dude, thats my car

[Clodfobble]

I drive a Toyota Sienna. What does that say about me, car guru?

[jimhelm]

It says that your kids run your life. Especially if you have the little family of stickers on the back glass. It also says that youre a woman between 30 and 45. Youre practical, and you make a decent living. You probably went to college.

minivan means you care more about the function than form. But you chose the toyota instead of the honda or chrysler. Youre less timid than the honda driver, but not as brash as the chrysler driver. You'll check both mirrors before merging, but probably won't stop dead at the top of the ramp like a honda driver.

For some reason, I think you have a gold or light blue van.

[Undertoad]

I drive a maroon 1995 Nissan Maxima with 200K miles...

[jimhelm]

your friends love you

[jimhelm]

The kids and I play this game in the car on trips. We see a car ahead, and try to guess what profile the driver will fit. I always win.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

It says that your kids run your life. Especially if you have the little family of stickers on the back glass. It also says that youre a woman between 30 and 45. Youre practical, and you make a decent living. You probably went to college.

minivan means you care more about the function than form. But you chose the toyota instead of the honda or chrysler. Youre less timid than the honda driver, but not as brash as the chrysler driver. You'll check both mirrors before merging, but probably won't stop dead at the top of the ramp like a honda driver.

For some reason, I think you have a gold or light blue van.

I HATE the little family of stickers thing, and would never do it (except perhaps in an ironic fashion--there's a family in my neighborhood that has two large Transformers Decepticon logos, and three small Hello Kitty logos, and that makes me smile.)

This one is dark red, but the color was irrelevant, it was chosen entirely on the fact that I wanted a manual sliding door and the only one in the whole city was red. The previous one was a very pale greenish-silver.

[jimhelm]

My sister has a zombie family

[Ocean's Edge]

2003 Land Rover Disco II...

[jimhelm]

You clearly stole that car. Give it back.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I drive a maroon 1995 Nissan Maxima with 200K miles...

What, a Maroon?

[Ocean's Edge]

Do I have to clean the dog hair out of it first - or can I send it back as it is?

[JamesB]

You can be lucky with used cars.

In 2008, I bought a 1998 Nissan Pathfinder that came fitted with an aftermarket snow plow blade. A year later, the left front suspension tower almost completely separated from the bodywork, and the brake master cylinder and steering shaft were all that were keeping it in place. The car was still drivable, but it was one bump away from simultaneously losing front suspension, brakes, and steering. I parked it while I tried to figure out how to fix the suspension problem.

After it sat on the driveway for a couple of years, I decided that it just wasn't worth the time and effort of making the repair, and in late 2011, I was about to call a wrecker to come and take it away when I did a search on the internet and discovered that a recall for the very same suspension failure problem had been issued in mid-2011.

Nissan would either repair the suspension tower failure, or in extreme cases, make an offer to buy back the vehicle.

In the end Nissan declared my vehicle unrepairable and offered to buy it back for more than what I paid for it (and certainly for far more than it was worth). Who am I to argue with a deal like that. I still have the snow plow assembly and now that we've seen that we don't really need it any more, I'll stick on the market just before next winter.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

What, a Maroon?

Hey, you ignoranimus!

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by JamesB

You can be lucky with used cars.

Totally true. I've gotten lucky many times in used cars.

[JamesB]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Totally true. I've gotten lucky many times in used cars.

Doing it yourself doesn't count.