If there's too much bumper in front of the hood it will scrape if you go the slightest bit too fast.
Depends on the bumper and spoilers
If there's too much bumper in front of the hood it will scrape if you go the slightest bit too fast. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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The SUV / cross-over craze has infested us, too, so fairly sure that's not it.
They're just being stupidly over-cautious Soccer Moms (of both sexes), in their Qashqai, RAV4, or ML-Class. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
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I drive the SUV so little I took it off the insurance
M works at night. If the Kia Niro is not available to me, I don't want to drive it anyway. I don't want to drive anything anyway at night here. My old man night vision eyes tells me to cut that shit out. I don't want to drive the SUV anyway. Just based on gas mileage and comfort level. Yes, the Yukon is a crazy high-end fun luxury vehicle. The Kia is just as comfortable and far more a pleasure to drive. Keep in mind the Yukon is rather old and does not have cruise control. That's just one piece I was not willing to fix when I bought it. That means the Kia can hug the downgrades by automatically applying the brakes during cruise control (And it does it very well) versus the Yukon that I better pay damn close attention before the brakes either overheat or don't hold close enough during a downgrade. This is a rare thing just based on the fact that I don't have many of those types of downgrades here. But when I do it counts. All of this becomes moot when I engage the four-wheel drive. But I rarely rarely do that. So it sits in my driveway. And I try to cut the grass that pokes out from underneath. And I annoy the neighbors. The high-end deep discharge battery has been deep discharged one time too many and that thing is not keeping a charge. So I bought a flashlight sized capacitor jump device that is capable of jumping it a dozen times before a recharge is necessary. That will get me to town and back and parked a few times and rejumped if I have to. Actually indefinitely as long as I immediately plug it into the 12 volt charger and bring it back to top. So if I ever choose to use it I will walk outside and jump it and let it run for a while. And while it's running I have to call it my insurance agent and activate the insurance. At that moment it's a minor cost for the month. |
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But I was wrong about the battery
I bought one of these about 3 years ago. I had a dying battery in a van I was getting rid of but then I was not replacing the battery. I just kept this thing on it until the guy picked it up. 4 Modes Car Battery Charger, 24V/12V Battery Charger Automotive, 4A/8A LCD Battery Charger Switching Automatically from Fast Charging to Trickle Charging for AGM Lead-Acid Batteries https://a.co/d/3sj9Hts This thing isn't available but there are many successors. The battery in the SUV is at least 5 years old. It is a marine deep discharge battery as opposed to a typical car battery and this lady bought it because she was living out of this vehicle. Then it got to sit in my driveway for the last 3 years, being driven a total of about 100 mi, and nothing in the last year. I had done multiple jumps and then drive around the neighborhood and let it run but that never allowed the battery to start the car the next day. So I let this device run on it for a couple of hours and the vehicle started just fine and then I drove it around the neighborhood and then I let it sit for about 10 minutes. It started fine on its own the next day. Wait 2 days. It started fine on its own again. Wait 3 days. It started fine on its own again. So it seems this battery actually came back to life. Amazed. I just got some gasoline stabilizer. I'm amazed the engine hasn't gummed up with this year old gas. Time to go fill it with a quarter tank and throw the stabilizer in. I have two 5 gallon gasoline jugs that have been sitting there a year that have not had the stabilizer in it. Can I still use that gasoline? Do I have to dispose of it? |