Car Talk

sadchild said:
I bought the '22 Civic EX-L hatchback on Saturday. I took Scotch's suggestion about just using my phone as the mp3 player. Winamp for Android sucked but I found AIMP which is pretty good so far. The only disadvantage is you can't just play a single song, you have to make playlists. Fortunately doing that is pretty easy, just takes some work building them.

I had to stop using Verizon Message+ and use the default Samsung Messages to see texts on my screen. That means I lose my cool auto-reply to texts while driving. Mine was "Here in my car, I feel safest of all. I can lock all my doors. It's the only way to live - in cars." But since I can now respond to texts using my voice easily, I suppose auto-reply won't be necessary anyway.

Yesterday, I read through most of the manual learning about new features like Lane Assist, Crash Mitigation, Adaptive Cruise Control, Climate Control Sync, etc etc etc.

The only sour part is the extended warranty which is "just like buying new" (that's what I 'verified' with the saleslady) is actually 3rd party. She insists it's seamless and still exactly the same. Well, until she mentioned the $100 deductible each time you bring it in. So that seems to be the only hitch.

Crazy story, so the car was bought in late January and used while the guy was waiting for his Bronco to come in. When it came in 2 1/2 months later, he traded the Civic in when buying the Bronco. He bought weather mats for all 4 seats and the hatchback and the door trim to drive it for 10 weeks. Must have been a corporate expense. Nobody would do that with their own money.
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You can now sing the response to the text.

You read the manual? LOL I don't think I have ever done that unless something goes horribly wrong then I am looking in the index to find out what to do. Anyway, the best place to find out if the stuff works is going 80MPH down the middle of a crowded interstate and playing with them.
 
sadchild said:
I had to stop using Verizon Message+ and use the default Samsung Messages to see texts on my screen. That means I lose my cool auto-reply to texts while driving. Mine was "Here in my car, I feel safest of all. I can lock all my doors. It's the only way to live - in cars." But since I can now respond to texts using my voice easily, I suppose auto-reply won't be necessary anyway.
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In my car, I use Google Driving Mode, which replaced Android Auto for older cars that can't display the Android Auto info on its own screen. Google Driving Mode (and I think Android Auto as well) has an autoreply option.
 
Congrats on the new wheels Sad!

With a new car, I'd read the manual too. Well, a decent amount of it at least.

I had a rental car for work last week. It was about a year and a half old.
It was just a Ford Fusion with a few extras, not all of the extras.
There were still enough things that it would do on it's own that I wanted to figure it all out.
 
Dumb kids and their need to go to school. Stop getting in the way of street races.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Terrifying moment car in street race slams into school bus at 100pmh

Newly-released footage shows the shocking moment a school bus in Albuquerque was rammed by a street-racing Mustang, sending children flying and injuring two.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Really though, f that guy. The video in this link is super scary. He's freaking lucky he didn't even kill 1 kid, let alone like 20 of them. Even still, he should get locked up for a really long time.
 
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It's awesome that all of the kids are OK, and it's too bad that the driver didn't die in the crash.
......But how fun is it to see all of those feet flying around and into the camera?
 
JHDK said:
Dumb kids and their need to go to school. Stop getting in the way of street races.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Terrifying moment car in street race slams into school bus at 100pmh

Newly-released footage shows the shocking moment a school bus in Albuquerque was rammed by a street-racing Mustang, sending children flying and injuring two.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Really though, f that guy. The video in this link is super scary. He's freaking lucky he didn't even kill 1 kid, let alone like 20 of them. Even still, he should get locked up for a really long time.
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Cars don't talk we have a thread for watch out for things. :p

Watch Out For That...
 
What's gas cost in your area right now? Most of the cheap stations (I passed 2 of them today) that I frequent around here are all the same at $4.49.
 
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Arco gas stations are among the cheapest in southern California, "cheapest" being a relative term. And Arco charges a 35¢ fee for the use of a debit card for payment. Yep, they get their money instantly – and they charge us extra! Anyway, at the Arco in La Cañada Flintridge, northeast of Glendale, regular is now $5.49 a gallon and premium is $5.81. Yikes!
 
That picture is not much of an exaggeration. Chevron is the most expensive brand of gasoline in this area. There are two Chevrons in Glendale. At the one on Glenoaks, a gallon of regular is $6.26. At the one on Broadway, it's $6.30! Many times when I drive by, there are no customers. I wonder how they're able to stay in business.
 
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