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I think we all have a level of procrastination when it comes to this stuff, but if if the repair wasn’t critcal at the time and you got it done you are in good shape. I think the survey is more talking about people that delay maintence for months or years then a major problem happens. Read more

This is absolutely correct. Read more

Both my 10 year old and 7 year old really enjoyed the movie and since they are the target audience, I think it hit all the right marks. Their only real criticism my daughter (7) said was - “Not enough Yoshi.” I grew up playing the original Mario games as a kid. I apprecatied the little clues/callbacks and found it to… Read more

Word on the street is that the manual in the G70 kinda sucks.  Read more

It really all depends on the car. That is why I always like to have a consult with a client before they pay the fee so I can let them know our likelihood of success.  Sometimes I tell them that I can’t help and to check back with me when the market cools. Sometimes I will offer an retainer agreement that is a partial… Read more

I would be curious on what grounds the dealers would have case. Dodge made these terms from the start so the dealers knew the deal from day one and made the choice to sell at MSRP or not. Let’s say Dodge can only make 2000 cars for whatever reason, all the MSRP orders got built...some don’t and the ones that charged… Read more

He admits that some dealers are working around this, but based on the research I have done the bulk of MSRP deals are legit MSRP deals sold to customers that have been very loyal to that dealership. Read more

I liked Lau Chan in VF1 and Lion in VF2 Read more

I was telling my Jalop collegues that I worked on the boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ during the 90s’ and a good chunk of my teenage paychecks were spent on these arcade games. VF was by far my favorite. Read more

No love for Man of Tai Chi? Reeves directed this Hong Kong style action flick and plays an excellent villian.

That is why I am suggesting posting a screenshot of the highest offer from Carmax etc.. that way the potential buyer can see what their competition is. Read more

I’ve had tons of customers sell to Carvana and Vroom and they have always honored the online offer. FWIW from what I have been told neither brand does any “reconditioning” they just churn the cars into their system and if the next buyer doesn’t like the condition it just gets sent back and re listed...this is perhaps… Read more

This manuver took him right into the.... Read more

Time Crisis was such a fun game  Read more

It all depends on the circumstances. I’ve had a lot of clients had success with Lightstream. Read more

You are absolutely correct, dealers can often match or beat the rates the CUs and banks offer. However, I’ve seen many instances where folks with sub 700 FICO scores go to a dealer and the salesperson says “Well your credit isn’t great the best we can do is 9% APR.” Then the customer says “Ok well I have 5% from my… Read more

This is a good question and a tough one to answer because the ratios you bring up correlate to the APR which is dependent upon someones credit score. If the best APR someone can qualify for is 10% that’s going to throw the ratios off a bit. Read more

Interesting...the way the dealer explained it, Hyundai was using it as a direct rebate, but this makes way more sense. Read more

LOL, this was a story about my experience in 2008 renting a Spark in South America which is a very different car than they sell today.  It wasn’t actually a review. Read more