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2020-02-28 at 8 PM UTC
Originally posted by snab_snib get the lowest mileage pre-owned certified hyundai santa fe AWD you can afford. that way, whatever happens, you are guaranteed 100% a working vehicle up to 100,000 miles. and they're cheap as shit. they're not small, either. there's a used car dealership that sends a lot of their warranty stuff our way, and i've never even heard of someone servicing the AWD transaxle or differential. usually it's a coil pack, on the 2.0 basically everything on the car is warranty under 5 years/60k miles, and the essential stuff that makes the car go forward is covered to 10 years/100k miles.
unless you're smart enough to know a good used car and do work if it needs it, a used hyundai is your most fiscally responsible choice for that reason. what you want is the 2015 V6 3.3 liter AWD santa fe. they have a slightly larger body. they're available for between 9,000 and 14,000 dollars unless you get lucky, and of course your payments would be based on your credit score, but you can probably swing 220 a month. that's with 30-40 thousand miles on the odometer, meaning you have 60-70 thousand miles to drive where you will never have to pay for any expensive work on your car, and if it breaks, you'll have a loaner while the dealership or service center fixes it.
Yeah thats a little more than i wanna i spend considering i could go completely broke here. With as much driving as i do that thing doesnt quite get the mileage i want. Neither do 4WD pickups.
2005 AWD CRV gets 22/27 which seems quite good for 15 years ago. Would be more in price range. -
2020-02-28 at 8:15 PM UTCwhat i read online says the 2015 3.3l santa fe awd gets 18mpg city or 25mpg highway.
and keep in mind that if you buy a 3000 dollar car outright, at any time it can break down and cost more than 3000 dollars to fix. where if you buy a 15,000 dollar 2015 hyundai, you're paying 200-250ish a month, and are not at risk of your car breaking and financially crippling you. the 3.3 V6 doesn't die unless you kill it by never doing oil changes.
long term you have a better survivability and a better chance at prosperity by financing a more expensive vehicle that will last you a longer time with less risk of suddenly getting you fired from your job because you can't get to work. -
2020-02-28 at 9:13 PM UTCop crashes multiple times a year and doesn't maintain insurance, pretty sure he shouldn't finance a car
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2020-02-28 at 10:36 PM UTCGood luck
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2020-02-29 at 12:18 AM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny how many days out of a week you drive your truck with the bed empty ?
Almost all winter i have 300 lbs of sandbags in the back for weight and can rip one open and spread it out for traction if I get stuck on ice. I bought the vehicles I have because I know these trucks inside out and know they are built tough as fuck.
I know I needed a reliable vehicle for work and all 4 are simple and built like tanks (drove over 120 miles a day) for years I stayed at a remote cabin which the roads were hardly ever plowed and covered with ice almost all winter.
A piece of shit suv with some pussy awd wouldnt have never made it though the shit I put my truck through on a daily basis.
Originally posted by Sudo wow so youre scared to meet members IRL plus youre an old faggot who tries to justify buying a 2wd truck.
Just get a geo metro to accurately represent your penis size and financial position. No disrespect to geo metros thousands of tons of disrespect to you and your shitty penis and "truck" combo
No idea what the meet members is all about but I am 31 you fucking retard. Also arent you the loser that takes care of some unemployed cunt and other mens skeet trophys if I recall correctly?
For a couple years in my younger days I drove a 99 2wd Dakota with a 5 speed manual and a 4 banger for a work truck. I put some cooper winter tires on the rear and the fucking thing tore it up in town all winter because of the anti spin rear differential. You wouldnt know anything about mechanical terminology (you are a stupid faggot) so basically its badass and if 1 wheel starts to spin it will automatically lock in the other tire so its turning both rears. With weight in the back it worked well and didnt have the extra mechanics of a 4wd system so it was cheap to maintain which is what op needs. Also fyi most trucks are open differentials so they will just constantly spin whichever wheel has less of a load on it. These trucks rear ends are shitty and should be avoided unless your really poor and have no other options. -
2020-02-29 at 12:24 AM UTC
Originally posted by snab_snib what i read online says the 2015 3.3l santa fe awd gets 18mpg city or 25mpg highway.
and keep in mind that if you buy a 3000 dollar car outright, at any time it can break down and cost more than 3000 dollars to fix. where if you buy a 15,000 dollar 2015 hyundai, you're paying 200-250ish a month, and are not at risk of your car breaking and financially crippling you. the 3.3 V6 doesn't die unless you kill it by never doing oil changes.
long term you have a better survivability and a better chance at prosperity by financing a more expensive vehicle that will last you a longer time with less risk of suddenly getting you fired from your job because you can't get to work.
Dude who the fuck do you think is going to finance him? He said he has very little money and you need full coverage insurance on a vehicle that you are making payments on. His problem is going to be trying to find somebody to even insure him after getting into an accident with no insurance. He will need to get SR-22 and even then the insurance rates are going to be higher than shit on any vehicle he buys -
2020-02-29 at 12:35 AM UTCif i really took into account where i was and who i was talking to my advice would have probably been to commit suicide, that's not really good material.
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2020-02-29 at 1:06 AM UTC
Originally posted by cigreting Dude who the fuck do you think is going to finance him? He said he has very little money and you need full coverage insurance on a vehicle that you are making payments on. His problem is going to be trying to find somebody to even insure him after getting into an accident with no insurance. He will need to get SR-22 and even then the insurance rates are going to be higher than shit on any vehicle he buys
I have insurance I just dont have commercial endorsement insurance which I thought they gave me and they know I was working cuz the other guy told them I was. -
2020-02-29 at 1:11 AM UTCCigreting are you saying a 2WD S10 or a Dakota would hold up better driving on minnesota shitroads all day errday than a AWD CR-V or the like?
