IWETHEY v. 0.3.0
|
TODO
1,095 registered users | 0
active users
| 0 LpH |
Statistics
Login
|
Create New User
Welcome to IWETHEY!
IWETHEY Home
/
IWETHEY Board
/
General Q&A Forum
/
Means it is even better than advertised. :-)
Post #210,118
by
ben_tilly
6/6/05 8:09:50 PM
Reply
Means it is even better than advertised. :-)
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless.
-- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Can I trust this?
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (165)
- June 5, 2005, 12:11:00 AM EDT
Dunno, but seems pretty low.
- (
Another Scott
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 12:36:33 AM EDT
No trade-in
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 5, 2005, 02:08:30 AM EDT
No
- (
broomberg
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 01:17:36 AM EDT
Thought not :-)
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 5, 2005, 02:05:18 AM EDT
Can you get a written quote?
- (
pwhysall
)
- (2)
- June 5, 2005, 03:01:07 AM EDT
It is here as well...but there are ways around that...
-NT
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 03:12:01 AM EDT
Troof. These are CAR DEALERS we're talking about, after all.
-NT
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 5, 2005, 03:22:48 AM EDT
Maybe -
- (
Ashton
)
- (8)
- June 5, 2005, 04:22:46 AM EDT
Am I being too picky?
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (7)
- June 5, 2005, 10:14:53 AM EDT
That depends.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (2)
- June 5, 2005, 10:48:26 AM EDT
Right. I just hate spending money.
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 11:29:02 AM EDT
Re: Right. I just hate spending money.
- (
Ashton
)
- June 6, 2005, 05:15:25 AM EDT
Don't do it
- (
broomberg
)
- (2)
- June 5, 2005, 11:16:08 AM EDT
Good points
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 11:27:39 AM EDT
Just be a reasonable alternative
- (
broomberg
)
- June 5, 2005, 11:53:51 AM EDT
Don't choose between sizes based on price.
- (
Another Scott
)
- June 5, 2005, 11:27:40 AM EDT
If you are paying cash
- (
boxley
)
- (5)
- June 5, 2005, 08:11:42 AM EDT
Re: "tell them that you are comparing"
- (
a6l6e6x
)
- (4)
- June 5, 2005, 12:24:06 PM EDT
I didnt even look at GM even tho I get the discount
- (
boxley
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 12:42:18 PM EDT
Better than Fords
- (
tuberculosis
)
- Aug. 21, 2007, 06:05:28 AM EDT
There is a *reason* that GM is desperate
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 02:59:14 PM EDT
No argument there. Last one I owned was a 1980 Citation.
-NT
- (
a6l6e6x
)
- June 5, 2005, 10:26:39 PM EDT
Was price quoted on one of the demo models?
- (
jbrabeck
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 08:30:38 AM EDT
Will check on that
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 5, 2005, 09:30:01 AM EDT
now have you looked at khia's more car less price
- (
boxley
)
- (17)
- June 5, 2005, 11:37:56 AM EDT
Re: now have you looked at khia's more car less price
- (
Yendor
)
- June 5, 2005, 11:54:17 AM EDT
Kia, not Khia
- (
broomberg
)
- (7)
- June 5, 2005, 11:56:35 AM EDT
What, you never heard of a Garmann Khia? :)
-NT
- (
a6l6e6x
)
- (6)
- June 5, 2005, 12:26:10 PM EDT
well I meant the Korean not the Carmen:-)
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- June 5, 2005, 12:39:10 PM EDT
No, but I have heard of a VW Karmen-Ghia.
-NT
- (
folkert
)
- (4)
- June 5, 2005, 11:30:56 PM EDT
No you haven't; Alex had it right.
- (
CRConrad
)
- (3)
- June 6, 2005, 03:09:24 AM EDT
My favorite Picker of Nits!
-NT
- (
folkert
)
- (1)
- June 6, 2005, 07:12:24 AM EDT
Bah, I bet you say that to *all* the girls!
- (
CRConrad
)
- June 6, 2005, 09:45:36 AM EDT
That's a Bingo!
-NT
- (
a6l6e6x
)
- June 6, 2005, 08:47:23 AM EDT
That's the life span of an American car
- (
tuberculosis
)
- Aug. 21, 2007, 06:05:32 AM EDT
No, and quality matters
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (6)
- June 5, 2005, 04:12:08 PM EDT
Re: No, and quality matters
- (
dws
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 04:22:04 PM EDT
On Hyundai...
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 5, 2005, 04:28:55 PM EDT
they wouldnt offer such a warranty if they expected expensiv
- (
boxley
)
- (3)
- June 5, 2005, 04:34:46 PM EDT
Actually, no
- (
broomberg
)
- June 5, 2005, 05:06:02 PM EDT
Point
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 05:20:08 PM EDT
didnt know about the milage, mind changed
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- June 5, 2005, 06:45:04 PM EDT
Probably add local delivery, taxes and tags.
