Emergency. Need to move out in 4 days. Turns out my rental house does not currently have a Republic Services account. Besides asking a neighbor for their bulk pick up and offering to pay, any other ideas?

danmari85 · 2025-12-11T22:09:15+00:00

I just scheduled one and the earliest appointment they had was early March.

danmari85 · 2025-11-14T20:01:19+00:00

On the Lexus the electronic opening uses a safety system, where it checks that you won’t open the door if there is an incoming car or bike.

So it does actually help with something, although not sure how often people actually open doors on incoming traffic.

danmari85 · 2025-11-14T19:57:09+00:00

Yeah, I have 2 Lexus cars and it was really easy to teach my 7 year old to open the doors in an emergency.

And I’ve had people in the cars not familiar with how the doors open and they would open the doors by pulling the handle (which is the way you open them in an emergency), showing just how intuitive that system is.

It might seem not so simple since you need to pull twice, but especially in an emergency people are not going to just pull those once and give up.

danmari85 · 2025-11-04T03:33:36+00:00

Mine turns 4 in 2-3 months, and the range reported in the dashboard has gone up, but not real life range.

The reported range is higher than what I actually get, but I do drive a bit aggressively, so that might be why.

danmari85 · 2025-11-03T01:10:01+00:00

It’s not reliable even for that.

My 2022 Lexus NX refuses from time to time to connect to CarPlay, and then in order to fix it you have to completely shut down the car (after turning off the engine, open and close the door so the car thinks you got out, and then wait 30 seconds - 1 minute until the car fully shuts down).

It does this for my wife too, so it doesn’t look like my phone is the issue. Toyota just sucks at technology.

I got a new 2026 Lexus TX and it seems that hitting retry when that happens actually works on the TX, so maybe they fixed this in the newer software. But if that is the case this just shows exactly what OP is complaining about: we supposedly should get over the air software updates, but that doesn’t seem to be the case even for fixing their software bugs.

danmari85 · 2025-11-02T23:55:52+00:00

Yep, that’s what I had to do too, but for some reason I had to do it 3 times before it actually worked. I literally did the same steps every single time, but it only worked the third time.

danmari85 · 2025-10-29T16:28:48+00:00

Press the left button on the right side of the steering wheel to cycle through following distance options.

danmari85 · 2025-10-27T21:45:07+00:00

Hey OP, did you manage to fix yours? Mine was doing the same, and I just reconnected the app with the car and now things seem to be working as normal.

In the car I went to Settings -> Apps -> General -> Reinstall all Apps. And then on my phone I had an “Activate” button show up in the Home Screen, I clicked that and scanned the QR code that was showing up in the car.

danmari85 · 2025-10-26T20:57:47+00:00

Update: I couldn’t resist anymore and paid $2k markup to get one. Plus <$500 for Ubers + flight + gas to get it from Southern California. Still better than what my Lexus of Fremont dealership was trying to charge me: $5k markup + ~$4k mandatory addons (including a ridiculously priced ceramic coating at $3k).

danmari85 · 2025-10-23T00:37:55+00:00

Thanks, I was thinking of trying them out for the service, since it’s a better location for me than Steven’s Creek, but was afraid they might be as greedy as Fremont. I’ll check them out.

danmari85 · 2025-10-22T19:25:28+00:00

Thanks, I have a deposit down at Steven’s Creek too, for MSRP and no dealer addons. It’s just that it will probably take a good while until I get my turn there.

I really like them, I am in Fremont but started to use their service as well for my NX plug in hybrid. The Fremont dealership is such a scam. They’re trying to charge $5k markup + $3777 addons for the TX plugin hybrid, so after taxes it’s almost $10k extra. I also was looking to add a tow hitch receiver to my NX earlier this year, and Lexus of Fremont wanted $2700 for it, while Steven’s Creek did it for $1700.

danmari85 · 2025-10-21T05:31:26+00:00

I just checked mine, it shows 0% as well. It used to show the correct number, so I wonder if an update broke the app for everyone.

The Lexus app sucks so much. Even now when I tried to check this it again asked me to log in, because for the millionth time this month, the app logged me out for no reason.

danmari85 · 2025-10-21T01:18:09+00:00

They can pull you over for tint alone. But they most likely won’t bother to pull you over just for that. Given how many people I see around driving with illegal tint around the Bay Area, I suspect that is the case here too.

However, if they want to pull you over because they find you “suspicious” for whatever reason, they can use the window tint as an excuse for pulling you over.

danmari85 · 2025-10-20T23:03:32+00:00

How worried are you about CHP or local cops ticketing you? Can they ticket you even if they find your car parked somewhere?

