I already replaced the battery. I thought it was the battery because that battery was last swapped in 2016. It got me home after getting it running. I just drove straight 2½ hours. But 20 minutes after getting it back, it wouldn’t start again without a jump. So I lean toward the starter being the issue. Which will involve getting under the car and removing an exhaust piece, which I’m not looking forward to. But I want to stick a multimeter on my alternator and be sure it’s sending good voltage before I decide which way to fire the parts cannon again.

I daily a quarter million mile 1997 Prelude. I’d drive my 2012 Civic more but it’s either got a bad starter or a bad alternator right now. I can get it to run with a jump, but I got stuck two and a half hours away from home when I found out it was having issues. Fun times.

My SIL has a '96. It runs, but I never see them drive it so I have no idea why they have it lol

When I was a little boy growing up in the late '90s, we had an '84 Celica GT 5-speed. Silver, hatchback, pop up headlights. Looked a lot like this

It was the last year the Celica was RWD. I loved that car. I thought it was the coolest car ever. I was heartbroken when it got parked. I’d been told it had 386,000 miles. I’d love to have one of my own, but I already have a 5th gen Prelude, and we have room (space- and money-wise) for only one old project car so I don’t think it’ll be happening lol

It is, but you don’t need the physical card for very much. I’ve only ever needed the card for jobs. I’ve never had to apply for welfare, but I do belive you need a physical card to apply. But in most situations, you just need the number.

For the vast majority of people who keep their cards safely stowed away in a drawer, this will likely never be an issue.

For someone who doesn’t have a safe place to keep one (for instance, homeless), this can get to being an issue pretty quickly.

That said, there are hardship exceptions to this rule.

RM 10205.425 Exception to SSN Card Limits Due to Hardship

When a number holder (NH) reaches his or her yearly or lifetime SSN card limits, an SSN replacement card may still be issued if failure to receive an SSN card will cause a hardship.

To receive an exception due to hardship, the NH must present a letter from a third-party provider, such as a State public assistance agency or an employer, indicating that the NH must present his or her SSN card to receive employment or a benefit.

So you’re not completely fucked, it’s just some extra leg work.

Utilities could (and should) have started planning for this years ago

I agree, but I have had the idea for a while that power companies are in bed with big oil. Sure, they sell a lot of gas to us for our cars, but they sell A LOT more fuel to utility companies. Makes sense that they prioritize staying in business over anything else. As we move to electric cars, it’s like the most unsurprising thing that oil companies would focus on power companies, especially since power companies almost always operate monopolistically.

God damn what a throwback.

Who’d have known an all-knowing, all-powerful, totally unlimited god would be limited by insufficient funds?

You had me a station wagon.

That’s why you don’t buy new. You never buy new. A quick search of AutoTempest, and I can find several Siennas and Odysseys between $15-$25k. I found a 2015 Sienna Limited within a 30 minute drive of me for $20,950. 91,000 miles. It’s got leather upholstery and a sunroof. It’s got second row captains’ chairs, automatic headlights, and phone connectivity (probably not car play but a so equipped aftermarket head unit is maybe 500-1,000 bucks). And Toyotas are great cars. 91,000 miles ain’t nothing. All I’d be concerned with is when it last had a timing belt and water pump. That should really be all it needs. If it hasn’t been done, I bet you could tell them you’ll pay asking price if they throw that in.

And if you’ve got the extra money and want something newer, why would you pay $39k for a new base model when you can get a 3 year old Platinum for $44k? Because I found one. Has the tech in cars between 2021 and 2024 changed just that much?

As for being fashionable, that costs money. Being cool costs money. That’s why trucks cost $100,000 these days. If price is your top concern, you’ll save money buying a used minivan. And you can haul all your coworkers to lunch comfortably too because minivans have third rows that are meant to be used often.

Minivans do it better.

The humble minivan is the ultimate family/cargo vehicle and I will die on this hill.

I think it’s easier to picture it in terms of fractions. When you divide by a fraction, you reciprocate the divisor. That is, you flip its numerator and denominator, then multiply them. In this case, we’re taking 1/4 and dividing it by 1/2. You take the reciprocal of 1/2, which is 2/1. Then multiply the numerators and denominators. You end up with (1/4)*(2/1)=2/4=1/2=0.5

Once they find out you can fix shit, they ask you to fix everything. That’s what they’d do.

I used to have an S4 and I used to use the IR blaster to mess with my roommate’s TV in college. Good times.

Thanks man. I don’t have that one anymore. I had to get out of it in 2015 because it was falling apart and I finally got hit with the Prelude Curse when someone backed into it and never left a note or insurance info. The body was perfect before that :(

I’d pay extra to have all 4:

• OLED display
• Expandable storage
• Headphone jack
• User-reaceable battery

Why is it too much to ask for these in 2024? My Samsung Galaxy S4 had all these a decade ago. And the pictures I took with that phone still look good today.

Oh you just know it’s gonna be a three-stage fight.

Shoppers will say it’s hated.

I just checked Amtrak. I can hop on a one way train from Houston to Portland. The journey takes 4 days (not counting delays) and costs $1,700.

It’s cheaper to fly and faster to drive. Are we really to believe that companies like Ford, GM, BNSF, CSX, Union Pacific, Boeing, American Airlines, and Delta have nothing to do with this and that it’s genuinely the free market at work? Ofc not. Amtrak is a government agency. The government can and should use eminent domain to seize ownership of the entire rail network and fairly compensate the current owners for their stakes. In short, nationalize the rails.

We use it for basically everything from food and beverage sweetener to car fuel.