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The CA DMV has something like 40M registrations to deal with, so it takes a bit longer. I can understand why they want to move in this direction. 

When I was in the Navy, the base cops twice scraped my parking sticker because they thought the plate sticker was out of date.

Not that I think this is worth the $500 they charge, but what it does is allow you to renew on the fly with their app, and the expiration date updates immediately, instead of having to wait a few weeks for the sticker.

What do you bet they all drove to the BMW dealership right afterward, and his little princess got exactly the car she wanted?

I want to feel bad for that guy, but as a dad with three kids as well, you and I know this situation didn’t just happen.

31 large for someone else’s hand-built faux dragster?

My Standard Range Plus Model 3 had an EPA range of 240 miles, a stated in-car range at 100% charge of ~209 miles, and a practical range of about 150 miles based on how I drove it.

I might be forgetting one tire replacement? The eGolf has about 38k miles. But if so, they were cheap tires.

That’s a really well-sorted car that has clearly been someone’s baby, but $13.5k is a lot for a heavily modified 17-yo car, especially without a comprehensive mod list (which I’m 100% certain an owner like this has maintained - why isn’t it in the ad?). Sad ND.

Since 2017, I have now owned 3 EVs: an eGolf (passed down to kids), a Model 3 (sold), and now an i5. It isn’t that EVs have lower maintenance costs. They basically have no maintenance costs at all. The eGolf is still on its original brakes and tires. The Model 3 required one pair of new tires. Other than that, they…

Is that a Mercedes 600? Dictator limo!

My point is that they should be preserved and sold to benefit the people Assad persecuted and tortured, but instead, most of them are probably off on joyrides who knows where by now. 

Sadly, those are all likely to be looted if they haven’t been already. We’ve been through this before with Gaddafi, Saddam, etc. 

If this thing has truly been well maintained, if it passes inspection by an experienced BMW mechanic, if it’s truly unmolested, and if that abomination in the trunk can be removed and the trunk restored to stock without a lot of effort, NP.

Don’t try bringing guns into Mexico either. People do that occasionally, sometimes by accident, and the results are never good. The Guardia Nacional takes this stuff very seriously, and they will not hesitate to toss your ass in prison.

A guy like that is just a debt addict looking to get his fix. 

Irrespective of your feelings about the company and its CEO, the Tesla app is pretty good. You can check on and control a lot of components of the car, schedule and manage service, communicate with your service advisor, shop for Tesla stuff, and more. It’s well put together and intuitive.

As someone who owned a Tesla for 3 years, this looks very much like a pedal accident. FSD will normally disengage on a brake press or steering wheel turn, and the automatic braking will kick in if you’re about to hit something. But if you’ve got the accelerator jammed to the floor because you think it’s the brake…