Is it true that brass tire valves last the life of the vehicle?

They were Ok when they worked. I filled the tires to 35 lbs and I got a warning when one of them went down to 24 (later on 28, but not for long). Good enough.

AutoZone prices vary between $6 and $1400 -- roughly. More reading is necessary, but I doubt it's worth it. I have a cute little electronic gauge which also talks and the $35 Harbor Freight pump. Reasonably convenient, although the rechargeable ones seem pretty slick. Nice to not have to keep unscrewing the hose because the gauge on the pump is flakey. Why don't they have quick-release connectors like bicycle hand-pumps?

I used to think that, but I got hooked on AC and electric windows. And then I decided I liked the push-button on the key to unlock the doors. The electric thing to adjust the side mirrors is pretty neat too. F*ck, I've gone over to the dark side.

Don't forget remote start when the temperature is very high or low.

I don't keep a car past the warranty period. I did have a bit of panic today. suddenly the SiriusXM radio cut out. Came back after 10 minutes so I survived the ride home. It was their glitch. .

This is the type of person that caused auto owner manuals to caution about drinking the battery fluid .

Our 27 year old 4Runner has all that (fob for remote locks , I don't use it) . What it doesn't have is internet connectivity and GPS spying . And I can work on it without permission from the dealer .

Sorry, that seems stupid. SoCal is never that cold and the car takes maybe 5 minutes for the AC to be fully cold, and I'm not willing to just let it sit idling for that long. I'm tough. I can deal with s*it.

Wow. I don't get rid of a car until it won't work any more or won't pass the smog test. I've always been really good at picking used cars, but now I'm not so sure -- but I couldn't see a reason to NOT buy the

when I'm using it, but not enough to spend $250 or so.

Fixed. Sorry, it's compulsive. Carry on.

I had a hubcap wander around the rim and break off the valve stem

In sunny Florida, a car sitting in the sun can be 140 inside in a short time. In CT it was below zero some days. Not so stupid in the extremes.

I've had plenty of used cars, I've done plenty of work on them too. They are more complex and expensive to fix so I prefer to trade in by end of warranty. Too many fixes that can be very expensive and I like a nice car.

Clearly not, or they wouldn't sell so many of them. I remember reading about a drive-up teller window in Texas that had a hose to blow cold air into the customer's car while he was making a transaction.

My mom's Caddy was the first "nice" car I ever had. POS. I spent way too much trying to solve the throttle problem (I have witnesses to show that my foot was NOT on the gas pedal when it suddenly maximized acceleration all by itself) and sent it to the knackers with a brand-new brake system. This was a car with under 90K miles. I'll trade "nice" for "reliable" and "trouble-free" any day of the week.I/we always fixed our cars and motorcycles ourselves except for things that actually required a hoist. BUT I've done that long enough and don't want to do it any more, which is why I bought the Corolla to replace my mom's murderous Caddy.

We had a rental car that beeped when we got too close to the line. Fortunately there was an owner's manual included. What kind of idiot would tolerate that? A friend loves his backup camera, and I can see how that would be nice; it's harder and harder to see out of the car windows (styling choice by ALL the designers), especially for short people, and our necks NEVER want to do more twisting than they have to.

I don't think I'll live long enough to trust auto-drive.

My last GM car was a 2001 Buick. Seems they were on a downward trend and I'd not touch another one. I gave that one away after 6 years, would have been criminal to take money for it.

My last two cars have Highway Drive Assist. No beeps. It will keep you centered and will follow the curves, but you have to keep your hand on the wheel.

A couple of times a year I take a fairly long trip. Using the adaptive cruise control and HDA I'm comfortable driving many more miles. I've done over 900 miles in a day on the first day, 400 to destination the next. Much is I-95

Agree on the auto-drive. Oh, I also stop and rest stops and recline the seat, put my head down for a few minutes. Makes a big difference.

I'm lucky. When I took my car in for a recall in 2020 I saw a leftover

Anyway most of the gimmicky stuff is partially implemented and probably was available on a higher trim level. It does have electronic door locks, which I like, but not remote entry. Lane control, if turned on, shows an icon with the position but doesn't try to correct. Collision avoidance beeps but doesn't apply the brakes.

My 'hubcaps', what is left of them, are stacked behind the shed. If you notice most police vehicles don't have wheel covers for that reason. I do wish they made baby moons for my wheels but there aren't any nubs on the inside flange..

Long ago Hubby's friend worked at the GM plant summers. He said the union assemblers were real bastards; one liked to drop transmissions on the concrete floor before installing them just for the hell of it. My mom bought a brand new Caddy with a cracked transmission; fortunately they gave her full credit on a different Caddy, maybe the one that tried to kill me.

Mom bought new cars (Fords and Caddies) several times from the same dealers. They gave her so little as a trade-in that I KNOW they were well aware of the s***ty service that they gave her every 3 months or so. She gave them to me instead and I always found something truly shoddy/criminal in their maintenance. State of Kalifornia paid me $1K several times to crush them, significantly more than I could have got from the wreckers. I'd rather they'd gone on to keep their brethren and sestren going, but money talks.

I don't understand why anybody would want that. I LIKE driving.

We had 4 days to get to DC so we swapped driving until Roanoke VA when neither of us was awake enough to drive. 68 Dodge van, which we still have. Never figured out how much each of us drove at one time. We did a 500-mile day on motorcycles, and that was painful.

Actually most of the scenery in Texas is in West Texas snuggled up to New Mexico.

And New Mexico and Arizona are almost Utah :-)

Getting from Utah to Arizona can be interesting. Then there is the chunk of Arizona that you can't get to from Arizona.