Recent content by 3800Fiero

I have T-Mobile for my home internet as well. It’s at least 10 times faster than what I have available to me otherwise (in a rural location. No cable, no fiber). I have had no problems steaming. As noted by others, a reboot of the router does usually fix slower than usual speed issues. The only...

We had no real defined retirement plans either. Just work until we were old and then retire. A proposed expressway that was initially going right through our house got us thinking about our options. DW has worked a manual labor j*b in a factory most of her adult life and her 50+ body wasn't...

Pinstriping tape or narrow masking tape. Or if you mask carefully you could use a product like Rustoleum Peel Coat.

I see a few different courses of action here with marginal differences between them. 1) Trade in as-is. I have not experienced any trade-in being worth less than $1000 as long as it is driveable. So this would depend on how broken your shifter is. Result: $1000 applied to new car. 2) Make the...

Worn tie-rod ends could.

I would also decline the alignment. If there is no abnormal wear on the tires and handling (pulling, shaking) seems normal then no alignment is really needed. In my 40+ years of vehicle ownership, I have yet to get an alignment done correctly the first time around and required a second visit to...

All hope is not lost. Seems there is work being done with phages that can work where antibiotics fail. The trick is to get the right cocktail of phages for each bad bacteria. EHP – Phage Renaissance: New Hope against Antibiotic Resistance What's old is new again!

+1 Like Bamaman I don't bother cleaning the drain pan, just put away as is. And I use Scotts shop towels that get tossed once used. I collect the used oil until I have about 5 gallons stored in 2.5 gallon containers and then take them to work and dump it into the used oil tank to be recycled.

FWIW I think only the F150 is aluminum, all others are still steel. YMMV.

My daily driver is an '84 Fiero with 116000 miles. DW drives the '09 Toyota Camry with 46000 miles. And the spare is a '99 Tahoe with 168000 miles.

That appears to be my plan at this point as well. Draw 6-7% from the nestegg while allowing SS benefits to grow. Our combined benefits at 70 will cover over 80% of our estimated expenses. The rest would come from our investments at about 1.5-2% draw. Time will tell if I have the courage to pull...

It sounds like he has been living with debt for so long that he has gotten used to it. I think any "intervention" will go badly. Some just can't be saved.

I found I have to postpone my retirement plans for at least 2-3 more years. So will open slot 36 for someone else.

I think the short answer would be to save as much as possible without hampering one's chosen lifestyle. No one ever complains about saving too much for retirement. I also started saving for retirement later in life, mid 40's IIRC. I had 2 kids approaching college age that I was putting money...

Me - "84 Fiero during warmer months 104K miles DW - "99 Tahoe 165k & "04 Impala 180k