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My vehicle needs some repairs (new ac compressor) what’s the best shop in town that won’t charge me an arm and a leg?

I have a 2014 Subaru Forester with 280,000 miles on it. Recently the ac compressor seized up and destroyed my serpentine belt too for good measure.

Outside of the A/C not working properly prior to this the vehicle has been otherwise tremendously reliable. And it has my favorite feature… it’s fully paid off.

Is it worth keeping or is it time to invest in a new vehicle?

I have a 2014 Subaru Forester with 280,000 miles on it. Recently the ac compressor seized up and destroyed my serpentine belt too for good measure.

Outside of the A/C not working properly prior to this the vehicle has been otherwise tremendously reliable. And it has my favorite feature… it’s fully paid off.

Is it worth keeping or is it time to invest in a new vehicle?

At the risk of opening a Pandora’s box I’m a bit disappointed in the gaping silence among leftists, especially big name ones after a man, Logba Rangzen, self-immolated in protest.

Why isn’t anyone bringing more attention to Tibetan self-determination the same way other self-immolation protests made national news? Like Aaron Bushnell?

Hello all,

I know my post risks the obvious. Yes I know cat dealers are pretty shady usually but I find myself in a tense situation.

I live in Maryland for reference. I purchased a vehicle from a used car dealer. 2012 Toyota Highlander hybrid.

I was really happy with the purchase, but the exact same day that I purchased it it experienced severe mechanical issues that require required me to tow it back to my house and then to the dealership.

It’s been at the dealer for about three weeks and just two days ago they called me and the owner had someone relate to me that he was willing to pay half the cost to repair it because the engine had severe issues. I replied to this intermediary that I can’t accept to pay something if I don’t know what exactly the full cost is and that I would much rather prefer them covering the full cost of the repair or coming to some other arrangement. He informed me that they had already started the repair without my knowledge or consent. I received no estimate or anything.

What should I do?

Hello everyone,

I’ve posted about this little bit before but basically I recently purchased a 2012 Toyota Highlander hybrid from a dealer.

I was really happy with the purchase, but the exact same day that I purchased it it experienced severe mechanical issues that require required me to tow it back to my house and then to the dealership.

It’s been at the dealer for about two weeks and just today they called me and the owner had someone relate to me that he was willing to pay half the cost to repair it because the engine had severe issues. I replied to this intermediary that I can’t accept to pay something if I don’t know what exactly the full cost is and that I would much rather prefer them covering the full cost of the repair or coming to some other arrangement. He informed me that they had already started the repair without my knowledge or consent.

I’m a little bit happy to at least hear that they’ve started working on it, but I didn’t sign any kind of authorization for them to work on it and I have no idea how much they’re going to try to charge me for this repair. This even despite them saying that they’re going to cover half the cost whatever that means. Are they trying to pull a fast one? What should I do?

Hello everyone,

I’ve posted about this little bit before but basically I recently purchased a 2012 Toyota Highlander hybrid from a dealer.

I was really happy with the purchase, but the exact same day that I purchased it it experienced severe mechanical issues that require required me to tow it back to my house and then to the dealership.

It’s been at the dealer for about two weeks and just today they called me and the owner had someone relate to me that he was willing to pay half the cost to repair it because the engine had severe issues. I replied to this intermediary that I can’t accept to pay something if I don’t know what exactly the full cost is and that I would much rather prefer them covering the full cost of the repair or coming to some other arrangement. He informed me that they had already started the repair without my knowledge or consent.

I’m a little bit happy to at least hear that they’ve started working on it, but I didn’t sign any kind of authorization for them to work on it and I have no idea how much they’re going to try to charge me for this repair. This even despite them saying that they’re going to cover half the cost whatever that means. Are they trying to pull a fast one? What should I do?

I’m 36 years old and despite being a rather decent swimmer (I can do breaststroke, backstroke, frog kick etc) fairly easily I’ve never been able to tread water for more than 20-30 seconds. I know small children that can do this easily. What are some easy to learn tips that would make it tremendously easier?

