What vehicle do you drive?

Siliconemelons

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Ooof thats horrible.

My Murano had auto fold back seats, it was super sensitive on stopping and backing up- first few times I used it just the new seat leather bolstering was too puffy to let it go.
 

lurker

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My wife has always preferred a manual transmission. It's a long story but the gist of it is, I inherited her Hyundai Accent 6-speed after she got her present FIAT 500 5 speed. I don't like manual transmissions. Yeah, I can drive one, I just don't like to. So, I bought this. It's a 2005 Jeep Liberty 4wd with an automatic. It's a project car and my daily driver and also something i can tow behind the motorhome.

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Got it for about $3500. It had 171,000 miles on it when I bought it and it leaked fluid everywhere. I replaced the power steering pump and hoses, timing cover seal and front crank seal. I can say it is now leak free. Those repairs cost me a little over $200 and that includes the tools I had to buy to do the work. Parts are cheap and the junkyards have lots of examples to pick from. Tires were pricey but necessary. I've got a few more issues to deal with, but I like wrenching. It's a project and something to do and if the car's down for a while, I have 3 other vehicles to use.

It's just for around town. I doubt I'll put 3k miles a year on it. If we need to take a long trip, we'll take the Hyundai. It gets 50+ mpg freeway and although it's a 2019, it only has 13k miles.
 

Burren

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My wife has always preferred a manual transmission. It's a long story but the gist of it is, I inherited her Hyundai Accent 6-speed after she got her present FIAT 500 5 speed. I don't like manual transmissions. Yeah, I can drive one, I just don't like to. So, I bought this. It's a 2005 Jeep Liberty 4wd with an automatic. It's a project car and my daily driver and also something i can tow behind the motorhome.

IMG_4106-L.jpg


Got it for about $3500. It had 171,000 miles on it when I bought it and it leaked fluid everywhere. I replaced the power steering pump and hoses, timing cover seal and front crank seal. I can say it is now leak free. Those repairs cost me a little over $200 and that includes the tools I had to buy to do the work. Parts are cheap and the junkyards have lots of examples to pick from. Tires were pricey but necessary. I've got a few more issues to deal with, but I like wrenching. It's a project and something to do and if the car's down for a while, I have 3 other vehicles to use.

It's just for around town. I doubt I'll put 3k miles a year on it. If we need to take a long trip, we'll take the Hyundai. It gets 50+ mpg freeway and although it's a 2019, it only has 13k miles.
Solid bang for the buck if you can do your own maintenance. You would have been raked over the coals at a dealer.
 

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My wife has always preferred a manual transmission. It's a long story but the gist of it is, I inherited her Hyundai Accent 6-speed after she got her present FIAT 500 5 speed. I don't like manual transmissions. Yeah, I can drive one, I just don't like to. So, I bought this. It's a 2005 Jeep Liberty 4wd with an automatic. It's a project car and my daily driver and also something i can tow behind the motorhome.

IMG_4106-L.jpg


Got it for about $3500. It had 171,000 miles on it when I bought it and it leaked fluid everywhere. I replaced the power steering pump and hoses, timing cover seal and front crank seal. I can say it is now leak free. Those repairs cost me a little over $200 and that includes the tools I had to buy to do the work. Parts are cheap and the junkyards have lots of examples to pick from. Tires were pricey but necessary. I've got a few more issues to deal with, but I like wrenching. It's a project and something to do and if the car's down for a while, I have 3 other vehicles to use.

It's just for around town. I doubt I'll put 3k miles a year on it. If we need to take a long trip, we'll take the Hyundai. It gets 50+ mpg freeway and although it's a 2019, it only has 13k miles.
Braver man than I. Jeep is at the bottom of my list of brands I would touch.
 
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lurker

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Solid bang for the buck if you can do your own maintenance. You would have been raked over the coals at a dealer.
No kidding. That front timing cover job was quoted at $1900.
Braver man than I. Jeep is at the bottom of my list of brands I would touch.
I hear you except once upon a time I had a 1993 Grand Cherokee that was very reliable. I know Jeeps/Chrysler are not known for that.
 

Sludig

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8k Fiesta ST..... though I bet it's actually not fun at 75mph?

Edit: Well wife absolutely hates it, but somehow she's entertaining a low ish mile older 370z. Boring color, some mild cosmetic stuff but no accidents. $16k 60k miles would be a dream car I never got when I was young but obviously far outclassed now, and worst of all it's an auto. One of the few I'd like manual because it had auto blip for when I'm lazy in traffic. (And just commuting so not a lot of rowing on the highway)

Still just not finding a lot within reasonable distance. Might just have to shut the search down for a few months and start again.
 
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RobXIII

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I'm looking for vehicles for a couple of my kids and my wife. Just kinda shopping around right now. I pulled in to one place today, I'm looking for a manual transmission specifically, and he showed me the one car with manual transmission on the lot (that wasn't a Jeep, because fuck Jeep and it's shitty ride and bad mileage). It was a 1999 Saab 9-3 six speed turbo. He said it didn't look like much, but it goes like you wouldn't believe. So I tried it out. Holy shit, probably one of the fastest cars I've ever driven. It was wild. I was thinking of getting it, then I thought about what repairs would cost on a 1999 Saab. It would be ridiculous.

SAAB - Sweeeedish Automobile, Always Broken

That said, the group I hung out with in high school had like 3 or 4 of them between us, the 900 Turbos. Definitely a unique looking car, and fun to drive. But yep, parts magnet is accurate.

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Burns

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Seems deliberate or scripted
Maybe. Being an actual dash cam (reflection of dash is what is causing the haze) helps lend credence to the accident. The blind spot on a lifted vehicle and a short woman driving is going to be massive. Being that it's a parking lot, the chances of being distracted by looking for a parking spot or something else seems higher.
 

Burren

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Maybe. Being an actual dash cam (reflection of dash is what is causing the haze) helps lend credence to the accident. The blind spot on a lifted vehicle and a short woman driving is going to be massive. Being that it's a parking lot, the chances of being distracted by looking for a parking spot or something else seems higher.
Why not back up immediately though? Just retarded I guess?
 

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Maybe. Being an actual dash cam (reflection of dash is what is causing the haze) helps lend credence to the accident. The blind spot on a lifted vehicle and a short woman driving is going to be massive. Being that it's a parking lot, the chances of being distracted by looking for a parking spot or something else seems higher.
there was two bitches in the truck, i bet you one was distracting the other and the driver bitch was looking at the passenger bitch while driving