Thats good news. Im all for safety inspections, we dont need frames breaking and ball joints popping on the road...but when they first rolled out the computerized inspection system it was pretty ridiculous.

No kiddin. Thanks for the update. I was certified 7 years ago, and as far as i remember it had to work regardless of transmission.

However, my statement stands. Fix your e brake regardless, that parking pawl can fail.

They should technically fail you, regardless of transmission type. Its actually more critical on an automatic. That little pin/pawl in your transmission is not designed to hold your car on a grade.

I dont know stan, or have enough info to judge. Im sure he also enjoyed a nice tax increase. Theres always two sides to a story.

"Stan Sherwood stands in front of his home along Route 7 in Brandon. Sherwood is angry about the number of trees construction crews took down on his property to install a large sand filter for storm water runoff"

Edit source, towards the bottom of the page it goes into detail. https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/2019-11-13/no-more-cones-and-construction-brandon-open-for-business#stream/0

Based on all the other jobs at these resorts...they will pay shit, and avoid as much tax liability as possible.

These are the same people, that simultaneously argue about how since they dont live here full time, they should pay less taxes.

If you're good, i wouldnt even consider an app. Just put yourself out there.

Start an llc, get some insurance, a few business cards, and advertise on facebook/craigslist/local gas station, etc

Get a second line for business calls, i made the mistake of using my personal cell once. Never again.

Sweet! Its a ways away from you, but theres a hole in the wall toyota place in hartland vt. Called Indian spring auto. Owners name is dennis, hes getting old, but the guy has every part imagineable for these older yotas, and is super knowledgeable. Might be worth a call. Hes saved me a lot of time and money keeping my 04 taco goin.

If he doesnt have the heater box for your rig, my 00 4runner is getting scrapped in the spring and youre welcome to come rob whatever you need out of the interior. It smells bad (plow truck/mice), but im sure bleach would take care of any plastic parts.

Youre welcome!

If you cant get to the cable where it connects under the radio, those panels come off pretty easily.

Also, side note. If you are low on coolant, you'll have little or no heat...so if you havent checked that,check that first.

Likely blend door issues, although there is a valve under the hood that stops flow through the heater core. There isnt any adjustment that i know of, just a few cables that are fixed so i have no idea what your mechanic did.

Look on your firewall, under the hood. Locate your heater hoses, i believe the valve is on the drivers side (it is on my 00 4 runner). Confirm that when you select warm/cool air inside the cab, that cable is infact opening and closing the valve. If it is, you've confirmed a blend door issue. If not, disconnect the cable and zip tie the valve open.

If its a blend door issue, look under the radio (from the side, put your head where your feet would be, pass side i believe but check both), you'll see your heater box and you should be able to see a cable connected to it. either push or pull that cable in the direction it needs to move for heat (trial and error, 50% chance).

You moved to a state with shitty roads. Deal with it. All of our vehicles are rotting out and making noises.

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Check out his post history, dudes got his own politics vt subreddit, where he posts daily and gets almost no engagement

+1 on team toyota

My 2001 impreza made it through a hellish 315k miles...but i did the headgaskets twice, transmission, clutch, and multiple timing belts.

My 2004 tacoma is at 297k, orig engine and transmission. No major repairs.

I mean, fuck google fine them...but its hard to miss all the signs in front of you, we cant just start blaming gps for going down the wrong roads. Drivers need to understand common sense, especially in rural areas.

Hahah this is accurate. We have waco 2.0 in our woods

Check out maine

Not really unusual locations if you look at historical pictures...trees? What trees

I was born in mass, ive been in vt for 15 years now...it'll slow down a bit. Everything is a little slower up here!

Well like many phrases, context is key. My point is not to try to force the people who grew up here, to live to your standards. Vermont, or at least my corner of it, is very live and let live.

To be clear, im a masshole myself. Ive been here 15 years, and get along with everyone in my town, regardless of if i agree with everything they do/say. Changing someones opinion is very hard, changing a vermonters opinion is even harder. However, it turns out if you get past politics, and treat eachother like humans, most of us have a lot more in common than not.

If you move somewhere, and dont like the way the locals do things, lead by example. Do YOUR best, and maybe they'll follow. If not i bet they'll still come pull your car out when you get stuck.

Im assuming they are, yes. Much lower taxes due to being off grid. They purchased their property knowing very well it was unmaintained during winter months, and would be kept passable but not perfect during summer months.

Trying to change things after the fact is poor foresight, and not the towns problem.

Yeah our class 4s are clearly posted as pass at your own risk dec - may, unmaintained. We dont have the staff or funds to keep them all perfect.

Love granpas spite. Serves them right trying to step on an old timers source of income.

Happens all the time. We have a whole group of folks out of state that moved to the most remote part of our town. So remote it is on an unmaintained, previously a snowmobile trail in the winter, class 4 road.

The owners started plowing it, when the town refused, which is their right. now they want the town to maintain the road year round for them. Its crazy. You chose to buy a house on an unmaintained road, what did you expect?

When you get here, please enjoy vt for what it is, dont try to make it more like where you're from.