Six for the price of two?

Our last car purchase - my wife's car - was a 2014 Kia Sorento to replace her 2002 or 2003 Taurus which she had driven for about 8 years. She wanted something "more up to date" - The "new" car has more miles on it than he one we got rid of - - - (we bought the "old" one

Salesman for one of my suppliers went on his own. Bought a new car because he did not thin it approrpriate for a business owner to have an old Toyota with 340,000 miles.

It's not easy but I'm working at getting better at it.

One thing I do is park facing up hill, so reclining is a lot more horizontal.

I used to stuff something in the space between the seat and the back, but it's turned out to be easier to learn to sleep on my back, instead of turning to my side, where the dip at my rump is a big problem.

I need to do this when I travel. Even if I have a room rented, I don't want to have to drive back to it 1, 2, even 3 hours at the end of every day, and where I've been going there are no cheap hotels like Motel 6, or even cheaper no-name hotels in the US. instead they are 100+ dollare a night, and even hostels charge $65 for a private room. $30 iirc for a dorm room.

So in my 3 trips, 2017 to 19, I've slept maybe 80 nights in the car. I can remember most places I've slept and how many times. I should add them up. It has the other advantage that I wake up at dawn and I have a long day for sightseeing.

I think Amazon has an option, for medicine and cleaning products, and they give you a discount when you sign up for periodic delivery of the same product. I have to check if that includes girlfriends.

My current ride is a top of the trim line model that came with taller rims than the lower models. This necessitated lower aspect ratio (45) tires to maintain steering geometry, suspension and fit in the wheel wells.

I like the car- but with less rubber and air between the rim and the pavement, it slams over manhole covers and even shallow pot holes.

The car is comfortable, powerful and loaded with all the electronic safety features- but is also a bit bigger than I like driving these days. I may just buy something smaller- though without oversized rims!

Just buy a set of the smallest rims that were available on the car (used from the wreckers they are pretty reeasonable - you might even come out ahead with the lower cost of the replacement tires) and keep enjoying what you have without the harshness on bumps. Every time youtrade cars it costs you money - and you KNOW what you have right now - any new used car purchase is a crap-shoot.

I understand that the low profile tires are more prone to go flat and a hard pothole bump can cause damage to rims which must be replaced.

That's a good idea; definitely worth looking into!

Rims can often be repaired. I had one fixed for $125. New would be about $600.

Much cheaper than that at a wreckers and easy to check that its fine.

On a 1 year old car with new style wheels you won't find them that easily. One a 10 year old Ford Fusion, sure.

Quite easy now that most ship countrywide and do ebay etc.

Like I said, GV80 22" wheels are about $600 on eBay. The only ones in a scrap yard will be from Tiger Wood's crash.

I hit something on the road last year and got a blowout and rim had a dent. Fortunately it was cosmetic but a new rim would have been $200.

Not used one from a wrecker on ebay.

More mindless bullshit.

A used one at a wrecker wouldn?t be.

Show me one. GV80 22"

This alloy wheel thing is just nuts. I was sitting first up at a real long light the other day just watching the cars go by and I saw exactly ONE with old school stamped steel wheels. They all had spoked alloy wheels and most were unique to that model and year car. What's the deal with that? I know I am not having a lot of luck finding a wheel for my Prelude without shipping it in and they usually want to sell me 4. I can find one that is close at a junk yard but not the same. I just wanted a full sized spare since the well will hold one and I have a donut in there now. The price for a used one that is even close to the same seems to be about $100. I don't want one that bad.

One problem is a real junk yard is hard to find. Zoning made them disappear in a lot of places. These days scrappers crush the cars and ship them out. The places that part cars out do it with their own people pulling, cleaning up and selling the parts. I assume lawyers have struck again. Sometimes those used parts places want almost as much as a new part.

They typically don't look like new when you get one from a junk yard. And if you care about what they look like, how many junk yard trips to find a nice one? Like Ed said, there are shops that repair and refinish rims and they come out looking like new. A junk yard one is fine for an old car, with other old crappy rims that you don't care about. But if you have a newer car and damage one on a curb, Ed's suggestion works.