Category: Cars
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The First Day
With the work-week behind me, today I got to take the new Model 3 on a small road trip to really see what this is all about. My roommate and…
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The deed is done
I don’t normally get very sentimental about a car – but walking away from the Hellcat for the last time today hit me pretty hard… A bit like trading in…
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The last day
Today the electrician installed the 240V 50A charger in the garage, and this evening I wired Tesla the $6600 down payment so that I can drive over and pick up…
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Last Gas(p)
I may have purchased my last tank of gas last evening… I go through a bit over a half a tank every two weeks, and I’m less than two weeks…
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Tesla Update
For a few days now the “Tesla App” has been telling me my delivery window was the 15th to the 30th of September, but I still didn’t have a VIN…
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The ongoing Tesla saga
Saturday morning I resubmitted all of the info on the Hellcat for trade-in, and earlier this evening I heard back… The first offer was $40,500, tonights offer is $39,300 –…
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34,000 miles
Another thousand miles added to the car since June 2nd, so 87 days. I bought the car with 24,800 miles on 31 MAY 2024 – 819 days ago – and…
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Coal Powered Car
For a while now I’ve been pondering what to do with the Hellcat… See, it’s not exactly ‘practical’ – it’s exceptionally weather-adverse and that means for a decent portion of…
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Reality check
On the way in today I was leisurely motoring down west-bound Iliff between Chambers and Blackhawk, enjoying the lack of traffic and some cool morning air with the windows down…
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Gas Discount Mini-Game
Driving a full-size supercharged American race car, you develop new hobbies… One of mine is the gas discount mini-game, where I see just how much I can get off of…
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Transmission issue part 2
Got the car back from the dealership this afternoon – turns out the issue was either a loose ‘star connector’ (CAN bus interface block) or the OBD dongle for the…
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Transmission issue
This morning on the way to work the hellcat flashed a warning message on the dash; “Service Shifter”, and then immediately went into limp mode. I was able to get…
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Waylens part 2
The second new Waylens Horizon arrived this afternoon… And after some firmware updating and physical installing, I took it out for a test drive: Much better. The only real issue…
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Friday Night Car Shenanigans
Took my roomie down to the Gunther Toody’s in Parker for dinner to get him out of the house for a while, and to get my Friday Night cruise out…
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And done – for now…
The new carbon fiber intake tube / filter arrived today and was promptly installed. And with that I think I’m done for a little while. In the last 30 days…
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Fuel Injection
Memorial Day weekend over – back to the office, though I had to take an Uber to get there and back. After telling my roommate for the last four days…
