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    Help Us Help Our Daughter - Rav 4, CR-V, CX-5/50, or Other?

    The interior of a Ford Escape feels like a Soviet prison compared to that of a CX5. IMO with only a bit of sarcasm. Looking at the local Honda dealer, to get into the low $30,000s in a Pilot, you gotta look at ones with >60,000 miles. Pilots are great family cars.....but given these...
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    Help Us Help Our Daughter - Rav 4, CR-V, CX-5/50, or Other?

    Most bang for the new car buck is the 2025 CX-5.... (good luck getting discounts on a 2026 RAV4) unless she has some big boys or the kids are in activities with lots of stuff.....then the CX5 is likely too small and for the same money, I'd get a used Highlander or Pilot(IMO). And if you get a...
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    Can anyone name this car

    since we're talking about possessed cars... there also is the 1983 John Carpenter movie, "Christine" with a 1958 Plymouth Fury
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    Keeping external drive plugged in to desktop 24/7

    you sound like a candidate for a NAS (network attached storage with RAID mirroring), or if it suits your household---a cloud storage plan.
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    Review - '18 Mazda CX-9 51k miles

    will only be a half-solution, but you need something on the exterior to block the rays (interior shades don't do anything as the rays just bounce around inside the cabin)...like this. https://www.temu.com/search_result.html?search_key=snow%20shade
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    2026 model year changes?

    Automakers might be locked into multi-year contracts for parts. Good chance that the cheapest option is to do nothing, unless it was planned pre-Election Night 2024.
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    Why are there no vehicle for sale meta searches like this

    tough problem is that under a certain price (say $6,000), sellers will list on Facebook marketplace only (even Craigslist's demo has "aged out").....all the major national sites are too expensive for cheap cars. You might just have to grind through all the local Facebook marketplace...
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    Why are there no vehicle for sale meta searches like this

    Because, like most companies, people---especially management--- who work at a company (Cars dot com, carbuzz, etc) "don't eat their own dog food" and aren't really "the car gals/guys" that their Linkedin bio says.
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    Average car Overfilled 1 qt. anyone ever see this cause a problem?

    n=1...but probably more right than wrong
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    Best/Worst A/C Performance in a car?

    A lot of it is that electricity is more expensive over there so they have different expectations. Their 79 - 81F comfort level is our 75. And I suspect, some OEMs don't bother spec-ing a USA-specific system unless their cost-benefit analysis gives it a green light. (even though a summer in...
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    Best/Worst A/C Performance in a car?

    Current gen. Mazda CX-5, not enough BTU (joules). only tolerable (to me) in my summer in my 4-season climate. If I lived in the southwest, Texas, southeast, I'd sit in the dealer's lot and test the A/C in a hot car before considering a test drive.
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    2024 KIA Sportage hybrid 1.6T, 3000mi Lista Super normal 0W-20

    Google machine translation of the narrative: ◆ Operation information and special notes This is the oil that was used after the first engine oil change (Bio One 0w20) + Bullsone Signature additive at 3,775 km and the Super Normal oil change at 4,949 km, and driving for 4,823 km and 152 hours...
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    2026 Mazda CX-5 Revealed

    Try a high-quality (lots of copper) cable, not longer than 1 feet. Makes a big difference. YMMV.
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    NEW Vehicle Advice / Recommendations: Anyone? Subaru or Toyota? What says the gang?

    >>>>We need something that we can get in and out of easily for two people with many back and neck issues. Go to a Carmax lot (if you have one near) and sit in all the used versions of the Toyotas/Subarus that you are interested in. Chat can only help so much. at the Carmax lot, you'll have...
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    Pick me out a new Laptop!

    Report back when you get the laptop and if you're happy with the advertised condition versus reality.
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    2019 Accord battery ... maintenance advice needed!

    assuming she really is driving <2000 miles / year, get a top-off or trickle charger for new battery for once I have sympathy for service advisors, lol..... advisor: sir/m'aam, you need a new battery. Random customer: what do you mean? I only have 10,000 miles on the car! are you trying to...
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    Pick me out a new Laptop!

    "Dell Outlet" is outlet/clearance/returns from Dell's retail website. "Dell Refurbished" are computers that come off-lease and sent back to Dell. If anyone have worked at a big firm, there are always some peeps who demolish their stuff like you wouldn't believe; and others whi somehow manage...
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    Pick me out a new Laptop!

    https://www.dellrefurbished.com/coupons IMO, if you're going to go refurbished, buy it direct from Dell. Nothing fancy, not for gaming or CAD---just standard office/internet stuff. The condition "A" laptops that I've bought always looked nearly new.
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    3-Row SUV for Midlife Crisis

    Armada/QX80 if you're willing to give Nissan a chance.
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    Dining late evening/early morning at 24 hour restaurants?

    no problems doing it every weekend in my 20s. now? lol. (especially considering that I bet kitchen staff at chains are probably earning noticeably less after inflation now than in my 20s) the diner experience probably depends on: how many peeps are stumbling out of bars; the local...
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