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The Nissan Leaf Gets a New Rear Axle

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Well, I finally have a salvage title for the 2013 Nissan LEAF (Actually I dont have the title yet, but I think they mail it to me. We are far from settled with the insurance company for sure. It has been six months since Angie was rear ended. The following chart shows a very sad and disturbing trend. Insurance companies aren't paying out. It should be criminal. I went shopping for a new rear axle so I can get the car driving again. The rear ended axle was so bent, the car couldn't move. The new one with no connecting bits was over a thousand dollars. The cheapest used ones I could find on ebay were over 500 dollars. I finally scored at a local used parts place for 95 dollars (removed) and with associated bits such as bearings, bushings, parts of the brakes. It took me a concentrated day with cancelled and moved meetings to get the axle replaced and the car running again. The accomplishment felt good. I am now configuring the car with tractor tires and other modifications t...
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Busy. I shouldn't be blogging. This week will be a blur as last week was. This weekend, I flew up to NY to pick up my truck and stuff for my new house. There were terrible weather delays in Detroit and I missed my connection. That is not really that big of a deal, but since the weather was bad all day in Detroit, lots of other folks were stranded overnight as well. I found a hotel (miraculously) about 30 minutes away (turned out to be 1.5 hours because of night construction). Anyway, I drove back down to Atlanta with my truck. It feels weird driving my truck in Duluth. It was a tight schedule for a weekend, the weather delay didn't help. I am moving. I have to fix the plumbing in my new house though before I can really move in. The new roof is going on today. The new HVAC system is already in. I caught a view of a nice Sundog amongst the urban sprawl of Atlanta. I was thinking of the 100s of thousands of people who could have seen it, how many did? When you travel a lot by ai...
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