facelift 200 as our family hauler and dumping the Flex. The Land Cruiser is such a cool platform and I must have one at some point in my automotive life.
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Tremek posted:Toyota turk info This is totally what I was after! Thanks for the effort post. Definitely want an actual Land Cruiser, more than 4Runner/Prado/GX base. My original plans of importing a sweet RHD Jimny are starting to subside because it just isn't happening soon enough  which has led my eyes to start wandering. Our Flex has been good, we have had it for three years and about 32K miles. It is still a good car but there has been a few small dumb things that have bugged me, most recent being the car marking is spot in the garage with a small oil leak (62k miles, 6 years and only ever being serviced with full synthetic  ). That will be covered under the CPO powertrain warranty at least. The value has taken an absolute meteoric dump in such a short time. I started to think just buy a fricken Land Cruiser because it will outlast my children, and will hold value better and having something off roady will satisfy some itch I have never scratched. I have one of two scenarios I am playing out:Sell the Flex, add some cash and get a pre-facelift 200 series and use that as the family hauler (budgeting ~$25-30K) Look for a cleaner 100 series and rehab a little, expedition outfit it a little bit and use that as my winter/daily/truck type thing to replace the beater Mazda6 that is boring me to death. Budgeting ~10-12K. Keep the Flex and drive it into the ground? After watching Hoovie's YouTube on his 350K mile LX470 is really inspiring me to do something similar. Seeing as getting one as a "beater" type car it will only see ~4-5K miles a year being swapped out for the M3 for most summer days. Rhyno posted:Also it's my birthday so everyone stop doing that as a gift. February birthdays are for lovers 
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Adiabatic posted:The use of the words "retard" and "retarded" on this here Something Awful forums are no-nos per admin decree, gentlegoons. Agreed. The timing of the word is pretty played out. We’re much more advanced than that.
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Wide awake thanks to the most recent earthquake. It was a 3.1. These have all been happening within a half mile of my house. Since I last posted about those two there have been over 100 measurable seismic events. In like a week. Some are small and can’t be felt but 
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Beach Bum posted:Are you up in Alaska? Maybe it's about to migrate Salt Lake. It’s where we’ve been told our entire life that there would be ‘a big one’ and it could happen today or six hundred years from now. Salt Lake is along the Wasatch Fault line.
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I think that what the pimp of meats is basically saying if you buy cheap retrofit LED lights from eBay and Amazon you can expect them to fail like others. If you replace halogens with an LED do it with a name brand product made for a specific application. Hey Rhyno, are you still searching out Grand Nationals? I found a good one without any rust that should fit your criteria: Grand National
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Darchangel posted:This is one of those times when I wish I had gently caress-you money, so I could buy that and then drive the wheels off of it. I hate automotive "investments." The crazier thing is that just the other week an EIGHT mile GNX sold for $200K. Who are these rich dudes who no doubt had mullets were buying these up and mothballing them?
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I like Ed. He typically has good stories and seems pretty educated on what he is talking about. The guests are for the most part good. VinWiki is good YT. Would watch again.
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As a white man in his mid-30’s and preparing to become Middle Aged white man I have verbally agreed to the purchase of a Lexus. Is this how it begins? Being excited about driving appliances? First thing, literally is I will drive it and park it until I get the timing belt and water pump to take to a mechanic. It has the original and is at 188k miles  its a ‘99 LX 470 so a 100 series land cruiser that I’m going to rip apart and make an off roader
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Applebees Appetizer posted:It's not really the timing belt you need to worry about as original Lexus belts are known to hold up way beyond the suggested service (interval for that motor should be 90k). It's usually the water pump that goes so keep an eye out for leaking. Yeah I’m going with an Aisin timing belt kit. It has the water pump and gaskets, etc I believe it has the cam seals as well which is a ‘while you’re in there’. I registered for the Lexus drivers thing after seeing some goons (perhaps you?) post about it. I’ve been using it to check any and all LX’s I’ve been looking at. The dude was fastidious about maintenance. He has the full service manual, and was thrilled to talk about how he always changed every fluid himself with full synthetic at every interval. I believe it too. It’s incredibly clean. He’s had it for 10+ years. When I first saw it I complimented how good it looked for 20 years old. He placed both hands on the hood and said ‘this has been my baby’. I asked how he felt about me making it an off roader. He said he was okay with that.  I’ll post hastily taken phone photos tomorrow.
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KakerMix posted:Lexus owns, and LXs are the King of Lexus imho. I uh, am real confused why the dude didn't change the belt though if it was his baby. I am pretty hyped for it. This also means my dreams of driving a Jimny will be kicked down the road. Sorry RHD Nippon boys. He seems the guy that was insistent on maintaining it himself but was more like "Opening the engine that works doesn't make sense to me" Also something about only freeway miles where it barely turns over 2500 rpm just wasn't a big deal for him lol.meatpimp posted:So I got a facebook friend request from a girlfriend from 25 years ago. She proceeded to effortpost this 3 page confession of all the bad things she did to me and to all her subsequent relationships over the last 20+ years. My wife asked how I was going to respond and after thinking about it, I really, really, really want to just drop a lolwut. "New Facebook, who dis?" She will probably ask you to join her downline for these great new oils and blender shake supplements.
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sneakyfrog posted:the guy who got summarily mocked in his DIY thread for sawing up his structural floor joists to sink his bathtub has finally completed his masterpiece. it is. something. Oh bless you. That takes a lot of courage to post it on the internet again.
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