B- Bu- But pricing hasn’t normalized bac-
Not worried.
Not really interested in any car made after 2010 anyway 
I’m just going to start stockpiling Volvo’s from the 90’s and early 2000’s. 
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Nice story there, I would definitely worry about the 2017 more than any of the other models you mentioned. However 2017 is still a better year than anything that is 2020+. Car quality has really gone down the tubes along with everything else in the last years.
I’m just worried more-so, regarding the price spiking, bleeding over to parts/servicing
I just got back my old 99 V70 T5 manual, not sure what to do with it TBH, but I sure do love that car.
How’s it working out?
I accomplished HA integration for my garage door (with position sensor) with a pi pico w and some spare wire. Turns out, on my garage door opener, it’s a single-layer PCB, so you can just bridge the connection on the back of the board with a relay for the door button. I wrote a state machine to track it’s movement and I have the ability to move the door as needed.
If anyone’s interested, I’ll do a write-up one of these days. I didn’t want to buy something off the shelf because I couldn’t find something for a reasonable price that didn’t come with a subscription. 
Why can’t garage doors be simple? It’s just a motor with a state controller for motion direction… grumblegrumble
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I initially used tasmota + mqtt + HA with an esp32r4 and then migrated over to ESPhome. Controlling two garage door openers, 4 door sensors (my garage is weird), bme680 and am2303 sensors. I have two relays left I want to control lights or maybe speaker power with. Its in my gripes thread, i can post the esphome yaml if anyone is interested.
I still need to figure out how to make the garage door icons change from the closed icon to open icon reflecting status vs. just words.
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Worked great for sure cheaper ways but with two kids I don’t ever have much time. This was literally just tap into the same port as the wall switch then just join it to wifi and set up esp32 then boom easy mode
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Forgot to post this here but basically has repair manuals for just about everything
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If i wasn’t trying to make a project out of it I’d have done the same as you, only difference is I would have gone with ratdgo. Same difference, already flashed and somewhat PNP to just wire up and add the entity to HA.
In fact during the hair pulling parts of the esp32r4 i had wished i had gone ratdgo but overall im happy i gained some esp32 and esphome yaml experience.
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Id probably have more time, but since we just had the basement refinished, had to move all the stuff, mount things and still in the process of cleaning all the dust off everything. Once that is all done Ill have a bit more time.
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I keep forgetting you got kids 
Yeah, they’d definitely take a lot of your time.
Woah, that’s a really good resource. Thanks for sharing!
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Recall over the recall correction(s)
Look like polished shit.
Just a reskinned MC20… With some gullwing windows and full canopy open
Screams fingerprint magnet + [near] impossible to upkeep the mirror finish
woah, that’s a pretty wild revamp.
