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iambrutus said:
daughters 2014 Cadillac ATS started having transmission issues (91k miles) and she has started to drive more this past year (her BF goes to school about 3 hours away from her and she goes to school about 1.5-2hrs from us) - so yesterday i was shopping online and found one of the local dealers closest to my house had a 2019 Buick Encore - only 18k miles, loaded pretty decent little car, ended up buying it yesterday. Wife has a 21 Encore that she loves so we figured this will suit her well through school.
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Trade in the Caddy?
 
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iambrutus said:
daughters 2014 Cadillac ATS started having transmission issues (91k miles) and she has started to drive more this past year (her BF goes to school about 3 hours away from her and she goes to school about 1.5-2hrs from us) - so yesterday i was shopping online and found one of the local dealers closest to my house had a 2019 Buick Encore - only 18k miles, loaded pretty decent little car, ended up buying it yesterday. Wife has a 21 Encore that she loves so we figured this will suit her well through school.
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Great vehicles. We’ve had a couple of the Encore s and they’ve been very reliable.
 
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iambrutus said:
daughters 2014 Cadillac ATS started having transmission issues (91k miles) and she has started to drive more this past year (her BF goes to school about 3 hours away from her and she goes to school about 1.5-2hrs from us) - so yesterday i was shopping online and found one of the local dealers closest to my house had a 2019 Buick Encore - only 18k miles, loaded pretty decent little car, ended up buying it yesterday. Wife has a 21 Encore that she loves so we figured this will suit her well through school.
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I hope I’m saying something similar in about 13 years if I do things right. I felt a big sigh of relief when kindergarten concluded in May without any major issues.

Congrats on getting there man.
 
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MGMT said:
I hope I’m saying something similar in about 13 years if I do things right. I felt a big sigh of relief when kindergarten concluded in May without any major issues.

Congrats on getting there man.
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Thanks man, its a great feeling - son is 15 - gets his permit in about 2 months, so in 6-8 months i'll be shopping again - hes getting a truck (mostly so i can also use it :slappy: )

Buckeneye said:
Trade in the Caddy?
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Yes we traded it in at the dealer - did OK on the trade IMO - got 6k (KBB was 5900-6600)
RuGettinIt said:
Great vehicles. We’ve had a couple of the Encore s and they’ve been very reliable.
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My dad had one for a number of years as his daily driver when he was driving 80 miles each way daily - racked up a ton of highway miles, and never really had any issues
 
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TDunk said:
Bought a 2016 Honda Accord with 27K miles about 4 months ago. So far, so good. But the sun roof panel is flimsy compared to my 2003
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Keep an eye on the timing chain sensor and vtc actuator once it hits 100k. Those K series motors go forever, but the hondas have some known issues like that.

Once you hear a small rattle on cold start up, get it handled ASAP.
 
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Buckeneye said:
Keep an eye on the timing chain sensor and vtc actuator once it hits 100k. Those K series motors go forever, but the hondas have some known issues like that.

Once you hear a small rattle on cold start up, get it handled ASAP.
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Rattle at startup still makes my eye twitch after owning a 4.2 NA Audi S4. Timing chain was on the firewall and it requires pulling the engine for that service. Thankfully I enjoyed my car for nearly 15 years before sending off to the next person to have sleepless nights. That car was bullet proof with that one exception.
 
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BuckBackHome said:
Any EV owners here? May grab a used one at some point in the next year. Tagging @exhawg and @Zurp since they mentioned being EV owners in the Gas Price thread.
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Copying and pasting my post in the Gas Price thread here:

We have an EV. It's great for what we use it for - just in-town driving to drop kids off at school and maybe run a couple errands. We don't have a fancy charging station, so it charges pretty slowly. And we don't charge it to 100% ever. I think we normally keep it at 70% max, and that says we have about 200 miles. But you aren't charging it 200 miles overnight with a Level 1 charger. If we wanted to drive it farther, we'd charge it to 80 or 90%. I guess it's bad to charge it to 100%.
For a week or so our garage lost power over the winter, so we took it to a Level 3 charger. It charged the whole thing (to that 70%) for about $20 in about 30-40 minutes.
If you're doing more driving, you might need a Level 2 charger. I'm not sure how difficult that is to install, but it'd charge faster than just the wall outlet that we use.
Oh - and most importantly, our electric bill really hasn't gone up much. So that's pretty awesome.
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It's a Chevy Bolt. We got it used.
We like it because my wife doesn't drive more than 10 miles per day, normally, and never more than 120 miles in a week. Park the car in the garage, plug it in. Unless someone drove it 50+ miles one day, it's fully charged by the morning, off a Level 1 charger.
I don't know that we'll ever go to having both cars being EV. I drive 40+ miles to work each way 3-5 times a week - the tech would have to improve a bunch to be able to do that with an EV, unless I can find somewhere at the office to plug in. Maybe if I can ever retire we can go to double-EV's.
I think our full plan is to get solar panels on the roof of the garage. It'd be pretty awesome if we could figure out how to charge the vehicle off just solar power.
 
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Zurp said:
Copying and pasting my post in the Gas Price thread here:



It's a Chevy Bolt. We got it used.
We like it because my wife doesn't drive more than 10 miles per day, normally, and never more than 120 miles in a week. Park the car in the garage, plug it in. Unless someone drove it 50+ miles one day, it's fully charged by the morning, off a Level 1 charger.
I don't know that we'll ever go to having both cars being EV. I drive 40+ miles to work each way 3-5 times a week - the tech would have to improve a bunch to be able to do that with an EV, unless I can find somewhere at the office to plug in. Maybe if I can ever retire we can go to double-EV's.
I think our full plan is to get solar panels on the roof of the garage. It'd be pretty awesome if we could figure out how to charge the vehicle off just solar power.
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You would need a way to store the solar power as I have panels on my home but the storage unit is usually 15K-20K which I do not have.
 
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