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3 hours ago, Tabonga said:

Pulls up fine for me.

Huh, weird. Was thinking it might have finally been the big one on the old forum there. False alarm 

Just tried getting on the digital press forum and am just getting an error. Does it work for anyone else?

1 hour ago, dra600n said:

Honda Fit was back in 2014 or 2015, the Civic was 2020. The loans were financed through Honda Financial through the Honda dealership. It could just be a Honda thing, it could've been a promotion I lucked into (though seems unlikely and I don't recall any promotional finance deal going on either time).

Unfortunately it’s going to be wildly different based on the years your talking  about. The interest rates are through the roof (relatively speaking) on everything since 2020 let alone 2015

54 minutes ago, dra600n said:

I had a coworker at my previous job do basically the same thing. When I asked her what she thought of carmax, she had nothing but good things to say about them and her experience. 
 

That said, if you’re going to finance another car, get multiple quotes/lending preapprovals and see what rates and duration works best for you. The last 2 cars I purchased from the Honda dealership were financed through Honda with 0% interest (maybe I just got lucky twice in a row with promotions?). This was on a brand new Honda FIT and then again with my current used 2016 civic, so the dealership might also have solid lending options as well. 

How long ago was that? Because all the quotes Ive been getting were 5%+. Even up to 8%

17 hours ago, TDIRunner said:

That sounds like a coil that's at the end of its life.  It probably has a small crack that is allowing moisture in.  A code reader will tell you which cylinder is missing, but at that age, I would just replace them all (if I were keeping it).  

I know you mentioned that you are looking into getting a new vehicle, and that's totally fine if you want to do that, but I see so many people talk about getting a new car when their old one has minor issues.  There was a time when cars were much more affordable and it made sense to get something newer before the maintenance costs  began to go up.  But in the current market, prices and interest rates are ridiculous, and it sometimes it makes sense to just maintain the vehicle you have.  I'm not trying to change your mind, but I would at least consider those options.  Some of that work can be done pretty easily.  I know that a clutch on a front wheel drive vehicle is pretty labor intensive, but swaping out ignition coils on most 4 cylinder engines is pretty straight forward.  

Either way, good luck.

Oh im probably the biggest proponent of keeping a vehicle and driving into the ground as long as possible. Like I said at the beginning of this thread it’s a 50/50 shot I would be getting a new one. That’s really only if the mechanic finds some more major issues than I think it is. I just wanted to get some insight on these websites since Ive never used one and want to be prepared IF it were to come to that. 

That being said this car was made with one of the worst transmissions in history. Seriously, look that up if your bored and interested it’s a terrible design. The car has had numerous recalls and buybacks through the lemon law, which I somehow didn’t qualify for.

It would be nice if it was one of the coils. That’s a quick and easy fix. But I have my doubts as I couldn’t replicate the issue spraying the whole top of the motor down with a hose. I think it’s somewhere underneath/behind my driver wheel. 

I dropped it off last night. We’ll see what happens 

1 hour ago, TDIRunner said:

For that second part, I would be focusing on the ignition system.  How old is the car?  Does it use a distributor, coil pack or individual ignition coil (I'm assuming, of course, that it isn't a diesel).  If the car is misfiring, you should be getting a code. Any lights on the dash? 

2012 Focus. Individual Coils. It only briefly shows a code light when the problem occurs. But once it dries out and restarts the code is gone.  

10 hours ago, TDIRunner said:

What are the symptoms?  What did the car do for you to realize something was wrong?  

Two problems really. The first is what crapped out recently which Im fairly positive is the clutch gave out. Rumbling under the car and won’t shift out of first anymore.

The second problem Ive been putting off. Something is getting wet in the rain and the firing gets out of whack and will stall the car. Then you wait for 30-60mins for it to dry out and it takes off like nothing was ever wrong. Ive tried triggering it myself by spraying down various spots (and then the whole engine bay when I got frustrated) and couldn’t reproduce it. 

4 hours ago, RH said:

What was your last one you picked up for the set?

 

Snowboard kids 2, though I think Killer Instinct is harder to get

3 hours ago, TDIRunner said:

I'm curious about what actually happened to the car.  

You and me both lol I haven’t been able to get it to the garage. Im hoping Ill get it  dropped off tomorrow night

4 hours ago, RegularGuyGamer said:

I have excellent credit and got approved for 5.89% this summer through capital one. 

The thing about those places is they go on national sales prices. So in PA for example, we don't sell plug in hybrids new at dealers so they're tough to get. So in that case, a national dealer gives an advantage.

Im actually looking for something not hybrid/electric and a bit older with a lot of the "modern features" left out. I don't want back up cameras, heated seats, etc. So most of what Im looking at is basic models that are 5+ years old.

13 hours ago, DorkOverlord said:

I bought a car through Carvana. The process was pretty easy, and I have no real complaints. 

Did you get financing through them?

