re: Car Dealership baws - are videos like this true?

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This is b.s.

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CRV AC Compressor

Here's an AC compressor for a 2011 CRV - It's $132. There's going to be a decent amount of labor for sure. I was out the door last year for $1,100 with a fairly comprehensive AC repair.

Not bad as compared to buying a new vehicle.

I drive a 20 year old diesel truck. Granted the air/heat work just fine, and it's reliable, but you are not alone.

To replace my truck in kind, I'm looking at $80-90k. That's asinine, particularly with the current economic worries. I'll wait until dealers feel economic pain before even considering an upgrade. I'll happily sit on my cash and pursue better investments in the interim.

that is an amazing story haha what a trip that must have been

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To replace my truck in kind, I'm looking at $80-90k. That's asinine, particularly with the current economic worries. I'll wait until dealers feel economic pain before even considering an upgrade. I'll happily sit on my cash and pursue better investments in the interim

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You will be waiting forever. Vehicles will never get cheaper in any negligible way.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've read today.

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This is the most ridiculous thing I've read today.

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If he would take his hooptie to an independent mechanic he could easily get his junk fixed for less than a couple payments on something new.

"My AC quit working! I need to buy something new! No, I'll deal with swamp arse because new rigs are too expensive."

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Smart move. Drive it until the wheels fall off

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Just about every relative, including my dad, drove beaters that they'd pick up for $100-$200 and when they finally broke down, they'd go get another one. Now keep in mind this was back in the late 50's up to about the early 70's.

They even had a name for them back then and called them "Fishing Cars".

I don't remember any of those cars having a working A/C other than rolling down the windows while cruising down the road. The ones that had radio only had AM on the dial.

I only had one uncle, my godfather, who would buy a new car and I can remember his blue 66 Chevy Impala. It was like riding in style compared to the beaters almost all my other relatives had.

Hell, my dad owned a string of Studebakers until he died in 61 and he worked on them so much he nicknamed them "Steadybreakers".

The price of new vehicles today scare the hell out of me. Damn near every one of them cost as much, if not more than I've paid for any of the 3 houses I've bought over the years.

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sounds like real salt of the earth men in your life.

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They were a good lot for sure. Hard working men with strong family values and all were willing to help out our family after my dad died leaving my mother with 3 kids, me age 8, one sister 6 and the other 4 at the time.


They are all gone now but not forgotten.

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I own a crappy 2011 CRV - 260k miles on it, no ac/heat, no working audio (but I own nothing on it)

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I get not buying a new vehicle at these prices (I drive a 2018 Silverado and refuse to buy a new one right now). But why not go find a decent used car for $5-$10k if you truly make $230k a year as a family? I bought my daughter a decent used car for cash last August for her first car. No way I’m a grown man pulling in over $200k as a household and driving a beater with no AC/heat.

Why haven’t you gotten the radio and AC fixed?