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Jocko Podcast (this is my favorite podcast) The Way I Heard It (only 10mins long so they're easy to listen to) S-town (so CRAZY that it's interesting)

I think the biggest thing for you to do is to start investing NOW. Don't wait until you've had time to learn more, talk to more people about it, etc. Just get started so you can let compounding interest work for you. Here's other advice: 1. Live below your means (don't take on any...

I don't want to start a Dave Ramsey "war" b/c this thread isn't about that. I just wanted to introduce Dave Ramsey to the OP since the thread was debt related. Personally I think that Dave Ramsey is great at motivating people to get out of debt...but I don't think he is good at giving...

I agree with most everyone else. If you can pay cash for it, pay it off now. (And if you haven't read Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, check it out...it was a good read for me and has changed my outlook on finances...just my opinion...there are a lot of Dave Ramsey haters out there too.)...

Well the biggest factor in buying the 4runner was for the wife to be happy...because if momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!! But it was still important to me that the car we bought was cool and dependable...because I will most likely get the wife's car as a hand-me-down in a few years. Any...

One of the good things about this used 4runner was that the original owner had bought the Toyota Maintenance plan up to 95K miles. I'm not sure of the monetary value that adds but I figure that I don't have to worry about oil changes and major services until after the 95K miles at least. Any...

Mine is scraped pretty badly and I'd like to replace it. Thanks!

So my wife is the proud owner of a 2010 SR5 w/leather and 3rd row seats (it's a must for us...we have 4 kids). It is the red salsa pearl color and has a little bit of body work that needs to be done to the rear bumper cover. I hope to have that done in the next few weeks as my extremely picky...

I'm going to look at a used 2010 SR5 this evening. It has high mileage for the year model (roughly 25K/year) so I want to make sure that the car is in good shape. It has been dealer maintained every 5K miles and the owner says he has documentation showing the maintenance. I'm OK w/a high...

Want to bump this back to the top to see if anyone has any other ideas...or maybe can tell me what the assembly where the noise is coming from is called. Thanks.

Can anyone tell me the proper name for the white assembly with the moving hood in my video? If I know what the proper name is, I can probably put my google skills to work and do some more searching to try to find my noise. Or at a very minimum, find out how much it'd cost to replace it...

Thanks for the idea. I'm pretty sure it's coming from the "thing" that I videoed bc I can feel it vibrate when the noise starts. Is the blend door in that same area? Any other ideas?

Where is the blend door? And how do I access it to see if there is anything rattling around in it? And if it was the blend door, would it only make the noise when the "recycle air" is on? Seems like it'd do it all the time right?

Yeah, I've been in the computer field since I was in the Navy...roughly 20 years now...damn I'm getting old... Ok...checked the cabin air filter and it was pretty clean...vacuumed it of for good measure. Long story short, I still have the same sound when the recycle air is on. I took out the...

OK...my wife says that the sound never completely goes away. It comes back at random intervals even when the "recycle air" is turned off. It does kinda sound like there may be a leaf or something in the system that is making that sound. So since I'm a computer geek and not a mechanic, I...