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Inconvenienced Conveyed
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Inconvenienced Conveyed
@Incon_Conveyed
California, USA Katılım Ocak 2016
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A few recent Otto Octavius/Doc Ock studies! :] Well, 8 of em, to be exact! 🐙☀️
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@Dingo9933 @_BH460_ its a Magnum engine, its a 70s engine with EFI and chrysler electronics. Mechanically solid engines with crap electronics. One could do a head gasket and timing job in a day. Its quite simple to do upkeep. Thats really it
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@Incon_Conveyed @_BH460_ Some last. I had a customer with a 2002 Durango with 340k on it before I retired from automotive work. He was the anomaly. If it wasn’t a 318, it wasn’t built to last. Sadly the 360’s had cooling port matching issues that cause blown head gaskets if it was ever overheated once.
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A 5.7 liter making 10 more horsepower than a Hyundai 4.6 is fucking diabolical and further proves Dodges just fucking suck imo
Car and Driver@CARandDRIVER
The 2027 Ram 1500 Rumble Bee family features three distinct V-8 engines: a 395-hp 5.7-liter, a 470-hp 6.4-liter, and a 777-hp supercharged 6.2-liter. Along with wider body panels from the RHO and TRX, all these street-oriented trucks have a tidier quad-cab, short-bed configuration that brings a shrunken wheelbase. The regular Rumble Bee will go on sale later this year, with the 392 and SRT arriving in early 2027; we bet the Hellcat-powered pickup will clear the six-figure price point.
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@HankIgitur @hotwheelsjack They may be crap but its cheaper than paying hundreds of dollars a month on leases/payments. If its mechanically totalled its not leaving under its own power. Its cheaper to fix a used car than it is to buy new nowadays.
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@Incon_Conveyed @hotwheelsjack Those cars are crap - either wrecks in accidents or mechanically totaled. You’ll spend more than the original purchase price sorting them out
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I don’t want to spend $6000 on a 24 year old corolla
LibertyJ@LibertyJen
This was legit a 5 second search on Auto Trader. All these cars have less than 200k miles. All under $7k
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@Randomistic2838 @hotwheelsjack Its not that difficult to save for a few months for a $2000 car that will last a few months longer and slowly sort out any issues it has over the following few months to have a decent used car that isnt cosmetically good but mechanically solid.
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@Incon_Conveyed @hotwheelsjack and lose out on dealership protection and the option to finance. This is sad that we have to resort to buying cars from random people because these decades old cars are insanely priced.
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@shadetreeisback and thats the benefit of the market, you can give a counter offer of price if the vehicle is lesser than what you think. Or you can just not buy the car. Look for a better deal elsewhere. Its not that hard really
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No that's not the problem here
Obviously a car can have issues but you know people rarely buy cars when they have issues the problem is when you buy a car and then it develops issues mileage service history how well it's been looked after these things matter and the prices reflect that
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I used to buy cars like this for 700 not 7,000
That's how bad the market is now
That you have to spend this much money on an old high mileage vehicle with no warranty
LibertyJ@LibertyJen
This was legit a 5 second search on Auto Trader. All these cars have less than 200k miles. All under $7k
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@Incon_Conveyed Also correct me if I’m wrong but some of these are manuals right?
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What’s it called when someone says something like “less than 200k, under $7k” as if that’s at all reasonable
LibertyJ@LibertyJen
This was legit a 5 second search on Auto Trader. All these cars have less than 200k miles. All under $7k
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@MagnoGetMoney @AshTheDeerGuy try 2-3k which is better than the 6-9k people are posting
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@Incon_Conveyed @AshTheDeerGuy You ain't even getting a running car on FB marketplace for $1400 anymore
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@Matt_E_Baumann 100k miles on a car less than 3 years. Meanwhile my 30 year old car has 150k. They call me wasteful
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@shadetreeisback its not a risk if you know how to look out for issues. If anything its a means to negotiate a better price. Its true people are paycheck to paycheck. Its a matter of living within ones means and working to better their own skillset. Marketable skills = more money
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You likely bought that a while back when the prices were lower or you just got a really good deal.
But yeah most staff you can buy on the US market at these kind of prices now is a massive risk.
In most cases today a 4k car is a liability, cheap cars are cheap for a reason.
And a lot of people are paycheck to paycheck these days, a surprise $1,000 repair is not something they can deal with easily.
