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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jan 04, 2009 9:05 am) Not counting snow or ice on the roads, how many people have actually got their auto to activate the traction or stability control? While we're at it let's see how many people use their wipers when it's not raining....  Traction control is great in snow and not a bad thing in rain. I don't see where I;d use it otherwise. Richard - stick with your color. There's nothing like spending that much on something and having one thing driving younuts. Instant buyers remorse. |
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Replying to: bolivar (Jan 04, 2009 12:33 am) Not counting snow or ice on the roads, how many people have actually got their auto to activate the traction or stability control? It's like asking "How many people have actually gotten their airbags to go off" 
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Replying to: bolivar (Jan 04, 2009 12:33 am) I did. While driving my wife's then-new Lexus, I stupidly looked away from the road & focused my attention on the car's unfamiliar & fancy sound system. When I looked up, I noticed that the road had curved to the left, putting me in danger of running off the right side of the road. So I turned the wheel to the left, but I overcorrected to the point where I was on the verge of losing control of the car. Then the car's VSC (Vehicle Stability Control - Toyota's label for SC) kicked in, applying the brakes gently & reducing power. A dashboard light went on momentarily & then all was well. I had been saved from my idiocy. (It goes without saying that I should have parked the car before fooling around with the audio system. God was watching out for fools that day.) That was in 1999, when VSC was a $550 option on my wife's Lexus ES 300. (She now drives an ES 350, & VSC is standard equipment on that car.) There's no question in my mind that stability control saved my bacon that day. Even if I had escaped injury, the cost of repairing the car would have been much more than $550. |
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jan 04, 2009 9:05 am) Richard |
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jan 04, 2009 8:49 am) Richard
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jan 04, 2009 9:05 am) The Big 3 - TransUnion, Equifax & Experian - all report scores on a 300 to 850 scale. I'm pretty sure of this, having paid for credit reports from all 3 of them just a couple of months ago. I have heard that some car dealerships in parts of the Midwest use a proprietary regional scoring system that runs up to 1,000. Perhaps Richard's dealer subscribes to this. |
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Replying to: richard64 (Jan 04, 2009 7:58 am) The way those reports are generated, they give you the top three things that lower your score the most. If the score goes up to 990, and you are at 976, there must be something wrong to cost you those 14 points. What they are saying is that to get to 990, you need infinite credit and you need to never use it. Even if you pay it off every month, you do on average have a balance. No matter who you are, they list the three biggest negatives, and if you look at posts on financial boards you'll see people complaining about the same comments that you are... I know someone that their biggest negative was that their longest-term revolving credit account (credit card) was only open for 23 years... When you understand that it is software generating the report, and it has to spit out the three biggest negatives, it makes sense... -B
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Replying to: percussionist (Jan 03, 2009 8:09 pm) |
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Replying to: richard64 (Jan 03, 2009 9:35 pm)
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Replying to: jipster (Jan 04, 2009 11:52 am) Let the man get what he wants. When somebody else is willing to make the payments, THEN they get to choose the colors. I wouldn't choose black for that car but to each his own. I had to have them do a dealer trade 165 miles away to get the color I wanted.
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