So for the past few months my crush (28F) and I (30M) hang out one on one to make food together, watch some tv and talk.

We switch off on buying the ingredients usually just to keep things equal. We talk about all kinds of things and have been making future plans to hang out and do summer activities in past weeks

This most recent two weeks I couldn’t cover the food expenses due to some personal emergencies related to my car. Like I’m financially wiped out for a little while. She paid both times and sent me 25 bucks to buy the supplies. It was slightly embarrassing not to even have 20 bucks to spare but I tried not to think too hard about it.

Afterwards I sent her a message about how much I enjoyed hanging out. Two days later I asked her how her week was. It’s been about four days and I’ve gotten no response back. I can see she read it but hasn’t responded.

Hey everyone,

Long story short I bought a 2012 Toyota Highlander hybrid last week from a local small dealership. I drove it off the lot and less than 24 hours and 20 miles later it was having mechanical issues.

I got it towed back to the dealership to have their mechanics take a look and they replicated the malfunction. They poured two whole containers worth of coolant into the radiator. Then one of them tried to drive it and thick white smoke came out the exhaust.

The owner came to talk to me and said he was willing to work with me. They would have a mechanic look at it and either solve the issue or I could get a vehicle of equal value.

I called once a day for three days to check in to see. The guy who sold me my car became increasingly irritated with me. I asked if there was any timeline and he said don’t call them they will call me. It’s been 11 days now.

This is kinda putting my whole life on hold at the moment and it’s really stressing me out I genuinely don’t know what to do

Hey everyone,

Long story short I bought a 2012 Toyota Highlander hybrid last week from a local small dealership. I drove it off the lot and less than 24 hours and 20 miles later it was having mechanical issues.

I got it towed back to the dealership to have their mechanics take a look and they replicated the malfunction. They poured two whole containers worth of coolant into the radiator. Then one of them tried to drive it and thick white smoke came out the exhaust.

The owner came to talk to me and said he was willing to work with me. They would have a mechanic look at it and either solve the issue or I could get a vehicle of equal value.

I called once a day for three days to check in to see. The guy who sold me my car became increasingly irritated with me. I asked if there was any timeline and he said don’t call them they will call me. It’s been 11 days now.

This is kinda putting my whole life on hold at the moment and it’s really stressing me out I genuinely don’t know what to do

Hello everyone, this is partly an update from a post I made here last week. Long story short I recently purchased a 2012 Toyota Highlander hybrid from a dealership and after driving it less than 20 miles the car was experiencing some mechanical issues.

This all happened literally less than a day after I purchased it. The next day I called the dealer and had the car towed back and spoke with the owner of the dealership and he apologize for the issues I was having and expressed that he would either get it repaired completely free of charge or put me in a replacement vehicle of similar value.

On the day I brought it back they told me that they just needed a mechanic to look at it in order to assess what their next move would be and that was about five or six days ago. I’m not sure how long it takes for a mechanic to inspect the vehicle, but I’ve been trying to call at least once a day just to see if there’s any updates and so far I haven’t heard anything back yet.

I’m not trying to be too pushy with the dealership after they’ve already showed me a bit of Goodwill, but I really kind of need the vehicle to get to work. I’m trying to be patient because it at least seems like they’re trying to work with me, but I’m getting frustrated, what should I do?

Hello everyone, this is partly an update from a post I made here last week. Long story short I recently purchased a 2012 Toyota Highlander hybrid from a dealership and after driving it less than 20 miles the car was experiencing some mechanical issues.

This all happened literally less than a day after I purchased it. The next day I called the dealer and had the car towed back and spoke with the owner of the dealership and he apologize for the issues I was having and expressed that he would either get it repaired completely free of charge or put me in a replacement vehicle of similar value.

