Blind spot mirrors

From : jvc

Q: on tue 09 nov 2004 141122 gmt budd cochran mr-d150@citlinkspam.net wrote mandatory insurance can be a pita but if you own anything you need it anyway. do you really my folks never had car insurance and the worst accident and only accident we ever had hitting a steer at 30 mph in la junta co in a 56 plymouth wagon was covered by the cattle haulers insurance 7 steers escaped from a stock trailer. it totaled the car but no injuries. ive had a grand total of 5 accidents in my 35+ years of driving. only one could be considered my fault at all black ice and bald taxicab tires. if insurance is to be mandatory then let the government pay for it. why penalize good drivers for the stupidity of lousy ones but you cant go by your family and personal experience budd... hopefully you and the typical illegal alien driving without insurance are 2 different ends of the spectrum.. that depends on wether or not hes hauling drugs and running from the cops wouldnt it if you get hit by someone without insurance and they have no assets to fix your car you might think differently about requiring insurance... dont misunderstand me please. im all for insurance but i dont think the state government should require insurance which has resulted in inflated premiums and an elimination of responsibility for ones actions. if you cant pay and no insurance / bond figure on spending some time in a court room totalling your assets to pay for the damages or in jail. and my premiums should not reflect the poor driving of some whacked out crack head or drunk but only my driving record; 5 accidents with only one my fault two speeding tickets one left-of-center ticket one warning for driving too fast for conditions in nearly 39 years of driving. any better and they should pay me to use their insurance. i like californias system you have to have liability but its up to you whether or not you want to insure against damage to your own car.. most states on cars that have clear titles require only property damage and personal liability iirc. i havent had collision coverage since 1973 on my 72 charger which was required by the credit union. i paid off early and dropped it. the ex got it in the divorce in 74 so it became her worry. budd .

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From : scottremovetoreply

the place that i used to have my computers built had big signs that said prices are for cash only.. if you wanted to use a card theyd show you how much that card company charged them and ask if you wanted to add that to your price.. i know it can be a substantial amount. when i bought the gateway computer they set up a revolving credit plan and a $2k computer went right over $3k total. i should have backed out but my old machine was no longer working good enough. budd .

From : hp

hi folks i have one of those funny sound questions and wouldnt mind entertaining some opinions in case they mention something i could fix myself. frequently when accelerating to about 40-50 mph 2000 rpm i hear a rattling sound. its not a screeching high pitched rattle at all. sometimes it goes away after briefly perking up. it never lasts all that long either. sometimes while cruising to & from work at 65 mph it starts up for about 5 miles. since its not screechy my inclination would be to say that its not a lubrication issue. it sounds almost like something is slightly loose. awhile ago i had the transmission inspected and the mechanic indicated that it was fine. ive had the serpentine replaced about 6 months ago as well and the infernally expensive ball joints. the truck has about 40k miles on it and if someone has gone through similar experiences id like to know about it. thank you so much! -- seth. .

From : big al

budd cochran wrote to be honest i wouldnt want to live there . . .too hot in the summer. when i was a kid my family drove thru flagstaff going and coming from ca and both times mom gave us kids wet towels to keep us cool 53 chevy no ac. you were too hot in flagstaff in the middle of the summer its lucky to hit 90 tops. most of the summer its in the 70s maybe low 80s and humidity down around 20%. now if you meant phoenix thats another matter. still its beats the heck out of most midwest south and eastern cities in the summer! ive been in the midwest and east in the summer. phoenixs typical 105 summer day at 5% humidity feels considerbly cooler than say detroits 90 degrees and 90% humidity. in most of the country it is either hot and sticky or its frigid cold. in phoenix we have hot and dry in the summer and from october through april its nice and cool. 70s for a high right now. the best weather is the california coast. 70s year round. its problem is that millions of other people think its great too! .

From : yofuri

on tue 09 nov 2004 190038 gmt budd cochran mr-d150@citlinkspam.net wrote on tue 09 nov 2004 141745 gmt budd cochran mr-d150@citlinkspam.net wrote just before colorado went to mandatory insurance i was paying $65 every six months for insurance on our 68 fury iii. afterwards same company & car it went to $15 / month over the next six months no claims either and has never been that low since. yeah no-fault has saved me so-o-o-o-o much. not!!!! imho the government of canada should be paying the whole bill for your insurance if theyre going to supply it and/or mandate it. i believer it should be the same here. i think the issue of mandatory insurance and the cost of insurance are two different issues. as to the cost insurance companies are the experts at manipulating data and adjusting rates way beyond reasonableness. they make tremendous profits. i remember years ago i backed a car into a post. bad thing to do by the way. the bill was around $400 so the insurance company paid me $200. my renewal comes up and my premiums went up the next year $400. so to get $200 from them cost me $400. good profit for them. they justified it by saying that their statistics proved that people that were involved in an at fault one car accident were more likely to be in another accident so they put me into a higher rate category. most states have insurance commisioners but they will tell you that they are really powerless the insurance companies are also experts at lobbying and getting laws passed that benefit them. the clue there was they lumped you in with every other drunk dopehead cell-phone user that ever backed into a post and not just those that backed up farther than expected. your rates went up to cover all those cases not just what happened to you. that is not fair. as for having insurance mandatory insurance in this day and age is really a good thing. even then there are a lot of dirvers out there without insurance and after a run in with the cops they end up with no license either for not having insurance. i have seen countless cases of people getting hit by those people. how would you feel if you were driving down the road legally and safely only to be hit by some goofball that isnt paying any attention at all and runs a red light one of those goofballs who has no insurance and no way to pay for he just did. your car is totalled and you and your family hurt. you end up using your own health insurance paying all the deductables. your insurance company pays off your car but that is after depreciation and uninsured driver deductables so you lose again. it can end up costing you an awful lot and that doesnt count lost time from work and school. that happens more than you would think. it sort of makes driving on the highways a game of luck. it is anyway. have you seen the accident statistics i have been rear ended at a stop sign by a pontiac gto when the driver was watching a blonde carhop instead of the road no insurance had my car backed into by an angry young man at his parents who knocked it sideways 10 inches no insurance and in neither case did my insurance go up even though it paid for the repairs. why the other driver was at fault and the insurance company sued for the damages. the kid sold his catalina to pay for my car and the gto owner sold another car to repay. man what company do you have i want to look at them at renewal time. that is very rare for an insurance company to do that. it is very cool and correct but very rare. i was sideswiped by a woman with no insurance while driving taxicab and my bosss insurance sued her till they got the repair costs his insurance didnt go up. i clipped a telephone pole due to foreign matter on a curve and didnt see a rise in my premiums btw this and the two accidents with pontiacs were with the 64 1/2 cuda . . .hmmm looks like i was wrong . . ive been in six accidentsa since i started driving. as for taking away licenses that has not been so ewffective. recently here in moab an elderly gentleman was arrested again for no license . . .for the 20th time. i agree with budd as far as insurance companies being rip off artists. they are so skilled that we just keep taking it from them. i would love to see the government really regulate insurance. i have no problem with reasonable profits but those folks are amazing. but i absolutely agree with mandatory insurance. we have the right to expect that if some goofball slams us on the highway that goofball will at least have to make sure that he pays the bills. back when people were held accountable for their driving they were made to pay one way or another with monies coughed up from somewhere or by jail time. budd .