If it were more of a pain in the ass in terms of weight or angle then I would have resorted to that, but it wasn't that bad, really. Lots of room to work under there and the hitch is 40 lbs or so and easy to position: vertical bolt holes on the frame, unobscured.
Ain't nothing but a G thang baby.
All things considering it looks like it fared pretty well. Sounds like someone had a very expensive day though.
Flipped after the Brabus driver ran a red and got T-boned... by a Prius. Very apropos for this thread.
Yeah, my 2" tube receiver was welded under the stock 1.25" receiver and frame, so it was pretty low and bottomed out when going down steep ramps. it held up though!So one of the draws of this Lexus was that Curt makes a 1.25" hitch for it. @narlus had reported that on his old Civic he'd had a local shop weld up a 2" receiver in place of the 1.25" receiver similarly available stock for his ride.
Well, I've struck out on that unless I pick up welding myself. None of the local shops will do this, even those that build custom hitches for RVs and the like. I think it's a liability issue.
I guess I'm stuck with an adapter then, like this:
Tongue weight limit on that rack and the adapter alike are 350 lbs so it still should work with the 4 bike attachment... right?I guess I'll find out. The good news is that going with a riser adapter will help departure angle--I think I mentioned this earlier when musing about the 1.25" hitch options for the Prius idea similarly neglected in the interim.
When someone trades in a car with a loan balance greater than its trade-in value they have negative equity. Their new loan is therefore that much larger to start: new car negotiated price + negative equity from old car on top of that.Uhhhh... what's "negative equity"?
Go with your strengths, I always say!I know what it is... I was playing the moron.
It's probably not securely established yet - wasn't it just put in a year or so ago?
Yeah, May 2016. I will recruit professional help next spring if it doesn't perk up. Aerating and reseeding?
Root-cause (you see what I did there?) is probably shitty prep prior to laying the sod.
This is true, but my neighbors by the same builder and same crews don't have dead patches as far as I can tell.
Have you been peeing on your grass?
You might want to think about keeping a bit more liquidity around... you know, for things like this.<snip>
Therefore my hand is forced and I have to withdraw a month's mortgage payment's worth of money from my taxable investment account now so that I definitely have enough money on hand.
Nonono. Cash drag is the devil. I keep $500.00 + monthly expenses in checking, and not a penny more than the interest-bearing amount ($500-750 generally) in various credit union savings accounts. Everything else comes from or goes to the taxable investment account.You might want to think about keeping a bit more liquidity around... you know, for things like this.
///stoney
Wha?Colorado has a stupid law that stipulates that monthly state employees (e.g. me) will be paid for the month of June on the first business day of July. Normally the pay date is the last business day of the actual month worked.
This was enacted years back so that the legislature could claim that they saved money in the first year--only 11 pay periods were paid that July-June year! Of course, 13 were paid in the next year and then 12 in subsequent years. Stupid, like I said.
The problem with this is that my mortgage is due on the first of the month. July 1 is a Saturday so it probably wouldn't be withdrawn until July 3... but I can't be sure of this. (My credit union also grants me access to direct deposit funds a day early, so probably June 30, but again this is not for certain given the weird month.)
Therefore my hand is forced and I have to withdraw a month's mortgage payment's worth of money from my taxable investment account now so that I definitely have enough money on hand.
Why?
BoA. Auto-withdrawal. Don't want to risk overdraft fees over something stupid.
Auto-withdrawl FTL. BoA also has a 2 week grace period.
Last job I quit, I made sure my last day was the 1st of Feb (insurance ran through the end of the month you quit) - job I was taking insurance started up the 1st day of the month *after* I started, so I made my start date Feb 28th.
Czech this one out ...
Almost the same thing happened to my former QA manager who got laid off without a warning - only she is Indian. She also needed the H1-B visa to stay (with husband, kids, etc.). She was lucky though and found a new job quickly enough but these stories just show how totally fucked the immigration processes are in this country.
