In a bad mood, drove rental corolla with the parking brake two clicks up for three blocks. Smoked rear brakes. I feel slightly better now.
Bright white? As opposed to dark white? What?
I had such a dumbass moment this evening. I was bleeding the brakes on my BRZ as a last ditch effort to figure out the massive vibration when braking before i start doing high dollar things like new stoptech rotor rings and caliper rebuilds. After i finished bleeding, i let the air out of the power bleeder tank, removed the cap on the master cylinder and topped off the fluid.
Then I closed the hood and went for a test drive. Without putting the master cylinder cap back on.
When i returned home and smelled brake fluid, i realized what i had done and popped the hood. Luckily the cap was still sitting on the suspension mount and there were no signs of brake fluid spilling out of the master cylinder reservoir. Still felt like a dumbass though.
Worse still, the vibration hasn't changed. I borrowed my friends rotors (he has the same brake kit i do) and i will be swapping those on this week to hopefully narrow the issue down.
Wasn't so fun this morning, as for quite some minutes my pop-ups refused to go up.
You could've at least had some warning that pop-ups were blocked.
I always leave the headlights up when it's cold, for that reason.
If you haven't already, grab a cheap HF dial gauge and mag mount and check your rotor runout. Way easier than swapping rotors around and it'll tell you for sure whether they're warped or not.
A guy I work with just mentioned he's seen advertised Hellcat Charger lease deals for $300/mo. I haven't been able to substantiate that claim, but I did find a Hellcat Challenger lease deal for $399/mo, which still seems incredible for that car http://www.shumanmotor.net/specials/new.htm
But on that topic, something that grinds my gears. I hate the way dealers advertise lease deals. There really needs to be reform. Currently to get the advertised price, you need to be an employee, a senior citizen, a military vet, a recent college grad, in a union, recently married, and trading in a car that's a competitive make but the same model to qualify for the price. In other words, no one ever leaves the dealer paying the advertised price. I experienced this when I went to a dealer to discuss a $159/mo F-150 deal I saw and was told that I needed to be trading in an F-150 to qualify. My fianc?e's is a Chrysler retiree and pays $80/mo more than their advertised price because he doesn't qualify for all the fine print. Dealer advertising needs to show the price that your average person can actually get the car for, not the price that brings people in the door. Though I guess its working for them because people come in determined to leave with a car, and then say fuck it to the extra charges - not everyone comes in like me and says "I'm walking if I don't get the price I want." Its technically not false advertising if only one person in a thousand gets the advertised price, but it really should be.
But if they tell you the actual price, people will just buy it outright. Why fuss with a lease when you can own it? Unless it is for a business, it just does not make sense in my opinion.
Huh? I don't get your reasoning. Why would people buy it outright if they saw the real lease price? Local dealer advertises Chrysler 300s for $269/mo with all the rebates. If your average person walked in off the street, that same car would probably be $349/mo. If they don't drive much and don't want the headache of ownership, leasing is probably the better option for them. Why would they pay $40,000 for to be stuck with a car they'll barely use when they can pay around $4k a year for the same car, always be covered under warranty, and get a new car every 2-3 years. My parents just leased a MKZ since my mom only drives about 8k miles a year now. Apart from being a mechanical nightmare, her 5 year old TL had lost so much value that the trade in offer was laughable.
But that's besides the point. My complaint was that dealers advertise prices are impossible for your average customer to qualify for. Even for buying, though from my observation, its a much bigger problem with leasing. And I know they always preface the number with "as low as" but when so few people actually qualify for that price, I don't think its ok.
First, lets get one thing out of the way. All trade ins are given a terrible price, period. End of story. You want the value back out of your car, you need to sell it yourself.
Now that $269 lease deal is equiped with all the same caveats and disclaimers as the Hellcat. So that is not the price you will pay. I bet if you call and get a real quote, it will be about $300-$325 a month for a two year lease with only 10k miles a year.
Almost everyone I have ever known that got a lease vehicle has played hell with keeping it under the mileage because they underestimated how much they really drive, or fall under the spell of "I gots me a new toy" syndrome and drive more than usual. Either way, it costs more at the end.
So now you are right about the same cost per month for the lease, and you get nothing back. This also fails to cover the ways to save money when buying a car. Are they still offering 0% loans these days?
I agree, car sales advertising is terrible. It offers an as low as lease price to sucker you in, then softens the blow with it is still cheaper than buying it, but in my arms length experience, it is the same or worse when it is all over.
OoooOOOOoooh...so *you're* why I had to use the curb as a wheel chuck the last time I parked (on a hill) in a rented Corolla. :lol:
It's all very regional, a lot of people in NY lease and don't go over miles, in some cases not even close despite doing few long "holiday" drives. Simply because they don't commute by car or if they do they are short drives, like my wife who does 4 miles a day or so.I only know 5 people who lease consistently. One of them gets really close to going over, but usually he manages to get into the 3 month early trade in time frame for it to not affect him. Everyone else is right around the line they pay for.