Hell, today you can retrofit CarPlay into a lot of classics and that’s massively popular. We are all too accustomed to it now to stop. But, no fucking way I’m paying a monthly fee to use a car’s functionality.
I'm hoping for that as well.
If you read up earlier you can see I've already done this into my wife's 2013 Ford Escape (it had a crappy Gen 1 Microsoft SYNC system). Drop in Sony head unit replacement has worked like a dream, plus the Maestro module to integrate with the cars onboard capabilities gave her new features she didn't even have in it before, like on screen control of the AC.
I can’t believe you’re extending the life of a ford escape. My wife had two escapes, the latest two body styles, as work vehicles and they were both trash with constant problems. I would never own a ford by choice.
Maybe we just lucked out... Maybe it's the fact that she drives very little... All I know is that I had pooled up the cash to get her a nice CPO compact SUV (probably Lexus, maybe Audi from what we were shopping around) and she came up with the idea of "Can we just get the new features I want slapped into my Escape? And then fix up the little scratches and such in the paint?" Which, let's just say, saved me a lot of money. So we now have a "rejuvenated" 2013 Ford Escape. With this said she gets out and goes anywhere in her car MAYBE once a week. 13 year old car that IIRC is just now coming up on 60k miles.
Ah yes.. the "we need to start using the garage as well.. a garage again" moment
It's funny because when I had no garage for the majority of my life, I would always sneer at people who wasted their garage by NOT having their car in it. When we bought this house in 2021, I only had a pickup that I don't really care about keeping clean/nice and I got hardcore into woodworking and then would sneer at people wasting their garage by having a car in it. Now I'm a hypocrite for both my present and past self.Ah yes.. the "we need to start using the garage as well.. a garage again" moment
I had the same thing with our 2 car detatched. It had devolved over time into a combination workshop/storage shed for us. Then when I had to do some major structural work on it (replacing a lot of studs in the walls) the edict was forged that from that point forward no matter what else was going on in there, at any point we would be able to park BOTH our cars in our two car garage. That fact has single handedly kept me from acquiring a proper CnC or the kiln that I want due to space constraints.
When I bought this house I was lucky. The previous owner was an Electrical Engineer for Raytheon. They had converted the existing 2 car attached garage into a home office and workshop for him. Then they build a detached 2 car. So I have a space for my 3d printers, and various "small tinkering". The garage is where big things get worked on, especially once I got into metal-crafting.
Mrs. Haus
and she's converted one spare bedroom into her "She Shed"
Yeah I need the specifics. I'm okay with low range since I only really need a truck for generally local stuff.
My caddy is metallic gunmetal gray, but only because I was going the CPO route so it limited my options. The option I did want (Kona brown leather interior with metallic blue exterior) was officially called the "unicorn build" because so few were made in the initial run.
Nah. They still need cheap ass cars for all the legumers out there who have families of 47.
There's no need to apologize. I assure you that your opinion on my car will never hurt my feelings. I ran into a guy on the BMW subreddit who was talking about his Taycan looking cooler than some other car and I mentioned that 4 door Porsche will never look cool and he got very upset. People get very offended like they designed the car...
Nice. That would've been something I would have loved to do, but I don't have the land for it. I love my neighborhood because it's nice/safe and the kids go to good schools, but it's an HOA hellscape. I'm just waiting for those idiots to bitch about the shed I built a month ago.
