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DrafterX Offline
#951 Posted: Fri, Nov 10 2023, 7:55 PM EST
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Bloody normally has feathers on him... or so I heard...Mellow
rfenst Offline
#952 Posted: Tue, Nov 14 2023, 2:04 PM EST
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Silicone glass caulk takes 48 hours to dry.
Thought it would only be 12-24 hours.
Stogie1020 Offline
#953 Posted: Tue, Nov 14 2023, 2:33 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Silicone glass caulk takes 48 hours to dry.
Thought it would only be 12-24 hours.

You are going to stink if you can't shower for 48 hours...
delta1 Offline
#954 Posted: Wed, Nov 15 2023, 9:39 PM EST
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using cruise control on an interstate highway in moderate traffic is risky, especially when a tractor trailer suddenly changes into your lane...
MidnightToker( • )( • ) Offline
#955 Posted: Wed, Nov 15 2023, 10:02 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
using cruise control on an interstate highway in moderate traffic is risky, especially when a tractor trailer suddenly changes into your lane...

Unless you have a newer car with radar cruise control. It's a wonderful thing. That and automatic high beams.
MACS Offline
#956 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 6:27 AM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
Unless you have a newer car with radar cruise control. It's a wonderful thing. That and automatic high beams.


Wife has a 2020 RAV4 that has that. It is pretty cool... my 2020 RAM 1500 does not have it.
deadeyedick Offline
#957 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 6:50 AM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
Unless you have a newer car with radar cruise control. It's a wonderful thing. That and automatic high beams.


I hate most nanny's on newer cars but that one works well. Only problem is on the highway you may set cruise at say 80 and come up on a slower car and not realize you are now going whatever speed he is going. Happened to me often on a rental in Alaska until I got used to it.
8trackdisco Offline
#958 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 9:26 AM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
Unless you have a newer car with radar cruise control. It's a wonderful thing. That and automatic high beams.


Just drove a vehicle with Adaptive Cruise Control this week. Think that is the same as you are speaking of. Personally, I don’t like it. If I set the cruise at 72, I want it to go 72. And I’ll decide how much space between me and the vehicle ahead of me. I’m not some young douchebag watching TicTok and sending selfies to people on “the gram” when I’m driving.

All it leads to for me is I have to turn it off and on again unnecessarily, which will lead to it wearing out and replacing.
8trackdisco Offline
#959 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 9:29 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
I hate most nanny's on newer cars but that one works well. Only problem is on the highway you may set cruise at say 80 and come up on a slower car and not realize you are now going whatever speed he is going. Happened to me often on a rental in Alaska until I got used to it.


Much more succinct than my babble. Thanks, Ded.

The one nanny feature I do like is on some Honda models have active blind spot cameras. As soon as you flip the directional on, it activates the camera in that bling spot. Big winner.
dkeage Offline
#960 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 9:30 AM EST
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I don’t like cruise control. It makes me feel like I’m not in control of the situation. I…


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Hey you kids!!! I’ve told before to get off my lawn!!! ram27bat




Where was I? Oh yeah….cruise control…. Hate it


8trackdisco Offline
#961 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 11:38 AM EST
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dkeage wrote:
I don’t like cruise control. It makes me feel like I’m not in control of the situation. I…


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Hey you kids!!! I’ve told before to get off my lawn!!! ram27bat




Where was I? Oh yeah….cruise control…. Hate it




Cruise control has saved me from a bunch of tickets. Set it for 7 over and aim the car, listen to the radio, and sing along with Bananaram……. Just sing along.
8trackdisco Offline
#962 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 11:44 AM EST
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Learned more about the iconic (at least in Wisconsin) Green Bay Packers flag recently.

The flag has a medium green background, a large white G in the middle, with yellow (it isn’t gold) piping around it.

The Packers of course have a trademark on it. Nobody can get one of these flags!

Well….. you actually can! The Packers will allow the printing of a flag and let you have it…… in exchange for a $25,000 donation to the Green Bay Packers. Not a charity- to the Packers.

That is why they aren’t America’s Team.
Stogie1020 Offline
#963 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 11:45 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
I hate most nanny's on newer cars but that one works well. Only problem is on the highway you may set cruise at say 80 and come up on a slower car and not realize you are now going whatever speed he is going. Happened to me often on a rental in Alaska until I got used to it.

Can't stand that adaptive cruise control thing. The wife's minivan has it and I turn it off every time I drive her car for road trips.

