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chhotiiThe plan (hah-hah) for the cars:
1) Get into Rich's car (the Scion xB) and get it ready to drive.
2) Drop off various clutter in my car (the VW TDI Golf).
3) Sell my car.
4) Deal with any clutter that's in Rich's car.
5) Drive Rich's car around enough that the internal computer can accumulate whatever data it needs to get the car inspected, and get it passed inspection.
6) Trade in Rich's car towards getting a new car.
So, I had started on step 1, as posted previously. I need to run the car periodically to keep the new battery charged, and I still need to take it to the inspection place for its "R" sticker. (Because the old battery died, the computer re-set, so whatever indicator light was on the dash was on is not light up, but I'm told they won't pass it right after the computer re-set for just that reason.)
However, big snag. In the form of several feet of snow. The Scion is in the garage at the house, at the end of a long driveway. I'm sure that Matt has done his best with clearing snow from the driveway, but at this point only enough to get his and Mary's cars out to get to work. I imagine that there is probably a wall of snow in front of the garage door. I need to get up there and see how bad it is. Hopefully I can get the Scion out of the garage before spring! Hopefully I can at least open the garage door so I can run the car without filling the garage with CO. I will be truly peeved if the new battery goes dead.
Selling my car looks like it will be frustrating or disappointing (or both). I had been looking at the Kelley Blue Book website, which puts the Golf's value at about $4,000. But edmunds.com puts it at only about $2,000! Of course, anyone interested in buying the car likes the Edmunds number a lot better... I suspect that the huge discrepancy is because one site's algorithm weighs the mileage, and the other the age of the car. I think the case of a 12 year old car with only 120,000 miles on it is rare, so there isn't a lot of data for them to go on to determine what that should be worth. (When I searched on craigslist for other Volkswagens, everything offered for sale either was less than 6 years old, or had more than 200,000 miles on it. So nothing seemed quite exactly comparable.) Grrr. I will see what the dealers want to offer me for it, as a reality-check/worst-case-scenario.
Meanwhile, while I'm driving around this car that I'm hoping to sell, yesterday the passenger-side mirror snagged on something and popped off. Just what I needed.
1) Get into Rich's car (the Scion xB) and get it ready to drive.
2) Drop off various clutter in my car (the VW TDI Golf).
3) Sell my car.
4) Deal with any clutter that's in Rich's car.
5) Drive Rich's car around enough that the internal computer can accumulate whatever data it needs to get the car inspected, and get it passed inspection.
6) Trade in Rich's car towards getting a new car.
So, I had started on step 1, as posted previously. I need to run the car periodically to keep the new battery charged, and I still need to take it to the inspection place for its "R" sticker. (Because the old battery died, the computer re-set, so whatever indicator light was on the dash was on is not light up, but I'm told they won't pass it right after the computer re-set for just that reason.)
However, big snag. In the form of several feet of snow. The Scion is in the garage at the house, at the end of a long driveway. I'm sure that Matt has done his best with clearing snow from the driveway, but at this point only enough to get his and Mary's cars out to get to work. I imagine that there is probably a wall of snow in front of the garage door. I need to get up there and see how bad it is. Hopefully I can get the Scion out of the garage before spring! Hopefully I can at least open the garage door so I can run the car without filling the garage with CO. I will be truly peeved if the new battery goes dead.
Selling my car looks like it will be frustrating or disappointing (or both). I had been looking at the Kelley Blue Book website, which puts the Golf's value at about $4,000. But edmunds.com puts it at only about $2,000! Of course, anyone interested in buying the car likes the Edmunds number a lot better... I suspect that the huge discrepancy is because one site's algorithm weighs the mileage, and the other the age of the car. I think the case of a 12 year old car with only 120,000 miles on it is rare, so there isn't a lot of data for them to go on to determine what that should be worth. (When I searched on craigslist for other Volkswagens, everything offered for sale either was less than 6 years old, or had more than 200,000 miles on it. So nothing seemed quite exactly comparable.) Grrr. I will see what the dealers want to offer me for it, as a reality-check/worst-case-scenario.
Meanwhile, while I'm driving around this car that I'm hoping to sell, yesterday the passenger-side mirror snagged on something and popped off. Just what I needed.
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Date: 2015-02-18 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-19 03:40 am (UTC)RE: Ignore if you don't want suggested solutions...
Date: 2015-02-19 05:16 am (UTC)I like their 800mA charger (http://www.batterytender.com/Chargers/BatteryTender-800-12V-800-mA-USA-Western-Hemisphere.html). It's small, waterproof, and will happily maintain a battery. It won't revive a dead battery, but if you give it enough time, it'll bring back a battery with a low charge.
This is the cheapest place I found ($35, free shipping)
http://www.jegs.com/i/Battery+Tender/304/0220150DLWH/10002/-1
I might have an unused BatteryTender in the barn. If you'd like to borrow it, I can see if I can find it.
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Date: 2015-02-19 07:47 am (UTC)