13 hours ago, a3quit4s said:

Their financing seems to blow but they do a really good job of showcasing the cars and calling out any blemishes 

I thought about that, I checked the rates at a local credit union and it was like 8%. 
Real crap time to have a car take a shit on me

My car took a shit this morning, will have to get it towed to a garage. There is a 50/50 I'll be needing to get another car. So anyone have any experiences with the sites that you can buy a car and have it delivered to you?

Ive been using 5th gen, maybe 5.5 gen...the first gen Ipod video since 2005/6ish. I swapped out the hard drive with an adapter board that takes an SD card internally. Makes it a fraction of the weight and I have a 256gb card in it I think. Massive compared to the old 60gig that was stock.

3 hours ago, ThePhleo said:

Reddit is one of the most racist places on the web, it’s just “positive” racism so it’s “good”

Like for example, to join one of the main forums “blackpeopletwitter” you have to send the mods a picture of your forearm so they can confirm your skin color and assign you a role of either “black” … but if you’re lucky you can apply to become a “white ally”…it’s a weird site and I’m happy I’m banned from the place and broke my addiction to their gaming forums

Ive never heard or seen that. How would you even find something like that? I would have to guess your browsing a lot of political stuff or something to have the algorithm  pop that up for you or you were searching for something related

3 hours ago, DarkTone said:

Reddit is a cancer, full of racists. I'm not surprised. As bad as 4chan. 

47 minutes ago, BlackVega said:

Another one of those unmoderated piece of trash places full of terminally online trolls, just like 4chan, discard, tumblinger and so on. Nothing there is credible in the slightest and anyone can be an attention whore or provocative troll with no repercussions . Can't agree more

WTF? where do you guys go on reddit? I stick to gaming subs and don’t see any of this. At worst it’s people arguing back and forth on graded games in the r/gamecollecting sub

8 hours ago, Gloves said:

Ah yes, GetTheGreg.

Is that the guy that loves graded games?

12 hours ago, Friendsfa35 said:

 

mostly these few:

- young people under 30 collecting NES/SNES,
and talking about said games being classics,
as if they were even alive when those games were released.

- people showing off their collection of NES games,
and saying Ninja GAY-den instead of Ninja GUY-den,
i instantly close the video in this case, as said person is clearly an amateur.

- people who post "top 10 rarest NES/SNES/N64 games" videos,
and then keep copy-pasting each other in constantly saying that Stadium Events for the NES was pulled from shelves back then, even though there is no evidence for that at all, as Pat explained, most of them probably were never stocked, and the ones that did sold poorly.
coupled with a potentional lower print run, and you got yourself a pretty rare game.

- the overblown hype of some games USA releases,
which makes the hype carry over to European releases of the same games.

You first take is just gatekeeping, plain and simple. 

Your  second point, I say Ninja-gay-den, always have, always will. Has nothing to do with being an “amateur” whatever that means 

20 hours ago, twiztor said:

love candy corn, specifically the "Harvest Corn" (we formerly used to refer to this as 'Indian Corn', don't know if that was regional or what):

I love candy corn, but I hate the Indian Corn version. The brown section is just nasty

It doesn’t happen on here, but the only other place Im active is reddit.

The sheer number of “what’s this worth” across all the classic game subs is gross. 

This one is specific to me just from doing this too long and being jaded. I hate the the showing off “rate my collection” type posts and “find/score/pickup” posts. Im just tired of seeing people post their collection/finds with nothing unique. Your “find” isn’t that interesting when its a handful of PS3 and 360 games. 

I scroll right past all these posts to find actual discussion or question type posts

30 minutes ago, nrslam said:

And here I thought I had all the N64 games. Silly Brazilian release!

 

That needs to be explained to me. Ive seen people lump that i with the US set for some reason.  Even this spreadsheet says USA on the top and has this game listed 

Im still waiting for an order from Dec 2022 with Tempest and Atari Recharged

1 hour ago, DefaultGen said:

Is Limited Run Games the most prolific Switch and PS4 publisher?

I only know for the Switch but yes, they are definitely the mist prolific on the Switch

14 hours ago, O.G. CIB said:

PS4 is far bigger..... well into the 2000s

14 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Yeah, looks like LRG alone has 535+ numbered PS4 releases.

Not surprising considering it's on like year 11.

I had no idea, Ive never thought to look at PS4, Damn!

10 minutes ago, O.G. CIB said:

If you count ESRB retail pre-orders currently available to purchase it's already passed PS2 and slightly over 1800

Retail I add as they release. But if what you say is true then the Switch will end up with the biggest US library I think

15 minutes ago, avatar! said:

I take it you're keeping a database and don't actually own 1600+ Switch games? Hey, more power to you if you do!

No, I have about 400. I skim ebay to grab the info I fill in for each one. It’s super frustrating when the only listings are stock images and don’t show the backs of box!