Also, that stupid lane-keeper notification yells at me if I change lanes withouth signaling even if there are no other cars for miles... It wakes me up EVERY time I am driving... So annoying.
Gene363 Offline
#964 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 11:49 AM EST
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dkeage wrote:
I don’t like cruise control. It makes me feel like I’m not in control of the situation. I…


Just a second…






Hey you kids!!! I’ve told before to get off my lawn!!! ram27bat




Where was I? Oh yeah….cruise control…. Hate it




Oh, you're that driver that doesn't hold a steady speed. Brick wall

I love cruise control and the GM Adaptive cruise control is fantastic. Times 100 if you have to follow another driver. It can inadvertently apply the brakes if it "sees" a vehicle slowing to make a turn from an adjacent lane on a curving road.

Cruise control helps me stay at or over the limit as I am willing to chance. Whistle
MACS Offline
#965 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 11:56 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Just drove a vehicle with Adaptive Cruise Control this week. Think that is the same as you are speaking of. Personally, I don’t like it. If I set the cruise at 72, I want it to go 72. And I’ll decide how much space between me and the vehicle ahead of me. I’m not some young douchebag watching TicTok and sending selfies to people on “the gram” when I’m driving.

All it leads to for me is I have to turn it off and on again unnecessarily, which will lead to it wearing out and replacing.


The RAV we have has 3 settings for that. Far away, closer, and you better have your foot on the brake.
Gene363 Offline
#966 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 12:24 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
The RAV we have has 3 settings for that. Far away, closer, and you better have your foot on the brake.


Or...

1 Thanks for maintaining a good speed

2 Hey, you're a little slow

3 GTFO!


The Silverado is also adjustable, but incremented in seconds... before impact, assuming the driver isn't paying attention.
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#967 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 12:50 PM EST
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Self driving cars next and ultimately Johnny Cab. That’s the future.
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#968 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 1:59 PM EST
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We have a 2019 Rav 4. Has the adaptive cruise control with 3 distance settings. I have done what another has said several times and not realized the car in front of me was slowing my pace. One gripe I have is when u switch lanes and the radar sees its clear, it accelerates too quickly. Bad for gas mileage, wear and tear, and slightly dangerous. One thing I like is it will come to a complete stop without u touching the brake if radar cruise is on and there happens to be a red light. When the light turns green and u want to go and resume cruise you just tap the gas pedal once. Auto headlights and blind spot monitor are nice but lane assist is not. I don't like the feeling of the car moving the steering wheel. FYI to the owner of the 2020 RAV4 if it's an XLE or above and has BSM the BSM works with lane assist. If u have them both on you'll get the light on the side mirror when someone is in you're blind spot, if u put signal on that way it will beep and flash, and if u try to switch lanes the car won't let u.
Another cool new feature is the front window camera that takes a pic of every speed limit sign it sees and displays it on the dashboard so youre never wondering what the limit is or having to wait for the next sign.
Gene363 Offline
#969 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 2:07 PM EST
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Question for all adaptive cruise control vehicle drivers, do your brake lights come on when the adaptive cruise control slows down the vehicle?
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#970 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 2:34 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Question for all adaptive cruise control vehicle drivers, do your brake lights come on when the adaptive cruise control slows down the vehicle?

Mostly it's just reducing speed by decreasing fuel like lifting your foot off the gas a bit so in that case no, but if you use it to a complete stop and the car applies the brakes then yes. When the car takes control of the steering or braking the steering wheel and brake pedal actually move as if someone is moving them so everything happens the same.
MACS Offline
#971 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 2:57 PM EST
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It's an XLE. She has the BSM and the speed limit does display most of the time.
MidnightToker( • )( • ) Offline
#972 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 3:20 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
It's an XLE. She has the BSM and the speed limit does display most of the time.

My wife loves hers. I hate SUVs as much as minivans. I don't understand how anyone above 6' can drive a new RAV because I'm 6' and my head is constantly hitting the ceiling.
Edit: Also noticed u referred to the closest setting as "u better have foot on brake". The radar cruise on the RAV will apply the brakes and won't allow u to hit the car in front of you regardless of how hard they hit the brakes and even if they come to a complete stop. RAV will completely stop without ever touching brakes and hold u stopped until u tap gas pedal which will resume your previous cruise setting. Just be aware if the car in front of u jumps on the brakes the RAVs system will apply equally hard braking which may startle u. Toyota dealer told us its not great at recognizing deer and other wildlife but it recognizes pedestrians and bicycles.
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#973 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 3:22 PM EST
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Best new feature and the one I miss the most because our old Ford Escape had it and RAV doesn't is that button that would return the seat and mirrors to your specific settings and the wife had a button for her settings.
Gene363 Offline
#974 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 3:34 PM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
Best new feature and the one I miss the most because our old Ford Escape had it and RAV doesn't is that button that would return the seat and mirrors to your specific settings and the wife had a button for her settings.


