Its A Rivian!!!

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2 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

i just change the oil on both of my toyota Tacomas

I was going to ask you this in another thread but why do you have two Tacomas?

[Darth-Baiter]

17 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I was going to ask you this in another thread but why do you have two Tacomas?

one got gently rearended by a drunk.  uninsured.  so i bought a new one.  only to find a body shop willing to get creative enough to fix my old truck within the $3500 uninsured coverage we are allowed here in CA.  (Stupid, dont get me started).

 

they reused some emblems, found a perfect tailgate on a front end crashed tacoma, same color...etc.  

 

i thought it was totaled.  i'll sell it.  but i think it runs smoother than the new one.   they fixed it beautifully!! 

 

i should sell it.  gah..i love that truck.  

[slonezp]

6 hours ago, J._Bricker said:

In response to @slonezp and @Choporoz California is proposing to end our “Freeway” system and look into charging by the mile in 2035, which will coincide with the State ending the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles.

*without getting too in-depth our high occupancy lanes (car pool) have evolved into EV and now toll lanes with a “Fast Trak” electronic pass. The “Fast Trak” pass also is how bridge tolls are collected in the northern part of the state.

 

 

The Chicago metro area is littered with tollways. The per mile tax has been proposed here as well. Theoretically, an EV road tax should be twice that of an average gasoline/diesel powered car as they weigh about double. Heavier vehicles cause more wear and tear on the road. The current gas tax is .45 per gallon with 1% going to the road fund. The take on the Chicago area tolls is $1.3B annually versus about $750M that the bay area in CA currently takes in. All I know is the tollways in IL have been under construction for the 1/2 century I've been alive and traffic still sucks

[throttleplate]

1 hour ago, slonezp said:

The Chicago metro area is littered with tollways.

 

A year ago when wife and i went to Chicago i was seeing all the signs for toll roads as i was cruising 65mph into chicago and wondered where do i pay or is this free? I seen old toll booth pullovers but they were closed.

Well i didnt worry about it untill i was in greenbay wisc a day later and asked a couple exiting their car with illinois plates whats with the tolls and they told me its my responsabilty to go online and register and open an account with chicago tolls or whatever it was and enter my license plate and approximate dates i traveled through. It popped up and i owed them like $8.00 from wisc border to chicago and back. If i wouldnt have paid i would have gtten a bil in the mail with a possible late fee.

 

[slonezp]

3 minutes ago, throttleplate said:

 

A year ago when wife and i went to Chicago i was seeing all the signs for toll roads as i was cruising 65mph into chicago and wondered where do i pay or is this free? I seen old toll booth pullovers but they were closed.

Well i didnt worry about it untill i was in greenbay wisc a day later and asked a couple exiting their car with illinois plates whats with the tolls and they told me its my responsabilty to go online and register and open an account with chicago tolls or whatever it was and enter my license plate and approximate dates i traveled through. It popped up and i owed them like $8.00 from wisc border to chicago and back. If i wouldnt have paid i would have gtten a bil in the mail with a possible late fee.

 

They can't touch you being out of state. My license can be suspended for unpaid tolls.

I have a credit card tied to my Ipass that automatically renews when it gets below $10. CC expired and I had to update the info. Easy enough. When I updated the info, I failed to check the automatic renewal box. I get a bill in the mail for $60 in unpaid tolls with fees added. I'm currently contesting the fees. What a PITA dealing with them.  

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2 hours ago, slonezp said:

All I know is the tollways in IL have been under construction for the 1/2 century I've been alive and traffic still sucks

Lol that’s what my brother says all the time too. The road construction is never done and the traffic never ends.

[J._Bricker]

5 hours ago, slonezp said:

The Chicago metro area is littered with tollways. The per mile tax has been proposed here as well. Theoretically, an EV road tax should be twice that of an average gasoline/diesel powered car as they weigh about double. Heavier vehicles cause more wear and tear on the road. The current gas tax is .45 per gallon with 1% going to the road fund. The take on the Chicago area tolls is $1.3B annually versus about $750M that the bay area in CA currently takes in. All I know is the tollways in IL have been under construction for the 1/2 century I've been alive and traffic still sucks

 I’m with you Paul, doesn’t matter if they’re called turnpikes or toll roads big money is collected Hence the term “freeway” here in California, but that’s also subject to change. Californians are charged around $1.18 a gallon in taxes and fees with the majority of the money going to road maintenance. 
 Traffic is traffic no matter where you are, the more lanes that are added the more cars that fill em.

