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I am now the proud 2nd owner of a manual Rav4. They took my offer of $6k. Thing is mint, feels like a new car. I don't know if it'll be a forever car for me but it's what I need right now and it's a hell of a lot cooler than the alternatives.
Can't take it home yet, as I couldn't find anyone to go with me today, but I'll pick it up sometime this weekend.
Stupid tire shops, trying to upsell you on unnecessary bullshit. Don't they know your tires get rotated thousands of times a day for absolutely free?
New (to me) 5spd Rav4 made the two hour drive home without a hitch. Real pics to come tomorrow maybe.
The most bizarre thing just happened. I popped into the local grocer, and there was an elderly couple sitting in the car next to where I'm parked. While I'm at the entrance grabbing a cart, I see the woman get out and start circling my car, inspecting it. I keep watching as she pulls her husband out of the car to also come look at it.
I brushed it off as just she's never seen a plug-in hybrid and was confused when I plugged it into the public EV charger, or maybe she was familiar with Fusions but didn't know there was a PHEV version.
BUT...
About five minutes later she approaches me in the store and very timidly approaches me and asks
"Excuse me, is your car really fusion powered?"
@nkato did they ignore the sturgeon general warning?
Here's a submission for Oppopendance Day.
The stock shift knob in the Rav4 was bit past it's prime, so I reached out to our very own @CobraJoe about getting one of his super cool lathed pool ball knobs. He responded that yeah he'd love to make me one but also he just got a fancy 4D CNC machine and would I mind being his guinea pig for new shapes?
That sounded really neat so I commissioned an anatomical shape from him. He matched the profile of my stock shifter as best he could, going so far as to send me CAD drawings and do a test knob. At my request the new knob is actually slightly wider than the OEM one to better fit my ham hands. He worked really fast considering this was a side project, the final knob was in the mail on its way to me within a week.
I couldn't be happier! It looks fantastic and adds a ton of personality to the car. Thank you so much @CobraJoe !
@manwich I think it's safe to say just don't book cruises in general, at least for the time being.
@pyroholtz I have amended the post. It's perhaps the easiest to make confection I've ever encountered. Five ingredients, five minutes of prep, hardest part is separating the eggs. Helps if you have an electric mixer of some sort. If you like your deserts less sweet you can cut back the sugar to 2/3 cup instead of 1.
End result is like a meringue, except it doesn't crisp all the way through so you get a marshmallowy center inside a crunchy shell. It's a fantastic texture.
Made a pavlova. 'Tis good.
Preheat oven to 300°F. Whip egg whites and salt together until you get stiff peaks. fold in vinegar, water, and vanilla. Slowly add sugar while still whipping. Turn mixture out onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet and coax into a cake shape with a spatula. Bake 45 minutes. Top with whipped cream and fresh fruit.
* If you can't get superfine (also known as caster) sugar, you can run regular sugar through a food processor or coffee grinder. Do NOT use powdered sugar. It's not the same stuff.
@Darkbrador it's a good car for learning how to build an entire wiring harness from scratch.
@Mazda616 I've got one that's in solidarity with and a symbol of my sister's disease. She has it forever so now I do too. Two of the other tattoo-age siblings have followed suit with their own variations as well
The Defender, the Saab, or the Pagoda SL.
EDIT: In the case of the Landy, "Track" can mean doing offroady things
@e90m3 yeah, I know. My 528i had that. The rain sensing could actually go as fast as the slow full setting so you never needed to take them off intermittent unless you were caught in a biblical downpour
When do we want 'em? Every so often.
I find intermittent wiper controls are often quite unintuitive. It starts raining a bit and I have to play with the stalk for a bit to see which end of the scale is slow or fast. In the case of my Rav4 it's clearly marked, fat end of the scale = more interval time. That's not always the case though and many cars flip it so fat end = faster. I've even seen this flip-flop within the same brand.
The stalk on my BMW was really confusing, but also they were rain sensing so the little click wheel adjusted the sensitivity and not the speed directly. Can you tell at a glance which end means more wiping?
Things don't need to be this way. Most other control iconography is pretty universal. You know that the bacon rectangle means rear defrost and the sideways jellyfish means headlights. Let us have easier wipers.
@ITA97 okay but imagine that kind of drivetrain in a semi truck
@gmctavish that doesn't look like late night
@facw it's a good chip for a budget gaming machine. It'll more or less beat out anything new at that price point and can run with the $120 i3-12100, with the benefit of cheaper and more widely available motherboards.
