Oh shit! Am I supposed to be shaving my chest before taking the court? Man, that must be why I am not getting any respect.

Welcome to the Internet, now be a big boy and quit whining when challenged. You continue to be disingenuous as you never mention Unions in your post (which I quoted in its entirety) and I never mention unions in my response. You are making an obvious goal post move. Second, you are being disingenuous by avoiding…

What a disingenuous comment. Here is your entire post:

The 3 cylinder Tata from India might be what you want parked in your driveway.

Your experience might be anecdotal. There are plenty of good 2 year old used cars in my area. I bought one from the dealer, a CPO, and they warranted it for 5 years / 100,000 miles. I also saved 50% by prepaying maintenance. The car was absolutely spotless when I picked it up. It had also been a hail repair. Sure, I…

I did a CPO with about the same miles for about the same discount. The car was like brand new - not a ding or stain on it. The car is now 7 years old and I just paid it off. That is the downside of not buying new, hoping a car this age will hold together another few years. Looks good so far. Armrest leather is losing…

I think it is reasonable to pay over the useful life of the asset (car). So, if the car is legitimately useful over 6 years, then a 6 year note makes sense to me. The problem is the monthly payment does not decrease as the value of the asset does. So you end up making $650 payments on a car that is worth $5,000.

Sure. But still making payments on a 6 year old car with 100k+ miles sounds a little risky.

Basically those that took their education on economics from and untrained writer of fiction?

Even not belonging to a union you still benefit from the work they have done such as vacation, workers comp, over time, weekends off, OSHA, etc, etc, etc, etc

Then get a different employer. Can’t get a different employer? Improve your skillset. This is not the 1800's,

Well, the Mustang GT I bought in the 80's now has feature inflated to cost over $40k.

I don’t put all my eggs in one basket.

It is a Catch 22. If the information was not material, then why did they choose to not disclose it? Because it isn’t material thus they are not required to? Be as easy to say they realized the news was not going to be good to the stock price.

I work on a lot of old cars. Six point deep socket, 3/4" break-over bar, and about 4 feet of steel pipe. Sometimes liquid wrench and heat. Just have to be ready to shear a bolt head. If a bolt is in that tight, and easy-out is not going to help.

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Now let’s see who plunks down $100k+ for a General Motors car with practically zero street time.

Nothing worse than cheap pads. I bought cheap ones one time to save a few bucks on my older pickup. With all the squeaks and grinding noises, I am about ready to redo the whole job with a set of decent pads.

Not unless they are warped or deeply grooved. If I do not feel any surging when braking (warp) and the disk looks and feels basically smooth, I do not get them turned. It also seems like most the time I try and get a rotor turned I am told it would make them too thin per spec and, so, they will not turn them. Instead,…

Definitely #1. Jacks and jackstands are notoriously narrow and will tip easy if the car is allowed to roll. In park, there still is usually 10 -15 degrees of wheel rotation available before lock. You do not want the car to roll when you are under it cranking on those pin bolts trying to get them to free.

You mean you do not just hammer them to hell with a impact wrench set at 140psi?