I got a car!!!

Cyberlizard · **Reply #20 on:** March 26, 2006, 03:10:58 AM

That looks like a pretty obsolete car, action. No wonder you're jealous.

action9000 · **Reply #21 on:** March 26, 2006, 03:17:42 AM

Haha, oh yeah.
It's clunky, it rides rough, it leaks coolant And brake fluid, but it's not rusted out at all, it starts very well, and most importantly: It's MINE!

hahaha
Can't complain for $400 (Canadian

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Petrie. · **Reply #22 on:** March 27, 2006, 02:25:01 PM

I can see why you'd be jealous of me Tim.

Hey, it gets you from point A to B doesn't it? That's all that matters....which is why I can never understand why the hell people go out and buy much more than they need (ie Hummer owners).

Dash The Longneck · **Reply #23 on:** April 11, 2006, 08:58:58 AM

Congrats F-14 Ace. You are so lucky. I tried too drive paid about 800 dollars for driving lessons too and then I got on the road for my road test and failed about 5 seconds into it. I was born with this perception problem. I'm not sure how close I really am too something. After I failed I gave up there is no use paying another 800 dollars just too end up failing again with my darn Perception issue.

action9000 · **Reply #24 on:** April 11, 2006, 10:01:09 PM

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tried too drive paid about 800 dollars for driving lessons too and then I got on the road for my road test and failed about 5 seconds into it.

$800? Whew, that seems pretty steep. I remember my driving lessons a couple of year ago. They only cost approximately $500 Canadian.

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It's clunky, it rides rough, it leaks coolant And brake fluid

Good news, I got the coolant leak fixed

It costs too much to be always adding coolant

Dash The Longneck · **Reply #25 on:** April 11, 2006, 10:04:35 PM

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tried too drive paid about 800 dollars for driving lessons too and then I got on the road for my road test and failed about 5 seconds into it.

$800? Whew, that seems pretty steep. I remember my driving lessons a couple of year ago. They only cost approximately $500 Canadian.

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It's clunky, it rides rough, it leaks coolant And brake fluid
Good news, I got the coolant leak fixed It costs too much to be always adding coolant

All right I was exagerating a little bit . About 600 or 700 dollars it just seemed like I was paying more.

Malte279 · **Reply #26 on:** April 12, 2006, 03:13:56 AM

Lucky you! I paid more than 3000 Euro (roughly $3600) for driver's training until I got my license. In general driving is much cheaper in America. Gas costs about 2 Euro ($2.4) per liter (3.78 liter would roughly make a gallon) over here.

Dash The Longneck · **Reply #27 on:** April 12, 2006, 08:24:08 AM

Quote from: Malte279,Apr 12 2006 on 02:13 AM

Lucky you! I paid more than 3000 Euro (roughly $3600) for driver's training until I got my license. In general driving is much cheaper in America. Gas costs about 2 Euro ($2.4) per liter (3.78 liter would roughly make a gallon) over here.

Wow! That's a whole lot of money. I could never afford something like that.

action9000 · **Reply #28 on:** April 12, 2006, 12:11:06 PM

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Gas costs about 2 Euro ($2.4) per liter

Wow

Our gasoline prices recent went up a couple of cents, to 96.4 cents / Liter in my home town...and I was thinking that was expensive. When I first started driving, I remember paying closer to 80 cents / Liter. When I was a child, I remember my parents paying as little as 40 cents / Liter, say 10 years ago.

I suppose this is one of the benefits of living in a oil/gas - rich location.

Right now, it's approximate $30 Canadian for a full tank for my car. I love small gas tanks, hehe

Petrie. · **Reply #29 on:** April 13, 2006, 08:40:20 AM

Well the thing is, if I go to England or Germany or someplace in Europe, compared to the US, their public transportation system is much much more developed than ours, so you don't theoretically need a car to get places as much as over here. Everything is just so spaced out. There are just places public transport will not go.

Last fill up for me....$23...but I also don't let it run all the way down to empty since you can get all sorts of particles in your engine that way.

Malte279 · **Reply #30 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:16:05 AM

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Well the thing is, if I go to England or Germany or someplace in Europe, compared to the US, their public transportation system is much much more developed than ours, so you don't theoretically need a car to get places as much as over here. Everything is just so spaced out. There are just places public transport will not go.

That is correct, and I'm quite happy about our public transportation system. Nevertheless it does not spare you the need to go by car too. Whenever you want to go shopping (food and essential stuff) you won't be able to get it home via public transportation (well, at least not easily if you bought a lot). Also beyond short range regional borders public transportation is getting really expensive. If I wanted to go to Berlin and back to where I live it would cost about 160Euro for a distance of about 300kilometers! I think I might get a cheaper flight to London and back! :angry:
Also the public transportation that goes beyond town borders is prone to be late. Sometimes it is more of a surprise if a train is there in time than it would be if the train was late.

Cyberlizard · **Reply #31 on:** May 04, 2006, 05:24:15 PM

YAAAAAY!!!

I got in to driver's ed! It starts May 30th at the High School in Townsend and ends June 27! The sad thing is I'm going to stay at my dad's house the entire time so I'll be out of contact for the whole month of June.

:cry2

Petrie. · **Reply #32 on:** May 04, 2006, 09:38:53 PM

Do they make you practice parallel parking in Montana? That was probably the hardest part of the driving test, and probably the most useless thing since I've never done it since. -_-

Cyberlizard · **Reply #33 on:** May 04, 2006, 10:07:47 PM

Sadly. Yes. :cry2 :cry2 :mad :mad