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Old 12-01-2012, 01:55 AM   #85
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Crazy how much attention these cars have now.
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Old 12-01-2012, 10:58 AM   #86
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Many of us buy a car like this to be able to spend time pampering it and maybe getting a little exercise in the process as well as enjoying driving it. I will certainly be shutting myself in the garage with mine for some one on one time when she arrives and it wont enter my head that I could be earning money instead.

It's not free time if you have to mentally charge for it on a ledger but I can appreciate we all have different circumstances.

I'm assuming the salt is used in winter but find it hard to believe thay still use it! Apart from the damage it causes to all the vehicles it must also pollute the surrounding land and groundwater?
I spent 4 hours on the highway picking up my daughter last night due to the first snowfall rush hour Fri night. The snow was only 1-2 cm but combined with -2C temp and heavy traffic. They didn't get to salt the road yet and there were accidents everywhere. It was driving in an oil slick.
Salt or a similar chemical substitute (some kinda blue crystals) is necessary here. Not sure how its managed but the runoff isn't an issue AFAIK.
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Old 12-02-2012, 12:47 AM   #87
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I spent 4 hours on the highway picking up my daughter last night due to the first snowfall rush hour Fri night. The snow was only 1-2 cm but combined with -2C temp and heavy traffic. They didn't get to salt the road yet and there were accidents everywhere. It was driving in an oil slick.
Salt or a similar chemical substitute (some kinda blue crystals) is necessary here. Not sure how its managed but the runoff isn't an issue AFAIK.
Sure I'd rather live in Oz. I like wolf spiders.
If only there was something else that's cheap and does the same job of lowering the freezing point with no residual effect.
They could run the power lines under the main roads, that would warm them up! Trouble is, everyone would be driving in a strong magnetic field.

I saw one of those bird eating spiders once, it was huge, down in the grass near the windmill. Never could find it again.
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Old 12-02-2012, 01:50 AM   #88
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While my comment about the car being scrap maybe construed as callous, it is more of a business plan than anything else.

I look at my free time as being worth about $60/hour. If I am going to have 100 hours over 10 years of my free time invested in keeping the car up to a point where it has $4000 residual value, then I am wasting my time. The reality is that I can't buy fre time at any price and have precious little of it.

As to the lifespan of this car: I have crawled around below and poked around inside, and to be honest, I don't believe it is going to age well. The plastic fender liners are not going to keep salt water out, but they are going to keep it in longer. The underside is very cluttered with lots of structure that will hold salty slush. The low weight of the car also ensures that rust protection was left on the cutting room floor.
How does this perspective of yours hold up for those that live down south? Per se, Texas for example.
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Old 12-02-2012, 03:38 PM   #89
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all the more reason to invest in touch free car wash shares!
get the salt of it every week,and it will last! texas? you guys
get a free pass!..just sayin'
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all the more reason to invest in touch free car wash shares!
get the salt of it every week,and it will last! texas? you guys
get a free pass!..just sayin'
Touch free car wash at $6 times 52 weeks a year times 10 years....


Lets see, spend $3,120 over ten years so you might have a car worth that much? Or, skip the whole washing thing and take a nice road trip/vacation a couple of times over the ten years?

Next thing you know, you will try to convince me that financing a toy car like this makes any kind of sense?
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I'm pretty much agreeing with NOHOME on this. I just put some mudflaps on yesterday (just because I accept it doesn't mean I won't fight it a little bit) and when I pulled back the liners, the rockers were full of leaves.

Eventually those are going to be packed in there where they will retain water and salt and bring some nice rust. If I still have this car after it's been parked outside and driven daily for ten years, I'd be carefully considering the money on each repair. If I really loved the car and wanted to keep driving it longer, I'd probably sell it local and buy another used one from the southwest.

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