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@Dingo9933 @_BH460_ And my 1999 dodge dakota with 280k miles is still running. block has never been opened up. Its a wonder how long vehicles last with simple maintenance
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@Incon_Conveyed @_BH460_ Riiight. Of the vehicles I work on the least, it’s Nissan, Honda and Toyota products. Chrysler products are perpetually in the shop. More than any other brand. I’ve seen several of the the same generation Armada/QX80 with over 300k with minimal issues comparatively.
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@shadetreeisback I paid $4k for my current vehicle. 120k miles. Most I had to do was replace the front suspension components which was $1000. Other than that no issues other than a minor oil leak.
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Yeah that was in the past the market has changed.
If you're spending 3000 on a car now it's going to have things wrong with it or it's about to have things wrong with it.
The best place to buy a car is above the bottom of the barrel.
In today's market 7 grand gets you something that's probably going to be fairly reliable and has been well looked after three grand gets you a piece of shit that's going to end up in the shop with eye watering repair bills.
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@ArisakaAya Cash for Clunkers took less than 750,000 cars off of the road. the other 2 reasons are acceptable
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Where did the cheap cars go? Three major reasons:
1. Cash for Clunkers
2. Foreigners buying them and sending them overseas
3. Illegals buying them and driving them uninsured
There's at bare minimum 50 million illegals in this country, pretty obvious if you ask me
Slumdog_Chillionaire@SlumRNA_Dog
Yeah bro I was driving a 2002 Corolla when I was in high school except that was in 2005. The fact that a car I was driving 20 years ago is going for 7k today instead of 300 dollars is INSANE
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@anyotherleader1 I bought my first car in 2017 for $1000. 180k miles and a recent rear main seal replacement. Drove it til it got wrecked. Bought a 2nd car and drove it til the GFs car died and gave her mine. on the 3rd car now I paid $4k for and ive put on 50k miles on it the last 5 years.
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Americans are always boasting about their bigger salaries but they aren't posting the other side of the equation where it costs them $9000 for a 13 year old banger with 150,000 miles on the clock
LibertyJ@LibertyJen
“Oh but I said 2011!” Here’s a bunch of 2012. 🤷♀️ All under 9k. All with less than. 150k miles.
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@wk2818181 @TobytheOrca @frenbilt Sounds like you cant drive stick or the last clutch was cheap or installed incorrectly
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@TobytheOrca @frenbilt last one was a Honda Fit with 93k miles. clutch disintegrated after 9 months.
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“The insurance and maintenance is cheaper on a car with 300,000 miles”
LibertyJ@LibertyJen
Absolutely no one “needs” a car payment. I bought my first 4 cars cash by saving. Buy a used beater. I did this as a 15 year old. The insurance and maintenance is also much cheaper. I didn’t have a car payment until I was in my 30’s!
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@SpartacusNole56 @munchgod3000 Its suprising how many people seem to make fun of purchasing vehicles from facebook/craigslist/etcetera.
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@Incon_Conveyed @munchgod3000 Younger generations have no skills. No mechanical aptitude. That’s their problem if they can’t fix a car.
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None of these cars should be more than $2000
LibertyJ@LibertyJen
This was legit a 5 second search on Auto Trader. All these cars have less than 200k miles. All under $7k
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@shadetreeisback Well it seems you have had bad luck in the past it seems, Ive bought dozens of cars from there and all but one have I ever been screwed on Yet all of them have ran just fine. Most expensive repair ive had to do was a $500 computer on a $3000 car. I sold that car what I had in it
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If we're talking about cars at that price point they are going to have problems you are scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel of the market.
That is a terrible place to buy because that thing is going to need work, you are going to spend more money purchasing and then repairing that vehicle than if you went higher up in the market.
It's a complete false economy like yes you can buy vehicles for that little but these are not vehicles that are in good condition.
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@AKHomeproject @EricRichards22 oil dry? you mean the box the jack came with to catch oil spills. Or a bag of kitty litter.
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@EricRichards22 an ok Floor jack costs 200$
need a catch pan- 20$
need two stands- 50$
funnel and oil dry to avoid but also handle the inevitable spillage - 30$
generic socket set -80$
big socket or filter cap socket for specific applications- 10-20$
he is right, we are fortunate to have space
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An oil change is a terrible example because you need $30 of tools from harbor freight and the fifty square feet you already park in
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