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My wife is as focused on value as I am. So, we wouldn't spend $1,000 on a hotel. On the other hand we just spend $25,000 on an all inclusive 15 day river cruise. It was good value too.

Our daughter had one with a manual transmission. Got good service out of it too. Replaced it with an EV. I borrowed it a couple of times to haul big things. It was a nice enough vehicle.

I mulch the grass at the side and entrance to a local park. It gets pretty long there but the Honda mower mulches it just fine.

I bought a new Honda gas mower last year. It's not perfect but it it pretty good. It will either bag or mulch (there is no side discharge). If the grass is at all damp the action that controls bag or mulch gets blocked and I have to scrape off the underside to get it moving again. To stop that...

I'd be seriously considering a Mazda3 sedan instead. Sporty and reliable.

Red, white and blue - the tricolour. Are you French by any chance?

Well if you can't take the Tesla for some reason, you can always take the Tesla.

What happens to the compact spares on all the newer cars that are scrapped? They probably go into the metal crusher too. I would have thought there would be a modest market for these newer compact spares (on rims even) to replace the timed out compact spares on 15 - 20 year old vehicles.

When you get used to long distance driving with an EV you don't charge to full while in transit. You only charge to full when you're stopped for the day. Ideally you would have a circuit for him to charge when he gets to your place. He might then need to charge for 10 or 15 minutes or something...

I have a 220 Volt 40 Amp circuit for charging my Tesla. The Tesla model 3 charges at a maximum of 32 Amps so a 40 Amp breaker is fine for continuous use. It never tripped the breaker ..... .... until our floor refinishing guy used that circuit for several days to sand our floors. Then it...

Post operative infection of any implant is very bad. Not bad, very bad. Can be a facility issue too. Ask about the facility's post op infection rates. Post op infections can almost be eliminated.

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OEM parts at an independent are an on again off again thing. The best independent I ever worked with (Volvo only, In Edmonton) would use OEM when they were the best but not OEM when they weren't. I absolutely trusted them. Had our car serviced and repaired there regularly. If they said...

I had an elderly family practice and had many patients with various kinds of hip surgery. Very good results for the most part - and that was 40 years ago. Artificial hips last a long time, but not forever. Your surgeon is in the best position to advise you on timing.

Don't think weather related temperatures would have anything to do with this failure. Heat treating that wheel (eg getting it cherry red) might even have been beneficial. But once you have a crack - all the bets are off.

Theoretically a steel item that is not over-stressed has an infinite life. Not so with aluminum. But a small defect in a steel item can result in a stress riser with localized over-stress, resulting in a crack propagating out of the area. And once you have a crack, all the bets are off...

Another way to stress the steel at that bend would be with heavy side loading. Examples would be repeated hard turns in a heavy car (check) with stickier that expected tires (check). Or as @Astro14 suggests having been run while loose at some point. A quite likely mechanism is that the wheel...

Assistant Professor, tenure track, at just over $40k a year. I was making quite a bit more than that as a senior resident. Not surprisingly they couldn't find anyone who would take the job at that rate and had to sweeten the pot considerably. By doing all the work I mean doing all the...

I'm sure there are lots of things that any outsider won't understand. As for a career I veered off in a completely different direction, and did just fine thank you very much. At one point in my second career, I was under pressure to accept an academic appointment but I would have had to take...

Perfect recommendations. Couldn't have said it better.