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[NotAFarm]

Quote: What a cutie!! I'm glad Tibbs is being a gentleman and taking care of her.

 

[LocalYokel]

Raw milk will contain enzymes that specifically help to digest milk..

 

[chickadoodles]

If I lived near DD I could get all the raw milk I wanted. She married a dairy farmer. She is lactose intolerant but she can drink raw milk. She finally got her ultrasound today. They think it is going to be a boy. Still waiting to hear when her due date is. Should be sometime around the end of June beginning of July.

Congrats Grandma! That is awesome!

 

[Alaskan]

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[Latestarter]

Just gassed up the truck @ 1.62 for regular el'cheapo gas... 85 octane, 10% ethanol. Milk here is $1.99/gal and multiple chain stores compete at that price weekly. Actually got 2 gals at $1.92 per last week @ wally world.

rant time:

Truck on grace period for registration (can go 30 days or 1 month past due month) but it required an emission test first (due every 2 years). Last year made it law that can't pass with check engine light on

Yesterday spent ~ $800 to get check engine light issues cleared then went for emissions. Since they had reset all codes and new ones hadn't re-established was told I had to drive... a LOT... to get them balanced and re-established. So, drove ~150 miles to try to get them to reset/establish, went back late today, one code still hadn't established & it failed the test for catalytic converter.

no check engine light before emissions test, HAD check engine light after test.

Got to dealership @4:30 this afternoon (fast as I could w/traffic) to see can I get this done tomorrow so can get emissions and registered by last day of grace period (tomorrow). Cat is gonna cost ~$1,485.00 P&L (like only $165 of that is labor!!)

and can't be done till Monday soonest as they don't have one in stock and need to "order it shipped" which won't get it there till late tomorrow or Monday.

Asked where are they ordering from... Denver... 25 miles away (almost 1/2 way across the country aye?!)!!

Offered to drive down and get it myself. Can't as it's in their warehouse.

As an aside, the check airbags light has been on for several years. They want almost $200 just to check to see what the issue is (after that, cheapest fix is over a grand). I asked is there any possibility of it firing off on it's own for no reason. They said no. I said no to getting it analyzed and fixed. As long as I'm not going to get punched in the face while driving 70 MPH down the highway, it can stay broke.

Have had a coolant leak (external) in this truck for almost 7 years. Have never been able to find it. Multiple trips to dealership over those years and they haven't been able to find it. I don't sweat it and just spend $6 on a gallon of replacement antifreeze every 6 months or so as needed. In winter I can tell when it needs filling as there'll be no heat/defrost. So as part of the repair check yesterday, they informed me my water pump is leaking and that will be almost $900 to fix... No thanks... let 'er drip. That will buy a lot of replacement antifreeze.

So after they replace the cat converter, they'll have to reset codes again, which means another tank of gas to get the d@mned codes to re-establish before I can do the emissions test again. I have 10 days in which to get this all accomplished or I have to pay for the test a second time. I'm already going to blow past the grace period for registration, so there'll be an additional "penalty tax" for that. It's been one heck of an expensive 2016 so far

Might have been cheaper to just trade this in and buy a new one.... or just drive the thing unregistered.

 

[Alaskan]

I have a friend... Drives an unregistered truck. He thinks it is "fun" to watch for cops and take two rights as soon as he sees one.



Not my idea of fun, but maybe you will enjoy that game?

 

[Alaskan]

Oh, here it only costs a hundred to three at max. To register, and no emmissions test.

 

[perchie.girl]

Just gassed up the truck @ 1.62 for regular el'cheapo gas... 85 octane, 10% ethanol. Milk here is $1.99/gal and multiple chain stores compete at that price weekly. Actually got 2 gals at $1.92 per last week @ wally world.

rant time:

Truck on grace period for registration (can go 30 days or 1 month past due month) but it required an emission test first (due every 2 years). Last year made it law that can't pass with check engine light on

Yesterday spent ~ $800 to get check engine light issues cleared then went for emissions. Since they had reset all codes and new ones hadn't re-established was told I had to drive... a LOT... to get them balanced and re-established. So, drove ~150 miles to try to get them to reset/establish, went back late today, one code still hadn't established & it failed the test for catalytic converter.

no check engine light before emissions test, HAD check engine light after test.

Got to dealership @4:30 this afternoon (fast as I could w/traffic) to see can I get this done tomorrow so can get emissions and registered by last day of grace period (tomorrow). Cat is gonna cost ~$1,485.00 P&L (like only $165 of that is labor!!)

and can't be done till Monday soonest as they don't have one in stock and need to "order it shipped" which won't get it there till late tomorrow or Monday.

Asked where are they ordering from... Denver... 25 miles away (almost 1/2 way across the country aye?!)!!

Offered to drive down and get it myself. Can't as it's in their warehouse.

As an aside, the check airbags light has been on for several years. They want almost $200 just to check to see what the issue is (after that, cheapest fix is over a grand). I asked is there any possibility of it firing off on it's own for no reason. They said no. I said no to getting it analyzed and fixed. As long as I'm not going to get punched in the face while driving 70 MPH down the highway, it can stay broke.

Have had a coolant leak (external) in this truck for almost 7 years. Have never been able to find it. Multiple trips to dealership over those years and they haven't been able to find it. I don't sweat it and just spend $6 on a gallon of replacement antifreeze every 6 months or so as needed. In winter I can tell when it needs filling as there'll be no heat/defrost. So as part of the repair check yesterday, they informed me my water pump is leaking and that will be almost $900 to fix... No thanks... let 'er drip. That will buy a lot of replacement antifreeze.

So after they replace the cat converter, they'll have to reset codes again, which means another tank of gas to get the d@mned codes to re-establish before I can do the emissions test again. I have 10 days in which to get this all accomplished or I have to pay for the test a second time. I'm already going to blow past the grace period for registration, so there'll be an additional "penalty tax" for that. It's been one heck of an expensive 2016 so far

Might have been cheaper to just trade this in and buy a new one.... or just drive the thing unregistered.

in california there is a limit to how much you have to spend on fixing it. But.... when you choose your land pick one in an exempt location. Here where I live I dont have to get smog checks. Not San Diego but San diego County in the high desert.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

@Latestarter after reading your tale of woe...


It reminded me, that I had received a letter in the mail about renewing one of my vehicles... I don't know which one, because I never opened it.... I put it to the side, meaning to open it and renew with a day or two..

Anyway.... I now realize that is has probably been a few weeks, and I couldn't find the letter...

So, I had the boys run out and get the license plate numbers from the cars, and get their vin numbers,,, and started plugging them into the online register portal..

Turns out that of the three vehicles that I entered, two needed to be registered.

anyway... it is all done and paid now.

So dude, you saved me a bunch of money!!!

You totally rock!

 

[1kluckychik]

Somebody say dude?