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* Depreciation - 2 messages, 2 authors
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* Irwell is correct. Manual transmissions are best. - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Depreciation
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/42605948e926b649?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Jan 23 2011 10:24 pm
From: The Real Bev
On 01/23/11 18:42, dsi1 wrote:
> On 1/23/2011 4:06 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
>>
>> This one can't lock the passenger door with the driver-side switch, and
>> the passenger window makes gear-grinding noises at the very top and when
>> it's open about 6 inches. I gave it a new radio, so maybe it won't break
>> anything else. Although, come to think of it, the window problem started
>> AFTER I got the radio...
>
> That's one ungrateful car! My guess is that it's holding out for a new
> paint job - and not one of those cheapie Maaco deals...
NOOOO. Cars think that a paint job means they're going up for sale, and
the devil they know is better than the one they don't. If you give an
older car something expensive, it's absolutely guaranteed to break
something MORE expensive. Previous (1978) Caddy got some differential
repair (from an actual Caddy dealer, the shithead) and threw a rod
through the engine a few weeks later.
Besides, how could anybody want to cover up paint called Antelope Fire-Mist?
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Cheers, Bev
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== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Jan 24 2011 1:48 am
From: dsi1
On 1/23/2011 8:24 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 01/23/11 18:42, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> On 1/23/2011 4:06 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>
>>> This one can't lock the passenger door with the driver-side switch, and
>>> the passenger window makes gear-grinding noises at the very top and when
>>> it's open about 6 inches. I gave it a new radio, so maybe it won't break
>>> anything else. Although, come to think of it, the window problem started
>>> AFTER I got the radio...
>>
>> That's one ungrateful car! My guess is that it's holding out for a new
>> paint job - and not one of those cheapie Maaco deals...
>
> NOOOO. Cars think that a paint job means they're going up for sale, and
> the devil they know is better than the one they don't. If you give an
> older car something expensive, it's absolutely guaranteed to break
> something MORE expensive. Previous (1978) Caddy got some differential
> repair (from an actual Caddy dealer, the shithead) and threw a rod
> through the engine a few weeks later.
Thanks for the info. Those old Caddys sure are obstinate! Obviously,
you're an experienced automotive psychologist. Good for you - we need
folks to tell us why cars act the way they do. I've been lucky, most of
my rides have been pretty well-adjusted. I did have an Austin American
that may have been a little psycho but I suspect that if may have been
over-compensating for it's tiny pistons.
>
> Besides, how could anybody want to cover up paint called Antelope
> Fire-Mist?
>
Not me, there's nothing so shimmering and glimmering as an antelope on
fire running terrified through the woods. :-)
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TOPIC: Irwell is correct. Manual transmissions are best.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/9e13ce7644212876?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Jan 24 2011 4:25 am
From: Bjorn
On 22 Jan, 20:00, "hls" <h...@nospam.nix> wrote:
> "Bjorn" <gos...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:e32d5c90-464e-
>
> http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/bilar/article3067585.ecehttp://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080707/154383/
>
> That is no answer to my challenge. These are not in public use, as
> I stipulated in my post.
>
> AFAIK there is still no system that I know of that meets your claims:
> " This is actually something that is tested and implemented.
> It is a cheap and reliable way to set up a driverless public
> transport."
>
> It may be in tests but it is not publicly implemented.
Everything about electrical vehicles and new way of utilizing new
technology is very small at the moment.
The realization that the price of oil is going up and up is creating
interest and necessity for alternative solutions.
We have been sleeping on the guard for too long so the alternatives
have only recently become a real solution.
It may/will take quite some time and most probably years to get things
started.
The sooner the prices of oil go up the sooner the alternatives come.
In Europe the trains have been increasingly popular the last 20 to 30
years and public transport in general has gotten better.
The next step is being tested in various places and in many cases it
is a combination of ordinary trains combined with other kind of
transport.
Interestingly the waterways have been making a comback as well because
they are very economical where they are possible.
Making driverless vehicles and letting them do transport has been
around for decades but usually not often mixed with other kind of
traffic because other kind of traffic is often used by incompetent
drivers.
Using technology from trains and having lines above vehicles is being
tested and works well.
Using lines above the vehicles can be set up much more quickly than
setting out train tracks so that is a real alternative already with or
without a driver involved just to replace dependency on oil.
The reason for why Europe has began this road to get off oil so long
ago is partly because they had the good fortune to tax oil and thus
pointed ordinary people in the right direction.
Because the general trend to go electric is so recent it will
unfortunately take quite a long time to make any real impact.
The big producers of vehicles have also muddied the water by insisting
on continuing using oil by producing hybrids and calling them
electrics.
By setting out lines above the roads it would be easy to get the
trucks going on the roads like trains and it would get us faster off
oil.
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