That is a great feature, I'm 6'1" and my wife is 5'2" My older Silverado had two different key fobs that were matched to the driver. Our current Silverado and Traverse have selection buttons for driver 1 and 2.
deadeyedick Offline
#975 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 5:50 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
The RAV we have has 3 settings for that. Far away, closer, and you better have your foot on the brake.


Hated that feature and turned it off. Iffn you set it at say 4 car links as soon as the car in front slows you feel the brakes come on. A driver would not automatically hit the brakes but would most likely just take his foot off the go pedal and coast for a second until he was at the proper distance again.
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#976 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 6:44 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Question for all adaptive cruise control vehicle drivers, do your brake lights come on when the adaptive cruise control slows down the vehicle?


I don't know. When I drove it, I was inside. Anxious
rfenst Offline
#977 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 7:25 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Much more succinct than my babble. Thanks, Ded.

The one nanny feature I do like is on some Honda models have active blind spot cameras. As soon as you flip the directional on, it activates the camera in that bling spot. Big winner.

I love Hondas!
My Accord Sport SE allows me to set the distance (yards) between my car and the car in front of me.
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#978 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 7:57 PM EST
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We’ve been enjoying 0 car payments for a few years now but after reading some of the posts, not too excited about our next vehicle purchase. Sick
Gene363 Offline
#979 Posted: Thu, Nov 16 2023, 8:05 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
We’ve been enjoying 0 car payments for a few years now but after reading some of the posts, not too excited about our next vehicle purchase. Sick


The best feature of all, paid for. Beer
MACS Offline
#980 Posted: Fri, Nov 17 2023, 8:40 AM EST
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Palama wrote:
We’ve been enjoying 0 car payments for a few years now but after reading some of the posts, not too excited about our next vehicle purchase. Sick


Wife's car was paid for with a cashier's check. Doesn't make sense to pay off my truck. The entire 5 year loan is only costing me $1,800 in interest over the entire 5 years.

Both of us have 2020 vehicles. Hers has maybe 13k miles mine has 43k miles. But I drove it to NY and back, CA and back, down to Baja, MX and back... so most of it is at highway speeds.
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#981 Posted: Fri, Nov 17 2023, 9:47 AM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
The best feature of all, paid for. Beer


Ahhh, that paid for car smell. Haven't had a car payment in the last 40 years.
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#982 Posted: Fri, Nov 17 2023, 1:04 PM EST
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That I can no longer trust General Motors Trucks.
I have always driven Cheverolet Trucks. Except for a few Datsuns, and Nissans, they have been my go to truck brand.
I just recently sold my 2006 Silverado to my trucking company, so I could give it to my best driver, as transportation to and from work. My personal driver is a 1968 C10, with a 327 V8. My Company truck, is a 2018 Z71 Piece of crap. At 78K the ABS module went out, costing roughly $1800, and at 85K the transmission shelled, costing my company another $6500. I started reading up, and find that both these problems are well known by GM. So I have learned my lesson the hard way. From now on, I am strictly buying late 1980s through early 2000s for my company trucks. I can rebuild the entire drive trains, and be dollars ahead, than putting drivers in newer pieces of ****.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)Beer
MACS Offline
#983 Posted: Fri, Nov 17 2023, 3:56 PM EST
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I'm on my second RAM 1500. The 2018 was the ecodiesel... 2 EGR issues inside 25k miles and was told no permanent fix in place. Sold it to Carmax.

Got my current with the Hemi. So far so good. *fingers crossed*
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#984 Posted: Fri, Nov 17 2023, 6:32 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
I'm on my second RAM 1500. The 2018 was the ecodiesel... 2 EGR issues inside 25k miles and was told no permanent fix in place. Sold it to Carmax.