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On 11/14/2023 at 5:06 AM, Chowderhead said:

@gimruis That is great - looks awesome! We’re still loving our Venza and now up to 43.5 MPG after 9,000+miles. 

 

The mileage on the RAV4 Hybrid acquired in November has dropped by about 20% because of the very cold winter temps the past couple weeks here.  I was getting about 600 miles per tank, and now it's down to just under 500.  I've watched it go down each time I've filled up the past couple months.  The salesman said this would happen though, so it's not unexpected.  MPG has gone from 40 to 36.

[throttleplate]

this winter i have not used my car much, maybe 1 time per week to shop for food, so i topped off the tank last week with non alchohol 92 octane and mixed in Stabil fuel stabilizer. Now that gas prices for 87 octane are at 2.69 a gallon i stopped driving.

[TnRiver46]

Make sure the mice don’t get in there, even driving it around in a circle everyday helps. We have tons of customers that want me to trap car rodents and my mechanic buddy fixes tons of cars that they’ve chewed the wiring. Granted I think it’s with newer vehicles with soy based insulation on the wires and I think you’ve got a 90s civic 

[throttleplate]

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Make sure the mice don’t get in there, even driving it around in a circle everyday helps. We have tons of customers that want me to trap car rodents and my mechanic buddy fixes tons of cars that they’ve chewed the wiring. Granted I think it’s with newer vehicles with soy based insulation on the wires and I think you’ve got a 90s civic 

 

2004 but i understand the mice thing, tell me if i am correct to not ever put mice poison inside your car because its supposed to attract them to eat it? and surely dont want to attract them inside the car.

[TnRiver46]

@throttleplate, I’d say it depends. I never really use poison but it does work, if the mice are already in the car I wouldn’t worry about drawing them in but it’s not the food they are normally after, they just want something to get into out of the weather. What I would worry with poison is where will the thing croak and can I get to it instead of driving smelly car. Thats why I use snap traps, you always know where to find the carcass. I  feel like driving the car everyday is the best solution but sometimes not practical, my personal truck sometimes sits for a few days outside without moving 

[throttleplate]

10 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

What I would worry with poison is where will the thing croak and can I get to it instead of driving smelly car

 

Back in the day when i lived in a house in north las vegas my bedroom started to smell, weeks went by and i couldnt figure it out untill i moved the big long heavy dresser and found a dead field mouse.

Another time while living in detroit lakes minn renting an old trailer home we had 2 cats and as i was laying on the couch i watched the 2 cats playing with 2 field mice, pawing them and watching them run off only to catch them and paw play them, untill they got away.

[TnRiver46]

I have to sniff out dead animals in crawl spaces, walls, and attics at work. Gets pretty gross with possums and it’s usually possums 😂. 
 

not sure why cats play with their food, practicing how to kill the next one I guess. Or they just like to party 

[casts_by_fly]

My inlaws house (described in the 'its clear' thread above) is a small one with lots of exposed beams.  My FIL built it from an old hunting cabin with a bunch of his buddies back in 1981 or so.  Its inthe middle of the woods so he gets plenty of mice every year.  We were living abroad and would come home to stay with them over christmas and new years.  It seemed like every year we'd get home, go upstairs to my wife's old bedroom, and there would be a smell.  I know you know the one.  My FIL would set traps and forget that he had set them.  He didn't go upstairs much so he'd forget to check.  That bedroom had a little under the eaves type closet and there was always one, sometimes two, dessicated in a trap.  Never failed.  

[Susky River Rat]

@TnRiver46 my dog got a rabbit and played with it and pranced around like he was king of the world 

[T-Billy]

On 3/14/2023 at 1:31 PM, TnRiver46 said:

Another coal fired vehicle? Neat 

I'd call it a coal/diesel hybrid given the amount of diesel burned mining the lithium and shipping it to China, where it's processed at a coal powered plant. 

[Chowderhead]

On 1/21/2024 at 1:55 PM, gimruis said:

 

The mileage on the RAV4 Hybrid acquired in November has dropped by about 20% because of the very cold winter temps the past couple weeks here.  I was getting about 600 miles per tank, and now it's down to just under 500.  I've watched it go down each time I've filled up the past couple months.  The salesman said this would happen though, so it's not unexpected.  MPG has gone from 40 to 36.

Seeing MPG drop as well. I don’t track the efficiency for each trip, but the overall MPG since we picked it up has dropped from a high of 43.6 down to a current low of 41.9 MPG. Have crossed the 10,000 mile mark, and I’m sure MPG will continue to drop for another few months until we get to Spring. Still love the car and believe this was a good decision for our family needs.