Car ?'s

Burren said:

What's worse is the cars that don't let you disable it permanently so you actually have to hit a button every damn time. I'm surprised a Jeep can't permanently turn it off. On my Hellcat I could and that's the same FCA system.

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She has to push the button after every time she starts it, ie goes to her car starts it pushes button gets to her destination shuts off engine shops come back start ignition push button. A switch to never have to do it again if you left off would be nice.

Burnem Wizfyre said:

She has to push the button after every time she starts it, ie goes to her car starts it pushes button gets to her destination shuts off engine shops come back start ignition push button. A switch to never have to do it again if you left off would be nice.

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Get a start stop disabler.

Fucker said:

Get a start stop disabler.

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Thx I’ll look it up

My truck is still chugging along with limited amount of new stuff. 2007.5 Z71 with 75,000 miles on it now. Used only on ranch roads and such. Not offroaded but the ranch roads get slick as greased pig shit when it rains. Seen several people not "stuck" just could't move from spinning the tires. It has onstar but I had it disabled by the dealer shortly after getting it. I had a bump gate, drive up to it bump it and it opens and you drive through before it closes. They're all over south, TX. First time I did it onstar called the sheriff. I told the sheriff to ignore it and he did but said get that shit turned off lol. All gauges no screens. Plain transportation. Dealer marked it way down after it was on the lot for 6 months. Fracking boom at the time and owner said he had no problem selling totally loaded crew cab 4wd diesels and such. No market for extended cab 4wd. Gonna hold onto it probably forever now. Still gets 19mpg.

Denamian said:

A WRX is pretty much out of the question. I want to keep this to $15k or less and don't need anything fancy, just a basic commuter car. I ran across a 2019 Impreza premium with eyesight package and 9k miles for just over $14k, but the catch was it's a rebuilt car that was totaled.

I've got an uncle who works for a local dealership looking for me in addition to checking around myself. Hopefully something reasonable turns up in the next few months.

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See if your uncle can use the dealership's Manheim account from home and, if so, ask if you can come over and do some research on his computer. They have an MMR tool that you can start plugging in different cars, and get the going dealer auction rate over the last ~6 months (and many more details). It allows you to kinda hone in your price range on what cars you may want to focus on. If you have a bunch of different cars that interest you, you can print/write out their average price, so you know a good deal when you see one, locally.

A $15k cap is enough that you may want to look at buying out of state, fly out, and taking a weekend to drive it home. You should get a few more years out of a car that spent it's previous years in the south, than a salty north.

If your uncle's dealership is really cool, they may even let you buy direct from auction for an extra ~10 percent to them.

I recently bought a new vehicle. I had my last truck ceramic coated by a professional detailer. I'm thinking about doing it myself. Seen plenty of Youtube videos on how to do it and feel like I could do it myself. Anyone with experience here is able to tell me if it's a decent DIY project or if I'm way over my head on this.

Aevian said:

I recently bought a new vehicle. I had my last truck ceramic coated by a professional detailer. I'm thinking about doing it myself. Seen plenty of Youtube videos on how to do it and feel like I could do it myself. Anyone with experience here is able to tell me if it's a decent DIY project or if I'm way over my head on this.

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Have a dealer do it.

My wife got her first ever brand new car last week. She went from a 2006 Toyota Rav4 Limited (6 cyl) to a 2021 Mazda CX-5 Carbon Edition. It's a nice vehicle, and does exactly what she wanted, not to mention a lot of shit she didn't even understand at first.


I'm happy for her finally upgrading.
She was initially going to get a Honda CR-V, but they didn't have any on hand that she liked. And the rest were like a month out. They also stacked on $4-5k "transfer" fees on top of that, so even a cheap CR-V was going to have $36-37k opening price. Ridiculous.

It's a bunch of nonsense. Realistically, they only charge a $700 destination fee for here, but I think they charge that for every car all around the country. Maybe a little extra out here, but not much. They're adding an additional $4-5k on top just because of the chip shortage and dumb fucks will spend the extra money for... reasons.

Anyone know what the part is called that controls the locks in an electronic locking system?

“I hit my key fob, the ____ locks the doors.”

the physical part that engages the lock after it receives the signal

TheNozz said:

Anyone know what the part is called that controls the locks in an electronic locking system?

“I hit my key fob, the ____ locks the doors.”

the physical part that engages the lock after it receives the signal

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Miss read the question

Araysar said:

the actuator?

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Yeah that sounds about right

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