u/Unusual-Picture5872

Looking at this car. The owner has a Carfax with a decent amount of service history and says he replaced the drive belt, timing belt, belt tensioner, and water pump within the past year.

He wants just under 14k, which seems high to me, but I also have no idea what number would make it a good deal to me since kbb estimations don't take into account recent repairs and the subjective sense of security from having service records

From what I saw, this year was pretty reliable overall so that sounds amazing.

It would be my first honda and my first time buying a car privately.

(x-posting from r/HondaElement because I realized that asking superfans about a car if I should get the car they love might give me biased results, haha.)

The one I'm looking at has only 75k miles on it and is priced at 10k. I am in California.

So far I've only ever owned budget cars and old hand-me-downs so in terms of luxury or comfort features, I'm thinking it's one of those "can't miss what you never had" scenarios as long as driving it isn't absolute torture. Our primary vehicle is a 2022 Corolla LE and we do just fine in that.

I'm currently driving a 1994 Ford Taurus but I'm ready for something with more function.

My use case for this will be:

* light daily driver (I work from home so it's really more of a "go shopping a few times a week" car)

* as the vehicle we take camping 3-4x a year, on small in-state road trips maybe 3-4x a year.

* What we use for household projects like bringing home big stuff from the hardware store and taking recycling to the facility, etc.

I was previously thinking of buying a newish CRV but major dental work is about to trash my savings and I want to get something sooner rather than later, so dropped my budget.

I am very open to ANY reliable Honda or Toyota SUV that is in this price range + mileage area but I'm just not really seeing them?

Didn't know the element existed a few days ago but I'm low-key obsessed now after seeing how the seats go totally flat and how much headroom there is.

I am not mechanically inclined myself but my younger brother is a good home mechanic who used to work in a shop, so as long as the parts aren't egregious and the common things that break aren't a massive undertaking it's probably ok.

I think it does have some service records but not sure if it will be complete.

Any thoughts on things to check for or hesitations? Any recommendations on other vehicles that fit the bill in this day and age?

If I go after this, what negotiation price makes this purchase a good deal?

(x-posting from r/HondaElement because I realized that asking superfans about a car if I should get the car they love might give me biased results, haha.)

The one I'm looking at has only 75k miles on it and is priced at 10k. I am in California.

So far I've only ever owned budget cars and old hand-me-downs so in terms of luxury or comfort features, I'm thinking it's one of those "can't miss what you never had" scenarios as long as driving it isn't absolute torture. Our primary vehicle is a 2022 Corolla LE and we do just fine in that.

I'm currently driving a 1994 Ford Taurus but I'm ready for something with more function.

My use case for this will be:

* light daily driver (I work from home so it's really more of a "go shopping a few times a week" car)

* as the vehicle we take camping 3-4x a year, on small in-state road trips maybe 3-4x a year.

* What we use for household projects like bringing home big stuff from the hardware store and taking recycling to the facility, etc.

I was previously thinking of buying a newish CRV but major dental work is about to trash my savings and I want to get something sooner rather than later, so dropped my budget.

I am very open to ANY reliable Honda or Toyota SUV that is in this price range + mileage area but I'm just not really seeing them?

Didn't know the element existed a few days ago but I'm low-key obsessed now after seeing how the seats go totally flat and how much headroom there is.

I am not mechanically inclined myself but my younger brother is a good home mechanic who used to work in a shop, so as long as the parts aren't egregious and the common things that break aren't a massive undertaking it's probably ok.

I think it does have some service records but not sure if it will be complete.

Any thoughts on things to check for or hesitations? Any recommendations on other vehicles that fit the bill in this day and age?

If I go after this, what negotiation price makes this purchase a good deal?

It has only 75k miles on it and is priced at 10k. I am in California.

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So far I've only ever owned budget cars and old hand-me-downs so in terms of luxury or comfort features, I'm thinking it's one of those "can't miss what you never had" scenarios as long as driving it isn't absolute torture. Our primary vehicle is a 2022 Corolla LE and we do just fine in that.

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I'm currently driving a 1994 Ford Taurus but I'm ready for something with more function.

​

My use case for this will be:

​

* light daily driver (I work from home so it's really more of a "go shopping a few times a week" car)

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* as the vehicle we take camping 3-4x a year, on small in-state road trips maybe 3-4x a year.

​

* What we use for household projects like bringing home big stuff from the hardware store and taking recycling to the facility, etc.

​

I was previously thinking of buying a newish CRV but major dental work is about to trash my savings and I want to get something sooner rather than later, so dropped my budget. Didn't know the element existed a few days ago but I'm low-key obsessed now after seeing how the seats go totally flat and how much headroom there is.

I am not mechanically inclined myself but my younger brother is a good home mechanic who used to work in a shop, so as long as the parts aren't egregious and the common things that break aren't a massive undertaking it's probably ok.

​

I think it does have some service records but not sure if it will be complete.

Any thoughts on things to check for or hesitations?

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I have never had a luxury mattress and have been sleeping on a $200 Amazon memory foam one for 10 years. This was the best deal I found and i did lay on it in person and thought it was nice. None of the mattresses in the entire store blew me away but then again I guess I don't know what a good one would feel like since I grew up on 20 year old hand me downs LOL

I am working on a massive project with about a million channels when I really only need to interface with about 6 of them personally. My first instinct was to try and favorite items, and then found no intuitive menu option to do that. My second was to just color code them to make them stand out when skimming. No option for that either. Uh, okay?

So I do some googling and I read that Discord has (or had?) a Favorite Channels feature... Where the hell is it?

More digging reveals that not everyone has access and it's been advertised as a Nitro only feature. Stupid, but fine. I pay the $10 nonsense fee. Now I have Nitro. The perks it gives me are worthless for my needs. Why do I care about "Super Reactions" and profile themes? I am trying to use a chat program to chat efficiently.

Anyways, I'm now a Nitro member but the Favorite options is still not there. I still can't do anything to make this product workable for an incredibly basic need.

So I modify with third party software to give myself access. And thanks to that, I can see the feature. Finally.

I can Favorite channels and they appear on my list, just how I needed-- but after they add, within about 5 seconds, I get an "Oh no! Something went wrong" and my Favorites are deleted again.

Holy hell, why did we ever leave Slack? This is the most basic functionality possible, and we have to fight and pine and sneak around and possibly pay for it?

This product makes $800m+ a year and we're all supposed to be cool with it being held together by duct tape and plied with stickers and gifs to not complain about it?

I wish my team had picked ANY other service, omg. Fix your house Discord.