How are foreign made suvs compared to domestic? -
2020-02-29 at 1:18 AM UTCDomestic cars used to suck ass. I heard they’ve gotten better recently, but I’ll stick with my jap shit for now
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2020-02-29 at 1:27 AM UTC
Originally posted by Cheyes I have insurance I just dont have commercial endorsement insurance which I thought they gave me and they know I was working cuz the other guy told them I was.
Did anyone except you 2 hear what you told this guy? If it was only you 2 then say be must have misunderstood and you were on lunch or your day off and doing some "work"(the word he must have misunderstood) and this is when the incident occurred.
Just make up some bullshit where you weren't on the clock and if your employer cares and wants to keep you on with them then they should back you up. Hopefully your cool with your supervisor or boss and they can help your story out.
By the way who is "they?" Your insurance company, the cops, your employer? -
2020-02-29 at 2:24 AM UTC
Originally posted by Cheyes Cigreting are you saying a 2WD S10 or a Dakota would hold up better driving on minnesota shitroads all day errday than a AWD CR-V or the like?
How are foreign made suvs compared to domestic?
Absolutely. Awd vehicles will have more moving parts which means more issues to deal with as time goes on. Yes its going to get more traction than most but not all 2wd trucks, but the tradeoff is more parts to break and maintain. I'll tell you if your considering a modern late model suv they will not be built as stout as a truck. Most are unibodys and most of the late model SUVs have pussy ass all wheel drive systems that are just made for ice traction, no real strength to them.
In all honesty I really like Dodge trucks but in your case a late 90s or early 00s chevy blazer (very few if any will be 2wd) or s10 would be better(you can find many of these in 2wd) if I were in your position I would try to look for a 4 cylinder for economy and again less parts to break and maintain than a V6. I say go for a chevy over a Dodge is because there is a million Blazers and s-10s and the more of something, the cheaper the parts and vehicles are. You can pick up either of these in nice shape with lower miles for around 3k or less. If you can find a 4 cyl 2wd Dakota I wouldnt pass it up either, but they are pretty hard to find. The 4 cyl version uses the 2.5 AMC engine which is basically a tractor engine. I have had several Wranglers in my younger days with the 2.5 and they are literally indestructible (I beat the living fuck out of them offroading) as long as you keep the oil changed and dont overheat them frequently. This engine is the same as the highly known 4.0 in Jeeps with 2 less cylinders.
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2020-02-29 at 2:27 AM UTC
Originally posted by cigreting Absolutely. Awd vehicles will have more moving parts which means more issues to deal with as time goes on. Yes its going to get more traction than most but not all 2wd trucks, but the tradeoff is more parts to break and maintain. I'll tell you if your considering a modern late model suv they will not be built as stout as a truck. Most are unibodys and most of the late model SUVs have pussy ass all wheel drive systems that are just made for ice traction, no real strength to them.
Never knew there was such a thing unless you put spikes or chains on your tires. -
2020-02-29 at 2:39 AM UTC
Originally posted by Technologist Never knew there was such a thing unless you put spikes or chains on your tires.
They have all types of computers in the newer vehicles that aid in "traction control" that limit the amount of power each wheel receives. The problem is a computer cant tell if you need more power on a certain wheel to move snow in order to get to dry pavement in order to get traction. The stupid fucking thing just thinks you're getting no traction so it cuts all the power to that wheel. Its for all the retards out there that cant drive basically -
2020-02-29 at 2:41 AM UTC
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2020-02-29 at 2:52 AM UTC
Originally posted by jesus enriquez no…no, they havent.
also, theres no such thing as domestic cars anymore. theyre all made in china
Alot of domestics use foreign made parts but many of them are still assembled in the us. Its kind of sad to be honest. Back in my grandfathers and part of my fathers day is when cars were really made and assembled in the USA.
I wish I grew up in my grandfathers generation, in fact I was thinking of 1984 again today with all the government over regulations we deal with today that my grandfather never had to. I still wonder what he would say about the state of the US these days. Times were simpler back then, people had pride, and people took responsibility for themselves and their actions -
2020-02-29 at 2:53 AM UTCSo, I'm NOT an independent contractor, I'm an employee (we are going to IOC very shortly) for a delivery company, but they made us give them proof of personal insurance, which I have. I thought I read on the website that they guaranteed liability towards the other driver just like uber so I didn't worry about getting a commercial endorsement (retarded, yes) but I can no longer find that webpage and they just told me "no we don't have anything for you, you're required to have your own to drive with us".
long story short my insurance company was told by other driver that I was driving for my job during the accident so they know, but I can't get ahold of them till Monday to figure this out now. -
2020-02-29 at 2:56 AM UTC
Originally posted by jesus enriquez unless you have established case law to cite, stfu. where i live its established state law that a victim can go after anyone remotely related to an incident. the most recent example i know of is a pedestrian on a sidewalk was hit by a vehicle that was (allegedly claimed) dodging a low-hanging cable line. (it was lower than normal but still 15 to 20 feet above the pavement) the victims lawyer sued: the driver, the drivers insurance company, the apartment complex whos sidewalk they were on when hit, and the cable company. it dont remember how much they won in total but it was five-figures.
where i live it is a simple question in business law relating to usage of a vehicle, pay rate (regardless of being 1099'd), workmans-comp insurance, etc., with the question being: 'were you performing job related duties at the time?'
this is why companies are required to have so many different types of state-mandated insurance
I dont need to cite any law. I have my CDL so I know quite a bit about the requitements about driving for a company or being independent are. Its very simple, either he is or isnt an independent contractor. The rest of your post is irrelevant