On the day I brought it back they told me that they just needed a mechanic to look at it in order to assess what their next move would be and that was about five or six days ago. I’m not sure how long it takes for a mechanic to inspect the vehicle, but I’ve been trying to call at least once a day just to see if there’s any updates and so far I haven’t heard anything back yet.

I’m not trying to be too pushy with the dealership after they’ve already showed me a bit of Goodwill, but I really kind of need the vehicle to get to work. What should I do?

I (30m) and my friend (29f) recently hung out at a bar for a singing competition to win a prize. Karaoke style thing. There were several entrants and I paid an admission fee to participate as well.

Well my friend got hungry and they didn’t call my name up yet to perform but I told her go ahead and grab food because it was probably a while before I went up anyway.

Well as you might expect the minute, she left the door I was called up to perform. I didn’t do very well so I didn’t place. But I was gonna have another chance to sing at the very end for like a little encore thing so I would’ve gotten to sing twice anyway.

She comes back a minute later and I’m back on the side of the bar again. She asked if she missed anything and for some reason, I don’t know what possessed me, but I said that I didn’t perform yet. I felt pretty guilty because she was really looking forward to watching me sing and I didn’t want her to feel too bad because she left right before I got to. It doesn’t make sense, but that’s what I did. It was a pretty crappy thing to lie about.

At any rate, we were sitting there singing, along with other people having a good time eating some of the food she brought back and the night kept going on till I eventually confess that I already got to sing. After I confessed, she quite understandably, got pretty irritated with me and wondered why I would lie about something so silly. I felt pretty terrible and I apologize profusely.

I kind of spoiled the mood so I didn’t really feel like performing again so I asked her if she wanted to go home and she said yeah. On the way back home I apologized again for lying about something so ridiculous and let her vent her frustration at me for doing something like that.

But the day ended kind of sweet. I texted her afterwards and apologized again and said that I look forward to hanging out and doing something else in the near future. She accepted my apology and said it wasn’t really a big deal and said she was happy to hang out with me too.

I was beating myself up for it pretty hard earlier in the day but now I think I have a little bit more clarity and she already forgave me for it so I’m trying to move past it and not make things awkward. It was a bonehead thing to do for sure, but raking myself over the coals I’m realizing would only make things worse.

I’ve thought about maybe getting her a small gift to show my sincerity or maybe buying her lunch or something this week. Would that be overdoing it?

TLDR:
- my friend came with me to a bar to watch me perform and when she missed the performance, I lied and said I didn’t even though I did. I confessed, and she was pretty irritated, but she seems to have forgiven me. What’s a good way to make amends?

Hey everyone, before I start the story please go easy on me. I’m not super familiar with cars. I’m pretty poor and inexperienced with buying cars and really thought this car was gonna be a huge help.

Long story short I purchased a used 2012 Toyota Highlander Hybrid earlier literally earlier today. It went through inspection and everything. The dealership mechanic said it ran perfectly. I drive it home, get some errands done then drive it around for an hour or so just to get familiar with the feel of the car and because I was excited to drive it.

Within the second hour of driving after I got on the road the check engine light came on. Then the master warning light came on and white smoke started coming out from under the hood that smelled like coolant. There was also a kind of clanking noise coming from under the hood. The car will turn on but won’t move. No clue what the issue is.

I’m thinking about calling the dealership early in the morning is there anything I can get them to do? I literally haven’t owned the car for more than 24 hours and have barely driven it 20 miles.

Hey all, before anyone says it I know I’m probably an idiot.

Long story short I purchased a used 2012 Toyota Highlander Hybrid earlier literally earlier today. It went through inspection and everything. The dealership mechanic said it ran perfectly. I drive it home, get some errands done then drive it around for an hour or so just to get familiar with the feel of the car and because I was excited to drive it.

Within the second hour of driving after I got on the road the check engine light came on. Then the master warning light came on and white smoke started coming out from under the hood that smelled like coolant.

I’m thinking about calling the dealership early in the morning is there anything I can get them to do? I literally haven’t owned the car for more than 24 hours and have barely driven it 20 miles.

