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Goofyernmost

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PUSH said:
I hit 6000 not too long ago. But mine's a 2024 GMC Terrain.
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I happened to glance down at mine on Tuesday as it turned 44,000. I have a 2019 Jetta R-line. Love that car. Not as much as my Cadillac but my wallet loves the hell out of it. I'm retired and have owned it through all of Covid and the lock down, and made only one significant trip to Vermont (2000) miles total last September. I have to wonder when I was able to put that many miles on it. Still have 2 years left on the warrantee.
 
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Goofyernmost said:
I happened to glance down at mine on Tuesday as it turned 44,000. I have a 2019 Jetta R-line. Love that car. Not as much as my Cadillac but my wallet loves the hell out of it. I'm retired and have owned it through all of Covid and the lock down, and made only one significant trip to Vermont (2000) miles total last September. I have to wonder when I was able to put that many miles on it. Still have 2 years left on the warrantee.
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I would have kept my old car, had a deer not run out in front of me.

I actually saw my old car outside the collision center with a for sale sign today. I sold it to them and got a decent chunk of money out of it. They were going to fix it up and resell it.
 
SteveBrickNJ

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PUSH said:
I would have kept my old car, had a deer not run out in front of me.

I actually saw my old car outside the collision center with a for sale sign today. I sold it to them and got a decent chunk of money out of it. They were going to fix it up and resell it.
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Almost a win - win?
A happy ending of sorts?
 
Goofyernmost

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PUSH said:
For the situation, it went down almost perfectly. By the time I got the insurance money and the money I sold it to the collision center for, I got about what it was worth before the accident. I did really like my old car, though. I like my new one, too. The downfall is I have a car payment again.
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I have found, in my tediously long life (so far), that eventually unless you are born rich the likelihood of lifetime car payments is something we just learned to accept. My Deville was the only car that I had paid off and was gloriously without any car payments for about 6 years, but it was replaced with $10K worth of repair bills. Sometimes you just can't win. Sounds like you got a happy set of coincidences with your deer problem though. I've often wrestled with the thoughts of getting a new one more often and pretty much riding out the warrantees then switching or just taking a chance.

My first "new" car was a 1970 Buick Skylark that I bought upon my return from Vietnam. Sort of an I earned it gift to myself. Back then to get any car to last over 100K in mileage was something special. I got it to 140K before it started to lose its dependability. In those early years of married adulting things were tight so the debt ended up being rolled over into other projects. I was technically still paying for it after all those years. I had it when I met and married my wife, brought home both my children in it and then, since we lived in a more rural area felt the need to trade it for a newer "used" Buick Skylark. That one wasn't nearly as good. The old one still ran fairly well but the winters and salty roads were taking it's toll. Cars are so much better now and the bodies are sealed against the bulk of the winter damage. These days anyone whose car isn't still like new at 150K isn't really trying or were attacked by trees or a deer.
 
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Goofyernmost said:
I have found, in my tediously long life (so far), that eventually unless you are born rich the likelihood of lifetime car payments is something we just learned to accept. My Deville was the only car that I had paid off and was gloriously without any car payments for about 6 years, but it was replaced with $10K worth of repair bills. Sometimes you just can't win. Sounds like you got a happy set of coincidences with your deer problem though. I've often wrestled with the thoughts of getting a new one more often and pretty much riding out the warrantees then switching or just taking a chance.

My first "new" car was a 1970 Buick Skylark that I bought upon my return from Vietnam. Sort of an I earned it gift to myself. Back then to get any car to last over 100K in mileage was something special. I got it to 140K before it started to lose its dependability. In those early years of married adulting things were tight so the debt ended up being rolled over into other projects. I was technically still paying for it after all those years. I had it when I met my wife, brought home both my children in it and then, since we lived in a more rural area felt the need to trade it for a newer "used" Buick Skylark. That one wasn't nearly as good. The old one still ran fairly well but the winters and salty roads were taking it's toll. Cars are so much better now and the bodies are sealed against the bulk of the winter damage. These days anyone whose car isn't still like new at 150K isn't really trying or were attacked by trees or a deer.
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I was probably going to keep mine for at least a couple more years, but it's nice to have a car with AWD for the winters now. That was the one thing I wanted on a new car, since I commute every day. Heated seats and a heated steering wheel are also a huge plus.
 