- (
bepatient
)
- (71)
- June 5, 2005, 04:39:07 PM EDT
And it will never, ever break.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (70)
- June 5, 2005, 04:42:44 PM EDT
Depends.
- (
Another Scott
)
- (66)
- June 5, 2005, 05:17:36 PM EDT
Re: Depends.
- (
Ashton
)
- (1)
- June 6, 2005, 05:46:45 AM EDT
Werd.
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 6, 2005, 07:01:40 AM EDT
Sure it's a wheel bearing?
- (
Steve Lowe
)
- (63)
- June 6, 2005, 04:33:22 PM EDT
Seconded.. though usually.. those 'click' not whine (?)
- (
Ashton
)
- (60)
- June 6, 2005, 05:02:47 PM EDT
Most interesting...
- (
pwhysall
)
- (59)
- June 6, 2005, 05:07:26 PM EDT
Can't you weird Brit-peeples say "left" and "right"?
- (
CRConrad
)
- (58)
- June 7, 2005, 07:43:22 AM EDT
Dear CRC
- (
pwhysall
)
- (51)
- June 7, 2005, 08:13:52 AM EDT
I bet he has a really clean house!
-NT
- (
bionerd
)
- (50)
- June 7, 2005, 02:31:43 PM EDT
Oh, bullcrap. So, silly vego-person, can *you*...
- (
CRConrad
)
- (49)
- June 8, 2005, 07:49:41 AM EDT
You need to turn up your humor detector. :-)
-NT
- (
Another Scott
)
- June 8, 2005, 08:04:18 AM EDT
Stop being a knobhead, CRC.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (37)
- June 8, 2005, 08:06:21 AM EDT
He's not he is being CRC so leave him be
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- June 8, 2005, 08:23:26 AM EDT
You first, PeeWee.
- (
CRConrad
)
- (35)
- June 8, 2005, 08:27:14 AM EDT
Oh, give it a rest, ffs.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (34)
- June 8, 2005, 08:34:27 AM EDT
Any time.
- (
CRConrad
)
- (11)
- June 8, 2005, 09:10:40 AM EDT
Re: Any time.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (9)
- June 8, 2005, 09:39:56 AM EDT
AKA "I don't have any real answer". OK, noted.
-NT
- (
CRConrad
)
- (6)
- June 8, 2005, 09:46:19 AM EDT
Yellow flag thrown!
- (
bepatient
)
- (5)
- June 8, 2005, 10:33:49 AM EDT
Bonus points awarded
- (
rcareaga
)
- (2)
- June 8, 2005, 11:25:01 AM EDT
Having at WHOM?
- (
pwhysall
)
- (1)
- June 8, 2005, 05:56:04 PM EDT
I stand corrected
- (
rcareaga
)
- June 9, 2005, 12:05:06 AM EDT
Oh, and by the way ...
- (
drewk
)
- (1)
- June 8, 2005, 12:20:09 PM EDT
ICLRPD (new thread)
- (
boxley
)
- June 8, 2005, 12:37:29 PM EDT
No, no, no.
- (
admin
)
- (1)
- June 8, 2005, 10:52:36 AM EDT
ROFL!
- (
folkert
)
- June 8, 2005, 11:03:42 AM EDT
And there we are.
- (
mmoffitt
)
- June 8, 2005, 12:35:35 PM EDT
Normal usage? Not here.
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (21)
- June 8, 2005, 02:01:53 PM EDT
ICLRPD (new thread)
- (
CRConrad
)
- June 8, 2005, 02:21:01 PM EDT
So I guess...
- (
admin
)
- (19)
- June 8, 2005, 03:14:33 PM EDT
Furlongs
-NT
- (
drewk
)
- (1)
- June 8, 2005, 03:16:47 PM EDT
no.
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 8, 2005, 03:29:43 PM EDT
You're risking a barrage of Norse longboat vituperation. ;)
- (
Another Scott
)
- (1)
- June 8, 2005, 03:23:04 PM EDT
Keeps the LRPDs coming, dunnit?
-NT
- (
admin
)
- June 8, 2005, 03:28:23 PM EDT
thats knot a good measurement
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- June 8, 2005, 03:38:51 PM EDT
Um, actually, I think that your guess was backwards
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (13)
- June 8, 2005, 05:17:34 PM EDT
I had it backwards, actually.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (1)
- June 8, 2005, 05:25:42 PM EDT
what no fenders or wheel wells hood or trunk?
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- June 8, 2005, 05:51:31 PM EDT
Confused? No.
