"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
07/17/2014 at 16:24 • Filed to: DEMZ FIETIN WURDZ
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"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
07/17/2014 at 16:24 • Filed to: DEMZ FIETIN WURDZ | 13
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Jedidiah
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 16:26 |
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Laughed too much at this.
Rico
> Jedidiah
07/17/2014 at 16:31 |
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 16:36 |
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I'm so confused, they are talking about a Mazda 2, but you should buy the Fiesta, only to trade it for a Sonic. But the Mazda 2 is how to make a good looking hatch, but you don't even trade in the sonic to get it?
djmt1
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 16:38 |
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Ugh, the chaviness, it's too strong, run, run for your life!
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Jayhawk Jake
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
07/17/2014 at 16:39 |
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The joke was the post said the Mazda 2 is how you make a good looking hatch. Top commenter here said Step 1: Buy a Fiesta. He was implying that the Fiesta was better looking.
I replied to him saying Step 2: Trade that Fiesta in for a Sonic, because I think we all know the Sonic is better looking.
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Jayhawk Jake
> Rico
07/17/2014 at 16:40 |
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I wanted to find one more like this. There's one with a deer.
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 16:43 |
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Oh haha, OK.
ly2v8-Brian
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 16:53 |
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Oh internet don't go changin.
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ly2v8-Brian
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 16:54 |
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Yes. Yes it is.
Nibbles
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 17:00 |
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Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again.
> Rico
07/17/2014 at 17:02 |
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Just about peed my pants haha
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Jayhawk Jake
> Nibbles
07/17/2014 at 18:31 |
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that's the one!
DocWalt
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 19:00 |
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I have a rental Sonic this week. It has half the mileage of the Yaris I had last time and there's a horrific pulse in the drivetrain at slow speeds. At any speed with moderate load on the engine between 2500-3500 rpm the dashboard starts vibrating and making a very odd rattle.
At least it gets better mileage than the Yaris, even if it is a POS... Anything beats the Kia Soul I had in Cali though. 13k miles and the balljoints/tie rod ends were shot. Every bump and the wheel jerked back and forth. It never tracked straight, it was slow, and none of the power ports worked (probably a fuse issue, but still, wtf?)
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Jayhawk Jake
> DocWalt
07/17/2014 at 19:13 |
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Sounds like a problem with that sonic. May be low mileage, but it's a rental so it probably hasn't been taken care of. Is it a turbo?
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DocWalt
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 19:22 |
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No turbo. It's likely just because it's a rental. It's kind of hilarious how terrible the automatic transmission is in this thing. I roll off the gas and it's smooth, but I roll back into it and it takes forever to do anything, then bang, the tq converter locks up and the engine rattle around on its mounts and I not so smoothly accelerate again.
Reinforcing my hatred of automatics one day at a time...
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Jayhawk Jake
> DocWalt
07/17/2014 at 19:53 |
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Sometimes I wonder if car makers should give higher spec models to rental companies at a massive discount.
Someone could end up with a Sonic rental like yours and just assume all of them are terrible when really it's just a super cheap model.
The Compromiser
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 20:19 |
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Deer Wot m8 is best Wot m8.
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DocWalt
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 21:08 |
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Orrrr.... The rental car companies could maintain them properly. I hate Hertz, BTW. My company travel policy is nothing smaller than a midsize car and they keep shafting me with these little cars because they refuse to do free upgrades when they run out of midsize. I was also using Hertz when I had the trashed Soul.
National is much nicer, and I have had proper vehicles. I had a last gen Chrysler 200 and was pleasantly surprised. Didn't have much roadholding capabilities, but it wasn't a bad car in any obvious way.
Oh, and the Sonic has the crappiest signal reception of any car I've ever driven. Worse than my GTI when I forgot to plug the antenna into the headunit... It won't pick up any of the decent stations in the Columbia river gorge, and the satellite radio reception is hilariously bad. The 200 never once lost signal, the Sonic lost signal every 5 seconds in the gorge, and it loses signal passing under trees driving around the town where I'm at at the moment.
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Jayhawk Jake
> DocWalt
07/17/2014 at 21:32 |
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I don't have problems with the radio in the Sonic, but then again I live in Wichita Kansas, so there's nothing to get in the way
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DocWalt
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 21:35 |
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When it's got signal, it sounds pretty good.
Is there an upgraded radio model in the higher end Sonics, or do they all use the same?
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Jayhawk Jake
> DocWalt
07/17/2014 at 21:44 |
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I think everything other than the base LS has the MyLink touchscreen model
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DocWalt
> Jayhawk Jake
07/17/2014 at 22:26 |
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Ah. My rental has a pretty bleh radio, certainly not a fancy touchscreen.