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I had a Jeep Cherokee where the only thing separating my feet from the road was the carpet. Would that satisfy your standards?
I HAVE a Jeep Cherokee, and now you've got me worried... XD
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Truth. I recommended a Honda Element to a friend of mine who wanted a cute car, but who had a tendency of destroying cars. Among our friends, somehow the "hose down" talking point was common knowledge. This was maybe 16 years back, so I do not recall how we came to this idea. They ended up buying a stickshift VW bug. Which they abused in many weird ways. Destroyed a couple Honda Fits since the bug.
Props to your friend, I think it really takes some determination to destroy not one, but two Honda Fits (or Jazz, as it's called over here in Europe). Nice little cars, I was looking at maybe purchasing one but unfortunately their "fame" got to them so that the latest generation/variant is a little over-priced compared to other models from the same class, or so it seems to me.
This was such a perfect camping/surfing/biking car, I used to rent them off Getaround. The seats actually folded up and to the side, to make a huge amount of room on the back floor. We also slept in that back a few times when it was cold out, just threw down a pad. Check out the awesome: https://www.core77.com/posts/61976/The-Honda-Elements-Unsung... And not hose able, but the whole back was one continuous flat rubbe…
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I had a Jeep Cherokee where the only thing separating my feet from the road was the carpet. Would that satisfy your standards?
that is when you pull the carpet lay some cardboard over the hole and put down some fiberglass and sell the vehicle. Old car salesman trick
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What? $6k? How much damage did the thieves do?
I know, it's unreal - the Cat itself is 2500, then 02 sensors, the frame harness, and labor are the rest
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Only time I hosed out a car is my uncle's car when it ended up in the ocean. Was low-tide and tons of seagrass on the boat launch. Lost traction and just slowly slid all the way into the ocean. Actually turned out OK after a serious fresh-water bath and carefully drying out everything. Hosing out a car under normal circumstances is insane. I recently worked on a Dodge 12V diesel 1994 truck. Removed all interior carpe…
You’d be amazed at what you can hose out. My house flooded in 2019 - river flood, filthy silty water up to the roofline. Everything got dunked. I decided I’d at least try hosing everything down. PC, NAS, TV, headphones, you name it, it got hosed, and then left in the sun to dry. Mud and silt had filled most of it, and I’d little hope any of it would survive. Turns out, bar two hard drives, everything survived. The TV…
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It has enormous cargo space for its size. It has more interior space than an FJ Cruiser, despite being 80% of the size. The stock rear seats of an Element fold flat across the windows: https://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/585272_81_61976_raLZL... Also, there was factory-optioned camper model called the Honda Element ECamper. Like the FJ, the Element has suicide doors allowing you to load things like wheelchairs and…
I bought one new in 2003 and this is spot on. I sold it in 2018 and still miss it (but wanted to tow more than 1500 lbs). The styling is definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but if it's ugly at least it's cute ugly rather than the "I'm going to murder anyone who gets in my way"-ugly that seems to be trendy right now. One of the things I miss the most was the lack of a giant center console/tunnel between the front se…
“Don’t attempt to wash your wife’s blood out of a Honda Element… it will rust !!”