Recent content by riemannh

I've had update issues in the past. I eventually (after weeks+) called my service center and asked about it. They tried to push an update remotely (no joy); I eventually had to take the car into the shop. Since then, however, updates have been normal. You can, of course, always try driving...

Agreed, in this case my car on offer builds in the incentive as we decided to put down a fair amount of cash (which, in retrospect, was a stupid decision on my part - but I was new to leasing). This down payment is why $1,220/mo. for a 2017 90D with >1,000 mi/mo. allowed is considerably...

The residual is $63,192. Thanks for the tip, outie, I'll check out Turo.

Since some folks on this forum have expressed interest but been dissuaded by the down payment, I'm posting here first: I'm dropping the down payment to $0 on the car - just a strait lease takeover at $1,220. I've not updated swapalease.com's listing yet. I'll do that by the end of the day...

I do... PM me w/ an offer... My next lease payment is due in a few days - perhaps we could work something out around that (depending on how quickly you want the car).

First, I'm providing a link to a site which I'm advertising my car through (so I don't have to re-post all of the data here)... If that's in violation of the forum rule on "Competing Sites, Businesses, Individuals and Organizations," (or another rule) please let me know and I'll remove this...

It really annoys me that search engines don't have native support of this. Bing used to allow this (and its results really aren't that much different than Google, IMO). Since they removed this as an option I've slowly noticed my searches migrate back to Google. It's particularly stupid...

Honest question: Is he? Or is he a hacker? Or, using other definitions, is he a developer or just a hacker? Based on the quotes above, I'd guess he's more of a hacker... which has its roles (e.g. me), but may not make a good member/leader of a dev team.

This is a really interesting point that I hadn't considered WRT the hardware on the cars. Based on my limited experience working in an "old school" aircraft engine manufacturer they had us software folks literally shadowboxing our staplers to comply with their 6-Sigma (used as reference only...

I have never noticed misalignment in the chrome trim on my car (nor the alignment of the hood with the quarter panels). After reading these posts, I will do my damnedest to to not look too carefully. I would guess this is one of those things that you can never "unsee."

I've been in and out of the SC a handful of times already related to fit and finish issues (as well as what appears to be a problem with the computer... taking it in again Friday for that). Overall, I'd say my expectation was that I wasn't getting a Mercedes or even BMW and that I was...

<sarcasm> I disagree. I think that we should force Starbucks to franchise all of its shops. In fact, any business should be required to end all vertical integration. E.g. Dell should sell only through Best Buy-like retailers, AT&T can sell inter-state communication, but local...

FYI: I contacted the SC and they indicated that there was a bug with my vehicle preventing software updates... in case anyone else is in the same boat. They are trying to do an OTA fix.

Well, yes. One major assumption you make is that you have an ambulance called, on average, every 23.3 years. More realistically, during your working years, you have one called once every thousand years and in your elder years one called once every ten minutes (obviously, being a bit...

Thanks for the feedback. Sadly and gladly (much shorter commute) not driving the car much anymore, so it doesn't impact me that much. I'll try rebooting just to see if that clears a corrupted DL (or does some other power-cycling magic) just for the hell of it. By the way, I got issued a...