Ha my cars almost certainly suffer from fuel dilution. Most days ~5mi trips are the norm and depending on what’s going on some can go a solid month without being driven for more than 10 minutes at a time.

 

i know you're not in the u.s. but manuals here are as rare as unicorns.

likely dealer/agency replaced the wipers and didn't install them correctly. if whole arms came off though, that's bizarre.

 

Sounds to me like the car was previously in a collision or got its windshield replaced (do they take the wiper arms off for that?) and someone didn't follow through as well as they should've.

 

This brings up one of the very few disagreements I have with my brother over automotive issues. I don't like (and never have liked) the idea of putting a slick film on the windshield, but he swears by Rain-X glass treatment. He says that rain rolls off so efficiently that you don't need wipers at all.

 

I haven't used Rain-X for a while, but that was absolutely my experience when I did. At anything over 35 mph or so, the water rolled off faster than it arrived.

 

I used to, with the old red Yukon. We don't have a beater personally anymore. We have access to a still basically new Enclave (47k miles..ha!) for beater duty but it's not ours. But it'll come in handy from now on I would say.

I do take only the Mercedes to Aldi bc they have HUGE spots in pickup lanes and they don't care when they see me with a cane (still on upswing), and nobody uses them.

 

i think only certain places like tech companies are packed more with teslas. In general it’s not. I see more around me than the bay areas which totally surprised me because evs can get on carpool lanes there and some require 3 occupants not 2.

 

I'm just sort of dumbfounded that there aren't appreciably more Teslas in SF than a suburb of a medium sized city like West Knoxville in the Southeast. People love their Teslas at home, lol.

 

Suburbs are richer than inner city areas on a per person basis, that's why. If you live in a subdivision where the cheapest houses are 650k then by default people there have more money than apartment dwellers

 

Unrelated but need answer quick. If I paid the $115 or whatever for the “fill up” with Enterprise so I don’t get gas do I get credited back for what’s in there when I take it back in the morning?

Surely they can’t expect everyone to cruise in there on E.

 

LOL... that would be a NOPE!

 

Coast that bad boy in on fumes!

The reason they offer the "fuel service option" at lower than market rates is because the vast majority of the time they'll get back a partially-full tank and make a profit. One or two gallons would be enough for a normal car, they might need 3 in the F150 to come out positive. Any more than that is pure gravy.

 

Yeah but people don't get it or don't care so they can make some change and add up. I never pre pay for the gas. It's like you order extra food that you won't eat.

 

pre-paying for gas is just annoying as i don't want to have to 'plan' to bring it back empty.
of course there's a reason the counter person pushes it as a great thing... because they make money.

 

They are betting that customers will not bring it back on E. It’s a way to make money on a service they technically don’t offer. Dollar used to spiff us for that, the damage waiver (which I recommend against buying though I used to sell it a lot), and liability insurance. I dealt with most of the international clients and they were required to have proof of insurance or buy the liability.

Loss damage waiver is not worth the expense. It’s very limited coverage. If you read the fine print, if anything happens to the car resulting in damage in excess of wear and tear scratches, you need a police report. Cracked taillight, not your fault? With no police report, you are on the hook. Perhaps that’s changed now because many departments won’t roll a unit for a non injury accident. My guess is it’s incumbent upon the customer to go to a police station and get a report. Either read the contact or more simply, don’t but the LDW.