New England B.S. Thread

I'm 24W x 26D. The extra depth is nice because I've got a large snowblower and no storage shed. At one point I had a lawn tractor in there and could still fit a CX-5, but I don't know if I could fit my truck in there if I still had one. The wild thing is that when I moved in to the house there wasn't an entry door between the house and garage even though it was attached. I've got two dedicated doors rather than a single, although I think the single would be nice in terms of working on vehicles.

For the next house, I'd like a three car as well, although if they're not done right, they're a bit ostentatious. I'd either have it set up so that the door openings don't face the road and you see the side of the garage from the street, or have a two car opening in front with a side door / extra stall in back so I could put a third car in for winter.

What is kinda nice (and selfish for me at least) right now is that Amy doesn't necessarily want the garage space. Her Jeep has a remote start so she doesn't care about the garage stall. Since I don't have a remote start, it's nice to not wait in a freezing cold truck for windows to defrost.

 

I used to park the truck inside and put the ATV, lawn tractor, snow blower, etc in the other bay. I have a 17x17 canopy out back and I keep those things under it now so Meg can have the garage space. She parks inside every day, I only do if there is a storm. Easier to clear the driveway when it is empty and that way I don't have to clear the truck off. I have remote start and she doesn't.

Her CX5 has garage door buttons in the mirror though. My nearly $50k MSRP F-150 doesn't so I need to clip the Craftsman opener on. It's so weird what things manufacturers will skimp on. My friend has a similarly equipped Silverado and it doesn't have an auto dimming mirror.

 

That's the one thing that drives me nuts...how best to shovel/snowblow with vehicle placement. Something always has to live outside.

Your CX-5 is the Grand Touring, right? I had the Touring with the Sunroof / Bose but without the Tech package, which I regretted since the stock headlamps were AWFUL. I added the Homelink mirror.

I added Homelink into my 2013 using a GM sunvisor module cut into the headliner, but my 2016 has the opener clipped on. I'm thinking I'll eventually buy a used Homelink mirror and be done with it. The Jeep has Homelink built in.

 

Mine is 1200 or so. Upstairs is 2 small rooms, but technically just one room..no separate entrance to the second room

 

One car one door for me, but the clearance is too tight to fit Linda's Rav4 in..I think it just might fit my truck which is sad. Just gets used for my bikes and the in-season power stuff, the out of season is in the shed.

 

I told the wife if we ever move somewhere else that I want a big barn style garage for my vehicles and future toys with a regular 2 car garage attached to the house. Currently we have no garage but we do love our house and the town Wrentham.

 

The CX5 is a touring model with Bose/Sunroof and tech. I don't think the Kicker system in my F150 is great, but compared to the Bose in the Mazda it's much better. If it didn't have the Bose tags on the doors I would have thought it was the base system.

I could buy a Lariat sun visor and get the buttons, but the price of them went way up recently so I decided not to. I think Ford caught on to what people were doing.

 

Where do you get your Ford parts from? Tasca online has parts for 10% over list, they’re much cheaper than anything around. When I bought my Lariat steering wheel, I did get Franklin Ford to price match Tasca so I saved the shipping cost.

 

Usually Tasca. Sometimes another online dealer will be a little lower. They were more reasonably priced when I first bought the truck, but last I looked they went way up.

 

I didn't think the Bose was mindblowing, but turning off the stupid 3D surround thing helped immensely. I had done a bunch of small tweaks to that car (WeatherTechs, OEM trunk liner, Homelink, OEM aluminum sills, a stainless trunk garnish and a fog surround DRL kit). I really enjoyed it. I paid I think $27,500 for it and after I got sent into the telephone pole my insurance payout was something like $32,000 as I got MSRP plus sales take.

The only thing I didn't like about that car was the remote start. The OEM setup had that stupid huge remote, extremely limited range and it shut off when you opened the door. I'd buy another in a heartbeat, even if they don't hold their value well.

 

The centerpoint option? I turned that off and it helped some. Seems like the system lacks good lows and highs, everything is mid-range. It isn't bad, but definitely isn't anything great even by OEM standards.

She doesn't have the remote start in hers but does have the keyless start. The car is kind of oddly optioned. Rain sensing wipers but no heated seats, for example.

 

The 2016.5 got the heated seats in the Touring as well as the nav SD card standard. The rain sensing wipers must have been part of the Tech package because we didn’t have those.

 

Wow, big toothy!

 

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2020/02/03/drunk-driving-arrest-magic-mountain-vermont

I guess he wanted to test his tires....

 

and why not?

 

I appreciate this in general. The only thing that sucks though is magic mountain doesn't make snow, it only has natural snow (at least I think thats the case). So with not much snow this winter, theres a good chance that guy really fucked up the park area and they won't be able to just blow some snow on top to fix it.

 

That sucks. It'd be a tough year for a mountain without extensive snow making. Maybe they can just throw a pipe in the ruts and make an obstacle out of it

 

Hopefully they can pull from somewhere, or it was ice like that late at night and didn't cause too much an issue. Looks like some snow this week/weekend too, so that should help as well.

 

They'll be able to groom it out; They'll knock off the high spots, stack up some snow from other parts of the trail, make a couple of passes in a Pisten Bully w/a tiller & blend it in, corduroy it, and you won't even be able to tell. Might take them 20 minutes. I used to volunteer at the ski slope down the road from where I grew up, and it's amazing what those big cats can do, and how fast they can do it. Titcomb is a smaller mountain, but even after a storm an experienced operator could groom the entire place in 2-3 hours with one machine.


Edit- as a disclaimer, they did make snow (what I helped with), but the manmade stuff is actually harder to groom than the real thing.

 

You should see what groomers can do to the snowmobile trails when jackholes drive down them. A good groomer operator can perform miracles.

And for entertainment purposes, here is a groomer operator extracting a car with no fucks given: