| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/3/2008 3:25:32 AM | | Car repair was very exspensive . Unless you have a friend that works on cars you are at the mercy of others. I was able to work on my Ranger Pick up. My Grand Am is nothing but a pain in the grass. I plan on driving that car until it dies. Then I think I will have it towed to the front yard of GMs CEO . Maybe he would like to have the car sitting in his driveway? Bet the CEO of GM drives a BMW! | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/3/2008 6:28:03 AM | | I'm pretty much at the mercy of others for major repairs & where it will require a lift, & I have a hard time working on cars that are heavily rusted, ... especially hard working on suspensions, bakes & exhausts, I've pretty much done it all from Brakes, Radaitors, heater cores, alternators to carb rebuilds. ect, but the manufactures are making it harder to do even the simplest tasks now. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/3/2008 9:50:36 AM | | I found the 5 dollar part for my wiper blade extension arm. The dealership would not even order the part. They were more than happy to sell me a complete wiper transmission for 140 dollars. GM and Ford down on their luck. Can't be that customer service sucks? Can't be that they are crooks? No I will not buy another Ford or Gm car again unless drastic changes come about. This is my breaking point. Along with the fact that Ford and GM can't seem to design a car with better gas milage unless the governmant forces them. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/3/2008 11:09:53 AM | | I'm about to my breaking point. Looking at cars for my son who will be 16 next year. I can drive his car for a year and save on gas!!! UGH can't hold onto my SUV much longer if this keeps up.... | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/3/2008 4:15:34 PM | I found the 5 dollar part for my wiper blade extension arm. The dealership would not even order the part. They were more than happy to sell me a complete wiper transmission for 140 dollars.
I picked up an after market wiper Motor assembly for around $40 for an older Sillouette a year back (fairly large assembly), I can imagine what the dealership would charge, the plastic clip I had to order from the dealership ran over $10... I'd say that clip was worth about 35 cents. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/4/2008 5:06:44 PM | | Fortunately, I work from home; so, until this summer, the gas prices didn't really affect me too awful much. I live about 20 minutes away from my mom; so, I don't see her as often as I used to. Then, my son got a job at Cedar Point. It is 30 minutes there and 30 minutes back twice a day at least 5 days every week. Gas is killing me with 2 trips a day to Sandusky. We used to go a lot more places, but since he started working at Cedar Point, we don't go anywhere much anymore. It is just too expensive. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/5/2008 9:59:14 AM | I work 23 miles from work. That is 46 miles a day. I am not sure what I am going to do since I have cut all corners to bare minimum already. Only option I suppose is to move closer to work, but it would be in a much worse area to live in. It would be a lot farther than I already am from my family, and I don't have the money for the expense of the move. Plus my utilities would be a whole lot more if I did move.
I just bought a used newer car last fall, because my old one was on its last legs, so can't turn around and get another with better gas mileage. I wouldn't be able to afford the payment because the best ones are selling at a premium now and hard to get.
I suppose I could try to find a roommate. But in this day and age, can you find one dependable? I tried that with family and it didn't work out! I got screwed out of 3 months rent on their part. Too, what do you do if they or you loose your jobs and you are locked in a lease ?
I cant find a job nearer to me because what I do limits where I work. And the facilities that would hire me closer hire at a much lower rate, part time, and with much worse benefits.
Some people also have bad credit due to many factors because of the economy. For some a lot of possibilities would be shut down due to higher restrictions on getting credit. Housing rentals are getting much more picky on stuff like that. And we all know about the housing crisis and people loosing their homes in gigantic numbers.
You are going to find a whole lot more people between a rock and a hard place with no way out. The numbers of those are already increasing greatly. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/16/2008 5:47:48 PM | You 2 above must be raking in the big bucks working in the 'health care' field, but I hear ya, the dealers are giving pennies on the dollar for anything more than a peanut car, then putting them back out on their lot for top buck.
A aquaintence of mine recently was trading in his '05 Vue with a 4cyl, the dealer called it a "Gas Guzzler' affered him 7K for it, had one out on his lot used with similar equip, condition & more miles & wanted over $12K for it. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/16/2008 6:16:25 PM | Put a hydrogen booster on your car and get anywhere from %25-%50 increase in gas milage. Nope it's not a scam, I've done it on my truck. Took me an afternoon to build it out of pvc, stainless steel outlet blanks, tongs, washers, nuts and some nylon thread and washers. Oh throw some JB Weld, Marine Goop and some electrical wiring and viola, your very own HHO booster.
