trinacriabob

Good. I do this about every 18,000 to 20,000 and I guess it's served me well. When the dealer runs the $ 89 coupon, I go get it done. If I've done 10x, then $ 890 is still way cheaper than to overhaul one of these units.

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Turbo, you're way more L.A. than Chicago...listen to this stuff...now c'mon, admit you like LaLaLand.

not with YOU!

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1992 Buick Regal coupe - 3800 V6 (Series I, there were no series at that time), one owner (me), 222,000 miles. Right you are! One can't call the 3800 V6 crap. Surprised to see that your engine exhibited trouble before the transmission. I always thought these transes were good for only 100,000 to 150,000. What was your service interval for the transmission to get to a quarter million miles? I am getting no oil consumption in between oil changes...maybe a 1/4 of a quart at the most. Transmission fluid always stays at a light pink color and shifts so you almost don't notice it. Certain interior components are a little frayed but the body is in good shape and the silver color has held up remarkably well. No, I don't win the oldest car award, just the best. :AH-HA_wink: :AH-HA_wink:

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BM? Bowel movement?

terriers

Damn, doesn't ANYBODY like Greek food? Just my lonely vote thus far? Never have been a conformist. Food I won't go near: Thai and Indian. Thai (even with NO stars for spiciness) sends me back to office with my head feeling like it's going to explode...it's not for me.

OK...I can see where this is going...a private over the back yard fence conversation between Long Island and Eastern PA...indeed... a conversation between 2 of the 5 or so C&Gers I like to give the most grief to. Cheer up, gents.

No way, Reg, I will be having nightmares. I can't believe I once shared the same city (Portland OR) with her. Tonya appears to have gotten matronly .... she is and always will be the "Queen of White Trash." Hasselhoff has to go, too...along with his poofy hair. Good God...what decade is that from? I don't know who the two above Tonya are, so care to elaborate. The one in the middle appears to have a high butch quotient...ouch.

Park (it used to be, anyway)

Riv, the last time I was down there (beyond just a change of planes) was April 2003 - the Augusts I have spent there were in the mid 1990s. I'm due for another trip.At any rate, your white with gray comments extends to rentals as well. The nicest color for the LaCrosse COULD be the Glacier Blue Metallic, except it has no depth. It is, as you said in a post a while back, anemic. Good choice of words. Every car I have ever owned has been light metallic blue except for my current vehicle which is silver. One reason I won't do the CXL is because of the leather interior. Shorts + 100 degrees + leather = yikes! Funny, though, that the Allure CXL sold to our neighbors to the north is outfitted in cloth. (Where's that damn Canadian icon when you need it?)

"Oh, yeh, I have a dwatah who lives in Flah-ri-da."

Eastern Standard Time

Totally agree. Reg, you are a bona-fide "horndog."

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I think the Lucerne is a WONDERFUL car. Good going, Buick! It's a little bigger than I like to pilot around. I will probably go GP first, especially if they de-demonize the front a little bit, but I will also consider the LaCrosse CX, since I do think a grille adjustment is coming down the pike. I'm going for the basic $ 23,000 sled. The nice thing about a Buick product is the 4 year warranty to Pontiac's 3 year warranty. Oh, to your comment about white -- it's fine if it's no cost and certainly, in Florida, it's a nice color to have...I've been in your area on several occasions in August and white exterior/gray interior helps mitigate the intensity of the So. Fla. summer.

He is NOT a big client. The job for him is almost done. Aside from these 4 minute flaws, the drawings given to him were very good. He gives us work from time to time. I will probably tell the main guy at work what occurred and couch it carefully...since he seems to have my ear to some extent. I'll also tell him to assign someone else to his project on the next go around.

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Detroit suburbs

Ha ha. Either that or Splenda. It's a tacked on bonus for enticement. Like bumping me from $2,222 to $3,000 when, per the formula, I'm only entitled to $2,222...on the cars I'm looking for. I think another one will come around in 6 to 9 months.

Today at work, a jerk contractor who is a client for a build-out went off on me for 15 minutes. On M and W, I go in at 6:30 and leave at 3:30 for an evening class I take. He started at 3:12 and it ended at 3:27 pm. What he screamed about was petty. He's this cocky ex-jock type of jerk now in construction management (kind of a typical path, actually) who was pissed because there were 4 minor misinterpretations of what he wanted in his documents. I had an answer for every one of them. I was even big enough to admit I made my own interpretation on some that I didn't know how they would fly. He cooled a little but, in the 2 years I've been at this firm, or in any archi. firm, I've never had anybody go off like this. I really wanted to tell him to f*** off, but I value my job and my income. How do you deal with a client or customer who goes for your throat in a work setting? I'm pretty conscientious about what I do, so I don't see much of this.

Man, this thread awoke from a long slumber...what's up with that? Paulie...Paulie...Paulie...oy Let's make this a general purpose thread. That's one of the absolute hardest things to accept in life. And it goes both ways (I'm being serious) - some have done it to you and, conversely, you inevitably have done it to someone else: a guy or girl who was nuts over you and you were just "eh" on them - let's be friends. Don't tell me you haven't done that? In the past, it was done to me more. Now, as I have become more cautious and self-sufficient, I tend to be the one that does the rejecting. I don't like being put in that role but I've not given off any signals other than being approachable or polite that warrant any more than that. Another thing - and I have to give you shit: is it the NY or the Italian or both that make you spew this unbridled neurotic passion? Good God. Take a chill pill. Have you ever looked back and saw that someone you were nuts about was probably "just ok" in perspective several years later? I am SURE that's happened to you and don't deny it. I've done that - what did I see 5 years ago? I went to a high school reunion because I found out that a girl I was nuts about from 17 through 20 or 21 was available (very sad circumstances that made her available). Knowing her penchant for this kind of event, I knew she'd be there. She was. Because I had changed A LOT she didn't recognize me and came up to me at the bar and introduced herself! I thought - is this a turning of the tables from when I was a short squirt of a junior and senior at my little Catholic high school? I told her who I was. She was a little perplexed but, since we were among the few unpaired people there, she sits at my table for dinner. To make a long story short, she became DISinterested over the ensuing months because she had "boxed" me in as who I was at 17 or 18. The reality was that, in addition to changing physically, I became much more worldly and self-confident. She couldn't get there. In reality, she had declined in "quality" - no she didn't put on weight or anything. She just wasn't that great of a package and I was able to see a lot of her personal issues (many) that you would gloss over as a kid because a person looks a certain way and that's all that matters. You're not a kid anymore. You've done enough living to where you should take on the attitude "if they don't like me, then so what." It's a great place to be. It took a while for me to get there. It may for you as well. Be cool. Va bene?