What was your first new car?

We know way too much about you here.

If your passphrase somewhere is "has aluminum wiring to kitchen range," you are so pwned.

 

This is similar to covering your license plate when nobody can use plate #’s for anything useful.

ive never thought of using my car as a password or security question so I guess I’m safe.

Though most I’d theft is from data breaches not from actually hacking individuals accounts.

once they hack your account it’s because they already know the important stuff SSI/BD/FullName/Ect and at that point have no need for the security question.

 

Lol. Whatever works...

...and no, ChapmanF, aluminum wiring only works if you want to burn your OWN house down.

Thankfully, that hasn't happened yet.

 

I've seen the "what was your first car" for a security question. This thread only gives that away if your first car was a new car. But first you'd have to choose to use that question as one for the account, and then actually use your car for the answer. You are completely free to use false or nonsense responses for those questions. Just be sure to know what you used, though I think some password applications will also work with those questions.

 

Yes, and writing it down is discouraged. In any case, I didn't want to make a federal case out of this. However, Rmay635703 DID call attention to it, so I felt obliged to provide some explanation as to why I deleted my post. And I thanked him for it because now I won't forget it!

 

Just to encourage topic drift.

Darn, I can't remember, but we use some sort of strange wire for our kitchen cooktop -- and I posted about it before, I just don't remember what it was about it. I know I had to get some special grease and use special connectors....This is going to bug me until I remember. Oh, maybe the GE cooktop had some strange wires, so the house copper wires could interact badly with the cooktop wires...GRRR....as I said, topic drift.

Ah, found the old cooktop thread....how come all I ask are bizarre electrical questions...
Electrical contact question -- kitchen cooktop | PriusChat

 

Yeah. I got zinged for topic drift here once already (by another subscriber, not moderator). I just shrug it off.

I think ChapmanF was referring to aluminum wiring "to" the kitchen range, which is a big no-no. Your kitchen range itself should be UL listed, so the internal wiring should be OK. I don't know about the grease tho.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure (and Kris found the thread) the house was built with Al, which was a thing that happened in a particular era. Fine to connect the kitchen range to it, as long as the proper splicing materials and practices were used.

If we weren't all stuck at home we wouldn't be wringing this much analysis out of a joke.

 

Oh THAT explains it.

Actually, I started thinking the same thing about half-way through the thread. Going stir crazy and focusing on the frivolous.

 

I don't remember whether it had plexiglass, or if that was an option. I would guess that it was regular glass. In any case, I ended up trading that for a new Chevette after that, which was my second new car.

 

I once had the Chevette's twin brother, the Pontiac T1000. (not new, of course, but not very old) Wow. People think the Prius takes its time getting up to speed. But at least it had a locking glove box. I got rid of ours when the exhaust manifold broke and the bolts were so rusty that it just wasn't worth the effort to try to repair it. But the video at the end of this article makes it seem like a marvel of modern automotive technology.

 

My first new car was the Nissan Pathfinder (1st Generation WD21 series). It was my third car. 30 some years later, we bought the 4th Generation R52 series Pathfinder Hybrid used. Same name, but totally different cars.

 

06 Kia Amanti. I was going to get a Mercedes E320 diesel. Mercedes wanted $52,000 and this car is actually nicer for $32,000. I got it as the demo car with 5,000 mi for $22,000. I can't stop thinking about how the Mercedes dealer told me most people lease Mercedes. Makes me think they can't afford it. when I was at the Mercedes dealer I showed him my checking account statement. I can afford the car. I just choose not to buy the car. Later that same year I learned how unreliable and Mercedes is. I am so grateful for the choices I made

 

We had a manual transmission, Chevette:

• Three clutch changes in 100,000 miles and it was starting to slip again.
• When lead-footed wife drove, the noise above 65 mph would wake me up to tell her to "slow down."
• She lugged the engine so I told her to only shift when when the speedometer reached the different, red lines. She was ticketed for speeding and in the court: Judge "Well Ms. Wilson, would explain why you were speeding?" Wife "My husband said I could only shift when the speedometer hit the lines for the next gear." Cop "Yes Your Honor, that is what she told us." Court room burst out laughing. Judge bangs gavel "Well Ms. Wilson I wish your husband was here. Case dismissed."
• Following a pickup with a steel beam rear bumper, the pickup driver spied a cop and braked hard which tilted the nose down and raised the rear. She did not stop in time so the bumper decapitated the radiator and hood. She got out and started dancing "Yea, the car is dead." When I arrived, I walked around and said "I don't know. It looks like $50 in parts would fix it right up." I barely avoided becoming being killed by the wife.

Bob Wilson

 

Bonded COPPER clad AL wiring is making a return in many settings, we will see how that turns out

 

My first NEW car? 1984 Honda CRX Auto @ 52 mpg...real.

 

Hi Jimbo! I always wanted to get my hands on a 1974 Yamaha 400 back in the day! Now, you can't find them and if you do, better off getting a Harley!

 

Never owned a new car, but the cars I buy keep getting more expensive
After free cars handed down from relatives, the first car I spent real money on was $1500, a Buick Regal that I had for 6 years. The next was $7600, and my first Toyota. It got wrecked after an incident involving black ice, a downhill slope, and another vehicle. And the most recent was the Prius at $8250, which I’ve had for about 3 and 1/2 years and 40,000 miles thus far and it continues to treat me well.

 

Drove used until '85 then paid something like $6,000 for a brand-spanking new 86 Checv Spectrum hatch.... base 5-speed.


40 MPG....(when driven by an adult) 0-60 1.2 seconds slower than a Prius.
Top speed with 1 pax, no cargo, down-hill AND down-wind about 104 mph.

FOOLISHLY traded after 150,000 zero trouble miles.