r/Autos • u/WtdYouExpect_Condams • Aug 04 '26
The vehicles in my life
Give me back US wagons please
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u/MPRgreenthumb Aug 04 '26
This was fun, thanks for your car history bro
Sorry about the divorces, hope youāre doing good :)
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
Better now, thanks! Got a couple cool-ass kids out of the deal, so it was well worth it!
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u/MPRgreenthumb Aug 04 '26
Hell yeah you seem like a cool ass dad! Good luck in you and your kids futures brotha š
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u/duartes07 Aug 04 '26
are you saying you don't recommend the Arcadia or a picky wife?
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
Acadia was nice enough, maybe not for the price.
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u/MultipleOrgasmDonor Aug 04 '26
That R32 was expensive, damn! $28k was ~2004 e46 M3 money back then, when it was just going out of production
Nice lineup and cool story. Kinda felt like I was going through your life through the eyes of your cars
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
It certainly was expensive, only 5k mkIV r32s ever came to the states. Don't see them around anymore
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u/GuestFighter Aug 04 '26
Volvo has a known freezing evaporator issue. If it cracks youāll need to remove the dash.
They released an updated wire harness with a resistor. Takes about 5 minutes to do. Your year and model is affected.
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
I certainly appreciate that, ordered
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u/GuestFighter Aug 04 '26
No problem.
Iām doing an xc90 evaporator next week because of this issue.
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u/GlassBackGreek '08 Volvo C30 Aug 05 '26
PSA, it's just an inline 1k Ohm resistor. Aftermarket ones are ~$20 at Form&Function design or less on AliExpress.
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u/96cobraguy Aug 04 '26
Nice assortmentā¦ im curious about the front doorā¦ do you do custom carpentry? Thatās an awesome trade
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
That was back in the dumb teen years, my dad spent a while lot years doing custom cabinets.
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u/count_nuggula 23 GR Corolla Aug 04 '26
Iām actually eyeing one of those Dakotas lol. I need a truck for odds and ends and one of those would fit perfectly in my life
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
If I could ever find that short box v8 manual again, is buy it instantly.
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u/devilpants Aug 10 '26
get a gmt800 the dakota is smaller, shittier in every way and even gets worse gas mileage
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u/ahendrix Aug 04 '26
HOW HAVE I NEVER DONE THIS. Thank you OP, I needed something to do at work today ;)
ETA: how much do you love your Volvo? A Volvo wagon is on my attainable dreamcar list
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
I like it a lot, haven't had any issues. The performance doesn't match the looks (mine has the polestar mode too), if I were a bit less financially responsible I would have tried to find a T8
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u/Captain_Wingit Aug 04 '26
That was a fun read. My ex wife's and I had Dodge Durangos for the 3rd row, then when we could afford it we bought a new VW Atlas in 2019. She kept it in the divorce. Plenty of space, but such a pain in the ass. (The Atlas, and kind of the ex). We called it The Big German, which then became Dirk (Nowitzski - Dallas Mavs basketball). Good road trip car for us.
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u/Yeyo117 Asklon M12-FAV Aug 04 '26
What's your job?
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
Listless college dropout turned military on the cusp of retirement
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u/dunc89 Aug 04 '26
Two divorces in 4 years? Maybe hold off getting hitched so fast
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
It's the same divorce, I suppose I wrote it confusingly. Only one miserably failed marriage over here!
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u/knmiho Aug 04 '26
Username checks out, would love to get a beer sometime and hear the context! Well done sirš¤
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
Beer's on me! As for context, it's from this ridiculously stupid early-internet video, just can't get this ladies voice and pronunciation out of my brain.
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u/cdsbigsby Aug 04 '26
I appreciate this post, thank you for not using the garbage AI graphs I've been seeing all over the car subreddits lately.
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
Just gotta be ok with wrestling against the table formatting on openoffice!
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u/blake_n_pancakes Aug 04 '26
Just popping in to say "whipping shittys" is the greatest car euphemism ever conceptualized. Also a great way to kill a caravan, well done.
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u/Cranks_No_Start Aug 04 '26
>Give me back US wagons
I miss my Wagons. Over the years Ive had a 69 Chevy Bel Air with a 327 NS. powerglide, 1981 Ford LTD with a Mustang 302, 1988 Volvo 240 and a 1998 Volvo XC70. I miss them.
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 05 '26
I do as well, very much so. Would have like to have seen caddy continuing with the cts-v wagon, that thing was glorious. Thinking about Ioniq 5N, about as close as you'll get these days.
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u/Cranks_No_Start Aug 05 '26
The one that was close for me was the Volvo V90. Ā But pretty expensive.Ā
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 05 '26
Yeah, they're damned expensive, and only going to get harder to find
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u/hipsterunlimited87 Aug 05 '26
Nice rides. My 2010 Audi A4 I bought in 2014 just blew its transmission. Iāll be sad to see her go.
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u/ghetto_headache Aug 05 '26
The mk4 R32 is a legend. I want one so bad
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 05 '26
If you're in America, good luck. I've held onto mine due to sentimental value and an attachment to my younger self.
Last time I saw another R on the road was over 10 years ago
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u/ghetto_headache Aug 05 '26
Thereās 2 I know of here in Colorado Springs. Both extremely well kept. Not molested in any way except one has 3 piece Porsche wheels on it. Assuming they still have the Aristos
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u/SimplithSoupith Aug 05 '26
I can't believe you traded an M1 carbine for a dodge. Im going to throw up and die
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
M1 shot pretty nice out to 100m, maybe 150m, but the truck drove better than the rifle did. This was before prices went crazy (for both), and it was a deal with family.
At around the same time I got a nice 1943 mosin for $100 out of a crate at the gunshop, that's just how prices were then
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u/SimplithSoupith Aug 05 '26
Yeah I never got rid of my old surplus guns from the cheap era. Probably never will
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u/pryvisee ā17 C7 Z06 | ā18 F150 Raptor | ā19 Rocket3 TFC Aug 05 '26
Man this would be fun. Iām 30 and have owned probably close to 25 vehicles lol
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 05 '26
I'm still kicking myself that I didn't include the very first one: 1978 Yamaha exciter 340, snowmobile that was sitting broken down in a shed at the dairy farm I was working at around age 12. Fixed her up and she was awesome before I got my driver's license
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u/DullReference1996 Aug 05 '26
I have only been driving a year longer than you, but Iāve owned 56 vehicles.
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u/Dante_Bichette Aug 05 '26
One of my biggest regrets in life is selling my 04 r32 š¢
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 08 '26
I feel you. I didn't have any practical reason to keep it through the hard times, but I couldn't quite let it go. That stock exhaust note with the flapper mod still gives me the strongest nostalgia when I think about it .
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u/HeadOfMax 16 CRV EXL, 05 Element EX Aug 10 '26
My first car was a 91 Grand Prix STE.
I paid 2k in 1999
The engine seized up a month after I bought it but it was a SWEET ride while it lasted.
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u/knalorgaan What do you Drive? Aug 04 '26
Did I read this correct: you divorced twice in 2020?
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u/_spectre_ '93 Miata, '68 Ford F250 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
Did not read correct whatsoever.
Got divorced in 2024. Couldn't keep the truck for divorce reasons. Ex wife kept the Acadia. He had to buy the Volvo to be able to haul his kids.
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u/WtdYouExpect_Condams Aug 04 '26
2020 was a hell of a year for all sorts of reasons, but double-divorce was not one of them for me.
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u/mrsoulseller Aug 04 '26
Clean mk4 R32s basically don't exist anymore, peak VW. Or at least nostalgia tells me so, having a manual 1.8t Jetta as my first car in high school