"Pixel" (Improbcat)
10/09/2014 at 11:31 • Filed to: None
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"Pixel" (Improbcat)
10/09/2014 at 11:31 • Filed to: None | 0
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Took the girlfriend's xb(left) to work so she could take my xB(right) to get to state inspection done(I'm overdue). Shop wouldn't do the inspection at all because the crack in the windshield is an automatic fail.
Called around to get price quotes on a windshield, AAA = $254, Safelite = $230, local place = $155. So Monday we'll be swapping boxes again so she can take it in for a windshield & an inspection(she works from home and has more flexible schedule).
Driving her xB is weird. Since it is the same basic vehicle, the differences(condition, modifications, etc.) between the two really throw me.
kanadanmajava1
> Pixel
10/09/2014 at 11:37 |
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Why do you have two nearly identical cars? Wouldn't a reasonable car and a fun car be a more interesting combination?
CAR_IS_MI
> Pixel
10/09/2014 at 11:37 |
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RI inspection sucks. The last 5 years I lived there I had to find "friends" otherwise nothing I owned would pass.
yamahog
> Pixel
10/09/2014 at 11:38 |
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A+ for keeping the boxes safe and legal.
GTI Sprinks
> kanadanmajava1
10/09/2014 at 11:53 |
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maybe it's how they met? Or at the very least it was an ice-breaker "I see you have an xB... so do I"
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Pixel
> kanadanmajava1
10/09/2014 at 11:54 |
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I also have a fun car, for my weird definition of fun.
She actually had an MR2. The problem is she rarely needs a car, but when she does it is usually to drive a few hours away, and often with a lot of stuff. The MR2 was useless to the point of dangerous in the snow and couldn't carry anything. So she'd end up driving my xB and during the summer I'd drive her MR2(which I didn't fit well in). And during the winter I'd have to take my truck out in the snow where it sucked to drive, leaked through various rust holes, and encouraged it to rot further.
So she had a car she rarely drove, even during the times she was driving somewhere, and which I didn't enjoy driving either. So it sat, and sat.
When the MR2 started developing issues from sitting so much, she took a hard look at what she needed from a car(reliability, good MPG, good carrying capacity, manual transmission) and realized the xB ticked all the boxes. Since I wasn't willing to give her mine(because I love it so) we found her a cheap one , which she is smitten with.
So we both ended up with cars that are the perfect combination of fun, sensible and useful and which are exactly what we want from a car. They just happen to be the same one. And I have my big old truck for fun weekend cruising and for hauling the sort of messy stuff associated with restoring a 100+ year old house.
When I finally add a workshop onto the garage and move my tools & such over so I can actually get 2 cars in it, we will probably be in the market for a sedan or wagon from the 50s/60s to be our "civilized" fun car. Or I may finally begin my dream project of building an aluminum-bodied art-deco roadster on a modern chassis.
RazoE
> Pixel
10/09/2014 at 11:58 |
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yikes, fix your cars! The hatch handle's been "recalled" and you can have it replaced at a Toyota dealer for free. I have a 2005 TCM.
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Pixel
> RazoE
10/09/2014 at 12:01 |
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We missed the recall window by a few months. Found out about it after Toyota had stopped doing them.
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kanadanmajava1
> Pixel
10/09/2014 at 12:15 |
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The pickup looks fun. I thought that MR2s very pretty reliable but had tendency to rust.
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RazoE
> Pixel
10/09/2014 at 12:17 |
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They did? I have the chrome one that a company sold as replacements so I never went either. Sucks that I missed it too..=(
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Pixel
> kanadanmajava1
10/09/2014 at 12:25 |
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The MR2 was reliable, but stuff was starting to fail due to disuse. Gaskets drying out and leaking oil, suspension bushings drying out and cracking. That sort of thing.
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Pixel
> CAR_IS_MI
10/09/2014 at 12:28 |
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I haven't had any big issues. The shop near us gets that we have older vehicles so they aren't hardasses. They only fail us for obvious issues(like the badly cracked windshield) or real safety stuff, and don't try and fail us for wipers(just tell us to change them).