18 years old with a car with roughly 320 horsepower stock and 6 tickets and 2 wrecks, only 1 was my fault, though. It's only $180 under my parent's policy, but on my own it goes way up. Can't stay on their policy when I move, obviously.
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I pay $180 a month for my 2011 Wrangler 4 door.
Gotta love NY.
Gotta love NY.
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This thread is making me grateful for my $100/month 2013 Focus ST!
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Had a group of EMT students accidentally make me pass out in a scenario not in real life haha. Probably a good idea to check a patients blood pressure before you give them nitro. Ooh and I took Levitra 8 hours prior which for my area and the text book the students are using is a contraindication for nitro. Guess they should have paid attention a little more in class :glare:
And you work on an ambulance, please don't tell me you drive
Haha can't work on an ambo until you're 21 in AZ. I'm currently still a high school student, anyways. Graduate in 2 months and applying at ER's since I test for my phlebotomy certs within the next 3 weeks. The tickets were all speeding besides one failure to stop and something along the lines of "Non-DOT certified lighting," for my tail lights being blacked out.
Firefite: I vollied for a class this past Saturday that ends in 2 weeks. There was a mass casualty incident and my passenger was killed. They put me in a collar and WALKED me to the treatment area. Out of 5 living patients when they arrived, the evaluators deemed 4 improperly treated...
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Don't get a Dodge unless you're getting a truck. Even then it's iffy. I speak from experience.
You can get a nice third gen (96-2000) 4Runner for way under $10k. The things are bulletproof, parts are cheap and very easily obtainable, and they drive really well.
I got a 1994 V6 4x4 with 173K in great shape for $3200. I've put over 12000 miles on her in just a few months without a single problem.
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Sounds like the people treating you are medically ahead of those doing the evaluations...True MCI, and I'm all for having those who can walk walk away, even if they had a twinge of neck pain at some point in their lives.
Do you have an opinion on Land Cruisers?
I found a really well built one for off roading in Vegas, if I can get rid of the Trans soon (hopefully in the morning) I wanna take a trip up to look at it.
Rather high mileage, 182k, so that kinda scares me. It's under my budget, though, so that leaves me room for repairs...
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/cto/3666782977.html
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And we pay $95/month for 2 vehicles and a dirt bike.
We're both aware that in the case of the text book/ NREMT that that wouldn't be appropriate treatment, though. I agree, although I can only say from my limited experience in the field, but this was a prep for the NREMT psychomotor. It wouldn't have flown very well with them.
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x.x... 6 calls in 9 hours,4 patients over 350lb, 2 calls were for the same patient who needed us to take our Big boy stretcher, 2 other Big patients, and 2 were normal patients. Glad i ate my wheaties this morning, and that we were able to get another crew to assist with moving.
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Oooh pretty :wub:
2005 Kia Cerato, 70,000km and its only $9k
2005 Kia Cerato, 70,000km and its only $9k
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Oooh pretty :wub:
2005 Kia Cerato, 70,000km and its only $9k
Same color as my car o.o everything sounds great except for the Kia part >.>
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Oooh pretty :wub:
2005 Kia Cerato, 70,000km and its only $9k
Mine is a 2006 Kia Spectra. It had 31000 miles when I got it (about 50000 km), and I paid a little under $9k
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That's actually pretty low mileage for the year. Right around 6K a year. My dad used to be a mechanic back in the 90's, he always talks about routinely seeing Toyotas with over 300k on them.
Anywho, Land cruisers are awesome, definitely great for wheeling. Someone on here actually has a pretty sick looking one, I forget who, though I want to say SHFD. They're just kind of hard to find in my area, that's why I went for the Runner. That and I'd rather have the storage space than the third row seating.
That's a nice looking rig, too, the interior is in great shape, which is usually a good sign, people that take care of the inside tend to take care of the outside. With all those lights and that sound system I'd look into getting a dual battery set up down the road if you do get it, maybe mount an air compressor in the engine bay, too, if you're planning on hitting the sand.
My own rule of thumb is I plan on sinking about a third of the selling price into repairs and maintenance right after getting it. Usually there's stuff that pops up that needs to be done that the PO doesn't want to do if he's selling anyway.
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My ex has a pretty nice looking cruiser. Crate motor, custom aluminum radiator, switched from manual to auto, lifted, 4x4. It looks really good. Too bad her idea of off roading is street driving hahaha
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70,000km? What's that
I forgot you use miles, so its like 43,000 miles ... which for a 2005. for $9k is pretty awesome
Looks like the Spectra was the USA name for the Cerato and from the sounds of it you got a pretty good deal.
I agreed to work tonight to fill in for somebody who is out; I worked last night as well and it was actually not too busy; blue is on tonight so it will be a nice change I just hope its not busy because I didn't get a lot of sleep.
I am even leaving home early to go to the sushi place and pick up something healthy to eat because I have been eating absolute crap the last couple weeks because its either been really busy or I just haven't cared; I've already put on weight and its like ergh .... I am going to end up like one of the patients, with hypertension and diabetes if I don't watch out.
I've been searching all over CL and most of the other Land Cruisers are around 275k.
I actually like the 3rd row seat. When me and my buddies go wheeling it's normally 8 or 9 people in 2 trucks.
The clutch is the only thing holding me back. I can do it... But don't want to. Lol. OEM clutch is $200 or so, if he got 180k out of the first, might as well keep with it. Throw the AC system back in while I'm doing that. Figuring in my mind 2-3 weekends of time into it.
Tires are a little on the small side, but... Anyone with a rig always wants the next size bigger of tires :rofl:
His asking price is about right considering all that, maybe a little bit steep. He seems to need to sell it, though.
And sand is all we have in AZ
I dunno, but I'm hoping the buyer in the morning comes through. Spoke to him for roughly 30 minutes filling him in, he thinks my asking price for my car is fair at 12k, which is KBB, but I have tons of parts into it. I don't want to go under 10, which is what I have in it, so... I'll see how it goes. If that goes well, my girlfriend and I are heading up to Vegas, lol.
I'm just trying to figure out if it's worth driving up my step dad's 2500HD and a trailer and paying for the gas in that beast or if I should risk driving it down with the clutch going.
Firefite: She went manual to auto conversion? I'm sad now
Lol
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