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Goofyernmost said:
I have found, in my tediously long life (so far), that eventually unless you are born rich the likelihood of lifetime car payments is something we just learned to accept. My Deville was the only car that I had paid off and was gloriously without any car payments for about 6 years, but it was replaced with $10K worth of repair bills. Sometimes you just can't win. Sounds like you got a happy set of coincidences with your deer problem though. I've often wrestled with the thoughts of getting a new one more often and pretty much riding out the warrantees then switching or just taking a chance.

My first "new" car was a 1970 Buick Skylark that I bought upon my return from Vietnam. Sort of an I earned it gift to myself. Back then to get any car to last over 100K in mileage was something special. I got it to 140K before it started to lose its dependability. In those early years of married adulting things were tight so the debt ended up being rolled over into other projects. I was technically still paying for it after all those years. I had it when I met my wife, brought home both my children in it and then, since we lived in a more rural area felt the need to trade it for a newer "used" Buick Skylark. That one wasn't nearly as good. The old one still ran fairly well but the winters and salty roads were taking it's toll. Cars are so much better now and the bodies are sealed against the bulk of the winter damage. These days anyone whose car isn't still like new at 150K isn't really trying or were attacked by trees or a deer.
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I am old school, my cars are manual transmission , non turbo, port fuel injection. Many if not all cars are GDI- gas direct injection and it is not if but when those valves will be caked, driver will have obvious issues, and the intake manifold will have be taken off and valves cleaned and scraped by hand , average lifespan Toyota CVT about 140K , vehicles with turbo engines is just another item to eventually go wrong and fail. The worst issues that have direct injection issues as approaching over 60K mileage are the European makes namely VW and Audi. It is nice to drive a stick over the years since when my family and friends who want to borrow my car, they changed their minds since they don't know how to drive a stick.
 
PUSH

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Rant coming up...

I see a lot of posts and videos about kids learning "new math". Parents are complaining about it. Many times, they show their kids doing the "new math", and it doesn't make sense to them because their child is doing it wrong. The other times, the parents who are saying it's so confusing are the same ones who say they're bad at math, and math is hard.

The "new math" is really teaching the same concepts, while making sure the students aren't just able to follow steps to solve the problem, but instead are developing a conceptual understanding of what's happening. We're teaching them how numbers work.

Example: 30 + 35 = ____

The old way: 5 + 0 = 5, 3 + 3 = 6, so 30 + 35 = 65. The problem with that is that it doesn't teach students that you're not really adding 3 + 3. Those threes are worth 30 because they are in the tens place and represent three 10s.

The "new" way: Understanding that 35 is really 30 + 5 (that's called decomposing numbers, which causes people to struggle with math if they don't fully understand it). Therefore we are adding our tens together first, so 30 + 30 = 60. Then we have 5 ones, so 60 + 5 = 65.

The new way provides a much deeper understanding of how numbers work. The old way is a process to get the correct answer, without having a deep understanding of how numbers work.

The goal is not just to produce the correct answer. The goal is to develop a deep understanding of algebra and numbers & operations. Having the deep understanding leads to higher level thinking, which in turn helps students when they enter the workforce.

Just because the parent doesn't understand it, doesn't make it wrong. We aren't trying to make it so the "parents can't teach their kids math" (literally a comment I saw accusing teachers). We're trying to make it so we don't have generations of people who think math is hard and can't do mental math... which is where we are at right now. I know I would be so much better at math had I been taught the ways I'm currently teaching. I was never good at math, because I didn't understand what was happening. I was just taught how to put numbers into an equation or process to produce a correct answer.
 

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