Exhausted. Now that I am thinking of the reasons to this exhaustion, it seems that my work has been extra stressful for the past few, umm, months? The one-week vacation was not really enough.
Well, I guess I will fight the processes to take a better shape, then I can relax for a while before I will leave this project and start working on another one.
@matigo đ I do hope this one will work just fine for the ~4 years we have planned to have it.
@matigo That must have been not so lovely. đŹ Luckily all repairs are included in the monthly lease payment we do, so any issue will not bankrupt us.
@matigo That is true. It is just a bit annoying that there are these issues pretty much immediately we got the car.
We have had the new car for 4 days now. The issues we have had so far:
1. The driverâs side back tyre was almost flat.2. There is a crack in the windshield. This was not mentioned anywhere in the advert, and we spotted that after the delivery and after the car got washed.3. Today there was a note under the windshield wiper that someone had bumped into our car and had managed to crack the plastic cover on the right backside of the car.
Luckily 1 seems to be âfixableâ by inflating it again. 3 will be paid by the person(âs insurance) who did it. 2 is something I will negotiate with the leasing company, I am not willing to shed 200⏠(the amount we would need to pay) for a thing that was not mentioned in the advert.
Took the new carâs tires to a storage and got the car washed. Now it looks like what it âshouldâ.
@matigo That is a good point. Usually our drives are pretty short, so a plug-in hybrid or an all-electric could be a good option as well. Unfortunately they are way out of the price range we can manage (even when leased), so we have not considered them. Yet. Maybe the next one, which no longer need to be a 7-seater, could be one of those.
@matigo Here in Finland the network of charging stations is not that great yet, so a self-charging hybrid like this Prius+ was pretty optimal for us. With the current gas prices I wonât mind getting a lot better mileage than with the old car1.
We are mostly driving in urban areas, and the old Zafira was chugging whopping 10 l / 100 km. That was a lot.
@matigo Yep. I had that already when coming to the first lights I had to stop at. I was preparing to shift and push the clutch down but there was no stick where it used to be. That made me panic for a moment. đ
Also, one âweirdâ thing with driving a hybrid car with automatic transmission after almost 4 years on manual is that I need to retrain my brain to let go of the coupling between the engine sound and the speed I am driving. With the previous car I knew that if the gear is so and so and the engine sounds like that, I am driving at about that speed. Now that is totally off as the car might be using the electric motor instead.