theschrat
TheSchrat
theschrat

So much for the stereotype of EV owners being laid-back and friendly lol.

We were the parents of THAT child for an entire flight between Milwaukee and Tampa.

No bloody A, B, C, D, or E.

Really, the trick with any aged car is do your research, find out what the normal dilemmas are, and FIX THEM before you start driving the car. And buy a good one to start with. I bought an ‘86 Alfa Spider, spent that first winter going through it from stem to stern that first winter, then proceeded to drive it for the

E60 M5. The failures are well known. But they’re mostly fixable. The prices aren’t where I’d expect them to be for a V10 4-door super car, so it’s really tempting. Really, really tempting.  I wouldn’t depend on it for long drives, so maybe it’ll be fine!

A former boss had a Jaguar E-type, finicky ass car in so many different ways, but damn was it pretty and it sounded fantastic. Was totally worth the trouble to him.

I have never heard anyone regret owning an Alfa. Regret getting a bad example and not doing their research, yes, but they never regret having the car, even if it never got unhooked from the tow truck.  Everyone of them say they would do it again, now that they have wisdom, experience, and money.

Hindsight being what it is, a PPI as well as a chunk of extra cash (1+1) to cover key issues with most desirable used European vehicles (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE) like cooling system, suspension, electrics/electronics, trans, fuel system, clutch, etc. would ease the torture of our problem ‘children’.

Another Tesla investors’ lawsuit about to drop... (telling shareholders about future projects that have been knowingly cancelled or excessively delayed has its own wrath)

I’ve not bought thousands, maybe tens of thousands of items, in the time since I bought my Tesla. But FSD remains by far the non-purchase I feel the most good about.

If they ever team up with the emus, we’re done for.

So are deer. I guess the only solution is to go full Mad Max for these self-driving vehicles...

Such a basic thing to get wrong, but Tesla and Rivian have also had issues with things legacy car makers figured out decades ago. Seems making cars (even simplified with electric motors and batteries instead of complex engines/transmissions) isn't so simple after all. I'm sure all these new EV makers will eventually

intermittent failure of the latch and handle ... the emergency override mechanism also failed to pop the door.

This guy sounds like he would do the bear minimum

This is my exact set up, then i just got a new car, she was part of each step.

And in Kentucky, State Representative Steve Rawlings introduced HB 506, which would ban “any form of geoengineering activities,” including “intentional manipulation of the environment, through an atmospheric polluting activity, to effect changes to the earth’s atmosphere or surface.”

Rainbows are just multi-colored chemtrails leading to a pot of gold. 

Doesn’t exist? Are you crazy? They said the same thing about leprechauns... but who laughing now?

Chemtrails are not a thing. As someone who grew up with a dad who was an aircraft mechanic for the airlines for 25 years, I can assure you... it wouldn’t even be possible lol. Sadly, people like these lawmakers either don’t understand, or refuse to believe the basic science as to what contrails in the atmosphere