Well, it seems that I’ll be going to get a tie rod replaced after work today. When at Belle Tire on Friday to get an oil change, tire rotation, and alignment check, it was noted that they could do nothing about the alignment because I have a worn passenger side tie rod. After doing some driving and paying VERY close attention today, it appears that my car shuffles around the lane as if it were windy, even when it isn’t. I guess I’ve just been subconciously correcting for this and should get it fixed before the tie rod breaks. The quoted price was $75 for the tie rod, $35 for labor, and $69.95 for a four-wheel alignment. $49.95 for the alignment if only a two-wheel version is needed. I guess I should get this done, eh?<\/p>\n
Also, I’ve been thinking about getting a new TV. I’ve been looking at this Philips 30PW8402 (PDF Specs<\/a>) set from Costco for the last few weeks. It’s a true 16:9 HDTV 30″ tube, with HDMI inputs. This would allow me to hook a computer to it fairly easily, and with it being an HDTV, the resolution would be high enough that a PC (or Mac mini) could be used with it properly. It’s $599.99 for the TV, and they have a stand that seems to match fairly nicely for $99.99. There is a picture of the box shot of the stand here<\/a>, and here is the front<\/a> and rear<\/a> if the TV itself.<\/p>\n The price seems pretty good, and I’ve heard real good things about it from a friend of mine who has one.<\/p>\n Also, if I get this, I’ll be selling my current TV, if anyone is interested. It’s a Sony KV-32FS13, 32″ flat screen Wega TV. It’s a very, very nice model, but I want to replace it with an HDTV. I’d like $400 for it, with the matching stand. If anyone is interested, there is a picture of it here<\/a>, and it comes with the remote (of course) and I’m fairly certain I’ve also got the original manual and receipt. I paid around $1200 for the TV, and $80 for the stand when I first got it. It works great, but I really want something that is natively widescreen.<\/p>\n So, if you’re interested, let me know… This price seems to be the going rate without the stand, but since I have no need for the stand, I figured I’d just throw it in anyway.<\/p>\n UPDATE: Hmm, I just realized that acquiring this TV would necessitate the purchase of a component video input switcher, a component output cable for the Gamecube, and a progressive scan DVD player. I guess it’s at least a reason to pick up a nicely region hackable Daewoo and sign back up for Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, it seems that I’ll be going to get a tie rod replaced after work today. When at Belle Tire on Friday to get an oil change, tire rotation, and alignment check, it was noted that they could do nothing about the alignment because I have a worn passenger side tie rod. After doing some\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-automotive","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14604,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/14604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}