Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous

jmonroe1

@Sandman6472 said:
We had Drivewise with Allstate but I turned mine off as I make too many trips during the day. It worked for awhile but I had to go in there every couple of days and adjust some of the trips, always the work ones. It gave us one discount but after that, crickets. I called to complain saying I work for Enterprise moving rental cars around and for them to somehow denote that but no one there could understand how to deal with it, so just had them disconnect the whole thing. Am sure my situation is not that unusual but they had no idea how to deal with it!

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I’d say your “friendly” insurance company had no incentive to listen to you. Interesting how these wealthy companies can hire so many people who don’t understand basic logic.

jmonroe

anonymousposts2025

Punch made …

We have our car situation sorted …. For now.

We went back and forth but made the punch Thursday with a RAV4 Hybrid. It made the most sense for us. We also have a good relationship with our Toyota dealer. It was as easy as a call to tell him what we we wanted for color and options. Called back the next day and found one with a price no other dealer would touch.

As for the Civic, it will be staying. It’s paid for and while it seemed like a nice idea to sell it, neither of us were ready to see it go. It’s such an endearing car. So we spent the day reshuffling the garage so we can get three cars in it. We know we aren’t keeping the Equinox, so we’ll be back at 3 cars in a year.

laurasdada

Four more 0% payments and the A7 is all mine. I just bought new Bosch wipers but am keeping the originals. In case I decide to move on in the near term, I can swap the new for the olds as perhaps the new ones will fit whatever I replace it with.
That's perfectly normal thinking, right?

But what would replace this most excellent vehicle? Should I try an E-class in honor of my mother? The oft-mentioned Porsche, but neither the Macan nor the Panamera seem "just right" for me. Roll the dice with a Lucid Air lease? But charging at home would be a bit of a Tetris game as the M240 will be the garage dweller and the wifey insists that her X3 owns the other garage space (Selfish of her, no?) and I'll need to install a 240v. Can I consolidate the A7 and M240 into one "practical" convertible, e.g. MB CLE? But my love for the M240 runs mountain high, river deep.

Time will tell. However, inertia is strong in me.

roadburner

@laurasdada I'll just add that I really liked my M235i, but I find the C43 to be a much more entertaining drive. As always, YMMV.

28firefighter

I got to drive the Subaru yesterday while running errands and shuttling the kiddo around. It certainly won't any drag races, but no surprise the Toyota designed/built hybrid system is very very good. My wife drove it home 180 miles from the dealer, mostly highway, with some traffic plus another 40-50 miles of local driving since and we still have well over half a tank left. Fuel economy is going up, not down, which is pretty entertaining to watch happen live.

Overall, she's thrilled and I like it a lot more than I expected to.

stickguy

maybe I should get my wife to look at one. I assume the top trim (that the touring?) has all the bells and whistles. We really liked the Mazda CX5 but have not seen the new interior (big screen) yet, and the hybrid I would want is not coming out until the 2nd model year.

But I can already hear my wife: "it's nice but not the BMW"!

stickguy

next purchase will probably be helping the princess finding a 2nd car for her hubby since they are moving the end of January (should be closing on the house our here the end of this month). But after the holidays work for me and the wife should slow down considerably (we are both swamped right now) so will definitely try to work in some test driving. If the weather ever cooperates)

au1994

@28firefighter can you comment on the Jeep situation?

28firefighter

au1994 said:

@28firefighter can you comment on the Jeep situation?

For now, it remains a large paperweight at the dealer and is 23 days parked under an open repair order. Stellantis will not provide anything above $60/day for a rental, and will not cover taxes. Which up here will get me a sedan (not an SUV) and I'll be responsible for the $12-$20/day in taxes (on top of the Jeep's lease payments). I've escalated and will be starting next steps at the end of the week when we hit 30 days.