Is it worth getting this car fixed?

DrPimpDaddi wrote:

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You just cemented your place as the dummy on this thread. If you had any
balls you'd navigate by the position of the sun & holding a wet finger
up in the breeze. Don't give me the "oh, but it's dark at night" - stop
whining & start hauling ass.

 

You seem to think that it is worth getting fixed so why not just do it?

 

You seem to think that it is worth getting fixed so why not just do it?

I will definitely get it fixed next week.

 

Ryan

True, Very true. I'm reminded of my first driving trip to Boston while
the entire downtown area was under construction. I doubt the Nav system
would have compensated for many street closures and detours, but a good
NAV system would have still been a god sent in that particular
situation. Boston's streets are incredebly screwed up.

Also, in Greece where I put on about 2000 km a rental, (mostly driving
to and from Kassandra to Thessaloniki) a nav system would have been very
useful. Asking direction was 'out of the question' since it was
impossible to get direction from those people (not to mention the
language barrier).

Pars

 

"Ryan Atici"

Tighten the transmission cable, I mean decrease the pull length. This might solve it.

Mine is 270K. I could just weld the hood shut. And I'll race anybody, here. Second thought, maybe not.

But then again, mine is an `88 LXI. I wouldn't try to fix the carburetor
models (the LX, DX?) since it'll MOST LIKELY crap out in 15 years.

 

True, Very true. I'm reminded of my first driving trip to Boston while

To be honest with you, I was blown away by the divine performance of my
high-end navigation system when I took a trip to Canada. The whole city was
under construction. There were constructions all over the streets. The
streets were blocked and re-routed. By looking at the street and around, I
can tell that the dirt road was newly turned into a street. Even for such
streets, my navigation system had the listings of those streets. I was very
surprised about how complete the map database was with this Alpine DVD based
navigation system.

I've never been to Boston, but I can imagine that the traffic and streets in
Boston must be just as bad as the ones in New Jersey. I mean, if you put
some thought into making all the streets in New Jersey more confusing, you
couldn't have screwed things up this bad.

Before I bought this navigation system I was so fed-up and frustrated with
the roads and the traffic in New Jersey. I was getting lost and ending up
driving around.

The street signs are not placed on every street. On some streets it is very
hard to locate where the sign is as you're driving in such frustrated mood.
On top of that, you need to slow down or at some point come to a full stop
to locate the sign first and then read what street it is. Most of the time
it is not possible do that because most streets are one lane streets with
many cars right on your tail honking. I was at a point that I was very
stressed and nervous about driving around. With this navigation system,
driving is pleasure. Since I am confident about driving around, I get in my
car and drive around no matter where. Thanks to this navigation system, I
started learning my way around. I just can't recommend this navigation
system enough.

 

Ryan Atici wrote:

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Really? Have you ever tried to navigate Greenwich Village in NYC west of
6th Ave or downtown below Wall Street?

 

Really? Have you ever tried to navigate Greenwich Village in NYC west of

I drive in NY from time to time, but I've never been in that particular spot
so far, but since you mentioned, I will take a drive and see for myself.
That particular spot must be another "Burmuda Triangle" of streets, just
another black hole.

Just for the hell of it, I am making a list of most dreadful, screwed-up
streets. Maybe one day, I have enough listings to publish a book and call
the book, "Burmuda Triangle of Streets". ;-)

 

The Village is a particularly interesting place to navigate once you get
west of 6th Ave because those streets predated the neatly numbered grid
with which we're so familiar. The streets break off at odd angles, so
that W 4th intersects W 10th, W 11th, etc., and there's no W 5th or W
6th, etc., Streets. There's a W 12th Street and a Little West 12th
Street. The highlight of the tour is the corner of Waverly Place &
Waverly Place (I am not making this up).

The numbered streets begin at Houston (which would be Zeroth Street), so
below Houston can be an adventure. Way downtown, i.e., below Wall
Street, is the oldest section of NYC settled by the Dutch. Lots of
narrow streets running at various angles. It's interesting to get a
historical map of NYC and trace the shifting banks of the Hudson & East
Rivers. In colonial times Manhattan ended on the east side at Pearl
Street (so named because where were huge beds of oysters in the East
River and people ate the oysters, making huge piles of shells - every so
often someone would find a pearl). Much landfill later and the east edge
of Manhattan was Water Street. Now it's South Street. Same deal going
west toward the Hudson. Original boundary was Greenwich Street, then
Washington. Currently it's West Street (a very uninspired name IMHO).

GPS systems aren't very useful in Manhattan, BTW, because the buildings
prevent receiving sufficient satellites to get a fix - very frustrating.

Sounds like a fun book - have you considered a DVD edition?