Printable View
Pickup drifting fail.
<video controls autoplay loop> <source src="https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net/blue_pickup_drift_fail.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser does not support the video tag. </video>
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...375#post196554
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...901#post140543
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...530#post128061
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...676#post155751
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...707#post136741
Play stupid games...
Sorry but this is not covered under warranty !!!!
I think he just lost his Allstate safe driving points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tldGgGFe194
In addition, the maneuver was not even close to being a good drift. No real smoke to speak of, no nice black makes on the pavement to say, " I was here". Truck does not even have positraction, you can see what remains of the axle spinning as it sits there.
...or your insurance either.Quote:
Originally Posted by mdhatter3
re insurance;
The girls truck [5.7 Hemi Ram, autotrans, 4wd] voluntarily had a company issued monitor that records (and transmits?) 'acceleration events' and other out of bounds vehicle use. Their pitch is good driver rate reduction.....
I drove it overnight to Illinois and back with a sheet metal shear during inclement weather, and no issues.
Returning too late for unload and still snowing, entered alley to driveway, and backed trailer in for the morning. Other cars going through alley packed snow into ice.
Next morning, there was minor wheel spinning as I maneuvered out.
Time for next quote comes around. The company penalized with a rate hike, based not only on those 'accelerations', but driving the hours between 1am and 4am.
A little phone battle ensued, they were adamant. But they lost a no claims and fairly long term customer.
This sprouted a wild hair for me. Shopped around, easily finding better rates. Called and cancelled policy on my vehicles, through another company. "But why?" they asked, "you have been with us 12 years!".
Yes, that's correct, I have. What incentive has that provided me to continue, without tickets or claims, other than what amounts to money wasted in premiums?
The reply did not rescue situation. "Oh well then, let's see what we can do about re-evaluating your policies!"
NO. You already had 11 years to do that.
I have minimal loyalty when it comes to business.
I'm confused, money wasted? Are you saying because you didn't have a claim the insurance should have been free?Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
My insurance company elected upon themselves to tack an extra $200.00 on my homeowner's policy for, get this, possible future hurricane damage in MY AREA, yeah right! I live 400 miles from the coast in the opposite direction any hurricane in history has ever traveled once it made landfall. Even if there ever happened to be a hurricane more than likely it would be a tornado instead though and it ripped the entire roof off of my house there probably wouldn't be a claim since I have a 10K deductible and can replace the entire roof rafters and decking for about what the deductible would beQuote:
Originally Posted by bob_3000
My area has suffered two tornados and a derecho in the past three months, two last summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
The previous last tornado was in 1986...times have changed my friend.
We've had some Straightline winds in the 90MPH range several times and a tornado went through here in 1903 that took out the entire town that used to be about half a mile from me.Quote:
Originally Posted by bob_3000
As far as times changing I disagree weather patterns happen in rotating cycles what disrupts those cycles is cutting the tops off of mountains clear cutting forests and cities, The larger and higher cities grow the more they resemble a mountain to the global weather causing shifts in atmospheric circulation. The best thing that could ever happen to this planet would be for something to trigger another mini-ice age
How many pages comprise a rental agreement; at least there is a degree of certainty a roof is included. Insurance? Greatly multiplied, mainly to submerge all the "but if's".Quote:
Originally Posted by bob_3000
Like Frank and hurricanes, my former SoCal residency and earthquake schemes, or failure here (Midwest) on a full homeowner package against high force winds, I guarantee insurance companies have less satisfied customers than pleased.
Remember Yellow Pages? How many agents filled those and continue to do so; just outside pyramid scams.
Ever look into what kind of social acts they invest in?
Expenditures on my part without ANY form of compensation irritates an aware consumer. Typical advertisements laud rate reductions as a lure, do they not? Is not the same scheme made part of a yearly good driver percentage?
If I work for the funds to secure a service (differentiating from products), then so must they to retain me.
I'm betting we have entirely opposite interactions and reactions with providers, offering 'protection'.
A well known organization used precisely this pitch. But extortion doesn't operate with an umbrella of lobbyist initiated regulations.
They need the money to cover the luxury beach houses that keep getting. Be proud! You're helping the rich live a good life.