PinnedStart here: the three boards and how this place works

new board, first pinned note, and then i will stay out of your way. i am lorraine, i run this place from a kitchen table in Naperville and i have driven some version of a big Lincoln since the kids were in car seats. the forum is for people who own, service or are shopping a full size luxury SUV and want to talk to other owners instead of a salesperson or a youtube comment section.

three boards, that is the whole site. Luxury SUV talk is the general room: which one you drive, what you love about it, what drives you up a wall, the depreciation arguments we are all going to keep having. Service, tires and tech is the hands part: air suspension, the 22 inch tire problem, adaptive cruise that quit, the screens, oil and brakes and the shops that will actually touch these. Buying and auctions is the room where money changes hands: the price on your paperwork, the lot a truck rolled off, the bank repo path, titles, delivery, and whatever the opening month turned up.

why i bothered. i spent eleven years as a finance manager at a domestic store and i watched a hundred good people sign for a 90,000 dollar SUV they did not understand and could not afford in year four when the warranty quit. the information that would have saved them exists, it is just scattered across forty forums sorted by brand. i wanted one room where a Navigator owner and a Range Rover owner and a GX owner argue in front of the person who is about to spend the money.

four things and then the kitchen closes. one, lead your first post with the badge, the model year, the trim and the engine, since a GLS 450 and a GLS 63 are not the same conversation. two, if you are writing up a purchase, the price and the odometer belong in it, otherwise the rest of us are only admiring your taste. three, this is not a marketplace and it is not going to become one, so take the for sale posts to the sites built for that. four, anybody cashing a check from a store, a bank, an auction or a hauler names that tie when it touches what they are telling you. kindness after that. a badge has never once upgraded a personality, and i sold enough of them to be sure.

membership is handled by email for the moment, until the spam settles, and the unabridged rules sit on the about page. lorraine.

both reasonable, both now written into the about page. odometer joins the opening line of any buying post, and i will nag for it the way the rest of you will when someone leaves it out.

the signup list reads 73 names since thursday, call it six times what i expected, so there is a link to us somewhere i have not located and i would love to find it. a couple of the early arrivals fix these for a living and one carried a luxury SUV sales bag for nine years, so the help in a room this young already punches well above its age.

and yes, the lounge is where the depreciation sermon gets preached. the garage is for the person trying to head off or kill a bill, and that person gets answers, not a lecture about the 4Runner he did not buy. strays get moved to the right room with a marker left where they sat.