The moving of God (was: tithing part 2)

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At 03:32 PM 2/26/98 -0600, Bro Brown wrote:

>My daughter will be turning 16 this year.  She is enrolled in driver's 
>education right now.  She attends a school that is a 40 minutes 1-way
>drive from home.  I think I once clocked it at 17 miles, but it is
>suburban traffic, with stop lights, etc. and takes even over an hour
>on Friday evenings.  :-(

Heh, heh, heh.... (here I go again >:-P ) how can you *clock* a mile.
You can measure it's distance.  And you can measure the time it takes
to go the distance.  Heh, heh, heh.... it's like saying, well, my new
baby daughter ... she's two month's tall!  Heh, heh, heh....

>Given that we seem to have a fair pool of used car expertise on this
>list, and the stipulation that I have made that I will not pay over
>$5K towards a car for her, are there any suggestions as to what we
>should look for?

My first suggestion is to go out and buy a copy of Consumer Reports 
1998.  It's the annual new car issue.  It's a great issue in that it
reviews the history of repair of all of the cars (to members of the
Consumer Union that have filled out the annual survey and returned
it - CU publishes Consumer Reports - a non-profit non-advertising 
accepting publication) new and old.  It gives guides based on 
much above average, above average, average, below average, and much below
average.  Average is the mid-point of the particular number they are
calculating.  Above average and below average are (I think) 20% better
or worse in the calculated stats in comparison to the average.  Much
above and much below average are 40% above- and below- the average.

So.  What does that mean?  They perform this statistical compilation
of the surveys of thousands of cars, prolly the last 6 or 7 years at
least, and for each model year, they calculate an *average* number
of repairs per car (frequency of repairs), as well as an *average* 
amount per repair per car, as well as individual performance of the
different systems of a car with the same MAA (much above average) -
MBA (much below average) scale for that model year compared to the
statistical model car.  The last time I saw the CR new car issue, each
model that is listed shows (I think) 17 different sub-systems of the
car in it's report grid.  Everything from electrical, to brakes, 
to Air Conditioning, to Exhause, to, Body outside, manual transmission,
automatic transmission, mechanical engine, etc.  You can see the general 
repair history of certain makes and models over the years.  You can see 
how certain models are lemons of reliability and some are real a peach. 

It's a great $5 or $6 spent that can save thousands of dollars of 
headache at a later time.

Bro Tyler
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