Got my current with the Hemi. So far so good. *fingers crossed*

Yeah, those Hemi motors run good. I have just decided to rebuild older trucks, for company trucks. Less bells and whistles, translates to less to go wrong. If it has good drive train, blows hot and cold air, and has a good stereo, that is all I care about.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)Beer
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#985 Posted: Fri, Nov 17 2023, 7:35 PM EST
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I had a Chevy Silverado 1500 I bought new in the early 2000's. 2006? I swear that thing was built on a Monday the day after the Superbowl by a bunch of hungover workers because I had nothing but problems with it.

It had a handful of recalls and some known problems that didn't make them problem enough to classify as a recall (they called it a service advisory or something like that). Engine issues, brake issues, power steering issues, clutch issues tranny issues (had to get the tranny rebuilt around 60k). Other than the recalls, those fixes were all out of pocket. I never drove it hard or had anything that I towed or used it for plowing. 30 min daily commute to work and back, run around town errands, trips to Home Depot for home fix up supplies, camping trips, ski trips. Try driving the Kancamagus Highway in the NH White Mountains coming home from a ski trip with no power steering - that's some white knuckling scary bad fun.

All of the problems happened after the warranty expired but under 100k miles.

I was so pissed at the thing. I finally got rid of it around 80k miles, I think, for a trade in. I took a kick in the shorts on that too because it wouldn't shift into 4WD which was the last straw. I determined that I had three choices: give it a ghost ride off a cliff, have a party and sell tickets for $10 per swing of a sledge hammer to beat the thing to a pulp or trade it in and get something for it.

I made an oath that I will NEVER buy any Chevy or GMC vehicle again. To this date I have upheld that oath and I don't plan on breaking that oath.

I digress, this is not knowledge recently acquired. I classify it as experience - something acquired AFTER you needed it.
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#986 Posted: Mon, Nov 20 2023, 11:57 AM EST
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From 1945 to 1980 the U.S. recorded 30 broken arrows which is a missing nuclear bomb. Thats almost once per yr. average. After 1980, records were no longer made public.
Also several fruits and vegetables are man made and do not exist naturally like corn, broccoli, tomatoes, oranges, etc.
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#987 Posted: Tue, Nov 21 2023, 5:05 PM EST
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Starlink has launched 5,420 satellites into orbit since May 2019, and plans to launch 6,500 more.
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#988 Posted: Tue, Nov 21 2023, 10:06 PM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
Starlink has launched 5,420 satellites into orbit since May 2019, and plans to launch 6,500 more.


https://heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

Beer
Gene363 Offline
#989 Posted: Tue, Nov 21 2023, 10:16 PM EST
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bs_kwaj wrote:
https://heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

Beer


Long time gone, welcome back.
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#990 Posted: Tue, Nov 21 2023, 10:32 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Long time gone, welcome back.



Ditto. Don't be a stranger.
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#991 Posted: Tue, Nov 21 2023, 10:34 PM EST
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blinkies and beepies on a flyspeck of an island...missed ya!
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#992 Posted: Tue, Nov 21 2023, 10:35 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Long time gone, welcome back.


Herfing
I'm working 56 hours overtime in an 80 hour pay period!

I might retire next year when I turn 70!
There may be a bardominium in my future.


And newly acquired info: Linux Mint has a Debian Edition.

Beer
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#993 Posted: Tue, Nov 21 2023, 10:44 PM EST
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Good to see you man..!! Laugh
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#994 Posted: Wed, Nov 22 2023, 9:25 AM EST
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Yeah, man... don't work so hard. Need to enjoy life.
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#995 Posted: Wed, Nov 22 2023, 11:00 AM EST
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Is a bardominium just a barndominium with a very large bar ? Good to see you again.
MACS Offline
#996 Posted: Wed, Nov 22 2023, 11:58 AM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
Is a bardominium just a barndominium with a very large bar ? Good to see you again.


Hmmmm... a BarNdominium with a Bardominium... brilliant!
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#997 Posted: Sat, Nov 25 2023, 4:08 PM EST
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The world's highest mileage car is a Volvo P1800 with 3.2 million miles on it.
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#998 Posted: Mon, Nov 27 2023, 5:16 PM EST
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"For all the focus on China, Japan is actually the top holder of U.S. sovereign debt, with a total of $1.1 trillion." (WSJ)
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#999 Posted: Mon, Nov 27 2023, 7:51 PM EST
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and that figure will go higher when Shohei Ohtani picks his next team...
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Having genuine knock off wheels on my corvette has caused some confusion. It appears that the spinner marked "left" goes on the right side (passenger side) and the spinner marked "right" goes on the left (drivers side).

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