The Wifes new toy

gudnoyez
gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
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No it's not what your thinking I'm still there for her needs. 😁 So having two Trucks with not the best of mileage, I told her start driving the AWD Kia Sportage that sits next to her truck it gets 31mpg instead of 16 mpg, it's a 2013 model low miles why not drive it. She wanted to drive something more stylish so I said let's see what we would get for it in trade. They offered more than I thought they would, unfortunately like everything else not much in stock you could order a new one and wait 4 or 5 months until it shows up.

They had 2 cars extra from the shipment from the other day ones that were more than I wanted to spend. One was a Sportage X Pro Prestige or a Teluride nothing else. Not wanting to wait 4-5 months and them telling me my trade might not be worth what they offered today 5 months from now. I decided to play the game. She picked the X-Pro Prestige. It's got more stuff than we need it will probably be time to trade it in again by the time we figure everything out. We have to go back next week for the salesman to explain all the electronics on the digital dash board. 17 inch wheels AWD off road style BF Goodrich tires a Harmon Kardon 8.1 system that sounds pretty good no CD player WTF. They got us in and out in 2 hours. Were getting ready to take it for a ride as they filled the tank for us. Kia seems to have stepped up thier game in thier vehicles.
Home Theater
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Stuff for the Head
JD LABS C5 Headphone Amplifier, Sennheiser HD 598, Polk Audio Buckle, Polk Audio Hinge, Velodyne vPulse, Bose IE2, Sennheiser CX 200 Street II, Sennheiser MX 365

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,300
    Nice...Kia engineering is under rated
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,556
    Nice ride Steve!
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,772
    butterbean wrote: »
    Do you get a new toy?

    What, are you new to this?😂
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,446
    Kia are tops on the theft list these days as well. Very easy to chip these and just drive off, make sure you get something to prevent theft. Nice ride!
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,133
    I thought the hot theft car of the time were the Doge Magnums and Chargers...

    Congrat's to the other half on the new ride.

    Tom
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    edited July 2022
    butterbean wrote: »
    Do you get a new toy?

    Ha she might roll her eyes when I bring new Audio Gear through the door or the boxes of stuff off Amazon that filter in frequently or any of the other hobby stuff I have going on. She deserves a lot for putting up with me


    I also heard about the thefts of thier vehicles as of late.Top ones in our area.

    I brought that up to the Salesman he told me he heard about it and it was on our local news the other night so yeah gotta keep an eye out I guess.

    Took it for a long drive I was in the passenger seat trying to figure stuff out yeah got over the no CD part streaming Tidal through it dont sound bad played DJ played all her favorites mostly Steely Dan and America,and some Bad Company, the Harmon Kardon system does its Job and is not shy in the low end department. I her to test it out on some of the B roads where we go hunting but it rained quite a bit yesterday and she wanted to keep it show room clean. I will test it out once it drys up.

    Home Theater
    Parasound Halo A 31 OnkyoTX-NR838 Sony XBR55X850B 55" 4K RtiA9 Fronts CsiA6 Center RtiA3 Rears FxiA6 Side Surrounds Dual Psw 111's Oppo 105D Signal Ultra Speaker Cables & IC's Signal Magic Power Cable Technics SL Q300 Panamax MR4300 Audioquest Chocolate HDMI Cables Audioquest Forest USB Cable

    2 Channel
    Adcom 555II Vincent SA-T1 Marantz SA 15S2 Denon DR-M11 Clearaudio Bluemotion SDA 2.3tl's (Z) edition MIT Terminator II Speaker Cables & IC's Adcom 545II Adcom Gtp-450 Marantz CD5004 Technics M245X SDA 2B's, SDA CRS+

    Stuff for the Head
    JD LABS C5 Headphone Amplifier, Sennheiser HD 598, Polk Audio Buckle, Polk Audio Hinge, Velodyne vPulse, Bose IE2, Sennheiser CX 200 Street II, Sennheiser MX 365

    Shower & Off the beaten path Rigs
    Polk Audio Boom Swimmer, Polk Audio Urchin B)
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  • Milito
    Milito Posts: 1,960
    Congrats Steve!
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,949
    Nice wheels and tires! Looks great, congrats on the new ride!
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,040
    Congrats on the new family ride
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