- (
admin
)
- (10)
- June 8, 2005, 05:57:10 PM EDT
Kind of invalidates your parallel, doesn't it though?
- (
CRConrad
)
- (9)
- June 8, 2005, 06:28:51 PM EDT
It's called "hyperbole". HTH!
-NT
- (
admin
)
- (8)
- June 8, 2005, 06:30:11 PM EDT
OK, that's another word for it. Thanks!
- (
CRConrad
)
- (7)
- June 9, 2005, 03:35:09 AM EDT
Whatever gets you through the day.
- (
admin
)
- (6)
- June 9, 2005, 08:15:55 AM EDT
I think you're forgetting the most salient detail here...
- (
CRConrad
)
- (5)
- June 9, 2005, 09:37:02 AM EDT
Ha, nice try.
- (
admin
)
- (4)
- June 9, 2005, 10:05:27 AM EDT
Not even a "nice try" from you, though.
- (
CRConrad
)
- (3)
- June 9, 2005, 02:55:56 PM EDT
Sorry, not my conversation, yours.
-NT
- (
admin
)
- (2)
- June 9, 2005, 04:14:30 PM EDT
Ha ha, very funny. But, hey, if you're granting...
- (
CRConrad
)
- (1)
- June 10, 2005, 02:38:21 AM EDT
No, you mistake my meaning.
- (
admin
)
- June 10, 2005, 08:22:40 AM EDT
Yeah, actually I did understand what Peter was talking about
- (
bionerd
)
- (9)
- June 8, 2005, 09:56:51 AM EDT
...
- (
admin
)
- June 8, 2005, 10:53:33 AM EDT
You keep coming back to that.
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 8, 2005, 11:04:04 AM EDT
Errrrmh, <cough>... ummm
- (
folkert
)
- June 8, 2005, 11:05:07 AM EDT
Oh, you're all just basking in your cleverness, arent you?
-NT
- (
bionerd
)
- (4)
- June 8, 2005, 11:51:16 AM EDT
They're sure basking in something!
- (
Nightowl
)
- June 8, 2005, 11:58:10 AM EDT
Had I seen it in time, I too would have been sorely tempted.
-NT
- (
CRConrad
)
- June 8, 2005, 01:44:30 PM EDT
poor fellas cant tell the difference between an adjective
- (
boxley
)
- (1)
- June 8, 2005, 06:28:39 PM EDT
If you've got...
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 8, 2005, 06:13:58 PM EDT
OK,w/ that admission you can to call me (or NE1) one too! :)
-NT
- (
CRConrad
)
- June 8, 2005, 01:47:38 PM EDT
Oh *absolutely* gibber the Norse longboat terminology at us
-NT
- (
drewk
)
- (4)
- June 7, 2005, 09:26:31 AM EDT
ICLFRPD (new thread)
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 7, 2005, 09:49:41 AM EDT
Uh, that would be Larboard/Starboard, Lubber Boy
-NT
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (2)
- Aug. 21, 2007, 06:13:18 AM EDT
nope havn/styrbord larboard is the same
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- (1)
- June 7, 2005, 02:14:07 PM EDT
Not so
- (
tuberculosis
)
- Aug. 21, 2007, 06:13:39 AM EDT
Doubly so when they drive on the wrong side of the road
-NT
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 7, 2005, 02:33:16 PM EDT
It seems like a wheel bearing.
- (
Another Scott
)
- (1)
- June 6, 2005, 09:07:15 PM EDT
The wheel bearing's fine. Needs a rear McPherson strut. (new thread)
- (
Another Scott
)
- June 11, 2005, 08:06:48 PM EDT
Consumer Reports likes them
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (2)
- June 5, 2005, 06:02:07 PM EDT
Re: Consumer Reports likes them
- (
lincoln
)
- (1)
- June 6, 2005, 01:23:37 PM EDT
Means it is even better than advertised. :-)
-NT
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 6, 2005, 08:09:50 PM EDT
Internet/Fleet sales is the way to go
- (
tonytib
)
- (6)
- June 5, 2005, 08:30:28 PM EDT
that's how I bought my '96 Nissan Altima
- (
cforde
)
- (2)
- June 6, 2005, 01:12:51 AM EDT
'96 Nissan Altima
- (
Ashton
)
- (1)
- June 6, 2005, 05:52:34 AM EDT
ICLRPD (new thread)
- (
Steve Lowe
)
- June 6, 2005, 04:24:35 PM EDT
Over here, one avoids ex-fleet cars like t'plague.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (2)
- June 6, 2005, 01:26:47 AM EDT
Please read more carefully
- (
tonytib
)
- (1)
- June 6, 2005, 09:29:57 PM EDT
Over here...