Hey everyone, longtime lurker

So recently personally, I’ve been dealing with a lot of feelings of low self-worth. Stemming both from a relationship I have left about two years ago and some lifelong issues that I’ve been dealing with related to self-worth and my own lack of success in romantic relationships.

I was feeling really down on myself yesterday just kind of stewing in my own juices. “Im ugly, I’m stupid, nobody is attracted to me…” etc etc. Really unnecessarily dramatic boohoo is me type stuff. Just kinda been in a funk

I thought I might talk to my friends about it and just be brutally honest and vulnerable with how I’ve been feeling. I mentioned to them all the stuff about feeling unattractive and generally not liking myself. Feeling like I’m not very interesting or smart, etc. etc. Not fishing for compliments just wanting to vent honestly. Also mention how sometimes in our friend group I feel like I’m a little bit out of place. All of my friends are very attractive or successful or very charismatic or some combination of all three of those things. Every time we go out in public people ask for their number or give them attention or praise, etc. etc.

I mention all of this to them and in the beginning, they were a little bit receptive and tried to offer me some counter points to say that my internal logic isn’t adding up because they find me interesting and friendly and fun, etc. But they also mentioned to me that the “envious” I’ve been comparing myself to them is directing some negative juju towards them. That the act of comparing myself to them is sending negative energy at them.

I felt kind of bad at first, but then it began to irritate me the more I thought about it. Instead of being helpful and supportive, it really just seemed like me venting openly, and honestly about the ways that I feel inadequate was gonna negatively impact them instead.

I totally understand that some people have unique, spiritual or religious beliefs around directing negative energy or how you talked about certain things, but this left me feeling even more isolated than I did before and something else to feel guilty about

TLDR: I vented to my friends about feeling ugly inadequate, and how sometimes I feel out of place when hanging out with them because there’s so much more attractive and charismatic than myself. While they responded with some positive praise, they also threw in that me comparing myself to them is going to jinx them or curse them. Leaving me feeling both bad about the way I felt before and now additionally guilty about telling them this.

Am I the asshole?

So I’m in the market for a new vehicle and I went down to a local used car lot. The car that I had originally wanted was already sold but I noticed a 2012 Toyota Highlander that seemed to be in pretty good condition.

I took a look around on the inside and outside of the vehicle and I was a little astonished to see that it had 200,000 miles on it or so. The salesman assured me that since it was a Toyota, that’s a pretty unsubstantial number in the grand scheme. We took it for a test drive and I really liked it so we went back inside to talk financing.

I told him that I was preapproved for a fairly significant amount and the Highlander final price including tiling and registration was around $10,400. I said my bank had already approved me and they could give me an ACH loan to send directly to the dealership so that I could drive off a lot today. He asked me if I had a physical check and I said no.

He said to come back with a physical check whenever I receive that so that he could give me the vehicle. I really like the car so I agreed to it and my bank is sending me the check as we speak, but it felt a little bit sketchy that I couldn’t just transfer the money directly over to him at the dealership.

Is this dealer kind of sketchy? Should I be wary or call off this transaction?

I stated in the title I have a 2015 Subaru Forrester, automatic transmission and it has finally reached a little bit over 280,000 miles on it. As a consequence of this, I’m starting to get a whole host of mechanical issues on the vehicle. Last year, some kind of linkage completely fell out that required an extensive repair of over $6000. Right now the AC compressor needs to be completely replaced and I have a mysterious check engine light that won’t go off. In addition to a leaky coolant tank and radiator.

Under normal conditions when it runs, it’s pretty loud and makes a whole host of uncomfortable noises but I usually get from point A to point B pretty easily without much hassle. It’s served me well, but hasn’t reached the end of its lifespan?

I got preapproved for a car and I have selected a car from a dealership. That’s a few thousand less than the amount I got preapproved for. Would my bank allow me to use the leftover balance from the approved amount to pay for registration titling fees?

Apologies if it’s a dumb question