Upside down & Moronic purchases thread

[Fobroader]

Oh, its easy, you tick every option box, even the $4k for black rims because they are "sexy. I couldn't believe that they spent more money on that thing than what the GX cost us.

These are the same idiots who will cry that they can't afford to buy a house and it's soooooo unfair!

Thats the funny part, they are having a $50-60K wedding this month and are in fact whining about how expensive the housing market in Regina is   

[RRocket]

Oh, its easy, you tick every option box, even the $4k for black rims because they are "sexy. I couldn't believe that they spent more money on that thing than what the GX cost us.

These are the same idiots who will cry that they can't afford to buy a house and it's soooooo unfair!

Thats the funny part, they are having a $50-60K wedding this month and are in fact whining about how expensive the housing market in Regina is   

Please, just call me The Oracle.

[Firm]

LOL, those black rims cost them more than my DD for the last 10 years   

[Fobroader]

LOL, those black rims cost them more than my DD for the last 10 years   

Yeah, no shit. I paid a fraction of that for the first 4-5 cars I owned. Hell, I bought black TRD rims and KO2s for the Tundra for $1500 less. These must be very spectacular....

[Johnnymac]

Just for clarity, they bought a Blazer or a Trailblazer?  Quite a big difference between the two.  One I can understand how you get to $65k but the other doesn't make sense as you could buy two Trailblazers for that price.  Reason I ask is the comment from their folks about how cute it was, and makes me think it's the smaller trailblazer.

[Fobroader]

No, its definitely the Blazer. They wanted a "bigger vehicle" in case they get a dog   

[Fobroader]

Also, it does not make sense that a rental fleet, 4 banger, domestic cuv is $65k. That should be real car money.

[dkazzed]

So it wasn't a Blazer EV at least?    Imagine paying $1,000+ a month and having to buy gas on top of that.

Also reading back on Revelation's posts, I had no idea they stuck a 3 banger into the Rogue. Yeesh.

[GreatBigAbyss]

So it wasn't a Blazer EV at least?    Imagine paying $1,000+ a month and having to buy gas on top of that.

Also reading back on Revelation's posts, I had no idea they stuck a 3 banger into the Rogue. Yeesh.

It's so much worse than that.  It's a turbo 3-cylinder with variable compression.  Yikes!

[Blueprint]

So it wasn't a Blazer EV at least?    Imagine paying $1,000+ a month and having to buy gas on top of that.

Also reading back on Revelation's posts, I had no idea they stuck a 3 banger into the Rogue. Yeesh.

It's so much worse than that.  It's a turbo 3-cylinder with variable compression.  Yikes!

It looks like this:

[Blueprint]

[GreatBigAbyss]

If I'm counting right, you go from having two bearing surfaces in the conventional engine (wrist pin, and crankshaft), to now having 6 or 7 bearings, if you count the actuator motor as a bearing surface, or not. 

Oil pump must be working triple duty!

Oh, and the most common cause of failure in these motors, as evidenced by recalls? Bearing failures. 

[RRocket]

If I'm counting right, you go from having two bearing surfaces in the conventional engine (wrist pin, and crankshaft), to now having 6 or 7 bearings, if you count the actuator motor as a bearing surface, or not. 

Oil pump must be working triple duty!

Oh, and the most common cause of failure in these motors, as evidenced by recalls? Bearing failures. 

What could possibly go wrong, right? How about the extra failure modes you've just added! LOL 😆

[dkazzed]

They didn't seem to learn with the Sentra. Mind you, the CVT fiasco is almost 20 years old.

[Fobroader]

My 05 Altima was a 5spd manual with the VQ 3.5 V6, that was a fun car, had decent power for a crappy sedan run around and it sounded pretty good with the stillen mufflers I had on it. The build quality when it was 6 years old at 100k kms though, wow, it felt like it had 400k kms and was driven on rural Afghanistan roads. I haven't trusted Nissan for awhile, I don't know whey they would have thought that adding more complexity to the powertrain, which is not their strong suit, would be a good idea. That sounds like something that Porsche would have on one of their race cars, not some sad sack CUV.