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 7, 2005, 01:28:32 AM EDT
Some things I saw.
- (
static
)
- June 5, 2005, 11:07:04 PM EDT
It looks like I can trust it (is LoJack worthwhile?)
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (34)
- June 5, 2005, 11:20:26 PM EDT
Yes. Do you know what it is/does?
-NT
- (
folkert
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 11:28:39 PM EDT
I know what it is/does
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 5, 2005, 11:43:02 PM EDT
Do you know of anyone out there that's had a car stolen?
- (
Another Scott
)
- (3)
- June 5, 2005, 11:39:47 PM EDT
This *IS* Los Angeles
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 5, 2005, 11:48:29 PM EDT
It does happen.
- (
admin
)
- (1)
- June 6, 2005, 07:43:45 AM EDT
Had my new '87 'stang stolen...
- (
folkert
)
- June 6, 2005, 04:40:27 PM EDT
Take it
- (
broomberg
)
- (2)
- June 5, 2005, 11:43:06 PM EDT
I believe there is no sticker with LoJack
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 11:44:58 PM EDT
If professional thieves get it, it won't matter
-NT
- (
drewk
)
- June 5, 2005, 11:47:57 PM EDT
I *would* have said yes, but look at the insurance company
- (
drewk
)
- (1)
- June 5, 2005, 11:46:19 PM EDT
Yabut, there is a twist
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 5, 2005, 11:52:57 PM EDT
Aren't taxes computed on the before rebate price?
-NT
- (
lincoln
)
- (1)
- June 6, 2005, 01:26:43 PM EDT
Yes.
-NT
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 6, 2005, 08:10:13 PM EDT
If the insurance company thinks so, they'll pay for it
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (20)
- Aug. 21, 2007, 06:08:46 AM EDT
How odd all this is.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (19)
- June 6, 2005, 05:38:49 PM EDT
if the car starts by inserting a key into a tumbler
- (
boxley
)
- (15)
- June 6, 2005, 06:11:47 PM EDT
Slide hammer is faster than a drill.
-NT
- (
hnick
)
- June 6, 2005, 06:25:09 PM EDT
Pair of scissors
- (
rcareaga
)
- June 6, 2005, 06:32:35 PM EDT
OK. You're in. Now start it.
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 7, 2005, 01:29:47 AM EDT
Don't work for modern anti-theft ignition killers.
- (
static
)
- (11)
- June 7, 2005, 02:39:32 AM EDT
That's certainly the case for my car.
-NT
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 7, 2005, 02:53:35 AM EDT
cant press the valet button?
- (
boxley
)
- (9)
- June 7, 2005, 08:31:47 AM EDT
"Valet button"?
- (
pwhysall
)
- (7)
- June 7, 2005, 08:35:42 AM EDT
what is an immobilizer
- (
boxley
)
- (6)
- June 7, 2005, 08:39:51 AM EDT
Never heard of that.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (5)
- June 7, 2005, 08:40:45 AM EDT
how is it connected to an immobilizer? a wire?
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- (4)
- June 7, 2005, 09:57:26 AM EDT
Indeed.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (3)
- June 7, 2005, 12:19:46 PM EDT
and the laguage they speak is called voltage
- (
boxley
)
- (1)
- June 7, 2005, 12:26:30 PM EDT
Right.
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 7, 2005, 12:31:22 PM EDT
is this the widget in question? (new thread)
- (
boxley
)
- June 7, 2005, 12:33:20 PM EDT
Don't have one of those.
- (
static
)
- June 7, 2005, 09:02:28 PM EDT
Arse 1!
-NT
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 7, 2005, 02:00:18 AM EDT
Arse 2!
-NT
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 7, 2005, 02:00:39 AM EDT
Falling Car Crime In The UK & The Great Insurance Ripoff (new thread)
- (
pwhysall
)
- June 7, 2005, 01:59:33 AM EDT
Purchased
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (7)
- June 6, 2005, 09:16:17 PM EDT
Congrats!
-NT
- (
Another Scott
)
- June 6, 2005, 08:35:53 PM EDT
car dealers never lose :-)
- (
boxley
)
- (2)
- June 6, 2005, 09:18:17 PM EDT
He lost according to Toyota's figures
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (1)
- June 6, 2005, 09:48:01 PM EDT
Re: He lost according to Toyota's figures
- (
dws
)
- June 6, 2005, 10:46:31 PM EDT
suggestion..
- (
cforde
)
- (2)
- June 9, 2005, 03:02:31 AM EDT
I'll definitely think about that
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 9, 2005, 02:25:15 PM EDT
ICLRPD (new thread)
- (
ben_tilly
)
- June 9, 2005, 02:25:28 PM EDT
i
we
they
.org
Tracers work both ways.
313 ms