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Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

Rep Retirement Lodge 79: A decade of USCHO

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Evening, Lodge. Wound up watching The Best Thing I Ever Ate tonight, and they were discussing sandwiches... now I'm hungry.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
I am, however, beginning to entertain thoughts of a new car. My Evo is admittedly a pipe dream, but if I can manage to get a loan I may pick up a slightly-used Mazda 3 at some point in the mid-future. I've heard nothing but good things about them (including from a friend who is a sales rep for GM and owns one.)
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Depending upon how old of a car, and how many miles, it may be cheaper to get a new car right now. If not now, then starting sometime in November, lest the Cash for Clunkers gets another cash infusion and extended again.

Likely what will happen due to that program is that new car prices will see a temporary up tick. Once the govt rebate ends, then dealers will be very hard pressed to sell cars again - even harder pressed than before. Most people who wanted a car will pretty much have purchased it with the Cash for Clunkers deal. And you're likely not in a place to take advantage of that program regardless. If you're like most recent college grads, your car is likely registered to your parents, or was within the last year, for insurance reasons. So you wouldn't qualify - you'd fail the requirement that the car you're trading in be registered to you for a minimum of one year.
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
We both follow the rule of "never get involved with your roommate." :p
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... so by "be like wolverine trumpet", what you really meant is that twitch was going to become a female, travel to china, and get hit on by chinese men while debating whether or not to buy fake vomit?
 
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Bakunin said:
... so by "be like wolverine trumpet", what you really meant is that twitch was going to become a female, travel to china, and get hit on by chinese men while debating whether or not to buy fake vomit?
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Well, I was more going for the Mazda part and the eventual arrogance, but perhaps Chinese men have plenty of hallways for Twitch's hot dog?
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
Well, I was more going for the Mazda part and the eventual arrogance, but perhaps Chinese men have plenty of hallways for Twitch's hot dog?
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Speaking of hot dogs, hallways, and Twitch, where's Foxton been lately?
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
You could be just like wolverineTrumpet! :p ;)

(Mazdas are good cars though)


Evening, Lodge. Taco Bell's fruity freeze things aren't really that great, though they'd be much better with added vodka :cool:
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I had the same thought the other night. Though, as mine was Pina Colada, I think rum would be a better option here.

St. Clown said:
Speaking of hot dogs, hallways, and Twitch, where's Foxton been lately?
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:eek: :eek: :eek:
 
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St. Clown said:
Depending upon how old of a car, and how many miles, it may be cheaper to get a new car right now. If not now, then starting sometime in November, lest the Cash for Clunkers gets another cash infusion and extended again.

Likely what will happen due to that program is that new car prices will see a temporary up tick. Once the govt rebate ends, then dealers will be very hard pressed to sell cars again - even harder pressed than before. Most people who wanted a car will pretty much have purchased it with the Cash for Clunkers deal. And you're likely not in a place to take advantage of that program regardless. If you're like most recent college grads, your car is likely registered to your parents, or was within the last year, for insurance reasons. So you wouldn't qualify - you'd fail the requirement that the car you're trading in be registered to you for a minimum of one year.
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I'm pretty sure my car is registered in my name and has been since I got it in July 2008. I'd have to check, though. (2001 Olds Alero, just under 120K on the clock.)

In any event, I broke the bank surviving my emergency last semester at Tech and moving out to Cheyenne. I'd be hard-pressed to put down any sort of down payment or pay taxes (Wyoming requires them to be paid within 45 days.) Top priority now is paying off credit card and parental debt and building a bankroll so I'm not reduced to eating ramen again if the unthinkable happens. It'll definitely be a couple months - hopefully I can take advantage of that demand drop-off like you said.
 
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One other thing on that Cash for Clunkers deal, there's an 18 mpg provision for the car being traded in. The details are here: http://www.cars.gov/
 
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St. Clown said:
One other thing on that Cash for Clunkers deal, there's an 18 mpg provision for the car being traded in. The details are here: http://www.cars.gov/
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My Jeep officially (17.5 mpg) and unofficially (in reality it gets about 16 mpg, about 12-13 with the top down) makes it. I was thinking about this program, but then a) it all blew up and b) the vehicles I would want might not qualify/would still be too pricey for me.

So, I'll drive my current Jeep into the ground. It's got a while yet. :)
 
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Brenthoven said:
My Jeep officially (17.5 mpg) and unofficially (in reality it gets about 16 mpg, about 12-13 with the top down) makes it. I was thinking about this program, but then a) it all blew up and b) the vehicles I would want might not qualify/would still be too pricey for me.

So, I'll drive my current Jeep into the ground. It's got a while yet. :)
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Somehow, my Jeep beats the government estimate of 17 mpg usually. Dad was thinking of trading it in on a Patriot (he owns "my" Jeep) but there's no dealers in the state with 5 speed manual + 4wd Patriots.

And mine also has a while, despite pushing 196k. One of my coworkers has a nearly identical Cherokee with 270k :eek:
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
Somehow, my Jeep beats the government estimate of 17 mpg usually. Dad was thinking of trading it in on a Patriot (he owns "my" Jeep) but there's no dealers in the state with 5 speed manual + 4wd Patriots.

And mine also has a while, despite pushing 196k. One of my coworkers has a nearly identical Cherokee with 270k :eek:
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The old Cherokees were beasts! My grandpa had one, and IIRC, before him and grandma started trading cars back after every 3-4 years*, that thing had about 200K on it, an it was still like new.

*They traded back because of things like "grandpa likes this shade of red better than our current shade of red" or "this one has a better interior." Well, not really, but dang close to why they traded cars so often.
 
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Brenthoven said:
The old Cherokees were beasts! My grandpa had one, and IIRC, before him and grandma started trading cars back after every 3-4 years*, that thing had about 200K on it, an it was still like new.

*They traded back because of things like "grandpa likes this shade of red better than our current shade of red" or "this one has a better interior." Well, not really, but dang close to why they traded cars so often.
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Yeah... the thing definitely doesn't look like a 200,000 miler. Which reminds me, with my newfound day off tomorrow I need to paint a few rust spots with Extend or whatever that rust inhibitor is.
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
Yeah... the thing definitely doesn't look like a 200,000 miler. Which reminds me, with my newfound day off tomorrow I need to paint a few rust spots with Extend or whatever that rust inhibitor is.
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Bondo? (I don't know much about cars, I have heard of this Bondo thing quite a bit though, with rust spots).
 
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Brenthoven said:
Bondo? (I don't know much about cars, I have heard of this Bondo thing quite a bit though, with rust spots).
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Hah, nope... Bondo's for cheap bashtards who think they can hide the big rust holes. If you're trying to keep the rust from eating through in the first place, you'd use something like Extend. Turns the rust into a stable coating, and keeps it from rusting further.
 
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ARM,

Sorry for messing up the Rep I sent to you.
 
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