micky wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Ralph Mowery wrote
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What's he do next? He took it to Honda for an oil change
and they sold him a new FIT and gave him a whopping $1000
trade in for the CRV including the new battery that was a day
old. That car was probably worth 4 times that. He could
have paid $600 or so for a cat replacement at an non-dealer
repair shop and gotten another 100K miles out of it.

And the FIT is a small **** box compared to the CRV.

With 200,000 miles on a car maybe he just wanted a new one.
I doubt I would go with the FIT if I was doing long trips.

I have the Hyundai equivalent of the FIT, a Getz and its
fine for long trips with the only qualification that its not
big enough to be able to take a nap in lying down.

I cant sleep sitting down even with the seat reclined.

It's not easy but I'm working at getting better at it.

I am very unusual in that I never ever drop off when sitting,
even when watching TV in the evening or whatever.

Very handy when driving long distance.

One thing I do is park facing up hill,
so reclining is a lot more horizontal.

Its so flat here that its mostly not available.

I used to stuff something in the space between the seat and the back,
but it's turned out to be easier to learn to sleep on my back, instead
of turning to my side, where the dip at my rump is a big problem.

With the work cars I used to sleep on the back seat, across the car.

The previous car of mine was a VW Golf/Rabbit and before that
a VW Beetle. I carry a spring steel stretcher and sleep on that
outside the car. That works even when its raining with what
we call a swag.
https://www.bcf.com.au/dw/image/v2/B...00&sm=fit&q=90

I have even done it with the car right beside the
main highway with the cars zooming by on the
other side of my car. I can sleep thru anything.

I need to do this when I travel. Even if I have a room rented,
I don't want to have to drive back to it 1, 2, even 3 hours at the
end of every day, and where I've been going there are no cheap
hotels like Motel 6, or even cheaper no-name hotels in the US.
instead they are 100+ dollare a night, and even hostels charge
$65 for a private room. $30 iirc for a dorm room.

I normally use a pop up tent. Lay it out, pin the 4 corners down,
go inside with the pole and its ready to use. Or the swag.

So in my 3 trips, 2017 to 19, I've slept maybe 80 nights in the
car. I can remember most places I've slept and how many times.
I should add them up. It has the other advantage that I wake
up at dawn and I have a long day for sightseeing.

A few years back I traded in a Camry that was 10 years old
and only had about 40,000 miles on it. Just wanted a new one

I don't operate like that. I am considering changing to the
latest incarnation of the Getz, the i30, but that's to get
a full cruise control. The Getz has no cruise control at all.

and at the time it was 0 % finance . So by leaving the money in the
IRA and financing it for 7 years I made a few more thousand. This
may be the last car I buy at my age no more than I drive in a year.

They probably did not even allow him $ 1000 for the trade,
just reworked the numbers to make it look that way.