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/16/2008 7:31:49 PM | | Have been reading about the hydrogen booster. How did you come to the 25-50% increase? Everything I am reading claims 20% is considered the common increase. 20% is good just the same. Again where did you come up with your figures? | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/17/2008 5:26:52 AM | | Filling up my tank, dividing out how many gallons I got with how many miles I drove. Take that minus what I was regularly getting and viola, an increase. Right now on my 2nd grade version ( of which can be much better ) I am getting at least 5mpg more. So on 10 gallons I'm getting a free 50 mile trip. So with all of the stuff can be paid for in a very short time. If anyone does make one, put what they call a bubbler between your unit and whereever you connect it to the engine for safety. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/17/2008 5:43:26 AM | | And this won't screw up your E-Check?... & is compatible with the onboard computer? | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/17/2008 9:07:58 AM | | Older vehicles without a computer are the best for sure, mine is '97 S10 and I had to try and fool the O2 sensor by wrapping it in foil. Supposedly it equalizes the temperature out/in cause it's an older sensor. Otherwise you have to get some more electronics to put inline to fool the computer into thinking that more carbon is coming out of the exhaust than really is, since using hydrogen boost will make gas burn cleaner and put more O2 out the exhaust. If it reads more than it wants of O2 then it thinks something is wrong and makes it run rich. Imagine that, computers are made to waste gas. I can get more if I build it better, but like I said, it's 2nd grade right now and I have a bike. But soon here I am going to start figuring out how to use it for my hot water heater, natural gas is going to be and is out of this world. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/17/2008 3:22:33 PM | | What you are doing sounds great. I hope it does not backfire and result in harm to the engine. I also think if you are going to advocate using this technolgoy that you warn folksd of potential problems. I know the motto should be buyer beware. At the same time you are pushing this idea as if it is true and tested. Which is not the case. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/17/2008 4:50:21 PM | I used to bypass the converters, untill my 1981 which they put in a feedback that worked with the computer I could not bypass. Burning leaded gas actually burned cleaner in a before/after test, plus yielded another 3-5 mpg.
A job for a mechanic, sounds like a universal retrofit kit ought to be made. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/18/2008 6:18:05 AM | | I'm not selling anything and if you want to do your own research, have at it. As for tried and tested, ok, I've been testing it since April. Please no one try this at home, I do not advocate it. There, will that make you happy ? | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/18/2008 8:28:12 AM | | Anyone listen to George Norrie last night/this AM on AM Coast To Coast?? He had David Bloom on talking about tyhe benefits of retrofitting your car to run 100% alcohol, said most cars will run E50 with no problems or modifications. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/18/2008 11:50:44 AM | They've got a machine you can buy that will convert sugar to ethanol and you can put in your old alcohol as well. Machine costs like $30K though and who has old alcohol anyway ?
I'm interested in what T. Boone Pickens has going on, rich guy that he is. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/19/2008 12:14:36 PM | | According to David Bloom (Alcoholcanbeagas dot com) a pickup full of Cat Tails can give you 40 gallons of alcohol. He had some good ideas, I don't know if all of them are feasable to the common person (as he states this has to be a community effort on self sufficency). | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/19/2008 1:08:51 PM | | Well that will be a problem around here, they started eradicating cattails from around the lake and ponds. What a bummer, they were always good for soaking in kerosene and lighting as torches. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/19/2008 2:19:21 PM | | The question is how much fuel is used to convert the cattails to gas? In order to help the situation the new fuel has to use less i energy in the refining process as well. Look at corn as fuel? Great? No not nearly as good as sugar. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/19/2008 3:17:54 PM | | Course you want to try and use as little energy or less energy then traditional methods to create an energy source that we can use for whatever purpose. With that said, it seems that Brazil has done this with switchgrass. Although I can still see how using solar for electrolysis of distilled water that it can be close to self-sustaining. Desert regions will falter on this concept and would have to have vast areas of solar arrays and even solar technology is becoming more efficient than has been previously. A truck load of cattails isn't going to go far, but I think the point is, there are a lot of energy sources, it's just how to convert them. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 7/19/2008 5:31:23 PM | | The congress will influence what new technologies are used based on the granting of tax abatements. Interesting how there is a need. The need for greed still overrides the need for alternative forms of fuel in the USA. Isn't CAPITALISM grand! | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 8/17/2008 7:59:01 AM | | The hydrogen booster works I have been making and selling and installing them for about two months now. The average increase my customers are seeing is about 20 percent. I can't keep enough parts around to meet the demand right now. I have one on my 20 year old Ranger along with a couple other devices and I have seen close to 30 percent gain in mileage with them. | |
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| Whats your breaking point?
Posted: 8/21/2008 5:37:08 AM | & what do the E-Check garages have to say about these "capital improvements'?
Making modifications is a no no in 7 counties up here.... btw it was renewed again courtesy of Gov Strickland. | |
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