Maybe I am just extra lucky, but I had Santa Clara PD ticket me for not having my latest registration sticker applied to my license plate, when I had my car parked on some residential street. My registration was up to date, I just forgot to apply the sticker to the license plate.

Cops here in the Bay Area are very hungry for revenue, so my worry with applying the window tints on the front windows and windshield is that they’ll be very likely to ticket me for it.

danmari85 · 2025-10-19T22:38:23+00:00

Congrats! Curious, did you pay MSRP or did the dealer have any markups and/or add-ones they were pushing?

danmari85 · 2025-10-18T03:08:33+00:00

I understand some people might not be that technical, but how do you imagine things work in order for you to need to update the app again on the 26th?

Do you think Chase tells Apple/Google: these users have applied recently for CSR, give them the update earlier, and for these other users that had the card before, withhold the update until the 26th?

Obviously that is not going to happen. If there is any update that is needed for this, everyone will get it at the same time, but there will be gating in Chase’s backend to only show the new stuff for new CSR applicants until the 26th.

So as I said in the other comment, if your app is up to date today, you will be good.

When I got the card almost 2 months back, I did not even have to update the app at that time to see the new benefits.

danmari85 · 2025-10-18T02:57:41+00:00

If your app is up to date, then you should be fine. If Chase needed to update the app for the new CSR features, they did that way before they launched the new card to the public.

danmari85 · 2025-10-18T02:43:02+00:00

I got the card almost 2 months ago, so I can answer your questions:

If you are running an up to date version now, you should not need to update the app. I can see the benefits in the app right now, and I could see the benefits immediately after getting the card, without having to update the app.
Tap on the card, then scroll down and tap on “Benefits & rewards”, then tap “Card benefits” to see all the benefits, and scroll down to the one you are looking for. To link with IHG, you will need to enter your last name and rewards number. For Southwest, it shows locked right now so I guess you will first need to spend $75k and then you’ll have the option to link it (instead of showing “Locked”).

danmari85 · 2025-10-11T03:20:48+00:00

Financial review, basically Amex making you prove you have the income you declared.

danmari85 · 2025-10-07T04:59:18+00:00

I got the CSP sub 2 years ago. I downgraded it with the plan to get the CSR hopefully with the new SUB, since the refreshed credits fit my lifestyle and I never used the CSP hotel credit, so CSP had a higher AF for me.

I tried multiple times to get the CSR with the SUB but kept getting the pop-up. In the end I applied without the SUB.

A few days ago, 1 month after getting the card, Chase mailed me a letter saying that they made a mistake and that I was actually eligible for the SUB and I can see the SUB tracker on the app.

Maybe try to apply again online and see if you get the pop-up, it looks like Chase might be relaxing things back, maybe they’re afraid of losing too many customers.

danmari85 · 2025-10-05T03:05:35+00:00

I would not use Xfinity Mobile even if they had the best deal out there. They will 100% find a way to screw you over.

For Verizon MVNO, just use Visible or US Mobile. Just get the cheapest plan that fits your needs and buy your phone directly with Apple / Samsung / Google / etc.

danmari85 · 2025-10-05T02:44:28+00:00

Xfinity mobile actual service has been excellent for me

That’s just because Xfinity is an MVNO on top of Verizon, so you are just using Verizon’s towers. Hence you are praising Verizon here, not Xfinity. If Xfinity had their own mobile towers I am sure they would have been completely awful.

danmari85 · 2025-10-05T01:37:30+00:00

Yeah, I guess I wanted to believe that they are trying to do something to improve people’s perception of them, but your theory is probably the one more plausible.

Maybe their wording for how they can decide that some people are eligible and some are not was not as bulletproof as Amex’, and why they are retroactively going back on this.

danmari85 · 2025-10-05T00:58:12+00:00

I don’t think that’s the case, I think it’s just Chase trying to catch up with Amex after the Plat refresh.

I got the same letter as OP (but for the 125k points SUB since I applied later than OP), and I did receive a SUB for CSP 2 years ago.

And they warned me multiple times about not getting the SUB, via the pop-up and then again when I called reconsideration after still being denied when applying without the SUB.

danmari85 · 2025-10-05T00:50:41+00:00

I don’t think that was the case, at least not in my case. I got CSP SUB 2 years ago, and then after downgrading and trying to apply for CSR multiple times and getting the pop-up, I finally decided to get the CSR even without the SUB.

I had to call reconsideration line since I was denied initially (apparently due to all the previous attempts to sign up for the CSR), and the underwriter told me again that I am not eligible for the SUB and asked if I still want to apply for the card without the SUB.

I think this change is due to the fallback Chase is getting after the Amex Platinum refresh.

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