General Car Conversation 2024 - part 1

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Jan 28, 2024 | 08:37 AM
  #811  
i wonder if in 5, 10 years you guys will still be talking about maintaining ice.

in other news, i went to gas up my lc - first time i've gotten gas since october.
Jan 28, 2024 | 08:38 AM
  #812  
Quote: I never said to replace for no reason lol! I only said chains wear too, Toyota has good ones and they last the longest and it's helped by really really lax code trigger requirements.

For all y'all German haters here's some ammo lol! My 4.0 is acting up


Sent it too hard and it's having a rich code, guess I'm back to changing the map again and being easier on it.
what is ACC or brake guard?

Quote:
in other news, i went to gas up my lc - first time i've gotten gas since october.
guess you don’t love your Lexus LC500 all that much.
Jan 28, 2024 | 09:20 AM
  #813  
Quote: what is ACC or brake guard?
My guess is Adaptive Cruise Control and autonomous braking.
Jan 28, 2024 | 09:32 AM
  #814  
Quote: i wonder if in 5, 10 years you guys will still be talking about maintaining ice.

r.
Uh yeah, please come back to reality.
Jan 28, 2024 | 09:37 AM
  #815  
Quote: My guess is Adaptive Cruise Control and autonomous braking.
Yep, that's all it is.

The issue was indeed I was running too high EGTs and fried my upstream O2 sensors. Oh well, 10 min fix on hot-V engines.....I may have to change a few things hardware wise.
Jan 28, 2024 | 09:47 AM
  #816  
Quote: i wonder if in 5, 10 years you guys will still be talking about maintaining ice.

in other news, i went to gas up my lc - first time i've gotten gas since october.
I certainly will be. I’ll have an electric car for sure but still have ICE cars sticking around in some form.
Jan 28, 2024 | 10:05 AM
  #817  
Quote: Uh yeah, please come back to reality.
In 5-10 years I am pretty confident I won't own an ICE vehicle
Jan 28, 2024 | 10:09 AM
  #818  
But remember, you get the best care for your car at a dealership!


Jan 28, 2024 | 10:33 AM
  #819  
This is timely. 1998 LS400 in with the CarWizard. Needs $7,000 worth of work (remember, a Lexus just runs forever and never needs any work right?)

Talking about the timing belt job. IMO not having to deal with this every 90k miles is a big upgrade.

Jan 28, 2024 | 10:45 AM
  #820  
Or just ignore the belt lol! Most do and it's fine to over 150k easy.....

I wouldn't but many do
Jan 28, 2024 | 10:47 AM
  #821  
Quote: This is timely. 1998 LS400 in with the CarWizard. Needs $7,000 worth of work (remember, a Lexus just runs forever and never needs any work right?)
Who says that?
Jan 28, 2024 | 10:59 AM
  #822  
Quote: Who says that?
A stunning amount of people, same deal with Toyota and Honda.
Jan 28, 2024 | 11:10 AM
  #823  
Quote: This is timely. 1998 LS400 in with the CarWizard. Needs $7,000 worth of work (remember, a Lexus just runs forever and never needs any work right?)

Talking about the timing belt job. IMO not having to deal with this every 90k miles is a big upgrade.

https://youtu.be/Ry1WZ7EVtjI?feature=shared
A man should be able to fix his carriage and his home and be self sufficient.

If they can't or don't want to do that, they will pay dearly to sub contract these things out to others.

Prices for services has risen astronomically.

That car can probably have all that $9k of work done for $2k or less in parts, I'm guessing.


Jan 28, 2024 | 11:39 AM
  #824  
Quote: Or just ignore the belt lol! Most do and it's fine to over 150k easy.....

I wouldn't but many do
If much rather ignore a chain that will do over 300 easy lol

Quote: Who says that?
LOTS of people.

Quote: A man should be able to fix his carriage and his home and be self sufficient.

If they can't or don't want to do that, they will pay dearly to sub contract these things out to others.

Prices for services has risen astronomically.

That car can probably have all that $9k of work done for $2k or less in parts, I'm guessing.
Thats silly. Not everybody has the desire or the facilities to do work themselves. Nor does everybody have the time to learn how to do those things. Those are not simple tasks, they require experience and tools that you aren’t born possessing.

$2k in parts and hundreds of hours of time, plus the cost of a lift and all the tools plus having a car laid up they can’t drive while it’s in process, and the risk of doing something wrong and damaging the car.

I can’t be all the things I need to be in my life AND be a mechanic, and a plumber, and an electrician, and a handyman, and a landscaper, and a painter. Most people just have to pay people to do things that require expertise. That doesn’t make me “not a man” lol
Jan 28, 2024 | 11:44 AM
  #825  
Quote: Who says that?
consumer reports.

or their subscribers, anyway.
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