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10-02-2021, 10:27 PM #3876Registered User
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10-03-2021, 07:02 AM #3877Registered User
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Or a Ford with the keypad, assuming you can remember a five digit code (you can pick your own).
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10-03-2021, 09:49 AM #3878Registered User
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Ummmmm. ..... key fob that remotely primes your lock to let go when you put your hand on the door sensor?
What kind of 1970s shit are you folks driving, anyway????
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10-03-2021, 11:16 AM #3879
My wife's car unlocks when she gets near it, then starts when she presses the start button. Then she leaves the car running, goes back in the house to get something, forgets the keys, gets back in the car, drives off and then can't restart the car to come home. Or she has me drop her somewhere in her car and takes the keys with her and I have no way to restart the car. My car starts when I turn the key, and ever shall it be that way. She complains about having to press a button on the fob to unlock my car and turn the key to drive it but my car isn't the one getting stranded.
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10-03-2021, 12:10 PM #3880Registered User
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10-03-2021, 01:12 PM #3881
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10-03-2021, 01:30 PM #3882
My car unlocks itself when I get near the driver side door and starts with a push button. I like the system, but I keep my keys / fob in my pocket all day every day.
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10-03-2021, 01:31 PM #3883Registered User
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So, as we've been yammering about for ever. ......... wife problem, not car access problem. Sounds like she'd have similar issues with prehistoric non-electronic access too.
My comment was aimed at the distracted men.
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10-03-2021, 02:33 PM #3884Good-lookin' wool
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I don’t really care as it has little to do with me, but does anyone else’s spouse leave insanely long voicemails for people. It’s like she’s having a conversation with someone and is uncomfortable with the silence so she keeps talking. Once she exhausts absolutely everything tangentially related to the original reason for the call, she begrudgingly hangs up.
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10-03-2021, 04:29 PM #3885
I’d be more concerned she is actually leaving voicemails.
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10-03-2021, 07:19 PM #3886
What’s a voicemail?
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10-03-2021, 07:40 PM #3887Registered User
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I'd much rather my wife start leaving voicemails than continue calling back until I answer, at decreasing frequencies and usually getting more pissed and panicked the longer it goes.
90% of the time I'm somewhere without service that she knew I was headed to. Probably 5% of the time I'm at work (she's generally better about understanding that I can't jump to answer her phone call when I have people in front of me). Maybe 3% of the time I've left the phone in the other room and an trying to get the baby to sleep, am napping because the baby finally went to sleep, or otherwise tired up and can't hear it.
The remaining 2% usually starts at one of the above and by the time I get through the dozen texts and clear the missed call messages, I'm not in the mood to answer.
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10-03-2021, 08:21 PM #3888
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10-03-2021, 08:50 PM #3889Good-lookin' wool
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I’m not talking about leaving me voicemails. It’s her poor friends. But maybe they listen to them all the way through?
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10-03-2021, 09:27 PM #3890
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10-04-2021, 08:45 AM #3891
The last person to leave me voicemails was my mom who’s in her 70’s. Last couple years she quit that and now just uses texts. The texts are usually just “call me” or “when can I call you?”
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10-04-2021, 08:59 AM #3892
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10-04-2021, 10:51 AM #3894Registered User
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I realize that a dealership is going to get it detailed regardless, but I was going on the thought that if someone's first thought on looking in was "this is trashed" it wasn't going to help. Heck, I wouldn't put it past a car salesman to use it as a bargaining point even if he knew it didn't actually matter. Once I got going, I figured I might as well get as close to doing it right as I could, as we weren't sure on the trade vs sell privately question.
The outside was also an issue of trying to clean up some of the scuffs. I wasn't about to apply a DA to it, but even with hand buffing and a fresh coat of wax, it looked roughly 300% better from 10 feet away or at dusk. In daylight, within five feet, you could still tell that parking at the back of the lot wasn't her thing.
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10-04-2021, 10:58 AM #3895Registered User
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As opposed to looking at the detailing the sale manager looks at the black book
a friend recently tried to trade in a car and sales manage buddy said he didnt want it under any circumstances
said go private which actualy worked way better than expected cuz there were no cars in that < 10K price rangeLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-04-2021, 12:28 PM #3896Good-lookin' wool
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Yeah, those guys know what they will pay regardless of that sort of condition HOWEVER, they will play a game that is apparently pretty well known in the industry and if your car is dirty, I suppose you could fall into it. My cousin did a brief stint as a car salesman and come trade in time, he would inspect that car with the buyer present. He would walk around the car, indicate towards dings/scratches/etc and just remain completely silent. Awkwardly so. Until the buyer would say something like, "Oh that? That's just yada yada" or "Barely ran into a pole." Around he would go, and then same with the inside. None of it really mattered but the buyer was slowly psychologically devaluing their own car without a word from him. Now, this group may be above that sort of tactic, but apparently it works on most people.
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10-04-2021, 01:18 PM #3897
Ok, fess up, guys. Which of you is this? LMAO
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10-04-2021, 01:35 PM #3898
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10-04-2021, 03:23 PM #3899
#cobbler
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10-04-2021, 03:34 PM #3900
Why am I attracted to her?
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