Junk in cars drives me crazy. I remember being a slob as a late teen. Can’t do it now, I take everything out the same day.

 

Junk in cars drives me crazy. I remember being a slob as a late teen. Can’t do it now, I take everything out the same day.

I am pathological about having a clean car. Weather tech mats have made me lighten up on the sand and such on the floors, but every car has a chamois (along with the requisite air compressor, tire plug kit, jumper cables, spare belt, and toilet paper) and I like to give them a once over prior to a day of touristing.
That quirk meshed with my career (or caused by it) living by the mantra “you can’t fight fires, with dirty tires”.

the sad part is none of the local car washes get the car clean. They get them wet and remove bug, but that’s about it.

 

Sheesh. It’s a Jeep. Sheesh

 

Junk in cars drives me crazy. I remember being a slob as a late teen. Can’t do it now, I take everything out the same day.

Same. My wife has gotten better but still not nearly my level of vehicle cleanliness. I'm not crazy OCD about it either, but I don't want garbage in the car, a layer of dust and grime on the dash, dog hair on the seats, or bags of random crap piled in the back. My floor mats are dirty and I rarely have time to clean the outside as well as I'd like, but damnit the inside should be presentable.

Sheesh. It’s a Jeep. Sheesh

It's a Jeep that cost almost as much as an Escalade, the junk can go where it belongs.

 

That's kind of my thing, the place where you bought this crap, has a trash can. Next time you buy some crap, throw this crap away. FIFO.

Too much to ask apparently lol.

 

That's kind of my thing, the place where you bought this crap, has a trash can. Next time you buy some crap, throw this crap away. FIFO.

Too much to ask apparently lol.

Right. Gum wrappers and used napkins go in your pocket to take into the house when you get out of the car, not in the cupholder or door cubby

 

We wound up at like 45.6 out the door on our new 2023 Mojave, rides great down a trail. I'm not generally one to go 20-30 mph down two tracks, but it eats it right up.

Makes me nervous about the next few years of automotive though.

 

Just another garage payment this weekend.

RBB

 

Getting ready to go yoink this thing down some trails next weekend, probably do something in the Huron Ntl Forrest area.

 

I pee outside.

 

DTE Sucks. Power goes out at 4, I Usually wait an hour to hook up the generator. Estimate says 755pm restore time, check at 7 and no estimate avail. Now it just says Thursday. Guess I should have hooked it up right off the bat.

 

DTE Sucks. Power goes out at 4, I Usually wait an hour to hook up the generator. Estimate says 755pm restore time, check at 7 and no estimate avail. Now it just says Thursday. Guess I should have hooked it up right off the bat.

Couldn’t agree with you more. And it’s really not a reliable service in my area. Random outages monthly.

 

Couldn’t agree with you more. And it’s really not a reliable service in my area. Random outages monthly.

Which is why we installed a whole house genny years ago. One of my best investments ever.

 

We all say DTE, but a lot of these outages are the responsibility of ITC.

 

We all say DTE, but a lot of these outages are the responsibility of ITC.

ITC owns the lines, correct?

 

We all say DTE, but a lot of these outages are the responsibility of ITC.

99% of electrical outages are going to be your last mile provider (DTE, Consumers, LBW&L, Wolverine, MPPA, bleh bleh bleh).

ITC has a pretty sweet transmission system (they do no distribution) most of which nowadays even has N-2 redundancy. They do vegetation management correctly (they scorched earth their right of ways).

 

Which is why we installed a whole house genny years ago. One of my best investments ever.

I have been on the fence about this. Should not have to do this though. The place I live now has more outages than anywhere I have ever lived. I keep making complaints to MPSC.

 

Which is why we installed a whole house genny years ago. One of my best investments ever.

I have a whole house set up, but it's not automatic. Just cnat justify $10K+ at this point.

 

We have a Generac installed 75’ from the house.
We have the internet, cable box, TV and net radios on UPS surge protectors, so we never know when it kicks in.

 

I'm over this heat