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MotF Bane

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rudeguy said:
I guess this is the best place to share. I feel safe from my company's web crawlers here.

I just got my offer letter for my new position at work. Its a 9% raise, which is good. But that's after I took a 20% cut last year and am on track to take another 30% cut this year.


Yay?
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Er... I don't see much of a yay there. D:
 
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MotF Bane

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Family vehicles:
Dad - 2001 I30t 180k miles. Needs replacement within a year or two.
Mom - 2002 Yukon XL 110k miles. Averages 16 MPG.
Bane - 2006 G35x 72666 miles. Bane's car for the next five years.
Sister - 2000 Grand Am 110k miles. Needs some repairs, will be kept.
 
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MotF Bane

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So the newest possibility is getting my father an econobox DD, something four cylinder, FWD, compact, that'll push 40 MPG highway. Get it with very low miles (20k or lower, perhaps even new).

Then in a few years, when affordable again, buy a Subaru Outback 3.6R. It'll tow 3k lbs, it can haul plywood or boards on the roof, and it'll have AWD (my mother has difficulties in snow). That'll replace the Yukon, and my parents will have a pair of vehicles between 30 and 50k miles, the Subaru can do most of what the Yukon is asked to do, just a few things missing (i.e. it can't tow 8-10k).
 
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MotF Bane

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Back to musing over tires.

I found someone selling the stock 17x7, identical to my current set, except zero rash, with 215/55R17 A/S, although down in Jersey, $400. There, buy something like that, probably $500 with shipping. Whatever, if something crops up local, lets say $400. Peel those tires off, sell them, sell the previous A/S set, minus the unmount cost, let's say $250 back, so I'm down $150 for the wheels so far. That leaves me $650 per my previous calculations to go buy new 17" tires.
 
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MotF Bane

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Where is the problem with this? Twofold.

1) 17x7 wheels. 245/45R17 just barely fits, 7" is the minimum. Means high sidewall bulge, and it overall has a high sidewall, which hurts cornering. 235/45R17 would have less bulge (6.5 is min), marginally lesser sidewall (4.5mm), but 10mm less on the width (although contact patch wouldn't be as much of a difference).

However, 245/45R18 on 18x8 has less bulge (again, the 7" is the min, 8" means less bulge), much less sidewall (20.7mm), the contact patch is wider than 245/45R17 because of lesser bulge.

18x8 downside - higher rotational mass, both in the metal of the wheel being further out, and in the wider wheel being heavier by default.

Second downside! Um... no, I think I covered them both.
 
Rubycon

Rubycon

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MotF Bane said:
Back to musing over tires.

I found someone selling the stock 17x7, identical to my current set, except zero rash, with 215/55R17 A/S, although down in Jersey, $400. There, buy something like that, probably $500 with shipping. Whatever, if something crops up local, lets say $400. Peel those tires off, sell them, sell the previous A/S set, minus the unmount cost, let's say $250 back, so I'm down $150 for the wheels so far. That leaves me $650 per my previous calculations to go buy new 17" tires.
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What to muse about?
Just inflate to sidewall and forget about it.
If you want funny (watsui) fill partially with water. :biggrin:
 
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