Yes

Richard, that would depend on many things and since I have no kids, I will not even guess on that question.

We have a photogrammetric scanner here is is 14 or 15 years old. It cost $70,000 new. It still works only because we are tinkerers. The only factory service is one guy that lives in Austria, so we would have to fly him to here and they charge crazy money for his service. Microsoft bought the company 10 years ago and the prices did nothing but go up.

It has some little electric motors that lift the glass platen. One motor on each corner and each motor has a little bitty transmission. Microsoft quoted over a grand each last time we checked and I feel sure they are even more now. We can get the raw motor and transmission from a supplier and spend an hour or so fighting with it and soldering tiny little wires or pay crazy money to Bill Gates. We tinker on the parts and make it work just fine.

We could (in theory) buy a new scanner that makes a full 9x9 12 micron scan in just over one minute. Our scanner takes 45 minutes. The new scanner is "only" 250K.

The 928 mechanic guy in Dallas really wants my Cayenne for his College freshman daughter. His wife thinks miles are too high and it won't be as reliable as a used Hyundai or Nissan SUV of the same price. He thinks she is nuts because he know I keep my cars maintained.

My local mechanic says he wouldn't have any problem.

Lets see her put the same miles on a Hyundai or a Nissan.

My brother has been buying RAV4s for his grandkids that don't want a pickup truck. The ones that want a pickup are on their own.

One of he grandkids has gone thru 5 pickup trucks so far and hasn't graduated college yet. He keep wrecking or tearing them up.
When I was down with my foot he wrecked his pickup the first snow/ice we had.
He had been pretty good about picking stuff up a restaurants and bringing it to me so I let him borrow my Range Rover for the next 2 winter months until he found another pickup he liked. Amazingly enough he was able to get around the rest of winter and use my Range Rover working on a livestock ranch just fine. He didn't say anything to me, but his younger brother said he was taking it places the pickups couldn't go and they didn't have to go get the little Ranger 4 wheelers. Guess those pickup trucks are an image thing.

people like to talk a lot of crap about Land Rover, but they are seriously competent vehicles off road.

Hey...So how you doin?

Alive and, frustratingly, still here. Lots of red tape BS still being cut through.

Sure seems to be taking a long time to get setup.

Hoping that means it actually keeps bad guys out and not just a bunch of bogus red tape.

I doubt any intelligent person would doubt the off road abilities of Land Rover. Toyota made a clone of it only Toyota made it crazy ugly. I am sure the Jeep folks will kid about it but they have to respect the real ability. Much like Porsche drivers kidding Corvette drivers. Of course in the 1980s Corvettes were just crap, that is fixed now.

It sounds like the federal government is in charge of your paperwork. Only a federal bureaucrat could be that slow.

Good no longer Monday day!

Mornin' all.

I would bet the CVT in the Nissan SUV/CUV would not hold up as long as a conventional. I hope I am wrong since we have a Rogue.

Joe, had I known you were still lurking around I would have been more careful on talk like a pirate day. Of course, we weren't' speaking Somali.

Yesterday was my 4th funeral this year. :(

Got the spoon safe in over the weekend. They lie about how many fit!

Hey, as far as I know you only get one funeral per lifetime!

Well, unless you are pulling scams with bogus names, etc.

Brent, it is sobering when friends start to die off. We pretty much disbanded the El Camino group that had good meetings for 20 years. One member had a stroke and died, another came down with Alzheimer's. One other had a heart attack is is just a feeble old man now. One guy lost his wife to breast cancer and he moved to Texas to be closer to his kids. We figured we needed to break up before any more of us got sick or died.

Two of my other friends have lost a wife to breast cancer in the last couple of years. It sucks to get old but it is a great privilege denied to many.

I see Richard is onto my scam. Will have to find another line of work!

At 96, my Mom was the last person in her circle of friends or even relatives that was her generation.
She had a cousin that was within 1 month of his 100th birthday when the inoperable aneurysm he had for 10 years finally popped.
Of all my Mom's relatives the youngest one to go was the one that was really into healthy foods and exercise. Heart attack took him out before his 40's.
When anyone said anything about what my Mom's 90 yo cousin ate he was quick to point out how young his brother passed.
It was kind of interesting to go visit him, there he was in his 90's taking care of his boy and boy's wife in their 70's.
He also had a gorgeous 50 something Buick convertible he was pretty proud of.
Even when I was a little kid he had gray hair and a gray pencil thin mustache.

Some genes that get passed on just suck.

Got a call a few minutes ago from a local number but not one I recognized. My kid's friends call my phone at times so it's not unusual.


"Frank" asked if this is Sarah. In my deepest, don't fark with me voice, I responded "No, who is calling?"
Frank: Our records show that the warranty on the 2008 AVeo is about to expire and we should renew it right away. Wrongo, jacka$$!

We've never owned an Aveo. Oh, do have any other vehicles that need warranty coverage?

I suggested to Frank that he does not call this number again and that Sarah is 10 years old and I'm a very protective dad.

The neighbor that lives two doors east of me is a married couple. Nice folks that he has the best lawn in the neighborhood. He loves to mow and he is out there three times per week.

Anyway, the wife is maybe 100 lbs and her voice sounds just like a child. She has people call and ask if her mom is home all the time. It really chaps her hide and it is really funny to hear her say she is married for 25 years now! Her husband is very protective of her. She just sounds like a 10 year old girl.

Uh, oh Richard.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/931124-porsche-cayenne-battery-linked-deaths-fl.html

Yep, in the Cayenne the battery is under the driver's seat. It is in compartment that is sealed from the interior and vented to underneath the car. You have to unbolt the top of battery compartment to open it. It opens like a hatch with the driver's seat on top. There is also a tube that goes from a vent hole on the actual battery to under the car. However, the tube is more for liquic overflow from overcharging or over heating than gases. And battery gases are heavier than air.

The 928 is a hatch back and the battery is in the rear hatch area. It is in a compartment under the spare tire well. The door is sealed and it is vented to under the car. But opens with a plastic lever instead of being bolted down like the Cayenne. Never heard of anyone getting gassed in a 928 from either the battery or exhaust fumes from a poorly sealed rear hatch.

Was also taught to always open a window just a crack for ventilation. Then the issue was you might have an exhaust leak letting exhaust gasses into the passenger area not battery fumes. Seem to remember cars having vents that were always open for this reason thanks to Mr. Ralph Nader. So seems very unlikely for battery fumes becoming a problem.