Got a recommendation on a specific line? My wife’s IS300 needs a tire that does better in wet/light snow situations (she doesn’t care about sport/performance loss so we’re not concerned about losing any dynamics in the summer). It’s super sketchy just in simple rain on the All Season OEMs and worse in anything…

This stretch of 95 has been under construction since forever and literally just re-opened too. They’ve been working to redo bridges, add lanes, and other changes for exits for a while.

OK Tom covered this but for the love of all that is holy, please do not buy any of the other cars listed by the other authors. None of those dealerships should even be considered. Jersey and especially north are covered by nasty ass dealerships and BHPH. Or heading to Brooklyn. I mean that car was in a moderate…

Must work for the PPA.

Yea, did the same. Once you add a couple nice pieces on the Z71, the price climbs. The question becomes, how would the truck be used? Off road I am going for the Z71. Towing I am going for the Z71. But for a mostly DD to pull a light trailer during moving and run to Home Depot on the weekends? Honda is where it…

This is basically where I was a few years ago. I liked the Colorado above the other options when it came out but interior was not good. I liked the Ranger but the interior was not good. I wanted a Ridgeline but they were hard to find and expensive. (I eventually owned a Passport which is effectively the same and it…

Can we talk about the outstanding photo usage for the configuration? Instead of some horrible MS paint rendering even BMW and other companies use, this looks like Mazda lined up every car and put high quality stitched photos together. I can actually see the paint colors and lines.

However they forgot to use high res…

There are a couple reasons. One is the process can be a little smoother just because the dealership is dealing with their own network and process. Sounds silly but each independent bank may have slightly different steps (or the dealer is linked in system wise so it’s all a single user flow). That shouldn’t be a real…

Yea didn’t even think of that. Good point that the step up has to be reasonable.

One other reason I totally forgot about is my Jeep now has 45,000 miles from the 23,000 when I bought it less than 2 years ago. I do all the driving and drive everywhere plus off roading. I bought an extended MOPAR warranty but I want my payments gone way before all warranty coverage is over. We have a second car that…

BMW has two things going for them right now in a area of higher priced luxury. They tend to lease better than Merc (Audi seems to be the worst) payment wise. Better residuals, better corporate support for incentives, etc. And my personal opinion is Mercedes is trying to shift younger with things like all digital…

No, I totally get that and looked at the math. Your advice is exactly what I would give someone too. The accrued interest per year vs previous high yield rates (compared to now) just didn’t quite make sense to not pump the car loan. Now is a little different with rates up but I’ll be done with this loan before a full…

That’s always my approach if I can. I bought a car in 2020. Immediately refinanced with my local CU @ 1.92% for a monthly payment that we could afford if someone lost their job or something happened. I’ve then paid as much as possible budget wise every month to cut the length down towards principle only.

I posted this elsewhere but what is missing here are options and bonuses. You see bonuses starting in 20% ranges and climbing, total comp starts to look a lot different. It’s why all the recent layoffs also talk about vesting cliffs with stocks/options/RSUs and bonus payouts. Those are massive chunks in there.

What’s missing from these are bonus and stock options. Some of the bonuses are 30% or higher of that salary. 30% on a 200k salary is another $60,000. Adding in stock options you are either granted or can buy on a discount and do as you wish, that’ll get you to the $300k.

NJ is a garbage nightmare for trying to get a REAL ID let alone do a single thing at the DMV. But more importantly is the number of documents needed and variety above a normal license. Not to mention last time I was at the DMV in NJ a printed copy of a bank or utility statement was NOT accepted. To which I replied I…

1st Gear: Great, now go after Vroom (I think the TX lawsuit is or did get settled). Still seeing articles as of today about shit they are pulling too.

I’m going NP for no other reason except this. Probably could pick this up for $5,000-$7,000 back in 2000. That’s $8-10k in today money. Given this is during the Batshit Crazy Times for car pricing, it’s NP. Clean, manual, a bit unique.

Jeep owners have been dealing with this shit forever.

Same shit Jeep sometimes pull. It’ll depend on the dealership too. Jeep also offers off road courses and other “do this in your car” days like this kind of NASA access. I’m sure there’s plenty of people denied warranties after using their cars in a way that’s advertised and even coordinated, but technically flagged on…