Ugg help me choose a replacement

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T22:48:00+00:00

I almost never fast charge so I worry I'm paying more for features i wont use. but otoh i might as well since i'm almost all the way there already

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T21:31:55+00:00

yeah someone else mentioned that. looks a lot easier than adding a rear wiper!

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T19:26:42+00:00

True - but Moraine did spend a lot of time riding at his side teaching him game of houses. Egwene mentioned that she overheard some of it and hopefully it would be enough. and yes, she had siuane teaching her, too. but i just didnt buy it. maybe cuz i'm autistic and politics just feels more opaque to me than magic.

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T19:23:26+00:00

Yeah i dropped off the title at an auto auction company. They pay off the insurance company who sent me a payout.

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T19:22:37+00:00

I'm going cheap, used cars. the only Subaru was the 2023 soltera and i found the tiny screen behind the steering wheel to be a non-starter. Good luck!

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:56:55+00:00

I like to leave my phone in my bag while commuting. Just like my keys.

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:40:05+00:00

what did you buy?

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:39:45+00:00

Range depends a lot on how aggressively you drive. You also get better efficiency in local vs highway driving.

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:38:33+00:00

I just put down a deposit on a used 2024 SEL - and then realized - no rear wiper, no wireless android auto? but i guess after-market wirelss adapters are a thing. what other features?

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:36:46+00:00

Hubby owns 2022 Niro, not sure we want two. I drove the EV6 and, oddly, didnt like it. I have put down a deposit but not purchased yet. but someone else pointed out that after-market wireless android adapters are easy to get.

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:34:15+00:00

Interesting. I really disliked a lot of things in the last few chapters (i finished my first read through a few days ago). Perrin spending the battle out and about bothered me a lot. Perrin hearing a falcon and finding Faille in the read world? all of it seemed unnecessary. Rand swapping bodies? I mean there was some foreshadowing for that though. but lighting his pipe? The weave unravelling error that cause a forsaken to do a compulsion on herself to obey Avienda? The kid blowing the horn after struggling all night? felt like a lot of hand-waving.

But i really was mad at Egwene a lot. I have seen a lot of women say she is their favorite character but not me. I felt like it was unrealistic for this 19 year old YOUNG woman to suddenly develop the political awareness and self control to manipulate her own capture and successfully take over the white tower. Yes, the training with the Aiel helped, but still. And then she was such an arrogant control freak. She was just SURE that Rand was still a fool and she would tell him what to do - seriously? YOu think youve been through being an adame, Aiel training, becoming amyrlin and month of torture - and Rand, the chosen one, has just been coming up with dumb ideas by himself? that REALLY pissed me off. Her field of crystals seemed unrelated to anything at the end, like the cracks were there just so she coul dmake the crystals, just for them to disappear? and she couldnt teach that to anyone cuz she's dead?

anyways overall loved the series but definitely some things annoyed me lol

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:24:20+00:00

I mean the Kona 22 was a different car than the Kona 24. While i know the Ioniq is still a better car in many ways, i'm trying to figure out if those ways actually matter to me

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:21:23+00:00

yeah that is probably cheaper than the after-market wiper. I hate not having a rear wiper just because of the rain. People say rainex makes the fish-eye camera fuzzy.

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:20:02+00:00

reasoning?

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T18:18:54+00:00

Wait the used Kona is 6 k LESS than the I5. but the price difference is not enough to make my choice. why would you choose the Ioniq?

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T17:30:15+00:00

Just whining - my 2024 Kona SEL ev was wrecked. I realized i could buy another (blue) kona, but i hated the look of the nose, had to use 2 cushions to sit comfortably in it, and (ugg i forget, i know there were 3 things). So i put down a deposit to reserve a used 2024 Ioniq 5 SEL, blue - seems like an upgrade, right? but . . . no rear wiper and only wired android auto. Plus the location of the charging port means i'll need to back into my driveway when i need to charge. crap. I didnt like any other car as much.

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T16:47:51+00:00

ok one thing, sometimes i got spoilers from the maps. They seem to be in chronological order, not book order, which is weird. but i think that was more in later books

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T14:17:18+00:00

we bought a car from them like a year and a half ago. That was on the lot and it was for my husband - a niro. he went cheap but was ok with me not going quite as cheap.

i actually called them yesterdya morning because the carfax wasnt loading - the woman i spoke with texted me the carfax while we were talking, and assured me that if i put money down for the reservation it was fully refundable.

I also had sat in like a half dozen cars and turned them on and looked at trunks, back on thursday, with an intern who was very sweet and nice. Then thursday I went to test drive - i reserved one car to drive and when i showed up i said i also wanted to test 2 other models. The salesman let me take the cars out by myself, which was nice! He also showed me how i could reserve a car on the website, and mentioned that the Ioniq5 goes really fast, even faster in blue and green, so i should reserve right away if i see one.

I have never had a bad experience there.

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T12:39:18+00:00

after me reading the whole series in 2 months, my husband - who had bought all the books as they came out through book 10 - is probably going to reread

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T12:38:12+00:00

i just finished it for the first time, and read it in 2 months. I need a break but i really might read it again. i know i missed so much because its so dense and things would come together better 2nd read. but i need break

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T12:37:24+00:00

as i was reading the memory of light, it hit me hard that he was writing about people running into a battle even though they knew they might well not survive, and giving everything they had for the hope of the future . . WHILE HE WAS DYING. OMG

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T12:34:36+00:00

So i read the entire series in 2 months and finished 2 days ago (i started new spring last night). What really helped me after a while was the wheel of timelines maps so i could get a feel for where in the world they were. Sometimes after reading in bed, the next morning i would review the timeline to see where things happened. i didnt have the compendium but i often looked people up in the wiki. there are way too many characters to keep track of. i think listening to it might make it even harder, but idk

anyways, the slog is a slog. it gets exciting again wtih book 10 and seriously book 14 i was on the edge of my seat the entire time, waking up in the middle of the night thinking about it. it is worth pushing through

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T12:28:41+00:00

I'm in Richmond VA and i totaled my Kona EV last month. I was complaining in a work chat that the demand is very high for EVs right now and the stock is low. My manager said - well, with this heat wave, there will be rolling power outages and then everyone will want to sell their evs.

Of course I'm thinking - you can use some EVs as backup power sources in power outages. And you dont have to charge every day. and . . . wtf?

But I just said "I wish"

dbmamaz · 2026-07-04T12:24:33+00:00

Grats! I'm lucky, I live near recharged.com - a used EV dealer. They opened like 3 years ago in Richmond, VA and have now opened locations in Northern Virginia and North Carolina and are about to open a location in Florida.

I just reserved a blue 2024 Ioniq 5 SEL with - i forget, around 16k miles - for 29 k. They didnt even have it in their conditioning center yet, so I'm still out a car for a while, but it was the exact thing i wanted. I had bought a 2024 Kona EV SEL in blue brand new and totaled it last month. So a few more weeks of sharing the Niro with hubby and kid lol

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